ACHP Episode 379 Who's Got Their Hand On The Wheel?
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Events this week at Cigar
Hustling.
Right, Yes.
What do we got?
What's going on?
Friday, March 21st, we're going
to have base of cigars in the
house.
We just did an interview with
Alex Gonzalez.
It was a very good interview.
I highly recommend you go back
and listen to it.
We're going to be giving away a
watch and a humidor and we're
going to be hanging out having a
good time.
So please come out to Cigar
Hustler, we would love to see
you.
The entire cast from the cigar
guys will be here.
The entire Cigar Guys cast will
be in attendance.
Also.
The outcome?
The following Friday, March
28th, we will have a private
lounge event with the one and
only John Carney of Bentley
Cigars.
We're going to have food, steak
dinners, the whole shebang.
We're going to do a little
podcast, shebanging the Shebang.
Shebang's my word.
I don't know, I feel like I
need, I might need a T-shirt for
Shebang.
The whole shebang.
It's going to be a fantastic
event.
So we're looking.
We are podcasting because we've
interviewed him before.
Yeah, but we can get an update.
We, I mean, there's a lot going
on here.
He's a.
Very busy man.
Sure.
Yeah, you should do it while
he's cooking.
I know you don't want to, but
that's the way you should do it.
Yeah.
I mean, I can't see how that
would work with the studio, but
you.
Know probably going to go well
you do it out there because
he'll be outside this private
lodge I'm.
Going to give that a hard no.
So what are we doing?
Vote.
What are we covering for the
Patreon?
On the Patreon today we're
smoking the 15th Anniversary
Room One O 1 cigar right after
the 12th, the 13th, and the
14th.
Right, makes sense.
Now he's doing the 15th.
And we did a private lounge
event last Friday.
We were there for from 10:00 AM
to 10:00 PM, and we ran into our
favorite person, Luciano
Morales.
Yeah, apparently has a farm now
with magic tobacco grown in.
Well, we'll tell you where he
said it was grown.
So all that and more on this
week's Patreon.
All right, let's get into some
of our topics.
I have your microphone because
oh thank God I love that it
spins.
This is this 1's.
Yeah, that one's great.
That's mine.
Look at this.
Get going.
Hold on.
So I forgot how to lock this.
Just so you know, this is 15.8g.
OK, all right, trendy topics, Z
Libya's OK, Libya's education
minister is doing some time for
not printing the books.
March Madness printable brackets
are out.
Trump is claiming they use an
auto pen for Biden's pardons.
That sounds interesting.
And then in cigar news, El
Septimo has patent.
How do you cool a cigar?
Interesting.
There's a bunch of PCA cigar
announcements cuz that's coming
up in a couple weeks.
Then we've got some staffing
changes, which only happens this
time of year.
People have entered and exited
the portal, and finally Postonia
makes a bearable announcement.
Excellent.
And we have somebody new on the
board today.
Yes, yes we do.
We have the the lovely Ryan with
us today.
Oh, this is going to annoy me.
Ryan, say hello.
Hola.
Yes, he's Spanish.
This is going to be fantastic.
We're going to have somebody
that's actually has a little
more tech savvy ability and he's
going to be playing.
Higher, higher IQ.
Well it definitely has a higher
IQ so you know, but it's your
first time bro, so if you what,
however you go, however you do,
you'll be I'm sure you'll be
fine.
This is the end of the Skull
Hustler podcast.
This is the last episode.
That stuff, No, but we got to
tell you there is a slight
curse.
Everybody who's been on the show
except for one has left the
shop.
What?
Your boots is the only one that
survived.
Well, he'd never really worked
at the shop, but yeah.
Oh, we haven't had, have we had
Keanu in?
I don't know.
I don't think we have.
So there was Garrett way back
when, who was the the little guy
that went to go work at the
motorcycle place.
That doesn't matter.
OK, we're moving on.
All right?
Ryan's going to break the curse
today.
Yes.
He's not leaving.
He's not going.
Anywhere I wasn't nervous, but
now I'm a little nervous.
You'll be, you'll do fine.
You'll do fine, all right.
Libya's education minister
convicted over textbook scandal
Libya's education minister has
been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in
a Libyan prison because of a
textbook shortage dating back to
2021, the attorney general's
office announced on Sunday.
Apparently you can get arrested
for not printing books in Libya.
OK, so for five years this guy
hasn't put out any books.
No, no, there's a shortage in
books which we'll get into it,
but this was something that that
started in 2020.
One, we're still covering major
topics.
Yes, yes, yes.
The Tripoli Court of Appeals
find Moussa al Magrief 1000
dinars.
OK, it's $200.00 and deprived
him of his civil rights for the
duration of the sentence and a
year afterwards.
So for three years he gets no
Libyan civil rights.
I don't think they have many.
So he got fined 200 bucks. $200
jail for two years and no civil
rights for three years.
I don't know what Libyan civil
rights are, right, but can't be
that many.
It's Libya, the same source said
in the statement on Facebook.
McGriff, a member of the
national unit government, was
accused of violating the
principle of equity equality.
I said yeah, I've read that
three times already, interceding
in favor of a unnamed party and
favoritism in contract
management over the printing of
textbooks.
The case dates to the start of
2021 school year, when a
textbook shortage force parents
to spend money on photocopy
textbooks supposed to be
provided free in public schools.
I didn't even know Libya had
free public education.
You're not on top of your.
I'm not.
On top of my Libyan civil rights
or their education program.
Apparently the Libyan democracy,
but they have a lot of copy
machines.
Apparently.
Apparently the copy machines are
very prolific in that country.
An investigation began into
McGriff McGriff over his
management of contractual
procedures for printing
textbooks and the reasons behind
the shortage.
He was then placed in preventive
detention as part of
investigation into negligence in
the excise of his functions.
Wonder what that sounds like in
Libyanese?
Whatever they should be.
Negligence and excise of your
functions.
Yes, yeah.
McGriff was later released from
custody for lack of evidence.
All the copies faded and resumed
his post as education minister.
He attributed the textbook
shortage to unifying the
school's curriculum among the
North African countries. 3
regions, saying his delayed
payments owed saying this
delayed payments to suppliers.
All the people making the books
barely gotcha.
Before the attorney general's
announcement on Sunday, the
education minister's Facebook
page posted a picture showing
him hard at work.
Quick to a post.
Quick to a post, They're coming
in front of me, do I post?
Look busy.
We need to look busy.
Get the printer out.
We need to make the printer.
Out.
March Madness printable brackets
for men and women's 2025 NCAA
basketball tournaments are out.
The brackets for the 2025 NCAA
men and women's tournament has
finally been revealed, and March
Madness action on the court
begins in only a few days.
Do you print these?
Imagine it's for the betting.
Yeah, I don't print that.
I mean, I don't bet really.
Can you not?
So this is like there's the
official 1.
So they because I saw a picture
of it, obviously it it shows
like on the left hand side, like
this team plays this team and
then the winner moves here,
right?
So they just decided who all was
playing who the first round.
Correct.
They just filled that bracket.
This is a big deal when it comes
to, well, I sports.
Betting, Yeah.
How do they decide?
Did the article did not say.
It's college, so it's pretty
much whatever a group of like a
board probably can.
You just do like alphabetical or
something I.
Mean no, they just kind of wing
it they.
Gave you some dice and boom.
Oh look, somebody play somebody.
I'm sure that there is money
involved and favoritism and
alleged bribery or whatever the
case may be.
I bet you if you if you got into
it deep enough, you would see
that some things didn't make
sense.
Yeah, just like college
football.
Right.
Oh, so when they do, is there a
like a March Madness type of
college football thing?
It's just as the season goes.
Like kind of there's, there's
sort of a there's now a playoff
bracket.
It's not as vast as March
Madness, but yeah, to some
degree.
So this is in addition to all
the games they've already
played.
Yeah, this is the final.
Like the tournament, this is the
big deal.
So does none of the other
playing count among no that?
Well, I mean it does, I guess to
some degree, but this is the big
one.
This is the thing, yeah.
This is what decides who's win
and loses.
Yeah, I learned, I think I
learned, you know, 100 years ago
that if you had the simple
strategy of just taking the
points and betting the dog to
win, the underdog to win, right,
you should win like 60 or 70% of
the time, something like that.
Alleged.
Don't take it.
We're not giving information.
Yeah, I'm not a no betting
information.
I'm not a why am I looking at
your camera?
No betting information here.
I don't know why you're looking
at my.
Camera, because I was talking
about you.
The clock is already ticking at
how much time you have left to
fill out your brackets.
Don't worry, we're here to help.
Well, ESPN is here to help.
I got the story from them.
OK, on the men's side, Auburn
claimed the number one overall
seed over Duke, while North
Carolina and Texas snuck into
the field to the chagrin of a
handful of snub teams.
The SEC set a March Madness
record when fourteen of his 16
teams made the tournament.
Oh, everybody doesn't get to
play.
No, that's what I'm talking
about, the snubbing.
UCLA took the number one overall
seed in the women's tournament.
The other three number ones were
South Carolina, Texas and USC.
The men's tournament tips off
the earnest, earliest, earnest
earnest on Tuesday with the
first of four, but you don't
need to wait until then to fill
out a bracket.
The women's first four starts a
day later on tomorrow, day later
on Wednesday, so day after
tomorrow.
Excellent.
How you doing on the flipping
Ryan?
I'm.
Flipping all over the place.
Yeah, there was a lot of
flipping on that on that
particular post, so.
Trump makes unsupported claim
Biden pardons are void as he
used an auto pen.
An auto pen.
Auto pen Donald Trump claimed
Donald Trump Donald Trump
claimed on Monday, without
offering evidence, that pardon
signed by Joe Biden were void,
vacant, and of no further force
and effect because they were
signed with an auto pen.
Merriam Webster Dictionary
defines an auto pen as a device
that mechanically reproduces a
person's signature.
That's very interesting.
I had to.
I was adjusting.
Trump made his claim in a post
to a social media platform that
uses abusive nickname for Biden
and referred to members of the
House January 6 committee
writing the pardons that Sleepy
Joe Biden gave to the unselected
committee of political thugs and
many others hereby declared
void, vacant and have no further
force or effect because of the
fact that they were done by
autopen.
OK.
Well, that's, I mean, go ahead.
No, no, I just rolling up.
Go ahead.
That's very interesting.
It is, but I mean, he's going
to, you know, claim that anyway.
Yeah, but and what's he going to
be?
There's nothing you can do about
it.
How are you going to prove that?
Well, does he have to?
I mean, does he's the president
and he just says these aren't
right and I'm going to put you
in jail anyway, Fauci.
It doesn't work that way.
The guy before him did the
whole, you know, pardon yadda
yadda.
Yeah, but he's saying that in
other words, Joe Biden did not
sign them, but more importantly,
he didn't know anything about
them.
I don't think it matters what he
says unless you want to go
through a judicial system and
like a whole oh.
Well, he loves doing through the
judicial.
System.
He's a big judicial system.
Big judicial guy, Yeah, he loves
that.
He loves, he's a big fan, right?
He loves attorney.
You didn't see when the what the
governor of Maine was going to
sue him because he's took all.
He's no longer giving them money
because they're letting boys
play girls sports.
No, she said.
We're just going to sue you.
He goes oh good get in line this
will be fun.
I got news for you.
I think I already told this,
told you this.
Do you know my news source for
world information is no?
I don't think you've told me
this tell.
Ya, no, it's Mike Palmer of a
Cigar Hosters podcast.
So I don't, I have no idea.
I just listen to you and then I
just kind of wing it.
Wow, that's kind of scary.
Yeah. close aides to Trump have
said his own authorship of Truth
Social Post can be detected by
factors including the free use
of capital letters.
Trump also made Wait, so he's
saying they can tell it's fake
because he used too many capital
letters.
Yes, that's what he just said.
Wouldn't you think an auto pen
would sign the way that you
signed?
I mean, what's the now?
What's the sense of having an
auto pen that doesn't sign your
signature?
Unless somebody's not paying
attention, they just kind of
wing it.
These are pardons.
You think somebody would be
looking?
Government workers, sometimes
they're not on par.
Well, you think there would be
an auto pen ambassador or auto
pen somebody?
You think there'd be?
A guy, yeah, Somebody in charge
of the auto pen that.
Would be funded through Social
Security.
And right, he keeps it in a
briefcase, much like the guy
with the football, but it's
smaller because it's a pen.
So it's, you know, more of a
pencil case, I guess.
Got it.
It's it's not just handcuffed.
To his wrist.
You think it's just a?
It's probably just a click.
Maybe it's inside of his.
Oh, you don't think it's a real
pen?
Yeah, I think it's just a
machine.
They feed it into any.
I should just be stamped.
It should just be a stamp.
No, because you can tell that.
Yeah, gotta keep them guessing.
Trump also made the claim aboard
Air Force One on Sunday, telling
reporters it's not my decision.
That'll be up to a court.
There you go, there we.
Go.
But I would say that they're
null and void because I'm sure
Biden didn't have any idea when
that was taking place.
And somebody using the autopen
to sign off and to give pardons.
Trump's claim came after the
Heritage Foundation, a pro Trump
right wing think tank, released
a report into Biden's purported
auto pen use.
Oh, it's a thing.
Yeah, I don't think anything
comes of this to be honest.
Just another one of his rants.
Yeah, you know, it's
highlighted.
The think tank said this was a
thing.
Are you claiming that the guy
had?
You know, so they're sitting in
a room, they have all these
documents that he signed,
correct?
And they're putting them against
each other going this is too
many CS here, the capital B over
here, right?
These must be out open.
I didn't even know who it was.
I think that the entire nation
at this point knows that Biden
has he.
Checked.
Yeah, he was not really there
that last term.
Something.
Yeah, he didn't know what he was
doing.
They're not going to admit.
It I still don't know what how
much validity there's going to
be in going after his signatures
and it just sounds ridiculous.
All right, Yeah, all right.
You heard it here, Mikey said.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
All right, turning to the world
of cigars, El Septimo's Zaya
Union.
Is that how you say his name?
I have no idea.
I call him Prince Ababois.
El Septimo's Prince Ababois was
awarded a patent for cooling
ashtray.
Who knew it was a problem?
Abu Bhan, the CEO of El Septimo
Cigars, has been awarded a
patent on a new ashtray design
that is described as a multi
function cigar ashtray
assembling that combines 4
different features in one
elegant designed device.
It's elegant because it's El
Septimo.
The ashtray not only collects
ash, but also incorporates a
built in cooling chamber, a
cigar humidor and a big ass
ashtray and a dedicated
refreshment cup.
It's got a cup.
It's got a cup holder.
OK, let's back up a little bit
here.
OK, It it it collects the ash,
OK.
So like this one?
So standard.
Yeah, standard Ash.
Got it.
It cools the cigars.
Does it cool them while you're
if you looked at this at all or
you I have not.
So all your cigar information
comes from Mike Como?
OK, media sources.
You're my media sources.
All right, So it looks like it's
round.
I saw that.
You saw the drawing.
I did.
OK.
So I think it cools stored
cigars, right?
Not the one you're smoking.
It keeps the stored cigars and
the ashtray cool.
Yes, OK.
I'm guessing so that when you
ash on them or the cigar you're
currently smoking does not heat
them.
OK, All right, so there's that.
So then the cigar humidor, which
is what's being cooled.
OK, a dedicated refreshment cup.
So it's got a cup holder.
Got it.
OK, all without the need for
electricity or batteries.
OK, now what?
No, no.
How does it?
How does it cool without ice?
You put ice in.
It is it solar powered?
The aim of the new design is
provide a cooling effect on
cigars and thus improve their
taste.
Got it.
Hot cigars taste bad,
apparently.
A hot cigar is bad.
So room temperature is not
correct anymore.
I thought that we were supposed
to keep my room temperature, you
know, 6872°. 70° yeah.
So I mean.
Look, maybe Wait, he's from
France?
Air conditioning is not prolific
in France.
No, I don't think it is.
Really.
Europe air conditioning, they
don't have.
It's not a big thing, no, right,
Ryan?
Sure.
Love that, love that.
Oh, here we go.
The combustion in cigars creates
a significant amount of heat.
OK, no blah blah said.
Makes sense, Prince al blah.
Blah.
The temperature of the cigar can
reach up to 880°C around six
What, 1600°F?
It's cooling the one you're
smoking, it's not cooling the
stored ones. 1600°F.
That cigar in your hand
apparently is 1600 degrees, 1600
degrees 1600° or 880°C.
That sounds like complete
horseshit to me.
At the burning tip?
Oh, just on the end.
OK.
If it cools it, is it going to
put it out?
I look, I just want to know why
we built an entire ash train and
didn't even incorporate a
Bluetooth speaker.
What were we thinking there?
It's a good point.
You know, maybe that's the
second generation, yeah.
The Gen. 2.
The the cup holder comes off,
speaker goes on.
You remove the cup holder and
turn on the speaker.
Or they make a speaker that fits
in the refreshment holder.
Yes, refreshment holder.
They're calling in a cup holder.
I like where your.
Head's at burning, tip well
between puffs.
The temperature can range
between 400°C and 500°C,
depending on the cigar size and
the draw style.
OK.
At these high temperatures,
essential oils and sugars in the
tobacco rapidly evaporate, which
diminishes the flavor and leaves
cigars tasting bitter and harsh.
Really.
That's why I decided to invent
the refrigerator.
That's actually what he's
calling it, so that when you
rest your cigar and it ate, a
tremendous conductive cooling
ability transfers the excessive
heat away.
Just away when you take another
draw, the cigar's temperature is
dramatically lowered and the
flavor is not only preserved but
amplified.
Is that because his cigars taste
bad?
He's trying to find a way to
make them taste better.
I think it's possible.
Allegedly taste bad.
Allegedly the cigar cooling
ashtray looks like a normal
ashtray.
And this is, this is completely
normal ashtray, right?
But it cools, it's cooler, and
there's a couple.
There, it cools the hot thing,
right?
Not like a normal ashtray, but
it made of three separate
compartments or units.
OK.
The top portion is an ashtray
service, while the middle
compartment is a cooling chamber
which is removable with its
circumference able to be filled
with water that freezes.
Oh you do, you're freezing.
You turn to ice.
So it's got a water chamber you
filled with water and then you.
Freeze, freeze it, and then you
shove it in the so he's made it.
Cooler.
Pretty much.
And keeps the ice tray cool for
over 2 hours of smoking time.
OK, every two hours you gotta
get more ice.
You gotta change it out.
Additionally, the inside slot
can hold refreshments such as
nuts to cleanse the palate.
Oh, if you don't want to put
water in it instead, not.
Hold it.
Just put some nuts in here.
You put your nuts in there.
That's nice.
What if you put your nuts in the
water?
It's nutty water.
You could wash your nuts.
You could wash your nuts.
You.
Think they would sell more if
they just marketed that portion.
There you go as a nut washer.
Freeze your nuts.
Right.
Ashtray that freezes nuts.
Then the bottom portion is a
humidor to hold cigars, a bovet,
a pack, and cigar accessories.
I hope to God you get to the
price.
God, I want to know how much to
sell.
The company has not announced
when the ashtray may reach the
market or what its pricing of.
Course not, of course.
Not announcing when we're making
this magic freezing ashtray,
dude.
It's a half $1,000,000 ashtray.
Clearly you know.
Well, he's got $1,000,000
lighter and $1,000,000 ashtray
already.
Oh, he has $1,000,000 ashtray
already?
Yeah, Didn't he do that the year
after the $1,000,000 lighter?
Does it even cool?
Not the million.
It doesn't even cool.
It has to be 2 million.
Dollars.
Yeah, this is at least
$2,000,000.
Yeah, it's got to come with
diamonds.
They're never going to make
this.
Oh, it's definitely happening.
They're never making this.
I you know, all they have are.
Drawings.
I have seen a a ton of BS in 15
years that I've been in the
cigar industry.
I think this one might take the
cake.
Buddy.
This is this is next level.
This is the.
United States design patent was
filed in September 2023 and
granted in February 2025.
So it took him two years at the
Patent Office to go.
What the fuck is this?
Like no.
Seriously though, it cools.
You know how it's hot or at the
end of the cigar?
They're explaining this in his
French accent.
He's like we we can cool the the
cigarter.
It will make it taste better.
Explain to me what the hell he's
talking about, please.
OK.
I guess we'll OK.
Stan, move on.
Let him out of here.
The full patent can be read
below.
We didn't pull the patent.
It was 17 pages long, OK?
Valentino Siesto announces APCA
exclusive Robusto Connecticut.
OK, It's only in the one size,
OK and of next month's 2025 PCA
convention trade show, Valentino
Siesto Cigars has announced I
have heard of these people
before has announced its first
PCA exclusive release.
The Valentino Siesto Siesto
Siesto Siesto Robusto
Connecticut 54 by 5 PCA is a 5
by 54 What Connecticut 54 by 5I.
Didn't make this article, you
did.
No I know but the the the name
is 54 by 5 but it is a 5 by 54.
OK, OK, Extra.
Made with an Ecuadorian
Connecticut seed wrapper
covering a Dominican Olo Orlo
Orlo binder and a filler blend
of Dominican including Corojo,
Peloto and one undisclosed
Varieto.
That's the one the guy takes.
Just jams in there with his.
According to the company, the
cigars have been aged for 10
years.
Yeah.
Ten years aged. 10 years.
We've just been hanging around
with this tobacco for 10 years,
patiently waiting.
At Artisto Siesto or whatever
the hell his name was.
OK, eat cigars and MSRP of $10.
Oh, it's been serving for 10
years and it. $1.00 for every
year of aging.
It's been a fantastic process.
We look forward to selling
these.
And then they're gone.
Been holding out for 10 years.
Oh, they don't have a lot. 100
boxes of 10 cigars which will
only be offered to retailers at
place orders during the PCA
2025.
Extremely limited and that's why
they're $10, yes.
The cigars are expected to ship
in June.
We're honored to showcase our
first PCA edition in New Orleans
as a blend dedicated to the US
audience and a prestigious
location, said Gianna Lucia,
Birthday, CEO of Valentino
Siesto Cigars, in our press
release.
Our team looks forward to
welcoming you to the PCA.
Oh nice.
Age 10 years, 10 years.
I can't, you know.
We just had a riveting story
about that from someone else.
We did have a riveting story
about that from somebody else.
Yes, McAuliffe is adding a
purple.
What did you do?
Did you pull the the best media?
Service PCA story.
Yeah, that's all it is this time
of year.
OK, this is the fun.
This is the fun part of the
year.
Yes, you seen the photos.
Everybody's wearing purple.
You wait till you see Mccauliff.
This year, everybody's wearing
purple.
Everybody's going to be purple.
All three people that are still
left.
Mccauliff is adding purple to
the color series at the PCA 2025
Mccauliff Cigars announced that
it will be adding a fourth line
to its color series at the 2025
PCA Convention trade show.
The Mccauliff Purple, which we
use a Mexican San Andreas
Sumatra wrapper covering a broad
leaf binder and fillers
combination tobaccos from the
Dominican Republic, Mexico and
Nicaragua.
As the case with the black, blue
and red lines, they mix the blue
and the red and they get a
purple.
They're working on a primary
gift set sampler.
Primary colors, so they have
orange and yellow.
After the next few years, the
purple is a regular production
line is produced at the
company's factory in Nicaragua.
There'll be two different
Vitolas at launch, the same
sizes and prices as the past
releases for the other series.
So everything that's currently
red, black and blue will also
now be the same size and
purpose.
They have their own factory.
I don't think so.
It says they're they're factory.
Well, yeah, somebody else's
factory, somebody else's have
factory and a farm.
Might be somebody else's.
We we have the farms, we have
the factories.
Do you?
We own all.
Of it, do you have a farm any
yes.
Of course, of course I have a.
Farm we have to get up and.
Stop, stop.
You're getting a headache
though.
Sorry.
It's Patreon contents.
Mcallop Purple Robusto 5 by 52
is $7.00.
A box of 25 is 175.
Mcallop Purple Toro is a 6 by 52
for $8, box of 25 for $200.
Mcallop Purple continues our
mission of making premium cigars
accessory accessible without
compromise or salespeople, said
Dan Thompson, president of
Mcallop Cigar.
Is it a press release like the
rest of the color series?
It proves that premium quality
and affordability can go hand in
hand when we have no employees,
according to a press release.
Allegedly.
So it's all jokes.
Yeah, and the Calla Purple will
be featured at 2 launch events,
01 in March and the other in
April before boxes ship to
retailers in April 24th.
Oh, they're not saying where.
No, another announcement from El
Septimo.
Oh my goodness.
They have $125.00 duble grand
reserva.
Oh my goodness.
Well, what are you going to put
in a $2,000,000 ashtray?
Well, you got 100.
And $25 a guy.
Well, that obviously burns too
hot.
Oh yeah.
Right.
It might even come in a set like
a $3,000,000 buy.
You get 5 cigars and you get to
get the ashtray.
And here we go, the new Elsa
team will double Duble.
Grand Reserve is a six way fuel
tutorial that uses an Ecuadorian
wrapper over a Dominican binder
and fillers from the Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Honduras and
Nicaragua.
Company says that all the
tobaccos used is aged between 7
and 10 years. 7 Also seven to
10.
Also seven to 10 years
apparently just 10 year tobacco
just sitting around.
It's everywhere.
Each cigar will have an MSRP of
$125 and production is limited
to 1000 boxes of 14 cigars.
Alexandra Union.
Is that a guy or a girl?
I have no idea, It's French.
Probably a guy, probably a dude.
Director of marketing.
Oh, maybe it's a girl.
Director of marketing and
branding told the Cigars For
podcast that it will ship to
stores in May.
Oh, Yep.
She added that it would be
limited to the company's top 50
accounts.
We're not one of them, aren't
we?
I don't think so.
No, with the Doublay Grand
Reserva, we have harnessed the
collective wisdom of global
experts and fused it with
groundbreaking scientific
techniques and fermentation
process to create an experience
that transcends tradition.
They get a little ahead of
themselves with the With the
Magic ashtray.
He's a great marketing officer.
It is Zaya Yunun, CEO.
Oh, this is the Prince Abu Babu,
Prince Abu Abu Abu Abu, CEO of
Satimo in a press release.
This cigar is living testament
to our passion for innovation
and our unwavering commitment to
excellence and producing the
best cigars and Magic ashtrays
in the world.
The company says that more than
60 people were consulted to
finalize this blend 6060.
Did they call you?
I didn't get the.
Call.
I didn't get a call.
No, Ryan, did they call you?
I did not get a call I.
Wonder where these 60 people
were, Gals.
Wait, people have these names?
Ryan reminds me of Fifth
Element.
You ever see Fifth Element with
Bruce Willis when Chris Tucker's
like Corbin Dallas and he's
rattling off all these things
and how do you feel?
And he goes thrilled.
That's that's Ryan.
It's like one word answers.
That is absolutely me.
OK, there's some guy with a
weird name.
Started at Septimo in 2005.
For most of his assistance, the
brand did not have a noticeable
presence in the US until we came
out with the Magic ashtray and
the $1,000,000 lighter.
They've been around for 20
years.
Yes, but not in America.
But he didn't own it at that
time.
No, no, this other dude did.
OK, some other guy.
His name is Giles Batquin.
Gotcha.
I bet you how excited do you
think he was when he sold the
company?
He's.
Probably thrilled to death, but
now he's kicking himself.
Now they got a magic ashtray.
Magic cooling ashtray.
Really regret.
Island Gyms Barber Pole Leaf by
Oscar Broadleaf Limited edition
is launching at the PCA 2025 OK.
During next month's convention
and trade show, Oscar Valadari's
Tobacco and Company will release
a new Barber pole cigar in the
first limited edition for one of
the company's most popular
lines.
I still like him but I'm a
little scared of him.
You like them, but you're
scared.
Oscar Yes.
Oh well, only in Honduras.
Yeah, yeah, you don't have to be
scared.
Just in Honduras, the Island Gym
Barber Pole is a 6 by 52 vitola
made with two different rappers,
a Connecticut rapper Greg is
texting Connecticut rapper and a
Coroho rapper, both grown in
Honduras, covering an
undisclosed binder and filler
blend.
The Barber pole name refers to
two visible rapper.
Oh man knows what a Barber pole
is.
MSRP of $13 per cigar and be
offered in boxes of 21.
They're copying us.
We do boxes of 20.
They're doing 21/2.
Yeah.
Do we have that registered
somewhere?
We should have got that patent.
Damn.
Well, we could call us a team
out there and we just had to do
it.
It'll only take three years.
The Island Gym brand is named
after Island Gym.
Makes sense, That makes sense.
Owner of Leaf and Bean Strip in
Pittsburgh, Robinson and
Validari's work to launch the
Island Gym line of cigars.
Which.
When did it jump?
It's jumping.
It's a very cool cigar store in
Pittsburgh.
Have you ever been?
Not to that one, no, but I have
been to the one in Saint
Augustine.
Yes, you have.
Yes, But yeah, his Pittsburgh
shop is very unique.
I've seen pictures.
Yeah.
I'd like to go there.
One.
Yeah.
The company will also be
releasing The Leaf by Oscar
Broadleaf.
Isn't that hard to get now?
It depends upon where you get
it, but yeah.
Limited edition 2025 is 6 by 52
vitola made with a Connecticut
broadleaf.
Yep, that's a hard one.
Yeah, still hard.
A rapper that has been age 4,
three years.
A realistic.
Things a little more reasonable.
A realistically reasonable three
years.
Covering a binder and filler
composed of Honduran tobacco,
According to Olivaro Villatoro,
the company's sales manager, the
new cigar marks both Isn't that
Groover?
Oh no, that'd be a national
sales manager.
Groover's floor.
That's right.
According to that guy, the
company's sales manager, the new
cigar marks both the first time
the company has released limited
edition leaf by Oscar Cigar and
the first cigar first cigar from
the company utilizing the
Connecticut Broad Leaf rapper.
What's their other?
They got another Connecticut.
What's that rapper?
Any idea?
Leaf by Oscar.
Oh, where you doing, Leaf by
Oscar?
Oh, that's right.
He doesn't have a Connecticut.
Yeah, I was thinking.
I know, Jim.
Connecticut came out last year.
I don't think.
I don't think so.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure, pretty
sure I had one.
I wasn't I?
Don't remember.
So you don't remember.
OK, must not be.
You know what was that?
Where did?
You it's only three years.
What's?
The word you like to use
Shenanigans.
Shabab shaboop shaboop shaboop
shaboop.
It wasn't shaboop shaboo.
MSRP of $18.00 and the
production is limited to.
So for a three-year old cigar
you get $18.18, for 10 year old
tobacco agent $10.
Only 10 bucks.
Because it's old.
Yeah, right.
She's sitting around that old
limited to 1500 individually
numbered 20 count boxes.
Both the Island Gym Barber Pole
and the Leaf by Oscar Broad Leaf
Limited Edition 2025 are made by
the company's factory and
Donnelly Honduras.
Both cigars are scheduled to
begin shipping on April 11th.
Aventura's got a Blue Eyed Jack
Revenge Maduro debut in 2025.
Variation of the existing Blue
Eyed Jack.
We're just going to run through
some of these.
You don't have to.
What else you got to cover is
that, Is that it for media,
'cause I got a couple, I got one
topic.
I want to talk about it.
Somewhere there's another snake.
You're the snake shipping.
From who?
This is asylum.
Asylum doing paper fools.
So it might not come.
Out.
Oh no.
But this is like they're,
they're making a big one.
Yeah, yeah, it's a big cigar.
It's like 100 gauge or
something. 9 by 90.
Yeah, 9 by 9 it's.
Ridiculous.
Well, no, we have.
Here we go.
Eddie Guerrera joined La Florida
Dominicana.
Yeah, he was part of Davidoff, I
believe.
Company's new VP marketing and
brand development.
Five years stint at Davidoff.
Yeah, where he served as head of
brand marketing.
At least he heard a cigar guy.
You know it's not a liquor or
booze guy and a coffee guy.
Yeah, that's true.
So and you know, I've heard good
things about Eddie.
I don't know him personally, but
you know, we know people that
have worked with him.
Right.
He's also worked at Altidis, OK,
and Gurga.
Well, OK, well, again I'll be.
You can't.
It's.
All can't be all out of the
park.
We're thrilled to welcome Eddie
to the La Florida Minnecana
team, said Lito and Inez Gomez
in a joint statement.
She probably is not thrilled
you.
Don't think so.
I hear she's kind of mean.
That's the rumor.
That's the rumor, all right.
Casa 1910 has announced that
Jeremy Fondy in the company's
new is the company's new
national sales.
Director Jeremy's my friend.
He's my friend too.
Do you see the Have you?
Did you see the picture with the
press release?
No, It's an AI version of Fondy.
He does not look that good.
He's not that.
He's not.
He's not that.
I mean, he's an attractive man,
don't get me wrong.
Yeah, but it's an AI cartoony.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yes, it's very chiseled.
Oh yes, ripped.
Yeah, nice suit, hair done
perfectly.
He doesn't have hair.
He.
Doesn't even have hair.
No, but exactly that's what I
mean.
But he has really nice hair in
the.
Yeah, he had held, he had
previously held positions at
Scandinavian Tobacco Group and
Casa de Monte Cristo.
He's also Co founder of Cigar
Cartel, a popular cigar based
Facebook group.
Now he will oversee the
company's sales in the US I'm
thrilled to work.
OK, He's thrilled with my own
values as a cigar aficionado and
industry professional like this.
ChatGPT.
It's just Chat GPTI.
Mean that's what we do.
Yeah, but I try to make it a
sound.
Try and dress it up a little bit
and.
Then finally, Postagna is
debuting the SBC 24 vote deck,
the SPC 24 and the VO Tech 2025
at the PCA 2025 trade show.
Yes, next month's 2025 PCA
convention trade show Postonia
will show off the next cigars
and the two of the company's
ongoing limited edition series,
the SPC and the VO Tech.
As with the previous 4 releases,
the Postonia SPC 24 will be a 5
1/2 by 46 Corona Gorda.
The company is not disclosing
the blend.
Dude, undisclosed.
It's always.
Undisclosed.
Sometimes it's disclosed, but to
be honest I didn't have the
information off hand so I didn't
want to disclose it.
Other than say each SPC release
is a different blend, but it
will keep the Barber pole
wrapper design that the other
releases have had.
Like all Poseign Cigars is made
at Nicosueno and Este,
Nicaragua.
Each cigar will have an MSRP of
$16.00 and production is limited
to 500 boxes of 20 cigars.
The company says it expects to
ship the cigars in the fourth
quarter of 2025.
SBC stands first rounded by
Champions Postonia, says the
release inspired by those who
have helped the company over the
years.
In addition, it will show off
the latest Postonia Voltec,
officially called the Postonia
Grand Perfecto 2025 War Bear.
A 5 7/8 by 60 Perfecto Voltec
uses a modified version of the
Postonia Bando Blend, but with a
Barber pole wrapper designed
Ecuadoran Habano Mexican San
Andreas leaves underneath the
division, Indonesian binder and
fillers from the Dominican
Republic, Nicaragua.
The MSRP has not been finalized
because Greg hasn't carried the
one and figured it out yet.
That's true.
Yes, production is limited to
1250 boxes of eight.
The Warbearer has always been
special for us, said Mike
Schiminger.
I'm paraphrasing, of course.
I'm.
Going to let you in on a little
secret.
The tobacco, Yeah, aged 20 years
aged.
That's why there's only so many.
No, it's crazy.
We, you know, we've held it that
long.
We've we've.
Protected it.
You've been sitting out the
entire 10 years.
Before you were, what, five
years you got?
Five years before I even got
into the HE.
Went over there and bought it.
Yeah, 10 years before I even
decided to get into wholesale.
What we did is we found this
tobacco and we've been holding
it this whole time.
It's crazy a lot.
Of details about the bearing.
So we're going to give it away.
Yeah.
So at this so age, let's see,
age 20, it's a $75 cigar.
It's not really.
It's not really.
But we're taking orders at the
convention, so you have to have
an appointment to buy the cigar.
Yeah.
So make sure you book your
appointments.
Yes, they're book.
The first day is gone.
Yeah, second day is half gone.
Third day.
We have a busy morning.
Oh, busy morning.
They're filling fast.
That sounds better than not
having anything on the third
day.
We've had that as well.
Yeah, that's true.
All right.
I got Listener of the Week and a
Shop of the Weeks.
OK, but before you get into
that, Oh yeah, certainly you had
something to talk about some of
the things that we've seen on
social media this week.
Oh, social media this week.
He always hate when we talked
because it's just.
Back and forth you heard him.
You heard him flipping.
No, no, no.
But I can see his fingers over.
There I gave up.
I gave.
Up, he just showed.
Ricky and I don't want he.
Shows Ricky.
So I saw something that I found
extremely interesting.
Yes, there was a guy and I'll,
I'll look him back up.
He had a post and the question
was it was a lot of people ask
me what is what's similar to a
padrone cigar and what can I
smoke similar to a padrone?
OK.
And that that's.
What was the answer?
And his answer was an Aroma de
Cuba.
Seriously.
That was his response.
Cigars are so personal with how
you you know how you feel about
him.
Well, the.
Reality is that it needs to be a
San Andreas to even start to be
in the conversation.
Oh, it's a different rapper
altogether.
Yeah, I think that Aroma de Cuba
may make one San Andreas.
If they do, then I would have
stated that.
But he didn't even state that.
He just said.
Well, he doesn't know.
I think he knows.
So what's?
But here's what's really funny
about it.
Yes, here's a good analogy for
you.
That's like saying, hey, you
know a lot about cars, right?
I love Mercedes, right?
What's a good What's a good
comparable car to a Mercedes?
Oh, I like Mustangs.
And no.
And then, you know, because of
the fact that he was referencing
Nicaragua.
Well, it's Nicaraguan cigar.
So aroma to Cuba's Nicaraguan
boom.
I'd say, you know, like the
Volkswagen Beetle, another
German car is a great German
vehicle.
Oh, so I would compare that
immediately to a Mercedes.
Oh, right, but that's a awfully
specific German car.
Could you just say Volkswagens?
Yeah, well, Volkswagens, right
And you can say Volkswagen.
I feel better now.
Do you feel better about that?
The Volkswagen is a far is a
great also a German car also
which is also a German.
Right, which is all that counts.
And that's what we're comparing
to.
Oh.
Country and country.
Nice.
Yeah, Don't give out his name.
I won't.
OK.
But we are going to mention
somebody else.
OK.
Jonathan Drew did.
Was that alive or was that
taped?
I.
Don't.
Know I think it was live
originally I think it was yeah
he did a post he is in Macau OK
yesterday he we.
Figured that out and he said
that several times.
He said that several times.
Yesterday he was in Hong Kong,
but today he's in Macau, right?
And apparently there are rumors
going around about the Great
Smoke.
The barn smokers.
Barn smokers.
Yeah, the barn smoker.
Sorry.
Great smoke.
Just finished, apparently was a
wonderful time.
Everybody had a great time.
Yeah, the barn smokers.
People are saying to bring a bag
lunch, OK, but they'll be,
they're going to be food.
We're going to have food there.
There's going to be great food.
Food, no swag.
We have the best swag, all the
good swags.
The best swag that everybody's
ever seen is going to be at the
Barn Smoker.
We have a great time.
But he didn't have his weird
glasses on.
I didn't even recognize him.
He didn't look like a guy from
Iowa or something until he
talked and then he had the
voice.
So.
There's some guy from Iowa here
talking about the barn smoker.
Right.
What is this guy doing?
It was in my.
I'm in my cow.
I'm in my cow.
I was in Hong Kong.
I thought when he started
talking he mentioned Macau and
Hong Kong so much.
I thought there was a barn
smoker in the Hong Kong or Macau
that.
He was, I didn't.
Understand what was going on and
the bad, you know, the bad
rumors were because nobody
wanted to fly over there to do
it or something, right?
No, but then he goes.
And then the one in Florida is
going to be coming up soon, too.
So the Oh well, the bad rumors
are that you have to bring your
own sandwiches.
Yeah, and that there's no swag.
There's no swag and what?
Swag did they give away at the
barn Smoker I.
I don't know.
I'm not allowed to go to these
things.
Well, we went to one several,
several years ago.
Years ago.
I don't remember what a lighter.
Well to do a state.
So you a lighter, A cutter, a
cigar box, some little tchotchke
that looks like something you
cut tobacco with.
Or or a holder or something.
Or a hat or what?
The one time you get suntan
lotion.
You're going to get it though.
It's going to be, we're going to
have.
It it's going to be great.
We're going to have some of that
stuff.
It's perfect.
Any other social media posts
that you saw?
No, that was that was the only
one that.
Those are the two highlights.
That's that I giggled at.
We did see a lot of great smoke
posts.
A lot of great smoke that just
ended yesterday so apparently
everybody had a wonderful time.
Yeah.
OK, we don't get invited
anymore.
You noticed that the last couple
years I.
Think that if you asked, it'd do
that over here.
Oh, I don't like to ask.
Yeah, it's hard to go, to be
honest.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the last time we went, I
mean, one year we went, we
worked.
Matt Booth Booth we get sucked
into employment is what happens.
Only happened once you know what
he had I think Alex Travella at
the really just how you say his
name.
It looked like he ended up
working Matt.
Booth, Booth this year he got
sucked in.
I think he did.
Welcome to my world, I.
Don't know what you're talking
about, no.
Idea what you're talking about?
You got a free cigar over.
There, that's crazy.
That's the the the strangest
thing I've ever heard in my
life.
All right, so finish up here.
What what else you got you.
Oh, shop of the week, shop of
the week.
We have a listener of the week.
We have a double listener of the
week, Listen week.
We have Don Wiggins and Hector
Alfonso from Espinosa.
Who is fully recovered?
No.
No, no, he's doing better.
He's doing better.
He's not fully recovered, but he
he, I only made him.
I mean, he listens every week,
obviously, but he made his own
post about what had happened.
So I thought we could talk about
it at this point.
Not not details, but that he was
ill.
Illish lizard or something?
And he's and he's gotten.
Better, and he's doing better
and he's starting to feel like
himself again.
And the Espinosa people, which
is not surprising, have been
wonderful and concerning and
absolutely yes.
I'm glad that he's doing better.
Right.
And then Shop of the Week is the
underground cigar shop in Texas.
Oh, really?
We're trying to get in there.
We've been in there before.
I know, but not anymore.
Yeah, I got an inside track.
You got an inside track.
You have Donald Wiggin's exact
phone number.
Oh, I well, yeah, I have that.
Yeah.
But somebody's like people like
do me favors.
Yeah, another connect.
I got to connect.
OK.
So this has been episode 379
cigars or podcast.
We got to go talk about Lucy.
Feels like 380, is it 3?
80 No, it's 379.
Last week was 378.
OK, so yeah, we got, we got to
jump to a Patreon here.
We got a lot of stuff to cover.
Yes.
All right.
Thanks.
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Show Notes
Episode 379 – A Cigar Hustlers Podcast
Introducing Our New Board Tech : Ryan
This week, we dive into the hottest trending topics: Libya’s Education Minister is in hot water over book printing, March Madness brackets are ready, and Trump is calling out “auto pen” Biden pardons.
In cigar news, El Septimo is patenting “calling cigars,” the PCA is packed with big announcements, and there are some major staffing shake-ups in the industry.
And finally, Powstanie makes a Bear-able announcement you won’t want to miss!
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