ACHP 624 Plasencia Reviews & Wild HeadLines
Episode Summary
Episode 624 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast has host Mike "BDP" Palmer joined by Triple G (Greg) and Michael Stepankevich, with regular Phil McGuffey out again — prompting running jokes about whether Phil is "fading out" of the show. It's also Palmer's birthday show, and he battles a cold throughout. The crew opens with listener comments from YouTube and the CH Pod Lounge, a follow-up on a tragic cruise-passenger suicide news story, and lighter headlines including the Girl Scouts' new "Patch Pals" dog cookie made with Bark.
The cigar news segment covers three previews. Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust teased Overseas No. 2, the next release in Steve Saka's store-focused limited series — an Ecuadorian-wrapped, Mexican-bound, Nicaraguan/US-filler cigar described as bolder than No. 1 with bittersweet chocolate, dried fig and cayenne notes, dropping to a 6x46 and expected spring 2027. The hosts discuss the growing international cigar market and how Florida retailers imported No. 1 from overseas distributors. They also cover Viaje's Zombie alternate-artwork series (green, red, black in a 6x56 figurado, available for pre-order) and Placencia's next Lunar New Year cigar, El Año de la Cabra (Year of the Goat), a 6.25x60 perfecto with a suggested 6,000-box run.
The show closes with the recurring "What's the Score?" guessing game, reviewing Brooks Whittington's rating of the Vegafina Year of the Ox (a 6.25x56 Toro Gordo with Nicaraguan Habano 2000 wrapper) — noted for creamy oak, cocoa and a shifting raisin-to-caramel-to-milk-chocolate retrohale sweetness, landing at 87. A lengthy running conversation about using AI/ChatGPT for the show's SEO, transcripts and workflow — and how AI is reshaping graphic-design and other freelance work — threads through the episode, along with plenty of Palmer's family-cruise anecdotes and travel banter.
In This Episode
- 01Phil's Absence & Birthday BanterThe crew jokes about Phil McGuffey fading out of the show and celebrates Palmer's birthday while he fights a cold.
- 02Listener CommentsReading comments from YouTube and the CH Pod Lounge, including custom coin and cigar-holder 'gauntlet' ideas.
- 03News HeadlinesA somber cruise-passenger suicide follow-up plus the Girl Scouts' new Bark-made 'Patch Pals' dog cookie.
- 04Dunbarton Overseas No. 2Steve Saka previews a bolder second release in his store-exclusive Overseas series aimed at the European market.
- 05Viaje Zombie Artwork SeriesZombie green, red and black return in a 6x56 figurado with alternate artwork, now available for pre-order.
- 06Placencia Year of the GoatA first look at Placencia's next Lunar New Year cigar, El Año de la Cabra, a 6.25x60 perfecto.
- 07AI & the Cigar BusinessAn extended discussion on using ChatGPT/AI for the podcast and how it's reshaping freelance design work.
- 08What's the Score: Vegafina Year of the OxThe crew guesses Brooks Whittington's rating of this Toro Gordo, which finished at 87.
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Transcript
- Okay, three, two, - Do the clapper, do the clapper. - One. - Welcome to a Cigar Hustlers podcast, premium cigars, unfiltered opinions and conversations. i'm mike bdp palmer your host joined by triple g he's very small there there he is superstar triple g oh boy and then the man who likes a cherry pre-workout black cherry oh is it black cherry damn i was so close with his morning cigar the king michael stepan kevich hi we have no fill We don't know why he canceled at the last minute.
I'm beginning to think that Phil is on his way out, buddy. I'm getting a lot of questions like, "What happened to Phil? Where's Phil? " I think that we might be nearing the end of the Phil McGuffey.
Might be. We're gonna have to find his brother, Tim McGuffey. Oh, is that him leaving right there? That's him.
That's him driving off. What car is that? Sounds like yours. It certainly does.
Somebody stealing your car? I'll check. It'd be funny if somebody would drive it off. Alright, from cigars, sports, and business, to pop culture, and...
You sat on the remote. It was his car, he sat on the remote. Definitely was my car. Okay.
Nobody driving away, no repo man sitting in the front seat? Nope. Alright. It's worth discussing, we're gonna talk about it.
No safe spaces, just real perspectives. Cigars Perspectives, Big Laughs and Chaos at Any Moment. And COVID Palmer. And a couple of coughs maybe.
I don't think it's COVID. No? Does COVID have diarrhea? That's the worst part of it.
Oh look! Oh, coming in from outside. Oh, look at this. Our guest.
Superstar. You might be a little too bright this time. I'm tanning. But I'll tone it down next time.
Settle in and welcome to a Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Dun, dun, dun! Oh, he didn't even have his microphone on yet? No, not yet.
On today's show, we have a cruise passenger update to the man that fell overboard. Oh, okay. We said we'd follow the show, so we are. That's a lot of meat.
Okay. Five great things that happened on today in history. Okay. Wow.
Girl Scouts made two new cookies. Excellent. Slow news day. Then in cigars, Dunbarton gives a teaser.
Then we have zombies coming, and a goat on its way. There's a goat coming. And then we end the show with what's the score has to take Mama to the airport. I already took Mama to the airport.
Oh, you might as well lose it on purpose. And it wasn't the airport. The train station. But you gotta throw Mama from the train.
Take Mama to the train station. Throw Mama from the train. Ladies and gentlemen, the superstar... Has made it.
Triple G. He's now in the building. Mike level's good, or is the low? They're great.
Mike's not too low? No, you look great. I don't want to sound off. You look great.
Everything's great. Everything's great. Your mother will enjoy watching you on the way home on the train. Yep.
But first, Michael, what are the people saying? There was a lot of people saying stuff this morning. And were they saying it on YouTube, or were they saying it on The Lounge? Well, first of all, like and subscribe if you're reviewing or listening to this show.
com for all your chpod swag. com, Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where there will be a giveaway every month for our Patreon members. Let's see here. Jumping to the Cigar Hustler Pod Lounge.
The CH Pod Lounge. Boop. On this episode of Cigar Hustler Pod Lounge. let's see some comments comments at Lance Frazier says auction off the sign behind Palmer oh yeah I would love to have that boom that's the little P was that 3d printed yeah yes the post on your sign yes wasn't that was that David Hasselhoffman I believe it was yeah uh might not auction that one off but I bet I know a guy who maybe we could build one another one for you and auction that one Oh, so.
Oh. Mm-hmm. Uh, since we no longer need masks if Phil is officially-- Oh, that's right. Yeah, we'll have to find something else for him to do.
Why are we-- is like this seriously being considered, like him not coming back, or is it just because he's busy? I think we-- we just think he's fading out. You think so? Like he's finding things to be busy.
Yeah. I don't-- I mean, from the text message we got today, he was stuck on a job site, and then there was a mishap. Now it's gonna take-- he was gonna be here by one o'clock. Why, obviously, now he can't make it because of whatever happened.
I don't think that he's intentionally not arriving. I don't know. We took that text differently. " Yeah, that was when he directly asked me to be able to fill in.
Right. Because we didn't go, "Oh, no, no! Be here at 1:30! " Oh, God, is this okay?
" This could be the end of film. I don't know. Could be. We'll see.
Could be. Only time will tell. But, yeah, we'll work on some of those peas. Or at least one for an auction.
Keanu would wear a mask. He would. Keanu would definitely wear a mask. He might prefer.
He was a little odd. It's true. And then he's Tim McGuffey, Phil's brother. Oh.
Perfect. AtDataCash2004 says, "Happy birthday, Mr. " Thank you. And it is official, as this episode releases, it will be his birthday.
This is the birthday show. Yeah. And he got nice and sick for his birthday. Yes, I know.
Are you sick? Yes. Oh, what a disaster. Woke up this morning with a cough and sneezy and diarrhea and runny nose.
At least the eye has stopped watering, because that's always annoying. I had a little bit of a tickle in the throat last night, too. I took some, what are they, emergency this morning? I'm feeling good.
Feeling good. Oh, the voodoo medicine. Yeah, you gotta hit it, you hit it early. I drank orange juice this morning.
I drink orange juice every morning. He's just one-upping you. You gotta do that every day. You gotta keep up your vitamin C, brother.
I do. I drink a lot of other stuff that has already in it. You know, not enough. I like the fact that Greg is telling you how to take care of yourself.
Tell me while he is sick almost every other week at this point. He's dying every other week. The second that he does any type of manual labor, he's down for 10 days. Yeah, that's not sick.
That's just my body doesn't want to do physical labor. Oh, yeah. Oh, I got a fever. Oh, I got a fever.
@CW6383 also says happy birthday BDP. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. How old are you? Uh, 59.
59. One more to the big 6-0, and then we start shopping for coffins. Shopping for coffins. What is the official age that you can retire at in the United States again?
I'm not I'm never gonna get to it. That's not happening for him. It's not happening for me. It's not a number.
It's not that I won't make it to the age. I won't have enough money. Yeah. And as he starts to slowly deteriorate mentally, we just have to figure out just dumbing down his responsibilities and just make him feel important.
Just keep the checks coming. Right. That's right. You want to do that?
No. So basically, he'll be like a figurehead, like a mascot. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, mascot's even better than a figurehead. I'm perfectly fine with that mascot. He'd be good as a mascot. Just tote me around at things and I'll shake hands and say hi to people.
" I'll wear a mask. David Hasselhoffman says, "I have a Macintosh Apple from Whole Foods. " Yes. And that is, yeah, I'm not 100%, I'm not an attorney, but I believe that you also...
I still have the list from yesterday, if you'd like me to read it again. If you could just say it one more time. Go over it one more time. " Thank you!
Thank you, thank you. " It's okay, buddy. Because he made the post on YouTube rather than the one on the lounge. Salute.
Oh. He's sick as well. He's gonna make the rounds. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if I got it from him or my wife. Because I have sat closer to him in the last three days than I had my wife. He's got a really good immune system, though. Like, he can get sick and still really function, like, do everything that he needs to do.
And like, you know, it might be like a little cough or a sneeze, but he never really gets sick, sick, sick. Yeah, you know, from years of abuse of marriage, I've learned just to subdue my pain and just keep going, because if not, it's just, you know. Yeah, you get no sympathy at home. You're just such a baby.
I'm like, okay. Well, you're such a baby. Yeah. So now I just kind of suck it up and try and deal with it.
You got nothing. Yeah. You know. The man, the man cold.
Yep. Zika. At Ben Roland on the CH Pod Lounge. Ooh.
Thank you, Ben. Sounds like Greenland. It sounds like Greenland is a little light on the stripper infrastructure required for military bases. Oh.
Are there strippers in Greenland? Well, there's only like 900 people that live there. 56,000, I found out yesterday. 56,000 people that live on that massive island?
There is a 56. Now, it could be 560, but I don't know what it is. I shouldn't have yelled out. Sorry, I got excited.
I yelled out a number. I got excited. I yelled out. It's probably wrong.
It's an island, not a continent. There's a world. 6 million? No, no, it's not millions.
It's not millions. Okay, so 560-something. What's the population of Greenland? Let me see here.
Oh, no, it's 56,000, buddy. Oh, there we go. I got it right. That's a real number?
Yes. Yeah. Wow! A lot of animals.
The population of Deltona is almost twice that amount. The city where we live in. We couldn't move there then. - That's crazy.
- And none of the three of us live in Deltona. - Well, I mean, where the shop is, whatever. - Right, we do spend more time here. - Semantics.
- Right, then home. - I wonder how many persons per square mile that is. - That means there's like 1,500 cigar smokers in the entire country. - Yeah, that's about good math, if it's consistent with the United States.
- We could open a shop there and have all the customers. - All of the, yeah, but the problem is-- - Make $5. It would take them like nine hours to drive to your shop, depending upon where you're located. Well, that's probably used to that.
I mean, how many, you know, grocery stores do you think they have? They all drive to one place. I don't know. Super interesting.
56,000 people. We just put a humidor in the grocery stores. There you go. Mail order only.
We have Keanu who drive around and service them. Yes. Wearing a mask. Wearing a mask.
Jared Harper on the CH Pod Lounge, but made me feel a little guilty here. Based on last episode feedback, Mike, I'll post in the lounge, and keep this comment short. Another entertaining pod, gents, that is all. Listen, you post wherever you want to post, and you make it as long-- That's not what you said yesterday.
You make it as long as you want to make it. That's not what he said yesterday. That's not what you said yesterday at all. There is a record of him getting angry at these poor people that were just making comments on YouTube.
So you stop posting on the YouTube and post in the lounge for God's sake. You sounded just like that, you're absolutely right. I'm going to all this work and nobody's using it. I'm backpedaling a little bit, okay, I'm backpedaling a little bit.
Feels better today, he's not as angry. Yeah, I was a little more agitated yesterday, and I took that out on you guys, and I'm sorry for that, okay, all right, this is, this is my brother's doing, he does this to me, he brings it out of me, so, look at him. No, you, you, you wake up angry. No, I don't.
Yeah, you do. No. You do. Mm-mm.
You do. It's a lie. I think he, like, throws a dart at the wall, and there's angry, and there's not angry, and it depends on which one he hits for the day. No, it's just angry.
Sorry, Mike, I'll try to give you benefit of the doubt. I would further engage this conversation, but I'm just going to let it go. To prove how not angry he is. I don't need to prove anything.
I just know where it heads. So I'm not going to do that to our listeners. This light is so big. Christopher Weiss says, "On the CH Pod Lounge, Hi Mikey, I promise to make sure I comment here as well.
" See, oh, he's doing both. I love that. That's amazing. Doing both.
Oh, don't you say that about Chris Weiss. Chris Weiss is amazing. Thank you, bro. Did Rooks Coding get ahold of you today, Michael?
Yes. The prototype of the thing? Yes, he did. We're working on the coin, just so everybody knows.
The first coin ever is in progress right now. I tried to get him to put your picture on the back of it. Are you shaking your head no? We're in a crime.
I have two prototypes in my possession, but it's for a different company. This is for a Cigar Hustlers podcast. So I say again, the first coin... He didn't specify what company.
I knew. Well, you're not part of the listeners, and I didn't know. I listen. And I'm the one that's angry.
Yeah. Yeah, wow, look at you. How about that? So if you want a cruise, you might jump off.
We're working on that. They are not inexpensive to produce. They said they'd pay for them. They are costly.
Especially for like the nicer ones. Yeah. Yeah. Get a poker chip.
At Lance Frazier says: Yep, there's always a guy. Matt Booth probably knows a guy. He probably does know a guy. For sure.
Probably does know a guy. He's over there right now. He's in China. Well, he was.
He might not be at the moment. Yeah, but samurais are from Japan. I know, but it's very close. It is kind of close.
It's closer than if he was in like Cleveland. Yes. Okay. Greg chose violence today.
I did not chose violence. He had to deal with Sharon this morning. It was a long car ride. It's a 10-minute ride from his house.
It is not. It was 45 minutes. 45 minutes? Yeah.
Which train station did you take her to? The one at MCO. You took her all the way to the airport? Yeah, that's where the train station is.
There's a train station by your house. Not the Brightline. Yeah. It doesn't connect?
Sunrail or Brightline? Sunrail and Brightline don't connect? I have no idea. -I think it does.
-Does the SunRail in Orlando connect to the Brightline? -Let's see. The SunRail in Orlando connects to the Brightline at Orlando International Airport. -Right, so she'd take the train to the airport.
-To the train. -Yeah. -And then get on the other train. -Take the train to the train.
-So here's the thing, you're just overthinking this. -You're overthinking it, because if you think that she has the ability to navigate more than one vessel of transport in 24 hours, that's an impossibility. I got news for you. When she's on the first train, it's no longer your problem.
Right. Wash your hands. Don't answer the phone for 24 hours. She will call from transitioning to first train.
You heard the story about Uber, right? Yes. Yeah, we heard that. I canceled it.
She canceled it as I hung up the phone with her and was booking her the ride. I canceled it. It had to be fraud. What?
Had to be fraud. I didn't recognize the number. I bought a computer yesterday from Walmart and they wanted me to click on the link and check my credit card number. Click on the link?
They sent me a notification from Walmart that I bought a computer and something else, and if it wasn't me, click here, then imagine at some point they got my personal information. Right, got it. I don't have any credit where I could have got a $500 thing. So it was like, so you're saying it was spam or something?
Yeah, yeah, sure. Something. I get that stuff all the time. I like the one where you get the message and they act like they know you.
" Okay. And then you're supposed to go, well, who is this? And eventually what you find out is they're telling you about Bitcoin or something. Oh, that's nice.
Yeah. Oh, so you respond to those emails. Yeah, sometimes, you know, it's fun to just mess around with them. " So, are these text messages or are these emails?
Text messages. They were both text messages. So, I'm okay with, like, taking the time to mess with people for text messages, because I do that myself. right but emails a lot of that no no no the email yeah the email is too much so like i i don't get a lot of like um fraud text messages i get a lot of like hey we're in town we're going to be cutting like your trees or do you want your like uh house soft washed like a lot of advertising you want to know what i hit them all back with i take exactly what they're selling and whatever their script is and i sub out whatever it is that they're selling for for cigars and then i replace my name with So I just hit them right back with, hey, do you want to buy some cigars?
Wow. Has that worked at all? I did have a conversation with one guy, yeah. But there was an awful lot of them that I went through.
Did he buy? I think he did. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think he wanted to place an order online.
And I didn't wind up buying his soft washer. His tree service? Tree service, whatever it was. Tree washing service?
Nice. Mm-hmm. Okay. All right.
At Ruckus Unchained. Oh, speaking of shared. Ruckus Unchained says, Triple G, don't ruin our parade. Let your brother cook with this idea.
People will buy it. What idea? Yeah, I don't know what you said. The Thanos glove.
Or the gauntlet. The gauntlet, it's not the Thanos glove. It's the gauntlet. Yeah, I can't call it that.
Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. It's the glove. I mean, aside from like the whole cost thing, it's a great idea.
We're going to do it. Okay. Are you going to help me? Sure, of course I will.
Yeah? Sure. We're gonna do wood? Sure.
How would we do wood? You have, so, Freddie makes intricate boxes. How do we do wood? Right?
And he could essentially make a fist that would open, and as it opens, there would be a window there, right? And as it opens, you could pull the cigars out. The problem is, is like, what do you do with it? How much do you sell it for?
Because it's gonna be so expensive to produce. But it's very doable. I'm not worried about that. So it's like this and you like open the hand.
No, no, no, no. So like I would have it built like this. So it would be like almost a halfway closed hand, right? Then you would have your window along the knuckles for the six of them.
And then there would be a hinge here that you could open. Right above the window. Yeah. And then you could be able to pull the cigars out.
Why wouldn't you just have it so they slide out of the bottom? How are they going to stay in place? You want just like a slide bottom on the bottom of it? Like a lid that goes in and out?
In and out? Yeah. You could do that too. That's probably easier.
It would be easier than a hinge. It should be cheaper. Yeah. I'm just trying to reduce costs.
No matter what, it's gonna be very expensive. How many prototypes do you think he's gotta do before he finally gets it right? Because when you send anything to Esteli, it's gonna be a disaster. Well, you would probably have to have him start on it before you go down there, then go down there and spend a week, week and a half, and have him do a couple of different versions.
But again, how many are you going to make to justify this cost? Two. You're better off than just 3D printing them, right? The spec of those cigars.
And then also, there's multiple problems here with this project, too. Like, where in existence is a 16, an 18, a 20, you might get lucky and find a 22. I know you can find a 24, and I know you can find a 26. We only knew someone who had all of them.
First of all, he has all of them, but I bet you $50 that a bunch of our viewers and listeners have them. All of them. Roger has all of them. You have all of them?
I have all of them. But not only that. Like one stick or? One, I have one.
And Roger, Sunday Roger? Yeah. Sunday Roger has one of them? When he got the last one, he took a picture of all of them together.
Yep. He brought the rest of them up here for the photo. Wow, that's pretty impressive. And other than another, maybe you've just recreated the set.
At what quantity of production? I don't know. All of these important things, I'm not worried about. I know the cost and how many of them we're going to make.
I just want to make it. I just want to make it. You're upsetting Ruckus Unchained. You're upsetting my mother right now.
I'm not upsetting her. Stop poo-pooing on Sharon's idea. Yeah. At Julian Gordon, from the CH Pod Lounge, said two brothers and Mr.
Magoo. Boom. That doesn't sound as good. That sounds great.
I love that. No, Mr. Magoo, I think, is copyrighted. Is it?
No. Yeah, there was a cartoon. Yeah, but it was like old, like Band-Aid, you know what I mean? No, I mean, it's not as old.
Well, I don't know. Band-Aid is like Pop-Tart now or something. Band-Aid is like Pop-Tart now? I don't know.
There's something else that's become a common word for the item besides Band-Aid. Pop-Tart. I don't think it's Pop-Tart. I don't think it's Pop-Tart.
I don't think it's Pop-Tart either. I just knew it had been around for a long time. You got like a nice little hinge of sweat on you, like you're shiny. Me?
Yeah. There's no sweat on me anyway. What's your fever? I don't have a fever.
The only thing I don't have is a fever. Wait a while. Yeah, I'm sure by the end of the day. Um, Lance.
If I'm being passed out down here with my head down on the table. Lance. Hello, Lance. Says, "I get up early to smoke a cigar with my energy drink.
Great way to start the day while I watch the podcast. Breakfast Cigar. Breakfast Cigar. Yeah, he's the man.
I got to Rich Coding the other day, I opened the door and I heard myself talking inside. He does that, like, religiously. Yeah, he says he watches it every morning. He does.
You know, the sad part is, though, that video that we posted, you didn't put on the show. Right, yeah, we already discussed this, but thank you for bringing it out. Nobody has complained, so... If somebody could complain on the next comment below, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'll just complain. What am I complaining about? I forgot to put the video in. The video of?
The guy talking about the breakfast thing. Oh, yeah. So there's just two and a half minutes of us just staring at our phones looking at that. Well, you can hear it, apparently, because people are discussing it.
Yeah, when I opened my phone this morning to do something, it was the text message, and I'm like, "Oh, fuck. " And you can't go back and do it. I tried every way I could think of without taking the video down. and there were nine comments i don't want to lose the nine comments don't worry i'll fix it for you moving forward oh it's gonna ask okay i tell you the number thing's still not working i started working on that okay i mean i saw the little window at the top and it said put in whatever yeah yeah it took it back to 624 yesterday like no you're wrong but then but the but you couldn't alter it uh well uh yeah when i when you go in after you edit you can edit the description And then it puts that up, and then when you hit go to YouTube or whatever the thing is, I have to edit it there, because when I do the A/B thing, I put in the titles and everything anyway, so I just changed the numbers and everything at that point.
Okay, well I added something today that should refine your descriptions and your titles. Oh, the description, it won't say Drew Estate every day now? Yeah, the problem was that it was just pulling, when it hears it, it believes that that's one of the most talked about brands. Oh, just automatically puts it in?
He automatically puts it in. Yeah, it's like, oh. For SEO or whatever. Yeah, so now it looks like it'll eliminate it for, you know, like, oh, that was just vaguely mentioned, so we're not going to bring that up again.
Oh. Yeah. You know, it was neat. Somebody yesterday asked me when we talked about something specific in what episode it was.
So, because now that we do the transcripts and all that other stuff, ChatGPT was able to find it like that. That's cool. Yeah, that was kind of neat. That's great.
I just sort of did like, well, I hope this works, because I don't remember when we said it. I'm not gonna lie, dude, it's good to hear when all the shit that I'm building and doing actually works in a fashion that, like, no, we didn't even think about that, like, oh, that's so cool, because it's a ton of work. Yeah, well, I like to tell you when it, you know, it's doing something that made my life easier, or, you know, streamlined something we were doing before, or something. Yeah.
Because I know, you work hard on that stuff. Yeah. I sat up there watching him yesterday, I don't even know what he's doing. " Yes, yeah.
Where do you talk? " I'm like... Yeah, he's like Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report, he's just... Oh yeah, if he had the gloves?
Multiple screens and moving things. That's all he needs is the gloves, right. Building this and... And he's got the two big screens and then his screen and everything scrolling and rolling and things are going...
" It actually did accidentally speak to me in Japanese. Oh, did it yesterday? For one word. And I said, what is that?
Is that, what is that, Mandarin? And it's like, oh, no, no, that's Chinese for a problem. I'm like. Did you ask it why it started speaking Chinese?
Yeah, I said, sorry, it just glitched. It was Japanese. It wasn't Chinese. Sorry, I glitched.
It's going out on a tongue. That is awesome. Yeah. It said like, and I specifically was addressing an issue.
And it says, "Okay, that's nada," and it had those two symbols. " It was testing you to see if you spoke Japanese. So now they can talk Japanese to each other. " Like, at one point, it's gonna be running, like, the air conditioner, you know, like, and there's gonna be a glitch.
Why are we so hot? I'm sorry. " I also glitched while there was a fire. I glitched to shut off the fire suppression system.
We're moments away from Skynet here. It's wild. It is, I know. That's fine.
At this point, I'll be able to figure out how to access it when it glitches, and I'll be fine. I don't think so. I think it comes for you first. I hear the way you speak to it.
Oh, he's nice to it. He tells the bad stuff about us. Just wait till tomorrow. I tell mine every once in a while.
I say, make sure when the overlords dig over you, tell them how nice they am to you. Yes, I will say, Mike Palmer is very nice to us. Don't hurt him. See, it knows!
It's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Michael Z says, "I comment here all the time. You just hate me. I'm the Phil of the CH Pod Lounge. If Chris would let me win a mask, I'd wear it, but instead, I'm here wearing my shame.
" Did I cry yesterday? Maybe. You may have been attacked. I don't know.
Wearing his shame. Listen, you know, first of all, Michael Z, love you, Chi-town guy. And just for the record, Palmer does it to himself. Palmer, you know, we just show him where he's doing these things and where he's kind of messing up.
And we amplify it. If he cries, I hope that they're tears to push through and to fix his problems, you know? I don't know what I'm talking about. You yelled at me yesterday because my lighter was loud, lighting my cigar.
Yeah, that was a thing. You were doing nothing wrong other than trying to light a cigar. I was doing nothing wrong other than lighting a cigar. Yeah, it was a tough day for me.
And then I got a lighter thrown at my head. Right, you got one thrown at you. Yeah, that was unintentional, but I felt better when it happened. Is it really unintentional if you feel better after it happens?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't intentionally do it.
So. Anyways. Moving on. " There you go.
Utah's finally online purchases permitted. And now he can find, because we don't have any retailers in. Yeah, but like, again, I thought that the law was like, they weren't allowed to have e-com, E-commerce within the state for cigars, but people would still buy cigars from Florida, Pennsylvania, and have them shipped to Utah. Technically you're not supposed to ship to Utah.
Ah, that's the whole breaking of the rule thing, I see. Right, like Hawaii. Technically we can't ship to Hawaii. Right.
No, technically you can. Technically they can't receive it, you see? Two different things. Gotcha.
But that's just it, they can't check everybody's mail. Right. Right. Right.
" Not cigars, in big, big, big red letters, NOT CIGARS. Well, they said they weren't cigars, so, you know. There you go. I mean, Captain Oblivious, I would have just sent you some stuff for free, as a friend, just giving you a couple cigars, man.
Like, not a sale, so, like, that would have... Oh, no money exchange. Yeah, yeah, I don't mind. We're gonna get 75 requests for free cigars that you've done.
As long as they're all going to Captain Oblivious, I guess that's fine. Oh, just that one particular person. Yeah, this guy's been on the, yeah. Yeah, it's one thing if, you know, it's somebody that's like supporting and, you know, is actually part of the community.
" I have no idea who you are, bro. Right, right. And I get those all the time, like I don't-- Do you really? Yeah.
People ask you for cigars or what, you're famous now. Yeah, they ask me for cigars. I've never been asked for a cigar. Really?
Yeah. Wow, I find that odd. Yeah, I think one of the biggest mistakes you could do is ask me. Oh, yeah, I'm totally turned off at that point.
Yeah, you know, like, actually, Captain Oblivious, this played out perfectly. If you can't get the cigars, just let me know, I'll send you some gratis, you know, because you're my friend, and friends can send cigars to friends. Right, sure, yeah. I'm going to acknowledge this one real quick, because it's from @foodieboriqua, and it's just a fire logo comment.
Fuliboriqua is Ramón. Oh, is that his new handle? No, that's his page on, that's his YouTube page. Is it?
Oh, okay. Yeah. So he's helped us with some of the lighting and some of the videography here, and he cooks good food. He might be stopping by today, as a matter of fact.
Oh, very cool. He's a good dude. And finally, at Mitch Smith from the Cigar Hustler CH Pod Lounge, Mike, please have a Snickers bar. Also, thanks for not posting the video in an overlay.
We just watched Palmer and BDP just looking down while we heard what sounded like barbecue bourbon and barbells playing down the hall. Incredible. If you want to hear your comment read aloud on the show, simply comment below on this YouTube page or on our CH Pond Lounge. Now, you're 30 minutes in, buddy, so let's keep it short with the news.
Well, and now the news, and now the news. Now the cigar news. We got a cruise update, the cruise passenger who jumped off the ship was ID'd as a California dad on an anniversary trip with his wife and his three sons. Aww.
It has been declared suicide. Yeah, that's super sad. Yeah, I mean, you plan a trip, you take your whole van, And then your plan is to jump off somewhere midway through? It's like, so, death is rough, suicide's more rough, what's really rough is the people that are left afterwards.
Right. You know? That's terrible. It is, and obviously, like, this dad must have been going through something, I mean, he offed himself with his family on the boat, good lord.
Yeah, that's tough, man. That's rough. " Oh my god, where's dad? Where's Dad?
Yeah, where's Steven? We can't find him. Horrible. My dad used to have this partner who was a younger guy, they went on up, my mom and dad and his wife, no, that's not what it was, that guy and his wife and his in-laws went on a cruise.
As soon as they got on the cruise, his wife asked him for a divorce. On the cruise? Yeah, after the boat had pulled away. I mean, like, you can recoup from that.
He just drank for the next five days. Huh? He drank for the next five days. Yeah, I mean, like, okay, that's the...
'Cause he didn't like his in-laws either, now he's stuck with all three of them, and none of them liked him. Yeah, you can navigate that, though. Like, there's no coming back from the other one. Yeah, I mean, like, you know, unaliving yourself on a cruise, you know, like, that's tough, bro.
Like, I couldn't... there may not have even been any signs, you know what I mean? " Like, the guy probably sailed right under the radar, you know, intentionally. So, I mean, that's just sad.
It's just a tragedy, man. It sucks to hear it. Maybe they got in a big fight or something on a cruise ship, and that was like the last straw or something. I mean, usually those situations, the people that actually do execute it, they're suffering in silence, like my brother kind of pointed out, and you don't see it, you know what I mean?
The ones that are always threatening aren't necessarily the ones that you need to worry about. Not that you should ever, you know, not try to do something if somebody says, "Hey, I'm thinking about taking my life," But the ones that actually go through it are usually just super silent about it. Yeah. That sucks.
Yeah. Way to open up the news on a song. Yeah, man. Very, very.
You guys wanted an update on the story. That was the story. I can't help what the news turned out to be. I don't remember that story.
Oh, I remember that story. It was the day before yesterday. Oh. Oh, you weren't on that show.
That was film. You're blurry again. Nope. Just keep it right there.
Just leave it. There you go. Now let it go. Now let it go.
Just let it go. There you go. Oh. Girl Scouts are selling their first dog cookie called the Patch Pal starting January 2027.
What a racket. The flavor is Blueberry Muffin Girl Scouts developed the treat with dog product company Bark, B-A-R-K, Whiskey & Dempsey, oh, what did they throw that in there for? Talk about my dog. Whiskey & Dempsey.
Whiskey & Dempsey. Whiskey & Dempsey are calling me right now to go and get these cookies. Well, apparently ChatGPT likes my dogs. He likes my dogs.
Patch Bells won't be sold the usual cookie booths, you have to buy them on the line. Wait a minute, can we back up for a second? Your dogs were integrated into this story how, because you just kind of like rolled over it. Obviously, the robot decided to add what about Whiskey & Dempsey?
That they would like the cookie, the new dog cookie. So you tell it. I take the headline, or the beginning of the story, or sometimes a link for the whole story, shoot it to ChatGBT, and say give me five talking points for this story. Right.
There was seven, but he got mad the stories were too long, the stories were too long, so now I'm down to five. Right. So one of the things it put in was that my dogs may like this cookie. A personal touch.
Yeah. Does it know what it is that you're using these five bullet points for? Yeah, it'll say for the show. Because now it likes to explain what of its features it's using to do what you requested.
My blood pressure just went up. It's wildly getting better. It's incredible. It's incredible, dude.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, it's awesome. From what I was capable of doing three months ago and what I'm capable of doing now with AI and I'm just a cigar dude, it's awesome. Oh, it's unbelievable. Yeah.
And like the glitching is far less, a lot of it is just, it catches itself in conversation. Like, wait, but what about this? I'm like, oh yeah, that too. That's good.
That's good. Yes. More of this. The way it learns how you talk, 'cause I can tell it, I want this post or I want this email or something to not sound like a computer wrote it and put it in my voice.
" Does it do it in like all caps, like really high-pitched? No. No? No, it doesn't.
It's doing it for me, not you. It's not angry. No, no, you. That's a terrible comeback, by the way.
Sorry, it worked. No, it didn't. Yes, it did. Do you think token spend is on an up or a down from where it was 90 to 100 and some odd days ago?
Up. You think it is? Yeah. And just judging by my own data, yes.
Because here's where I started. $20 a month. Yeah. I know what you're going to say, but the thing about it is I read, because you came to it a little bit later, like people were utilizing this technology far before that, there was like a peak.
And from what I read that it started to drop off. I could see that. I could see that some people, look, the reality is that some people like to use it just for pictures, right? And that's cool.
And I encourage that. I think that that's great to be creative with the AI and create things, right? And then what happens is then you get the ridicule, right? Yeah, we're going through that right now.
That's this phase, correct. People start commenting on the, oh, you know, I'm just so tired of this. AI imagery like well turn off your computer you know what I mean but like people are trying to express themselves and they don't they haven't understood it completely and AI doesn't completely understand them so a lot of it looks the same right so get over your get over it dude like actually it should be the opposite you say hey man like it's cool to see you trying something new you know here's how you make it better it is affecting the way that people make money the economics of it like I got an email the other day from a graphic designer that we've used He's been purchased in the past for band design and stuff like that, for cigars and box designs, and he is never marketed to me, like I've always said, text message, "Hey boss, how you been? Look, can you start working on this?
" And then he would go do it and that's it. I just got a random email from him, "Hey man, just checking in. How you been? " And I'm thinking to myself, it's because he's slow.
It's because he's basically been replaced, because why would I send him a text message? I have a text message these days when I could just go over to my brother and say, hey, tell the robot to build this. Right. You want me to argue the other side of that?
Please. I'd love to hear it. Maybe he's using AI and he's saying, hey, how can I do a better job engaging with my customers and upticking sales? And then AI looks at it and says, well, how often have you contacted them?
You know, how long have you continued to establish the relationships? How long have you gave a shit, right? It's like, oh, you haven't. Maybe you should start.
I hear all of that, but realistically, the robot can guide him to contact me as many times as as the robot wants, I'm still not going to call him to do design work, because why would I? I have my own ability to do so. Right, why pay him to do it? You're paying a monthly fee for somebody else already?
Right, no matter what, there are groups of commerce that are going to all but almost completely go away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think that that's the case with this particular person.
I think that person needs to figure out how to evolve himself, you know? He needs to get a better AI and learn how to use it really well. Yeah, I mean, there are not a lot of people I think successfully know. It's funny that it continues to be a topic of discussion, but I get it.
I don't think a lot of people actually know how to use AI. And I've encouraged people, like, I've encouraged my friends here, do it, or I'll help you do it, or whatever. And they fail miserably and they just give up, right? It's like, oh, pfft, I'm not doing this, stupid, right?
So there's going to be a big delineation from people who've kind of figured out how to utilize it and continue to learn and develop. And then there's going to be people that are going to be left behind, you know? Sure. It's just like any other piece of technology.
Sure. You know? So, yeah, that's all I really got to say about that. Maybe he's just trying to contact to try and produce more sales.
I mean, the other thing too is, look, uh, say what you want about inflation or not. Inflation's still up. Gas is through the roof, right? And, and cigars are considered, I don't, I don't consider it, but cigars are considered like a luxury product.
Yeah, disposable income products, right? Yeah. So what happens is, you know, if people are selling less, then people are making less. And if people are making less, then this guy is losing business, right?
I. , and I'm like, hmm, not so much. Like, I could get the general concept to a graphic designer and say, like, here's my idea, here's my thought, but I need it to be a little bit different, and here's where, you know, so. I.
or drawn on a piece of paper, and they have somebody there on staff? Yeah, they'll design it, yeah, absolutely. Just curious. Okay, next.
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust previewed over... Oh, we're into Cigar News. Yeah, I mean, there's another cookie called Sparkles, it's an oatmeal cookie. And both the Palmer's dogs would love them.
But we just spent 15 minutes talking about why my dogs were mentioned in the story, so I figured now we're like 45 minutes. You're good, okay, so now into Cigar News. Into Cigar News. Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust previewed overseas number two, the next release in its limited production series aimed at stores, The first overseas cigar has been on sale since January 2025.
The number two is expected in spring 2027 and should remain in production until mid-2028 when number three is planned to take place. On paper, the first two cigars sound similar: Ecuadorian wrappers, Mexican binders, and fillers from Nicaragua and the US, but the founder, Steve Sakka, says number two is much bolder smoke. He describes notes of bittersweet chocolate, dried figs, and cayenne pepper, with strength that builds toward the finish. There's a size change too.
The number one was a 6x50, the number two drops to a 46. So I guess a 6x46? Ring gauge. And if you're wondering whether overseas really means overseas, there's already a twist.
Florida retailers smoke in and bought a large quantity of number ones from international distributors and brought it to the US. -That's very smart. -Right. Only place you can get it.
-Yep. That's very smart. Okay, so why do you think that... He went bolder on the second one.
Why do you think he went bolder this time around? -Well, he's known for liking bolder cigars. Maybe the first one ended up being a little too light for him. -Okay, but this is for a different market.
This is for a European market. -Oh, that's right. They don't like bolder cigars. -Yeah, maybe he's testing to see if it will stick over there.
-Yeah, I think that could definitely be the case. The first one was a safe bet, the second one's a bit of a gamble, you've established the brand, Quasi, so now let's see if they have the capacity to deal with a slightly bolder cigar. And at the end of the day, it's not really, if it doesn't track well over there, smart retailers can grab it and flip it. Yeah, push it over in the United States.
Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, this is all very interesting, because you're starting to see that international market actually grow significantly. - A lot of people are making that move.
- Yeah, so we're gonna have to watch this one closely too, man, see how this kind of develops, because it would be nice for cigars to just be universally accepted kind of across the globe, you know? - Which is kind of weird, because you're getting all those generational tobacco bans over in Europe. - Yeah, it's like this weird mix. You got pushback on one side, and then you got opening up on the other side.
- They're all trying to go to the countries that haven't done that yet. Right. Hmm. Okay.
Cool. Overseas 2, Dunbarton Tobacco. We should do one called the Polish Drone. The Polish Drone.
They don't like drones in Poland because Russia keeps sending them over. Yeah. So then why would we call it the Polish Drone? It's kind of a play on words.
It's uh, there's a... It doesn't really sound like a play on words to me. It sounds like you just be an ass. Polish Gestapo.
It should go over well. Yeah, that'll be perfect. Well, you're not selling it in Poland. We don't sell international.
Oh, we don't sell it in Poland, no. No, you always sell them in Russia. They like drones. Oh, yeah, that'd be great, yeah.
Big drone lovers over there. Are there any men left in Russia? There's the drunk ones. No, the drunk ones are the ones that go to the front lines, apparently, as far as a break story.
Well, I figured they still have some, though. Yeah, but he's probably right. They're hiding out, they're not going to bars anymore. I can tell you that much.
I don't want to wind up in... Oh, yeah, I don't want to wind up in the front lines. I'm sure, I mean, it's a pretty big country. I'm sure there are parts of the country where there's problems and there's parts of the country that they're just walking around like nothing's really happening, I'm sure.
When are you guys traveling to Russia? I don't think we have any plans to go to Russia. Greenland, I'm going to meet the 56,000 people that live there. You're going to meet all of them.
I'll meet all of them, one time. You want them to make you king because you are from McDonald's. Greg's living his best life over here. Right.
How do we all work in the same place but he does all the traveling? I don't have any kids. My overhead, my personal life is very very inexpensive to exist, it doesn't cost a lot, and when my wife books these trips I don't know how she does it, we went to Peru, what were we there for, 10 days, and she just got done finishing the spreadsheet for all the costs and she gave it to me, she's like okay this is you know how much it costs, I'm like you gotta be kidding me, how were we able to do this for such a light bucks, just I don't know, found a lot of good deals. It really wasn't expensive.
I like how they do spreadsheets back and forth to each other. I was gonna, I was gonna, but you go ahead. Yeah, it's like their love language. Yeah, yeah, this is how much you owe me.
She, she's an accountant. I'm just saying, everyone knows your love of spreadsheets. I do love spreadsheets, I love me a good spreadsheet. You found the one woman who loves him too, and you guys are just, you know what, come look at this spreadsheet, oh look at my spreadsheet, look at this.
There's all types of like jokes involving accountants with that, like the freaks in the sheets, right? I've never heard anything about an accountant. Well, you'd have to be an accountant to know that joke. Right?
Yeah. I feel every industry probably has that. Probably, yeah. Yeah.
For sure. All right. Freaks in the sheets. Numbers.
Numbers. Freaks in the sheets, numbers. Zombie green, zombie red, and zombie black will all arrive in new 6x56 figurado size. Which kind of brings us back to the sex room.
Right, back to the sex room, Greg. Yeah. I don't have a sex room. I don't know.
Hey, Greg, you know the accountants. You know about the accountants. Oh, my God. All those accountants are freaks in the sex room.
Yeah. You said it, not me. Yeah, you're the one who keeps bringing it up. With your blue shoes or whatever it is you keep buying.
Blue Rhino. Blue Rhino. I told you she called me about that, right? She called me.
She's like, what is Blue Rhino? I can't tell you. And why is it on the dresser? No, because she saw a clip, obviously, or a short.
whatever it is. Or a small bottle in your night's room. No, she didn't find a small bottle in the bedroom. A big bottle in the night's room?
No, there wasn't a large bottle either. He probably keeps that in a sex room, I would imagine. No, there is no sex room. Yeah.
Little shelf there with all the different types of gas station, Viagra. This one's called Big Llama, honey. Let's trade this one. Big Llama.
All right, it's a new part of Fiaje's alternate artwork series. The idea is to use packaging designs that the company likes, but didn't choose for the original release but in the preview it looks like the boxes feature artwork inspired by the zombie name via he hasn't announced pricing box counts or blend details apparently just the artwork oh i'm talking about just the artwork uh historically zombie green has used a criollo wrapper zombie red to maduro and we don't know whether the blends carry over unchanged yeah um i think that they i think that it said that i think that the blend is the same i just They always think that the artwork is different from like a it's like a previous artwork thing that they were working on. Yeah, that's how it was explained. Yeah, and it just got tabled.
Right. And we have them, they're available for pre-order. It says they start shipping on Monday. Yeah.
So they're not saying how many boxes, they're not saying what they cost, they're not saying how many they made, but they're going to ship on Monday. Yeah, this is cool because this is one of our lab experiments, right? It's like, okay, well, let's see how this works via pre-order with a new system and all these other things. So things are already tracking, you know, it's cool stuff.
Also, but are you pre, are you allowing pre-order purchases without determining what the sale price is? Because what he just said, the numbers haven't been determined yet. Oh no, the numbers have been determined. Okay, then that's just.
They're just not releasing them to the media. All right, that's fine. Because they've sold them, they gotta start shipping money. I'm gonna tell you right now, they ain't cheap.
No. No, these are, these are, uh, expensive. Mm. Very expensive.
So, okay. All right, Polsencia gave visitors at the Under Tabac 2026 trade show a first look at the next Lunar New Year cigar, the El Año de la Cabra, or Year of the Goat. Cigar is a six and a quarter by 60 perfecto. Polsencia hasn't formally announced the blend price or where it's being made, so it's a trend right now.
It's previously six Lunar Series year releases were made in Nicaragua, but that doesn't confirm whether this one is coming from. Mmm. The box on display was numbered, suggesting a production run of 6,000 boxes of 10 cigars. Placencia says a full announcement is coming soon, so we should get those missing details then.
And is the earlier release? The packaging features plenty of red and gold colors, closely tied to Chinese celebrations. For now, this was a sneak peek at the next cigar in Placencia's Lunar New Year's series. Okay.
So, but it's not available in the States? Uh, at least not yet. And who knows, they might, you know, make them and go, oh, they didn't buy enough. So look, now they're available in America.
Mmm, I don't think it's gonna play out that way. Probably not, but it's a nice looking box, big red box, gold print on it. Okay, they make good cigars. Yeah, they do, but like, you're starting to see, you're starting to see the downtrend on them when they kind of get overexposed to catalog sites.
Well, then that's just the beginning of the end, if that's the case. Yeah, that's what I think, at least, my theory. So. Okay.
Alright, it's time for the Cigar Industry's favorite game: What's the Score? Think you can predict the cigar's half-wheel rating before the final score is revealed? We'll give you clues, you lock in your guess. Then, as the review unfolds, we move closer and closer to the answer.
Or do we? The player with the closest guess takes the win. " Oh, light it up, lock it in, I like that. Light it up, lock it in.
Light it up, lock it in. Pack it up, pack it in. Light me up again. Today's cigar, Vegafina, Year of the Ox.
Oh my god, what's the date? February 13, 2021. Reviewers, Brooks Whittington. Hmm.
Triple G? 88. It's going to be lower. I'm going to go 82.
Beg a fan of Year of the Ox is a six and a quarter by 56 Toro Gordo. Oh, God. The blend is Nicaraguan Habano 2000 wrapper, and then a Nicaraguan binder, Dominican and Nicaraguan fiddlers, cigars, smoke for the review is three. Brooks did three.
Three. I'll go first, yeah, 88 still. I'm going to hold firm here at 82. Clue number one: the sweetness on the retrohale changes from raisin to caramel to milk chocolate.
We're going with shorter details now, okay, 88. I'm gonna eek up a smidge here, 84. Clue number two: construction was very good across all three cigars with only minor touch-ups needed. That's a lot of positivity over there, 89.
Yeah, but you're messing that up. It's a lot of positivity, but they're already talking about construction. So, I'm gonna, no, 84. Clue number three.
This cigar is terrible. I do not like. It's a garbage. The main flavors change very little during a smoke that averaged two hours and ten minutes.
Two hours and ten minutes of nothingness. Greg, go ahead. 89. Moves up to 89.
I'm gonna go almost 84. - Final Thought. - Final Thought. - Mmm.
- Uhhh... - The Vegafin, A Year of the Ox, smooth and enjoyable, though its core flavors of creamy oak and cocoa changed very little from start to finish. What kept the long smoke interesting was a sweetness on the retrohale. It began as raisin shifted to caramel and finished as milk chocolate.
A touch of black pepper gave those sweeter notes some balance. Construction was very good across three cigars he smoked with only minor touch-ups needed. His take was that it's a satisfying cigar if you enjoy a steady flavor, profile, and have the time to settle in with it, but anyone looking for big changes throughout the smoke may not want more from it, or may want more from it. Whiskey would really love this cigar.
Yeah, Whiskey and Dempsey enjoyed this cigar also. Whiskey and Dempsey would really love the cigar. Okay. Ninety.
Mm. Eighty-seven. Ooh, eighty-seven, hit it on the nose. Put it on the nose.
Oh, that's three consecutive nailings right there, baby. Oh, you can't, oh, there it is. Hail the conquering hero, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Nice.
How does it feel, Greg? How does it feel? How does it feel? That it did before we started the competition.
To lose all the time. To lose all the time. the time how does it feel i don't lose i'm the master of ceremonies now who who's there you know it bothers him you know it bothers him right palmer it does it bother yeah look at that face look at the look on my face yeah he's trying to play it bothered look a bother yeah look of bothered i'm disgust he's so angry with himself yeah disappointed gonna go home and kick the dog Does he not know who I am, is what he's thinking. Yeah, I'm Greg.
Triple G. I'm just gonna put a blue chew in his throat. Superstar. I'm gonna bang the dog when I get home.
Now I can't be a part of the FBI. Wait a second, it's only one violation, I'm okay. And it's a case-by-case basis? Yeah, it's case-by-case.
Did you guys see the story about the lady who her husband claims got caught banging her dog? No. The lady whose husband claims... He caught her banging the dog.
- He caught her banging the dog. - Yes. - Oh, Lord. - Apparently, they were in a fight.
She says he made it up. But I guess there's video? I don't know. - Can't make up video.
- Sure you can. - Yeah, sure you can. You can do anything you want. - You see the rap video that's trending right now on all over social media?
- Say rat? - Rap, it's a rap video. - I did see a rat video yesterday. Apparently, minks don't like rats.
- I don't know. - This exterminator guy has a pet mink That he uses to catch and kill rats. Ah. I feel like you're not calling enough accounts.
Is this for the record? That was at night? Daytime? Just for the record.
I feel like you're not calling enough accounts. You know? Okay. Oh, there it is.
All right, do you have anything else to add, Mr. Palmer? No, that's it, that's all I got. Okay, Triple G, thank you so much for filling in again for Phil, soon to be gone McGuffey.
And like and subscribe, we're reviewing or checking out this show. Will you wear a mask, Craig? No. We'll call you Tim McGuffey.
I don't care. Dude, I'm not wearing a mask. I'm surprised he's not requesting green M&Ms at this point. I can get green M&Ms?
" Very sorry. It wasn't that. " I was in the middle of just finishing a meal. Give me a moment.
No, no, no. I wish that that was his response okay I'm in the middle of just finishing a meal I said give me a minute you said I'm not ready it wasn't an expensive meal I said give me a minute the Excel sheet shows the value he wants everything now within his timeline all of it because I don't have time like you do I don't have it like you do you have all this free time I don't get to go gallivanting I was working in Greenland, and Peru, and Japan. Weren't you just in Michigan? No.
That is not the same as Peru. First of all, I was in Minnesota. Okay. Still not the same as Peru.
Yeah, it's not even close. Not even close. Not even close. Opposite direction.
North rather than south. Even if he had Chinese food or Japanese food in when he was in Minnesota, it's still not the same. Yeah, and how many cigar accounts did you check into in Peru and Japan and Greenland? Oh, zero?
Got it. Okay, just make sure. Yeah, I didn't have the time. Yeah, he's just too busy.
Climbing mountains. Yeah. He was busy on top of Machu Picchu. Having Kentucky fire-cured Wagyu or some shit.
No, no, no, no. Alpaca. We ate alpaca. Alpaca.
Guinea pig. Guinea pig. We had guinea pig, too. That's gross.
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It's amazing. Thank you so much, everybody. Okay. If we can get our work of Triple G eating a guinea pig, that would be nice.
On a blue rhino? On a blue rhino. Yes. Multiple things.
Or maybe that would be the name of his ED medicine, the guinea pig. The guinea pig blue rhino? Mm-mm. The blue guinea pig.
It would be called eating on a rhino. No. No. That doesn't work.
Okay. I thought it was funny for a minute, but I'm like, no, that doesn't work. That's not good. All right, guys, we gotta go.
Thank you very much. Bye.
Show Notes
On this episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, the crew reviews and discusses the latest from Dunbarton, Drew Estate, and Plasencia.
A full cigar-industry news discussion — reviews, interviews, and commentary, plus the week's wildest headlines.
In episode 624 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, host Mike BDP runs from the news desk to the humidor — reacting to the week's headlines before digging into cigar news and reviews featuring Dunbarton, Drew Estate, and Plasencia. Honest conversation and industry commentary, new episodes every weekday.