ACHP Episode 412 Killer Monkeys On The Loose

Episode Summary

Episode 412 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with the crew's usual off-topic news roundup — the escaped rhesus monkeys after a truck crash on a Mississippi highway (including the update where a Jasper County homeowner shot one), a Japanese human clinical trial testing rectal oxygen delivery, and a Week 9 NFL recap that the hosts have to fact-check on the fly after an AI-written summary gets the Chiefs–Commanders game wrong. They also cover Cam Little's 68-yard field goal record, the LA Dodgers celebrating the World Series with Ceniza Fina cigars, Stephen A. Smith holding a Padrón on SportsCenter, and the viral "Cigar Vandal" video about lighting a Rocky Patel.

House business includes the November 14th Pete Johnson private lounge event ($150 tickets, wine tasting, charcuterie, a Tatuaje sampler, a $35 box credit and a live Pete Johnson podcast interview), appearances on the Real Smoke Podcast, holiday apparel at chpod.com, Powstanie Mafia content including a War Bear box-work video, and a charity fundraiser with unreleased test blends as giveaway prizes.

The cigar news block is the meat of the episode: the Maldives becomes the first country to enact a generational tobacco ban (anyone born after January 1, 2007, including visitors) and the hosts push back on lumping cigars in with cigarettes; VegaFina's Year of the Horse 2026 limited edition (6x56, Ecuadorian wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, Dominican/Nicaraguan filler, made at Tabacalera de García, debuting in China); the Elie Bleu Fuente Fuente OpusX Angel Share Stairway to Heaven humidors at $17,500 with 60 cigars; General Cigar's Cohiba C8 returning as a 7x50 Churchill at $249.99; the Alec Bradley Fine & Rare 228, a 7x50 Churchill with ten tobaccos at $19.99 made at Raíces Cubanas; Arturo Fuente's Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Black Pink for TAA retailers; E.P. Carrillo's Battle Born veterans tribute ($22, Connecticut broadleaf, 2,500 boxes with dog tags); and J.C. Newman's TAA-exclusive "Brick House Is On Fire" Toro at $12. The crew debates how many limited editions a brand can release before the "LE" label loses meaning.

The show closes with "What's the Score?", where the hosts guess halfwheel review scores for two Tatuaje releases reviewed by Brooks Whittington — the Tatuaje The Mummy Redux (2025) and the original 2012 Tatuaje The Mummy — comparing how the reviews and the blend held up 13 years apart.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Pete Johnson Event & Show Announcements
   Details on the November 14th Pete Johnson private lounge event with Tatuaje samplers, a box credit, charcuterie and a live podcast interview, plus chpod.com holiday apparel and Powstanie Mafia perks.
2. 02
   Escaped Monkeys in Mississippi
   The crew breaks down the rhesus monkey truck crash near Heidelberg, Mississippi, the hazmat-suited search teams, and the homeowner who shot one of the fugitive primates.
3. 03
   Rectal Oxygen Human Trial
   A Nobel-winning line of research moves to human trials in Japan testing whether oxygen can be delivered through the intestinal wall for patients with blocked airways.
4. 04
   Week 9 NFL Recap & Cigars in Media
   Fact-checking an AI-generated NFL summary, Cam Little's 68-yard field goal, plus Ceniza Fina in the Dodgers' locker room, Stephen A. Smith with a Padrón, and the Cigar Vandal video.
5. 05
   Maldives Generational Tobacco Ban
   The Maldives becomes the first country to ban tobacco for anyone born after January 1, 2007 — including visitors — sparking a debate on cigars being lumped in with cigarettes.
6. 06
   VegaFina Year of the Horse 2026
   A 6x56 limited edition with a pigtail cap honoring the Paso Fino horse, Ecuadorian wrapper and Nicaraguan binder, $15.95, debuting in China before Germany and the rest of the world.
7. 07
   Big-Ticket Releases: Elie Bleu Humidors and Cohiba C8
   The $17,500 Elie Bleu OpusX Angel Share Stairway to Heaven humidors and General Cigar's return of the Cohiba C8 as a $249.99 Churchill.
8. 08
   New Cigars: Alec Bradley 228, Fuente Black Pink, Battle Born, Brick House
   Alec Bradley's ten-tobacco Fine & Rare 228, Fuente's TAA-first Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Black Pink, E.P. Carrillo's Battle Born veterans tribute, and J.C. Newman's Brick House Is On Fire.
9. 09
   What's the Score? Tatuaje The Mummy, Old and New
   The hosts guess Brooks Whittington's review scores for the 2025 Mummy Redux and the original 2012 Tatuaje The Mummy, comparing tasting notes 13 years apart.

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Transcript

Now we're going! Welcome back to another episode of the Cigar Hustler Podcast, where the smoke's always smooth and the news is anything but. This week's headlines are wild. We're talking about escape monkeys in Mississippi, a scientific breakthrough that might have humans breathing through their butts, and week nine, NFL recap where defense ruled and playoffs pictures got messy.

In the cigar world, the Maldives just banned tobacco for an entire generation. Karibas dropping a $250 cigar, Alec and Bradley's fine and rare is back with the most ambitious blend yet. So grab your favorite steak, light up and settle in from monkeys on the loose to oxygen in odd places. We've got everything trending this week right here on the Cigar Hustler Podcast.

A bing bong. But before we get started, this week on Thursday, Mike and I will be on opening cellophane during the podcast by the microphone. Opening cellophane, it's a new podcast. m.

Eastern Standard Time. Oh. Also that same night, if you are not at Siggy's Beer School, you can watch us, He's going to explain how you make your own beer at home. Oh.

Then on November 14th, Michael, what happens on November 14th? Why is that a special date in our life? I don't know. Why is it in special?

Because Pete Johnson will be here, Michael. This is where you talk about the Pete Johnson event. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pete Johnson event.

And his Johnson. He doesn't like those jokes. I know, he doesn't like those jokes. They're old jokes.

He doesn't like those jokes in his old life, but I think they're funny. It's very lame. It's all right, we're raw. Let's go.

Pete Johnson will be in the house for a private event down here in the private lounge. Tickets are $150. There's only Captain 24. They're a little over halfway gone at this point.

Oh, yeah. So you want to jump on it? I just want you to know, if you wait to the day of, the price goes up $7,000 to $250,000 and we only got to sell two of them. Donate to Star Wars Podcast.

Just kidding. If someone pays that, Greg, that money comes down here. No, but the ticket price goes up night of the event. If you want to get it ahead of time, you can jump on the site and get it there.

We're going to have a wine tasting, we're going to have a massive charcuterie board that Miss Brittany has been... From the Brittany Charcuterie Company? Yeah, from the Brittany Charcuterie Company. That's a good company.

Yeah. " Yeah, it's not exactly, it could not, but yes, we're going to do those things. Charcuteries do vary. Charcuterie does vary, but this one, I mean, it's going to be extravagant, extravagant.

Thank you. And then you get a $35 credit towards the Tatuaje box that night of the event, yep. Yeah, it's crazy. Not to mention, a Tatuaje sampler.

Yeah, you're going to get some cigars just for being here. A delicious sampler. I hear you get all the access to the private lounge, too. And yeah, full access to the Private Lounge that the day of the event.

The whole day. The whole entire day. The whole enchilada. Yep.

Oh. So, if you would like to join us on November 14th, please do. Log on to the site, check it out, and we'd love to have you here. Not to mention, I forgot one other thing.

What's that? The podcast. Oh! We're going to interview Pete Johnson.

Nice. And I have been doing my research. An intimate moment with Mikey and Pete. I have been doing my research, listening to all types of podcasts that had Pete Johnson on them.

Oh, so you've got the questions. I'm starting to develop them, yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's very good.

I won't let him do Metallica references as analogies, I'll shut that down instantly. Oh, does he do that a lot? He's done that a few times, among some other things. He likes Metallica?

Alex Metallica? I won't ask the simple, boring, same questions. How do you get into Chagun? He likes old Metallica.

He doesn't like new as much. Oh, okay. But I've heard it more than once on like two or three different podcasts at this point. So I'm going to be ready.

Nice. It's going to be epic. Make sure that you're here. Check it out.

Okay. Next. All right. Holiday season's almost here, Michael.

Oh, what's that? How do I get some of that CH Pod stuff for my family? Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Palmer.

com for sure. Buy one, get the second one 40% off. Gordos & Goblins is officially gone. Halloween's over.

Oh! Son of a bitch, I missed it. November is here. Man of Smoke is our newest one.

We have two special pieces of apparel coming in the upcoming weeks. What's wrong with your hands? They're very itchy. I don't know.

Yeah, I got like... He's dry. Yeah. He's dry.

You're doing a lot of scratching. Does it bother you? No, I just know you had that problem years ago. Yeah, no, it's here.

It's all, it's here again. Yeah, we got two special things going to be dropping soon. Should we do like a free shipper thing at a price point? What do you think about that?

What? No. No? Are you crazy?

You're giving one of them half off. What if we do like free shipping at a hundred bucks? You know what? Let's just ship them all for free.

You know what? Yeah, we should. You're right. Just give everybody everything for free.

What the hell? Let's do it. Going out of business sale, buy one, get 17 free. We are for the people.

All right, I'm going to work on a module. That's not true. We're not doing that. Go ahead.

Not 17 free. No, we're not doing it. I'm going to work on the module that gives you free shipping over $100 as well. Oh, yes.

If I don't have that done... Is that $100 full prices or if that's if I buy one and get one 45% off? No, if you buy one and get one 40% off and you're at $100, I don't understand how you get there, but if you're at $100, yeah, you get free shipping. All right.

What if you buy three? You're probably at $100. But you don't get two of them discounted, you just get the one. Just get the one discounted.

You get a discount. And free shipping. You get free shipping. We're, it's the holiday season and we're feeling generous.

We're going crazy! Yeah, we're going crazy, a wacky noo noo! Just kidding. Oh, wacky noo noo!

com. Also, uh, Polsania Mafia just dropped, we dropped that awesome video. Yes, I'm getting some angry phone calls from, uh, from shops. I want to know where they are because people are calling them.

Excellent. Because people that have won them are posting them. Yes, yes. And everybody thinks they're for sale somewhere.

I love that. That's what you want. You want to build it. Yeah, like you're a little angry.

They're coming soon. I'm getting angry. I mean, if you were an avid listener on the podcast, retailer, you would know. Right.

Exactly what's going on. You should play this podcast on your TV. So here, I'll clip that for you and then you can send it to him. Okay.

All right. Mike says this. Shump. If you would pay attention.

Pay attention to the podcast, you would know. Yes. com. Post on your Mafia on Facebook.

You should check it out. We dropped a video showing some box work for the War Bear, and it's really cool. So that'll be out to regular people probably in like a week or so, but if you want Inside Baseball, jump on Posandia Mafia. com, is the hat going to be coming out before Christmas or after Christmas?

Well, I just led up with this like this little teaser thing. We haven't leaked the information, there's even a hat coming, so thank you for that, we appreciate it. I thought we talked about it on the last show. He doesn't know what he's doing.

I want to see the hat. I do too. What are we doing for Patreon? I don't know, what are we doing for Patreon, Michael?

We're doing the shiny box. Are we doing the hooker? It's too shiny. It's the happy ending.

That's what you get after the hooker. Oh, that's the Robert Kraft aftermath. It's the rare pink. The rare pink.

Wow. At least you got something, which I can say about your dolphins. Move up a little. Right there.

Nope, back. Right there. Oh. Yeah, no, that's as good as it gets.

The light's on the gold there. The rare pinky pink. Did we have to buy the whole box? Yeah.

Oh, jeez. I did. All right, no more free shipping. He's right at my face.

You guys can have the extra ones. Put it on him throwing it. Oh wait, I'll throw you another one, just stay right there. No, no, no, go get it.

That's fine. Oh my God. His catching ability is... He hit the microphone.

He looks at it like it's frail or something. Well, I can't see the lights in my eyes. Oh, yeah, look at him. Oh, his hands are so big, he can't catch another one.

My hands are pretty big. What did you say? He said his hands are... Wait, he's got...

Oh, you give him his... Bam! Damn! Yeah, give me the extra ones.

I got you. That's what he said. We get two happy endings. We get two happy endings.

Oh, he's so nice. He gives us both two happy endings. I'm very generous. Very generous with his happy endings.

Someone go get me a towel. Oh. All right, we're ready to go? Yeah.

All right, now trending stories this week. Oh, now trending stories this week. Sorry, it's broken up funny on the screen. Search is on for three escaped monkeys after a truck overturns on the Mississippi Highway.

Three monkeys remained on the loose Wednesday. As searchers en masse, face shields, and other protective gear scoured fields along Rule, Mississippi Highway, where a truck carrying the primates overturned a day earlier. Why with face shields? Well, they say they're not dangerous, but these guys looking for them are dressed up in like hazmat suits.

Right. It remained unclear who owns the monkeys, who was transporting them, and where they were being taken when the truck crashed on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg. Authorities have said most of the 21 monkeys were killed on impact, but haven't elaborated on just what occurred. The Jasper County Sheriff's Department has said animal experts from Tulane University examined the trailer Tuesday evening and determined three monkeys had escaped.

The truck was carrying rhesus monkeys, which typically weigh about 16 pounds and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet. Did you say rhesus? Rhesus. Because he's very excited.

It sounded like he said racist. Oh, rhesus. I thought I heard Reese's. R-E-S-U-S.

Anybody smell like something's burning? Well, it's probably a cigar. It smells like wires, though. Oh, well, yeah.

The whole place is burning down. It's Dominican tobacco. No, you're about to have a stroke. Oh, again.

Yeah. Gotta be on camera. Video recorded after the crash showed monkeys crawling through tall grass beside the interstate where wooden crates labeled live animals were crumpled and strewn about. The truck was no longer on the scene Wednesday, but the searchers in gear, including white coats, gloves and hairnets were checking fields aided by law enforcement officers.

Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson said, Tulane officials reported the monkeys were not infectious, despite initial reports by the truck's occupants that they were infectious. No, no, everything's fine. No, everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

Nonetheless, Johnson said the monkeys still need to be neutralized because of their aggressive nature. The monkeys were being housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center, which routinely provides primates to scientific research. The research center is located in Covington, Louisiana, about 40 miles north of New Orleans. The 21 monkeys had recently received checkups confirming they were pathogen-free.

Tulane said in a statement, "Wednesday, the university said it wasn't transporting the monkeys and didn't own them, but sent a team of animal experts to help with their care. If anyone sees monkeys, they should call the authorities and shouldn't approach the animals," the sheriff's office has warned. Wow. So first they say they don't know where they're going, who they belong to and why they were in the truck.

Right. 40 miles away. And then Tulane says, but they just had... But they're fine.

But they're fine. We just examined them the other day. They're fine. There's nothing wrong with any of them.

Yeah. How does... Again, same scenario. I don't understand how people don't ask questions about any of this.

It just doesn't make any sense to me. Well, apparently I've heard they have everything from COVID to AIDS. Yeah, that was a... To...

I saw that. Everything. I mean, it doesn't take long for Instagram and... No, were able to just start taking over.

And the vehicle was overturned? Yeah, and it crashed on the highway. I don't understand the whole, the transportation of monkeys in the semi, that in itself. Yeah.

Well, I think it was just, I didn't see the truck, was it an actual semi? Three monkeys? I don't know. I think it was just like a little box truck.

It was a little box truck instead? Yeah. Well, if they're dangerous, you don't put them, we're going to put them in a van, everybody strap in, we're going on a ride. And what exactly, how did the crash occur?

Nobody's talking about the crash, just the monkeys. Was he texting? Sounds like a movie. Maybe one of them attacked him.

That's usually how it happens in the movies. Right. One gets loose in the truck. And then there's an outbreak.

That is how outbreak started, actually, the movie. The monkey attacked the person in the car? Monkey attacked a little girl after he got loose from the airport. Ah.

And it was these rhesus monkeys are little spider monkey things. So it's not the same story? Not yet. So these are spider monkeys, not like real chimpanzees?

They're not like chimpanzees. They're rhesus monkeys, which are, you know, the chocolate-covered peanut butter. Yeah, they have peanut butter interior. Oh.

So we don't know who, so we don't know who owned the monkeys. Nobody's coming forward. We don't know. Why they were moving them.

Why they were moving. We don't know how the accident occurred. But we do know that the monkeys are fine. No, there's still three missing.

Yes, but they're a threat. But they're not a threat. They're aggressive. Make sure you wear a face mask when you approach these things.

Yeah, but the people looking for them wearing face shields, which is a clear thing. A COVID mask underneath, hairnets, white suits, rubber gloves, but the monkeys are fine. But the monkeys are fine. Everything's fine.

Oh, they got monkey pox. We're fine here. Monkey pox, right. But we have an update.

Something happened over the weekend. Oh, here we go. Update. We have an update.

Jasper County, Mississippi. This just in. What started as a calm Sunday morning in rural Mississippi exploded into chaos when one of the escape monkeys from last week's highway truck crash was spotted prowling through a quiet neighborhood near Heidelberg. Oh.

At dawn, Jessica Bond Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef and mother of five, was jolted awake by her 16-year-old son shouting, "Mom, there's a monkey in the In the yard. No more monkeys jumping on the bed. Wow. Before stepping outside, Ferguson called the police who told her to keep an eye on the animal.

But fear began to rise. She worried that the monkey slipped away. It could endanger other children nearby homes. This is a quote from her.

She unloaded on the monkey. If it attacked somebody's kid and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me, Ferguson said. It's kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around and people have kids playing in their yards. Determined to protect her family, Ferguson grabbed her phone and her firearm.

And crept outside into the early morning stillness. There it was, the fugitive primate, standing about 60 feet away, illuminated by the faint glow of her porch light. She took it out, thank you. Residents had been warned that the escape monkey might carry diseases.

Acting on instinct, Ferguson fired! Bang! And did what any other mother would do to protect her children, she said. The first shot startled it and it ran, but the second shot brought it down.

She hit it moving. She hit it moving, guys. Standing still, she missed. Moments later, the Jasper County Sheriff's Office confirmed a homeowner had shot one of the missing monkeys.

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks soon arrived to take possession of the animal. Two monkeys are still at large. Do you think they're going to go to her house? Not now.

Not now. They know she's packing. They're terrified. Yeah, they saw Frank get fucking dropped.

Hey, look, there's Frank. Oh, my God, he shot him. Run the other way, Bob! Do you think she did the right thing, shooting the monkey?

Oh, yeah! Yes? Sure. Monkey see, monkey do?

Well, I mean, we don't know where the monkeys are from. We don't know where they were going. We don't know why they were transporting them. Right.

People looking for them are in hazmat suits. Right. I'm shooting that monkey. I think, yeah.

What about you? Yeah, I'm dropping it. I'm the 16-year-old son. I would have shot the monkey before I woke mommy up.

So, 60 feet away, she missed the first shot. It's standing still, illuminated by the porch light. Illuminated by the porch light. And then when it started to run, I'm like, oh my god, I'm being shot at.

I think she needed a challenge. First shot in the air. Right. Warning shot.

It's a chase. He's been moving. There he goes. Now I'm going to get him.

Moving target. From Mississippi. What do you think the firearm was? Rifle?

There's no, I think it's a pistol. Probably a 9mm. I think she came in. What state is this in?

With a handgun? Mississippi. Yeah, maybe a long rifle. Well, I mean, you would think homeowner, Mississippi, maybe a shotgun, But that's kind of a hard shot at 60, I mean, I'm no, no guy, no gun expert, I think, 60 feet with a shotgun, is that a hard hit?

You gotta hit with a buckshot. You ever seen Dave Chappelle? You would know the difference with the different bullets. Well, I know the difference between buckshot and like a slug.

Well, don't you shoot with like the discs? Don't you do disc shooting with a shotgun? Uh, skeet shooting? Yeah, that's true.

Skeet shooting. Yeah. I guess you're right, that's 60 feet. You do, yeah.

Pull! Right. Maybe it's what she yelled, and then the 16 year old clapped his hands. Right.

Yeah. I can only do it this way. I don't think it was a handgun. No?

No. I think it was either shotgun or rifle. Why do I hear music? Part of my stroke?

I don't know. Yeah, no, what music? Great. Okay.

Here, continue forward. All right, human truck. One monkey down, two to go. Two monkeys to the large.

Two little monkeys. If you see a monkey, please do not take things into your own hands. Either shoot it or call us here at the show. Two little monkeys not jumping on the bed.

Ah, jumping on her bed. Please call us while you're shooting it. I got your monkey. She had her phone.

There's got to be video footage. Why would she grab the phone first? She was on the phone with the police. I grabbed my phone and my gun so I could videotape it.

I got these out here. I'm going to shoot 'em. I have monkeys on my swing chat. I got a monkey out here.

I need to take care of it. Is this how people in Mississippi talk? Yes. I've never been to Mississippi so...

How should we know? Human trials bring us closer to breathing through our butts. What? I love this story for you to pull here.

You were really excited about this. Yeah, you were. I like the monkey story better. You wanted to share this with them.

We may be a step closer to being able to breathe through our butts. A new human clinical trial has shown that it's safe at least to deliver oxygen rectally. It sounds like a joke and indeed the research that led to the trial won a Nobel Prize for physiology last year, but there's a good reason behind it. If proven effective, it could become a backup, pun not intended, method for providing oxygen to patients with blocked airways.

Think about it. I mean, you know, your crushed airway, just take a pipe up your ass and they can give you a breath through the butt. The work isn't entirely without precedent. Animals like pigs, rodents, turtles, and some fish are known to be capable of butt-chugging oxygen when the need arises.

The process is called internal ventilation and researchers envision that it is the case that in the case of humans, it would involve delivering a pre-fluorocarbon liquid The idea is that oxygen passes through the intestinal walls and makes its way into the bloodstream, bypassing any issues a patient may have breathing the more traditional way. The first clinical trial wasn't testing how well the method worked, it just focused on whether it was safe. To that end, 27 healthy male volunteers in Japan were tasked with holding between 25 and 1,500 milliliters of a non-oxygenated version of the liquid in the rectum for 60 minutes. 60 minutes in the butt?

60 minutes. So you basically you get in an enema and you got a hold for it. Have you ever had an enema? No.

You cannot hold that for 60 minutes. So these Japanese-es, right? These Japanese-es. Yes, yes.

These Japanese-es. These Japanese-es. So these guys were okay with this. That's the way they say it Mississippi, just so you know.

Right. Yeah. I'm sitting here thinking to myself, how the fuck did this get tested? It was death by bufo is what it was.

" Yeah, like, here, we're gonna make him stop breathing real quick, alright? Stop breathing, and cut the throat real quick. Well, then you have to make some type of oxygenated liquid, and that's the way you're gonna get it, but these guys just held a liquid in their butt for 60 minutes. Right.

The next trial, we use a properly oxygenated version of the liquid and test how much and for how long... Okay, so I get it now. So the first trial was can we hold the liquid in our butts for 60 minutes? Correct.

Without it doing anything. Without, yeah, just holding it. Yeah. Don't squirt it out.

We're just laying there with a tube in my butt for 60 minutes. That's amazing. That's amazing. They found 27 Japanese's willing to do it.

Japanese's. So, you know, how do we get boots on this trial? No, I'm not getting on this trial. I was assuming he's already tried, but he was over in France at his, you know, at his place he likes to go to.

You mean in Germany? Is it Germany? I know it was somewhere over there. Maybe there's one in France too.

Maybe there is. Maybe it's a subsidiary. Maybe this is only in Japan. All right, the second test will determine how long it needs to be held with no clinical improved patient's blood oxygen levels.

So next time they'll do it and they'll do the put the thing on your finger, see if your blood, see if your oxygen. Oxygen lowers? Right. No, it goes up.

You want it to go up. Could you imagine the scientist testing this out the first time? Because he had to test it out for himself first. You think so?

Yeah, that's how he came up with the idea. No way. No way. You think he was just like, you know what, if I put a tube in someone's butt, I wonder if they can breathe?

Yes. Well, wait, I mean, you've heard of butt chugging where the college kids put the alcohol up their butt. Yeah. It's the same idea, you're just absorbing the oxygen instead of the alcohol.

So the very first test was on somebody, there's no way that it was on somebody else. It started. I think he tested on himself. You think it did to himself?

Not maybe his partner, maybe it's a two-man team? It started in stuff. Oh, it's two men. Two Japanese's.

Two Japanese's. So the research was published in the Journal of Medical Research. Oh, it was published? It's been published, yes.

The guys won a Nobel Prize. They won a Nobel Peace Prize for physiology. So just so everybody knows, if you can't breathe, you're gonna get a tube right in your butt. You're gonna get a tube, you get that liquid oxygen up your head.

You know what is kind of interesting, though, is from a scientific standpoint, like, if you figured out a way to get oxygen into the bloodstream without breathing, Right. Right. And you still have the option to breathe. How would you mentally convince yourself to stop breathing?

Right. Like hold your breath. You know what I mean? For the research?

Or if you can't do it? Well, just in both, in like both kind of... I imagine they'll do something to make you stop breathing. That's what I was saying.

What would they do? Put tape on your mouth and pinch your nose? I don't know. Put tape on your mouth and pinch your nose?

So that you can't breathe? Me, me, me, me. No, but like, I mean, it could be revolutionary. It could change things for us.

They could change things for us. They could. Maybe these people all have trachs. I mean, imagine if you were like diving or something and you, you know, you didn't want to go encapsulated in air.

I'm sure that that would change things if it was liquid based of some sort. Do you remember Abyss? You're swimming around with a hose. So you're telling me that you can really become Aquaman?

Yes. Aquaman. Only the Japanese's. Aquaman with a tank with a hose sticking out of his ass.

Yeah, but why do you care? We've already got the underwater part, but you get to do it through the top half. We want you to touch the deepest part of the ocean. How are we gonna do that?

Shove this up your ass. Oh! Then jump in. It's a good South Park episode right there.

The weight of the tank will draw you to the bottom. It'll be fun. We're going to fill you. Yeah!

Whee! Woo-hoo! Week 9 NFL Snapshot. Oh, thank God we're past that.

He was getting excited over there. No, I was not. He was like talking about things in his butt. He was.

The Kansas City Chiefs pulled away in a dominant fashion with a 28-7 win over the Washington Commanders, giving them their third straight victory and solidifying their momentum. Wait, who? Kansas City Chiefs. Played who?

Washington Commanders. Did that happen? That did not happen. That did not happen.

Oh, good. We're back to this type of thing. They played the Bills and they lost. I'm like, wait a second.

Apparently, Chad GPT likes the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs are amazing. Meanwhile, the Detroit Lions nearly fell victim to the Minnesota Vikings. Did that happen?

Did the Lions play? The Vikings won. Yeah, the Lions didn't play the Vikings, because I think the Lions won. This says the Lions were beat by the Vikings.

You're going to make me look now. Holy moly, dude. 27 to 24. I was putting out Christmas decorations, so I didn't watch any games.

They were all horrific, so I started turning them off. Were they horrific? Yeah, they were horrible games. Is there even a team called the Las Vegas Raiders?

That's a real team. There is a team. Oh my goodness. And they lost to the Jaguars.

Um, yes, 30-29. That is correct. That one's correct. The Seahawks beat the Commanders.

The Vikings did beat the Lions. Okay. So the only one that was wrong was the... Kansas City.

Kansas City did not. So the only one was wrong was the first one. Is Kansas City played the Bills and Seahawks played the Commanders. Yeah.

Oh. Are there any quarterback injuries? That's next. Go ahead.

Yeah, let's hear it. Quarterback injuries are becoming a concern. One team is now dealing with a dislocated elbow. So, for the starter, altering their trade deadline posture.

Who is it? It doesn't say. I didn't ask for no names, it just doesn't give a mouth. I think they're referring to Jaden Daniels.

They are definitely referring to Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels from Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels. Oh, and now we have a bell.

Oh, nice. Yeah, it's a go with, you know, Run DMC out there. Are you still switching buttons? Yeah.

Okay. No, he's just giving that part up. Defensive winning games, several squads locked down. Mike, after slow starts and pulled away, emphasizing that the 20-25, it's not just about flashy offense anymore.

I heard that Jamar Chase, so the Cincinnati Bengals played the Chicago Bears, and the Bears won by like five points. It was like 47-42 or something. And Jamar Chase was heard in the hallway. You just needed to make one fucking stop.

He was so pissed off. Yeah, it was, it was kind of crazy how much they, both teams scored. I mean, the Bears, I would think, would score. Yeah?

I didn't think the Bengals were gonna even toe-to-toe with them. They got one of the best wide-outs in the league. Yeah, but, we got Flacco in the pocket. He's gotta feed the guy.

He's gotta feed the one guy. You know? Mm-hmm. Um, there was a new field goal record set.

Yes, there was. Cam Little of the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the previous record by three yards, I think it was. 68-yard kick. Yeah, it was an amazing kick.

Yeah. I don't like the Jaguars, though. They started off hot, and they're kind of fizzling out. No, Liam Cohen did my Bucs dirty.

I'm not, you know. No. The Bucs were on a bye, weren't they? Correct.

They were on a bye. And next week, they get to play the Patriots of New England. Oh, Drake, man. The Patriots.

So. Okay. Is that it for NFL News? It's it for NFL News.

Do you have a video for us, I understand? I do, but before I get into that, I keep getting these texts from my wife, and I better address this. Address it. " Yes, ma'am.

I have a donation for my kids. This is our annual thing where we do a little fundraiser. We'll attach the link into the YouTube page below, and what we will do is, anybody who donates, if you donate a dollar, if you donate $5, $10, whatever, every time, a donation will act as an entry, And we're going to give out some test blends that I have upstairs. We'll probably do three different sets of giveaways for stuff that is not currently on market and maybe some other little goodies too, we'll see.

So wait, just to clarify, the donation gets them into a drawing for a test blend? Yes. Okay, it doesn't automatically get them a test blend. No, it doesn't automatically get you a test blend, but it is for a good cause for my kids' school and I'm behind the eight ball.

Jake Paul, she's been yelling at me about this for a little while, so apparently I have to carry the team, so if you guys could help me, I would greatly appreciate that. Yes, and yes, I do have a video for us to view. You too, there, Mr. Bootsy?

Did you send it to me? I did. Oh. It's in our group text, the three of us.

I love, I thought, I want you to watch this. The guy in the mask? Yes, the guy in the mask. We're all watching that now.

This hasn't been epic, because the beginning, how to light a Rocky Patel cigar. Yes, I knew it. I knew it was going to happen. I follow that guy also.

I don't know how I found him, but yes. Me neither. And apparently, he goes to the shows. He goes to the PCA.

Yes. Vandal? " Oh, just so you know. Because he doesn't have the mask on at the show.

I'm the vandal. I'm like, "Oh my God! " Uh, I thought that- Guys, guys, it's the vandal! I thought that that video was hilarious.

Yeah. It is. It's funny. It's funny.

Because it's, well, yes, it is hilarious. You know, if somebody did it with Powstanie, it wouldn't upset me. It would have still been funny. " A little more offended, but it would have been funny.

Yeah, I would have been offended. I don't know if I'd really get offended. No? " You know what I mean?

And then I'm just moving on. " Well, we could do one, how to talk to the, what's his name, Vandal? Is that what Vandal? Yeah.

And then we burn a mask. Then we burn a mask? Yeah. No, I don't want to do that.

But now it's Rocky Patel's problem. Look, it was funny because what Mikey said about him, He's not going to do that. He's going to smoke that. Right.

There was a reason why he threw that in the can. Yeah. Okay. How does he smoke it after he throws it in the fire completely?

I don't understand. He didn't smoke it. I know. I know.

It smokes as it's burning. Oh, and you just inhale. I love that. The guy's got great video quality.

Yeah. Yeah. He's got a good beat in the background. Kudos to Cigar Vandal, man.

Yeah. I have no idea who you are, Mr. Vandal. It's a show.

He's commented on stuff before. But your hat. My hat. I tip my hat to you.

Yes. My hat. I tip my hat to you. I tip my hat to you.

A couple other things that I saw that I don't have videos for, but number one, you didn't even cover the World Series. Yeah. We only do NFL. We don't do sports.

I did sports one week. You guys got mad. Those are some, it was pretty epic games throughout and like game seven was huge. A guy named Will Smith saved the day for the LA Dodge.

Oh, Fresh Prince of LA. For the LA Dodge. However, I did see some video of inside the locker room, the LA Dodgers, and they were smoking Ceniza Finas. Yes, I saw that video too.

Somebody shared that. I think Mitch did actually. Yeah, so I reposted it. I saw it as well.

It's pretty awesome. That's really cool to see a brand that's, you know, smaller in the whole industry. Right. And they're being promoted on that platform.

So if they're good enough for the LA Dodgers, they're definitely good enough for you, buddy. So check them out. Check out Ceniza Fina. Watching SportsCenter this morning, Stephen A.

Smith was holding a Padrón. Oh. Yeah. In studio?

Yeah, he's down, he's at location for Dallas, the Dallas Cardinals game. Oh, okay. So he's holding the Padrón and it's kind of, and it can be awkward at times. Like you can see that he doesn't know what to do with it.

They need like a person on set to show them how to kind of handle, navigate through that. Yeah. You know, but it was cool to see see it see cigars and media yeah because we need more of that right we need more of that we need more exposure more and hey if it's going to be padrona i don't care what it is you know i will be honest as i smoke in different areas um i'm seeing younger people come in and start to smoke um i wasn't seeing that you know five six years ago i i mean to me i think it makes sense because Because you're in a world that's becoming more and more technologically advanced, right? There's more things that separate us as humans that, you know, even though it's social media, there's still a barrier there, right?

Sure, yeah. And there is no barrier with cigars. You get to hang out and smoke cigars, right? So, I think it's great for society.

So, you know, to see it with Stephen A. Smith in his hand, I'm like, oh shit, okay, that's good. This is a good thing. More of this, please.

So, I saw that, and I wanted to share that with you guys. Nice. The other one that I thought was kind of wild was a little off-base. I'm okay with off-base.

Do you know who iShowSpeed is? Nope. iShowSpeed? Yeah.

No idea. You don't know who iShowSpeed is? No. Okay, well, he's pretty big on YouTube and Instagram and all these things.

Okay. He's really fast. He raced a guy that I met by the name of Ashton. Ashton fell a couple times, got smoked by iShowSpeed.

He got stuck in his Halloween costume, where his mask, he dressed up as like an evil flash, like Bizarro Flash or something, and he had a skull face on, and his skull face was stuck to his face. What, he used glue? I don't know. I don't know.

But, you know, he got it removed from him. He went to wherever he went and got it fixed. The mask removal place? The removal place?

Yeah, I mean, he had, like, a team of people that went over and got it fixed, but... He must have glued it on somehow. I thought that was pretty wild. Yeah.

Like, that's pretty committed. Did it move when he talked, like, the jaw thing? Yes, it did. So he must have had it attached to it, so there wasn't a back piece or anything?

He had, like, a helmet thing on, too. So weird. Yeah, it was... You know what, it keeps coming off, just glue it on, it won't stick.

Yeah. It'll be fine. That was pretty wild. Oh, shit, I gotta take it off.

Yeah. Yeah, when I saw that today... Alright, the night's over, let me get... Oh, shit, it won't come off.

I saw that today. I was like, damn. Yeah. That's not, that's no bueno.

Yeah. But at least he could have smoked a cigar in that. Yeah. Maybe that's why he glued it on, so he could still smoke it.

That's probably why he did it, yeah. It's really hard to smoke a cigar in a mask. Yeah. All right, so anyways, carry on.

Those are my little things that I noticed that I wanted to share with you guys. Nice, thank you. Briefly. Okay, well, thank you.

You're welcome. You're welcome. All right. All right, now I'm into the world of cigars.

Maldives generational tobacco ban goes into effect. Perfect. So you can't smoke cigars there at all? Well, at a certain age.

Let's read on. Let's just relax for a moment. Okay. The Maldives has become the first country in the entire world to implement a generational tobacco ban, meaning that people born after a certain date will no longer be able to purchase, sell, or use tobacco products, including vaping products.

As of today, anyone born after January 1st, 2007, will be prohibited from purchasing tobacco products. Oh. So, what age does that make them? Boots?

Mr. Math is hard. Uh, 31. That's not right.

2007? 2007. So, they have to at least be under 25. Yeah.

Minus 7. They're not under 25. This is 2025. Yes, they are under 20.

Yes, they are under 25. So, they have to be under 25. If they were born in 2000. Oh, I was born in 87.

I was thinking 97. They would be 25 years old. But it's 2007. But this is for 2007.

Right. So if you just took 25 and minus the 7, it would put you at, yes, it would put you at 18. Yeah. Very good.

That's good. I'm still listening to this music. Do you guys hear this? No.

No. What music? Stop. No.

Whatever. It's not stopped. Crazy. Today, we take a historic step towards tobacco-free Maldives, wrote First Lady Mohammed in a post on X.

As a healthcare advocate, I applaud the government's leadership in launching the generational ban on tobacco. What healthcare? A power... What?

There's no evidence. The Maldives Healthcare. Yeah, there's no evidence that says that cigars or smoking a cigar day is bad for you. A powerful investment in the well-being of generations to come.

This is a bold, evidence-based step to break the cycle of addiction and prevent diseases. We are securing a healthier, stronger future for our youth, a proud moment for the Maldives. Here, eat this microwavable cuisine. We have these rations for you.

Yeah. Here, microwave this food, idiot. Their prohibition also applies to visitors to the island. Microplastics.

Visitors? Visitors, that's new. Jeez. Which is located in the southwest of the southern tip of India in the eastern Arabian Sea, in which is home to approximately 528,000 people.

This island is home to that many people? Yes. Are we talking about the place where they have these little huts? Yeah, I think this is where all the overwater bungalows are.

Oh, really? They're big down there, yes. Are you sure? Yes.

Yeah, the Maldives. S. dollars? S.

dollars? S. dollars. I don't know if they had Maldivian money.

$500. I was going to say $5,000. $3,200. Really?

Such an odd number. Yeah, that is weird. This is the place with the huts. Oh, thank you very much.

Country in South Asia. Vegafina, Year of the Horse, 2026. Oh, wait, did we want to talk about this? I mean, you yelled during, so.

Yeah, I mean, this is kind of obnoxious, dude. It is obnoxious. She says she has proof. You know, the funny part to me, too, is like, even when I have conversations with people, we still get lumped into cigarettes.

You know? Oh, cigars? Yeah, I mean, cigars aren't addictive. She says, you know, break the addiction.

Break the chains of addiction. Allegedly, yeah. Allegedly. Oh no, she said that.

" I said, "Okay, but, like, that's two different things. " Right, right. " Right. Yeah, that's perfect.

I like that. Yeah, fair analogy. like oh sweets no yeah yeah yeah no no nothing sweet my kids had a problem with chocolate right exactly so we had we had how do we get there so like i mean i never smoked cigarettes i did for a brief semester in college but i didn't like it yeah i've never the only thing i've ever smoked other than cigars is penis nope oxygen up your butt nope oxygen up your butt that's brand new by the way german sausage no no it's hookah that's it oh so indian penis was it with like a did it have a phallic plastic thing on the top of it was the guy behind you going the cup was it the bowl yeah there was it were there two balls on it no did you have to hold it there was not two balls you sure yeah it's okay man i'm okay with it if you're okay with it we won't judge i'm sure you're okay with it but i'm not gonna judge you that's messed up because there are a lot of good people in this world and they just all have different opinions well that's their opinion and they need to keep it to themselves oh i don't think they need to keep it to themselves All right, moving on, you guys stop arguing about whether or not he's homosexual. Vegafina Year of the Horse, 2026, launching next month.

Kirk is coming for you. In November, Vegafina's Year of the Horse, limited edition, will launch. It's not just named after the upcoming Year of the Horse, it's a tribute to the Paso Hegway. We like horses.

A native breed in the Dominican Republic. As for the cigar, it measures 6x56 and has an elongated pigtail, Which the brand says mimics a horse's tail. The name of the Vitola is listed as Higuai Blend-wise. It uses an Ecuadoran wrapper over a Niki Raguan binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

Like most Vega fiends, it's made in Tabla Calera, De Garcia in the Dominican Republic. Production is limited to 4,300 boxes of 16 cigars. In Germany, where Boots goes to clubbing, which was controlled pricing each year, will be priced at US dollars. Gentlemen, how much is this cigar?

Mmm. I have Euros and US, but we'll go with US. Who made it again? Vegafina.

No, he said Garcia. Vegafina. The factory is James Garcia's factory. I would say $12.

Boots? Yeah, I'm gonna go $13. 95. Yes.

The Vegafina Year of the Horse 2026 will debut in China. Which one? China. It'll debut in China.

The local distributor, before heading out to other international markets, as with many other cigars, made to honor the symbols of the Chinese zodiac calendar, it leaned into some familiar themes. The packaging is red and gold, colors that are associated with wealth and prosperity in China. Sixteen count boxes uses two rows of eight, because eight is a lucky number in China. So it's only being released in China?

It's being released in China first, and then in Germany, and then the rest of the world. There you go. You excited about that? You can get it at your club in Germany if it didn't close.

Didn't close. I don't think I've ever smoked a mega-fina. Lost. I think I've had one, but many, many, many, many years.

Yeah, usually. Interesting. All right, Ellie. What?

Yes? We should have made a cigar called The Horse's Head. Like Godfather's. Oh, Godfather's?

You know, like Year of the Horse. Horse's Head. What a great idea. It's not too late.

Then we slide it in? It's for next year. It's for next year? The horse is next year.

Think there's time? Probably not. I get Skip on the phone. Skip would probably be like, no.

Immediately, skip. Start making something shaped like a horse. Skip, I want to make the... No, don't make the cigar shaped like a horse.

Oh, no? Who was the guy? Like, he loved his horse. It was Godfather 1, right?

Yeah. And he chopped it. Oh, oh. Yeah, it was a legit horse's head in the movie.

Oh, was it really? It wasn't a... Yeah. They killed a horse in the movie?

I think it was a dead horse. Oh, they... Quick, get on the phone. We need a dead horse.

We need a dead horse, yeah. Oh, man, PETA had... It seems like a PETA problem. Yeah.

That was back in the 70s. You could do whatever you wanted. Oh, PETA wasn't created, though. Yeah, you could do whatever you wanted back then.

Yeah, we didn't have- Cut it up right on the camera, it'd be fine, nobody cared. We didn't have feelings back then. Right. Is there a grill around here?

Can we use the rest of this? Jesus. Somebody cook this thing up, put it in the hospitality suite. Yeah.

Give it to the Japanese's. The Japanese's. See if the Japanese's went some. Aliyah Blue, is that how you pronounce it?

Elie Blue, we've done this three times now. Oh! Eli Blue shipping Opus Angel Share Stairway to Heaven Humidor. Correction from Boots.

Tomorrow, Reyes International will begin shipping the new Eli Blue Opus X Angel Share Stairway to Heaven Humidor. Previewed earlier this year, the new humidors are the latest collection between Eli Blue, the French humidor maker, and Arturo Fuente. For this release, the two companies have created a pair of humidors. They are identical, other than their outside color.

So, they're not really identical. They look exactly the same, except they're different. They're different. They're both squares.

Centered around the Opus X Angel Share brand. The humidors are made by Ellie Blue at his workshop in Paris. 14 inches. Obviously in millimeters, but they put it in English for us, for freedom measurements.

Oh, thank you. And are offered in either natural or red sycamore wood. The humidors feature many of the standard Ellie Blue features. What's the standard LE Blue feature?

Blue. I don't know. Blue? Designed to be used with two Boveda 320-gram humidor packs, which are held in place by a magnetically attached wooden cover that goes inside the lid.

Oh. Each humidor comes with 60 Fuente Fuente Opus X Angel Shared Stairway to Heaven, a 7 1/4 by 56 Figurado. S. Distributor for LE Blue says that the Vitola will never be released outside of these humidors.

Never again. However, if you purchase a humidor, you still can buy some extras. You can buy more. Oh, refills.

120 more cigars divided into two 60 cigar shipments over the next two years. Each humidor has an MSRP of? It's probably ridiculously expensive. Boots?

Let's go to Boots first. I went first last time. I'm going to go with, his Padrón one was what, like 12 grams? Seven million dollars.

I'm going to go with 12 grams. I was going to say 25k. 17,500. Wow.

Arturo Fuente introduced the Angel Share line in 2012, an extension of the Opus X brand. Cigars are known for a lighter tobacco than is taken from the middle of the plant, leaves that Arturo Fuente says are sweeter. The name is commonly used term in the liquor industry refers to the amount of liquid that is lost in the barrels as the spirit ages. Over time, distillers will lose a small amount of liquid each year due to evaporation.

The Angel Share. The Angel Share. Just 92 humidors of each color scheme will be produced in reference to 1992, the year that Fuente planted the crop of tobacco that would become the first commercial release of Fuente Fuente Opus. Why did we miss them?

It's called science. Beyond the humidors, Ellie Blue has also created a handful of smaller accessories that use the Angel Share design and logo. We should have called it Evaporation. So, let's see, there's a $600 pair of scissors, there's a $310 cutter.

In the box? No, no, these are extra things you can buy. Oh, on top of the box. On top of the box.

Evaporation. $600 lighter, $310 lighter, $1400 ashtray. Opus X Viso. And if those weren't enough, General bring back the Cohiba $250 cigar.

Where are we moving on? We're moving on, so this is another story. That's another story. They sold out so well.

Do you think that they sell this box in California? Who? Arturo Fuente? Yes.

The Angel Share box? He has to give the guy a box. No, apparently they've walked it back to just a cigar now. Yeah, yeah.

You don't have just a cigar. Yeah. You don't know how this works. You don't know how the world works.

They got enough money and they're closely attached where they could probably just get a blessing or something. Allegedly. Allegedly. When that guy that makes the rules for California and Fuente were saying at lunch, Fuente was like, hey, man, I'm coming out with this box.

I'm not giving you that. Yeah, he said, Gavin, my buddy. My man. Gavin, my man.

You know? And don't worry. How are you and your Japanese as friends? I pick on equal parts politically.

Right, right. Didn't Cohiba just come out with like a $7 cigar? Cohiba? Yeah.

A value one? I think so. And now they've changed their mind now to $250 cigar. Well, here's what happens.

Here's what happens. It's like there's a meeting. Right. There's like 30 people.

On Mondays. And they talk about this meeting. Right. Right.

And I think in order for anything to kind of be green-lit is you need the majority of people. Okay. Makes sense. Right.

So it's probably like one or two guys that they're surrounded by yes people. Right. So it doesn't matter what they say. Yes, Bob.

Surrounded by Justin's? Yeah. It's like, oh, that's a great, yeah, it's a great idea. Great idea.

Great idea. You're so smart. That's a great idea. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. You're so smart. You're so smart. So that guy woke up one day.

You're also handsome. So I would think that guy woke up one day and he said, you know what? We really need a value cigar. And they were like, yeah, that's a great idea.

Great idea. Great idea. Oh, my God. You're amazing.

Michael, that's a great idea. We need a value cigar. Amazing. Amazing idea.

Are we still getting paid for our day? Smartest guy in the room. All in favor of the value cigar, everybody? Smartest guy.

Everybody? Perfect. Good value cigar. And then, you know.

Meeting goes on next week. A few weeks later, he's looking at numbers. We'll tell you cigars selling well. We're not making a lot of money, but it's selling good.

A lot of volume. A lot of volume. A lot of volume. How do we offset that and raise our EBITDA?

Yeah, how do we do that, Michael? How do we raise it? You know what we should do is we should sell a $250 cigar. A $250 cigar?

That's so smart. Go the other way. Yes. Nobody will see it coming.

That's perfect. Great idea. Justin, what do you think? Great idea, Justin?

Yeah, that's a great idea. Oh, I love the voice. Yeah, Justin said, okay, and they did a tickle. Great idea.

Yeah, Justin did a little tickle. Does he have his helicopter here? Okay, while the Cohiba Spectre is a flagship release of the non-Cuban Cohiba brand, the General Cigar Company has an even more exclusive and expensive Cohiba C8. 5x54 double Corona that was sold in a 10-count briefcase that were priced at $5,000.

In a briefcase? This is a fraction of the cost comparable. Since then, there have been no more C8 releases. Didn't work, couldn't solve it, and bad idea.

You know? No, you don't know if it was a bad idea. The meeting happens and the guy said, "You know what? " And then everybody would look around like, "Yeah, but you did it.

It was a great idea. " We don't know what happened. You know, we had like five bucks into it. It's consumers.

They don't know what's good. We had five dollars into it. It's fine. It's no big deal.

We didn't lose anything. At least not until next month when the C8 will return in a new Vitola and blend. You know what the problem was? It was the Vitola and the blend.

Not the cigar, not the price. It was the shape and the size. Oh, we're gonna redo it. This time, it's a 7x50 Churchill.

Looks much more like $250. Solid $2. It uses a wrapper from 2018, a harvest in Jalapa, Nicaragua over a Connecticut Broadleaf Binder from 2021, and three fillers. I think we're going about this the wrong way.

Not one filler, not two. Three fillers. We should just charge more for our cigars. When you pick out tobacco, because you've gone through this process before, right?

You've seen the tobacco places. Okay. Does it say on it the year? Scribbled on the little piece of paper that's under the rubber band on the top.

You know, here's the problem. It's like, this can be, all of this is like circumstantial. You can say the 2000 Habano seed, it could be a seed from 2000, right? Like that was a thing for a while.

And then. Makes you think the tobacco's from 2000. And then when it wouldn't burn right, they were eliminated. The fact that it said 2000 Habano.

Take that 2000. Just started calling it Habano. Take that 2000 off the top of that thing. That fucker didn't burn.

So, you know, is it, it could be 2021 broadleaf. It could be a seed from 2021, who knows? It could mean so many different things. So these are just marketing tools.

Correct. And I don't pick out tobacco. I'm not qualified for that. I'm the guy in the bodega, but you've seen the places.

We're going to act this out. I'm the guy in the bodega that has the tobacco. You're the buyer. You're coming in looking for a certain year.

There we go. So come on in. Hi, do you have any 2021 Broadleaf? One moment.

Yes, right here! Now that's for a different year. What about, you know what, instead of the 2021 Broadleaf, I'm really looking forward to like a 2020 Ecuadorian Habana. Do you have a 2020 Ecuadorian Habana?

Can you look over there? Maybe it's over there. Yeah, let me check over here. Oh, look, it right here!

I found some! Oh my God, that's amazing. Perfect, I'll take it. How much is it?

Great! $259. Which is also the price of the cigar. What's the price of the cigar?

99. Cigars are packaged in tubes. That's how we get them this time, with tube. We lower it a penny and we put it in a tube.

We're going to put them in a tube. Oh, it's so pretty. With your place inside a 16-count box. C8 is about more than rarity.

It's about precision, said Sean Williams, brand ambassador for Cohiba in a press release. And non-collaborator of a Cigar Hustlers podcast. Yes. Every leaf and every detail were selected to create a cigar that captures Cohiba's commitment Get to Quiet, Mastery, not Cigar Hustler Podcast.

Yes. Stay away from them. Stay away from them. Don't talk to all those boys.

All right, Alec Bradley's got a new cigar. Oh, of course he does. Alec and Bradley. Yep.

I always thought it was one person. Well, didn't they cut their portfolio tremendously recently? Well, apparently they put all the tobacco into this one cigar. Wait till you hear.

Okay. Which would make sense. The 228 shipping next week. On Monday, November 3rd, the 2025 edition of the Alec Bradley Fine & Rarer begin shipping to storage, So the concept is the same, it looks a bit different, formerly it's known as the Alec Bradley Rare and Fine 228, a 7x50 Churchill, like the previous 13 fine and rare releases, a tradition that dates back to 2011 and the cigar uses 10 different types of tobacco, 10, 10, one wrapper, two binders, seven fillers, cigar named Overkill, the wrapper is from Honduras, it sits atop two binders, one from Honduras and the other from Esteli, okay.

Two wrappers. Or the binder is from Esteli. The wrapper is from Honduras. Okay.

Two binders. One from Honduras and the other from Esteli. Okay. Double binder.

Okay. Seven fillers. Criolo, Dominican Republic. Jamistran, Honduras.

Jamistran. What? Hamistran. Yeah.

Well, they have it twice. I don't understand why. Two things of Hamistran. Yeah, well, it could be different.

Like, you could have a Visa or a Hero. I mean, you could have a Saco, you know. Jalapa, from Nicaragua, Mexican San Andreas, so. Filler, Mexican San Andreas, filler.

Yes. Hamas John, double. Okay. Throw in some more Nicaraguan from Esteli, some more Nicaraguan from Jalapa.

Say it right. Nikiraguan. Thank you. Eat cigars and MSRP of 10 tobaccos now, gentlemen, 10 tobaccos.

Boots, or you want me to go first? I'll go first. This should be $3. It's $8.

He said $3? Yeah. 99. What?

It's got 10 different tobaccos. It's another way. Okay. First of all, I want to understand why it's called the 228.

But it's a Honduran wrapper. Yes. That should be the most expensive part of the cigar. Well, they put it into the...

You don't even know if that's in the cigar. He said it's a Honduran wrapper. I believe him. He's going, but that's just what it says.

It's called a 228 for absolutely no reason. There's 228 types of tobacco in it. It's being made available to American break-and-mortar retailers, as with every other fine and rare release, the cigars are made at Racy's, Cubanas, and Honduras. Oh, this is a fine and rare?

Yes. A lot of the fine and rares are pretty damn good. I said fine and rare 12 times in the first three lines of the line. I didn't hear you say that.

You must have said it differently. Different than fine and rare? Yeah, I said different than fine and rare. I said rare and fine.

Maybe you didn't. That totally confused me. We are delighted with the newest version of the Alec and Bradley Fine and Rare series, said Bradley Rubin, brand ambassador for Alec, Bradley, and our friend. After extensive testing of aged tobaccos and meticulous blending process, we feel confident that the Fine and Rare 228 is one of the most luxurious and rewarding cigars we've ever produced with the talented artisans at Racy's Cubanas.

Fine and Rare was launched in 2011, described as the effort to push the limits of a complex cigar blending by using 10 different tobaccos for a single blender. The packaging of this release marks a substantive change for the series since Scandinavian Tobacco Group Alec & Bradley bought Alec & Bradley in 2023 and says no more fancy boxes. No mas. No mas.

All right. Oh, there's more information about that cigar. Wow, look at that, wouldn't hold her. Have they always made their cigars at that factory?

This one they have. They made a couple. Well, they made a lot from that factory, but they made a couple from other places as well. Okay.

That's a good businessman. You know, you can't say. No. He's got a great mustache.

Bradley. Yeah. Talking about his dad, I guess. His dad is.

Oh, I've never seen pictures of his dad. Alan Rubin? I don't think so. Oh, yeah, I know you.

I know the fake Alan Rubin. You know fake Alan Rubin? Yeah, but I don't know real Alan Rubin. Totally different Alan Rubin.

Totally different Alan Rubin, yeah. Way less successful. Takes a lot more naps. Very nappy.

Arturo Fuente Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Black Pink slated for late 2025 arrival. Oh. What the hell is that? You said a Rare Pink Black Pink.

It's the Rare Pink Black. All right, hold on. The Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Black Pink slated for 2025 arrival. Is this like pre-Cameroon or something?

I don't know. Completely different cigar. It's already been an abnormally busy year for our Toro Fuente product launches, and there are plans for more before the calendar turns to 2026. Toro Fuente will offer retailers who are members of the TAA the first shipments of its upcoming Toro Fuente Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Black Pink, a darker spin on the existing Rare Pink line, which itself is a spinoff on the company's Hemingway series.

Blend-wise, Black Pink, not to be confused with Rare Pink, It uses a Habano Seed wrapper grown in Connecticut over a blend of Dominican fillers. There it is. No Cameroon for you. It will be offered in four Vitolas, which share pricing with the Rare Pink counterparts.

This is what happened with Ashton. This is what they did with the Heritage. Very getting confusing. They transitioned over to Habano.

Toro Fuente Rare Pink Vintage Black Pink Signatures. There's a 6x46, $13. There's a 4 7/8 by 46, $14. Why don't you just call it the hat?

5 1/2 by 53. The rare pink hat edition. The names are just so long. The Black Panther Vitola will be priced the same as the rare pink sophisticated hooker, though the two Vitolas do not share the same measurements or name.

One is a sex worker and the other is a 1970s powerful, controversial black political organization. Oh, wow. Did it really say that? Or did you add that?

I added that part. They did that part. Okay. I mean, that could have gone either way.

But it was comparing the two cigars. Charlie could have done that, or you could have done that. I mean, that could have gone either way. It could have gone either way.

The two cigars are very similar, except the names mean completely different things. I was thinking in my head, I was like, did he say Black Panther at one point? Yes, that's the name of the Black Panther. Yeah.

And not the Wakanda Black Panther. That guy was awesome. The 1970s. One of the best Marvel movies of all time.

Right. Toro Fuente plans to ship the first batch of Black Pink in December. Not Rare Pink, we already have those. The company expects to keep the Blackpink as an exclusive for TAA retailers around six months, though it's unclear how many shipments that amounts to.

At some point in 2026, a line will offer to retailers that are not members of the TAA, and so first the TAA members get Blackpink and not many move because the rare pinks just came out and then they released the Blackpinks to everyone. Is that your theory? The Blackpink is not part of the TAA series, but will be offered to them first. So it's not the TAA series, but only TAA people.

It's not the TAA spinning wheel, I think it's... That's how it works, you take care of the... They have a thing where they spin a wheel, this is not part of that, this is just offered to them first. The dream machine's gone, buddy, it's no longer there.

Yeah, that's what Jack said. Well, then what's the TAA ESP program? I don't know. That's what these are not a part of.

Yeah. So it's probably... But TAA people get it first. Right.

Is ESP part where you have to donate the money back? You're going to have to donate money to this, I would assume. Maybe not. No, back to the TAA.

Yeah, I know. That's what I'm just saying. I don't know. I don't know either.

I don't know either. All we know is TAA gets this first. Yeah. Yay.

If they want it after they just got all the rare pinks. " Uh-huh. Uh, some of the people I saw in the pictures, I was surprised they were TA members. Yeah?

We can talk about it on a different show. Okay. Casa Carrillo. Jack gets mad when I say Carrillo.

Yeah. Carrillo. Ships Perez Carrillo. No, no.

Battleborn. Carrillo. Carrillo. Carrillo.

Carrillo. The Perez Carrillo Battleborn. I just said it, but you yelled over me. Try it again, try it again, try it.

The Perez. No, go ahead. It is Perez. Okay, let me see.

Carrillo. S. Armed Forces and helps to raise the funds for organizations that support veterans, is on its way to stores in time for Veterans Day. The line was inspired by Lionel H.

S. Navy veteran and an individual described as a long-time member of the Carrillo family. McCoy served for two decades, reaching the rank of petty officers, second class, with deployments on the USS Midway, the USS Forrester, and the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, during the Gulf War, in Operation Desert Storm.

We had Navy in Desert Storm, it's in the desert. Yes. Okay. It's important.

Following his service, he joined Carrillo as the company's shipping manager in 2017. You know, because he was on a lot of different ships, so they've been the shipping manager. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Makes sense, hey.

We got a job for you. Ship one, ship two. Oh, yeah, no, you ship this. Lionel is part of our family, said Ernesto, in a press release.

He served our country for 20 years, carried responsibilities most of us, Most of us will never know, and then came here to work alongside us. I'll never forget my first conversation with him about his time in the service and all the boats he was on. At one point, he got emotional and a tear ran down his face. In that moment, I knew I was in the presence of a true hero.

Like the Indian with the garbage? Yes, and Battleborn was conceived right there. The one tear? You're crying.

Battleborn. I'm amazing. He's a Battleborn. The Carrillo Battleborn comes in a 6x56 Toro Gordo that the company has dubbed Warriors.

The blend uses a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, a top two binders. Listen, listen, listen. I'm sorry. Warriors.

I can't do that, I can't roll my arse. Do it. I can't roll my arse. Do it.

Can't roll my arse. It's not the same. One from Mexico, the other from Nicaragua. Just try.

I can't roll my arse. I'd like to see you try. Battleborn. That's the way I'm going to say it, because I can't roll my arse.

Warriors. Warriors. I can't roll my arse. I can't do it.

Do it. Can't do it. We're moving on, Michael. It's a rich, full-body smoke.

Each of the 2,500 individually numbered boxes of 20 cigars includes a Battle Born logoed dog tag. Individually, cigars are priced at... How much is Warrior? I can't do it.

Thank you. Uh... $18. Boots?

Uh, 16. 22! I win. Uh-huh.

I've been making blends for 55 years, but this one felt different, says Ernesto Jr. in a press release. We're in a press release. Battle Born is not just about tobacco, it's about respect rolled into every leaf.

It's our way of saying, thank you. Okay, here's my question. If a brand comes out with an LE almost every month, is it okay or is it not okay? Is it an LE?

Is it still an LE at that point? I just want to know, do you think that you're kind of saturating your consumer at that point or do you think that it's, hey, no problem? No problem. Well, that was kind of what happened to the, not lost and found guy, but Provada Club, right?

He was coming out with a new one every month. Elise? Well, that was his thing. The cigars were one and done each time, wasn't it?

I mean... But then they came back out again a couple times. Was that because he had some left that nobody bought or because he made them again? I don't know.

I mean, I don't think it's okay. No, I think, I think, yeah, I think you're definitely saturated. This is not okay. Yeah, I mean, I think you can have a couple of releases per year.

I agree with that. Yeah, but I don't think every month. Not every month, too much. Yeah, too much.

So what's the line? I think... Quarterly? Two to three.

Two to three? A month? Yeah, maybe four, yeah. Four a month or four a year?

Four a year? You're talking four a year, max. Four would be the limit, yeah. Okay.

A lot of people call them limited, but they're not really, but it just generates a little bit more buzz for them. It's unlimited? Yeah. Well, I mean, what defines a limited cigar?

Right. She's got to make so many, and they're done. 1,000. Right.

1,000 cigars would make it limited? No, 1,000 boxes. 1,000 boxes? Well, and if they're a 20-count box, so 20,000 cigars?

Sure. So 20,000 is the line at limited? Oh, I think. Yeah, that's what I'm going at.

For limited? I think the way, to be honest, I think the way Mikey did the Bangarang and the Hushacha is the correct way to do it. I think 500 bottles. Yeah, but we have a limited that we're about to release, and we have 1,000 boxes.

We have 1,000 boxes? Don't we have 1,000 boxes? Of eight count? Yeah.

Oh, we have one that's eight count, though. That's 8,000 sticks. 8,000 sticks. That's limited.

20,000, buddy. Oh, I'm going with number boxes. Oh, I'm going with number boxes. You can put one in each one if you want.

I don't care. I don't think it works that way. Yeah, it doesn't work. Sure, again, that's called a coffin.

Oh, I mean... There was a story this week about a coffin cigar that just came out that I refused to cover. Oh, good for you. Stand your ground.

I don't even know what you're talking about, but I like it. I like it. I like that you muted it because you know, some things do not need to be discussed. We're just like Coop.

We control the media. We control the media. We're going to talk on the Patreon difference between media and a podcast. Oh, a huge difference.

Well, don't give it away now. People want to know. We got a lot of comments on the Patreon guys from last week. Did we?

Yes. Oh, I love that. On the Patreon show. Yes.

That's exciting. I'm glad they're listening. Yeah. And you know, you guys should sign up for the Patreon.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Do us all a favor. A lot more stuff going on over there.

Yeah, and we need the money. Even Jack liked this week's Patreon. It's way more uncut than the regulars, though. And this shows pretty...

Yeah, you think we talk shit here. Yeah, right. This one's pretty uncut. Right.

Because we don't take ads. It's been explained. We did. Did you like that?

Yeah, that was a good video. That was a good clip. That was pretty good. All right, Brickhouse is on fire.

Of course it is. It's a TAA exclusive scheduled for a December release. The Brickhouse is on fire. C.

Newman has announced that the 2025 exclusive for the TAA This is a new Brickhouse. Specifically, it's the Brickhouse is on fire. That is the name of the 6x50 Toro. Blend-wise, it uses a standard Brickhouse blend, an Ecuadoran Habano wrapper over binder from Nicky Ragwa.

C. Newman does not sell a 6x50 Brickhouse. Instead, the Brickhouse Toro measures 6x52. This is something completely different.

I don't read the script. Script, read me. Each cigar is an MSRP of $12, and production is limited to a thousand boxes of 10 cigars. Okay.

Expected to ship in December. So, it's a 6x52? 6x50. It's a 6x50, and that's why it's called The Brick House Is On Fire?

Yes, because they make a 6x52. This is something different, so 6x50. It's slightly smaller. It's a little bit.

It's on fire, it's so good. It's on fire. It's on fire. All right.

I mean, Brick House is pretty good for what it is, for its price point. I don't think I've ever had a Brick House. I'll give him that. What?

What? I don't think I've ever had a Brickhouse. Yeah, no, it's smooth. My bad.

Kesa, Carrillo, CLE, Crown Heads, Fiero Tego, JC Newman, Knuckle Sandwich Cigars, La Flor Dominicana, and Plasencia have all announced their TAA 2025 ESP releases. Okay. Those are the only people that made special cigars for them. So, and they're like 40 manufacturers?

Or is it 40 retailers? Yeah, I think it's 40 manufacturers. You never hear about all 40. I wonder who all 40 are.

Well, you just named like 10. I think that was like eight. That leaves like 32 more. All right.

Now it's time for everybody's favorite game show. It is time for What's the Score? Whoa. We didn't do it.

No, you didn't. One more time. We didn't do it. All right.

It's the time for the industry's favorite game show. It's time for What's the Score? Whoa. I thought you said we were doing whoa.

You like that we did that. I don't care which one it is. It doesn't matter. How do you want it, Palmer?

I'm going to have to make my own opening with a button he hits over there because you guys can't be dependent on it. We can do it. You just got to remind us. First cigar for the day.

Came out on October 27th, 2025. It's reviewed by Brooks Whittington. Oh. It's a limited edition cigar.

It is a, let's see, Tatuaje, The Mummy Redux 5. Oh. Redux 5? Redux 5.

Cinco. So he made, I think he made 13 Monsters total. Yeah. So this is probably number five, right?

I don't know. This is the one that just came out that we just had upstairs. So we started re-releasing them. Okay.

That's why it's Redux 5. It's Brooks, it's Tatuaje. Right. You want me to go first or you go first?

You go first. I'll go 92. Yeah, this is, I've had this cigar. Have you?

Yeah, this is a good cigar. Where'd you get it from? I got it from Chet. Where did he get it?

I don't know. The original? No, no, this is not the original. This is the one that came out this year.

He got the Redux. That Chet, you know what? He likes the Monster Cigars because it's the Halloween thing. Yeah, he loves the Halloween thing.

We don't even see him anymore. No, no, no. He's out spending money at other retailers. Other cigar places or anything.

Yeah, he no longer loves those. It wouldn't be his mother-in-law yet, but his soon-to-be mother-in-law buys him cigars. Not from here. Not from here, she doesn't.

Yeah, I don't think she lives here. She lives here. She, like, ships them cigars. Usually San Cristobals, for some reason.

All right, all she gotta do is press an order. We can pick it up. I don't know. But anyways...

It's the love chat. That's where I got it from. Used to. Used to be a really good friend.

Used to be my homie. Used to be my ace. All right, anyways. Anyways.

I think... Yeah, I think 90. That's a pretty good... 90?

That's a pretty good number. 92, 90, correct? That's where we're at right now? I'll go 90, yeah.

That's fine. 92, 90. That's a start. All right, it's a Nicky Rogwin cigar from My Father's Cigars.

It's a Nicky Rogwin Criollo wrapper. Okay. Nicky Rogwin binder. Yes.

Nicky Rogwin filler. Seven and three quarter inches by 47. It's round. Sells for $13.

Release date, September 2025. And he smoked one cigar. Only one. Only one.

Is he going to comment about the one with the tissue in the middle of it? I hope he does. All right, I think I'm going to stick 92 right now. No, stick 90, yeah, there's no reason to change.

All right, editor's note does not count as a clue. Oh. This is one of the rare cases when we are doing a Redux review of a new version of a cigar and not an aged sample of a cigar we have already reviewed, says Charlie Minato. Just so you guys are clear, this is a brand new cigar, not an aged cigar.

" Correct. Right. The first half begins with an aggressive combination of spices on my tongue, including black pepper and coffee beans, but the main flavors of toasted cedar and powdery cocoa nibs quickly take over the profile. Secondary flavors of cinnamon, sourdough bread, herbs, sawdust, gritty earth, and rich coffee beans filled in and out, while the combination of black pepper and distinct brown sugar sweetness is present on the retrohale.

Mmm. 91. I'll just take 90. The construction is fantastic so far, with a razor-sharp burn line, an abundance of thick off-white smoke, and an amazing draw.

Brooks has to review all of my cigars moving forward. Just for the record. How do you get all those flavors and you're able to keep it straight? He must be eating a smorgasbord in front of him.

Like 75 different things, like, I just tasted sawdust? Was that sawdust I just tasted? Brooks is next level, buddy. 91.

90. Clue number three, when it comes to construction, I touch up the burn once, close to the end of the cigar, but the draw remains excellent and smoke production continues to be copious until I am finished after two hours and 13 minutes of smoking time. He loves Tatuaje to tell you how much time. Is he doing something else for that two hours and 13 minutes or he just writing down notes from the cigar?

It's just, he's just locked in. My lord. Gritty Earth, bro? Come on, you're not watching something.

How do you taste Gritty Earth? 92. I don't know what Gritty Earth tastes like. I don't know what sawdust tastes like.

Smoke them on me, you'll get there. He literally went outside and just started eating the ground. He's like, yeah, you know what, that's it, that's it right there. I can't really tell what this is, maybe if I lick the ground.

Yep, yep, Grady Air. There you go. Was that sawdust? Was the neighbor cutting wood?

Yeah, there it is. All right, Boots, what's your score? 90. 90, 91 still?

I went 92. 92, 90. Final thoughts. I've often said that the original Tetuaje Black Label Corona Gordo remains one of the best non-Human cigars I've ever smoked.

And the quality of the blend has been consistently proven through numerous different Vitolas and alliterations. The Mummy Redux 5 is a fantastic version of the blend, combining clean familiar flavors, Gritty Earth is a familiar flavor, of cinnamon and creamy cedar with some slightly surprising notes such as peanut butter and grapefruit, into a bold yet balanced profile that is unapologetically Nicaraguan. Neaf, just stop being racist, throw in the amazing construction, seriously, other than one minor correction, I could not ask for a straighter burn line or a better draw from the first puff to the last, and I'm left with one of the best Monster Redux releases so far, bar none. That's it?

That's it. Have you smoked it, Mikey? No, I just sold them all. That's good.

Yeah, they went out pretty quick. 92. I'm going to stay 92. Brooks loves Tatuaje.

That is apparent. And it is a good cigar. Brooks is a cigar geek. Yeah, it's a good cigar.

I think 92 is going to be the number, but I'll go, I must. He can say the same number if he wanted to. Yeah, but we don't like to do that. We don't like the tie.

That's true. I'm going to go 91. 92. Yay!

Wing! Should have went for the tie, man. I tried to give you a little hint. I figured.

He tried to lay it up for you. I know, I know. He's like, no, just do it. But we don't like to do the tie thing.

That's true. Well, he does it because he likes to win, but you could've fucked him and done the tie. All right, second cigar for the day. Before you go.

Yes. That's a good number for that cigar. Right? That was like...

I haven't smoked it, but I'm sure that it qualifies for that. Yeah, like out of... Is Pete gonna bring us some? Pete could bring us some.

I asked. Did you? I did. But like, realistically, let's say he brings two boxes, and the guys there, there want the boxes right he's like if julian wants a box the julian had like just a couple of you and i could have you know oh hurtful we're in the we're in the you won't be here for the interview you don't work the interviews you gotta go do your dj business yeah you gotta buy the ticket we're in the selling cigar uh oh all right next to say oh you're no longer a member down here remember you backed out we miss you we want you back maybe come back when i become rich i will okay it's not that rich no i know but i mean when i become rich you don't have to be super rich to be a member here i just have to have more than 20 bucks okay that's fair that's not rich more than 20 bucks not really broke okay i'm sorry i'm sorry go ahead october 16 2012 brooks Mike Swittington, again, Tatuaje, this is the original Tatuaje, The Mummy.

Oh, okay. Yeah, that's with both of them, okay. And he got a full cancer. Rare opportunity here to do the same cigar.

This is awesome. Okay, you're up there, slugger. Um, I'm just gonna say 92. I was wrong.

I'm gonna go 91. Country of Origin, Niki Ragwa. Factory, My Father's Cigars. Wrapper, Niki Ragwa.

Sun-grown Criolo. Binder, Niki Ragwan. Fillers, Niki Ragwan. Size, 7 3 quarter by 47.

Churchill. Still $13. Same as the room, same as the second one. And number of cigars released.

Considered a Churchill, 7 by 47? I guess, okay. Number of cigars released, 666. Those are boxes.

It's like 766 boxes. I was wrong. Yes, so 13 cigars, so 3,100 plain. I don't know.

I'm immersed in the Tatuaya information right now, so. All right, number of cigars smoked for the review? Free. Three?

Three. Free. Okay. Yeah, same, 92.

91. Clue number one. I love Pete Johnson. The first thing you notice about the mummy is the size of the cigar.

It's quite long when held in the hand and has a nice heft to it. I have small hands. The wrapper is a nice reddish mocha brown color and has some oil present. It is fairly smooth to the touch, although there are some bumps up and down the length.

Some bumps. Was that really a cigar he was holding? I don't think so. Wow, bro.

A few bumps. Back to the Johnson jokes. Slightly tan. Slightly reddish.

Is that it? It's very oily. That was the clue. Okay, 92.

It's bumpy, it's long, it's got a nice hefty. It's very oily. It's got some oil to it. Some leftover oil.

91. Straight to hell. 91. Did Boots already say his?

Yeah, 92. Coming into the second third of the mummy and the cinnamon note is now the dominant note, but it's not overwhelming. And the other notes of earth, espresso, and cedar are starting to pick up in intensity. The black pepper from the first third has decreased as well, but is very much in evidence on the retrohale.

The profile is more creamy overall, and I can still taste a slight fruity sweetness, but I can't place it as of yet. Where do I place the fruit? Ninety-two. Ninety-one.

Oh, God. Clue number three: The sweetness has increased enough for me to identify it. Oh, good. It's cherry sweetness.

Ah! But still not a dominant flavor by any means. Thankfully, the cinnamon note is still present as the black pepper on the retrohale, and they both combine quite nicely with the rest of the flavors to end the cigar. That was the third clue.

92. And then we have final thoughts? Yes. Yeah, I think there's this one.

I'm gonna go 91. I'm always interested to see what Pete has up his sleeve when the monster releases come around, while it is longer than the cigars I normally like to smoke. He's really upset about the link there. The blend in The Mummy holds up quite well to the size, complex enough to easily keep my attention during the entire smoke, strong enough to let me know I'm smoking a medium-plus blend and never really getting bored.

The construction was close to perfect on every one of the three samples. Excuse me. I smoked and the smoke production was a nice addition. I like The Mummy a bit better than The Wolfman from last year and I can easily recommend buying a box or two.

Having said that, the recent Black Label Cubalera is the better smoked flavor-wise, albeit not by much, and the always wonderful original release, Black Label Petit Lancero, is still one of the best examples of the blend, but if you're looking for the signature Black Label profile in a longer smoke, you have found it. Did he just plug a different cigar at the end of the review for a while? Well, it's Alta Toie. Yeah, it's Alta Toie.

Oh, I thought it was... Not Black Label Trading Company. Which is kind of odd, now that you mention that. He's got a black label, and there's a company black label.

Right. You think that there would be some conflict there. Was black label out when this was done? No, I don't think so.

Are you talking about the Tatuaje cigar? I mean, he had a problem with the shape of a box. He does a great job protecting his brand. Right.

Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.

Alright. I'm gonna go 90. Did you just look that shit up? No.

Uh, I just looked it up. I'm right here. What are you talking about? I've been right here the whole time.

The review was almost identical to- It was. The 13 years later. Mm-hmm. Other than the end.

He said a little bit of touching up. Uh, he used- It's very similar references for the flavor profile. Other than Gritty Earth. He still said Earthy.

He said no Sawdust, though. Sawdust must have been something that his palate has developed into. And it sounded like he definitely likes this black tatawahe more. But he mentioned that in the previous one as well.

Yes. Not as much, though. Are you okay? Are we keeping you up?

Apparently. It's almost nap time at the home. Yeah, almost nap time at the home. Okay, Palmer, let's get you to bed.

I need to get my pudding and my nap. Oh, that'd be great, actually. See? Don't knock it, man.

It's a wonderful life. I'm gonna go 91. And what did he say? 90.

91! Oh! It's a twofer for the king this week. Really?

He only went up one on the redox? Yep, apparently. You gotta think about it. It's a spectrum.

It's a completely different cigar. Yeah. Well, it's the exact same cigar. It's just a red.

No, it had a different blend. There was different tobacco in it. Yeah, the Redux has a little bit different tobacco in it. Yeah, because things taste differently at that time.

And if you're going back to try and make it taste the same, you have to modify. All right, listener of the week, Hank Haddad from St. Petersburg. Hank.

Thank you, Hank. Shop of the week, Central Cigars. Where Hank, uh, Hank, uh, Dad owns. Oh.

Welcome to the Powstanie family, the newest member of the Powstanie family. And welcome to the podcast. Over in St. Petersburg, downtown on Central.

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Show Notes

Welcome back to another episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where the smoke’s always smooth and the news is anything but.

This week’s headlines are wild — we’re talking about escaped monkeys in Mississippi, a scientific breakthrough that might have humans breathing through their butts, and a Week 9 NFL recap where defenses ruled and playoff pictures got messy.

In the cigar world, the Maldives just banned tobacco for an entire generation, Cohiba’s dropping a $250 cigar, and Alec Bradley’s Fine & Rare is back with its most ambitious blend yet.

So grab your favorite stick, light up, and settle in — from monkeys on the loose to oxygen in odd places, we’ve got everything trending this week… right here on The Cigar Hustlers Podcast.

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