ACHP Episode 396 Elmos Looses it, A Kid Falls Off A Boat and We've Got Cigars
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Welcome back to the Cigar
Hustler podcast episode 396.
We've got a wild ride ahead.
This week we have an update to
the dramatic rescue of the young
girl who fell overboard on a
Disney cruise.
And then over in Japan,
Coca-Cola is getting things
moving with a new fiber packed
soda.
Mitch Smith's got nothing moving
in Japan, apparently.
Yeah, he's having a hard time.
Oh, and Elmo.
Yeah, Elmo got hacked and went
full chaos mode on X.
Definitely not brought to you by
the letter S Plus we got cigars
news hot off the presses, from
Juris State summer freestyle
drop to my father's bold new
Honduran blend and the new twist
too.
What's the score?
A new twist?
Yes, light up, sit back and
let's get it to it.
What's the twist?
Do we need to start over?
No, we're good.
I got to just disconnect, keep
going all.
Right, events this week.
Monday night, Mike, you'll be on
How about that cigar, which is
actually tonight.
So by the time you hear this, it
will have already happened.
I did fantastic.
It was a it was lovely.
It was a great show.
I did fantastic.
You made Coop cry.
It was.
Terrible.
Coop again tried to come for me
and he tried to make a little
jab.
I ignored it.
I just let it go.
I probably didn't let it.
Go.
Yeah, you didn't.
You don't let things go.
But we'll see.
You don't let things go.
There's definitely a jab back.
You'll have to tune in.
So if you didn't watch it, you
got to go back and watch it
'cause it was epic.
Tomorrow I'm on D cups live with
Antoine from the PCA.
And then this Thursday, July
19th in Minnesota, Mike, you'll
be doing a cut and light a
Ramsey smoke shot from three
Thursday and a Thursday.
Saturday the 19th.
I thought it was Saturday the
event.
Saturday, buddy.
It's the 19th.
It's five days from now.
It's Saturday.
Is it Saturday?
OK, It's the 19th, whatever it
is.
I thought it was Thursday.
Why would no I fly in late
Thursday night.
I hope you know.
Oh good, the. 19th isn't
Saturday, the box isn't showing
up till Thursday so that that's
nice.
The 19th is a Saturday.
Oh, then it's Saturday.
OK.
I have to look at the poster.
I don't know what it maybe it
doesn't say the weekday on the
on the poster and I thought you
said.
Hopefully it doesn't say
Thursday the 19th.
Who knows?
And then, well, it does say the
19th and then on July 25th, a
cigar hustler in Deltona, we're
having an SM OS event from 6:00
to 11:00 with Jack Terano and
Richie Riot Otero giving away
lighters, giving away ashtrays.
I like the the gold one up
there, it looks cool.
Except that it's silver.
It could be yours, boots.
It's silver, but it could be
yours.
We don't have a gold one.
It's silver.
It.
Could be yours.
The gold one could be yours, but
the gold one could be yours.
With the right purchase of
cigars from Espinosa Cigars, you
could have it.
Perfect.
Yep, the gold one.
The gold.
One, no, I know somebody already
wants it, so they're going to
buy more, more quicker.
They're going to accelerate buy.
More purchasing power.
Who's that?
Tara, I knew you were.
Going to say that name.
I was.
I could have.
Guessed he wants the big one.
Well, she likes the silver
ashtray, but I meant the
lighters.
There's a gold.
Light.
Yeah, there's a gold bomb.
We have another one of the
limited.
Only 300 available.
Never see it again.
Giant ashtrays.
I saw that.
The knuckle sandwich, yeah, the
non knuckle sandwich.
The very rare.
The very rare You'll never see
this again.
We have it again.
At this point we've we've
possessed 3, like 1% of them.
Oh, that's right, we have.
We've got the very true Michael
Say I would like to get a shirt
from this podcast.
What do we do?
Oh, that what a great question,
Mike, Thank you for asking.
What you want to do is you want
to go check out chapter pod.com
where we just released our
cappuccino with Sassanino shirt.
It's doing very well.
Shout out to my guy Julian
Gordon already got his, and Paul
Carlson, two fine individuals
who are supporting this podcast.
So thank you very much.
We still have the original BDP
up there as well.
Still have some of those left.
However, the 4th of July BDP is
gone.
Gone.
I have to wait for the Memorial
Day BDP.
You had your shot, so, but we
got more fun and exciting shirts
along the way too.
Yes, got some crazy ideas.
We're going to keep this thing
going.
We're having a lot of fun with
it.
We are.
So please check us out.
Check us out at Chapter pod.com.
What are you doing?
What?
What are we smoking today in the
Patriots, Michael?
What a great question, M2.
Great questions.
Today we're having the Mccalef
Red.
He's bringing the heat back a
little.
Yep, the gold is kind of blingy.
'Cause we I would have rather
done the purple, but we only had
two purple.
Yeah.
So we're having the Mccalef red
from from Dan Thompson.
Oh, I'm just kidding.
Dan didn't.
It it was the young lady name.
I don't know who it is, the Rep,
whoever the Rep.
Is Dan national sales manager?
Dan Thompson.
Dan Thompson.
OK.
All right, Well, let's go,
buddy.
We're ready to get in the
trending.
What you guys no?
Let's just skip everything and
go to the twist thing.
Let's hear about the twist.
No, no, you gotta wait till we
get there.
We don't give out early then.
Pick more stuff.
Then people will not stay to the
end.
We.
Can't even remember how the game
goes when we start playing it.
I know how the game goes.
You guys screw it up.
I know how that goes.
I think you're making things up
as you go.
I I do like your scream when you
win, though.
Yeah, there's a certain yell you
do when you're in the.
Game, Yeah, you're very excited
right now.
I'm 1 1/2 games up right now.
Points up, points up.
At 2 boots, you got to start
taking clothes off, yeah?
See, you can't write.
You're not allowed to write the
rules.
See how you have things?
There's.
No camera over there.
You know that show's over.
We found out what the twist is.
We're out here.
He wants you naked.
All right, we have an updated
story.
More details have been revealed
after a girl fell overboard on
the Disney Cruise ship.
Oh, apparently, Michael, your
friend who saw it, it wasn't
even close.
Really.
Yes to what they have found out
now from the closed circuit TV
footage and eyewitnesses.
Well, that was the story that
was going around circulating,
correct?
Prompting her father to leap
into the water and rescue her.
In a release, the Broward
Sheriff's Office announced that
the incident happened on Sunday
around 11:30 AM while the ship
was returning from the Bahamas
to Fort Lauderdale.
According to detectives, the
five year old girl lost her
balance while sitting on a
railing at Deck 4, causing her
to fall backwards through a
porthole.
She sat on the railing.
There's one section you can
climb up on.
Apparently she found it after
the girl's mother alerted her
husband, who didn't see the
incident.
He jumped into the ocean to save
his daughter, the release reads.
Investigators added that the 37
year old father managed to tread
water until they were rescued by
a tender that was launched from
the ship.
And all the rescue took around
20 minutes, all that we had
before the ship arrived at Port
Everglades By Monday morning,
Deputy said though the father
was ultimately hospitalized, the
family lives out of state.
The the release continues for
the families continue privacy
Detectives are not releasing
their names, where they live or
details of the father's injury.
Meanwhile, the Sheriff's Office
also announced that detectives
have reviewed the ship security
video, which lines up with
statements by family and cruise
ship staff.
A little bit more.
The investigation into the
matter continues.
The release concludes.
His family is so blessed.
It's great to be able to respond
to good news rather than what we
could have been a tragic
outcome.
So she was sitting on a rail.
She climbed up and was sitting
on the rail, apparently in front
of a.
Porthole.
What's a porthole?
A hole in the side where you can
see through.
So there's no glass in it.
So on some of their decks, there
are walls.
OK, but they don't want, you
know, there to be a big solid
piece of metal.
So they cut a hole in it and
make it look like it's a window.
So she climbed up, was sitting
in the window and then fell
backwards.
Got it.
What the?
So where did he jump?
Did he jump through the
porthole?
I'm guessing he would have to,
or I guess he could have went
down a couple of feet to to jump
in the water then, right?
He might have pooped through the
hole.
I don't know.
Dude, I'm just thinking about
this interaction man.
And it's like.
Yeah, he's over here doing
something else with other kids.
Wife goes.
Oh my God, Sally fell through
the porthole.
Again, lawsuit.
Off he goes.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
It's it's it's.
Like Disney did everything they
could to make sure nobody climbs
up on that thing and sits up
there.
That's negligence on the
individual.
Should have been a fifth safety.
Probably a big sign there that
says do not sit in porthole.
What are we going to do, man?
I don't.
Know, I'm just saying.
Well, you know we have to put on
car batteries.
Do not drink acid.
Come on, when you walk into a
like a gas station, you see a
quedow sign.
You don't go, oh man, I'm going
to act like I'm going to slip
here.
You don't do that.
I can't say I do.
No, no, no, no.
Sometimes I want a life supply
of Reese Cubs.
Yeah, the new ones, The Mr. The
Reese, The Mr. Oh, you guys saw
them, saw the post.
Well, you tag the show and then
we see everything you tag us in.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it does.
You think that it's negligence
on Disney?
No, I don't think so.
I don't know, I do.
You but you feel it's negligent.
What?
Are they going to have to do
wrap the boat in chicken wire?
OK, look as we can see in
history before right, every
lawsuit that's that has happened
with some stupid incident,
right?
Oh it it they always win every
time, especially with a big
corporation like.
This well, they settled.
I mean, we can bring it all the
way back to the coffee of
McDonald's, right?
Like we've talked about before.
Coffee's hot.
It's hot, the coffee's.
Hot.
Now they have to put it on the
cup.
Coffee is hot, right?
Yeah, poor lady's got a burn
vagina.
Hey, this porthole leads to the
ocean, you know, like.
Do not sit in portal.
Do not sit.
In portal there might be a sign
on it that says do not sit in
portal.
If there's not, can they?
Can they sue?
Yes.
Should they sue?
No.
Yeah, I don't think you know.
I mean, you could sue for
anything.
So I mean, they can, but I don't
think they should.
Should Disney maybe throw him
something?
Yeah, maybe just to make it
nice.
Pay for the wherever, pay for
the dad's medical bills, and
maybe throw him a cruise.
Maybe like a free Disney plus
for a year or something.
Give him another cruise.
Put him in a Marvel movie.
I'd like that.
I'd tell him for that.
You get to be 1.
Of the good ones, though, not
some of the ones that are bad.
He gets to be Aquaman.
He's not Marvel.
He's the new Aquaman.
It's.
DC you got to.
Do something on Universal
there's.
Got to be a There's got to be an
Aquaman in Marvel.
There's got to be some Mariner,
submariner or some submariner.
I think he's.
Coming water, dude.
Water guy Oh, it's the bad guy
from the Wakanda.
That's that's the.
Oh, that was him.
Well, yeah, he's got the things
on his ankles.
Wakanda Forever.
The one where the girl was.
I couldn't watch.
I couldn't I.
Couldn't watch that one either.
It was unbearable.
It was terrible.
Yes, that was terrible.
It was unbearable.
All right, so Boots would sue,
he'd look for a boat in his name
and and some of the things.
But you think it just it should
be let go.
Yeah, I mean they should do
something for them maybe, but I
don't think if I was them I
wouldn't.
Sue I mean on public relations
alone, that Disney, I'm sure,
will do something.
Yeah, that's.
You know, just for the.
Have him down to the park for a
weekend or something.
Just for the positive PR of it,
you know.
They can bring him down, give
the guy the key to the castle
thing.
Do they do the key to the cast?
I think they do.
That like, will you sleep in the
Cinderella?
Yes.
Well, I don't know if you did
they, you know, like a key to
the city.
It doesn't really open the city.
The key to the castle doesn't
really open the castle.
Right.
But it I mean, he didn't save
somebody else's kid.
He saved his own kid.
Right, right.
But still they make him hero for
the day or something.
Just curious where the line is.
Where the line is, where they
have to do something and what?
Well, if he dies I wouldn't do.
Anything.
And what would that thing be?
Statue he would get a statue
needs.
To be a statue.
Yeah, bronze statue.
Why do you think he was?
Mayor of Disney time.
Why do you think he was
hospitalized?
They're not saying, I don't
know, maybe.
Well, if he tread water.
So you figure there's probably
not a leg injury.
Maybe he separated his shoulder.
Maybe he got something.
I mean, that's jumping, that's.
Pretty far down.
He's far down.
You know how to successfully
jump like that, Yes.
What's the right approach?
He probably knows, even though
he was never on a boat.
Yes.
What?
How do you do it?
You put your arms out and you
hold your legs together.
Is that your arms out?
Yeah, 'cause you don't want to
sink too far.
He's got to keep an eye on this
little girl.
If he puts his arms down, he's
going to go deeper in the water.
So when you're a lifeguard and
you jump in the water, you jump
with your feet together and your
arms out.
So that slows your descent and
then you can pop back up faster.
Well, you're talking about 10
feet.
Doesn't matter what the feet
Well OK he swan dive did 1/2
gainer and.
I could probably break his arms
going doing that.
Yeah, you're supposed to cross
your arms in your chest and you
cross your legs.
And are you supposed to like,
aren't you supposed to like
Jolt?
Yeah, it's like a pencil dive.
You're.
Supposed to jolt your legs right
before it hits water.
And then you're going to break
your legs.
You're going to break your
ankles.
You bend them, is what he's
saying, not just jolt.
Oh well, he was doing a push
thing with his face.
I thought you did like a push
thing.
Yeah, you kind of you're, you're
supposed to when you're getting
ready to break water, you bend
up and then go down when you
break water.
Yeah.
He doesn't know.
I feel like he knows.
I did it.
He didn't wear.
You had to do it in boot camp.
You were in the Navy.
You didn't even get wet.
You had to do it in boot camp.
He got wet in the Navy.
He just didn't go on the boats.
He.
Didn't get wet?
Get.
Wet, Wet.
Did you get wet in the Navy?
In boot camp.
Just in boot camp maybe?
We can get that rescue swimmer
from Texas to come on.
He can tell us.
The Coast Guard.
Yeah, Coast Guard rescue
swimmer.
You save like 160 people.
You.
Ever watch the Guardian?
Yes, I watch the Guardian.
How do they jump out of the
helicopter?
With a little thing around their
neck that makes them float OK.
I don't.
I don't think I've ever.
Seen he got a promotion.
Who?
Ashton Kutcher.
No.
Yes.
The guy who saved 160 people?
Yes.
Yeah, you got a field promotion
from the director of Homeland
Security.
I mean, he saved 160 people.
Well, the pilot got a field
promotion too, but the other two
people just got a Hey, thanks,
nice job.
Perfect.
Good way to get back he.
Got the highest, whatever the
biggest award they can give a
Coast Guard swimmer.
He got the pilot, got the
biggest award he can get.
Any other two people, they did
nice job.
They're just accessories.
What were they doing?
Were they just kind of like?
Yeah, apparently they were just
sitting on the sitting on the
helicopter.
Playing on their phone, taking
selfies.
There he is.
They're.
Pointed look at this.
When someone's in the water, you
always point.
You point.
That way you can fall.
There's one.
Did you just did you just watch
the Ashton Kutcher movie?
No, no.
OK, All right.
So, hey.
Well, all right, so.
Congratulations, now we have
closed the Disney so she.
Fell.
So she fell.
She fell.
Out of the porthole.
Out of the porthole.
Illegally.
Allegedly, no, no, that's been
the the findings from the
investigation.
Yeah, there's no allegations.
They're closing the
investigation now it's over
there to say and that's what
happened.
OK all.
Right, moving on.
All right, Japanese Coke makes
you poop.
Coca Cola's health drink that
makes you poop.
Yes, really.
When you think of Coca-Cola, you
probably imagine fizzy, sugary
refreshment, not a beverage
designed to regulate your
digestion.
But in Japan, Coke is doing
something that might surprise
you.
It's targeting the health
conscious crowd with a soda that
literally helps you poop.
MSG.
What's that filled with?
Metamucil or something?
Meat Coca-Cola Plus a fiber
infused version of the classic
drink first launched in Japan in
March 2017.
Unlike the usual Coke lineup,
this one comes with a government
backed health claim.
Apparently there is a entire
line of health conscious drinks
in Japan.
Big Bill must have problems
pooping there, I guess I don't.
Well, I mean, you know fiber
intake is good for you
regardless when it comes to poop
or not, right?
Well, yes, but this is maybe it
says for that hold.
On All right, go ahead, keep
reading.
It's earned A coveted FOSHU Food
for Specific Health Uses
certification, Japan's gold
standard for food products that
provide measurable health
benefits.
So what makes Coca-Cola special?
Each bottle contains 5 grams of
indigestible Dexatrim, a high
fiber carbohydrate derived from
corn.
Is that what's in Metamucil?
No psyllium fibers and
Metamucil.
This type of fiber acts as a
functional dietary supplement,
promoting smoother digestion.
In short, it makes bowel
movements more regular.
And that's just marketing spend.
Japan's health authorities
agreed that the drinks effects
are significant enough to
justify the FO shoe label, which
is no small feat in a country
with a $6 billion functional
beverage market.
But digestion isn't it's only
selling point.
According to Coca Cola's press
release, the drink also helps
suppress fat absorption and
moderate the levels of
triglycerides in the blood after
eating.
Yeah, it's a fiber.
They have an obesity crisis in
Japan.
Probably not.
Not if you drink this boop boop
Coke.
Right after you eat the rice.
The rice isn't.
But no, the rice isn't making
what makes you fat.
Eating too much rice is what
makes you fat.
Yeah, that's a sumo wrestlers.
Eating too much of anything
makes you fat, right?
Caloric surplus greater than
expenditure.
That means it's being pitched
not just as a soda, but as a
health supported product for
post meal metabolism.
It's a bold and very Japanese
move.
Japan's population is
increasingly health conscious
and aging and functional foods
are immensely popular.
While Western markets have
flirted with kombuchu and
protein drinks, Japan has long
embraced enhanced foods, from
yogurts to teas that offer
cholesterol lowering or
digestive benefits.
Of course, Coca-Cola Plus
doesn't taste exactly like the
classic version.
Reviewers described it as a bit
thinner and less sweet with a
mild after taste, probably from
the fiber.
Well, they use real sugar over
there too, right?
Probably.
I'm sure they use substitutes
too in things.
I mean if they're a health
conscious society now.
Well, not like like us, like our
Coca-Cola is with the corn.
Syrup, yeah, I don't use.
That over there would.
You drink it, would you try?
It would I try it?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I would too.
I don't, I don't know what.
I'd like to know like is it a
regular poop or is it like MSG
poop?
Is it like a purge?
Yeah.
I.
Guess that would depend on the
person.
I don't think, I don't think
that I don't think the fiber
would necessarily give you like
a significant purge per SE all.
Right, if it's a regular one,
I'm in but.
But it helps you clean your
intestines and all that other
stuff.
Anything that's kind of
lingering inside like fiber's
important.
Yes, sorry.
Reducing your cholesterol's
important.
Over there behind you.
Ginger's a big fiber guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's Irish, so he's all
about like his corned beef and
cabbage and stuff.
Yeah, it's a large purge.
Cabbage backed you up.
Is that what you're saying?
Corned beef and cabbage.
Corned beef and cabbage, Yeah.
Which is delicious, by the way.
So yeah, I mean, do I?
Would I try this or sure?
Yeah, there's no reason not to
are.
You going to get us some?
It's in Japan.
I I guess we can get Mitch to
bring some back.
Yeah, yeah, let's message Mitch,
Tell him to bring back the
poopy, poopy cola.
You know, I have, we have had a
couple of messages back and
forth since he's been there
because I had questions and
things and now that's all I see
on my feet.
Are reels about Japan.
Yeah, one after the other.
And then I'll ask him, did did
you get the Jelly water?
There's water over there that's
got gelatin in it or something.
So it's thicker water.
It just looks.
Fills you up more.
I guess I.
Don't.
That would make sense.
Yeah.
Maybe it has like the chia seeds
in there.
Jelly water.
Well, that.
'D be like, no, it's still clear
there's nothing in it other than
the gelatin, yeah.
Like the aloe water?
Like an aloe water?
Is it like an aloe, water boots
or palm?
It looked like clear jello, but
it's a little more pliable.
It's not, you know, you can't
chew it, I don't think, But if
you squeeze it, it does come out
in a little like toothpaste.
I do like jello.
He likes jello.
That makes he's a jello guy
complete sense.
You don't like jello?
Who doesn't like Jello?
Oh.
OK.
I was going to say like.
Banana, and nobody likes the
banana stuff.
No, well, that's that's only for
pudding.
Oh yeah, banana pudding's.
Yeah, that's amazing.
But no banana jello, no banana
popsicles.
Right.
OK, fly still here.
A banana fly.
Get him out of here.
That fly had to have died by
now, no?
No, I've already seen him today
'cause.
How do you know it's the same
fly?
Well, it looked like it.
Maybe the same family.
It looked like the fly.
It's a totally different.
Fly I brought one of those traps
down, but somebody had unplugged
it over the weekend, so.
I was like, oh, we don't need
that.
Maybe the fly did, I don't know.
He's a very, very diligent fly.
It's a shelf.
How long How long does a family
I.
Don't think they live very long.
I don't know. 28 days.
How many He's still in here 28.
Days The life expectancy of a
house fly is generally 15 to 30
days.
And here it's got to be super
low.
He's lost smoke.
So that guy, he's the same guy,
so.
That's why I said same fly.
Yeah, he's very fast.
But he's getting old, yeah.
He probably started slowing down
another week.
Yeah, have a little cane.
His days are numbered.
Right, days are numbered.
Your days are numbered.
Fly, just so you know.
OK, think he gets sucked into
the filter by now.
Alright, so poop coke.
Poop Coke.
Disney Jump.
Disney Jump.
What's next?
Anti-Semitic post appear in
Elmo's ex account after the
after his account has been
hacked.
Oh.
My God, they got to Elmo.
Elmo.
Tickle me racist.
Elmo's EX account was hacked on
Sunday, causing the beloved
Sesame Street character to
appear to post expletive filled
anti-Semitic rant and anti Trump
statements.
The posts have since been
deleted, but widely circulated
screenshot show Elmo apparently
calling for violence against
Jews and calling for the release
of files related to the Jeffrey
Epstein case.
Elmo's ex account was
compromised.
Got a point there, you know He
wasn't entirely wrong, I guess.
Elmo's ex account was comprised
of an unknown was compromise.
Sorry, but an unknown hacker who
posted disgusting messages
including anti-Semitic,
anti-Semitic and racist posts, A
spokesperson for Sesame
Workshop, the makers of Sesame
Street, told CNN in a statement.
We are working to restore full
control of the account.
We have lost Elmo.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't the
guy with the hand up Elmo's
butt.
OK.
Is that it?
CNN has contacted X for comment.
The Triad was a jarring
departure from Elmo's usual
upbeat motivational post and
wholesome pictures.
You know they're.
Laughing about it?
That's not funny.
That's true.
Other Sesame Street characters
or celebrities.
Some of the post even mimicked
his habit of referring to
himself in the third person.
The post came a week after Elon
Musk's artificial intelligence
company, XAI.
Is that what it is telling?
You Say froze its Grok Chat bots
X account after it began
spouting anti-Semitic,
anti-Semitic tropes and White
House nationalist talking
points.
The company later issued A
lengthy apology saying a system
update caused Grok referred to
existing X users posts,
including when such posts
contained extremist views.
Meantime, it issued responses
praising Adolf Hitler, repeated
conspiracy theories and spewed
long standing anti-Semitic
remarks.
The Elmo hacks post also
referenced documents relating to
the Epstein case, which has been
the headlines again in recent
days.
Last week, U.S.
President Trump administrate Fly
mentioned a memo about Epstein,
an accused sex trafficker and
disgraced financier who died by
suicide in 2019.
OK, A.
Lot of unpacking.
All right, so guy person, yes,
hacks Elmo, yes, and then
decides the best approach here
is to be anti-Semitic.
Perfect.
And then and then talk about the
Epstein files.
Yes, right.
And say bad things about Trump,
OK.
So let's say that you had the
ability to hack right, and you
could or whatever that means.
I mean, I guess maybe Elmo was
convinced that his password was
wrong and sent, you know, read
the e-mail and.
Clicked the link.
Yeah, I don't know how.
You something dumb but.
Maybe the password was Elmo.
You know they're stupid.
No, it was definitely, it was
definitely Big Bird.
So let's say you have that
ability.
Let's say whatever.
You're on this quest of hacking
Twitter accounts and you crack
Elmo's accounts.
What would you write?
Oh yes.
Well OK, are we going under the
assumption that he's not already
an anti semite?
Yeah, you know, he's the it's
standard Elmo.
No, no, no, no.
I know Elmo is, but this hacker,
was he doing this so he could
say these things?
Obviously, did he?
So OK, but you're asking me I'm.
Asking you like OK, so you have
the ability you hack Elmo
Elmo's, you know, 1-2.
Three, I'm not this guy.
I'm regular me.
ABC like what?
I like going anti-Semitic.
Seems like ridiculous, you know,
right.
What would Well.
He wanted to get his message
out, probably.
What would I do?
Something about somebody's hand
up my butt all the time.
Something how?
I'm disgruntled with my
employer.
Yeah, I've been doing this too.
I've been doing this too long.
The payment is ridiculous, you
know, The pay scale is
ridiculous here.
That stupid bird gets all the
praise and you know.
Something like that.
So many more.
So you'd lean into, you'd
probably get away with it
longer.
You might even find yourself
with a job at that point.
Yeah, right.
You're creator.
I would be disgruntled Elmo,
disgruntled Elmo.
Disgruntled Elmo.
Yeah.
You don't need to be offensive
or anything.
Well, that's kind of like the
Grouch, right?
That's a disgruntled Elmo.
They're just different colors.
It's got to be a kid.
You got to figure like how old
do you think the person is that
hacked us?
Oh.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Probably just want to know what
these standards.
It's not really got a lot of
hate in them.
They're probably in the 30s
forties.
You think so?
You think you gotta get your 30s
and 40s be filled with hate?
Yeah, they're, I mean, you know,
they're referring things that
happen a while.
Normally I think that a lot of
younger people are more
malleable and, and they, you
know, if they're around, if
their parents are jerk offs or
whatever the case may be, they
become them.
Do you think he specifically
went after Elmo or just a crime
of opportunity?
He was probably going through a
bunch of them and Elmo popped.
How would I would assume?
The 1st 1234 was the password or
something.
He's like, oh I got 1.
How to get to Sesame Street
Exclamation mark or something?
OK, so So what about you?
Let's say you hack and you get
Elmo.
What would you write?
Some stupid like fuck Barney or
something.
Fuck Barney.
Yeah, like maybe something like
that.
He's he's not getting a job.
Yeah, he's done.
He gets the one out.
He get the one.
That's it.
Fuck Barney.
Wow, like you could go after
Miss Piggy like Dinosaur and
Elmo Action.
Is that what you're talking
about?
Yeah, you're down with little
bestiality.
Yeah, well, I mean.
Oh, actually, fuck the.
Yeah, here we go.
The room again.
Come on, let's not talk about
that.
You're the one that said it.
That one that said it, I was
just seeing if that's where he
was going with his comment.
No.
Come on.
A hacker, a hacker did this.
This is not a hacker.
This is the guy that puts his
hand up.
Elmo.
Wait, you and the actual?
Excuse where he goes.
Oh, wait a second.
Everybody saw that.
The actual puppeteer.
Yeah, I got hacked.
Oh, you think so?
You think?
You think that?
It's he thinks the puppeteer
went.
Rogue.
Come on man, who's hacking into
Elmo's account?
Well, I would imagine they have
some type of social media
department that does all the
yeah.
Stuff and somebody clicked an
e-mail.
That's like someone hacking
Greg's account.
Somebody clicked an e-mail.
Hey, you know what?
I'm really going.
To go hack, somebody got the
your McAfee is going to renew
unless you click here.
Oh God, 9999.
If you hack Greg's account, you
got like two people, 2 viewers.
That's.
What I'm saying like, do you
ever look at Elmo's account?
Right.
I look at the off Elmo accounts
on TikTok, they're hilarious.
Ammo says get a fucking job or
something like that.
Yeah, like I love those.
Don't stop being a lazy bitch.
Like I'm like, OK, I got you
Elmo.
I'm gonna go lock in.
I.
Got you, Elmo.
You know, I like those.
I get those all the time.
And it's got like the mythical
music.
Whatever.
Do do do do do you know?
Like it just seems like, you
know, like this is such a weird
account to hack to do this I.
Just think it went that's.
What?
That's what Mike and I were just
talking about.
We don't think he specifically
went after Elmo.
He had maybe a some type of
software that, you know, puts in
stupid passwords on everybody's
account and that one.
It's the e-mail thing.
Somebody clicked the I'm telling
you it's something dumb like
that Gotcha.
And they?
Elmo clicked the e-mail.
Can you imagine being?
Where Elmo's social media
person.
Is Can you imagine being the
person that works that you punch
in the like you get the e-mail,
you click the link, you punch in
the password and and then all of
a sudden you realize that you
just got locked out of Elmo's
do.
You tell your boss right now.
Oh shit, shit.
No, you need a couple.
More days of work.
I'm in a lot.
Of trouble in a lot of trouble.
Hey hey Bill.
Yeah yeah.
Why is Elmo making anti-Semitic
posts and talking about Epstein
files?
Well, I had a rough night and
you know, they kicked me out of
the basketball team.
I'm back on meth and.
I had a bad night.
Some things happened.
All right, you know, OK, so.
I I got to be a little Hollywood
thing where the Elmo's puppeteer
social media person thinks that
the Jews are running Hollywood
and he's disgruntled.
I don't know.
You know, I got to be honest
though, if I'm Sesame Street
social media planning platform
and you tell me that you're
going to do these funny things.
Disgruntled about Elmo, I'd
almost set it up where we got
hacked.
Oh yeah, right.
Right, as long as you kept it
kind of humorous.
Semi clean in humor, right?
Yeah, nothing offensive.
Then it'd be funny.
Well.
We're hacked again.
I mean if.
You guys want to reach out?
And it's a medic.
So give me, give me somebody
else.
Yeah, it's a big bird.
Big Bird Kermit the Frog.
Miss Piggy.
Oh, that'd be good, Miss Piggy.
Yeah, you like to.
The only female in the entire
male or.
You like to dress up as a girl
from time.
To time no, I'm not going to you
don't have to dress up but she
could have bigger complaints
yeah somebody's looking down a
dress you know she got who is
the.
Like to file HR department on
Kermit or something.
I'm Fozzie.
I'm Fozzie Bear.
I'm Fozzie Bear.
I'm Fozzie Bear.
That would be funny.
Fozzie Bear.
You just kind of the Me too
movement with the.
Wait a second, hold on, wait a
minute.
You just jumped though, from
Sesame Street to The Muppets.
Yeah, The Muppets are part of
Sesame Street, are they?
Yes.
Are they really?
Yes, Kermit the Frog is on
Sesame Street.
Is he?
Yes.
I didn't have a childhood.
You know all about the rock,
though, Michael.
It's fine.
Yeah.
They're definitely not part of
Terence and Phillip though.
What Terence and Phillip?
South Park.
No, they're not part of South
Park.
The Canadians.
Yeah, the Canadians.
The Canadians.
John Mctapsch, we could call him
about that.
Yeah, maybe next week.
We keep putting them off till we
find a really good reason.
Oh, I'm going to see him
tonight, so.
Oh, there you go.
Thousands celebrate baby hippo
Mudang's first birthday.
Mudang.
Mudang at the Thailand Zoo.
This is exciting.
Oh man.
Yeah, but when you go to look at
the pictures, you get to use to
make this clip.
I'm going to.
Love it.
Thousands of excited fans
flocked to a Thai zoo on
Thursday to celebrate the 1st
birthday of Mudang.
The adorable baby pygmy hippo
has become a social media
sensation.
They should have named him Wu Wu
Dang.
Wu Dang, the open zoo, was
overrun with Mudang fans on the
first four days of activities
marking the hippos birthday.
Children under 12 years old can
enter the zoo, which is about a
2 hour drive from the capital
Bangkok, for free throughout the
extravaganza.
Where?
It's in Thailand, Bangkok,
Bangkok, Thailand.
Many of Mudang's fans flew miles
to see her.
Among them was Molly Swindle,
who travelled from New York for
the celebration.
She is seen handing a tray of
food to a zookeeper for Mudang's
breakfast, which the baby hippo
and her mother Jonah quickly
devoured.
Everything I was seeing started
to be Mudang and I just loved
her so much and decided, you
know what, I have 3 or 4 days
off work, said Swindle.
I can make it work to fly to
Thailand.
I will only be there for about
30 hours, but that's enough to
go see MU.
Dang, that's exactly what I did.
Wu Dang ain't nothing to fuck
with.
By Thursday afternoon, the
numbers of visitors reach
12,000.
Zoo Director.
Oh yes.
Nargawit Chidokchol, that's
exactly.
How it sounds exactly?
That's what happens.
Good job bite The noise of
visitors calling out for her
attention, Moodang appeared
peaceful as she took a dip in
the pond in her enclosure.
Moodang couldn't be bothered.
Moodang cannot be bothered.
Boots.
You got a trending sports story
over there, I believe.
How do you have a trending
sports story in the summer?
I guess it's summer basketball
league.
Find out in a moment or
something fake that you made.
It's nothing fake.
There's a piece of paper over
there somewhere.
It's on the poop.
Yeah.
Hold on.
It's in the back.
Let me go.
Oh.
OK, you go get it.
Sorry.
He's not prepared.
There's the printer over here.
No, it's on the table.
Oh there it is.
He pre reads them.
It's in the back.
It's in the back.
Hey, look who's back.
It's boot.
Oh.
God, that was far.
All right, here we go.
You know, if you didn't stop to
eat one of those Mr. B's peanut
butter cups again, you'd have
been back sooner.
They're delicious.
Yeah, I noticed.
You pop that thing and just bear
with one bite.
One bite help?
I didn't even chew it.
Nope, it's wild.
Cleveland Browns rookie Quinch
on Ju Dickens was.
Arrested the real person.
Was arrested on Saturday in Fort
Lauderdale, FL, in an alleged
case of domestic violence,
according to Broward County
inmate records.
The description of the charge in
Jukins inmate details specifies
battering domestic violence via
touch or strike, according to
Chris Easterling of Acron Acron
Beacon Journal.
A Brown spokesperson said they
were aware of the situation and
gathering information.
While further details on the
situation have yet to be
revealed, the situation will
undoubtedly raise questions
about the second round draft
pick.
That's it, That's it.
He.
Just wanted to hear Queen Dong
Cheng Cheng.
You guys complain his stories
are always too long, so now he's
got a nice short story and it's
too short.
Make up your mind, what do you
want?
No, I'm happy.
Well, you know what that means
though.
What is that?
Time for Mikey?
Social Media Minute.
What I have one.
I don't know.
I would tell you if I had one I
don't have.
A more about your parents
tonight.
And how about that cigar?
I'm.
Going to be on.
How about that cigar?
Hey, I'm going, I'm going for
Coop.
You have to have one every week
you have to find one.
Every week.
But what happens if I don't find
one?
I didn't see anything that was
exhilarating on.
Then you make something.
I could tell.
OK, I got one for you.
OK, go ahead.
I had a back and forth with Mr.
One, said John Carney.
Oh, oh, oh, that's right.
About the AI.
Yeah, he's very upset about the
squid.
Cigar.
Yes, he's very defensive.
He's very defensive.
About about his Squid Game
cigar, yes.
Wait, wait, wait.
He didn't like what we said.
He didn't like we.
I don't think that it, I don't
think that he didn't dislike it,
but I do think that he, you
know, did he?
Justify the AI and not having a
photo of it.
Felt the need to defend it,
yeah.
I mean, it arrived in his hand
three days after the story
broke.
Yeah.
So then somebody could have
taken a picture.
So he posted it with the picture
And did you see what I wrote in
the comments section?
I saw the squid game.
I wrote haters.
He'll say it's AI.
Of his Oh, I get.
Enough like the legitimate one,
right?
Oh boy.
So I mean, they were in transit,
so somebody could have taken a
photo.
Yeah, maybe that's what sent him
over the edge.
I think he wanted to do it in
AI.
Well, I'm sure he did.
That's his thing.
Yeah, Yeah, we should try the
shoulders of giants or whatever.
It is.
We should totally try those.
Make AI every next the cigars
are AI.
Try it on the Patreon.
The the Midnight Hammer.
Oh, try the cigar.
Yeah, well, if you can get us
some.
I'm sure I can.
You should get us some.
I'm a Texan right now, if I had
headphones I'd call him.
I mean, I have headphones.
He has headphones.
Yeah, well, you're not going to
relay.
Them hold the speaker up to the
microphone.
I have 3 John Carneys in my
phone.
Two of them are old.
Oh yeah, he's got a new number.
He would like oh.
This is.
Almost like.
Squid Cigar.
On Patreon squid cigar I text
him are.
You sure I was his right number?
Maybe not you.
Should have texted all three.
It could be going LFD, who
knows.
They'll know if it goes out.
They're friends with us too now,
so you know.
I don't know who John is, but
stop the other.
Brother just did somebody else's
podcast I saw.
The other brother, Tony.
Tony, I forget who it was.
OK, I mean there was 0
information in your statement.
The other brother did a.
Podcast on something the other
brother from LFDI don't remember
the other one's name.
Tony the Tall 1.
He just did somebody else's
podcast.
Yeah, don't remember who it.
Was what was the podcast?
I just, I, I just said I don't
remember.
Who?
OK, so that was.
So I'm going to go back and say
again that you gave us 0
information about anything.
You didn't even know the guy's
name.
Yeah, the.
Podcast.
That one guy from that company
did a podcast, I'm not sure who
it was.
Right.
And it sounded exhilarating.
It was red.
I was very excited.
No, he had on a black shirt.
He says they're sold out.
Oh.
Tell them we're going to go buy
some squid and we're going to
smoke that on the show and say
it's this a guy.
Now I'm writing I hate you.
They're.
Not sold out they.
We know that.
He likes sushi.
He's got a stack of them at his
house.
I'm sure it wasn't hard to sell
out of them.
Well, yeah, there was only,
what, 2000?
Yeah, I thought he was going to
say 2.
No, there you go.
What?
There was only 2 million. 2000
You know, it's probably not hard
to flip.
All right, cigar news.
With Carney's resources.
Moving on, because you really
didn't have anything for social
media.
I just gave you something.
Yeah, he said.
John Carter, he with the AI
thing.
You just didn't like it.
Yeah, no, you want to know what
it is?
He's being defensive now because
he did about.
There was a podcast with a guy.
Oh.
No, I know that was stupid to
say, but I get excited and
things come out and then I
realized I shouldn't have said
it right.
I built A7 year podcast career.
I just saying things that make
no sense The.
First, you know what the first
step is?
Accountability.
And I'm proud of you for owning
it.
Thank you all.
Right.
Can I go on?
Sure.
Drew State releases Summer 2025
Freestyle Live packs Oh, have
you seen the new one?
No, Drew State's newest cigar is
heading to stores for a preview,
as the company has done for the
last few years.
The cigar is getting a previewed
as part of the Drew State
Freestyle Live program.
Is anybody still excited about
these things?
Are they giving away a
helicopter yet?
No helicopter close.
It's a Stanley Cup.
They're giving away a oh, not a
which.
Is a multifaceted market
campaign that starts with
selling these sampler packs that
are on their way to stores.
The packs come with three
unbanded cigars, a preview of
the new line and a Drew Estate
branded 40 oz Tumblr.
Oh, it comes with it.
They come in the Tumblr.
But it's not a Stanley.
It looks like a Stanley.
It's a it's a fake Stanley.
Yeah, but it's it's still that
it's.
A Handley.
It's a what?
Family.
It's a Handley OH.
Mikey said family.
Yeah, yes, Fake Stanley.
Yes.
Each pack has an MSRP of 4075.
The second part of the Freestyle
Live program will take place in
late August, when Drew State
releases a video podcast
announcing the new line.
What were the?
1.
Of them was the blue.
Let you all know that.
Rustica.
What was last year's?
I don't even remember.
We stopped getting them.
Yeah, I know, but they still did
the program just 'cause we
didn't get it, they still.
Didn't I don't, I wasn't paying
attention.
But let me ask you something.
It's so it's retail at 4075,
yes.
How much do you think the cup
cost?
4075.
Well, it's a.
It's a it's a knock off Marco.
OK.
But what do you think the cost
is for a a fake Stanley?
Cup fake Stanley Cup 40 oz ton.
I bet they could do that thing
for 3 bucks. $3 Sure.
No, no way.
No 5 tops. 5.
Let's go 12 to $14.00.
No way. 12 to 14 that's.
What the Stanley ones cost.
Yeah, I think that might be too
much.
OK, But oh, maybe five.
OK.
And how many cigars you get.
3/3.
You get 3 cigars right?
6 bucks.
That's all you get this time
there.
There's no there's no funny hat,
there's no flashlight, there's
no cut you get.
The cut and you get the cut,
then you.
Get the cutter.
No lighter, right?
So at least it's scaling back.
They're realizing people don't
want that Big 10 anymore, the
big metal box with all the
dominoes and everything in it.
Right, Art, that I still have
that.
Yeah, yeah, I.
Play.
I play the dominoes, all that.
You play dominoes, Yeah.
But the red ones?
Yeah, the red ones.
Yep.
Yeah, my daughter.
Oh, the big one or the little
one?
Little one.
Do you really play Domino's?
You just set them up and knock
them down and they all.
No, no, It's like I try to teach
her the domino game.
It's kind of it's a little
easier for her 'cause there's
only so many numbers.
Oh yeah, one through 6.
Yeah, exactly.
OK.
Well, the cigars are meant to be
the mystery.
The company describes them as
100% unapologetically
Nicaraguan.
You have to work on that word.
Nicaraguan.
Yeah, what's wrong?
It's still really bad.
There's no E in it.
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua.
What can I say?
Nicaraguan.
It's UAN.
Oh my God.
They're talking.
They're talking about not the
country, but the thing in the
country.
I understand.
That's like America and America.
There's no G in it.
Yes, there is.
I'm looking at it.
At the end, Nicaraguan, it's AC
at the beginning.
It's an N.
It's an N at the beginning.
Nick.
Nick, Nick, Nick.
Nicaraguan.
Nicaraguan.
Glad we got there.
All right, now resay it.
Redo it.
We will give you 2 clues.
First, it's not a Deadwood of
any kind.
Second, the new drop is not
about the Dominican Republic,
says Jonathan Drew, Co founder
and president of Drew Estates,
in the press release.
Drew Estates is the original
People's Champ.
That's my word.
Typically those shows have
included some sort of giveaway,
though the company says no
sweepstakes takes place as part
of Freestyle Live event because
apparently they're bored with
the whole thing, too.
Because apparently what?
They're bored with the whole
thing too.
Well, it doesn't.
I don't think it tracks is the
problem.
Well, I mean, now they're this
time it's just a cup, but next
time you get just the cigars.
No, I think that they'll always
have a swag item in it and.
Something something to put the
cigars in.
Yeah, instead of giving you 7
items, they're going to give you
1.
Something fancy, and then they
just realize that.
Where's the payoff on the
giveaway?
Right.
Well, they didn't.
They give a car away at one
time.
Did they that?
Was the very first one.
The very first one, it was some
type of car.
Helicopter no Abe used to have
giveaways like he used to give
away a car at at the Great
Smoke.
Oh, we met that guy.
Abe.
We know Abe.
Oh no, we met the guy that won
the Porsche from the Placencia.
We met the guy.
Yeah, I remember, 'cause I was
like, oh, I think it's fake.
And then we were at PCA that
year.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, He was in Miami.
Yeah.
Oh.
He's a cool dude.
Nobody gave away a car that one
time too.
He does he own a shop or
something like that?
Oh yeah, yeah, that guy.
We met him when we were eating
with Oscar.
Right.
We met him when he with Oscar,
with, you know, your favorite
family style food.
Oh yeah.
And I choked on the potatoes.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, that was a great.
Yeah, I was in the bathroom.
I didn't even know you choked.
You almost died it.
Was a great night, you hated the
food and I almost died.
It's ridiculous things that go
on never.
Been invited back to that
things.
That go on a cigar convention.
So say we're not allowed to eat
with Oscar anymore.
No more tapas with Terrance.
We're running on people to take
us.
We don't really get invited any
we just go with Skip.
We go wherever Rome is going.
Skip, I'll go Skip always takes
us all right.
Cigar Kings and distribution in
Bahrain.
Oh, and where?
Bahrain.
Bahrain.
Bahrain.
OK, we're fine.
Bahrain Cigar Kings has
announced that it has signed an
agreement with Luxury Tobacco
World to have its cigars
distributed in Bahrain on lunch.
The On launch on lunch at
lunchtime, the company offered
its robusto.
Nice at lunchtime at.
Lunch On launch, the company
will offer its Robusto and Toro
Vitolas in both Maduro and Sun
Grown wrappers.
Cigar King's products are made
at undisclosed factory in Esta
Lee.
We are incredibly excited to
enter the market and add another
country to our distribution
network in the Middle East, said
Philip Coogler, founder and
owner of Cigar Kings in a press
release.
We believe our premium hand
rolled cigars will be warmly
received by cigar aficionados
across Bahrain.
Bahrain.
Bahrain, whatever.
So how's that work?
How does what work?
How does cigars go to Bahrain?
Do they come into the stage?
They just go directly from the
3rd through Nika or what?
I don't know how they do it.
You would think it would be
cheaper just to ship them
direct.
Yeah, why would you expand into
Middle Eastern country?
Well, this isn't their first
Fourier into a Fourier.
This isn't their first.
Then, the first time they've
been to the Middle East, they
said they're happy to add
another country to the Middle
Eastern distribution.
Click.
What's the name of their cigars?
Cigar Kings.
That's the name of the cigar.
That's the brand, apparently.
It's not called like I don't
know.
Jimmy Baran No.
Camel something or other?
The Sultan.
That would be offensive,
Michael.
No.
Would it be?
Yes.
OK.
I don't think the people that
ride and eat the camels want to
have a cigar made.
Maybe well, cowboy guys would
like horseback cigars.
They don't need horses.
They don't need horses.
Only in extreme emergencies.
They eat camel.
Cowboys.
The Middle Easterns.
Yeah, you never had Camel.
I've never had camel you.
Didn't have a childhood or an
adulthood.
No Sesame Street.
You've had camel, I've had
camel.
What is that?
I had it in China.
Who knows?
They tell you what things are.
Who knows if it is or not?
Maybe that's what the fiber is.
It's just, it's just a piece of
meat.
That's Japan.
Keep up.
Oh.
Wow, right.
It's just a piece of meat.
It's.
Camel.
It's Camel.
I asked.
That's what they said.
I don't know if they're telling
the truth or not.
Maybe they get confused and they
thought Camel was a cow.
Who knows?
Sometimes they'd go no have
American name.
Just don't tell him his dog.
I've had dog.
I know what that dog.
Did the camel taste differently?
A.
Little chewy they could have
been overcooked, who knows?
It tastes like steak.
Yeah, it just tastes like beef,
not like chicken tastes.
Like over overly hydrated?
What story were we talking
about?
03 Kings.
Bahrain The The the cigar Cigar
3 in the Middle East the three.
Kings are going to the Middle
East. 3 Kings are going to the
cigar.
For them though, the. 3 Kings
Yeah, I think there's a cigar
called the Three Kings.
You could put like an AI image
of Ice Cube and George Clooney
and.
Oh, he's talking about the
movie.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I didn't see that coming.
I.
Didn't either.
I think of the guys with the
incest, the myrrh and the gold.
Yeah.
You're right.
Like the whole you know yeah
Jesus thing.
They were I.
Think I think Ice Cube would
look a lot better on this.
Holy moly.
He's got George Clooney over
there in his.
Mark Wahlberg.
Wow.
An ice cube or iced tea or ice
tray or.
Something ice tea and ice cube
are different.
I don't know which one he is.
He's the darker one, Jesus.
Wow.
I would say that that would
probably be the most provocative
thing that we've heard on this
podcast.
However, I think we're going to
have to edit something out that
you said earlier, so.
What Barney?
No, no, Barney stays.
All right, you ready to keep
moving?
Yeah, I just ride this train
right into my.
This is a disaster.
This is coming.
Diamond Crown Tampa launching
next week.
What now?
Diamond Crown Tampa, OK
launching next week, JC Newman
is not shy about celebrating its
home city of Tampa.
Largely though, the cigars it
makes at the gummies L.
OK, How do you say the name of
the factory before I get
butchered?
No, you just go ahead.
No, I'll let it happen.
Let's not get.
Crazy.
The gummies factory headquarters
in the Store Ybor City
neighborhood.
Moving on.
Moving out?
No, it's flagship.
Viewers like to hear you
pronounce these things.
They're sitting in the
background.
Staring.
That's probably the most notes
that I get, aside from the half
wheel thing that we do at the
end.
Now is I love listening to
Palmer just demolish words.
Yeah, except when you say
Nicaragua.
No.
EI have no reloj RELOJ.
Yeah, that was pretty good.
I I feel the J is not sound like
AJ.
But you did all right, Reloj.
The factory's headquarters,
historic Ybor City neighborhood.
Now it's flagship Diamond Crown,
is paying tribute to Tampa.
Earlier this year, JC Newman
showed off the new Diamond Crown
Tampa new blend that is made by
our Toro Fuente in the Dominican
Republic.
Did they get burned?
They apparently dying to get
burned.
They got burned.
Apparently not.
Fuente is on fire.
Or oh, Arturo de.
Sorry, I was thinking AJ.
Oh boy, did you red light?
No, I didn't today.
AJ is in what?
What country?
He's in Nicaragua.
OK.
Why don't you?
Oh, never mind.
Totally.
The filler includes some of the
Florida sun grown tobacco grown
by that family in Clermont, FL
who?
We don't say his name.
Oh.
Don't try to, yeah, don't try to
get him into that.
This is the first.
I thought he was saying he
didn't want to say a bad.
Name.
I can say this name.
Yeah, you can.
Skip it.
This is the first time the De
Puente factory has worked with
the Florida Sun grown tobacco.
The rest of the filler blend is
not disclosed because you can't
cover that flavor, but it uses a
shade grown form from
Connecticut over a Dominican
binder.
The Diamond Crown Tampa is
offered in a single 6 by 52 Toro
size with MSRP of $30 per cigar,
or 600 per box of 20. $600.
Yes.
So $30 stick.
Yes, it will launch at an event
on Tuesday, July 15th at the
Place in Tampa Park, which is
owned by that guy.
The store, previously the
Davidoff store in Tampa,
includes a Diamond Crown Lounge.
July 15th and also the 130th
birthday of the City of Tampa,
OH.
JC Newman plans to offer a cigar
to stores in Tampa. 30A Pull.
30A Pull.
So commemorative Tampa cigar,
Michael.
Does it come in like a gold foil
or something?
Does it come with a Bitcoin?
Well, they got to buy all those
tinfoil hats.
You got to buy the tinfoil hats.
Right comes with.
It comes with the tinfoil hat.
Yes, allegedly.
Allegedly, yes.
OK.
Sinise Afina, Connecticut on the
way to stores.
OH.
Is it?
Not technically, but it's on the
way here.
It's on its way here.
Yes, I got an angry phone call
from our friend at Secreto
Cigars this morning.
Yeah, because he doesn't have it
yet and I promised he would get
it first.
He's going to get it first.
You're going to get.
That's why I called and told him
you're going to get it first.
I don't have it, Ronnie.
Chill, we got you buddy.
He was very calm.
He was about to go into a
massage.
Nice.
Yes, he goes.
Just so you know, you're the
last thought before I get a
massage.
That's.
Nice special massage.
Rubbing dub bud.
And he he thought Sinisafina was
spelled CENISE or something.
He goes and why do you keep
saying it wrong?
I guess that's how you say it,
Ronnie.
He goes spell it.
I said CENIZAFINA.
He goes oh I thought I had an S
like Nope.
I love it.
I love it when Ronnie's
extremely confident and then
it's totally wrong.
Right, this one I get right.
Fans of Sinise A Fetus Cigars
will soon have the new lighter
blend to try.
On Tuesday, July 8th, post shake
distribution began.
No, wait, what is this?
What does it say?
Who did this?
Who did the press release?
Brooks.
But who did who?
I didn't do a press release
about it.
No, I didn't do a press release
about a shipping or about it
arriving or something.
So somebody else did, apparently
Sam or Rose.
Probably Sam.
I don't know.
We didn't have it yet, we'll
just skip the story.
No keep.
Going the Cenizafina Connecticut
is made with an Ecuadorian
Connecticut seed wrapper covered
a Dominican Creolo 98 binder and
fillers from the Dominican
Republic, Creoho Creolo 98 and
Hva and halapa.
It's actually really good.
It is good, everything's in
there.
Production of the regular
production of the regular
production line is being handled
by Tabla Galera, La Isla Asante
Diago, Los Cataleros, Dominican
Republic.
There are four different box
press vitolas, each packed in 20
count boxes.
Sinisa Fina Connecticut Corona
Sinisa Fina Connecticut Robusto
all.
Right.
So the press release was a
little pre emptive is what
you're saying?
Yeah, Brooks has been emailing
me asking me when it's coming
and I've given him information,
but I've not given him a press
release.
So I was like, it's shipping
next week.
Did you say that to him?
Yeah, when Sam sent us the thing
last week.
OK.
So he took it from your
information?
I don't know.
Yeah, he 100% took it from what
you.
Said when I said shipping, he
didn't thought it shipping from
here.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, you need to choose your
words wisely.
PR.
Well, everything up to that was
when is it leaving the country
and I go is shipping next week.
Yeah, All right, so listen.
So I see what you're saying.
OK, but let me explain to the
podcast viewers.
Go ahead.
Hello.
So moving forward, you got to
understand that you have to
control.
When you have the variables
under control, then you can
release the Intel, right?
As of right now, we know that
it's shipped to us, right?
We don't know what the hell that
means though, right?
OK, when it gets here, then you
can say, OK, we will be shipping
the retailers soon, right?
But to say to make the comment
it's shipping without any other
details, he's going to take that
and run with it.
I see what you're saying, yeah.
So like you're kind of, you put
yourself behind this 8 ball now
because you could have ridden
this wave a little bit harder if
you had the product.
You know, retailers contact you
and then you instantly start
shipping.
Now you got angry Ronnie, who
can't spell Senizafina.
Can't say it right either.
And that's all you got out of
the press release, which is no
bueno.
Right, well, we'll actually do a
press release when I get.
To, but now halfway is not going
to cover it.
They might.
They do a.
They do a correction.
OK, I bet you they don't cover
it.
Well they get in line behind
coop then.
They get what?
Yeah, they get in the line
behind Coop.
Oh, Coop's not covering it
either.
Coop has stopped covering us
completely.
I'm going to ask.
I should ask him about that.
Should ask him about that.
Hey, you didn't talk about the
SBC release.
Right.
Yeah.
Why didn't you release the SBC?
He'll say that halfway leaked it
before him, so he didn't want to
do it.
That's what he'll say.
How much you want to?
Bet they got it.
Both got it on the same day.
Charlie does not mess around.
No, it's pretty quick.
OK.
All right, we got another cigar
story.
Do you want to jump to?
What's the score?
Give me the cigar story.
My father blew the Garcia's
first Honduran cigar heads to
stores.
That's interesting.
My Father's again shipping.
The first new line made at the
company's new factory in
Honduras is called My Father
Blue, a color the company says
was chosen as a nod to Honduras
Flag Blend.
Wise uses a Connecticut
broadleaf Rosano wrapper over a
Honduran binder and under and
fillers.
The Honduran tobaccos were grown
at Fink.
Hold on, hold on back up.
What's the wrapper?
There is no backup.
Hold on, what's the?
It said.
Wrapper or her Dora?
Wait, you went with the
wrappers?
Hold on, not her in flag uses a
Connecticut Broadleaf risotto
wrapper.
OK.
Over a Honduran binder and
Honduran fillers OK.
The Honduran tobaccos were grown
at Finca la Opalencia, which is
a Garcia's family first farm in
Honduras.
The company describes the blend
as medium to full bodied.
It's offered in four box press.
Regular vitolas.
My father petite robusto, my
father blue robusto, my father
Toro and my father blew Toro.
Gordo, a little robusto.
A regular robusto.
A regular Toro.
A big Toro the Garcia what the
Garcia family, which is best
known for making cigars at its
factories in essely, Nicaragua,
opened the My Father Honduras
factory last year.
The family has been growing and
harvesting tobacco and Honduras
for multiple years ahead of the
opening of the rolling
operation.
In addition to the factories in
Central America, My Father also
operates a small rolling
operation in Doral, Florida.
Make it 1 of just a few
companies producing handmade
cigars in three countries all.
Right.
I mean, that's interesting.
I'd be I'd be curious to see
what it tastes like.
Yeah.
It's all it's all Honduran
filler and binder, so.
I just don't like the blue like
they already have the you.
Don't like the blue?
The Dom Pepin Blue.
Yeah.
So that kind of gets lost with
that.
Maybe it's a different color
blue?
Well, maybe.
It's a dark blue.
Like Gatorade's got two
different Blues.
It's a dark blue.
It's a dark blue.
The blue and the light blue.
The Don Papine is a dark darker
blue, but maybe it's a dark.
Maybe it's a different.
Shade.
I think it's lighter than the
Papine, the Papine blue.
Than the Papine.
Yes.
What about the Papine?
What?
About it.
Is it lighter than the papine or
just the papine?
Just the Papine.
Just the Papine, Yes, OK.
You having a stroke?
You OK today, Palmer?
Yes.
Sick as I get there, OK.
I'm fast forwarding.
Why are you fast forwarding?
I don't want you to Fast
forward.
Because this story's no good.
He's looking for the twist, the.
Story's no good?
Yes.
What was the story?
It was a cigar release that
Quesada Casa magnet Connecticut
Lance arrow you.
Don't want to cover it.
No.
Why not?
Because I didn't like it.
But you felt the need to pull
it.
You smoked it.
Well, I mean sometimes you fluff
stories in case you need more
time.
Got it.
'Cause when I at the time the
trendy news stories were very
thin yesterday, so I pulled more
cigar news and then this morning
we had more stories.
A boat a a poopy cola.
Yes, those weren't even trending
stories.
These are stories I had to go
find because the trendy stories
were weak or no.
Yeah, they're very weak.
There's a fire.
There was an earthquake.
Somebody died.
Those were not good at all.
No, those aren't.
It's the end of the world stuff
is.
What you're saying as we know
it?
Ginger just dropped his wallet.
All right, it's time for What's
the score?
We've changed it a bit.
I'm no longer reading the final
thoughts.
It gives away too much
information.
No it doesn't.
That's what you said last week,
he said.
You don't like the final
thoughts?
Who?
When did I say that?
So you're getting a fourth clue
instead.
No, I think I said I don't like
the final thoughts because
whatever they say about the
cigar on the three of them, then
when it's a final thoughts, it's
like completely contradicts
everything that they say.
Oh well, the two I pulled, they
said in the final thought
exactly they was too.
It was too much information.
What the score?
Was too much information.
I think that you need to consult
me before you just change the
game.
Last week you said you didn't
like the final thoughts.
You said they don't do me any
good.
I don't like them.
I I don't remember that.
I think I said that.
Nope, he said.
It no what I said was they will
write something about the final
thought and the the rating will
not match what they write.
Right, not the way I took it.
Yeah, that's exactly what I
said.
The clue from the final thought.
Did you mow the grass this
weekend?
Yes, mow the grass every
weekend.
I'm just making sure
everything's OK.
Ridiculous.
OK, all right.
And Charlie Minato, here's what
he did you.
Know what?
I'm just going to tell you the
score and take the the sucking
the fun right out of this damn
game.
It's.
No fun for me anyway.
You guys don't let me play.
You're so oh, that's.
What?
That's what you are, the baby
Billy of this.
Of this.
What is Baby Billy?
You know who baby Billy is,
right?
Just gemstones.
He had Bible bunkers.
You're baby Billy.
You want to do this or not?
Yeah, I.
Have a choice?
Yeah.
We have to do it, but I don't
like how you just change things.
Well, it's not OK.
When I'm the one that makes
their.
Storage, they like, do what I
want.
You're going to have to change.
You're going to have to change
it back.
I might change it again next
week to something.
Different.
No, you won't.
You remember I might have flash
cards or pictures.
You remember how they how they
kicked Wayne Brady off as the
host of Price Is Right.
Oh, but then the the OK, which
one do you do want to do it?
Have ginger slatten.
Then Ginger's got to pull the
reviews.
Yeah, no problem.
OK.
Oh, I can't wait for this.
I can't either.
All right, I'm going.
To put him in a white suit too.
Yeah, make his red hair really
pop.
Yeah.
Yeah, with a top hat.
Oh.
It's nice and I.
Want him to have like of those
and I want him to have like a
southern accent.
We have, we have one of those
suits.
Yeah.
Oh, come on, Dale all.
Right, baby Gingers, you want to
do this or not, baby?
Gingers half wheel.
I feel like the white suit would
be a lot better.
Yeah.
At this point, can we just put
Palmer in the white suit?
I have wet pants.
I don't have a white jacket.
We have it from Greg's wedding.
OK, you guys jackets are not
going to fit me.
Well, his has no arms.
Still not going to fit.
Me.
I did.
I cut this.
I threw mine out.
I think I'm going to keep that.
Cigar Review The Intemperance.
Volstead, 1920.
Fiorello La Guardia.
OK.
Country of origin is Nicaragua.
So we don't get The Guess Who
who did it.
Charlie Minato already said
that.
Did he say that?
I don't remember we we got off
on top.
That way so intemperance.
Yes.
Bolstead.
Yes, delicious.
Charlie.
Yes.
And this is recent or no?
Yes.
This is recent.
This is recent.
Within the past couple weeks,
yes.
OK, wait, you went first last
week?
Yeah, you go first.
Right, so I will go first.
Oh man, this is a tough one.
I'm going to go 91 boots.
I'd love the camera change
though when I change over to
Palm.
He's just so angry today.
He needs to take his vitamins or
something. 91, huh?
I mean, I this is one of my
favorite cigars.
Is it?
Yes.
I would think this thing would
definitely kick in the 90s.
OK, But these guys, like, the
way that they rate cigars is
just so crazy to me.
Like, they like a great cigar.
They're going to be like, ah, it
was 81.
It's like, all right, I'm going
to go 89 for Charlie, 'cause I
feel like he's tough.
All right, Yeah, all right.
The rappers Ecuador Sumatra
hybrid binders, Mexican San
Andreas fillers, Dominican
Republic Creojo and Nicaragua
Quindega Halapa and Pueblo
Nuevo. 6 inches by 54.
It's around $10.50.
Box of 24.
Release stays April 1st, 2025.
So this is a 6 by 54.
So the Toro, this is their Toro
release.
It's a regular production cigar
and they smoked the three
cigars.
All right, I'm going to crank it
down.
Oh wait, you're at 90.
I'm at 89.
He's at 89, I'll go 90.
Are you going to change?
No, I'm going to stick.
The aromas from the rappers are
surprisingly nondescript.
Wow.
And so this is the last one
because you say you're not going
to read final thoughts.
No, this is his first.
Clue.
This is the first clue. 4 clues.
OK.
I'm just OK.
Go ahead, Mikey.
I'm going to stick 90 I guess.
Yeah, we can't move.
There's nothing really changing
89.
Nondescript during the second
third, each cigar heads in a
different direction.
Palmer's angry.
I'm.
Not I did this yesterday.
It is.
It's Charlie.
All the comments are about the
nutmeg and the raisins and
everything else.
You're at 89.
Yeah, shit, I'm going to jump to
88.
I'm going to stick at 89.
The first cigar continues to
struggle with his combustion,
but the other two are able to
make it through the final third
without any need for a lighter.
88. 89.
I can't think of the last review
when I thought the first third
was what needed the most
improvement.
He can't think of a review when
he thought the first third was
what needed the most
improvement.
I guess I'm going to stick with
88.
This is a banger cigar and
there's really no description
description.
Well, you're giving it, but
you're looking at it and you're
giving it 89.
It's one of your favorite
cigars.
I think this thing should be
9596.
OK, so like but you have to rule
#2 rule #2 in life is be
reasonable in 9596 by Charlie.
It's just not reasonable.
Any of them.
So that's why I think I'm gonna
stick at 89.
OK.
Is that the final score or no?
Is that?
That was the fourth clue.
It's 88.
Oh boy, 2.5 now buddy on the
button.
Second Cigar was reviewed by
Patrick and it's a Black Label
trading company, Bishop's Blend
Robusto.
This thing better not.
Break it.
All right?
OK, hold on.
OK, So it's a Bishop's blend.
Yes, Patrick.
Yes.
And it's old.
Yes, this is an older one.
I'm going to go 90.
The way it's always going to
work, the first one is the more
recent one, second one's going
to be an older.
Well, the last week you did the
opposite.
Well, going forward.
No new rules.
Twist No, just to keep it
straight.
OK, 90.
I'm I'm gonna go 87.
OK.
Big difference.
Here, there is no way that this
thing if it breaks 90.
This is ridiculous.
This grading scale's ridiculous.
Factory is the Ovaya Negra
factory rappers Ecuadorian.
Wake up.
Get it together.
Stop.
Yelling at me.
No 'cause you're getting all on
me.
Rappers Ecuadorian Maduro
binders, Ecuadorian Habano
fillers, Connecticut broadleaf,
Nicaragua and Pennsylvania
Broadleaf.
Length is 5 inches.
Ring gauge is 48.
It's of a It's a robusto.
MSRP is $9.50.
Release date was July 2016.
Number of cigars released 150
boxes of 20 cigars.
Number of cigars smoked for
review 3.
Sticking to 90. 87.
Sticking to 87. 87 to 90 The
Black Label Trading Company
Bishop's Blend starts out with a
complex balance between sweet
milk chocolate and rich steak.
Sounds like he likes it.
I'm going to stick 90.
Yeah, but his like is still low
87.
OK, I had briefly forgotten
about how potent the retro Hells
were when I took my first one of
the second third.
He briefly forgot about how
potent the retro was.
Like 0 Intel on that clue.
I'm going to stick with 90.
This is a Black Label cigar.
This is a black.
Label Cigar. 87.
We don't score the ash of a
cigar, but if we did it would
have cost the bishops blend
point or two for being so weak
and unpredictable.
Unpredictable weak Ash.
I'm going to, even though he
wouldn't calculate that against
it.
I'm going to roll to 89.
I'm going to go to. 88 that way.
There's no gap.
That's stupid.
Now you're just playing the odds
now.
He's playing the numbers.
I find the lack of an apostrophe
in bishops to be almost
unsettling to my core.
Oh my Lord.
The lack.
With bishops, blend is BISHOPS,
he says.
It should be an apostrophe.
Because it belongs to the.
Nothing to do with the taste,
just how it's written.
Right, but it bothers him.
That would affect the score.
It angers him.
Yes.
You might have been better off
at 87 bro.
Yeah, this is such a boring
cigar that he has to kill.
The grammar I must stick 89.
Doing the grammar score.
I must stick 89. 87.
Is that the final score?
That was the final one.
OK. 94.
Are you kidding me?
I.
Knew his mistake is he's he's
thinking how he would rate it.
No, he's trying to think of how
it would rate for Patrick.
Well, no 'cause he keeps saying
if this is high, this is stupid.
These guys don't rate any.
There's only been one cigar
that's been over a 90 before
this.
The highest score they've ever
given is a 95.
What was it?
This was close to that.
I'm not telling you I might pull
it one day.
I went and looked for a higher
scoring cigars this.
Week the highest, So the
Bishop's blend clocked in a 90.
Four, I figured by the name and
stuff nobody would go to you
guys wouldn't.
Go the Bishop's Blend.
It's black with a red label.
No, no.
No, the black, is it the Black
Label cigar?
They're not normally mentioned
with the higher ratings.
Out of all the the 90 and above
cigars, Yeah, this is the only
one of theirs that was in there.
Yeah, this is the one.
Oh, this is the one.
Yeah.
Ah.
Gotcha you.
You gave me bad information with
your.
That's the whole idea.
That's not even fun though.
So we're not even really going
off of Patrick and them anymore.
We're going off of Palmer.
Not only are we going off of
Patrick and all them, but we
also have to go off of Palmer.
Yeah, because I'm going to try
to trick you into thinking
something else.
Because he's angry.
Because he's not playing.
I'm not angry they're not
playing, but I'm not going to do
it where I'm going to give you
all the nice stuff they say
because then it'll score high.
If it's a bunch of nice stuff,
maybe they didn't score it so
high.
If it's just bad stuff, maybe
they scored it high.
I'm trying to get you not to get
it.
You're just angry.
I'm not angry.
Well, I nailed the last one.
You did and then it's that score
went down and you got to an 88.
I was impressed.
Oh, and I impressed you.
Yes, All right.
You got to listen to the week,
Michael.
David Morris.
David Morris, Listener of the
Week.
Obviously.
Shop of the Week.
Shop of the Week.
Yes, Ramsey Cigar Smoke shop.
Well, they were last week's.
Yeah, they're going to be until
I get there.
I will be there this Saturday,
not Thursday, this Saturday,
July 19th.
Oh, it's July 19th.
I just got the day wrong.
Yeah.
Good.
That's correct.
All right.
That's better for the shipping.
Great.
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Show Notes
Welcome back to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast! It’s Episode 396, and we’ve got a wild ride ahead. This week, we have an update into the dramatic rescue of a young girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise. Then, over in Japan, Coca-Cola is getting things moving with a new fiber-packed soda that’s more gut health than guilty pleasure. Oh, and Elmo? Yeah… Elmo got hacked and went full chaos mode on X—definitely not brought to you by the letter “S.”
Plus, we’ve got cigar news hot off the presses—from Drew Estate’s summer Freestyle drop to My Father’s bold new Honduran blend—and a new twist to “What’s the Score!” with an extra clue and no spoilers.
Light up, sit back, and let’s get into it.