ACHP 540 Gold, Cigars amd Felonies
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21 action.
Welcome to Cigars or podcast
episode 540.
You guys realize in 60 weeks we
will hit 600?
In 60 days. 60 days I meant.
I meant 60 days.
Yeah, 60 weeks will be at like.
7000 Yeah, I'm Mike Palmer, your
host, and my constant
mispronunciations are proof that
I am not AI.
Oh.
And in engineering today we have
Phil.
I don't know anything about any
loose monkeys in Mcguffey.
Hello peoples.
Nothing about loose monkeys.
You have to wait and see.
OK.
I'm sorry to tie the insults
into the story.
So you're 12 weeks away, so
you're within this year we're
going to hit 600, right?
And at that .4.
Weeks by the end of summer.
And then by that point, John
Mctavish will be behind over
200.
Over 200.
He'll definitely be over 100.
He's already at like he's only
on 449 or something.
Right.
If he's watching one a day and
we're doing 5 a week, he's one
at one a week and we're doing 5
a week.
He's never, it's never going to
happen.
Eventually he gets so far behind
that the Like the Coupe show
that we posted, he would be
watching it for the first time.
The original one, yeah.
Yeah, 3 Pcas in the future.
He'll be covering COVID when
we're well past the pandemic.
COVID shows.
All right, this is my Co host
Mikey.
It's my favorite holiday.
It's hamburger day.
I love Yeah.
I didn't even know.
I'm very excited.
I didn't mess that up, he.
Did he was supposed to have
hamburgers?
And I don't even have lunch
today.
Well, it's not lunch yet.
It's not.
You probably can't get
hamburgers this early.
Oh yeah, you know, that's
probably true.
By the way, today's Antoine
reads birthday, even though this
comes out a day later.
Happy belated birthday Antoine.
Now we.
Have to do everybody's birthday.
No, we don't.
I I just threw it out there.
All.
Right.
Happy birthday, Mr. Reed.
I like him.
I like him too, yeah.
He works hard.
He does.
He's got a nice show too.
Who do you?
Feel different?
Who do you feel like it's
obligatory to wish a happy
birthday to?
Boots.
Nobody.
But I mean, we talked about
doing it at one point.
We're like, well, then we got to
do everybody.
If we miss somebody, they're
going to get mad.
Yeah, So this is just kind of
casual.
I saw it and I'm like.
And for everybody else that
listens, happy birthday.
There you go, covered.
There you go, forever.
For all of eternity, all of
eternity, if you say that I've
never mentioned for you on your
birthday, I want you to go back
to episode 540 and realize that
I acknowledged you and happy.
Birthday.
It's so nice of you wish
everybody happy birthday.
Everybody happy birthday.
Everybody, happy birthday on
today's show.
FBI has arrested a high level
CIA operative.
In trouble?
We've all heard of the watchdog,
but have you heard of a gun dog?
Have not.
Marathons have gone to the dogs
don't talk to my girlfriend
Judge, they can hear you.
And then in cigars, we have an
update to a smoking ban.
If someone is getting 3 new
cigars, then as always, we end
the show with an industry
favorite game.
Industry's favorite game.
What's the?
You don't do it right now.
Anytime I say it you we all free
have to do it, no?
Hey, you know what I'm going to
tell you because your mic has
gotten up higher and higher.
Now is it too high?
Yeah, now it's so high that it
actually picks up more of the
echo and like when you just
turned a little bit there.
Oh, I hit it.
I heard you so much better.
Well this this jacket has a
thinner lapel, so I went higher
to catch more of the lapel.
Got it.
Let me hear you.
Hello.
Oh yeah.
Hello, hello, hello.
I won't turn that way much, but.
Don't do that.
Don't, don't go.
Don't look over.
Here, don't look over there.
All right, well, you can look
over there, but you got to do
like this.
Hello, I can see you over there.
All right, and is your favorite
game?
What's the score?
But first, Mikey, how do we get
some of that chapter pond swag
and what's coming up next?
So many things, so many things,
so many things are going on
right now.
We.
Have so much free time.
The stress levels have been an
at an all time high however
however we're starting to make
some progress.
I'm very excited about all these
things.
Chapter pod.com for starters.
P BDP 4th of July shirt
accepting some pre-orders.
We have 10 of them sold so far,
5 We need five more and he's
going to be in overall.
Chafing overalls.
He's going to do it.
Red, white and blue overalls.
So get on that, get 5 more.
These came in today.
These came in.
They're not on the site yet.
They're not on the site yet.
Limited.
Number.
Yeah, there's, there's a limited
number available.
They will be on the site
shortly.
I'll work on that.
I guess I'll get right on that.
Good luck.
So very excited about that.
Very excited about that.
There's there's some website
stuff going on.
Oh boy, I can't wait.
I can't wait.
So check out chapter pod.com and
if you our Patreon, just so you
know, our Patreon that came out
yesterday, it was a good
Patreon.
Yeah.
It's about an hour long, yeah.
Yeah, it was.
Almost.
And we covered some good stuff
we did.
We reviewed the six O 120th, not
La Bamba 6O1 Blue.
Six O 1 blue. 20th anniversary,
no phone call yet, so check that
out now.
He hasn't listened yet.
He hasn't listened yet.
He's.
Unless he's out of town, then
he's in somebody's.
Car.
No, he's in town.
He's just drinking his coffee
this morning, getting his act
together.
You already heard from him today
but don't know about that?
What's that?
Have you already heard from him
today?
Just didn't mention the.
Show No No.
The cameras.
You checked the cameras and saw
he was drinking coffee.
Yeah, I have the cameras in his
house.
I got you some comments from our
previous show.
I actually just saw one from the
Pete Johnson clip.
Oh wow that says great
interview.
I thought it was a really good
interview.
I highly recommend all.
Your interviews like that are
good.
Checking that out.
We need to line another one up.
It's been a while.
Yeah, looks like Florida man's
hitting some shorts.
That's very nice of you.
We're getting some more short
traction, OK?
From episode 538, David
Hasselhoff said.
David Hoffman says Phil thought
Palmer was winking at him this
whole time.
Phil appeared to be drooling
over the retro hail on the blood
medicine I.
Don't know.
Phil thought Palmer was winking
at him this whole time.
It was a winking signal that I
was giving you for something
that I remember.
What it was, but it wasn't for
Phil.
No, it oh, maybe he thought Phil
or he's saying Phil thought I
was winking at him when I was
winking messages and Phil.
Appeared to be drooling over the
retro hill on the blood
medicine.
Were you having a blood medicine
a couple days?
Ago.
No, but we talked about it as a
cigar that came out and the new
size.
Yeah, yes, yes.
And I must have said something
and he went.
You.
Know the way he does.
I guess Ding Dong.
T Money.
I totally thought Phil was going
to ask how the hellcat, how a
hellcat, how the hell a cat was
elected president?
What?
What happened there?
All right, guys, I think we're
all having strokes.
No, but I mean I don't remember
if that was 2 shows ago.
I don't remember.
Yeah, but like there I barely
remember yesterday.
Here's the problem.
The problem is this this
podcast, we've done this, we're
doing this one earlier today,
yes.
So today's comments haven't come
in how so this is like?
Between the two.
And I'm not awake yet.
Yeah.
And my eyes aren't awake.
Usually I'm still sleeping.
By you need to get it together,
all of you.
Yeah.
All right, Just him.
Just him.
Thank you.
OK.
Yeah, he's not normally up to.
Show you need to get yeah he you
look like you just rolled out of
bed yeah so.
You have slippers on?
Oh, flip flops.
Jesus symbols.
I guess that's all I got because
then I got right into the T
money thing.
So yeah, this is the problem of
doing an early podcast.
All right, we'll wait till.
Later it goes.
Over or if you can just read the
comments later, we can clip it
in.
OK.
I'll leave that one cameras out.
OK, if you want to hear your
comment on the show, comment on
our YouTube page.
We should probably launch a
giveaway.
We never gave away the lighter
cutter set.
You want to do that?
We can give it away again, I
guess.
Come up with better idea.
Idea just sort of fizzled.
Well, here's the problem.
It can't be extremely intricate
like.
Right.
What people?
A little too much involved.
Yeah, you know, it has to be.
It's got to be kept super
simple.
So yeah, let's do that.
OK, Not on this episode, not on
540, but on 541 if you comment
below, all the way up to
5454123451234545, all the way
541 to 5:45, which is a full
week.
OK, Monday through Friday,
you'll be entered to win the
ashtray.
We'll bring that in next
tomorrow so you can show it off.
No lighter cutter.
Yeah, whatever.
Lighter cutter, Sorry, the
lighter cutter.
Same.
It's the same thing.
Well, no, ashtray is bigger.
No, that works.
That's fine.
And we're going to give that
away to kind of get things going
and we'll start that tomorrow
all.
Right.
So check that out.
Patreon, like and like and
subscribe.
Did I say like and subscribe?
Nope.
Make sure you like and
subscribe.
Hit it wherever you're viewing
or listening to this show and.
You said hit it in my head I
heard starting to, you know, a
song starting up.
You did too, to make a thing go
right.
Yeah, that's exactly what I
heard in.
My head.
OK, All right.
I think we're ready for the
show.
You ready to get on are?
You ready for the show now?
I think we're ready.
All right?
We're ready for the show now.
We're ready.
The FBI has arrested senior CIA
official David Rush.
Yes, what they?
What they resting for Oh my Mike
is done.
The show's over.
He's fixing.
Something something's wrong.
Keep.
Oh, oh, you keep going.
OK, Go ahead.
Well, I asked a question.
Oh, that sounds so much better.
All right, senior CIA official
David Rush, who's been arrested
for something.
What you've been arrested for?
It's going to be something.
This is the FBI has arrested the
CIA.
Oh, so then he's he's doing
something with China.
Are we playing for something?
He's doing something.
Yes, you get a Red Bull.
He's leaking intelligence to
another country, and I'm going
to say it's China.
All right, Phil.
No, he's still gold.
I get the Red Bull.
Oh, he already read that here.
And there's a story.
They discovered nearly $40
million in stolen gold bars at
his home during a federal
investigation.
That's a lot of bars.
There's a lot of bars.
How do you acquire the gold
bars?
Oh, let's read on.
Yeah.
According to investigators, the
CIA had provided Rush with gold
bars and foreign currency
between November and March for
what were described as work
related operational expenses.
Michael, I have some work
related operational expenses.
Let me get you some gold bars.
Gold bars.
However, officials later
discovered that a large portion
of those assets could not be
accounted for.
So if he could account for them.
Yes, if he could explain what he
did with the $40 million in
gold.
Bars.
Hey, hold on.
Yeah, no, listen here.
I had to bribe a lot of Chinese
people.
Here's.
My spreadsheet.
My spreadsheet.
During the search of Russia's
residence, federal agents
allegedly recovered
approximately 40 million in gold
bars, along with around 2
million in cash.
Because, you know, it's hard to
move gold bars.
Authorities also seized nearly
three dozen luxury watches
believed to be connected to the
investigation.
I'm sure.
No, no, these are mine.
Yeah.
I didn't buy these with your.
Gold.
No, this is part of my Co-op or
whatever my operation.
Part of my operational expenses.
Here's what I'm trying to do is
I'm trying to make myself look
like I'm extremely rich by
becoming extremely rich.
And I'm trying to create create
this persona that way.
Oh my.
God, we've done so well lately.
We just watch.
That way people think.
It's too early, fellows.
I have a comment on our I.
Have a comment just.
Give me, I have our first
comment.
Oh yes, and I'm going to, we're
going to bring that up once
you're done with this all.
Right, the case is quickly
gaining national attention due
to the scale of the alleged
theft and Rush's senior position
within it.
Inside the intelligence
community, federal investigators
are continuing to examine
financial records, asset
transfers, and potential
connections tied to the missing
funds.
At this time, officials have not
released additional details
regarding possible charges
beyond the arrest, and the
investigation remains ongoing.
I saw another story related to
this where he also faked his
resume when they hired him 20
years ago.
Yeah, something like that.
This guy's awesome.
Yeah, what's super crazy is he
just found this out 'cause it's
not like he just made like one
big hit, you know, yesterday,
right?
Like this has been going on time
for time.
Amassing the gold bars over
time, yeah.
So much to a point where he got
lazy about it, right?
I mean, right.
He assumed they'd never.
Never.
Yeah, yeah, I just stack him up
in the back bedroom.
That's my guess.
Like he probably started with
something light.
Right, the watches.
And then figured out how to no
it's it was before that.
They don't have watches in a
safe.
Figured out how to he figured
out how to fluff it like OK,
this is gone now and like this
is now off the board.
I made it look like it's gone
here for as an expense, right?
And now I have watch and like,
it probably took like four or
five years of doing that.
And then it got to a point he's
like, no one's looking at me,
right?
Give me just, you know, And then
he just starts.
Rolling out requisitions for
gold bars?
You sure you need more?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's going well.
It's going really well.
We're making.
More we're making a lot of
progress here.
I'm getting a lot of Intel and
then and then in order to like
to we probably had to start
fabricating Intel.
That's probably where he got
popped.
He probably did the ChatGPT, not
the I was.
Going to say.
You know, ChatGPT and he said
help me create a a whole in
depth thing.
And then we became so repetitive
because it's the same shit over
and over again that they're
like, wait a second, yeah.
Sometimes I have to tell it
we've done this already.
Right.
Hey, dude.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
It's.
The same social my.
Bad it does.
Sometimes it says my bad I know.
Oh, you're just.
Oh, yeah.
Well, when it destroyed our
site, it was like, I'm so sorry.
Yeah, they're very you're.
And you're right, I should have
done better.
I'm like.
Yeah, at least it's it's here.
Like.
Right.
I don't think it's it it.
Doesn't have emotions.
It knows you want to hear.
It's a.
Robot.
Can we just like point some out
here?
Yeah, sure, sure.
When did we start paying
anybody?
I don't care if you're in the
government or anything with gold
bars.
Well, he was he.
Well, yeah, I mean, no, you're
good.
Go ahead, spies like to operate
with gold bars.
Yeah, things that aren't
traceable.
They're they're aren't they?
Don't they have numbers on?
It I was gonna say, I think they
have serial numbers, yeah.
Do these do they have?
Serial.
I think they do.
I don't think.
There's some guy took in a mold.
Somewhere, yeah, he took these
out of the like the reserve.
Like out of Fort Knox.
No, I don't think it was Fort
Knox, but it was like a reserve
that they have.
He had to like requisition these
for something.
Not like you know, he walks and
he goes I need 7 today right?
The guy behind the little gauge
just goes one. 2.
Right, all right, just sign this
piece of paper, Ross.
You'll be fine.
We never went into Fort Knox,
right?
We never went in to go look.
I don't know.
To see if there's a $4 million.
Million that was, no, that was.
Remember, that was one of the
things.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, he was like, we're going.
To go into Fort Knox, he
probably said that and they're
like, you don't.
Want to go in there?
You can't go in there.
It's empty.
All right, let's move an
illusion.
Check out this island.
Right, Phil, could you look up
how much a gold bar is worth?
Oh, right now, yes.
MM and Greg would know.
Like 1 oz.
I I I don't know how big?
No how big is a regular 4 nice
gold bar?
I don't think these are little.
Are these little gold bar I'm
picturing?
The No, no, no, no, they're
little.
They're.
Like the ingots type thing.
Yeah, I'm picturing the big.
Like a big.
Fucking beat Yeah the big adult
sized gold bars.
Here you go.
Treasure Island.
Yeah, that's why he's got them
stacked up in the back bedroom.
All right now, right?
It's a small one Now.
I'm just curious how many gold
bars was 4 million?
Like a Hershey golden nugget.
What do you think of that
standard 1 oz bar?
Yeah, I guess that makes more
sense that.
'D be a lot of bars 440,000,000.
4 million no.
No, no, you said 40.
Oh, is it 40?
Yeah.
And I'm going back going.
Back 40 million in gold bars and
2 million in cash.
Oh, it is 40 million go.
Yeah, 2 million and around.
They got tired of counting.
OK.
So if it's a standard
institutional brick, it's 400
oz.
And it's worth 1.8 million.
So it's only 40 of those.
Well, last, but yeah.
Roughly.
So you think he's got.
You think he got the Mac daddy
ones?
Well, it's a lot easier that
way.
You don't have to have as many.
The one ounces are worth
somewhere between 4500 and 4700,
which is the most popular size
for individual buyers.
He'd have the steel pallet of
those.
Then there's a 10 oz.
It's obviously 45 to 46 K ish.
Obviously.
And then there's the kilo.
I like picturing the giant ones.
Yeah, we'll just stick with
those.
The 400 ouncers.
Yeah, it's going to be a much
better GPT image that I create
for us all holding.
Gold 1.83 million.
Yes, and what's what's even
crazier about this story is why
did you keep stealing the gold?
Like was, you know, a couple
million not enough?
Yeah, 'cause you 'cause look 40.
Yeah.
He's got 40 sitting around.
Like no one's coming.
There's no, he's like, oh, I'm
good.
Yeah, but at 40, I mean don't
Where do you have enough?
You don't.
It's got to be enough at.
Some point there's no line.
And not only that, but then he
still worked there like I'd
disappeared.
He didn't.
He didn't.
Never hit his mark.
It's hard to move $40 million at
one time.
Not when they're gold bricks.
Well, sure it is.
You got to put those in a car,
it'll be too heavy. 1.83 million
per.
It'll be like Die Hard 3.
They're going to need the the
dump trucks.
I'm sure there's a buyer out
there on the black market or
whatever.
Yeah, he's got, he's got the
connect.
He's part of the CIA.
That's how we got the 2 million.
He started liquidating.
Maybe he's in the middle of
liquidating.
It's that's like 2223 bricks.
Yeah, 40 million, right.
If it was the 400 oz right, that
ain't bad.
No, that's easy to move.
I would have stopped.
That's 4 bricks and I would have
left the FBI or CIA, whatever
one he's in.
He's CIA.
And I would have moved to a.
Leave the CIA.
They just put a star out.
Yeah, they put a star up on the
board.
And he's done.
And he's.
Done.
They're.
Not going to kill him over over
bricks or. $40 million.
Yeah, they kill for less.
Allegedly.
Not for me, not for bricks, not
for money.
Not for money, no.
Well, we don't know what he did
with the money.
Well, that's alleged.
Yeah, true.
I would buy an island well.
That's what I was saying, like
he'd go to like an island that
has non extradition or
something.
That's what I would have done.
Start your own country.
Yeah.
No, no, my island is non
extradition.
Sorry.
And then they just said, I mean,
it's CIA, they'll just come in
to take you and move you where
there is extradition.
They can do that.
They can do whatever they want.
There's CIA.
It's.
True.
Look, we just took a leader out
of a country in the middle of
the night.
You think they can't take you
off your own island?
That was that guy is way
different than the brick guy.
Not to the CIA.
All right, moving on.
We're done making fun of the CIA
guy before they come knocking on
the door over.
There, well, he has to do the
comment.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to guess, well, let's
guess who it is.
Walmer before.
You read it all.
Right, you can guess.
Comes in on my phone.
You get, you get 3 guesses.
If you don't get it, you owe me
two Red Bulls to offset the one
that you just acquired by
cheating.
I did not cheat and T money.
No.
Ruckus.
Did your mother God?
No.
I figured she'd comment on her,
her face being.
We haven't.
First of all, we have not seen.
Mr. Weiss.
And and a few.
Episodes.
What is the last name Weiss?
Weiss I don't know who that is.
CW Yeah, Nope.
That's what you owe me, a rebel.
There's one.
So no, that's I already got that
one at Bruce Cox.
A216 says battered animals
always have a negative reaction
to quick movements for self
preservation.
Palmer must have the PTSD.
PTSD when I picked up the remote
and I did this and you did a
yeah, I thought.
You were throwing something.
That means that you got that on
camera him going.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah, turn the air on.
It's getting.
Hot, it's true.
Do you have you been beaten as a
were you beaten as a child or
something?
Bullied.
Bullied.
Yeah.
By who?
I.
Don't remember the kids name I
was just I was smaller so not a
relative.
Someone at school.
I mean, yeah, I could see that
sometimes your mouth will
probably get you in.
Drunk, I would.
Assume you know.
I don't remember exactly the
reasons, but that makes sense.
Head tracks.
How old?
How old are you?
Let's unpack this.
Way back.
Don't bring up hurtful memories,
Michael.
I've had to push way way way
down.
Obviously don't, because I can't
pick up a remote like this
without you being.
Tell, I said.
The corner of my eye.
I see you go like this.
That is a throwing position.
I've never as you've known me
for 20 years.
I'm not saying you're throwing a
brick of gold at me, but I mean,
it could have been a sock.
I don't know.
It'd be just something to, you
know, set me off when this when
I'm talking.
So he used to put bricks and
socks.
That was not right.
Like in the red.
What was it going?
They beat the kid with the sock
and the soap.
Oh, it's.
That was not the appropriate
code Red.
That was not the appropriate
episode to throw something at
you.
And by the way, you did a great
job editing the whole thing out.
The whole thing you never even
know.
Nope.
I get backing it up like no,
it's still then they're going to
think something's missing.
Let's go back a little, OK,
right here it.
Was Yep, it was very clean.
Yep.
So.
But no, I would never come on.
You throw cigars at me all the
time.
Yeah, leaves.
I throw leaves.
Well, I mean, I wish those are
no, it could have been a water
balloon.
Why are?
You complaining about?
If I throw cigars in there,
that's a present.
That's not a.
You know what?
You don't have to throw cigars
at him anymore.
You can throw them at me.
OK, I threw one at you yesterday
and it was a disaster.
I tried to catch it.
Too much light in my eyes.
Yeah, there was.
There is a lot of light.
CD lamp.
All right, moving on.
We're moving on.
Police respond to a report of a
shotgun blast at a convenience
store.
Sounds like the opening of a
countless American crime movie.
But when cops in Nebraska
responded to a recent such call,
they found an unusual culprit.
Who did you find?
Boots.
Who was it?
I'm going to guess it's a dog
because that's what you said in
the beginning.
Always paying attention today
paying attention.
Well, maybe his brain cells are
like.
We gotta catch him in the
morning.
Yeah, that's what.
I'm saying I did eat breakfast
this morning, so yeah, they say
that helps you.
What'd you add up early?
I had two eggs, bacon.
Oh, you had like you had like a
legit breakfast, like a
breakfast.
He woke up, did like a belly rub
like this and then I'm.
Home.
No, I had to.
I had to make the girls
breakfast the last day of
school.
They wanted breakfast.
Wait a second.
And you made this breakfast?
Yeah.
No one made it for you?
No.
I picked your poor pregnant Tia
up in the kitchen.
Yeah, Tia.
Or or your new servant next
door.
You know, like all.
Right.
The car's been different every
day this week.
Does she have like a revolving
source of cars like Greg?
The car you're talking.
About the same spot every day,
but there's been almost a
different car.
Or are you running through new
assistants?
No.
Are you burning through them?
No, I don't.
I don't know if she has.
I never see her car.
Yeah, you think she?
Well, no.
Because you're not here.
This is where the work happens.
Well, well, when when she when
she's at the house in the
morning, when she's making the
breakfast, he's never outside.
She just makes it, cleans
everything up and then leaves.
I only.
Know it's her car because
there's a sign in the back
window.
She used to be a realtor or
something.
No, she, no, she still is.
She's she's on like some
committee for Florida.
And the punishment was you have
to work for APS.
No, I, you know, it's kind of
funny.
She's.
A spy I.
Think she.
Might be, might be a spy.
It was kind of funny.
When she wanted to work for us,
she was like telling us about.
I was like, well, why do you
want to work here?
She's like, I just need some
extra money.
I'm like OK.
It's a it's a total
investigation.
It is investigating.
You'll be investigated, man.
Yeah, you're done.
They're going to.
Find out.
I just want you to know,
whatever your undocumented
workers, yeah, whatever you're
up to, they're going to get to
the bottom of it and fake.
Permits pulled in certain
counties.
Hey, listen, this is even more
of a reason why you need to
purchase merch on Chapter
pod.com because we're going to
need bail money for Phil.
No, we're not.
Well, we got to get him back.
We got to get him out.
I appreciate that, but I
probably would call Greg, yeah.
Greg's the one you call if you.
Need that money, Everybody knows
that.
Greg, Greg ain't bailing you
out.
You're the one you call with
your body or you need an alibi.
OK, I agree with that, but I'm,
but I'm also going to tell you
that look, the reason why Greg
has the money is because he
doesn't use the money.
You know what I mean?
So.
Well, for Bailey, what I feel it
depends on the person.
I mean, that's how he matters.
Why?
Oh.
Come.
On.
Not in jail.
No, Yeah, let's not explain it
either.
Hold.
On hold on one second.
Listen, this is going to be a
little poppy, but I'm doing
this.
It is what it is.
You're going, Greg?
It's the worst thing.
Colin, Greg.
Yeah.
He's trying to see if he would
bail me out.
Money.
Moment of truth.
They've been electrocuted.
Is he even awake?
He's here.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, you're on the
podcast.
This is going to be very brief,
OK?
If, if Phil, you know who Phil
is correct?
Yeah.
OK.
If Phil went under some
investigation at his place of
business and he got arrested and
bail was set at $20,000, would
you bail him out fast?
Yes.
Greg, Greg.
Greg.
Greg.
And you would pay for it, you'd
cover that, and then you'd
expect him to pay you back.
Well, he would be able to pay me
back because I would make sure
that he winds up being in front
of the judge.
You get the money back when you
go in front of the judge.
OK, Oh, you don't have to pay
him back.
Oh, OK.
All right, all right.
So we'll find out what the limit
is, what's?
It's 50,000 if it was the same
person.
Same person.
Yes.
Yes, OK, keep, keep 100,000.
Wow, Jesus, what'd I do?
Same person, same person.
Yes, yes.
Oh boy.
Don't try to check Greg.
'S pockets.
Keep checking his pockets.
OK, one one last time, one last
time, last one.
Same person 200.
Thousand.
Oh my God, yes, yes.
Wow.
Greg, Greg.
Greg.
Greg.
Greg.
Greg.
What is the cap?
It's it's the cap is the amount
the cap the cap is the amount of
money I have access to within
fucking 48 hours.
You, you do understand that if
you go to jail, your probability
of being found not guilty is
significantly higher.
If you're out of jail, when you
go in front of the judge wearing
the jumpsuit, you're in deep
shit.
If you have the ability to bail
out and then present your case,
you will wind up having a much
better opportunity for beating
it.
That's interesting.
So, like, the first thing you do
when you go to jail is you get
the fuck out of jail, OK, All
right.
They they Greg's my guy.
Sounds like he's such a
professional about this.
Isn't that weird?
He has a rare set of skills.
Yeah, like, I don't know where
that is.
It's very odd.
Greg does.
That's very odd.
All right.
Thanks, Greg.
Thank you very much.
Triple G goodbye.
I just want to know that if I'm
going to jail, I'm pushing the
limit.
It's got to be like 1,000,000
something that he's got to.
I mean, I want he can't get only
because I want him to think
out-of-the-box like I need you
to figure this out, right?
Right.
However, that's what he does
here though.
However, he may leave me there
so that he can acquire all of
it, right?
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
There's nothing I can.
Do right down somewhere that I
get it if you were
incapacitated.
Yeah, well, someone's going to
take care of my family.
That means not alive.
Unalived.
I said incapacitated, non
reachable.
Well, Greg just starts signing
his name on Stuff I.
Don't know how we got on that
topic, but that was great.
That was great.
I don't, I don't remember.
Yeah.
The limit is how much money he
can get.
Wow.
Yeah, and that's for Phil.
Right, baby.
Yeah, well, when he, when he, I
was hoping he would say no at
certain level.
Me too.
Then you throw in a different
name, you throw in my name.
Yeah.
And then he just goes, oh man.
I knew Greg, I knew Greg would
do.
We've had this conversation
before.
That's that's why he's under
investigation upstairs.
No, no, no, no.
He's like, hey.
If.
This kind of.
Happened.
Just say hypothetically, if I
were to get arrested, how much
money would you spend to get me
bailed out?
Like what would what would you
leverage?
No, no, that's not how the
conversation went.
Was is, hey, I was like, yo, if,
if if anything ever happened,
could I call you?
He goes, yeah.
He's like, well, my brother is
the one that you call for the
body and then I'm the one that
you call for the bail money.
I'm like, how much?
I did the same thing you did.
I was like, how much bail money?
You know, Like where?
Yeah, like where?
Like where do I know not to call
Greg?
Bail has said it 250,000.
Dollars I'm like no, it's.
Done, Greg, I need you to chip
in.
Tell my wife, call Greg.
When you call Greg, just tell
them the price.
Yeah, if you want bail money
from me.
Yeah, Mikey don't have.
Any you're going to rot.
I got news for you.
Strong.
It has a big shovel.
Strong.
That's the only tool that this
house is a shovel.
Oh.
Nice.
And the usual culprit?
It was a dog.
Local TV station News Two
reported the police in the town
of Scottsbluff were called out
to a local store recently after
reports of a blast involving a
shotgun.
Upon arrival they found a truck
with a blast damage in one of
the doors and a woman who had
been struck in the arm by a
pellet from a shotgun apparently
had bird shot in.
However, investigation showed a
canine cause behind the shooting
when it was revealed the blast
happened as the vehicle had
pulled up to the store as a dog
had been moving from one side of
the backseat to the other.
Somehow the dog had triggered
the shotgun, which had a live
round chamber.
But you don't want to carry a
shotgun in a chamber, right?
Damaging the vehicle and
striking a female passerby.
The victim was taken to
hospital, though not seriously
injured.
It is illegal in Nebraska to
drive with a loaded shotgun in
your vehicle.
That's that's why you blame.
It's illegal.
The dog.
It wasn't me, it was the dog.
It was Fido.
Fido back there, he's very
angry.
I was at the store to get his
cookies.
I like, I like that.
To make matters worse, like the
dog didn't shoot its owner, it
shot a random person.
Somebody walking by that is
weird and you know, he just
nicked her, so the dog's a bad
shot.
Well, I mean, it's it had to go
through the car.
Don't make excuses for the dog's
bad marksmanship.
Bat marksmanship we've been.
Working on this for weeks there.
Fido, you're supposed to shoot.
Better.
I'm surprised Birdshot went
through the car.
Yeah, me too.
That means that means barrel had
to be like up against the.
Right up against the Yeah.
And he's very excited walking
back and.
Forth How many dogs do you have
now?
75 or just two?
We have two.
You have two. 2 is the line for
us.
We had three and it's too much.
3 is 2.
We had three ruckus.
He has passed and it was, I mean
even though he was a little dog,
3 is too much. 3 is just too
much.
Yeah.
OK, so the two dogs names are
Dempsey.
Whiskey and Dempsey correct?
Of those two dogs, yes.
Which dog do you think would be
more capable to shoot a person?
In this exact circumstance, no.
Just.
Personality wise, oh are they
like fighting off an intruder?
No, just you know.
Randomly shot somebody bang.
Yeah, that would probably be.
Whiskey.
Are they going to be whiskey?
Yeah, well, he's younger, he's
more rambunctious.
And yeah, he would just say,
hey, Dempsey's getting older.
It's not a lot of running as
much.
We don't run.
We don't run as.
Much.
We don't run as much anymore.
OK.
And what what about you?
You think your dog is capable of
shooting somebody?
No.
It's the cat, the one you'd.
Cat.
I was getting to that, yeah.
You think the cat would shoot
somebody?
Yeah, I wish he would so that
way he'd go to jail and never
come back.
He's a street cat.
Odds are he has shot something.
No.
If it went, if it went to jail,
we would just call Greg, No.
Yeah, not calling.
Greg Yeah, No, the cat would be
out.
Spit up my drink that.
Was the cat would be out.
That way it can present its case
in a full suit, not in the on
the orange jumpsuit.
Don't they bring you a suit?
I mean, I'm on the movies on TV.
They usually bring the guy a
suit.
No, they don't.
Do that.
Oh, I like that he knows that.
No.
Listen, you ever seen these guys
on TV?
Like when they're doing the like
the big cases and stuff?
Well, I just assume they're, you
know, the attorneys that get
assigned to you for free don't
provide suits.
Well, was Diddy in a suit?
No.
Diddy went in a suit.
Yeah, he was in an orange
jumpsuit.
That was it, yeah.
Well, for him that might be
better.
He's probably not getting out.
Then you know some type of silk
suit.
By Greg's statistics, he's not
getting out.
He's not getting out.
He's like, I'm sober now.
Like when you're in jail.
Has he been sentenced?
I.
I.
Yeah, I think he did.
Yeah, it was like 2 years or
something.
Yeah, so then he's too late.
He can't get out until his time
is up or he gets out for good
behavior.
I wonder if there's more things
there like more trials and stuff
that he's out of baby oil.
He's he's out a baby oil.
Well, they yeah, no, there was,
there was more investigations
going on.
It's.
Ongoing.
More people are popping up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Baby oiled me too.
So much baby oil.
So much baby oil, OK?
You know they've outlawed baby
oil in prisons.
Really.
Have they?
I saw that the other day.
Again, I've read way too much
did.
You really?
They outlawed it in prisons.
No longer.
I mean they used to allow it but
not anymore.
Too many free coughs lately.
Well, I guess there's a way you
can rig up a thing to heat water
for coffee and tea and stuff in
your cell.
Yeah.
So they pour baby oil in the hot
water, and then if they douse
you with it, it burns more and
it's harder to get off because
it's.
It's the oil.
Yeah, it's the oil.
They said your skin just peels
off at that point.
So no more baby oil.
You think they would outlaw the
tea and coffee heater?
You know, look, man, it's got to
be tough in there, you know?
We got to have our tea.
Yeah, I think that that's
reasonable.
I don't know.
I don't know why not.
I would like one of the softer
nicer gels with the Starbucks is
in the you know, stuff you can
get.
Where you can just order and
before you.
Approach the line.
Yeah, the cantina has a
Starbucks in it or something.
Well, you got to be super rich.
The cantina.
It's what's called where you go
get your stuff, your soaps and
your shampoos.
And your I thought that was like
some I know nothing about prison
or jail, but I thought that you
were referencing an actual name
of a prison or jail that legit
has the Starbucks.
No, there are some I mean.
I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure there's
some type of probably federal.
That's where the movie stars go
and stuff.
No way.
Yeah, there's no way.
Like a federal pen probably
would.
Yeah, when the lady from Full
House went, when she went to
prison her.
Uncle Jesse's wife.
Yeah, her prison at a Starbucks.
That's where I read.
It Is there a prison with a
Starbucks in it in the United
States?
Well, I don't know if it's in
it, but you can order.
Do you want me to use ChatGPT to
answer that?
I sure do.
Oh, that was you guys.
Like, is my phone talking to me?
You're still Bluetooth
apparently.
I sure do.
Yes, there is a Starbucks
located near a prison in the
United States.
The Utah State Prison in Draper,
UT is adjacent to a Starbucks
known for its distinctive prison
like architecture.
This Starbucks has been
nicknamed OK, so it's not in
there though.
Namely no, but they have like
Starbucks Starbucks products.
Like you can buy Starbucks at
Publix.
I don't.
Think there's a barista in there
just waiting on, you know,
prisoner 442 to come pick up his
latte or something.
It it really just depends on
like you're sentencing, like if
you got guys that are in for
life, like it's really like the
movie life.
Like you, you don't go to a
regular prison with just, you
know, cell blocks, blah blah
blah.
Like Goodfellas?
Like a prison cell block.
Yeah, no, yeah.
Well, no, it's, it's like you go
to like farms and stuff like
working farms, like they have
stuff like that.
You know, he always sounds
relatively convincing.
I don't know.
There's one in Brevard County,
you can see it right from 95.
It's a farm.
Yeah, it's right by the shooting
range to the left of it.
What do they I know where the
shooting range?
What do they grow?
I don't.
It's things I don't know.
They have bunk houses and I mean
you can see it, the thing to the
left.
Oh, they're Cowboys.
I'm going to go to cowboy prison
like a.
You think a bunkhouse is called
a bunkhouse because it was in
Yellowstone?
Yeah.
It's like Yellowstone.
That's where you go when things
go bad.
You go to the bunkhouse.
They keep they keep showing that
clip on TikTok.
I still haven't watched that in
Ranch yet, by the way.
Oh it's good, I watched the
first episode last night, how
was it?
It was good.
Does RIP beat the crap out of
somebody?
Because that's not only.
Really.
Not yet.
Not yet.
He's trying not to be a bad guy.
Oh.
I like, I like that.
They enter, they're from what I
see in the first episode,
they're trying to integrate his
son more.
You adopted one, Yeah.
Yeah, they're giving him a
storyline.
He's going to get in.
Trouble.
It's the weird part is, well, he
already has one.
It's the same kid from when he
was a little fat kid.
He's just grown up.
He's grown up now.
Yeah, he's this tall, slender.
He's not slender.
He's thin compared.
He's like a.
Fat kid.
He's like RIP like, he's like
thick.
No, he's not that.
Big because they think he's.
Do you think he has an
assistant?
They think he's an adult.
Well, I think as he looks older
and he's got a part of a beard.
I don't think he looks 21
though.
OK.
But I mean, they play that off
in the thing that he looks like
an adult.
Somebody has him by gear for
them.
OK.
But yeah, RIP is talking about
Spoiler.
He's already had to get rid of a
dead body, but he didn't kill
it.
His son did.
No, no, he found it on the
property.
You're going to tell him the
whole episode, all right?
I didn't like how they did it
with the flashback.
Right.
OK, All right, I'll, I'll watch.
Maybe I'll watch this weekend.
Yeah, they're up to is it
episode 3 or 4?
Yeah, 3.
Three OK, next episode.
By the way, I got another
comment.
Ding rolling.
Ding, can you make a Ding?
Phil, can you go Ding?
Ding.
Oh look, a comment came in.
Oh, it's Ruckus.
I know it's at rooks coatings.
No no quilt trip here.
I just like to support my
friends sometimes.
That's giving G them gifts.
Maybe it's just giving them
gifts I.
Guess I.
Don't know he's referencing the
cups.
Oh, gotcha.
Thank you.
It's no guilt trip here.
Thank you.
Not we're guilt trip, we're
guilting him or he's guilty, no.
No, we you, you guilt you guys
guilt for.
Oh, oh, oh, I got you.
Yeah, I see.
Well, Phil was doing that, yeah.
Well, we appreciate.
We appreciate you Rooks codes.
Of course we do.
Yes, it's where you do all our
coatings.
He actually did our comps.
Yeah, he did those.
Yep.
So if you guys want some dope
stuff, call it Brooks.
So there you go.
That's their new slogan, as a
matter of fact.
You want some dope stuff?
You.
Call rooks.
You call rooks.
All right, when an Alabama
Bloodhound name Ludivine.
LUDIVINE.
How are you going to say
ludicrous?
Ludicrous.
We'll go with Ludicrous.
When Alabama Blowhound named
Ludicrous was let outside for a
quick bathroom break in 2016,
her owner had no idea she'd
wander over to the starting line
of the Elkmont Half Marathon.
I.
Didn't know it since 2016.
OK, curious and friendly.
Ludicrous.
But you can scrub this if you
want.
Oh, it's a cute story.
OK, 'cause it's already at 40.
Minutes into.
The crowd just as a race began
and instead of heading home, she
trotted off with the runners.
What started as a dog's casual
stroll turned into a full blown
race effort.
She ran through the field,
sniffed around, chased the
rabbit and one point, then
rejoined the pack and kept going
mile after mile.
To everyone shocked, Ludovic
Ludicrous didn't just finish the
entire 13.1 mile course, she
ended up finishing 7th place.
Crushed it.
Earning a medal and becoming a
local legend Overnight photos of
the floppy teared accidental
athlete went viral and now the
race is called the Hound Dog
Half Marathon in her honor.
It's a neat little story because
the dog shot somebody in the
previous story.
That's what we're just
offsetting it.
Offset, Yeah.
So in spirit, we would like to
rename National Hamburger Day.
OK.
May 28th to Fat Phil Hamburger
Day.
Makes sense.
That totally tracks.
I don't know how we got there,
but I'm I'm convinced.
Yeah, we're having technical
difficulties.
Palmer's camera doesn't work
anymore.
All right, we'll skip the next
story.
The next story is not that good,
OK?
A lady ran over somebody, OK,
because she thought he was
talking to her lesbian
girlfriend, apparently.
It's a long story.
We're already at 40 minutes.
Yep, rolling right alone
rolling.
Another comment.
Another comment, yeah, one just
came in here right from at my T,
Sharp says.
Phil, you look fantastic.
Thank you.
Yeah, you have a beautiful skin.
Thank you and great mask.
Thank you.
You got to put the mask on so
you can be on the camera.
Yeah, Princess Peach.
Let's see it.
Let's go.
There it is.
There it is now, Seth.
Now thank you.
There, there she is.
Thank you.
Wow, I don't know that my T
Sharp is.
I feel like there's a punch line
on them.
No, there's actually no comment.
I just kind of winged that.
A federal district judges in hot
water after being caught in an
extra mental affair with a law
enforcement officer and judges
chambers.
Now apparently they were being
so loud that her staff outside
had to tell her to be quiet.
They can hear you.
What happened there is.
A federal judge, they're not
saying the name.
They're not saying if it's a man
or a woman, matter of fact.
Look at these cannons.
Right got caught because she was
having or he or she the judge
was having sex with a high level
police officer.
Again, not saying man or woman
in her chambers during work days
between cases.
What's the problem?
Well, apparently that's frowned
upon.
It was just too loud.
Yes, OK.
A memo filed on Friday shows a
special committee for the 11th
Circus, which covers Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, issued an
order against the judge back in
February finding the judge
engaged in judicial misconduct.
OK.
I'd have to see a picture of the
girl.
I looked they're they're not
releasing.
Why do you have to see a
picture?
Just curious.
As long as they're, you know, as
long as there's nothing like
somebody's married or some
crazy.
Shit.
Oh, let's redone.
Oh God.
The thing that she was accused
of I.
Hope it's a Capital One girl.
Engaging in an extramarital
affair with a high-ranking law
officer and having sexual
intercourse in the judge's
chambers during business hours
within hearing distance of the
staff.
Aren't judges normally old?
No, no, just the Supreme Court
ones are super old.
Not all of them.
But she was only and she's given
like a slap on the wrist and
said not to do it anymore and
they're not releasing who it
was.
OK, all right, so affair no
bueno.
She said, well, she says it's
not, or they say it's not true
that the staff member who
complained is upset because she
got a bad review.
Oh, it's related to the the
other guy with the yes, Wells
Fargo or whatever.
Is that yeah, They had made-up
the accusations in retaliation
of being repeatedly chastised
for performance issues, court
records show.
However, special committee
formed a look into the issue and
found that the judge's conduct
surrounding the affair
demonstrated a gross lack of
judgement.
She must have been ugly.
Creating a or she was hot.
It could go either way.
The gross lack of judgement.
Right.
Yeah.
What?
What?
Because it says gross.
You think the person's gross?
Yeah.
Oh, OK, the.
Committee The committee noted
that the affair made the judge
subject to vulnerable to
potential extortion or
blackmail.
Haters gonna hate.
Hey, tell you what I know you
bang that cop, say I'm not
guilty.
You're.
Going to have to let me off.
After you're off.
Right.
It says the committee suggested
a private reprimand and the
judge agreed not to oppose the
sanction, as well as write an
apology letter to the former law
clerk and refrain from serving
at any judicial committee.
I'm very sorry for making too
much noise in my office.
Very sorry for the loud sex
noise that's.
Crazy, since we've accumulated
all this Lube from the prisons.
The baby oil is no longer.
Allowed It must be put.
Must be put to use.
That's crazy because if if
you're banging somebody that was
married in your office at a
another establishment, you'd
probably go to jail.
No, it's not against.
The law.
Why you could?
That's like a pub, that's a
public place.
It's a private place.
It's private, but public.
So you can't be both.
So if if you're banging somebody
upstairs in your office, it's
not your wife, you think the
cop's going to come and arrest
you for that?
You're under arrest.
Under arrest for having sex in
your office.
What is it?
What's the what's it called when
you're when you have sex?
Addiction Exposure.
No, when you have sex out of
when you're married.
Extramarital affair.
No.
Well, that's yeah, that is
something, but it's called
something else.
Is it?
You can have charges brought
against you.
I don't think so.
Ronnie said something.
I know I should aggressive.
I like The other day, he said
something aggressive.
Then he had to.
Delete it because he found what
he was looking for.
What was the show deal again?
You didn't do it?
Yeah.
You didn't get the show deal.
You want to make up your own.
We're recording.
I know.
All right, cigar news, unless
you have a video.
I don't because we're running so
late.
I don't have a video.
I was.
Trying to make up for yesterday
all right.
Cigar News Knoxville, TN banned
smoking inside bars.
Here's an update.
May 27th, 2020.
Sixth and Knoxville City Council
voted six to three in favor of
the new law.
It will take effect January 1st,
2027.
It's a damn shame.
They have banned smoking inside
of bars.
Oh my God.
Oh, and music venues.
This was the first vote.
The second vote will take place
on Tuesday, May 26th.
If approved, the law would go.
The law would outlaw The law
would outlaw indoor smoking to
those venues, effective January
1st.
The ordinance would not restrict
smoking inside of cigar stores.
Adultery.
Sorry.
Vape shops and other retail
tobacco stores.
No, no, it's smoking, not
adultery.
No, I know, but that was that's
what we were looking for
earlier.
Nice, still sending stuff. 2022
Tennessee law allows for cities
to pass additional smoking bans
like this age restriction venues
like bars or one of the
exemptions for the state's ban
on indoor smoking in public
places so no more smoking inside
at.
Tennessee Bars.
Tennessee bars, Knoxville.
Just Knoxville, OH.
Only Knoxville.
Yeah, the the law allows for
specific cities to set up their
specific laws.
Well, OK, I don't understand
Knoxville.
I can understand Tennessee.
Yeah.
No, no, I'm, I'm saying like I
could understand a city like
Nashville, right, like those
bars, because they're singers in
those bars and you know, smoke
effects singers, vocal cords,
you.
Don't think they're singers in
Knoxville bars.
Not as much as Nashville.
Nashville is where all the
celebrity bars are.
Yeah, but it's Tennessee,
though.
That's where all the country
western singers go.
And if you can't, you know, if
you're not quite Nashville, you
go to Knoxville.
Really.
No.
Anyways, I'm not.
Believing it's like it's like
AAA ball.
Yeah.
They're working their way up and
yes, I made a sports reference
and I'm not sure if it's
correct.
And like, especially in
Knoxville, because do you think
bars out there serve food?
Yes.
Or do you think they're just
bars?
Knoxville's a bigger city than
Nashville.
Isn't that like the where the
state capital is?
Knoxville, TN.
I'm pretty sure it's Nashville.
I don't know Knoxville.
I'll verify for you.
Knoxville's a big city though.
5th grade.
Was a long time ago.
It's probably neither one of
those.
Is it Johnson City?
That's where they make the
Johnsonville brats.
That's where Hootie's from.
Hootie and the Bluffer capital
of Tennessee, Michael.
I scrubbed it by accident.
Nashville.
It's Nashville.
Which city is bigger, Nashville
or Knoxville?
What city is bigger?
Pretty Nashville.
Nashville is significantly
larger than Knoxville.
Nashville is the largest city in
Tennessee with a population of
approximately 712,000, while
Knoxville is the state's third
largest city with about 202,000.
Residents.
It's the third largest.
It's right up there.
There's not a lot of people that
live in Tennessee, truthfully.
My family's from Tennessee.
What are?
You trying to say, yeah, but
there's just not a lot of people
that live there.
My my family lives in Tennessee.
You can make fun of your own
family.
You're from Tennessee.
No, we're not from they moved.
There, they're the only
Tennessee.
All right.
Our Disney O del Tobacco has
provided an update about 3
upcoming releases.
OK, 2 for this year, one for
next year.
OK.
Can we do a press release on
cigars we may release in the
future too?
Sure.
One of three new.
I mean, if this changes,
nobody's going to notice.
They're not going to go back and
go, you know, back in.
There will be one there.
Will be.
One there will be 1.
The Viva La Vida Connecticut
Lancero.
The company announced the cigar
last September alongside the new
Viva La Vida Connecticut
Churchill.
Is there a big difference
between a Churchill and a
Lancero?
Lancero's dinner?
Huge difference.
Huge difference.
Yeah.
Artisio Del Taco Del Taco Del
Taco Del Taco said it pulled in
its e-mail list and asked which
Vitoli would like added to the
line.
We did not get the get to chime
in on this.
The top vote getter was the
Churchill, which is due out this
month, and the Lancero finished
second at the 2026 PCA
convention and trade show.
The company said the cigar would
have an MSRP of Churchill.
Viva Lovito.
Viva Lovito del Taco. $17.00.
Ding Ding Ding Ding $17.00 right
on the money.
Boom First Cigar and Target
released release date in
September.
This week's e-mail has a release
date as summer.
One other note is that the ring
gauge is now listed as 40
opposed to 38.
Also coming later this year will
be the El Pupo Corona Gorda Box
Press 6 and half by 40 vitola
that the company describes as
medium bodied.
El Pupo uses a Mexican San
Andreas wrapper over a Nicaragua
Good Job binder and Nika Raguan
fillers.
No pricing is announced.
So what's the price?
For the El.
Pupo Corona.
Corona.
Corona it'll.
Probably be like 14 or 1450. 16.
Ding, Ding, Ding, $15.00.
You guys split it?
I don't know, just making it up.
They didn't announce the price.
I just read that.
Yeah, no, I think it's going to
be just below 15.
All right, And then finally the
company is teasing a new line.
The Oro Carrojo Artesiano del
Tobacco says it has spent four
years working on the blend with
AJ Fernandez.
That is 80% done.
Does it take over 4 years to
make a cigar?
No, it takes about it.
Seems kind of long.
Takes about a day it's.
Going to say you said you send
me down to do one.
I'm not.
I don't have four years to
spend.
Well, you got it.
You got to understand that
there's a lot that has happened
before the minute that you walk
in that door, right, as far as
acquiring the tobacco, right,
Right.
And then putting it in the
pallones in the fermentation
process and all of those things,
right?
So there should be.
Why does it take you 8?
Well, how many?
Four years?
Four years, I don't think it's
been 4 years and they're only
80% done.
Yeah, that.
They could grow tobacco special
for this one at this point.
Sounds like Ages just kicked the
can on it.
Like, yeah.
These guys won't be back called
El Poopo.
Yeah, I'm working on that.
I'm working on.
Yeah, I'm working on.
Had a fire.
All your stuff burned up.
I don't gotta start over.
Start over.
You stay at my new hotel.
It's very nice.
I gotta get the, you know, I got
to get the Hubano.
Yeah, we don't.
You know, they don't have any
right now.
We're.
Going to find the Sumatra.
I got Rafael Noodle coming.
I got to give a tour.
Like how?
What do you want me to grow my
own?
Oh, I do.
Oh, I do grow my own.
Only AJ.
Yeah, that's a process.
Like to see my coral reef as.
Long as you're here, my coral
reef.
No details we're given about the
blend because they don't know
what it is yet.
No sizes or pricing, but the
company said it's targeted
relates to be 2027.
So they have no clue about their
cigar other than when they want
to release it.
Well, you know.
It's a targeted, it's going to,
you know, maybe.
They're trying to tease it, you
know, like here, I'm going to
defend them a little bit.
They it's like you try to figure
out how you continue to keep
your name relevant I guess in
certain scenarios and you just
gently dropped.
Drag the pictures of the poopoo
corona thing out you.
Know obviously, I think that the
the poopo's probably the one
that's tracked the most.
Because of the name.
What's the name?
Poopy.
And we talk about it often
because I like the name.
It was a great name.
He likes the poop.
El bubo.
And you know the ale Hydra.
If you guys, yeah, if you guys
would like me to just voice over
El Poopo, you guys can use that.
Wait, what cigar did you say by?
Hal Hydra.
Hal Hydra.
It's an octopus.
Is it the fish?
Is that what they do I.
Don't remember what that is.
That a real cigar name.
Hal Hydra.
Yeah.
No, no.
Oh.
We that's going to be our news
again.
Yeah.
We'll be out in four to five
years, 70% of it's done.
We're a little behind the poop
pole, people.
The Barber pole.
The Barber pole.
Or it might not be a Barber
pole.
I'm not sure.
AJ is working out with us, but
he said he's real busy with this
poopo thing.
So.
What's the size?
It's a robusto Y kind of Toro
church Lance Corona Gorda.
Right.
Doesn't matter.
It's about as big as your wrist.
What's the wrapper?
Tobacco.
Tobacco.
It's a leaf.
It's a leaf.
It's got a leaf on the outside
of it, it's a thicker leaf doing
a new thing.
We're wrapping it backwards.
When you light, it combusts.
It burns well.
All the companies lines are made
by AJ Fernandez, so you know
he's very busy.
He is very busy.
He's very busy.
Mr. All to this busy.
Now he has to run that new hotel
he just built.
Yeah.
He has a hotel down there.
Now the the headquarters that
they have rebuilt or repainted
or whatever happens to be after
the fire.
When I first saw the picture, I
thought it was a hotel.
It's huge.
If flying cars happened.
He'll have one first.
Who do you think an SLE gets the
flying car first?
AJ only.
It's definitely AJ, he gets the
flying car.
It's a flying car.
Is it a real one or a knockoff
though?
No, it's a legit legit.
So he can fly over his coral
reef and look at it.
Yeah, so nice.
Look at all the fish.
You know what, maybe you
shouldn't go to Esteli because
he might not come back.
Yeah, you gotta be careful.
He doesn't speak English.
He won't.
Even.
Yes he does.
Yeah, he speaks.
He 100% does.
Do you think or I've?
Only met him once.
Is AJ the original guy of AJ
Fernandez or was his dad?
AJ senior?
You think there was an AJ
senior?
Yeah.
Was there was there a dad
involved in this?
Well, I'm sure he had a father.
I'm sure, I'm sure Father was
involved at some point.
No, yeah, but I mean like, you
know, like like pedrone, like
the like the generational
takeover.
I'm sure that's a good question.
I'm sure there's a story there.
Yeah, let's have him on the
show.
He he doesn't like to speak in
English.
We'll have a translator.
Yeah, I'll translate.
Oh great.
That'll be so smooth.
Yeah, soon as you talk we will
MI gusta and be like, oh, he
just said he wants some lobster,
let's get it.
He wants some lobster.
From my reef.
Yeah.
All right.
On the on Matt Boots almost
here.
We're getting on his helicopter.
Let's go.
Matt Boots translate.
Yeah, he said.
He likes a lot of poopy.
He says you mount that hog like
you would any other hog.
And cigars are not aids.
Free.
No, no.
He works with AJ, He works with
AJ, He works with AJ.
So also AIDS free, right?
Oh yeah, Also AIDS free.
Yeah.
Be reasonable.
I'm sorry, yeah.
All right, time for the
industry's favorite game.
What's the?
Score.
Pause for charge.
Pause for charging.
No, no.
No, no, no, you've ruined that
bit.
You've.
Ruined that, But there are the
keys there, though, for some
strange reason.
Yeah.
All right.
Today's cigar for May 27th,
2026.
Charlie Minato Cigars, Dominican
Republic, Limited Edition.
La Aurora.
Fernando Leon, 100 Anos.
Phil. 85.
Damn, 84 is where I was going.
I was surprised at that number
for you are.
You going with 84?
Yeah, that was the number I had
already decided. 85 is where I
go and I don't know what the
cigar is.
Cigar Review The Fernando Leon
100 annios 2026 is from the
Dominican Republic factories.
La Aurora the rapper is
Cameroon.
Binder is Dominican Filler,
Brazil, Dominican Republic and
Nicaraguan, length 5 3/4 of 52.
It's a round cigar and they
smoked free.
Jack is calling, there could be
a problem.
Did you not answer your phone?
No.
We'll see if he wants to yell at
us about the Patreon.
We're good.
Let's keep.
Let's keep. 85. 84.
Once the bitterness settles
down, there's a really unique
creamy nuttiness with wood,
pepper and even some sweet
citrus and date notes that make
the cigar surprisingly layered.
85. 84.
Clue #2 construction was
excellent overall with a
fantastic burn and draw on most
samples, and the final third
delivered some enjoyable
creaminess, black pepper, sweet
floral complexity. 86.
Damn, 87?
I was going to go 86, but I'll
go 87.
The profile often becomes mushy,
salty, overly starchy at times,
with bitterness and funky
earthiness overpowering the more
refined flavors throughout much
of the experience. 85. 84.
Final thought?
Well, not as noticeable as some
of the LA Aurora's other cigars
including the Don Fernando #4.
The Cameron rapper once again
shows why it's my favorite
wrapper choice.
When blended well, I find the
Cameroon provides a natural
sweetness with a restrain
restrained amount of pepper that
is different than some of the
other sweeter wrappers like
Mexican San Andreas or even a
Connecticut Seed.
That could be as much about the
other tobaccos in the blend as
it as it is the wrapper.
But cigars like this are why I
came to the realization the
Cameroon was my favorite.
The Fernando Leon 100 Anos is a
good cigar, though with some
minor construction issues and
funkiness in the middle section
and stop it from reaching the
great category.
However, it's proved that when
Laurora avoids experimenting
with heavier tobacco's, the
company is capable of making a
full flavored Nuance blends.
When it comes to making cigars
with Cameroon, Laurora has long
been one of my top three
factories in cigars like this
show.
Why?
Lone final thought, I like
funkiness.
That was it.
I'm done.
You can.
It's the final score, actually.
I think I've smoked this.
Did you use the carrier there?
I think it's a brand new.
It's a brand.
New sheet No, no.
That's like his thing.
I think I smoked this.
Well, I remember you guys used
to carry a Cameroon La Roy. 86.
It's a good number 87.
You went the right way, 89.
Really.
An 89?
Yes.
I reign supreme.
They're really working well.
Now that was fantastic.
Yeah, I am covered in sparkers.
All right, so I got, I got
nothing else.
Boom boom boom boom boom.
Boom boom, hey hey, not too
loud.
Double.
Double.
Like.
Yeah.
Yeah, not too loud, not too loud
of it.
That's my celebration.
Yeah, I took yours.
I did mine and I took yours.
Yeah, double.
Double I will not let you win
tomorrow.
Double celebration.
Finish him.
Finish him.
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Show Notes
On today’s show FBI has arrested a high level CIA operative, we have all heard of a watch dog but have you heard of a gun dog? Maratons Have Gone to the dogs, Don’t Talk To My Girlfriend! SSSHHHH Judge They can hear you!, in cigars we have an update to a smoking Ban and someone is getting three new cigars! Then as always we end the show with the industry’s favorite game What’s The Score!