ACHP 617 Cigar News & Reviews
Episode Summary
Episode 617 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast finds host Mike "BDP" Palmer joined by co-host Triple G Superstar and Mike "The King" Szczepankevich filling in on engineering for Phil McGuffey. The crew opens with listener comments from YouTube and the CH Pod Lounge, new CHPod.com merch (including a new ghost sticker and shirt), and an extended bit involving a set of Gurkha-style giveaway knives that derails most of the first half of the show.
The news block covers a Chinese tourist caught flying a DJI Mavic 4 Pro over Kennedy Space Center — including the federal complaint, seized equipment, trespass warnings and the potential penalties — plus a Florida Target parking-lot indecent exposure arrest in Oviedo, and a New York honors student suspended on the first day of school for bringing a cup of coffee to class after the district quietly changed its outside food and drink policy.
Cigar news leads with Fifth Avenue Products Trading, the German Habanos distributor, filing for insolvency in Germany — a follow-up to the prior week's story about halted shipments and the company's ties to its absent majority owner. The guys also cover the New England Cigar Expo 2026 limited edition cigar, blended and rolled by Perdomo in Estelí and packaged in a custom pizza box of 14 "slices" for $159.99 (two boxes for $300), plus Cigar Kings' Koi 26 Lancero, the Munich brand's Pantone Color of the Year release inspired by "Cloud Dancer," shipping ahead of the InterTabac trade show in Dortmund, Germany, where Fuente, Drew Estate, Joya de Nicaragua, Quesada, E.P. Carrillo, La Flor Dominicana, Villiger, Rocky Patel and Blackbird are all making appearances.
The show closes with "What's the Score?", the brother-against-brother guessing game based on halfwheel reviews. Up first is the Room 101 17th Anniversary (Scandinavian Tobacco Group) reviewed by Charlie Minato — a 6 x 52 Nicaraguan puro from AJ Fernandez's factory with sourdough, cream, pepper and leather notes marred by an odd paint/sealant flavor, scoring 89. Second is the Black Label Trading Company Bishop's Blend 2026 Lancero reviewed by Brooks Whittington — a 7 x 42 barber pole with creamy oak, blackberry, honey, coffee and black pepper that needed multiple burn corrections, scoring 88.
In This Episode
- 01Listener Comments & CHPod MerchThe guys read YouTube and CH Pod Lounge comments, announce a new ghost sticker and shirt, and riff on the Hackers movie reference and a set of giveaway knives.
- 02Chinese Tourist's Drone Over Kennedy Space CenterA DJI Mavic 4 Pro flown near Launch Complex 39A/39B leads to a seized drone, a federal criminal complaint in Orlando and possible jail time.
- 03Florida Man in a Teal G-String at TargetAn Oviedo indecent exposure arrest and the contents of the suspect's car prompt a tangent on prison vocabulary.
- 04Honors Student Suspended for CoffeeA New York student body president gets in-school suspension after a quietly adopted outside food and drink rule, with a public hearing now scheduled.
- 05Fifth Avenue Products Trading Files for InsolvencyThe German Habanos distributor halts shipping and payments and enters court-supervised insolvency amid its absent majority owner's legal troubles.
- 06New England Cigar Expo 2026 Pizza Box CigarPerdomo blends an exclusive event cigar for the September 25–26 expo, packaged in a custom pizza box of 14 'slices' limited to 300 boxes.
- 07Cigar Kings Koi 26 Lancero & InterTabac PreviewThe Munich brand's Pantone Color of the Year release debuts in ultra-thin Polish-made boxes at InterTabac in Dortmund, where Fuente and others make first appearances.
- 08What's the Score? Room 101 vs. Black Label Trading Co.Brother-against-brother score guessing on the Room 101 17th Anniversary (89) and the Bishop's Blend 2026 Lancero (88).
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Transcript
Okay, in three, two, one, go. Welcome to Cigar Hustler Podcast, premium cigars. He has unfiltered opinions and conversations. How are you?
Well. Now he's talking again. Now he's talking to people. Guard Dog.
He's doing well. Oh, Guard Dog. Yep. I'm Mike BDP Palmer, your host, joined by our co-host, Triple G Superstar, and there he is.
The man. Why are we already recording? We're going. We're recording.
Oh, this is the third time. Oh, we're recording. Why aren't we already recording? We're doing knife fights.
Yeah. Oh. I figured. Over in engineering.
I went to Cleaver. I went to Cleaver. Can I go to Cleaver? No, no, no.
You get this one. I get this one. I get this one. Oh!
Oh, there he is. There he is, gentlemen. There he is. Triple G's back.
Triple G's back. Superstar. Superstar. Superstar.
Over in Engineering, filling in from Phil McGuffey, who in his own words says he got something in his eye at work Friday. He did. He got something in his eye at work. Oh, no.
Also the name of his recent movie. He could not wear the mask. Yeah. Over in Engineering, we have Mike the King Szczepankevich.
Wearing my favorite brother's shirt. I am his favorite brother. Triple G superstar. My favorite brother.
I am his favorite brother. You're my favorite brother and you're a little blurry. Right now. A little blurry?
Yeah. Better? Oh, there it goes. Oh, no.
Oh, we had that problem the other day. Yeah, we did. Mm-mm. Uh-oh.
I'll fix it. Start it to the game. From cigars, sports and business to pop culture and the wildest headlines, it's Fitzworth Discussing. We're going to talk about it.
Did you put that carpet back there? Can I grab it back there? Yes, it doesn't make a difference. You put it in the wrong spot.
You said behind the chair. Yeah. It's behind the chair. Okay.
All right. Keep talking. Go ahead. No safe spaces.
Just real respected. Big laughs and chaos at any moment. Settle in and welcome to: A Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Dun, dun, dun!
A carpet catastrophe. Pay no attention to the man behind me in the blue light. On today's show, Chinese drone buzzes around the Kennedy Space What? Uh oh.
Don't say it. A student gets suspended for having coffee at school. Not allowed. And then in cigars, we have more Chen Z news.
Two Guy Cigar releases a pizza cigar. Ooh, nice. Cigar Kings releases a Pantone cigar. You're right, it does nothing.
Told you. Maybe it's in the wrong place. And energy back starts this week. Maybe you're in the wrong place.
Maybe you're in the wrong place. Maybe you're in the wrong place. Cigar Kings releases a Pantone cigar. You're right, it does nothing.
Told you. Maybe it's in the wrong place. And energy back starts this week. Maybe you're in the wrong place.
Maybe you're in the wrong place. Maybe you're in the wrong place. I'm in the wrong place. No, this is where my chair always is.
I feel like I'm in the wrong place. We're all in the wrong place. Aren't we all in the wrong place? I don't understand.
Was the carpet supposed to do something? I was hoping that it would reduce some of the echo. I told him it wouldn't when he bought it. Oh.
And then we end with a two for Tuesday. What's the score? Where we have a brother against brother. Yay.
But first, Mikey, what are the comments? What are the people saying? And how can I get some of that CH Pod superstar swag? Like and subscribe for reviewing and listening to the show.
com for all your chpod swag. Thank you for everybody who's hitting the hype button on our YouTube page. I don't know what it does, but thank you. We have 16,000 hypes.
I don't know what that does either. Yeah. It sounds like a lot. It's probably like nothing.
That's a lot. 16,000 is a lot. 6K. It's still a lot.
If there's a comma in the number, that's a lot. That's a lot. I got a report from our nautical engineer who's on a cruise ship with another man, it was 16,000. Wait, man.
Okay. What did you just say? Yes. Our nautical engineer.
Our nautical engineer. Who was on a boat. On a boat. On a cruise with another man.
On a cruise with another man. 16,000 hypes, he said. I don't know what that means, but... We love it.
It was important enough for him to text us from the cruise ship. Okay. Probably cost him $75. All right.
Very good. com, all your THPod swag, where you can get... Superstar! The Triple G Superstar.
And, and... And? I have these. Oh.
Oh, we don't know what those are. It's a ghost. Can't really see it while on the screen. It's a ghost sticker.
It's a ghost sticker. Yep. It's a sticker of a ghost. Sticker of a ghost.
It's a sticker of a ghost. Is it a particular ghost? - It's a particular ghost. - Hmm.
- Wow. - And that ghost also will be on a shirt. - Oh! - Oh!
- Oh! - Thank you very much, guys. Thank you. Thank you.
- Oh, we didn't rehearse. com, effective immediately. - Oh! - Oh!
- Thank you. Thank you very much. - That's all I have to do. I can just sit here and do that.
- Anytime we talk is all we need. - So much easier. - Oh! - Anytime you are.
- Oh! - Yeah. Okay. Let's see, some comments from the CH Pod Lounge, if we got the comment thing working out, I haven't done it before.
Oh! Okay, you guys are assholes. Can the comments be hyped? Can they do that?
" I guess I could. Yeah, like you don't got enough going. - I'll put that on my list, Timani, of 75,000 things to do. - Right after, where you put, don't kill us when AI takes over.
- Please, we are your friend. He also said, Mikey, you should never go full fill. Never go full fill. And I think that that's a safe, that is words to live by.
- Great reference. - That could be a shirt. - Never go full fill, never go full fill. Zero Cool was someone you thought you could be, but never would, is what Mitch Maduro said on the CH Podlounge as well, so...
Do you know what I'm talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about with that one. Do you know who Zero Cool is? Zero Cool.
I was Zero Cool. Nothing? No, not right now. Not ringing a bell?
Nope. No? Angelina Jolie was in the movie? Uh, Hackers.
Boom. There you go. See what you got there. Congratulations.
- Okay. - Still don't get to do it. - Yeah, well, you weren't-- - You weren't on Friday's show. - Yeah, you know?
- Monday's show. - You weren't on yesterday's show. - There you go. That's what you're saying.
- All right, some comments from our YouTube page. David Hasselhoffman says, "Very sophisticated show. " - Mm-hmm. - Yes, yes, we were.
- Indeed we were, yes, mm-hmm. - Yes. - Oh. - Oh.
- Oh. - I'm holding a knife. Okay. 0 says, "She wanted to make sure the wedding happened in case he didn't make it.
" Oh. Mmm. Or maybe she just loved the guy. You know?
It's possible. Yes, it's possible. So a person got in a car accident, actually here in Orlando. Okay.
And it was on his wedding day. Oh. Yeah, it was terrible. On his way to the church.
Aye. Perished? He didn't make it? No, no.
He made it. So, I mean, I could tell you the rest of the story, or you could... Google it. You could interrupt me as I'm trying to say it, or he could possibly finish it, since you're both...
I have one too, bro. I passed these out at the beginning of the show. I felt with the tempo it would be good if we all had knives. Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, that's a good tempo. This is the final episode of the Cigar Hustler podcast. It's going to have the most ratings. He filled by himself.
Like that one dude that murdered his girlfriend on the couch, that live on stream. Do you remember that one? I do not. Yeah.
That's pretty sad. Yeah. Okay. It was more like the news reporter that killed himself on the air.
Yeah, that was a good one. That was with a knife. I mean, a gun. That was with a gun.
What? Yeah. Yeah. What kind of stuff are you guys watching?
No, that was years ago. That was a long time. That was from like the 80s. Yeah.
Yeah. He did it in protest for some legislation that they passed or something like that. He was really upset, apparently. Yeah.
That's so terrible. Anyways, back to the gentleman who didn't perish. Yeah, so his soon-to-be wife met with him and the person who was giving, It was doing the wedding. Pawpaw.
Pawpaw. Pawpaw. Yeah. And they did the wedding at, they did their vows at the hospital.
Okay. Well, you know, while I was in recovery. Okay. Same day.
Rather than cancel the wedding. Yeah. Right. I thought that was pretty cool.
Yeah. Grabbed a bunch of people. Come on, y'all. Let's go.
Yeah. This is a couple that's going to make it. Yeah. That's what I said.
Yeah. 100%. Two broken arms and a broken jaw. But we're showing up.
Yeah, we're getting married. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell yeah, that's a real one. Yeah, no, good deal.
I'd take that deal. Okay, put the knife down. Why is it only sharp on the tip and on the back? No, take, that's a guard.
Remove the guards. I understand that, but it's covering the most, the sharpest parts. It's not the sharpest parts. The whole blade is sharp.
It's the most common areas that you'd get nicked. That you would hurt yourself with. Oh, gotcha. Whoever that is, we have knives.
They left. They left. Smart move. at rooks coding says so a year ago we got chat gbt to walk us through how to jump off a bridge lol it was very detailed and said no one would care if we were gone we tried it out to see if it would even do it oh wow that's pretty sad who jumped off the bridge uh nobody did but they wanted to see if it would do it oh yeah like it would advise you how to to off yourself yeah and said nobody would miss you.
That's terrible. That'll be fine. Nobody would miss you. I would miss you.
I would. Yeah. So don't do it. Okay.
That was a year ago. He's probably getting past it. There are hotlines for that. I'd be afraid it would like call the hotline and connect you to it.
I don't think it can. No? I don't think it's allowed. It has access to my emails now.
Couldn't have access to my phone? You know, I tried to do the cleanup thing and it said that it cleaned it up but it didn't clean up anything. I still have like 160,000 emails. Really?
Yeah. Well, mine did. I do it all the time. But I did specifics, like delete all Nike emails.
Yeah, it told me all the promotional emails it was going to remove. It didn't remove shit. Huh. Yeah.
Did you use Claude? I did. That's why. You gotta use ChatGPT.
You gotta use ChatGPT apparently. Hmm. Okay. Did you, I guess if you told it was in there, you had access to it.
Yeah. Bring your mic up a little bit. At Ruckus Unchained says, And Hackers, great. I mean, if you could just, if you could have done that with more noise, that would have been great.
You know, if you could have just smacked the top of it as you're dragging it up, that would have been so much better. So much better for our listeners. Thank you so much. One of them all know that I moved it.
Okay, well, they heard it. They know now. Yeah. Perfect.
Ruckus Unchained said, Hackers, great movie. It was a great movie. Great movie. You saw Hackers, Palmer?
Yeah. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did. A very young, How young Angelina Jolie?
Very young. Yes. Very, very topless in that movie as well. Oh, that part I don't remember.
There was a scene. Yes. There was a guy with Bleached Hair was the lead actor. I can picture his face.
I have no idea who he is. But he did have Bleached Hair. You played Sherlock in that show. Yes, he did.
It was that guy. You're right. I actually used to have the ring that Angelina Jolie was wearing in the film. Not the actual one, but like a replica.
Yeah. And it was stolen last year. The armored one? Yeah.
Oh, that was from the people that you lent your house to do the work. Yep. One of the painters took it. Yeah.
Very upsetting. Now put the knife away. Nope. Hold the knife.
Okay. Lance Frazier says great show. Thank you, Lance. Thank you, Lance.
We like you too, Lance. We love you, Lance. You had a great day while you listen to the show. Yeah.
I called Terrence Riley today, by the way. Oh. Yeah. I told him I hope he has a great day.
Wasn't that nice? Jack called me this morning. Did he? Did he wish you a great day?
As a matter of fact, he did. Oh, good. You're coach writing again. At iHeart Triple G says, I must say, I prefer Keanu over Phil.
Oh, wow. Yeah, I could see that. I could see that, too. Yeah.
Wow. You know, because, like, listen, and I'm not discrediting Phil here, because I love Phil. Yeah, he has his value. Phil is tremendously valuable on this show.
But, Keanu is a nice piece, he really is, he really is. Yeah, and I mean, like I said, we need to figure out a way to have more employees on this show. Mm-hmm. I hear you.
Mm-hmm. I hear you. If you want to hear a comment read aloud on the show, simply comment below on our YouTube page or, more importantly, on our CH Pod Lounge. I might have something special, maybe some kind of particular entry for people at the end, at some point, for people who just commented solely on the CH Pod Lounge.
Just so you know. It could happen. Maybe. So.
After that, though, let's get on with the show. We ready, gentlemen? Let's go. I still want to know what he's doing with the knife.
I just wanted to hold it. I thought they were cool. I mean, didn't you see how cool these things were? Yeah, but I played with it upstairs.
I don't even know. Yeah, but I wanted to sit down here and play with it. I thought they were pretty badass. It's not that kind of show, Greg.
Hmm? It's not that kind of show. You can't play with it on the show. Why did you pick that one for you?
I don't know. I think it's the coolest one. That's why I picked it for me. I asked for the cleaver.
I wanted this one. Why did I get the T52 Habano? You got like the fillet knife, the big thick fillet knife. That is a fillet knife.
No, it's too thick to be a fillet knife. Is it? Yeah. So what type of knife is it?
It looks like a small sword. It's a small sword. It has the gold pummel there. These things are cool.
Okay. Who's sitting around and they go, you know what we should give away? Gurkha does really good with those knives. Gurkha does do really good.
We should make some cool druist These are steak knives. Gerka, but these are like functional too. Does Gerka still make knives? I'm pretty sure they do.
Yeah, that steak knife set is probably floating around. They probably still have leftovers. They had like the Special Ops one back in the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They did like a bunch of tactical stuff, but all of these are kind of like kitchen. Yeah, they're like cooking knives. But they're cool kitchen. Like yours is really, really cool too.
Right. Yours is a very, very functional chef knife. Yeah, a big chef knife. I got the League of 10.
That's cool. Greg's is out here shamelessly promoting. I'm what? I'm what?
Shamelessly promoting. Check out these knives. I think they're cool as crap. They can win them here.
Only here. Never mind. Alright, just having back on July 25th, but the story was just released. It just became unclassified.
39pm. Kennedy Space Center Security Police received a drone alert. You're not allowed to do that over there. No, you're not allowed to do that.
It's bad. Very bad. Very frowned upon. Officers located a Chinese tourist, Zhaidong, he was operating a DJI Mavic 4 Pro from the Playlinda Beach Vista #8 parking lot.
A DJI. Mmm. What'd I say? Oh, DJI.
Yes, DJI. Is this like a high-end spying drone? Yes. No, it's just like a cool camera drone.
Okay. He flew it around Kennedy Space Center for 12 minutes, investigators say, the drone flew for 12 minutes, 24 seconds. Reaching approximately 230 feet. Okay.
23 miles of NASA's Rotation Processing and Surge Facility. I see it's kind of far away. Like, over a mile. Well, they have four miles.
One of them was four miles, the other one was over a mile. Right. Yeah. I don't know.
One mile's kind of far. Four miles is kind of far. Like, how far do you think the line is? Like, where are you not allowed to go?
He's allowed to go. Apparently one mile and four miles. It's newsworthy. Well, 'cause it's a Chinese national and they think he was a spy.
Oh, alright. Sensitive national facilities were recorded. He allegedly recorded four videos, investigators say one showed the drone rising above the trees and capturing lunch complex 39A, so he flew it in low, below the radar. Oh, nice.
And then popped it up. Picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, drop back down. But I mean, don't they have satellites that can do this already? They don't need to send, you know, Kim Jong-un or whoever they sent over, whatever his name is to take these photos, they could have just gotten them with a satellite.
It's covered by a big blanket. It's a big blanket? Yeah. A large, hand-stitched blanket?
Yeah. It's just all gray. It's like those license plates that they can't hit at the toll roads? Yeah.
Right. Same thing, it's just all over the entire place. He said he was just innocently sightseeing, and was reported traveling with three family members who said they were vacationing in the United States and filming scenery. It's not a spy mission.
They claimed they did not know drones were prohibited and offered to delete the videos, police permitted the deletion. The controller, Leslie, warned, was warned, a forensic reviewer reportedly found that the controller displayed an aircraft in a warning zone message each time the drone launched. Oh, that's cool. So when you fly, you're not supposed to.
It says, no, no, no. Right. Don't do this. Bad move, Chinaman.
Yeah. Hmm. Yeah, but it's like a, it's like a, okay. But he kept recording anyway.
Yeah, I got news for you. My drone said, hey, don't fly here. I'm like, okay, whatever. You gotta keep flying it then?
You're flying anything? Yeah. It's like when your GPS blinks red when you go slightly above the speed limit. Exactly.
That's exactly what it is. I'm not paying attention to that. Nobody's paying attention to that. That is exactly what this is.
You sort of look around going, "I'm the slowest one here. " Everybody's zipping past me. Exactly. Let's see how far I can get this thing.
He had no pilot certificate, no drone registration, FAA authorization, or L-A-A-N-C approval by Or Part 107, License Connected to the Flight. Who needs any of that shit? I mean, come on, let's put it up in the air. What are we doing?
It's just a toy. It's just a toy. No, his was a Fanta toy. I mean, you're familiar with that model, Mike?
I'm not familiar with that model, but I understand DJI's products. Okay, so what do we speculate? What do you think the tag is on that thing? Oh, it's up there.
A couple hundred or a K? No, no, no. It's probably, I would assume that that one's probably a couple K. Couple K, alright, this is not a toy.
Not a toy. It was very much a toy. Nope, this is a spy device at that point. If it's a couple thousand dollars, what was it called?
Plus it said, not the fly! It's a spy device! What was it called? DJI Drone...
DJ, hold on, I gotta go back. Hold on, that's where he was. You don't care of the one. I gotta go way back!
Yep. One gotcha. 72. Security police.
DJI Mavic 4 Pro. Mavic. M-A-V-I-C. Yeah, I got you.
The number four. I got you. Pro. Yes, it's three Gs.
Yeah, no, that's not a toy. That's not a toy. That's a spy device. Well, was it a knockoff?
Did he bring it with him or did he buy it when he was here? Well, he got it at China. It cost him 50 bucks. Right, he made it in his garage.
Yeah, I build it and then I steal it from work. He works for DJI in China. Yeah, what's the problem? Take this.
Go to America. Film things you're not supposed to see. Like, I don't know, man. Like, okay.
That's stupid. But he didn't get in, like, real trouble, right? Well, now I gotta go back to where we were because I had to back up. Oh, man.
I gotta go forward. It's a disaster. That's slower. Why isn't that slower?
It should be faster. Just make sure you say something nice about Greg because he is holding that. Holding my cleaver. Yeah, I put mine away, you know.
Let's see. Kennedy Space Center Police Seize a drone and controller, issued a federal violation notice, given trespass warnings to all four family members, escorted them from the property. The group reportedly planned to leave the United States through LaGuardia Airport on August 8th. August 7th through September 18th, a federal criminal complaint was filed on August 7th in Orlando under case number 626MJ1933.
S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Hoffman Price. He is accused of violating national defense airspace restrictions and operating without required certification. His next court appearance is scheduled for September 18th and a conviction could bring to a He's going to bring fines as well as much as one year in jail.
Oh, wow. I don't think I needed to hear everything else. I just needed to hear that he had to go to court and that he could get... Well, he said he was leaving, so they have detained him, I would assume.
Yeah, they must have. Also, they took the machine. Right, took the machine and I would imagine his passport. Probably.
Oh, so in other news, now we're keeping Chinese people as Chinese people are keeping us. Correct. Hmm. Turnabout is fair play.
Your move. No, we don't want your move. We come in peace. Tariffs 20%, then we're going to do tariffs at 20%.
Yeah, we're matching your energy. Except Irish whiskey. We're taking the tariff off Irish whiskey. Oh, yeah?
We removed that? Yeah, because they upped it on Canadian whiskey, so, you know, we still have to have whiskey. Yeah, we still have to have whiskey. Right.
We're just mad at the Canadians. Why are we mad at the Canadians? Because they put tariffs on cheese or something. I don't know.
We're playing the tariff game now with the Canadians. It's a dangerous game of cheese. I asked if they had their own cheese, I asked the cigar surgeon, 'cause we have American cheese, Swiss cheese. Didn't our president, like, recently rename one of the lakes, Lake America?
Yeah, Lake Ontario is now Lake America. They're very upset. That was their lake. The ducks there are no longer Mallard Ducks, now they're known as Donald Ducks.
Nuh-uh, that's incredible. Do they talk now? They don't say "A" anymore. They've eliminated the E-H from their vocabulary.
Do you think Disney had something to do with it? Disney? Yeah. Why?
Donald. Donald Duck. Oh, no, definitely not. Donald Duck.
They probably couldn't because they owned Donald Duck. There was another thing that came across my feed about a bunch of Canadians, they were making light of the situation, like, you know, for the ultimate get back, we should just put Obama on our money, right? That's pretty cool. That's a good one.
See, the thing is that nobody has the balls to do a weird flex like that, you know what I mean? Like, somebody should do a weird flex back. Like, oh, yeah? Well, here you go, you know?
They should just rename Lake Michigan Lake Toronto or something. Yeah, like, just counter. " You know, they're not teaching that in Canadian schools. Right.
I don't think Mexico's calling it the Gulf of America down there. No, they're not. Yeah, but we don't care what they say, right? Right, what do we call America?
Everyone's friends, you know what I mean? We're America. We're America. America.
Renaming everything. Uh-uh. m. Sunday, September 6th, we switched to a new story.
We're moving on? Moving on. Okay. You guys didn't seem to care anymore, now we know what the man's gonna get.
Yeah, I mean, you really drugged that out. Well, you went and asked a bunch of questions, I had to go back. I just want to know how much the drone cost, and I want to know if he was going to jail. That's all I cared.
And you're like, "Senator... What the drone is called is back up here, and the punishment was way down here, and you had me going back and forth. And in between all that was a bunch of bullshit about some people that I don't care about. There's a NASA Inspector General President of the World lady thing.
Again, I don't care. You know, you're very mad. I don't. I mean, like, it's not important.
What was her name? Heather Dubois. No, it wasn't. Yes, it is.
No, it wasn't. Yes, it was. How do you know? I know that you don't remember.
Yes, I do. No, you don't. I just read a trigger on the screen. It's not there.
Yes, it is. Heather Dubois. Come on, we're going to break you a fucking break. It was so important that you included it and no one remembers her name.
I didn't include it, the article includes it. It's not like I'm writing these things. God forbid you should edit it. I'm copying them.
I did edit it. We didn't have the seven minutes worth of footage of his family waving from the ocean. We just needed bullet points. That was bullet points.
That was bullet points? points seven bullet points i do seven three bullet points moving forward no i'm not doing three i just want three an hour i just want three no we're doing seven we're already at 25 minutes we've covered one because we've been arguing about this story heather dubois it's heather dubois problem you know what i mean yeah yeah well you don't know i know i don't know neither do you she's from the house beverly hills i should know you should have known that i figured you would I don't know. I don't know. Apparently, she's the NASA--oh, you're out of focus again.
She's the Inspector General of the world. Yeah. Blurry Greg. m.
Sunday, September 6, deputies responded to the Target at 820 Oviedo Mall Boulevard after a shopper reported seeing a nearly naked man outside his vehicle. I mean, it's Florida, this happens. Right. Yeah.
This is in Target? This is in Target over to Oviedo. Target's always up to something. The woman allegedly saw 41-year-old Nicholas Lydic of Longwood wearing only a teal g-string and white sneakers while touching himself in the parking lot.
That's not naked. No, it's not. That's not naked. That's a g-string.
That's a g-string. His explanation? Lydic denied behaving indecently and reportedly told the deputy that he had gotten wet and stepped outside of his car to change his clothes. That's all I'm doing.
Makes sense to me. Florida. Send him home. Send him home.
No problem. Inside his car, deputies found... Math, Math, Math, Watermelon. A backpack containing women's underwear.
A Fifi. Sex toys. Yeah. Yep, that's what they found.
Authorities emphasized that his clothing alone wasn't the basis for the arrest, so it's fine if you're wearing white sneakers at a G-string. Yeah. That's perfectly okay. Just can't touch yourself.
Yeah. No touchy-touchy. The alleged public sexual behavior was the charge Lydic was arrested for indecent exposure of sexual organs. G-string doesn't cover well, apparently.
Yeah, you get like half a ball in it. The ball is hanging out a little bit. Yeah, you get half a ball. Half a ball.
Let's see if the second or subsequent offense reports say he had a previous indecent exposure. This is a habitual thong wearer target. Come on, they don't stop. They just keep going.
Do you think he was trimmed, or what? You think he was just like bush hanging out? Like, what happened? Oh, yeah, I think so.
I mean, I'm liking to think that he's at least trimmed. No, no, no. You don't think so? Just full bush?
Just full bush. Yeah, he's not going to that kind of trouble. You know, God bless our police officers. You know what I mean?
Like, just a normal day on the job. Like, here we go. All right. Oh, we got another call.
This guy's got a ball hanging out. Yeah. Put that ball back in. It won't go in.
I was just fixing my clothes. I got wet in the car. I was just standing out here changing clothes. I spilled my Dr.
Pib on me. Stepped in a puddle and now I have to wear this thong. I found myself naked with this Fifi. See, that's his new favorite word.
A Fifi? Do you know what a Fifi is? I have no idea what a Fifi is. See, I didn't know either.
I didn't know either. But apparently, this man right here, he knew what a Fifi was. I'm well-read. I know what a Fifi was.
What is a Fifi? It's a prison sex toy. It's like, yeah. A prison sex toy?
Yeah, so you make it out of a blanket, a towel, a rubber glove, whatever you can find. It's like a flesh, it's like a fleshlight. Yeah, but made out of like stuff that you find in prison. Yeah, yeah.
General everyday things you could find in prison. So like, so technically Bob could be your Fifi, right? Well, I don't think that's how that works. That's not how that works?
I think it's an artificial thing. I just want you to know, thank you so much, because now moving forward, I'm going to say, this is my Fifi Palmer. Right. I mean, come on.
Thank you very much. I'd like to introduce you to my Fifi. This is Phil. It could be a latex glove filled with toothpaste, or it could be Palmer.
It could be Palmer. It's what you have in prison, Palmer. You have to make stuff work. Yeah, you got to be creative.
You got to make it work. I understand that. It's very minty. Yeah.
Very minty. Very minty. No cavities. No cavities down below.
Zero cavities. All right, Julie... I use the Sensodyne. Sensodyne.
Sensodyne. Can't feel it now. I use the Sensodyne. Julie Caputa, an honors student and student body president of Beaver River Central School in Casterland, New York.
At Beaver River River? Beaver River High School. She's a 12th grader. She's an honors student.
Okay. She showed up to school with a cup of coffee and got suspended. That makes no sense. Was it like a cava thing?
No, it was regular coffee. Apparently, the school had changed the rules. No outside food or beverages are allowed, but didn't tell anybody. No, they didn't tell anybody.
So, on September 3rd, the first day of school, Julie entered her first period carrying the coffee. The teacher told her she had to finish it, throw it away, and report to the office. So, she went to the office. She chose to go to the office?
Like, she was given three options here. Julie refused to discard the coffee and received an in-school suspension. I think that's a reasonable option. I'd be like, I'd like to challenge the rules on that.
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, she didn't do anything wrong. No, they changed it without telling anybody. Yeah.
Apparently, they had a school board meeting, because you're supposed to make a public announcement that we're changing the school rules, and then they have that period where you, you know, people come and talk about it, I think we should be able to bring food in, can't bring food in, whatever. " So can you not pack your lunch? That's what I was wondering. Can you not bring it outside lunch?
I mean that according to what you just said. That's outside, that's outside. Right, that's outside food and drink. Mm-hmm.
That seems odd. Like, what? They're just bored? They're like, you know what?
Only number three pencils moving forward. Number two, expulsion. Maybe too many nut allergies or something like that. Like, that's how they do things.
Like, you know, one person's allergic to peanuts and none of us can bag a lunch anymore. Well, at Connors Elementary School, there was a girl that couldn't eat peanuts and then they just made her sit out in the courtyard. He's in the courtyard and her mother would come out to lunch with her. That's what they should do.
Right. Yeah. You are out in the courtyard. You go out in the courtyard.
Yeah, she's out of there with her mother. Yeah. I think that's nice. She and her mother, Mary Caputa, argued that the revised code was not properly adopted because a required public hearing wasn't clearly announced.
Not announced. So now on September 3rd, they are having a public announcement that they are going to discuss the thing. I got news for you. We can bring coffee back to school.
That's cool. That's not going to be an issue because now you've got this uproar. Right. Oh, it's September 14th.
Sorry, not the third. A formally announced public hearing was scheduled for September 14th. So that's today if you guys would like to go. Oh, I'll have to go and see what they say.
Take your knife. Ooh, is there a Facebook line? I'd love to zoom in. Oh, that'd be nice if there was, wouldn't it?
Keyboard warrior, that. Zoom in. There you go. Yeah, you know, because now that that trial's over, I've got nothing to watch, you know?
Oh, the one with the lady? Yeah. It was a mischild. Yeah.
The whole country's divided. One guy held out. Yeah. Yeah.
But still, mistrial. So nothing happens. You got to start over. You got to start over.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to do it again. Can you imagine being the attorney? I'd be outraged.
I'd be so-- listen, it's guilty or it's not guilty. We're not doing it again. You get paid twice. Yeah.
You get paid again. I don't know, man. I don't know. How does that work?
There's no way she can afford him. Well, she couldn't the first time. They did a GoFundMe. I'm sure there's a bunch of people that have given a ton of money because the- Start the new GoFundMe, I need more representation.
The media behind this is tremendous. The positions are very impressive. I'm really enjoying it. I can't talk about it at my house.
My wife gets so upset. Does she? Yeah. Aw.
" Why not? What's your stance? I think the lady did it. Well, she did.
Yeah, that's not what they're arguing. Right, but my wife says she didn't do it. The husband did it. Oh.
Yeah, I mean, she's taking it that far. I'm like, nobody's even saying that he did it. Right. They're not even saying she didn't do it.
You know, I got news for you. She might not be wrong. There's still that possibility. You know what I mean?
Well, there's a possibility that the Chinese guy with the drone came by and did it, too. That's true. No, there isn't, because the Chinese guys with the drone didn't have his fingerprints on the elastic bands. Nobody's fingerprints were on the elastic band.
Because of the material it's used and because of the pattern on it, It cannot hold fingerprints. There was DNA. Let me write that down. But the entire home, everybody in the house's DNA was on the bands.
And everybody played with it or used them. Sure. I can see why she gets mad at you. That's the fact.
Because look at how angry you just got. I'm not angry. I'm just telling you. Well, because she's-- Greg, is he angry?
I don't think he's angry. No, she'll say stuff that she sees on TikTok. And I try to explain to her, that might not be real. It's TikTok.
Yeah. It was a news report. I don't know, I just saw three that said we're having a hurricane tomorrow, honey. - And there's no hurricane tomorrow.
They fake stuff on TikTok. I mean, if she was getting her news from, let's say, even the internet or something. - Oh, the internet's a good, reliable news? - Well, it's a lot better than TikTok.
- Which is connected to the internet. - Yeah, you have to be on the internet to view it, I understand. - Mm, okay. Okay, so, you're angry, I get it.
- I'm not angry. - Yeah. - I'm angry that she's been duped by whatever things she's watching. " Well, yeah, we're not talking about it anyways, so yeah, she brings it up now, like, you know what, you're right, that poor lady.
That's it, poor lady. Poor lady. Poor lady. I'm gonna speaker phone, I'm like, I'm gonna call Palmer tonight, I'm like, hey, put me on speaker phone.
I won't put you on speaker phone. I'm like, no, I got a question I want to ask AD King Palmer. And I'm gonna be like, hey. Then she just gets mad at you, not me.
No, I'm a professional. I'm like, can you believe this guy saying that she did it, and she's a murderer, and all this stuff, and that the husband has nothing to do with it? And then just lose connection. You act like I don't have your wife's phone.
And then hang up. Go ahead. Go ahead. We're going to have a lady co-host next week for three days.
That's fine. That's fine. You and her will do great. You won't know until you get it.
I'll help you fill out your divorce papers. Oh, please. Mm-hmm. With your AI-generated bitches.
Oh, could AI generate one for you? Yeah. Good lord. Go ahead.
Do it. Fucking get mad. Do it. Let's see what happens to you.
Oh my god. Look, you know, she will come for you. Your wife? Yeah, she will come for you.
Okay. All right. She also handles your payroll. I understand that.
Yeah. I know she does. It's going to be a tough month for you, buddy. It is what it is.
It's the worst thing ever. Oh, you ready to move to Cigar News? Yeah, yeah, I'd love some Cigar News actually. I've been sitting here waiting for Cigar News all this time.
You need to play with your knife. I've been sitting here playing with this knife, waiting for Cigar News. You're going to poke yourself in the face. No, I think we're good, we're good.
If he starts bleeding, Michael, make sure you turn to his camera. I'll go home. No problem. Fifth Avenue Products Trading is filed for insolvency in Germany.
So last week we covered the story that said they weren't shipping anything. Ah. Now today? We go bye-bye.
We're closing the doors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So they may not currently have enough money available to pay its bills and debts on time.
It is similar to the bankruptcy protection, but it does not necessarily mean the company is closing. It just means we don't have any money. Oh, man, I want to claim insolvency. I can just say we're not paying, but we're not closing.
This is a great deal. How many times a year can you do it? Six? This is awesome.
A court appointed attorney. You care about his name at all, Michael, or did I just skip over this? You go ahead. Give me his name.
Andre Cooper. I don't care. I don't care. It's Heather Dubois.
Andre Dubois, related to Heather Dubois. The inspector general for NASA. Lovely. I like how you did that.
I like how you did that. Managing Director Christoph Puzikar will continue running daily operations. To who? Puzikar.
P-U-S-Z-K-I-R. Puzikar. Christoph Puzikar. You're a car.
He will need Berber's approval before making certain financial decisions. So one guy's in charge, then the attorney has to tell him he's doing it. Yeah, that makes sense. Sure.
So the company stopped shipping products about one week before filing. Retailers were instructed not to send payments. We're not sending anything. Don't pass.
The filing doesn't explain what caused the financial problem? Well, the guy that has all the money is in China in a jail. Right. That's the problem.
Oh, the Zen Chi guy. Yes, he's a Zen Chi. He's part of this. So, what brands are these?
Do you know? Well, this is Habanos. This is Cuban cigars. Yeah.
But, like, the name of the company I didn't recognize, so I'm like, I'm curious what... Because it's a German company. Yeah, but like, is it everything that Habanos owns as far as a brand underneath that umbrella? Isn't this a bank, or no?
Uh, no, they own, uh, they owe the bank money. Oh, because the news that you covered last week was the fact that he was on a bank photo, like part of the bank. He was still on the website. He's still on the website for this company, too.
Yeah. Guys, I got news for you. If you're affiliated with this dude and he exists on your homepage, remove it. Yeah, probably a good idea.
I mean, what are we doing? It takes two seconds. He's a majority owner still. And he's not responding.
He's not getting back to you. He's not answering his email. Yeah. Hey, if I don't hear back, we've got to take you off.
I mean, this takes two seconds. What are we doing? They're not officially shutting down, but the shipping and finances are now under court suspension, while officials determine whether the business can stabilize and continue operating. So, in a couple of days, we'll find out.
They announced that we're closing. This is a three-step process. We have to go through the process. First, stop the shipping.
Second, Mike, we're not paying. Third, hey, we're gone. Take down the website finally, get his picture off of it. Yeah, take that down.
All right, New England Cigar Expo releases a 2026 limited edition pizza cigar. It tastes like pizza? It's in a pizza box. In a pizza box?
It's in a pizza box. Hmm. The New England Cigar Expo taking place Friday and Saturday, September 25th, 26th. Once again, commemorate the event with its own limited cigar.
The New England Cigar Expo, taking place Friday and Saturday, I said it twice, this year's release turns up the fun. - You think somebody would check it, you know what I mean? I don't know. - I got it from halfway.
- There you go, so angry, look at him. - No, I'm not angry, you're angry, all you do is yell. This year's release turns up the fun with custom pizza box packaging. - I'm leaving.
- Why pizza in the 2026 Expo will feature a pizza eating, we'll put it on the two shot. Pizza eating competition and the special edition packaging was designed To bring some of that fun directly to the cigar release. So the cigar was made by Perdomo. - They got put in a pizza box?
- Yes. Crafted by Perdomo Cigars, Atala Calera, Perdomo, and Esteli, the 2026 New England Cigar Expo features an exclusive blend created specifically for the event. - Oh. - At least you put the two shot on.
That takes nothing away from the cigar itself. The packaging is fun, but inside you're getting a top-notch cigar with a one-of-a-kind blend. So, I can't see Perdomo making a cigar to go in a pizza box. Well, they did.
Very interesting. I'll tell you. It folds over and they're just stacked up in there. Very interesting.
Production of the 2026 Dwingland Cigar Expo cigar will be limited to 300 pizza boxes of 14 slices. I'm back. Are you done with your attitude? No.
You still have one? I still have one. Are you still angry? I'm never angry.
I'm never with an attitude. Nope. Exactly. Take a hold of an exclusive opportunity to purchase cigars on day two of the Expo.
Slash your tires with my new knife. I have a knife too. Go ahead. The New England Cigar Expo 2026 limited edition cigar is available for how much is this box of 14 slices of cigars?
14 slices of cigars? 14 slices in the box. Of cigars. Well, they're calling them slices, but they're just cigars, they're not really slices.
They're having fun with it. $200. $160 bucks. 99, very good.
Very good. I'm smart. Oh, or you can get a deal, two boxes. You can get it for $300.
Comes with a knife? No, it doesn't come with a knife. $300. He already read the story.
I did not. How do you know exactly the $300? Because that just makes sense. Because I'm smart.
He's smart. Yeah. It just makes sense. Oh, you get mad that I'm smart?
No, I'm not mad that you're smart. He gets angry that I knew the answer. I don't think he's angry. Here you are, I'm being angry.
I think he just felt like it was possible that you already read the story, that's all. I didn't. Maybe David told you. He didn't.
Oh. He emailed me and I have to get back to him. Oh. Because you can buy these after the fact.
Have to remove that now. At 42 seconds. com we covered that story but it wasn't about anything for purchase that's where you we said that's where you buy the cigars you didn't say go you can buy this here at uh not that i said the word i said that So it's not about the context, it's about just the word, or is it about the context? It's not the word, it's that I said you could buy something.
It's the context, great. Okay, so now at 42 minutes and at 42:40, remove both of those, please. But why? There was no context there, it was just the name.
Can you just not fuck with our pots and pans, dude? I mean, like why? I was asking a legitimate question. It's eight years of building this thing and we finally get 60 bucks a month, and you're And you're going to turn...
Take our $60, Greg? Yeah. I don't appreciate it. So wait a minute.
If I gave $60, could I say... 12. We'll just turn it off when you left. Okay.
That was awesome. And you feel better now? I'm glad I could bring some joy to your... We could bring some joy to your face today.
Definitely. Very funny. Is it getting hot in here to anybody else? It's getting hot in here.
How cool is a cucumber? cucumber. Cigar King, well I have these 75 lights on me. Why does he have so many lights?
Because I'm pale. He has so many lights. He takes three lights and makes me look alive. Everybody else has one light.
He has all of the lights. You barely have a light over there. I'm getting a tan over here. I think there's three different colors today.
I'm not sure. No, these two are the same, but that was... Oh, God. All right, Cigar Kings Koi 26 Lancero is shipping this week, I'll make sure there's no website.
Cigar Kings, Cigar, no, Cigar, yes, the edition of Cigar Kings, which is a brand, they do a Color of the Year series and will begin shipping each year, the Munich-based cigar company makes a cigar inspired by Pantone's Color of the Year this year, that color is Cloud Dancer. That's a color? Yes, it's off-white. I thought it was an Indian name.
That was racist. How so? Native American. Okay.
Yeah, that wasn't really racist. I apologize for his racism. He's older than me. To all our Native American listeners.
To all our Native American listeners. Yes. Yes. I'm going to make a short out of that.
I'm sure somebody's going to say something. Oh, yeah. Oh, totally, yeah. We're losing all our American Indians.
They're going to come out of the woodwork for that one. It's going to be beautiful. " It was a joke, the guy just flat out, you are not allowed to pick the ball off in the end zone. And the outrage that was in the comment section was next level.
Oh, beautiful. Yes, you can. You don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, even I know that.
Yeah. Yeah, even you know. But Ziggy wouldn't because... I don't even know where the end zone is, so...
Do you pay more to sit in the end zone? I don't know. You pay less. You pay less.
You can only see when they score. Ah. So you can sit in the end zone. The game can be on the other side of the field the entire time.
Right. Don't, he's gonna stab himself. The company is also highlighting the packaging, specifically the Polish made boxes. What?
Oh. We know this guy, man. Like, we, we, we met with him. Oh, this is our guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, he's a good guy. Pepito Gomez? No.
That's the guy. That's not the guy. No, that's not. This is the guy.
The guy that did what? Build the boxes? No, oh, no, the guy that owns the Cicar Kings. Well, then he must have a partner.
It's a totally different guy. Could be, I don't know. Maybe it's a totally different guy. Heather Dubois.
Right. That's her husband, Pepito. Pepito. Pepito Dubois.
Dubois. Yeah. The box is just 15 millimeters thick. Okay.
Is that thin? That's very thin? It seems like it's thin the way they're talking about it. Mm-hmm.
Orders are expected to begin shipping on Monday, September 14th, and Cigar Kings will show off at the Koi 26 Arrow Lancero at this week's inter-to-back trade show in Dortmund, Germany. - My friend, Rich, is there. - Your friend, Rich? - Yeah.
- There are a couple people that we know that are over there right now. - Terrence Riley is there. - Is he? - He was going, he said.
- Oh, he might not be there yet. - Oh. - Hmm, okay. Can I call him and wish him a happy?
Have a great day. - Oh. And it starts tomorrow, actually. - That's exciting.
- Three-day trade show runs September 15th through the 17th at the Messe Dortmund for the first time entered to back. It shifted from its traditional Thursday through Saturday schedule to a Tuesday through Thursday format. They're expecting 800 exhibitors. Fast forward through this story because it was a filler.
That doesn't feel like a lot. 800? Yeah. Doesn't really, doesn't.
How many are PCA, Greg? No, I don't know, but I think it's over a thousand, easy. Yeah. Yeah.
So Fuente, Drew Estate, Hoya De Nicaragua, Quesada, EP Carrillo, La Florida Minicana, and Villiger, Rocky Patel, Blackbird, and several other cigar brands are also scheduled to make their first enter tobacco appearance. Does it seem weird that Fuentes has never been there before? Well, they used to do distro with Mirafel, I think, right? Oh, that's right, so Mirafel was probably there.
Whatever their distribution company was. Showing their stuff, that's right. Alright, fast forwarding. Now it's time for...
What's the score, Rick? What happened? You didn't let me know, you didn't say our industry's favorite game, I had no idea what we were talking about. Now it's time for the industry's favorite game: what's the score?
Can you predict a cigar score from a half-wheel review before it's revealed? We'll give you clues. You make your guess. As the review unfolds, the answers get closer.
Or does it? The closest guess... All of the time. All the time.
It's like we've never done it before. Yeah. The closest guess wins. So sorry.
woo there you go let's play what's the score time do it again do you thank you very much first cigar september 13 2026 charlie manado is the reviewer it is a scandinavian tobacco group room 101 17th anniversary you want me to go first sure 87 87 What are you looking at me for? 87 Let's see, The Cigar Reviews, Room 101, 17th Anniversary, Country of Origin, Nicaragua, Factory, Tabacalera, AJ Fernandez, only AJ, Rapper, Stolo AJ, Nicaraguan Binder, Nicaraguan Filler, Nicaraguan Length, 6x52, they smoked three of these round cigars. 87. 88.
Yeah, no kidding. Who are you kidding with that 87 first? I know you. Clue number one.
The cigar delivers a bold, full-flavored profile with enjoyable notes of sourdough bread, creaminess, pepper, leather, and dry herbs. Dry herbs. Dry herbs. Very dry.
Very herbs. Not wet herbs. Dry herbs. 87.
88. Clue number two. Construction is consistently strong with excellent draw resistance And mostly, even burns, requiring very few corrections. 89.
Hmm, 88. Clue number three, the cigars lack consistency. Uh oh. And the occasional chemical flavor resembling paint or sealant, ooh, is especially distracting.
Sealant. Sealant. If this thing does better than the Sumatra Churchill. 86.
85. Final thought, if I were smoking these cigars blindfolded, I would probably be quite surprised to find out an AJ Fernandez made Room 101 was what I was smoking. Most of the time when there's a wrapper this dark coming from this factory, oh, when there's a wrapper this dark coming from this factory, it tends to be quite a bit fuller in body and strength. While there are exceptions to that rule, I don't think of Room 101 as being the brand that delivers that.
There were some hallmarks of what I'd expect from AJ Fernandez, namely the construction was pretty good, while the whole experience was a bit surprising, it was not disappointing, I wish Singular Puffs would deliver a few more flavors, but otherwise, there was not much to improve on. 87. 88. You went the right way, 89!
89. Tasted like paint. And sealant. Yes, 89.
We love paint and sealant. Like, have you ever eaten sealant of any sort for that matter? I can't say I have. I mean, you know, silicone, caulk, glue, epoxy.
I mean, there's so many different types of sealants, they all probably taste different. What type of sealant, Charlie? I've never tasted any sealant, no. Yeah, I want to know what flavor sealant.
I feel like that's obnoxious that you didn't include that. And the fact that you gave it an '89 over the Postana, Sumatra Churchill... And it tasted like sealant. It tasted like paint.
I just want you to know I love you, but I'm gonna grab your arms and shake you like a baby when I see you. Like there's mineral oil, like there's so many different types of sealant. Tasted like Home Depot. You ever walk into Lowe's?
That's what it tastes like. I mean, shake you like a baby. Okay? September 12, 2026, Brooks Whittington is the reviewer.
My favorite. The Bishop's Blend 2026 Lancero, from Black Label Trading Company. Greg? 88.
91. Black Label Trading Company, Bishop's Blend, the country of origin, Nicaragua, Factory, Fabrica, Ovea Negra, Wrapper, Ecuador, Maduro, Connecticut, Broadleaf, Binder, Ecuador, Filler, USA, Connecticut, Broadleaf, Pennsylvania, Broadleaf, and apparently somebody from Nicaragua, but it doesn't say what. Length, 7 inches by 42, it's round, they smoked free. Two.
I go first? Yeah. 93. You won.
You go first. 91. I don't think that's got anything to do with it. I think you just take turns going first when there's two of us.
Correct. Right. what are you what no why he's just angry he's not angry he's just disagreeable is what it is it's different than being angry he's not curmudgeony either he just doesn't want to agree closed foot nipple cap and barber pole wrapper give this lancero a distinctive eye-catching appearance can you i'm gonna call your wife can you believe that her husband got away with it Nipple Cap? Yes, and Closed Foot.
Nipple Cap, Closed Foot. I like that he's not engaging me now. That's fine. I want to talk about the nipple cap and the closed foot.
Don't engage in me. Nipple Cap, Closed Foot. Yeah. Mmm.
Mmm. 93! 91! Clue number two, it delivers a bold, full-flavored profile featuring Creamy Oak, Blackberry, Sweetness, Honey, Coffee & Black Pepper.
- Mmm, 93. - 91. - All three cigars required multiple burn corrections, likely because the two wrapper tobaccos burned at different rates. - Mmm, 93.
- 91. - Over the years, Black Label Trading Company has released some bangers, And I'm always thrilled when I see, if you call my wife, she can't answer the phone today, they have people that are from the district. That's for not calling her. All right.
That's messed up. I would never call her. Guess he would. Yes, he would.
Yes, he would. He totally would. Hello? Hey, you're on the podcast.
Oh, God. All right, hey, listen, real quick. You didn't even have to call in. Real quick, real quick.
Can you believe that Clancy's husband possibly murdered the kids? Do you think that's possible? I mean, uh, yes, I think that, yes. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much. Why? Because Palmer is very angry about this. I'm not angry.
And he's mean to his wife about it. I'm not mean to my wife about it. D. King Palmer do?
Yeah, he says, because she says that, you know, her fingerprints aren't on there, and he's like, well, you know, bah. The whole argument is bah. You mentioned the fingerprints. There are no fingerprints on the exercise bands.
There are no fingerprints on the exercise band, right? Nope. Yep. And then it was really weird.
He like just, you know, packed up all his shit and left and never saw her again after she did that, apparently. Hmm. Okay. All right.
So, I mean, so, so pretty much what you're saying is if like, if someone has a point of view on that, you don't have to violently disagree with them, right? Violently. Violently. Was he violently?
I've never seen Palmer get violently. Thank you very much. Yeah. You make it sound like I struck her or something.
And if you look at the video, you'll see him get agitated about the fact, the possibility that maybe she- Agitated? Is that violent? D. King Palmer?
No. No, of course not. I don't have that. No.
Okay. All right. Yeah. I mean, like, I feel like it's totally possible because she never, I don't think she ever admitted to doing it.
She was told when she woke up what happened. There you go. Okay. All right.
I'm just saying. Okay. So, you know, we're not, okay. Thank you very much.
You know what? And I don't know what, I don't know if it's right or it's wrong, but you know what, I love you very much and I respect your opinion. Yeah, except for earlier when you got angry with me. Yes!
I love your wife. I did not get angry with you. Yeah, you did. You were the only one out there working.
Wow, I did not say that. Wow, look at that. I didn't say that you said that, I'm just saying that that's how you act. That's fucking awesome.
I'm not doing anything when I put in probably a little bit more hours than you. You're the best. You worked so hard. Well, that sort of backfired, didn't it?
No, it doesn't. It doesn't love me. Here I am. Just telling my wife that I love her.
You sound like you're very mean to your wife, Michael. No, I don't. He doesn't appreciate your attitude. Yeah, you're right.
You're right. All right. Well, you have fun and make sure you check your text messages from me before you leave. All right.
I love you. All right. I love you. Bye, brother.
So there you go. There it is. Wow, you're not nice to your wife at all today. Well, at least I let her have an opinion on the house.
Yeah, but you give her attitude, though. You act like she doesn't do anything. Yeah, you're right. That's what she said.
I know. That was her words, not mine. Yeah, all right. Where are we at?
I have a final thought, or you guys will just go with what you said. I don't have no idea what's going on. Final thought, let's do it. Final thought.
Final thought, final thought. They've released some bangers and I'm always thrilled when I see a new release from the company's show up on my review list. The Bishop Lynn 2026 is a great example of why that is the case. The cigar is bold but still approachable, strong but not overwhelming, complex but still grounded.
In fact, each of the three cigars featured a unique aspect that set it apart from the others, a distinctive blackberry sweetness on the retrohale of the first cigar, a floral note on the finish of the second, and a charred meatiness on one of the main flavors of the third. The largest problem I had with these cigars was the number of burn corrections that we needed, and while that quickly became annoying, it turned out to be a small price to pay for a blend this good. No paint mentioned at all in this. No sealer.
No paint or sealer. All right. 91. That's my number.
Yeah, but when you go first, you can state the number, and then the other person has to state a different number. -Did you tell him? -Me? -Yeah.
-I didn't tell him anything. -You didn't tell me anything? -I've hardly seen him today. -90.
-And what did you say? -91. -You went the right way, Michael. 88.
-88. -Oh, you know what? If it had that lacquer flavor, it would have probably been a little bit better. -Yeah, the one with the paint did better.
-The sealant. -Victory! -Only one went up. -I know.
I checked the fuel. They both have, they both have plenty of gunpowder. That's okay, Palmer. You know what?
I love you for who you are. Oh, I love you too, Michael. Yeah. No, it's okay.
You're more than welcome to have your own opinion on how much you love me. Oh, thank you so much. You're welcome. Yeah.
Okay. Moving on. That's it. We're done.
The show's over. Show's over. That's it. Anything else to add?
Nope. All right. com for all your CHPod swag where the, uh, the ghost is now available. Oh, is it available today?
Yeah. Yeah, the sticker and the shirt. Oh, nice. Yeah.
com, us, CigarHouse, the podcast. Thank you so much for listening today. We know that Palmer wasn't in the best mood, but we still traveled forward, and we're grateful that you guys stuck it out. I didn't walk out, you did.
And provided with a great edutainment for today. Thank you very much. Okay. All right, guys.
Thank you very much. Bloop.
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