ACHP Episode 377 Oscars, Cigar Updates and Earthquakes
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Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers
podcast episode 377, where
cigars industry talk and
unfiltered opinions collide.
Sit back with your Co host Mike
Stepan Kevitch and Mike Palmer
as they bring you this week's
trending stories in cigar news.
And me, I'm boots the engineer
making sure these two don't burn
the plays down.
Grab a cigar, sit back and let's
get into it.
I wish they had lights on them
so they knew which camera was
on.
Right, Bing, I don't.
Know who?
Well, Mikey gets the most camera
time per his contract, so it was
on, yeah.
That's true.
Plus you got to tell them what's
going on.
Michael, what do we got going on
here?
What?
Do we got going on?
I thought you were going to
start with that.
You want me to start with that?
Well, you did the last two
weeks, so I.
All right, so let's see here.
OK, so Thursday, March 13th,
we're going to have Michael
Herclotz in the building.
We.
Just rolled.
Did we just keep rolling?
Yeah, yeah, OK.
For a Cutting Light special
event, we're going to have Hors
d'oeuvres and Horde divorce.
We're gonna have a complimentary
drink and you guys are gonna
hang out.
We're it's capped at 20 people.
We're gonna hang out, smoke
cigars and talk with Michael
Herklotz.
And then yes, what else?
What's the other?
One, that's the next event.
Well, on the 21st we have the
the bass of cigars.
The bass of oh, bass of boys.
I like that.
Yeah, the bass of boys coming
in, they're giving away a watch
and a humidor.
That's a month long event.
Come in, buy just one of their
cigars with your purchase and
you get a raffle ticket.
There you go.
And then we have PCA, the cigar
we.
Have one more event in March.
Is that the Bentley cook off the
last of the month?
I don't know.
I think we're having a, a, a
John Carney.
He's going to come cook us all
dinner, I think at the end of
the month.
Oh, we're having a John Carney
going to cook us all dinner at
the end of the month.
Oh.
What a great T-shirt.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
New T-shirts.
We're looking forward to that as
well.
We're now PCA is coming around
the corner here.
April 11th through the 14th.
April 11th through the 14th.
So if you're a retailer and you
want to set an appointment with
us, reach out to us.
E-mail Mike at.
Mikep@poshikcigars.com POSP i.e.
Ch Cigars dot.
Com yes, and we'll set up an
appointment with you and if
you're media and you want to set
up an appointment, message Mike
as well and we'll get things
going here.
Just message.
So just message Mike, message
me.
Yeah, everything.
You need help with the hotel
reservations, message me.
If you need a car, message me.
Or the food in the area.
Have food in the area message
me.
I am going out for beignets one
day, so if everybody wants to go
beignet shopping, I really.
Want there'll be beignets?
I really want a beignet.
What?
The Hell's a beignet?
Yeah, right.
It's that powdered sugar fried
dough thing.
I'm not exactly sure what it is
but it looks delicious.
I've always wanted them.
What are you doing for the
Patreon?
For the Patreon, you just
snagged it show put up the hand
thing should we are doing, I
want to say blue star, but it's
not it's Gold Star.
How's that?
Show the label.
There you go.
Perfect.
The new United Gold Star.
Star All right, this is where I
put a a big task on Boots where
he cannot show me, smoking a
cigar throughout the entire
event.
All right, in the news, Oscars
weren't the only thing shaking
in California yesterday.
There was an earthquake rocked
Burbank, Oh.
Boy.
Award season ended yesterday
with the 97th annual Oscars.
The BOI is gone.
OK, you know what the BOY is?
No idea.
You will when we get there and
then it boots has a his trending
fact about Hulu Bam cigar news
Romeo and Juliet.
It turns 150.
We have some Middle Eastern
cigar debuting crown heads is
bulldozing into a big cigar.
CAA says things are down OK,
they're not good.
United's getting a Gold Star,
maybe, and Cuban cigars are
doing, oh, not Ant, but Cuban
cigars are doing more than
raising prices.
And finally, Cle is cutting
their roster.
Or are they really?
Interesting stuff, yes?
Let's see what's going on this
week.
Let's go.
All right in the news, a
magnitude 3.9 earthquake
centered in Burbank sent last
week, shaking across Los Angeles
region Sunday night.
The earthquake, which occurred
at 10:13 PM, brought light
shaking as defined by the
Modified Mercantile Intensity
scale closest to the epicenter
along the 900 block of North
Ford St. in Burbank.
According to the USD Logical
survey, light shaking can
disturb dishes in windows and
feel like a heavy truck was
struck a building week shaking
may have been felt over much
broader region.
Apparently shaking is the
technical shaky shaking
measurement term for
earthquaking now OK week.
Shaking may have been felt over
much broader region of Southern
California, including the rest
of San Fernando Valley, the Los
Angeles Basin, which is where
all the fires were, and the San
Gabriel Valley.
Burbank Police watch commander
reported feeling a small quake
but said there was no reports of
damages or calls to residents as
of about 10:30 PM.
Just prove God hates California
still.
Yeah, so California is still not
getting a break.
No, what they normally have mud
slides and fires and now
earthquakes and all they need is
a volcano to get the trifecta of
the natural disasters already
for 2025 now.
Normally doesn't doesn't like a
small tremor or something like
that lead into like a bigger
earthquake coming or something?
You may be referring to
aftershocks.
Yeah.
I don't know.
There's aftershocks, normally
after.
I feel like the like the little,
there's like gentle rumblings
and then all of a sudden like
they're gearing up for a big.
This could be the big one.
I'm sure there's some type of
precursor.
Precursor.
It's a precursor.
Word of the day calendar that
we.
I I did my dictionary day word
and precursor.
He's very impressive.
He's.
Doing so well over there.
Very.
Impressive.
He had his fact of the week a
little early today, so I've got
high hopes.
OK, OK, all right.
The 97th Academy Awards ended
this year's award season with a
bang on March 2nd, 2025.
The biggest story of the night
came from Anora Who?
Anybody know what?
That no idea what a Nora is, no.
I didn't know if that was a
person or a movie.
OK, apparently It's a Movie
dominated the Oscars.
The film won five of six awards
it was nominated for Nora won
for Best Picture, Best Actress,
Best Director, Best Editing and
Best Screenplay.
This also made a huge night for
director Sean Baker as the
writer, director and editor of
the film.
OK, have you heard of it all
the.
Awards and only one guy did the
work.
Just the one dude.
Just the one dude.
Did you watch the Oscars?
I forgot it was even on.
Did you watch the Oscars?
No, but I saw some clips.
OK, so somebody saw clips.
Did you see any clips?
I saw some stuff on TikTok, but
what?
But it was cool.
There was a guy there, long
haired guy, sort of look like
Weird Al Yankovic but much
younger.
He had a special live action
slow MO camera or something.
So he would stop the star,
whoever was and go, OK, the
camera's going to come in here
and then it's going to super
slow MO so do something kind of
cool.
So they would zoom in and like
ladies would spin in their dress
or flip their hair and it would
go from normal speed to super
slow MO and it just looked
pretty cool.
But other than that, that's the
only clips I saw.
That was the highlight for you?
And I saw Karen Calkin give his
speech.
Macaulay.
Macaulay's younger brother.
Yeah, apparently he's an amazing
actor.
The home alone good.
Yes, the one who peed the bed
right.
Yes, that one.
We heard that was in the last
previous episode here.
Yeah, yes, we learned that.
Yes, we did.
So yeah.
I mean, like, dude, I didn't
watch the Oscars, so I, you
know, I don't really.
And I've never heard of this
friggin movie so.
Well, that's why I don't watch
the award shows.
We talked about this when the
Grammys or Emmys or somebody
else was on, right?
I don't really know what the
shows are anymore.
Yeah, the Grammys, you don't
know who the Zingers are.
Oscars.
I don't know.
But the Oscars supposed to be
the big one.
Supposed to be.
Who is hosting?
Well, we have that in just.
Oh, well, then continue forward,
OK?
Let's see, Baker took home 4
Oscars.
This feat tied him with Walt
Disney for the most Academy
Awards won by a single person in
a single night.
Due to a Nora's sweep of the
award, several heavily nominated
films left with few awards.
Amelia Perez was nominated for
13 Oscars.
Medal received 2 Best Supporting
Actress for Zoe Zaldano.
The Best Original Song for Elma.
Both Wicked and The Brutalist
received 10 nominations.
Wicked took home 2 Oscars.
I do know what that movie is for
best costume design and best
production.
The Brutalist won three Oscars
for best original score, best
cinematography and best actor.
Conan O'Brien hosted the
ceremony and delivered a fresh
style to the Oscars.
He's funny.
He is funny.
Yeah, but he he does Adam
Sandler, from what I understood.
I did see, I did see that he
talked about the way people
aren't dressing up for the
Oscars anymore.
And then Sandler stood up with
his traditional hoodie on and
his basketball shorts, and they
had a little fight back and
forth and then he left and
invited everybody to come out
for a pickup game of basketball
at the park in the.
Out in front of the that was
probably a skit.
Well, yeah, obviously he was
because he was miked in the.
In the audience.
So yeah.
Yeah, it was just it.
Was yeah, they don't slap
anybody anymore.
They just do stuff like that.
Yeah, they're not.
That's OK, You know, more
slapping.
No more slapping.
It's like Chris Rock wasn't
there.
Yeah, no, he was not.
Invited.
He was there.
Will Smith, probably.
He was there.
Was he?
Did he have armed guards with
him or?
No, I don't think he went up on
stage, no.
Yeah, Will Smith's still not
allowed back to that right.
Yeah, I don't think so.
Because bam.
Harrison Ford backed out at the
last minute.
He had shingles.
Oh boy.
Yes, at his age, that's not
good.
That's not fun.
Just like Miguel Shadel.
Yes, just like.
Miguel Shadel had the shingles
in his boots.
Wouldn't Taco?
And he couldn't go to the Oscars
either.
Apparently he also missed it.
Also missed the Oscars.
Conan O'Brien did a dune
Sandward playing dune Sandworm
playing an instrument to the LA
fire skit He did.
He had the LA firefighters come
out and deliver jokes.
I did see that he said some
jokes are even too hot for me to
handle.
And then he had the LA Some LA
firefighters delivered jokes
about certain people in the
audience.
Got you.
That was kind of cute.
He added his own zany risky
spend of the night.
However, it was just O'Brien
adding humor to the night.
Many presenters were also very
funny.
Bowen Yang, yeah, stole the show
in his Wicked costume while
presenting Best Costume Design
and Amy Poehler delivered snappy
jokes while presenting the
writing category.
OK, I mean, I don't have much on
the Oscars, but.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, I think the award shows
are sort of run their course now
and they're not.
I don't.
I don't know what the ratings
were.
Maybe we're just old.
Can you check the ratings?
Their booty for the Oscars?
See how they did.
What were the Oscar ratings?
I think anymore it's more an
international audience.
Yeah.
Oh, I want to watch Oscar.
I want to watch Oscar, see if
they want some food.
I like the worms.
Like the worms?
But the movie, the movies are
like Kieran Calkin won a best
supporting actor or movie I'm
familiar with because of TikTok,
but I don't know what the
movie's about.
It's when him I don't remember
the Sandberg.
I think it's the guy that was in
it with him where he plays his
brother or something.
I don't.
Have you seen a movement
recently that kind of stuck out
to you where you're like, this
is a fucking great movie?
Yeah, but I can't recall it at
the moment.
It was an older movie we've been
watching older.
Movies.
Because all the that doesn't
help me.
I'm talking about new movies.
Yes, there was a new movie.
If you say Gladiator 2, I swear
to God.
No, the gorge.
The Gorge.
Oh, was that any good?
It was supposed to be.
Terrible was it?
It was really good.
Yeah.
Apple TV.
I saw this morning the plane is
on Roku channel.
I wonder what's that the?
Plane.
The plane, it is with Gerard
Butler.
He lands, he's a pilot and he
lands a plane on a island that
is controlled by drug warlords
or something.
Came out in 2023, and then he
has to fight to save all the
passengers.
So that's still old.
Two years, yeah, but it's
something I want to watch, not
something I've seen.
You know what, I just so we went
to the movies and I saw Mufasa.
Oh, is it real life or?
Yeah, well, real life is still.
CGI.
Yeah, CGI, but it's not cartoon.
Yeah, the animals don't really
talk.
Not animated I guess, yeah.
It was CGI or whatever, right?
And I feel like Scar got a bad
rap man.
You mean in the original?
Yeah, the whole shebang.
Like, I watched this movie and I
was like, wait a second, this
doesn't make any sense to me.
Like, you know, spoiler alert,
just so you know, so this guy,
this well, this lion.
Oh, so wait, I'm sorry, I'm I, I
don't mean to interrupt you.
I'm trying.
So this is not The Lion King.
Again, this is a young Mufasa
growing up.
Yeah, this is a prequel.
Oh, OK.
Like the Star Wars way.
Yeah, so just to kind of breathe
these surmise here, Scar before
his name is Scar.
He saves Mufasa 3 times.
Oh, he saves his life three
times.
Does he betray him?
Yeah.
But then he fixes it by trying
to save him again.
Right.
So he saves him three times.
And at the end of the movie,
he's like, I'll never say your
name again.
You could live here, but I'll
never say your name again.
Like of course he's going to
kill him at the end, like.
Mufasa says that.
Yeah.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, Mufasa was a complete ass.
You know there's a real scar.
It's real scar.
It's based on a real lion that
killed like 300 hyenas, a
hippopotamus read Run all the
alligators out of wherever he
was in charge of and stuff.
It sounds like a real king.
Yeah, but he had that slice on
his eyeball from a fight with
another lion.
It was just listen, I'm going
back to the movie here.
It's just complete horseshit.
I'm like, how did how did we
treat this guy?
He got shafted.
It's kind of like The Karate Kid
if you watch it from the other
side, where Johnny is the good
guy.
Yeah, this punk kid comes in, he
tries to start trouble, steals
his girlfriend.
Yeah, that's exactly what it
was.
It should have been a, you know,
they could have made it a better
story.
Oh, really?
Scar?
Yeah.
What was his name before Scar?
Taka.
Taka.
Yeah, they should have called it
Taka.
Yeah, we're like, Mufasa was the
bad one, right?
I would have been OK with that.
The evil king.
The evil king.
So he became king because he was
more attractive.
Right.
More handsome.
More handsome.
Yeah, I know.
I don't the way it works
sometimes.
That's the way it works
sometimes you.
Know.
So you're saying that Trump is
more attractive than Kamala?
He's not.
He's not the king.
I mean, he's the president.
But you're you're comparing a
man to a woman.
I would say he's more attractive
than Biden.
But you would say that you so
you do find him attractive.
No, I say he's more attractive
than Biden.
So in order to say that though,
you're saying that he's.
No, it doesn't mean he is
attractive.
It means compared to the two,
you know a 5 is better than a
four.
Gotcha.
So if you had to have sex with
either Biden or Trump, you'd
have sex with Obama.
Obama Oh, a little jungle fever
over there.
Different.
Person skinnier?
Yeah, yeah.
Cigarette guy.
Yeah.
Younger.
Younger.
Is he younger than Trump?
At this point, I don't know when
he was president.
I'm guessing when he was
president.
He probably.
Was so you're talking peak
years, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, his best physical.
Shape.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Got it.
All right.
Makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
The US Treasury Department
announced it will not enforce a
Biden area small business rule
intended to curb money
laundering and shell company
formations, and a Sunday evening
announcement.
Treasury said it in a news
release that it is not imposing
penalties now or in the future
if companies fail to register
for the agency the agency's
beneficial.
Oh, I know what that is.
Yeah, I know what that is.
Database that was created during
the Biden administration.
Despite efforts by small
businesses to undo the rule in
the courts, it remains in
effect.
On Sunday, President Donald
Trump on his Truth social media
site.
I didn't know he had that.
He has.
Yeah, he's had it for a while.
Praised the suspension of
enforcement of the rule and said
the database is outrageous and
invasive.
The Biden rule has been an
absolute disaster for small
business nationwide, he said the
economic menace of BOI reporting
will soon be no more.
In September 2022, the Treasury
Department started rulemaking to
create a database that would
contain personal information on
the owners of at least
32,000,000 US businesses as part
of an effort to combat shell
company formations and illicit
finances.
OK, I understand.
Are you done or no?
I'm OK.
So you didn't say like how?
You comment OK.
Well, you started talking before
I could say something.
That's fair.
So so.
Michael, what do you think about
that?
So what do I think about that?
So like from a logistical
standpoint, I understand the
process of the BOI, right?
However, it is complete
horseshit, man.
It is.
So it's just, it's so much Intel
and information that I'm like,
whatever, I don't understand
why, why I'm forced to do this.
And then if you have four or
five businesses, you got to do
it for every single business.
Yeah.
Are they, are they checking the
information?
I mean, let's say, let's say
'cause sometimes when people
call her, we'll give them fake
names.
Right, We'll say all the time,
right?
Yeah, Someone's going to check
over how many, How many?
32,000,000 companies it.
Said there are 32,000,000
companies in the US.
Well, no.
Well, they're looking for
registration of 32,000,000
companies.
OK.
I mean, so I would assume that
there's probably somewhere in
that realm of.
Yeah, that's a number they
picked somewhere.
Right.
Somebody had to pull that.
Sure.
So yeah, no one's gonna.
Over Yeah, who's verifying
32,000,000 names AI?
AI and they're making oh.
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, it'll make me up a name.
Yeah, it's very reliable.
Right, so you know, make me up a
name that your AI buddy will
think is a real name on his AI
thing.
No problem.
Boop, boop, boop, boop.
Michael Gonzalez.
It's a.
Company dude, not a name.
No, you need a name for the
company.
Oh, got.
It Michael Gonzalez is Gonzalez.
And Gonzalez LLALA, it's a
different 1.
It's totally different.
Totally different.
Got it.
But it'll recognize it.
Right, but you know that the the
LLA, the other want to go.
It didn't feel like this.
It didn't feel like the BOI
thing was going to come to
fruition.
You know, just talking with
other people, right, accountants
and stuff like that.
Just seemed like, oh, they were
going to do it and then oh, they
hold on.
It doesn't have to happen right
away and oh, but you can do it
voluntarily.
Like I'm not voluntary.
I'm.
Not voluntary in anything.
Why do this right?
You know so.
You already have all my
information somewhere.
Yeah, somebody can look me up.
It's not that.
It's not that difficult.
I'm a citizen.
I get texts all the time from
people, random bots or whatever.
I'm getting a lot of them now
that I have tolls that unpaid
tolls.
That's fake, yeah.
Well, I know it's fake because,
well, first, the phone number is
some foreign country, right?
The Florida toll service is
going through Afghanistan to.
Yeah, to collect money that's
not.
Yeah, that's not happening.
They're going to get better at
that, though.
Hello, my name is John.
Right, yeah, they say don't even
click the link.
'Cause then you're in.
And you're in.
They asked my son's like, what
is this?
I think he got a text when he's
like don't, don't you dare.
He has unpaid tolls.
I don't have a car.
We're licensed.
Don't you dare do that.
So, OK, we never got back to the
rings and the Oscars, I guess,
Boots said there.
There was nothing really on
there, it just said that it
peaked over a million in the UK
is all it said.
Yeah, see, I think foreign
people are more enamored with
our movies.
So they so they're hiding the
data.
Yeah, I didn't really come up
with.
Anything to not give.
All right, Well then I'm going
to ask Rock.
Did you ask Rock?
No, I don't have that.
All right, well, you're asking,
Rock.
We have boots.
This trending topic is connected
to the Oscars.
All right, that's just in the
ratings for the Oscars.
That's just in oh, he's getting
a Please continue.
Yeah.
Rock just says yesterday.
What was the Oscar ratings for
yesterday?
Answer yesterday.
Perfect.
Can you here?
I did.
I said it.
Dude.
Go ahead, dude.
All right, Hulu's streaming
service was restored following a
significant technical glitch
that disrupted access for
thousands of viewers during the
2025 Oscar Awards.
The outage, which affected over
34,000 subscribers, began just
before the ceremony at 7:00 PM,
according to reports from Down
Detector.
The 97th Academy Awards,
broadcasted live on ABC
streaming on Hulu, were hit by
the technical failure,
preventing many users for
watching the event.
Hulu acknowledged the issue in a
post on X at 9:21 PM, thanking
users for their patience and
assuring them that the problem
had been resolved.
Thanks so much for hanging in
there.
Our team took the necessary
steps to resolve this, so you
should all be set after
rebooting your device, the post
read.
The disruption began shortly
before the official red carpet
show at 6:30 PM, leaving many
viewers frustrated as they were
unable to access the live
broadcast.
While the issue was resolved
relatively quickly, the outage
served as a reminder for the
vulnerabilities that can affect
streaming services during high
profile events like the Oscars.
Despite the glitch, Hulu was
able to restore functionality
before the ceremony's
conclusion, allowing viewers to
resume watching the awards then.
So another streaming service
failed because of the massive
amount of people that want to
watch.
Yes, things aren't working out
so well for the.
No, you think they would have
learned after Netflix's problem
with the fight, But maybe we
can't cover the bandwidth, but
it's not like.
It's not like Netflix is going
to help them.
No, but they knew it was a
problem, so they think they
could have, you know, tested it
or something.
Speculation the ratings is 16
between 16 and 20 million, but
it's not verified.
Is that good?
I don't.
Know if that last year's was
about was nearly 20 million
views so.
That's.
The same, maybe a slight decline
is what it if if you're in the
16 to 20 million range, I'm
guessing that's slightly less.
And how many?
What's the population in the US?
What's the population in the US?
That might be worldwide.
Yeah.
What's the US population?
I don't know off hand.
It's just.
Billions and billions of people.
It's $1.95 trillion.
Let's see while Gronk looks that
up for me.
Yes, it's, Yeah.
I I mean, I don't think that I
honestly think that they're
losing popularity, Yeah.
I think all those award shows
are.
The peak time was about 2004 and
it was about 40 million.
Yeah, but there were some great
movies.
About, you know.
Yeah, the movies are just, you
know, same movies.
I mean, we still don't know what
norm is.
At least back then you probably
still heard of the movies.
Yeah, the US population is about
346,000,000, right?
So 20 million.
Not even 10%.
Not even 10% of the world of the
world's US.
World.
We are the world.
We are the world.
Can we sing that?
Cause a lot of people sing it.
They wouldn't know.
They wouldn't know who to sue.
We probably get sued anyways.
We.
Haven't been sued yet.
Just like the Oscars.
Can we make some money first
before we get sued?
Oh no, the sue us now where we
don't have.
Any shut us down beforehand.
They.
Shut us down.
We don't have any money.
They could totally try.
They have no assets.
Come and take it.
Come and take there's.
Nothing.
Come and take it, Romy.
Oh, Willow then.
Taking this camera.
It doesn't belong to the
company.
That's true.
All right, so.
So you have the lights.
It's a loner.
Romeo and Juliet amante
celebrates 150th anniversary
this year marked 150th
anniversary of Romeo and Juliet
as a cigar brand in celebration
of this milestone, a banos This
is all Cuban this week, a banos
essay has announced the Romeo.
The real 1.
Julieta Amante Amante is Spanish
for lovers lovers.
The cigar measures 6 inches by
53, not a 7 by 52.
It's a six by. 6 by 53.
That's Cuban measurements.
Not a 6 by 50.
Two, it's the so it's a big
word.
Sobra saliente vitola.
Perfect.
OK, OK.
In the Cuban Vitola naming
system, which has been used for
various limited edition cigars
including the Por Lorenzo Sobela
Cente and the Romeo and Julieta
Capuletos in 2016 edition.
Well, it's Capulets, but it's
Spanish.
Well, your tone changes when you
get Spanish.
Yeah, you.
Like.
Capuletos in 2016 edition
Limitada OK due to the
differences in packaging, you
won't confuse the Amantes and
the Capulets.
The new Amantes has a unique
band that features 150 in the
center, while the secondary
Romeo and Giulietta band covers
the foot.
It will come in boxes of 20.
It's unclear if it's limited or
not.
Depends on how many they sell.
They don't know if they're going
to.
Make it could be limited.
It might possibly be depending
upon.
We don't sell many.
It's limited.
If we sell a lot, then no,
everyone can have.
It yeah, it's a core line
product.
And if it's limited, we have a
new cigar coming out.
It's the Cigar was announced at
the start of the Festival de
Habano 25, the annual Cuban
cigar festival.
Typically these releases come
with no information about when
they will be released or how
much they will cost, so there.
There you go.
We're we're going to make a new
cigar.
We don't know when we're going
to release it.
It could be limited possibly and
it's going to be slightly bigger
in diameter than what it should
be as a 6 by 53, maybe,
possibly.
And you're going to see that
it's different 'cause it's going
to have a secondary band.
Got it.
Alter this USA which sells the
non Cuban Romeo and Giulietta
brand in USA and his ownership
ties to a Banos essay has
announced its own Romeo and
julietta 150th because you know
Cubans don't share well so A3
vitola line made in the
Dominican Republic.
We too will make this 150th
Cuban.
Anniversary cigar in the
Dominican Republic.
It's like, that's so petty.
I love that, You know what I
mean?
Like, you know what?
We don't acknowledge your
trademarks here in the US So
we're going to go ahead.
You're going to announce 150.
We're going to announce 150.
You're going to put a foot band?
You're going to have the Amante,
We're going to have the amante.
It's going to be amazing.
It's dominant in the male
version.
We're crashing over here.
Crashing in America.
We 150 years for you, 151 for
us.
Yeah.
How's that sound?
That's what Luciano likes
slightly better.
That's what he does.
Underrated.
It's called underrated.
All right, Diplomatic goes Genos
Edition.
Regional Fonseca goes on sale
next week.
Perfect.
Thing for them, it might as well
just be a Mandarin for you.
I mean, I don't know, you know,
fucking.
King Chong.
Chong Chong Last night in
Havana, Fonseca TAA Cypress Ltd,
the distributor of Cuban cigars
for the Middle Eastern, showed
off the Diplomatico Genoso
Addicion Regional Fonseca ahead
of its release next week.
Fantastic.
So again, another cigar we'll
never see or get to smoke.
That's going to be only in the
Middle East, so.
We're done.
It's probably got a plug ratio
about 33%.
Yes, Addicion Regional cigars
are signified by a secondary red
and Silver Band that reads
Addicion Regional Easy to the
additional regional cigar is
noted with the additional OH
addition regional.
In case you were wondering, yes,
this is a regional cigar.
Yes, often the cigars do not
arrive at stores during the year
they are selected for, sometimes
multiple years later.
Great.
Listen, the cigar industry is an
absolute train wreck.
I don't know what to tell you.
And it's even worse when it's
just Cuban market, right?
Like I feel like the US markets
slightly more on time.
We're going to make an
anniversary cigar that may or
may not come out the year of the
anniversary, maybe a couple
years later.
Here's what I can tell you about
it.
It's going to have a secondary
band and it's going to say
regional on it.
That way if you need it, you
know.
Which one?
It is not the 151, That's not
it.
It's the different one, all
right, Back to some good old
American cigar companies.
America.
Juarez Bulldozer LE2025 slated
for March.
Oh, that's now, yes.
The last time Crown has released
a limited edition Ventola for
its Juarez line, it was quite
small.
Next month the company will
release a new Juarez Limited
edition that will be quite
large.
The cigar will be the Juarez
Bulldozer LE at 2025 a box press
5 1/2 by 58 Gordo with a pigtail
cap.
It's important to know that
pigtail cap.
Like that?
He uses a Mexican San Andreas
wrapper over Ecuador and Sumatra
binder and the filler tobaccos
from the Dominican Republic.
Wow, they actually said.
Well, they all were.
I probably would have.
That is not in fashion at the
moment.
Mexico, Nicaragua, oh, Dominican
Republic, oh, the tobaccos,
fillers tobaccos from Dominican
Republic, Mexico and Nicaragua,
Brown Head says it's a modified
version of the standard Juarez
blend.
The regular blend does not list
any Mexican tobacco in the
filler.
The bulldozer will have an MSRP
of 995 per cigar.
Not bad.
It's limited to 1500 boxes of
12.
Any idea what John Hoover sounds
like?
I do, I don't.
It's kind of standard we.
Have a quote?
Yeah.
Hey man, we hadn't done a
limited Juarez release since we
did Shots in 2022, said John
Huber, Co founder of Crown
Heads, in a press release.
This time, rather than go with a
smaller format like Shots, we
went the opposite direction.
We wanted a Big Bang flavor Ford
profile to accompany the larger
58 ring gauge, so we amped up
the original blend, then box
pressed it and finished it with
a big tail.
Crown Head says the bulldozer
will ship to stores next month.
Juarez, the lines inspired by
Johnny Cash's performance of
Cocaine Blues.
Michael, Sing a few lines.
I don't know.
That's on.
Cocaine.
Cocaine and I'm sad.
The other patroller's names are
references to parts of the song
and the story it tells.
Got it.
So just sing about the other.
And I named a pit bull named
Juarez and hopefully someone
will make a cigar for it one
day.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Thank you for your edition.
Oh, the la da da da da that's
goes into the bridge.
The La da da da CAA says 2023
cigar imports were how much?
426 point.
Two, you can see the screen
426.2 million lower than 2022.
Wow, not OK.
It wasn't 426,000,000 lower.
Yes, going 26.2 million lower.
Go with another story.
I'll explain why in a moment,
OK?
Last year, the Cigar Association
of America, or the CIA, quietly
updated its annual reporting of
cigar imports.
You indicate that the estimated
number of premium cigars
imported to the US in 2023 was
426.23 million, not the 467.569
million that the organization
originally reported.
Somebody made a Boo.
Boo.
Oh yeah.
Jeez.
Somebody messed.
Up.
And when I say we're good, I
mean we're not.
We're not good, yes.
Yes, the 467,000,000, that's not
really what it was.
It's it's far less.
That change means that 2023 was
not a record setting year like
we said it was last year.
Got it for premium cigar imports
as previously reported.
This is indicated.
I'm going to report it instead.
2023 is now the third highest
year on record after 2022 and
2021.
The reason for the change is we
sort of fucked up is due to how
the CAA Trade Organization
estimates premium cigar
endpoints for the Dominican
Republic.
So they estimate those.
They don't even really it is
winging, just guessing.
Carry the one.
Carry the one, add the two.
Apparently they should have
subtract.
Record setter.
Right, there are two different
Harmonized Tariff schedules HTS
codes used by importers.
When premium cigars are brought
into the US.
The price of the cigar
determines which code is used,
and we misread those.
Oh.
Confusingly, non premium cigars,
large machine made cigars also
use those HTS codes.
In Honduras, Nicaragua, there
are a few machine made cigars.
It doesn't really matter there.
We don't really count those.
Separate but the Dr. But in the
Dominican Republic, we're
billions.
Billions of machine made cigars
are made.
The CAA must estimate the number
of premium cigars by using data
from manufacturers to determine
which of these cigars are
premium cigars.
And the English to Dominican
translation apparently does not
work even with numbers which
were machine made.
Thanks.
The CAA has said that rising
prices led to some
misclassification of cigars and
error.
It acknowledged and corrected in
2024, so that's not their fault.
We fucked up.
We.
Fucked up.
No, it's because the prices.
They're misclassified.
It's not our fault.
It's not our fault at all.
We didn't do it.
We didn't do it.
Somebody else did.
Or the CAA, not the PCA or the.
There's another one too.
There's a BAA.
Yeah, the ZAA the.
FAA, It's the FAA.
Fault the FCC.
And the FCC.
And the CYZ.
The updated data and the doge
people, the doge people, it's
always a Doge people.
Yeah, the updated data confirms
what many of the premium cigar
industry has confirmed.
Antidotedly. 20/20/24 was good
but not that good.
Oh, anecdotally, what did I say?
Antidotally, what did you say
anecdotally?
CAA has also provided a second
to last update regarding the
2024 numbers, 'cause we may have
messed up there too.
Just maybe just a little bit.
It shows it.
From January to November 2024,
the US imported 389.78 million
premium cigars.
Maybe possibly possibly maybe
carry the one thing a .7
increase over the revised 2023
numbers.
OK. .7 that's.
Smidgen.
The CEA data shows that
Nicaragua is the is up compared
to 2023, though the Dominican
Republic and Honduras are both
slightly down.
Yeah, well, I mean, Nicaragua
continues to dominate, you know.
They are the dominant, yeah.
Delicious.
Delicious because he hates
Dominicans over there.
Yeah, he.
Doesn't like Dominicans?
People and cigars.
No.
He hates Dominican people and
cigars.
That's not true.
And the food and Dominican food.
And no, I like that they don't.
Make the Jelly doughnuts like he
likes the strawberry.
Food like the Jelly ones?
The strawberry Jelly, Yeah, yes.
OK.
All right, United's Gold Star
gets a new vitola, goes regular
production.
Oh yay.
Oh.
Oh.
United Cigars has announced that
it's Gold Star line, previously
an annual limited edition, will
soon be offered in three regular
production patolas because it
does so well.
Yeah, the blend remains the same
as recent limited edition
releases of Gold Star and
Ecuador and Habano 2000
Intermedio wrapper.
What does that mean?
Intermedio wrapper.
That's Spanish for intermediate.
But these there's all sorts of
new tobacco types coming out.
Have they discovered new
tobacco?
Is this the Nick Malilo thing?
Then The Cave with the Indiana
Jones people.
And So what they did was they
they they put vibranium into the
ground.
Oh, or vibranium.
With the Habano.
They got a skip 'cause he owns
Wakanda.
Yeah, and Martin forever.
And they and they and they grew
it successfully.
And then, like what they did was
through the fermentation
process, yes, they removed the
purpleness from it.
Oh yeah.
Purpleness.
Yeah, and now it's.
So now it's not vibranium
anymore, now it's Intermedio.
Wait, Vibranium is not purple?
Yeah, the little flower's
purple, Yeah.
Yeah, that's the purple.
So they crush up the flower.
It's purple.
Is the flower from the
vibranium?
I thought they grew that
separately or something.
You know, I don't want to get
into the details with you.
Oh.
We can't give the information.
Yeah, I can play.
It but when they use it to
incorporate the tobacco it's
called.
Someone will send us information
throughout the playing of this
episode.
You'll explain this.
They'll explain what?
And they'll call us idiots.
Yes, Intermedio is idiots like.
All right.
Thanks.
Yeah, just listen to the rest of
the conversation.
Go on.
Yeah.
And an Indonesian Sumatra
binder, along with Connecticut
broadleaf and tobacco grown in
the Dominican Republic in the
filler.
He won't like it.
It's got Dominican in it.
Yeah, See a little uptick with
Dominican tobacco being used in
a lot of these it's.
Because there's so much of it.
Because you don't like it.
Well, that's because they found
more.
And everybody's not willing to
pay $16.00 for $10 cigars, so.
Here's what I think you're
seeing is I think that you're
seeing a lot of cigars being
made out of Henderson's factory
once it.
This is from the Henderson's
factory.
Right, there you go.
Well, you saw it 'cause it's in
the blue.
Though I actually can't see that
part.
But more often than not, a lot
of, you know, like smaller to
medium producers, Henderson's
catering to them and some of the
surprising makes pretty good.
So, you know, he's building
that.
That's kind of his book of
business and it's working well
for him.
So I'm not surprised that's why
you're seeing the uptick in
Dominican.
OK.
The Ventura family will continue
to produce a line, this time at
the Tablical era William Ventura
factory in the Dominican
Republic.
I appreciate them not using some
kind of weird Spanish name in
the title of their factory.
It's very nice for them.
But William Ventura, I think is
different than Henderson
Ventura.
I mean, I think they're all kind
of linked to some degree, but
they're different factories.
Ventura, like Smith over in
Dominican.
Republic.
No, they're like brothers or
uncles or some shit.
I mean, you can get you can get
Ronnie on the phone, Secreto,
and he can give you a 30 minute
diatrio.
The whole thing.
That would be ridiculous.
Yeah.
Each cigar's age from one year
prior to shipping.
The company says it expects to
ship three of the tolls to
select stores in March.
OK so then they did this three
years ago every or I guess one
each cigar didn't have to do its
own year.
I mean they.
Could share a year I guess so
it's.
Been a year long product
project.
Gold Star Robusto A5 by 52 is
$12.00.
Gold Star Toro which I believe
is what we're smoking on the
Patreon.
That's correct, 6 by 54 for $13
a Gold Star Gordo A6 by
$6014.00.
After the soft launch around a
dozen retailers in March, it
will get a national release at
the 2025 PCA Convention and
Trade Show, which takes place
April 12th through the 14th.
We may have got our dates wrong
earlier.
You said. 11th 11th is a Friday,
so it must be Saturday.
Sunday, Monday.
I looked online, it said 11th
through 14th, 11th might be
seminars or something.
Yeah, oh it's true.
Yeah.
Gold Star pays our homage to the
classic Dominican tradition
while pushing the boundaries of
flavor complexity, said Oliver
Nevada, director of operation at
United Cigars, in a press
release.
Every draw is a tribute to the
passion and skill from the
Ventura family factory.
Our time together on the Blend
was driven by a true friendship.
I mean, I already kind of
addressed it, yeah.
So we're just kind of moving on.
Banos essay More Cuban news
reported $827 million in revenue
for 20240, a 14.7% an increase.
Didn't the price increase like
14.7%?
Probably something like that
makes sense.
We're up 14.7% the.
Cuban cigar Monopoly says that
it generated 827 million in
2024, a 14.7% increase over the
previous high set in 2023.
Just crushing it.
I feel like we can skip this
show this, this whole clip,
yeah.
There's your announcement.
Just wait for it.
Couple things.
Other things we can cover.
Oh yeah, with the scrolls.
Go ahead.
Terrence Riley doesn't know how
to book a hotel.
Well to be fair, I had that
problem a couple weeks ago with
a hotel that looked fairly nice
that I left early.
OK, so yeah, he went on this
whole diatribe on Facebook a few
days ago.
He stayed at, let me tell you,
the Tampa Inn near Busch
Gardens.
They should have gave him the
set off.
Right, yeah.
And he said he said a lot of
things.
He.
Didn't really say specifically
what was wrong with the hotel.
Don't be fooled by the photos
online, they're misleading as a
dating profile pics on the
desperate and lonely is what he
said.
Resume.
Desperate.
So wait.
OK, stop right here for the
moment.
So that means he's also familiar
with dating ABS.
Yeah, that's true.
He's married, isn't he?
I don't think he's married.
No, I think I saw a picture of
him and a lady he called his
wife a couple weeks ago.
I know he used to be.
Yeah, but I was surprised when I
saw a picture of him and a very
pretty blonde lady.
I thought he called her his
wife.
Oh.
Maybe he is.
Married.
Maybe, maybe not, I don't know.
So.
So are you saying that he has no
experience on a dating profile
pic?
No.
I'm saying how does he have
experience?
Maybe there is a space there
that he, you know, he went
through it's.
All all alleged.
We're not sure.
We're not insinuating anything.
I know, but you're going after
him, so I'm just I'm gonna sit
here and entertain.
That's the.
Story.
I'm just asking.
I'm just talking about AI was
just simply trying to a hotel,
yeah, dissect a a man that was
so emotionally charged about
where he was staying that he
took to the Facebook.
To the Facebook.
To the Facebook in order to say
social media terrible things
about do.
Not stay at the Tampa.
Inn do not.
I just want you to know I had a
terrible time.
Maybe the badge were too short.
And the agonorsal budget that
they have given me is far lower
than what it should be.
We we've heard stories.
We've heard stories.
Yeah.
I mean, like, I don't why why
isn't Terrence allowed to stay
like the Ritz or something?
I.
Figured he was staying at a
nicer place he.
Qualifies.
Who stays at the some place
called the Tampa Hotel?
Yeah.
Terrence Riley.
Well, I mean, maybe, but that's
kind of far away.
But it is bike week in Daytona.
Do you think that that that
that's kind of a stretch, right?
Where does where does Terrence
live?
I don't even know where.
He lives Miami.
Miami so too far away.
I did see he was in Tampa and it
was late one day, but it was
like a Saturday or something.
I feel like you could book a
decent room.
Yeah, I mean, it's far enough
away from biking.
That Tampa and it cost him 200
bucks.
Is it spring break over?
Oh well, you're getting a lot
better for $200.
That's what I'm saying, right?
I wish I had headphones.
I'd call him right now.
You.
Have his phone number.
Yeah, yeah, what if Facebook
messaged him?
Oh well.
You call him, I'll tell you what
he says.
He'll does his, He'll do his
voice for you.
Yeah, he says.
He said that the bed was too
short and his feet hung off the
end.
And he's tired.
He's tired of it.
He's tired and there was no
there was no ironing board or
irons for him to iron his
clothes.
Oh, we're calling.
Oh, it's very professional.
Perfect.
Top notch here.
It's going, hey, you're on the
podcast.
Oh, I can hear him.
What's going on?
Hey, we want to talk to you
briefly about your your hotel
stay at Tampa Inn.
Oh, I I don't recommend it.
Oh, it does not get a gold stud.
Why did you choose to stay at
Tampa Inn near Busch Gardens?
Well.
I I looked for a hotel you
almost always in my book hotels,
I do it where I kind of see
where I am, it's like 9:00 at
night, 10:00 at night and I'm
like, OK, what's close by that's
within a certain price range or
whatever, you know, Yeah.
So in this particular instance,
like there was nothing that was
under $400.
So and again and we're.
Not talking like nice places.
We're talking about like, you
know, like quintas for 400.
Bucks and it's like.
Like what is going on here?
So I I put in the the the map
thing.
I said OK, under under 200 and
this place came up at 175, the
Tampa Inn near Busch Gardens.
That's literally the name of the
place.
And you know the from the
pictures, they were a little
misleading.
I was a little.
I'm.
Not putting up bad pictures
those.
Were nice they looked like the
place was so more that one might
actually want to stay for more
than two seconds and then so I
said OK, well it's under 200.
You know it's a good company
man.
I'm trying not space company
mine and so I'm like I am so
let's get this.
So I show up there and it's it
was the worst.
It was the worst hotel I've been
that since about 15 years ago.
I was in between Naples and
Orlando and like, we were just
exhausted.
And there's a Howard Johnsons,
which I didn't even know were, I
mean, this is 15 years ago, but
even then I didn't think they
were around anymore.
And it.
Was the one in Deltona and.
We walked into the room and like
they were packed with
microwaves.
Yes, it.
Was like, it was the weirdest,
like and then when you went to
the front counter, they were
like, Oh yeah, yeah, sorry about
that.
Like I said, the bed wasn't made
or.
Something sorry about the
microwave.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Like there's no, I didn't ask
any questions like microwaves
or, you know, I was just like,
oh, sure, yeah, that's right.
The microwave.
And so this place was the worst
place I've been in since then.
It was, I mean, it was not, I
mean, there was like cars
driving by every almost every
hour on the hour, super loud
music with like slowly rolling
through the parking lot and then
leaving like they were looking
for somebody.
It was like it was, it was some
lady was passed out on the
stairs going up the stairs or it
was it was wild.
So as a seasoned vet of the
road, you see that that the
going average is $400.00.
I understand that you're a
company man, you don't want to
spend money, but you would think
that hey, I'm going to have to
bite the bullet here and and
spend the money and get a decent
hotel.
Or drive a little further.
Away or or or Yeah.
Or drive further away.
No, like why would you like you?
You duped yourself.
I would say you can't.
Hit home runs every time and and
when you know again I'm I'm I'm
I'm human too you know I can see
why you think that be perfect
there's.
A lot.
Yeah, you.
Know I love that, but you know,
I, I, I am human and in this
particular instance, it would
have probably been better to
find another place or, you know,
spend the money.
Gotcha, this just in Terran
trolley books his room PCA the
New Orleans Inn.
Near Busch Gardens.
Near Busch Gardens near.
The sun do far.
From Busch Gardens.
Yeah.
Treasure Island.
All right, Well, we'll let we'll
let you go.
I hope you got a better night's
rest.
And, you know, could have been
much worse.
I just laid on top of the
sheets.
The room was like, it looked
like a halfway house.
It was terrible.
It was scary.
It was.
I was actually.
A little scared.
You were a little nervous, yeah.
I was a little nervous.
It was wild, like yelling.
There's a cacophony of profanity
now.
Every cacophony.
Yeah.
Every so often it would just
blurt out from God knows where.
Yeah, so did you.
I lived.
Did you stay there the whole
night or no?
I did, yeah, but I left super.
I left as soon as daylight.
Daylight.
We're safe to go.
Like outside.
As soon as there's like a you
know, all that way, all the
vampires are hopefully.
Once.
Once the crack heads passed out,
you left.
Got it.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that.
Was it I was like, I gotta go,
I'm out and you left nothing in
your car.
I hope because you all your
wind, your windshield was
intact.
The back end, to be honest.
That was another.
Everything I was, I was scared
about, but what happened, which
ended up benefiting me in a way,
somebody ended up like parking
in front of me and blocking me
in, but they were sleeping in
the car.
So I think that scared off
anybody from, you know, actually
breaking in.
So I was like, I'm gonna hire.
The guy to watch his car.
No smash and grab.
No smash and grab.
OK.
All right, cool.
Well, I'm glad you're OK, Sir.
Yeah, well.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate your concerns.
Make better decisions.
OK, I'm trying.
I'm not going to make.
Any promises?
But I'm going to see what.
You do All right, brother.
I'll talk to you later.
Bye.
Take care, buddy.
Bye.
Bye.
So there you go.
Terence Riley survived.
He.
Made it so good.
I just don't, I, I, you know, I
just think that the, the
emotional feelings on Facebook
sometimes is a little weird.
I think that I used to do that
stuff back in the the past, but
I don't do it.
Any you don't do it anymore.
No, I have a podcast for it now.
I'll tell you my emotions here,
yeah.
All right, we got a Cle story
and then we have a listener to
the week and the shop of the
week.
OK, I get more articles I want
to cover too, all right?
Cle This is great 5 lines from
the price list Cle cigar
companies and four retailers.
Then on March 5th, 2025 it will
remove 5 lines from the price
list.
Those lines are Do you know what
they?
Are I have no idea.
Cigars from Dominican Republic.
AZABACHE.
Azabach.
Azabache, the Cieli Chile, the
Cieli Prieto.
I have heard of that one
signature series in the Arroa.
Gemistran.
Hamistran.
Oh, it says Gemistran.
Yeah, it's Spanish.
The J's an H.
Well, they should make it an H
then.
That's just ridiculous.
And a letter to retailers.
The company said the changes to
create unified packaging for its
Asylum brand to 2023 and Cle in
2024 have created production
issues that led to removing
these lines from the price list.
That said, the cigars are not
discontinued.
Oh, so they're just rebranding?
If a retailer places an order
for any of the five boxes per
vitola or for five boxes per
vitola, Cle will make and ship
the cigars because the cigars
won't be kept in inventory in
Miami.
Turn around time will be roughly
two months.
Though.
Got it.
You can get any of these cigars
you want.
We need two months.
You got at least by 5.
So we have the tobacco.
We had the tobacco.
We can make the cigars.
We're streamlining our boxes.
We no longer have boxes that
have JS that sound like HS.
Could you see a retailer saying,
hey, I need five of these?
Yeah, and I can wait 60 days.
Yeah, I don't know if that's
going to work.
I.
Don't think that's going to
happen.
The change means that Cle
branded portfolio will go from 8
lines to four lines.
Unless you want to wait two
months, then still 8 lines.
Those 4 remaining are the Cle
25th Anniversary, the Cle
Connecticut, Cle Corojo, and Cle
Habano.
All easily said.
It's funny to see the different
steps for individual companies
because some companies will
argue, hey, the brands all need
to look different and then some
companies will say, well no, all
the brands should be somewhat
uniform under the main umbrella
brand.
Do they uniform them for cost
reasons like it's easier to
make?
No, I don't think so.
One type of box and to make 5
different types of.
Boxes, I think that it's more
along the ability to see and
identify the brand in the
humidor, right.
So, you know, the question is
which one's the right way?
And I could I, I think that I
have evidence on either side of
saying this one's effective,
this one's not effective.
Sure.
You know, so it's interesting to
see that CL ES going that that
route where they're trying to
kind of unify everything.
Right.
I wonder what box the other ones
come in now.
Yeah, a cardboard box.
Bundle, maybe you shouldn't
Plain brown rapper.
Yeah, it probably just comes in
a bundle.
All right, Listener of the Week.
Uh oh.
Gavin Grantham gong from
Espinosa Cigars.
Our guy?
Yes, Mr. Gavin, our newest
Patreon member.
Newest Patreon member.
Yes.
All right.
Thank you very much for your
support, bro.
We appreciate you.
Appreciate you.
We appreciate Jack, our #1
Patreon salesman.
Yes, the best Rep in the best
national sales manager in the
game, and the best Patreon sales
manager in the game as well.
Shaft of the wheat.
Oh, sorry.
We need him to like focus on,
you know, another company that
has a.
Yes, if you could branch out to
another company and we have all
your employee.
Oh no, they have the new one.
If they could start, we need him
to tap into like Patel, Rocket
Patel or somebody where there's
like a a fleet of sales of.
Drew State.
Yeah, like, hey, you know, I
just you guys need to talk.
About you guys all the time on
the show.
You really need to consider, you
know.
You should listen, yeah.
That'd be great.
Right Shout of the Week is
Stateline Tobacco, 1168 Elkton
Rd. in Newark, DE.
Nice.
Welcome back into the fold, Sir.
Welcome back into the fold, hey?
What else you got you want to go
over?
Well, you kind of just did all
that, so I'll just mention my
two stories on Patreon.
Oh, perfect.
Good.
Good.
I have nothing for that.
OK, perfect.
All right.
Episode 377 over there.
Boots.
Is that what it is?
377 I believe.
Yep.
Yep, thank you everyone for
listening.
We've got to go to the Patreon
where we're doing the Gold Star
cigar.
Gold Star.
All right.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
Show Notes
Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 377 - Show Notes
In this exciting episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, the guys dive into some hot topics from both the entertainment and cigar worlds:
Oscars and Earthquake: It wasn’t just the Oscars shaking things up in California yesterday; an earthquake rocked Burbank, making for an eventful day in the Golden State.
The 97th Annual Oscars: The award season came to a close with the 97th Annual Academy Awards. We talk about the highlights, the surprises, and the winners of the night.
The BOI is GONE: Big news from the Treasury Department—the Bureau of Industry (BOI) is officially gone. What does this mean for the industry? We discuss the impact of this change.
Romeo and Julieta Turns 150: One of the most iconic names in cigars, Romeo and Julieta, celebrates its 150th anniversary! We discuss their legacy and what this milestone means for the brand.
Middle Eastern Cigar Debut: A new player is entering the cigar scene from the Middle East. We talk about what we know so far and what this could mean for the global cigar market.
Crown Heads Bulldozing It: Crown Heads is making a big splash with a new release that’s already shaking up the market. Could this be the next big thing in cigars? We dig in.
CAA Says Things Are Down: CAA, the, reports a dip in their counting procedures?
United Gets a Gold Star: United Cigars Decides and LE Isn’t Going to stay an LE!
Cuban Cigars Raising More Than Prices: Cuban cigars are back in the news, but it’s not just about price hikes. What other changes are coming from Cuba’s cigar industry? We cover it all.
CLE Cutting Their Roster or Are They?: Rumors swirl about CLE cigars possibly cutting their roster, but is that really the case? We speculate and discuss what this could mean for the brand and the broader cigar market.
Special Guest Interview with Terence Reilly: We sit down with the one and only Terence Reilly for an exclusive interview! He shares some wild stories, including his latest hotel mishap. You don’t want to miss the hilarious and shocking details of what happened!
Listen to this packed episode for all the details, insights, and more from the world of cigars and beyond!