May 27, 2025· 1h 19m

ACHP Episode 389 – Edca Returns, Dunbarton Takes Over, and Cigar Prices Go Up?

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On episode 389 of the Cigar

Hustler Podcast.

Perfect.

Yep, yes, that's it, that's the

welcome.

Oh OK, now there's some witty

banter.

We usually talk about your

trends and we are like topics

here.

Am I tilted the wrong way way

too much because I'm having to

turn my head way left?

No, that's great.

I think you're fine.

Events this week This Friday

here at Cigar Hustler we have

our big Dunbarton Tobacco and

Trust event with the return of

Edgar on Friday at 6:00 PM.

Yeah.

Are you on any other?

Yeah, thank you for the input.

Are you on anything this week?

Do you have any podcast you're

doing in?

There no I get the week off.

Beer 911 or Cigar 911.

Cigar Beer 911.

No.

Nothing.

Huh.

Nothing.

Oh, how'd that one go?

How'd the Beer 1 go?

It was good, man.

You know, T Money is a He's a

good dude.

So I've done it before.

Last time I did.

Oh, have you?

Yeah.

It was in a hot box.

Was it myself?

You did it from a hot box.

Yeah, not this time though.

So just your head was showing.

Yeah.

Can we do this one that way?

Sure.

That sounds amazing.

Did you really?

That's so weird.

Oh yeah, I've totally done that

before, OK.

You know he has to be wearing no

clothes to be in the hot box,

baller.

Yeah, well, right.

That's what I'm assuming.

So you're stuck in there for the

whole you can't get out.

So if it goes long, you're just

kind of stuck.

You just got to tell him you got

to go.

Yeah.

All right.

I'm done here.

I got to.

I got to go.

Yeah, pretty much.

All right, We officially

launched our merch store.

We have Michael, you like tell

everybody about it.

We have officially launched

Chapter pod.com and we have our

first limited edition T-shirt,

this one right here.

Bam.

Mr. BDP himself, Bam.

We made fifty of these and first

come first serve.

We're still ironing out a couple

of the kinks on the site, but it

is operational.

So don't.

Yeah, don't critique.

So no, I've I always like to

hear feedback and stuff that we

miss there's.

Gibberish at the bottom of the

website.

There is gibberish, Yeah,

there's some gibberish, there's

some Latin, but we're on.

That's what matters.

The buying part works the.

Buying part does work, so go to

chapterpod.com and be one of the

first to get this BDP shirt.

And what sizes do we have?

All sizes small to 4XL.

The the the 4XL was what I was

looking at.

I didn't know how high we went.

Yeah, all the way to 4XL.

Nice, choose the size on the

website.

Yes, and thank you in advance

for your support.

Only 50.

Only fifty of them made only 50.

Yep.

Alright today at ACHP.

From playful presidential

moments to parade chaos, Plus

updates on the WNB as biggest

star and why your cigars might

cost more soon.

They always cost more.

Well, they might cost more.

More.

Well, we're making it more now,

OK?

All right, we start in France,

where video President Emmanuel

Macron.

Is that how you say his name,

Mac?

What would be the French

pronunciation of Macron Macron.

Cross song.

And first lady Bridget Macron

went viral this week on what

looked like a mid air squabble

as a presidential couple stepped

off a plane in Vietnam.

Cameras caught Bridget playfully

pushing.

It didn't look playful to me.

Macron's face, hands on one of

his hands.

Wait.

Hands on one on his mouth, the

other on his jaw.

It sparked media speculation

with some asking what?

What was that?

A slap, but Macron brushed it

off, saying they were simply

joking.

He called a moment of

complicity, warning the public

not to fall for social media

hyper conspiracy theories.

We'll have more on that in a

minute.

OK.

Then over in the UKA celebration

turned into chaos in Liverpool

as a car plowed into fans during

Liverpool's FS victory parade.

Police say it's not terrorism.

OK, what else?

These intros are a little long

today.

Yeah, your headlines are too

long.

Should be like French get

smacked, cars get crashed,

cigars cost more.

All this and more on Cigar

Hustlers Podcast.

Well, you know, I used to do

that and then you said they need

to be longer like the other one

that we use as an example of.

Yeah, so his are longer.

So ours are longer now.

They're too long.

Tomatoes somewhere, somewhere in

the middle all.

Right.

So the pendulum has swung the

other way.

You know, I needed some

somewhere.

Now you got to be in the middle,

buddy.

I'm going to be in the middle.

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark

will be sidelined for at least

two weeks with a left quad

strain.

OK, she heard there with a wig.

And McDonald's is pulling the

plug on its space themed spin

off Cosmics COSMC.

Apostrophe S.

Very interesting.

The drink forward concept was

spotted by a retro alien mascot.

Did you even know they had the?

No, but I had I known.

Had we?

Known that maybe if we would

have gone to them, they would

have not had to close.

They probably should have told

us about it.

Me.

They have an app and everything

they could have said.

Hey, they have an app

specifically for, we're getting

into that, OK.

A lot of buzz online about

possible stimulus checks in

2025.

So we have the bottom line.

Yes, we're all.

We're all getting more.

Money.

Who's excited?

New data shows a troubling rise

and reported sexual assaults

aboard Disney cruise ships.

That's kind of creepy.

It is kind of creepy.

It's not the happiest place on

earth anymore, and then it's

cigar news.

If you're a smoker, expect to

pay more for brands like

Altidis, Oliva and Casa

Corriglio and are raising prices

while sales of handmade cigars

in the US are down, prices up,

sales down, recession in play,

and finally, leadership changes

at the FDA Center for Tobacco

Products.

Brett Kaplow.

Kaplow, Kaplow.

Is now in charge and we have

some of his background

information which it seems a

little suspicious.

You think his last name's

Kaplow?

KOPLOW Kaplow.

That's how we're saying it here.

It's the Cigar Hustler project.

Kaplow, Kaplow.

Until he comes on the show and

tells us we're doing it right

now, that you're caught up in

it.

We haven't received 1 yet.

We.

Haven't received 1 yet?

We're still waiting on the first

one.

Now that you're caught up in

this week's, let's jump into

what the world's searching for

right now, the Google trending

news.

All right, Mr. Beast, request

hood skin at Fortnite.

Hood What?

Hood skin?

I figured you knew what that

meant.

Maybe.

Is that a type of skin?

I have no.

Idea is that just a hood he

wears.

We have Fortnite, is this what

you're talking?

About yeah, Mr. Beast and he

wants his own skin at Fortnite

and it's called a hood.

He he already has a skin.

Well, this is something specific

then.

Let's go.

YouTube star Mr. Beast recently

went viral by the by engaging

with the Hood Mr. Beast meme on

May 26th, 2025, who humorously

requested Fortnite developer

Epic Games create a new skin

based on the meme.

This playful interaction

showcases how viral memes can

influence gaming trends and

possibly lead to a new in game

content.

Are you Googling it?

I'm trying to see what the hood

meme is.

So apparently he made a specific

meme and he wants that meme

turned into a skin.

You made it yesterday.

Maybe it's one of his highest.

When you're Mr. Beast, you can

request things and they probably

kind of make it.

Right.

Mr. Beast's hood meme.

Is it a meme of him with a hood?

No, I guess he's like him, very

gangster esque.

Oh, like he's like Hood, Mr.

Beast.

Oh.

He's like in the hood.

Yeah, no, he's not like in the

hood, but he's like hood beasty,

I guess.

I don't know.

It's like if we gave Bootsy like

a little bit of a fro and, you

know, dressed him up in Adidas

wear I guess.

Which we should do.

We should totally do that.

How would you feel about that

boots?

The years of dressing up on the

show are over.

Until we get a camera.

You have a camera?

Did we get another camera?

Guess.

Guess what buddy, we're.

Bringing him back.

Guess what?

Yeah, exactly.

And our fans missed that.

Yeah, I got rid of all the mask

so we get all new ones.

I get comments about it daily

private messages.

Where is the boots constant?

Where are the masks?

Yeah.

If you find a good mask, maybe

get a T-shirt.

Yeah, Mr. Hood.

Mr. Mr. Hood Boots.

Mr. Hood Boots.

Mr. Mr. Boots Hood.

We'll just mimic all of Mr.

Beast's memes I.

Don't even know who Mr. Beast

is.

How do you kidding me?

What?

Yeah, I don't know.

You live in a cave.

No, I live in my house.

How do you not know who Mr.

Beast is?

How can you not know?

Because I, well, maybe.

I mean, my kids don't really

play Fortnite.

I don't know.

He's not a Fortnite person.

He's still the.

He has his own TV show.

He's like the biggest YouTube

are.

His own candy bar.

Ever.

I don't follow the whole

YouTube.

Have you ever seen any of those

videos where they go, OK, we're

going to bury this guy live for

six months and just feed him

through a tube and then they put

roaches down the tube?

No, man, I'm.

Watch Mr. Boots.

I'm watching different stuff

like Dave Chappelle skits or Key

and Peele or this new one Bad

Friends.

I like that one too.

Kane and Peril appeal.

Are they even still?

Around fits right in there.

Bad friends.

I mean, you don't even have to

watch a show.

That's right.

It's the three of us.

There you go, bad friends.

I don't watch that damn YouTube

or the other guy or that.

One comedian with the mullet.

I forget his name.

You got that Internet.

Comedian with the mullet.

Yeah, he does the podcast.

That does Theo von.

Yeah, Theo von Oh.

My goodness.

Jeez, you know he got started on

MTV.

Did he?

MTV when they used to do the

people living in the house

together.

Real world.

Real world, yeah, he.

That's where he was first on one

of those.

Really.

Isn't that ridiculous?

That's.

A long time.

Ago.

That's not ridiculous.

Well, he's so famous now.

He worked really hard.

He's got a great podcast.

He talks about some funny stuff.

How's his podcast different than

ours?

Well, I think he pretty he has.

Sponsors.

He gets real people on, like the

president and stuff.

Yeah, did the president?

Do this, I think JD Vance was on

there and he talked about the

fact that cocaine is illegal in

in the US.

So wait, the JD Vance was on or

the president?

I think they were both on, yeah.

Oh.

Wow, I can't confirm that.

I don't know, off I mean.

Did he have the the leader of

France on?

Not yet.

Oh well.

France's first lady appears to

push her husband on a plane.

Yeah.

That was French President

Emmanuel Macron's explanation

Monday for video images that

showed his wife, Brigitte,

pushing her husband away with

both hands on his face before

they disembarked from their

plane to start a tour.

Southeast Asian this weekend.

Looked like my wife after she

had a few drinks and you put her

on the plane, go away.

There we go.

Did you see the video?

I've seen the photo, not the.

Video I watched the video.

The moment quickly made

headlines in France, with media

trying to decipher the

interaction that camera spotted

through the just open door of

the plane.

Oh, it just landed.

I thought it was leaving, right?

So it just.

Landed.

Yeah, it just landed.

Opened up and he was kind of in

the background and she was off

the camera.

But you see this hand come out.

Your hands come out.

And Mushes hurt him right in the

face.

Please sit down.

We have not landed the plane.

How's the hell that?

Sound.

That's how they said they're

from France.

I thought they sound like.

That's the same thing.

I just.

You cannot.

You have to.

You have to throw the whole.

I mostly first you cannot get

off with me sound like Pepe Le

Pew, the cartoon character.

Exactly.

The headline of a story on the

website of the daily La

Parrigion newspaper.

Ask slap or squabel.

The image of Emmanuel and

Bridget Macron disembarking in

Vietnam trigger a lot of What

are they doing in Vietnam?

A lot of comments.

Macron later told reporters that

the couple married since 2007

after meeting at the high school

where he was a student and she

was a teacher.

Oh, oh, scandal, those French

people.

We were simply joking around.

We are squabbling and rather

joking with midwife, he said,

adding that the incident was

being overblown into a sort of a

geoplanetary catastrophe.

In video taken by The Associated

Press at the Macrons arrived in

Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday.

An uninformed man.

Oh, a uninformed, Yeah,

uninformed man can be seen

pulling a uniformed Sorry, not.

Uninformed, uniformed.

Oh my God, he was uninformed.

He was uninformed.

Too, he didn't know about the

push.

He was dressed really nice, but

he was uninformed.

Can be seen pulling open the

plane door and revealing the

president standing inside.

Oh why she is that show.

Open the door dressed in a suit

and talking to someone who

wasn't visible.

Brigitte, arms in red, were seen

reaching out and pushing Macron

away, with one hand covering his

mouth and part of his nose with

the other was on his jaw.

The French leader recoiled,

turning his head away, then

apparently realized that he was

on camera.

Oh, oh.

He broke into a smile, and then

gave a little oh, hello, a

little wave and subsequent

images.

Macron and his wife, wearing a

red jacket, appeared at the top

of the stairs.

He offered an arm, but she did

not take it.

He's in trouble.

They walked down the carpeted

stairs side by side.

The French leader argued that

the images were a reaction to

them, offered a cautionary tale

about disinformation in the

social media age, noting that in

recent weeks other videos had

had been used to circulate

made-up stories about him.

Oh, oh, everyone needs to calm

down, he said, and his office

also downplayed the interaction.

It was a moment where the

president and his wife were

decompressing one last time

before.

So they decompressed by slapping

each other in the face.

That's what the Yeah, that's

what the French.

That's what the French do Very

French.

Yeah, it's very, it's passion,

the very passion of people.

Very passion.

Well, it's respectful passion.

It's respectful.

Passion.

It's a moment of complicity.

It was all that was needed to

give ammunition to the

conspiracy theorist, his office

said.

Brigitte was Brigitte Azur, a

married mother of three children

when they when they met at his

high school, a teacher.

She.

Supervised the drama club where

Emmanuel, A literature lover,

was a member.

The deeds come out.

Huh.

That's right.

He moved to Paris for his last

year of high school, but

promised to marry Brigitte

Later.

She moved to the French capital

to join him.

Of course you do.

Of course you do what?

OK, I don't know who she was

married to before, but the

leader of France offers to marry

you and move you to his whatever

it is they have to the French

capital to join him.

Well, you have to 'cause it's

not doing the French.

You think it's OK that you just

packed it in and just.

I don't think it's OK, but I

mean, maybe her other husband

was a Baker or something.

And the president of France

went, oh, you'll come leave in

my chalet, so I marry you.

So what you're saying is if you

don't make a lot of money,

you're not successful?

It's OK for your wife to upgrade

and leave you.

Yes, exactly.

Yes.

Makes sense.

Yes.

OK, well, I don't know if I

agree with that.

How do you how do you feel about

would you get mushed in the face

by your wife in in public?

Are you would you be OK with

that boots if?

If she was able to, there might

be a little choking going.

On what are you going to hit her

back?

As the door, as the door opens,

you see her hands on face and

you see him go.

No, you are out of line.

Sit down.

Go back to the Baker.

I am the leader of France.

Yes.

I don't know man.

Duels.

He takes a glove out of his

pocket just and then pulls out a

sword.

If you look at it.

Then there's sword fighting down

the stairs.

The cigar gloves.

If you watch the video, he gets

mushed and you can see that he

knows he's on camera and he's

like, oh, he kind of like

tightens.

Up.

So yeah, there's nothing he can

do.

Yeah, he just stood there like

bam, this is all.

Funny, she does this all the

time.

This is very passionate woman in

my life.

It's OK, I understand.

She's very obsessed with me.

She had a Valium on the plane.

I can tell her a very she's not

good flyer.

We're not buying your ex

husband's croissants anymore.

So what about you if your wife

mushed you in public?

What I what?

How would How would you?

What would you do?

Like him, you look at the camera

and go whole.

This is funny you.

Think it's the first time that

they playfully mushed.

I don't think it was playful.

Allegedly playfully mushed.

No.

No, I'd no.

What are the odds that's the

very first time he's caught on

camera?

She was comfortable with it.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, that's true.

Let.

Me ask you, have you ever

playfully mushed your wife in

the face?

Other than, you know, when you

get married and maybe the

wedding cake.

Yeah, but we didn't even do

that, so no.

But who were we with?

We were with somebody this

weekend and they were

complaining that they got mushed

with the wedding cake in the

face.

But you've never been joking

around with your wife and said

mush in the face.

Nothing I can think of.

No, no, nothing sticks out in my

head.

Have you ever playfully mushed

your wife in the face?

Boots me no.

Yeah, I I can't say that I have

either, so.

Your wife will kick your ass.

She might kick my ass, yeah.

Well, the French are different.

They do weird stuff.

So maybe that's like a like a

weird, I don't know.

Palmer tell us, is that like

some erotical I?

Don't know how am I the erotic

expert now in there.

Yeah, Thank you, Boots.

You're right.

What if he just went in for a

small kiss and she was like, no,

no, you'll mess up my makeup?

I don't know, do they?

Do those in those wear erotic

rooms or something?

Yes, and the eyes wide shut

where you wear the mask, that's

exactly.

What is that?

How it goes down exactly?

Exactly.

And there's some mushing.

When Tom Cruise comes in,

everybody mushes.

Tom Cruise, yes, You know it's

him because he's 4 foot two or

something.

Great, He's the smallest guy in

the room and he's.

Got a little mask?

He's got a small mask.

Does he jump on the couch?

Airplane noises all the time,

it's so weird.

Does he jump on the couch?

And I was just on Oprah.

And then goes around bushing

everybody in the face.

Didn't he do that because he was

so in love with the wife that

left him?

He was, yes.

Yeah, he.

Was very.

Apparently that didn't work.

Scientology, man.

He's Tom Cruise though, man, not

like he's going to be without

one.

Everybody talks so nice about

him.

I saw two interviews this

weekend about people that.

The cake thing you said.

Yeah, he does the cake now.

I still want the cake.

Yeah, still want the?

Cake Coconut cream cake in the

erotic.

You're never going to make the

cake list.

No, I'll never make.

I just want to know.

I heard Mission Impossible was

not.

Oh really?

Dear.

Wasn't any good.

Yeah, so disappointing.

I have not seen.

It yet old is he now?

Is he in his 60s?

No, I think it's like late 50s.

Yeah, he's got to be like late

50s or early 60s somewhere.

You know what, I will say this

for me, at this point I don't

know where I stopped watching

Mission Impossibles, so I don't

want to watch another one.

Oh really, the last one?

The story wasn't that good.

I'm just not up, I'm not up to

date SO.

Yeah, 'cause they're all

connected.

Yeah.

So what do I do?

I gotta go back.

I gotta start.

I gotta go 30 years back and

start over. 7 movies back.

You know, no, I think the you

could watch just the last one

'cause they picked up where that

one left off.

Yeah, it's the AI monster

program thing.

Oh, there's AAI Monster.

Yeah, like Google or Grok or

Chachi BTI.

Think it's called Grok.

It's called grok.

No, the last movie started with

a taking over a submarine and

sinking the submarine or

something so that.

It, oh, it tricked it or

whatever.

Yeah, yeah, that was.

Mission Did it make you think

there was another submarine?

Yeah, and it fired its own

missile or whatever at itself,

right?

That was Mission Impossible.

Yeah, that was on TVI was

watching.

I was like, oh, that's

interesting.

Yeah, when it starts, you're

watching it going.

Is this Mission Impossible?

Ah, wow.

OK, All right.

You want to know what I did try

and watch this week?

That was really kind of what

pissed me off, what I tried in

America.

No, that's going to be on.

Music Awards.

No, I don't try to watch that

either.

I tried to sit the whole family

down, the whole squad and watch

the original Ace Ventura.

Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah.

The kids probably showed no

interest.

They they absolutely showed 0

interest right?

And I was extremely upset about

it.

Yeah, 'cause that when we were

kids, that's our stupidity.

We like that.

It was amazing, like just the

opening scene with the UPS guy

coming, HPS coming through or

whatever he was.

Got a package, people.

But I here's where I just gave

up because for one, they weren't

interested when he's in the

tank.

I rented it off of Amazon.

When he's in the tank and he

usually pops out and he's

talking to media and he has that

whole accent or whatever, they

cut that entire scene out.

Oh, I wonder why?

I wonder why they cut the entire

scene out.

'Cause you rented it so it

should have been the entire

movie.

Yeah, was it?

Is that one of those things that

they just don't show anymore?

Yeah, that it hurts somebody's

feelings or something.

Hey, there's a whole movie

that's not even in existence

anymore that I love.

Really.

Yeah, you ever seen the cowboy

way?

No.

Yeah, Woody Harrelson and.

Oh yeah, I never forget the

other gentleman.

You can't.

You can't get that movie

anymore.

Really.

Yeah.

Why not?

Is it a Disney movie?

No, it was.

They said it was a racial type

movie or whatever.

Yeah, 'cause it was about

Cowboys and they talked about,

you know, certain things of

slaves and stuff.

I'm like what?

So now you can't watch it.

No, it was a great movie.

That's a that's not a slave man.

Right.

It had like like innuendos or

whatever I guess.

I read last week that Disney and

some other theaters, other

people do it.

They will just take a movie

complete out, like a movie that

came out years ago.

Yeah.

And then they can write off all

the production for that movie.

It becomes a a loss, really.

And they can take the entire

thing.

Can you download Blazing Saddles

still?

You see people put that on

Facebook all the time that this,

you know, what movie would not

be made today, and that's always

the one they show.

Oh yeah, that's gotta be.

Yeah, any no Brooks movie would

definitely not.

Be allowed.

That's just not on Amazon.

Yeah.

I just thought that it was crazy

that they removed that.

And once they I saw they removed

that scene, I was so pissed.

I'm just like what?

Was wrong with that one scene.

That I have no idea.

So weird.

Maybe.

It was the the Free Willy

movement.

Cause the dolphin was no longer

in the tank I.

Don't know, maybe like the

SeaWorld.

I heard that you can get that

movie that you like.

Cowboy.

The cowboy way, Yeah, it's

called cow they way now.

Yeah, the cow they.

Weigh the cow they weigh.

The cow them.

They have different pronouns

now.

They've now DEID it.

It's the cow people.

Way cow there, the cow their

way, OK.

It was one of Woody Harrelson's

greatest movies.

I'm kind of intrigued to watch

it now.

Well, you.

Can't.

Yeah, you can't watch.

It apparently it's gone.

Bittorrents.

Was that thing called back of

the day Pirate Bay?

Pirate Bay's probably got it.

Pirate Bay?

You remember Pirate Bay where

you could download stuff

illegally?

Oh yeah, it's like nap like.

An allegedly, Yeah, like

Limewire.

Allegedly downloaded Allegedly.

Yeah, Napster started it.

It ended at Pirate Bay.

Oh.

And now I got.

Viruses and it shut everything

down.

Now I spent $3.50 on my Ace

Ventura movie that I did not

watch to rent.

It was still $3.50.

Cents.

It was $3.59 or something like

that.

Think it'd be in the $0.99 bin,

especially since it's not in in

its entirety.

Yeah, it's not even a whole

movie, right?

It's ridiculous.

What are we doing, man?

What are we doing?

Are we coming, French?

Or are we coming woke?

No, apparently everybody woke.

We're becoming woke.

Everybody, yeah, it's all

offensive now.

You can't put anything up.

I bet you you know what I'm

going to try and watch it on

like FUBU or something on one of

those regular free things.

I bet you the full movie's

there.

That's weird how some streaming

services you have to pay for the

movie but if you look around

long enough you can find it for

free.

Yeah, with the ads or whatever.

Yeah, I do that all the time.

Get them cheap.

All right, now a quick trip to

England.

Liverpool parade.

Car collision incident.

Not terrorism.

OK.

Police have said that the

incident of a car colliding with

pedestrians in Liverpool city

center during Liverpool's

football club's Premier League

victory parade is not being

treated as terrorism.

The police confirmed the arrest

of a 53 year old white British

man from the Liverpool area and

in a news conference the

Assistant Chief Constable said

that they believe him to be the

driver of the car.

OK.

It's also believed that he acted

alone.

A representative of the

Northwest Ambulance Service

confirmed that 27 people were

taken to the hospital, where

four people remain, including

two with serious injury

injuries.

A total of 47 people were

injured, Liverpool City Metro

Mayor Steve Rotherham told the

BBC.

There were still four people who

are very, very ill in the

hospital.

We are hoping, of course, that

they pull.

Through How'd they get ill?

I know it sounds like they were

just sick, but no, they're part

of the, they're the four people

that the ambulance guys said are

still in the hospital.

They get hit by the car.

The chief fire officer of the

City Fire and Rescue Service

added that four people, same

four people, I'm guessing,

including one child, were

trapped under the vehicle.

Several police cars and

ambulances responded to the

incident on Water St., and an

air ambulance also arrived at

the scene.

A video on social media showed a

car driving into fans lighting

the street, at one point

appearing to swerve away from

the most densely crowded area.

Police surrounded the vehicle

shortly afterward.

Another video showed angry fans

attempting to reach the driver.

In a written statement shortly

after the incident, the police

said We are current, they're not

French.

We are currently dealing with

reports they're.

British.

They're British.

Give me the Brit.

I can't.

We are Terrio.

We are.

Hello, we are currently dealing

with reports of an RTCA Rd.

traffic collision in Liverpool

city centre.

We were contacted just after

6:00 PM British Standard Time

today, Monday 26th of May

following reports a car had been

in collision with a number of

pedestrians in the Water St.

The car stopped at the scene in

a mail has been detained.

That's where it is.

In a later statement, the police

said.

We would ask people not to

speculate on the circumstances

surrounding tonight's incident

on Walter St. in Liverpool city

center.

We can confirm the man arrested

as a 53 year old white British

man from the Liverpool.

Area he's in trouble.

Was he drunk or something?

Maybe he was a fan of the other

team.

I don't.

Understand why I'm not allowed

to speculate.

I won't speculate.

They don't have any details.

There's not enough details to

speculate.

Yeah, but you're not going to

stop me from speculating.

Well, if people didn't

speculate, we wouldn't think the

the French guy got smacked in

the face by his wife.

Yeah.

That guy is obviously maybe.

He had something on his face and

she was just trying to get it

off where he walked out in

public.

Or maybe she just beats him.

Maybe she's just tired of his

shit.

Good being, you know.

Liverpool issued a statement

saying we are in direct contact

with the police regarding the

incident on Walter St.

It seems like the same thing

over and over and over.

But I mean, the guy, what if it

it could be anything?

What if the guy had a heart

attack, chest pains or whatever

and just kind of veered off?

I think they're assuming.

This is just my speculation.

I'm.

You're speculating on the

speculation.

Because he swerved away from the

most crowded areas.

So if it was terrorism, I think

it would aim for that.

Right, he would have kept going.

Yeah, like, Oh no, I've lost

control of my car.

Oh no, I've lost control of my

car.

I must turn away from the

peoples.

Right.

Maybe he was texting.

Maybe could have been texting.

Maybe he's watching a video

about the French guy?

You're an older guy, can you

text and drive successfully?

No, no, no, not well.

At all, Palmer, when you get

chest pains, do you just drive

into people, I mean.

Well, I would try to miss the

most crowded areas.

I try to stay away from parades

as a rule.

And so is this better safe than

sorry, right?

I don't like crowds.

Do you not?

Do you not like to drive at

night anymore?

No, I don't like to drive at

night.

No, no, why not?

The lights seem brighter.

Because you can't see.

Yeah, it's harder to see.

Do you wear your glasses on

that?

My glasses are just for reading.

I can see far away fine.

I mean if I need to read license

plates then I have to put them

on.

That's just if I text and drive

I have to put my glasses on when

I look at my phone or I can't

even see what it is anyway.

So that does create a.

Problem.

So you have any so that's

extremely dangerous, no.

So do you think that there

should be big bigger penalties

for people that text and drive

like over the age of 50?

What is the over?

Oh, no, because everybody's

doesn't have the same eye

condition.

No, no.

I'm sticking with it.

I think if you're over the age

of 50, I think you should have

to take the driver's test every

five years.

Over 50 every five years.

Wow.

Well, just because, you know,

health changes so much, yeah,

you know, after that age group,

so.

I don't know.

I think terrible drivers are

terrible drivers for the most

part, yeah.

He's gonna be a terrible driver

at 35.

Look, here's my problem.

I'm fucking tired of Sundays.

Yeah, motherfuckers need to stay

off the road on Sunday.

Sunday drivers.

Yeah, I don't know what it is

about that day.

OK, so that's it for British

yada yada the.

Scenes in Liverpool are

appalling.

My thoughts are with all those

injured or affected.

I want to thank the police and

emergency services for their

swift and ongoing responses to

the shocking incident.

It's only four of them are ill

though.

Only four of them are still.

Yeah.

Or got sick from it.

Yeah, Yeah, but one of them is a

child.

That that's not gonna.

Make fun of the child I.

Don't think that means that

they're sick.

I think they just use that as

they're they're still injured.

That's their term.

I think it's, yeah, I think it's

the language problem there.

Yes.

I think I'll they should have

been injured.

Right, so.

But nobody died they.

Didn't they didn't report?

Any they didn't know?

Yeah, Nope.

But there's still the four, so

you know, right?

Still have odds.

OK.

We've been contact with

Liverpool Fire FC.

Liverpool Fire captain?

Sure.

And offered our full support

following the incident on behalf

of FIFA president Gianni

Infantano.

It's FC is football club.

FIFA, yeah, I understand.

Oh, football club, thank you.

Thoughts and prayers.

Everybody's got thoughts and

prairies football stands

together with.

He knows.

He knows soccer very well.

Apparently I.

Know some?

Liverpool Football Club and all

fans of the club following the

horrific incident, he said on a

post to Next.

All right, now we're turning to

the world of sports.

We're just in the sport.

Caitlin What?

No, I thought we were just the

parade was not sports, that was,

that was traffic.

Yeah, that was traffic.

That was international news.

International Traffic Caitlin

Clark out of for at least two

weeks with a quad strain.

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark

will be out at least two weeks

with a left quad strain.

Also, my iPad must update, the

team announced Monday.

Further updates will be provided

following re evaluation, the

team said.

Fever coach Stephanie White said

that she wasn't sure when the

injury happened, but the Clark

reported some pain in her leg

after the team's loss to the New

York Liberty on Saturday.

Didn't the season just start?

I've been going for a couple of

weeks, but it's been going for a

little bit, yeah.

This feels like Aaron Rodgers

all over again.

Well.

She takes the field.

She's literally doing

everything.

That is true.

Clark subsequently underwent an

MRI, was diagnosed with the

strain, although White said she

did not know.

It's great.

Apparently was not a very good

MRI.

Clark was not present for the

open viewing portion of the

practice Monday.

White said she was unsure

whether Clark will travel with

the team while she is out.

Last year's Rookie of the Year

and first team All Star WNBA

selection.

Clark is averaging 19.19 points

and the league best 9.3 assists

through four games this season.

So does that mean they've only

had four games?

Yeah, it's a great opportunity

for what they just started and

she's already injured.

Yeah.

No more shooting from the logo.

It's a great opportunity for our

team to find an identity, it's a

great opportunity for our team

to play in a different way and

it's also think it's a great

opportunity for Caitlin to watch

the game from the sidelines and

grow to almost a coaching mind

and mindset.

They're already putting her out

the pasture.

She just got started.

They're already going to.

Now she had an opportunity to

learn what a coach does.

She doesn't have a championship

yet.

She doesn't want it.

Yeah, they're just, they're just

helping her grow.

They just want her to grow.

She's the face of the league, I

think.

Right.

Or hang to that in a minute.

So, I mean, they're saying that

ratings are up for the WNBA, the

highest they've ever had in

history.

So now they've got a, they've

got a, a villain and they've got

a superhero, right?

So now to do the ratings drop

back down to where they were

because she's not playing?

I mean, I for two weeks I guess.

Yeah, yeah, nobody's going to

watch a Fever game without Galen

Clark playing.

Right, right.

And there's.

But she'll be watching.

Her and Reese right now because

she's not playing.

She'll be watching like

everybody else.

Yeah, everybody else who's not

watching.

Right.

Everybody else is not watching.

I think that look, I think that

it has the ability to grow and

it and it can become something.

Yeah, you, you know, the Indiana

Fever game, like every single

game is sold out.

Is it?

Yeah, There you go.

Say that.

One more time, booch.

What?

Every single Fever game is you

just sold out I.

Mean right because of her.

But now are people going to be

going?

I don't want to go.

I don't think they can return

the tickets.

They've been, they've been.

They were sold out before season

started.

Yeah, well, there, there you go.

Oh.

The Fevers 2 and two next travel

to Baltimore, where they face

the Mystics 2:00 to 3:00 on

Wednesday in the first game

without Clark.

After that, Indiana will host

the Connecticut Sun on Friday

and the Mystic on June 3rd

before heading back to the road

to play the Chicago Sky on June

7th.

Some of these names are kind of

lame, though.

They are, aren't they?

Indiana Fever?

I don't.

Know Minnesota Lynx?

Lynx.

Lynx like the cat?

Well, they go based off of, you

know, animals in the area or I

don't I don't know why they come

with these fucking.

Las Vegas Aces.

Yeah, because of cards.

Aces.

Why couldn't it be the Las Vegas

dice or the, you know, the Las

Vegas?

Skull crushers or you know, come

on man.

Las Vegas, degenerate gamblers

there.

You go but the Las Vegas free

hookers.

The Las Vegas homeless people.

I wouldn't I I think free

hookers that doesn't track well

in a WNBA league just for.

Yeah, I guess I don't.

Know well it could be like for

fishing.

Oh yeah, yeah, maybe.

Yeah, maybe they're fishing,

actually.

Yeah.

You could have dual meaning, who

knows.

That's fair.

Yeah.

We got a lot of good fish here

in Vegas and it's desert.

There's a lot of fish in Vegas.

It's a desert.

Yeah, there's a ton of ton of

fish, Yeah.

Yeah, we only fish at night.

Yeah, a lot of lakes daily,

really, in a desert.

Come on, it's a desert.

Yeah, that's why there's no

water, because they call it a

desert.

So you think there's lakes?

I don't have no idea.

Apparently you say there are.

I mean, they got to be lakes

somewhere.

Perfect.

That's why you're naming the

teams Palmer.

I can't believe they removed

gullible from the dictionary.

You.

Ever did what?

They removed gullible from the

dictionary.

No, they didn't.

McDonald's did close all

locations of the Cosmic spin off

restaurant.

I got it.

The company also said it will

discontinue the Cosmics app.

Is this like the ice cream

machine incident?

No, they started a whole new

chain of stores apparently.

We're shutting it down.

Have you ever?

Have you gotten to Mcflurry

recently by the way?

No, no, I don't even want to

attempt anymore.

Yeah, I know.

You see, you're like rolling the

dice.

They're going to have the ice

cream machine working.

Or not.

No, the IT, it officially works.

It's the saddest thing ever.

It's just all they do now is

they take soft serve ice cream

and they just dump some shit on

top of it and hand it to you.

Oh, they don't start up with the

thing anymore.

It's no longer flurried.

Oh.

Yeah, what they used to hook the

straw under the machine in in

the spin, right?

Nope, nothing.

Huh.

It's out the door.

See, that's the problem is you

have this anticipation, you have

this expectation, right when

you're going there for the

Mcflurry, right?

And then when you get there and

you get that kind of crap right,

I'm never coming back and just.

This is the last time I eat at

McDonald's ever again.

Until next time.

Right, exactly.

Never doing that.

I'm never eating it again.

Oh, I miss McDonald's.

You know, you pull up and you're

like, hi, can I have a Mcflurry?

And they go, we'll Sir our ice

cream machine.

Don't you dare.

I saw the article.

You guys are faking it.

Don't you tell me, I'll call

Trump.

I'll call Trump.

We, we, we stopped there.

We stopped there a few weeks ago

to grab lunch.

So as we were like traveling or

whatever and lunch had not

kicked in yet.

Oh. 10:30 Yeah.

No, it was after 10:30.

Oh, they didn't.

Was it after 11?

I think it started at like 11 or

something.

Yeah, lunch starts 11.

There's a 10:30 to 11:00 window

of you don't know what you can

do.

UN American.

Yeah, so the the I'm like, well,

can you just take my order and I

can pull up it?

It was like a legit a minute.

Like, no, I'm sorry, Sir.

OK, give me a second.

I need to read the menu.

I'm like, OK, I I'll, I'll drive

around, I'll do a lap.

So I did a lap and then I

ordered lunch and then I was

like, oh God, you thought I had

to wait 1520 minutes before.

Well, yeah, they have to.

You got to fire it up.

Breakfast the place.

You'd think that they would

anticipate that or something

they.

Got to take all the water trays

out.

You got to remove the water

trays.

They got to scrape the grease

from the sausage or they have

the grease.

For the hamburger, exactly.

McDonald's is closing all of its

Cosmic locations On May 23rd.

The fast food company announced

that it will be closing the

doors to the stand alone

restaurants in late June, where

it plans to add cosmic inspired

beverages to some McDonald's

menus.

Cosmic inspired.

Hold on, we have a list of what

the drinks?

So, so, so wait a second.

So cosmic drinks are going to be

at McDonald's now?

Yes, yeah, Cosmics had specialty

drinks.

Instead of the the actual cosmic

restaurants that allegedly

existed.

There were five of them.

There were five, There were 5.

Was there a reason why they're

shutting down like they're not

working out?

Apparently, well it's it's a

breakfast themed space

restaurant.

OK, so you could never get lunch

there?

Damn.

So now what they're going to do

is they're just going to take

the drinks and bring them to

their standard McDonald's.

Just some.

A galactic drink, yes.

Let's hear the flavors.

Let's go.

OK, the company said Personally,

there are currently 5 locations,

one in Illinois, 4 in Texas.

The official loyalty program,

you got to use your points up

before the 23rd or you're out,

right?

They have a loyalty.

They don't even have that

McDonald's.

Yes, they do.

Yeah, they do.

That's why they want you to use

the app.

Yeah, they're always asking now

are you ordering on the app?

And you're like, no, I'm talking

to the speaker.

Talking to the speaker.

Yeah.

What Fucking hell.

See, the company was launching

Cosmics, a space theme

restaurant specialized in drinks

and breakfast food.

The spin off chain leans into

nostalgia and gets his name from

the McDonald's extraterrestrial

mascot Cosmic from the 80s.

No kidding.

No idea where that is, but their

new dedicated category team

focus on beverages.

We now can bring more delicious,

innovative drinks to more fans,

a company said in the release.

Will will we get this?

Oh, then it jumped.

You have a.

Stroke.

Over there, apparently we don't

have the list of drinks.

Do you remember the moon guy?

Vaguely.

The Moon Face dinner at

McDonald's.

Oh, the Jack the night.

That was.

That was his name.

Yeah, with the big quarter moon,

Yeah, Yeah, that was Jack the

night.

That was for their new nighttime

menu.

There's always a reason when

they got rid of that name.

Jack the night.

Jack the night, Yeah.

That's not good for McDonald's.

Why not?

Then they showed him playing the

piano.

Like Jack the knife.

Yeah, that was the theme.

So like Mac the knife?

Whatever it.

Was not Jack.

No, not Jack.

Was it jack-in-the-box?

No, there was no

jack-in-the-box.

No.

Jack.

It was jack-in-the-box, just not

a McDonald's jack-in-the-box.

OK, so why did they get rid of

Jack Jack Knight?

Why did they get?

What's wrong with that?

He said, he said Jack the

knight, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, like steal the knight?

Sure.

No.

Why?

I want to know why.

Understand.

The problem either.

Yeah, why?

Doesn't sound good for a kids.

Voice.

Well, I think what they were

trying to do is reach an adult

market for night time sales.

I mean, if you're seven, you

don't want to go to McDonald's

at 11:00.

You can't turn Chuck E Cheese

into a strip club at night, man.

OK, It just doesn't work that

way do.

You get unlimited arcade access.

Right, How many tokens do I get?

Instead of the animatronics up

there, there's girls dancing on

poles.

Animatronics are gone.

They no longer have that.

Yeah, there's a guy that runs

around a little suit.

Yeah, he pops out.

You've seen the guy in the suit,

thing is, so there's no

animatronics anymore into Chuck

E Cheese.

Yeah.

Could you imagine that?

I would love to be for there,

for the conversations, for the

people that dress up.

Yeah, like behind the doors,

like man.

I just can't.

It's easier.

It was Chuck E Cheese when she

was younger.

What?

Really.

Yeah.

She worked at a Chuck E Cheese.

She dressed up as Chuck E Cheese

for birthday parties.

Really.

Yeah, you can tell which

employees dress up as the as the

mouse.

They're usually really agitated

throughout the course of the

day.

That's what I'm saying.

You can see.

Hot net thing.

You can see that.

They're definitely on suicide

watch every.

Night, you can see, you can see

as the time kind of goes and

they're getting closer to their

costume esque moment or

whatever, that they just get

more and more pissed having to

deal with anything on the floor.

Can't believe I signed up for

this.

Now I got to be the mouse.

She was a character at Six Flags

too.

Oh yeah, I don't remember which

one it.

Was was it the Cosmic 1?

The flag?

No.

One of the six?

No.

No, no.

Six Flags in Saint Louis.

She was the 5th flag.

No, she's always the first flag.

She's the first flag.

Always the first flag.

Yeah, you better say that or

else she's gonna mush you in the

face.

Push.

Me in the face exactly, and

she'll try to take my stimulus

check.

That's it.

Status update on Trump stimulus

checks this year.

Americans are wondering about

the possibility of 1/4 stimulus

check in 2025 not going to

happen or previous unclaimed

stimulus stimulus and how they

can still get it.

Here's what we know about the

second, third, and 4th checks.

Apparently, there's a lot of

checks out there.

The opportunity to claim or file

for the first stimulus payment

issued in March and April 2020,

or the second stimulus check was

issued in January 15th, 2021, or

the third stimulus check between

March and December 2021 have now

passed.

Yeah, I mean, if you didn't get.

It think if you didn't get it

already, white people even think

they still.

Get it?

Not getting it.

The deadline to file for the

third and last stimulus.

Was it like 4 years ago that

happened right?

Yes, yes, the deadline to file

for the last check was April

15th, 2025.

It marked a three-year deadline

to claim any tax refunds, or in

this case the $1400 Recovery

Rebate Credit for that year.

Even if you received a tax

extension, you still needed to

file your 2021 tax return by

April 15th, 2025 deadline to

claim that third stimulus check.

There are no extensions or

appeals available for any missed

deadlines and any unclaimed

stimulus payments become the

property of the US Treasury.

Rumors of speculation about a

fourth check of $2000 of surface

on social media and unverified

website.

There has been no official

confirmation from Congress or

the IRS has support this claim

and any such news should be

taken with caution as it could

be misinformation or attempted

fraud.

And February, President Donald

Trump said he would consider the

plan to pay out $5000 stimulus

checks to taxpayers in the form

of DOGE dividends during a

summit in Miami.

He explained it is using part of

the 20% of the savings

identified by must Department of

Government Efficiency, or DOGE,

and giving it back to taxpayers,

whoever.

He has not shared any further

specifics or details about the

possible DOGE dividend or it's

certainty since then.

Not going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

There's no way.

I don't understand that.

If you're going to save the

money and try and get the

deficit down, why would you give

away the money instead of paying

back towards the deficit?

Well, he was only given 20% of

it back and he was just trying

to stimulate the economy, which

is the whole reason for stimulus

check in the first place.

Well, he's not.

Well, he's not doing any of

that.

First of.

All No, no, it's just something

he said in passing.

It's something he stated.

Yeah, yeah.

One of the many things that he.

Stated sorry, give you guys all

$5000.

You guys want to come smoke

these cigars or what?

I mean, so far they they

threatened to release the

Epstein list and that whole

thing that's never happened.

Well, there was there.

I mean, I thought there was like

little bits being released at a

time.

But I have heard, but I think

they're fake things.

I mean, because you, I mean,

they're going to be celebrities,

but you always hear the same,

you know, handful of names all

the time.

Yeah, there was a really this AI

stuff's getting out of control.

Have you seen the Diddy stuff

that's out?

There.

No, that's all true.

Where they've got like, Diddy in

an orange jumpsuit and Epstein

in an orange, orange jumpsuit

and they're like cuddling

together on a bed and it's the.

Man oh AI photos.

No, it's pretty bad.

My social media feed is totally

different than your social media

feed.

Just for the record, it's.

Pretty bad.

My AI stuff won't do anything

that looks like anybody, so I

don't know how people are

getting these.

I can't even get Batman.

Well, he's a copyright.

He's like a trademark dude.

I guess you're right, but I mean

I can't get.

You can't even get fat, man.

Right.

I, I couldn't, I couldn't get

Diddy if I put in I need

somebody that looks like Diddy.

Here we go.

This is this is against our

standards or whatever they say.

Against the policy?

I'm sure that there's AI that

does it, yes.

Well, not the free one.

But you got to pay a premium and

you're a cheap bastard, you got.

To pay the premium, I'm a cheap

bastard.

So all right, we got boots.

Show Notes

This week on Episode 389, we preview The Return of Edca and our huge Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Event happening this Friday from 6–11 PM at Cigar Hustler! Michael officially launches our brand-new merch store and shares how you can get your hands on the latest gear by going to chpod.com Then, we dive into the top stories from around the world: a viral Macron moment, a terrifying parade crash in Liverpool, Caitlin Clark’s injury update, rising cigar prices from major brands, and shake-ups at the FDA. Plus, Disney Cruise controversies, stimulus rumors, and a possible “Hood MrBeast” Fortnite skin?

Don’t miss it — it’s packed, punchy, and just what you need to stay in the know.