ACHP Episode 413 Kardashian Failed

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Hello, I'm John Carney from
Bentley Cigars in Hooton Young,
and this is a Cigar Hustlers
podcast.
Finally.
With Boots in Germany this week
we're visiting his favorite club
and I'm sitting in his Co host
with Mikey here and now we have
Palmer pushing the buttons
behind the scenes.
Oh, it was a.
Bing bong, Bing bong.
Bing bong, Bing bong.
Oh my God I can't believe he's
in Germany.
That's amazing.
Why is he in Germany?
That's where his favorite
favorite alternative lifestyle
bar is.
Yes, alternative lifestyle.
Lifestyle A huge fan of this one
particular bar.
They almost closed it last year.
Yeah, almost shut down is.
This like a yearly pilgrimage he
takes.
Yeah, yes, it's very important
for him.
All right.
Well, hey, boots on the ground.
Well, fortunate for me he's in
Germany and I'm here.
Actually, fortunately for us,
you took the call last minute.
We've been planning this for
weeks.
Yeah, this has been well done
and it and it's a it's a retort
to the legendary Jack Terano,
who says that he is the number
one guest host on a cigar
hoster's podcast.
According to himself and 300 of
his closest followers.
Yes, exactly.
So it's on.
It's on like Donkey Kong.
All right, so shall we get into
this?
Let's go.
All right.
What are we smoking?
Yeah, we're smoking something
really fun, this.
Is and why don't I have one?
You do have one.
It's sitting right next to you.
Wrapped in the newspaper.
So we're smoking a prototype of
a Hooten Young bottled and Bond
whiskey barrel aged cigar.
So this is the first sample and
test blend of our of our process
of barrel aging and we're doing
the barrel aging ourselves,
which is quite fascinating.
So you are some of the first
people in the world to smoke
this.
I literally grabbed this out of
the barrel right before I came
here.
So you're the first to try this.
The barrel's at your house.
It's not at my house, it's at my
warehouse.
It's at his warehouse.
No, this is just a test 1, so I
know nothing about the blend
itself.
This is a a generic Connecticut
shade wrapper.
We've got pretty rapid.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
We've got Connecticut shade,
we've got Hubano, and then we're
doing a Maduro version as well.
But so you're the you're the
first.
So right now these are
Connecticut bottle and Bond
bourbon barrel aged.
Very sweet.
Very sweet and it's got a close
foot at the bottom, so you're
going to get some wrapper
tobacco flavor in there.
But yeah, special cigar.
So this may be something
different, but we're what we're
doing right now is testing the
barrel aging process.
Yeah, you can.
Give full details on this
because this isn't even what the
blend's going to be.
This is testing the the progress
in of the barrel aging but.
But that's what we'll be talking
about on the Patreon today.
Oh, great.
I have plenty to talk on the
Patreon.
I'll be talking about Jack
Torrano on the Patreon.
Yeah, Jack, I'm coming for you,
baby.
Coming for you, baby all.
Right.
All right, well, welcome to the
Cigar Hustler podcast, episode
413.
This week, cops chase down
breakfast, Kim Kardashian hits
another legal speed bump, and
the NFL delivered plenty of
winners and losers in Week 10.
In cigar news, Cigar Page is
building something massive, Rock
Patel's got big anniversary
plans, and a few surprises are
hitting retailers across the
country.
I believe that's this week.
They're hitting the country.
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Warbear's been around for 10
years.
Yeah, man, Posani's been around
for 10 years.
So was Warbear one of the
original blends?
It was like the first LE really.
Shaming me for not knowing that
'cause it's my favorite.
Yeah, I love it.
I mean, I don't even know half
the.
Time your birthday this last
year you had some warbears out
and I I helped myself to a few.
Extra You took a couple legs.
And I got one of them left from
then and they are freaking
delicious.
So that's cool.
Are you guys doing a special a
special 10 year war bear
edition?
Yep, it's a 6 by 60 grand
perfecto and it's coming in this
metal.
It has a regular box, but then
it has a metal case that's going
on top of it.
We also posted that on social
media, but.
I did my research before I saw
it.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, it is real.
I believe you, but no, I did
actually.
I did see the war bear.
I just didn't realize it was 10.
It was.
I knew it was the anniversary,
but yeah, 10 years. 10 years, no
parole.
That's a 10 years is a long time
in any business.
I know.
You're not supposed to make it
past like two or three.
Thank you.
Yeah, I.
Not you specifically, but you in
the general term.
But you got a Voodoo Dollars.
You weren't supposed to make it.
Past like I grew up in the
restaurant businessman, like one
in 10 restaurants fails in the
first two years and something
after two years it's like like 8
and 10 fail after that.
So it's it's wild.
Here we are.
It's tough, yeah.
And cigar business is
challenging, so congratulations.
So also we got something going
on this Friday here at the Cigar
Hustler here in Deltona.
Right, we sure do.
Yes, Pete Johnson of the Tuahe
Cigars will be having a live
interview, podcast, wine
tasting, cigar sampling in this
private lounge capped at 24
members.
Tickets are $150.00.
There's only a few left if you
wait until the day of ticket
prices going up.
So we would love to have you
here with us hanging out with
the one and only Pete Johnson.
It's probably going to be the
first and last time he ever
comes here.
So make sure that you come out
and hang out on Friday, November
14th with us.
Thank you, Pete's.
Going to be here in person?
Yeah, that's really cool.
I duped him, yeah.
That's awesome.
And you going to wine tasting
with him?
Yeah, I figured that was a good
just.
Thanks for going out drinking
wine.
Yeah, I was like, oh come on,
we'll have some wine and a boom
event.
Has he been here before?
Never, ever, never.
How's he sound by the way?
How's he sound on the mic 'cause
I can see that it's far away
from him.
Does that sound OK?
Sounds OK, OK.
He he's going to have a blast,
man.
He loves that kind of stuff.
Like he loves sitting, relaxing.
That's kind of one of the best
environments to get him into.
You know, what's crazy is after
we've kind of started had this
back and forth and stuff and
I've been listening to every
single podcast that he's been on
'cause I want to interview him.
He's a good guy from from what I
can take like from the take away
from the experience.
I'm like, oh, you know, why
haven't we done this?
We should have did this 15 years
ago, you know.
The, I'll, I'll say one thing
I've noticed in the business
recently, what's really working
out well is, is people, social
media has evolved over the last
5-10 years.
The, the connection that you
have with someone so much
closer, even if you don't know
them, you know things about
them.
So like I was just in Montana
last week and I did a 2 day
hangout event.
Really.
We did a dinner one night and
the next night we did bonfire
and just hung out at
Yellowstone.
Yeah, outside.
We were in Helena, Mt did.
You hang out a RIP.
No, no, they none of them were
there but.
He's in Texas.
The hangout stuff is huge.
Like people have a connection
and you figure you watch
somebody on podcasts, you see
them on social media, you have
this unique connection, then you
have things to talk about them.
Ten years ago you were learning
about them in person.
It's kind of an awkward
interaction.
So I found these these hangout
environments where especially if
you're doing something unique
like a wine tasting, that is
huge.
I mean, the impact it has in the
relationship, you can carry on
from it.
And I'll tell you, Pete, in that
environment is phenomenal.
And I'll tell you we, we on our
side love that kind of stuff
too, because it's fun.
You know, it's not fun standing
there and trying to twist
someone's arm to buy something,
you know, or hey, you should buy
this or or putting in all of
that effort and you don't know
how it's going to work out.
But you know what does work out?
Well, sitting with 1520 thirty
40 people and having a genuine
experience that has a huge, huge
effect and huge impact on
everybody.
If you're enjoying it, I'm
enjoying it.
If I'm enjoying it, most likely
everybody else is too.
So that's cool.
Pete Friday, this Friday.
Yep, November 14th. 14th, I
might actually try to make it up
for that, at least to say hi.
I love Pete.
He's a good buddy and he's also
from Maine like myself.
Yeah.
So we're some of the manors that
are in the business.
So I I might try to swing up and
say at least just say hi for
now.
You should come up.
Yeah, I'll try to do.
I'll talk to my I'll talk to my
boss and my wife here.
Supervisor.
Yeah, bring her.
I could bring, we could bring
the kids too.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, why not?
I mean, we could turn it on.
How?
Many neighbor kids bring the
neighbor kids to, you know.
But like but like, Listen,
honestly, it'd be.
No, I'd love to come up.
You and and the missus can hang
out like we actually have it
normally.
Like if somebody wants to bring
their wife or whatever and they
don't want the cigars, that
ticket's only 50 bucks, right?
So if anybody else is coming,
they're like, oh, you know what?
This is a good experience where
I can smoke cigars and still
hang out with my wife and she
can drink all these wines and
stuff.
She can come.
She can come my.
Wife does enjoy cigars, she just
doesn't smoke any right now
because we just had a we have a
2 1/2 month old baby so she's,
you know, nursing.
You going for the third right
now?
Pull the goalie.
Let's go.
I'm not going near her, dude.
I I'm afraid I walk near her.
I'm afraid something's going to
happen.
Very fertile right now, buddy.
Yeah, very fertile, very
fertile.
So anyway, meanwhile, on that
note, let's get let's light this
cigar.
So we're lit up here.
We already talked with the
cigars, so we're going to get
right into the show today.
I don't.
This is the one that I read
through that I'm not familiar
with this Last week, I was out
of pocket, backed up.
I was all over the place.
I was in eight states in eight
days.
Seven of those eight states were
in the last 48 hours of today.
You're busy.
Yeah, busy.
So I've.
I've been on social media, but
most of my social media was
about the Stranger Things coming
out on the 26th.
Oh, really?
So, yeah, I didn't get a lot of
this.
So here we go.
Cops make breakfast.
Run.
Yeah, OK, let's go.
Where'd they go?
So.
The cops make a breakfast run.
Oh OK, who wrote this?
Palmer does.
OK, an escaped.
Pig screwed up.
An escaped pig went for a
rampage through a New York
neighborhood and turned out to
be a pet belonging to a Buffalo
Police Department officer.
Oh boy.
Jerry.
It's got to be Jerry.
Residents on Victor Place in the
Hamlin Park Historic District of
Buffalo said their neighborhood
erupted into chaos Wednesday
afternoon when the large pig ran
through the area and chased
locals.
Videos captured by a witness
shows animal control and police
officers pursuing the porcine
perpetrator.
Renata Shadwick's video features
audio of a police officer
identifying this pig.
Is his pig.
Renata Shadwick is a guy's name.
We don't know we.
Have no idea.
We don't know how they identify.
And the pig's name was
Breakfast.
The pig's name was.
Breakfast.
So they were chasing breakfast.
They were chasing breakfast.
The officer said the pig had
apparently escaped by going
under a fence.
Neighbors said the officer
eventually captured the pig and
took it home.
Buffalo does not have any city
laws expressly prohibiting
ownership of pigs or other farm
animals inside the city.
Breakfast was not the only
wayward pig that day that was
captured in the last recent
weeks.
Oinking Acres Farm Rescue and
Sanctuary in Brownsburg, IN
recently wrangled a pig that had
been on the loose in
Indianapolis in Holiday Park for
several days and had to manage
to give rescuers.
The slip.
During this is you're going in
hard.
The first story during multiple
capture attempts, the sanctuary
said the pig will be
quarantined, vaccinated and
neutered before the next steps
for the animal are determined.
When asked for comment,
Breakfast was quoted in saying
going, going, going, There we go
and welcome to the show there.
You go and we're here and we're
here.
Can we talk about something real
quick in this?
What's that go?
Ahead they're before they talk
about what's going to happen to
the next steps of the animal,
they're taking like 5 steps
without the that are pretty,
pretty aggressive vaccination
and neutering.
Yeah, that's kind of wild.
Did he?
Was he out?
Was he out impregnating other
pigs?
Not even looking for that other
pig.
Maybe it was a female.
Like what?
I don't know how is that OK?
I'm not OK with you doing that
to my animal.
Well, I'm sure the cop has to
agree to it.
I'm some sort the owner.
But this was from the.
It's from, it's in New York.
There's they're all socialism
now.
So they don't get that.
You don't get to.
Have a.
They don't get devoted.
That's how that works.
That's right.
It sounds like they don't know
where the pig came from in this
one in the Indiana one.
That's in Indianapolis.
Yeah, Winking Acres Farm Rescue
and Sanctuary.
This is Brownsburg, IN.
They sound like they're the ones
that were rescuing the pigs.
So they're like a rescue for
farm animals, right?
So it doesn't, it sounds like
they don't know where this pig
came from.
Why?
Don't we just eat eat the pig?
Wait, you're against neutering
but you're OK if they kill it
needed?
Yes.
OK.
So one seems like some much
longer process.
The other one I can just grill
it.
I don't know.
Did you actually say you were
against the neutering?
No, actually I didn't.
I just thought it was a lot of
regulation.
So to me this sounds like this
was a pet that someone had they
let go.
They shouldn't have had a pig in
the 1st place because they're
cute as piglets, but then when
they get older they get bigger
and turn into dinner.
Why not just buy the Don't they
make like small pigs that don't
get.
Bigger, I think they do.
Yeah, they have small pigs.
Hot bellied pigs or.
Something they allegedly make
good pets.
They're they have like they're
loving and caring.
Yeah, they're very clean.
That's.
What I've heard, yeah.
So I this sounds like a pet
because that's why I think you
get the neutering.
Sounds like breakfast.
Yeah, and there's probably some
regular not regulations around
it, but there's probably some
things that they like.
If they find an unneutered dog
or puppy or something, one of
the first things they do is
vaccinate and neuter them.
Yeah, I mean, I think that makes
more sense though, because you
don't want wild dogs.
This is like the cats, right?
You don't want wild pigs.
What are the odds of a pig
linking up with another pig and
producing more pigs, and then
all of a sudden there's a pig
problem?
Well, there's a pig problem in
a.
There's a pig problem in Florida
for that very.
Reason there's a boar problem.
Well, but a pig, if it goes out
in the wild, turns into a boar.
Oh.
Yeah, genetically, they
genetically they will change,
grow the horns, their coat gets
thicker, they turn brown.
Really.
Yep.
Is that what you think is
happening to Boots right now in
Germany?
Probably.
He's getting.
He's getting.
Well, definitely the horn part.
The horn part's happening.
I.
Would have and and the oinking
and the pig.
There's yeah.
And the oinking there's.
Definitely some oinking a.
Lot of oinking.
A lot of oinking.
I think probably if that pig was
in Buffalo, the one from
Brownsburg IN, if it was in
Buffalo, probably would have
been found another pig and
impregnated it.
Really.
Maybe, we don't know it was a
male or female pig up there, but
that other one was a pet too
that was on the loose.
The one in Buffalo was
definitely a pet.
Yeah.
So I think we got 2 pets.
So we got 2 pets that are on the
loose here again, it's people
get if you get a pet, you have
to be prepared to take care of
the pet.
Same concept with a dog.
Like I hate seeing people that
put dogs up for an option saying
I don't I can't do this same
thing with a pig.
These sound like pigs that were
one of us is it crawled under
the fence.
This other one in Brownsburg, IN
sounds like this was
intentionally.
Let go.
I never understood that.
Like even if you, if you live in
the suburbs, if you own a cat
and then all of a sudden like
the cat is an outside cat.
That makes no sense to me.
That sounds ridiculous.
I know that we've actually kind
of had this conversation before.
We have, yes.
Now that I'm saying that I
don't, I just don't get that
concept.
We have recently acquired a cat.
The cat isn't allowed outside,
period.
It doesn't need to get to roam
the streets and then come back
and be fed or whatever, because
then it's a burden to somebody
else.
Yeah, there's 5 cats that hang
out in my.
Yard.
Yeah, it's that's ridiculous.
It's just ridiculous.
When we talked about this was
there was a lady, this was in my
community neighbor app.
The cat, her cat, she had two
cats.
Their neighbors had termites.
So they had the house fumigated
and covered, right.
So they cover the house, they
put poison in it and she's
trying to sue the company
because her cats lived
underneath the neighbor's house.
So my discussion was, I think I
text you on this one.
I was texting you about this.
My discussion was if the cats
live at someone else's house,
they're not your cats.
If they don't live in your house
and are your cats, it's like
you.
I think what you brought up to
me was like, OK, do I let my
German shepherds just go and
roam the community?
They're not my dogs at that
point.
And no, they don't do that.
So if you have a cat and it
doesn't live in your house, it's
not really your cat.
And if you are saying it's yours
and it's your responsibility to
understand, it's not the
neighbor's responsibility.
Who didn't know the cats lived
under their house or the
neighbor's pets?
What's the lawsuit look like on
that?
I think that one's not even a
lawsuit.
I think that that company's
probably, it probably falls on
the termite company, right?
And they're probably covered for
anything like that where you
have something living there that
you don't know that lives there.
But the the matter of the fact
that this is the simple point is
if you're a cat person, you have
cats and they live outdoors,
they aren't yours.
They're only coming back.
Stop feeding them and see if
they ever come back.
And I'm assuming that Lady
wasn't feeding them that well
'cause they were probably living
under that house eating mice,
rats and having a blast and then
the mice bugs.
So yeah, if you have a cat that
lives outdoors, it's not a house
cat, it's not your cat, it's not
a pet.
Yeah, unless you're on a farm or
something.
Even then they're they're just
there, they're part of the farm.
Animals.
Yeah, they're fair.
OK, Great coverage on our first
story.
I would say that you're gaining
up to Jack Teranio at this
point.
You could exceed him by the end
of the show.
Let's.
We'll see.
That's my main focus and goal in
everything I do.
To crush Jack Teranio?
Absolutely.
I just want to crush Jack.
Jack must go.
So moving on here.
Kim Kardashian says she's not a
lawyer after failing California
bar exam Kim Kardashian is
looking to the future after
announcing she did not pass the
California bar exam.
The 45 year old reality TV star
took to her Instagram Story
Saturday to share she did not
pass the California bar, which
she took July 29th and July
30th.
While I'm not a lawyer yet, I
just play a very well dressed
one on TV, she wrote.
Six years into this law journey
and I'm still all in until I
pass the bar.
No shortcuts, no giving up, just
more studying and even more
determination.
Thank you to everyone who's
supported and encouraged me
along this journey so far, she
added.
Falling short isn't failure,
it's fuel.
I was so close to passing the
exam and that only motivated me
even more.
Let's go, she says.
Kardashian began her journey
toward becoming a lawyer in 2018
when she entered California's
Law Office Study Program, which
allows aspiring lawyers to
apprentice under licensed
attorneys instead of attending
law school.
In 2021, the former Keeping Up
with the Kardashians star
announced she had passed
California's baby bar exam in
2021 and 3 failed attempts after
that.
Kardashian pleaded her six year
program in May.
So she found out she failed in
July.
Does it take that?
I mean, that's what she took to
this.
It takes that long to find out
if you passed.
I don't know.
I honestly don't know that.
Just seems ridiculous you got to
wait six months.
Do you think that there's a way
to kind of circumvent things so
that she could pass the bar?
Like could she hit a button and
you know, I don't know, have
some I've.
Never heard of the baby bar.
I mean, I saw her, just talked
about it on her show.
Smaller is what it is, and it
requires less food.
Yeah, it's very temperamental,
yes.
I'm going to have to look up
what the baby bar is.
It's probably like a test exam
or something to be like a
paralegal or something like
that.
There's probably some
certification.
Is there like a express pass for
this for her being rich?
Yeah, like like normally there
is.
There's usually a way around
things the circumvent she.
Could get an honorary degree
from a school right as a law
degree.
She'd get an honorary doctorate
or whatever.
I'm sure she could do that.
I would.
The bar is your legal ability to
actually practice law in that
state.
So no, I don't think there's a
way just circumvent it other
than even if you paid someone,
maybe they could doctor the
results.
But I I kind of think she's been
talking about this for a while.
I don't follow her on all these
things, but I have heard this
several occasions.
I think this is just something
she wants to do.
Like I think she wants to pass
the bar.
Yeah, I can't see her ever being
an attorney.
Well, her dad was, yeah.
Right.
But I mean, are you going to
hire her to go?
I mean just.
Yeah, I think people would hire.
Hell yeah.
Famous Rich.
Yeah.
But not too smart.
I think she's smarter than
people play her out to be.
My.
Yeah, I mean, she has more money
than all of us, so.
She's, I think she's pretty
smart.
She's famous for the fact that
she's famous, I mean.
Yeah, well, she's famous because
initially because of her her
filming being filmed doing
sexual acts.
Yes, whatever.
I think she paid dividends.
Yeah, I think she's smart.
I think, I think there's some of
the family that aren't is smart
on a on a book level.
I think she's pretty smart.
I think she also got good
perspective on stuff.
I just listened to her recently.
She was on a nonpartisan
podcast.
But what the the purpose of it
was, it was used to like, don't
listen to what celebrities give
you advice on on voting because
they don't know what you live
through.
And she was talking about and
very honestly, she said, I don't
understand what a gallon of milk
costs.
She's like, I have no concept of
what things cost.
And she goes and her point was
this is I'm out of touch with
that kind of stuff now.
I don't think she's out of touch
with business.
I think she has people around
her that are smart, that handle
her money.
If she didn't, she'd already
been taken for a ride.
We'd know about it by now in a
different way than she was on
the video that made her famous.
But the I think she's smart and
I think from what I've been
watching here on this stuff and
it's been brought up several
times, I think she just wants to
pass the bar.
I think this is something she
wants to do that show that she
is smart and it's something
she's accomplished 'cause there
probably could be ways around
it, but it seems like this is
something she really wants to do
do.
You think she's not working hard
enough that's why she's
struggling to get it done.
Like maybe she's just spread too
thin.
The.
Bar is hard.
I don't know what I don't know
if they give you a score like I
think it's I might just be pass
fail.
But I know, I know people that
are very smart that haven't
passed it many times and it took
them 3 or 4 attempts to pass in
different states.
So it's it's not easy.
I don't know how many times.
I I think this is the first time
she's tried it.
She said she's tried and she
didn't pass it.
So that's that's not uncommon.
A lot of lawyers don't pass it.
Gotcha.
Well, yeah, so I, I don't know,
I think it's something she wants
to know.
She's obviously talking about
it.
Maybe try to normalize herself a
little bit.
I think, you know, she gets a
little older.
I think if you're that celebrity
that famous to try to do things
that are, they have self
accomplishment, right?
I don't know.
I think that's a big thing for,
I think it kind of for me
though, I, I'm, I'm really not
against her on much of anything.
I, I, I think she's kind of
becoming a relatable celebrity
like that.
That was big for me when she
said I don't have any concept of
how things cost and, and then
she was, it's hard for me to
make a judgement on something
that should happen for someone
that doesn't come from the walk
of life that I've been in.
I think that's huge.
No, not enough celebrities.
We see the normal side of it.
So this for me normalizes her a
little bit.
OK.
All right, so there you go.
Any other comments on Miss
Kardashian?
Nothing.
The last one here, just remember
this, she completed a six year
program in May, so I don't know
how intensive that program was
'cause you were working as a,
you know, underneath as an
apprentice.
Yeah.
So I don't know, six years, man,
Dang, hopefully she passes it
good for.
Her it's almost as long as our
wholesale brand just struggling.
Along 100% if she passes the bar
people 100% higher of course.
Absolutely, and she'll do good.
And she'll charge all the money.
All the money and she'll be
successful, she'll she'll win
things and and it'll be a
freaking spectacle.
But I mean, the camp was with
her dad was a lawyer, very
famous, obviously.
So makes sense.
Kim, go get it, girl.
Go get it, girl.
I'm sure she watches.
Big fan.
She's a huge fan.
She could.
You never know.
You never know.
It's the way to find out.
We'll tagger and we'll go from
there.
Tagger.
Oh yeah.
Tagger.
The clip, Michael.
Invite to collab.
I can't even get people in the
in sheet then.
But except they don't.
Know how to do that?
This is a problem.
Here I think some of them do.
Just say yes.
Some of them.
Can you?
Will you accept this now?
They're so Here are the biggest
losers and winners from Week 10
in the NFL, according to USA
Sports.
This is good because we're going
to have one to talk about.
Here tons yeah Patriots and
Bucks baby NFL week 10 winners
Trayvion Henderson a week ago
the New England.
Patriots second.
Round rookie running back was
splitting time with Terrell
Jennings, a 200 and 2024
undrafted free agent who stepped
in for injured starter from
Andre Stevenson.
I can't hold on to the ball of
from Andre Stevenson, but when
and Jennings exited Sunday with
a knee injury, Henderson
capitalized with a breakout
performance that ignited A2823
win over the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers.
Yeah, I was there.
I lived it.
Do we want to talk about the
other games first or are we
going to go back?
We go game by game here.
He likes to go game by game.
Let's.
Do it?
You know what?
Because there might be some you
don't talk.
Here's what I think we should
do.
Yeah, we should probably just
kind of really kind of cover
this one in depth and then just
kind of lightly skim over that.
Anything else.
And if there's anything that you
really want to talk about in any
of the other ones, we will.
Sure.
So a couple things.
For one, the offensive line for
the New England Patriots is
astonishing, incredible.
And I don't know if Drake May is
the guy.
I don't know if he's MVP yet.
Now he I think he has the the
possibility of becoming the guy.
It's still early to tell.
The only things that happened
were they really advanced were
these complete breakdowns on the
defense for Tampa Bay.
And the two Henderson runs were
complete breakdowns.
So those are two touchdowns in
themselves.
And then you had one kind of
miracle pass that that worked
out.
Well, Josh McDaniels is still
Josh McDaniels.
And like, I'm not going to, you
know, you can't.
However, I do find myself
cheering more for Tampa Bay now
than I have ever when I'm
normally a Patriot fan, which is
kind of interesting.
So yeah, you know, Baker,
there's I think there was some
questionable calls as far as
offensive coordination there's
and they're definitely had, they
have a ton of injuries.
So they should have won.
That game the the big thing for
me, so I actually got to watch
most of the game.
I was in limbo with travel, but
I did pull it up and I was in an
area where my CBS Sports app was
working for that game.
So there's a couple of points
that were huge.
One, I do love the Bucks too.
I like Baker Mayfield.
Great freaking story coming back
after after Brady comes in, wins
the Super Bowl, he takes over
the team and becomes the
comeback player of the year,
which is his only comeback was
was for playing with the
Cleveland Browns.
Like there was a guy that
literally died on the field,
Hamlin there that didn't win it.
He came back from death and he
didn't get comeback player.
Baker accomplished something
bigger than death coming back
from playing to Cleveland
Browns, and the guy's a stud.
Bigger feet.
Total stud.
He's a great player and very
deservedly so.
I'm glad to see him on the Bucks
because it makes for fun
football down here because the
rest of to Florida as a trash
bag.
But I was really excited for
this game big game.
Both of them tied for first
place in the league with four
other teams.
The the scary things for me at
the beginning of the game which
you got to witness in person and
I've sat in your seat.
So you get to you were on the
pat sideline right.
Yeah is first question I have
for you.
How close were you to Drake made
any given period of time?
Did he warm up in front of you?
Because I know Brady used to
warm right up in front of you.
He was right in front of us.
Yeah.
So we're at the 50 now we're
we're at the 45.
So he's right there as far as.
Is he as big as people say he
is?
He's relatively big.
Yeah, 'cause he doesn't look big
and they say he's 64225, which
isn't small.
Yeah, that's not right
physically.
In person, they said he is does
appear bigger.
He's not.
He's not like Cam Newton.
Massive, yeah, but he's big.
One thing that I noticed, too,
which I thought which I found
remarkable, was Josh Dobbs.
Joshua Dobbs, helmet on, ready
to go.
The entire game, really the
entire game.
And there are people that are
heckling them like you're not
going in and they're giving them
a hard time.
And I'm thinking to myself, if
I'm a coach, that's exactly who
the hell I want.
Ready to go, Ready to go at any
moment, so.
In the game.
That's huge.
Yeah.
Because if you if it happens,
you don't know what's going to
happen.
You can't be in there.
You can't miss his death.
And he he did come in.
Remember a few weeks back, Drake
May got hit in the head and they
took him into the into the 10.
Dobbs went in and played like 3
or 4 perfect freaking plays.
Put him down the field.
I thought they were going to let
him stay in and score the
touchdown.
They took him out because May
was ready.
But that guy didn't miss a beat.
They didn't even change the
offense.
The first play was a 40 yard
pass down the field, I believe,
which was crazy.
And that's a big, big thing.
Noticed the one thing that did
scare me early in that game bro.
Those first three passes that
Drake made.
Terrible.
Like flew 15 yards over people
and Romo brought it up on the
broadcast.
He goes, you know, and true Romo
fast.
She's like like that.
And they're like, what do you
think of Tony?
He's like, he goes, I've never
seen him play in rain before and
he goes and the way he's
throwing it, he goes.
He's got too strong of a grip on
the ball and he's the type of
guy that grips the ball and
really gets it in there.
He's like, we'll see if he dials
this in.
As soon as there was 3 and out
or four and out or whatever on
that.
As soon as the Bucks got the
ball back, it stopped raining.
They made a comment that like
every time the Bucks get the
ball, it stops raining anyway.
You could tell it when it
stopped raining because May
started completing passes.
So that's something he's going
to have to figure out because
he's playing in New England.
There's going to be snow.
We are.
Officially, there we are at that
that time of season.
Yes, So it's coming around.
I think you'll learn it and I'm
glad it happened now.
But he that's a weakness in his
game is, is getting the ball out
there there when it's wet, when
it's cold.
And Brady was phenomenal at it.
He was great at adjusting and
he'll get some coaching up on it
and he'll be practicing.
But you can tell that's not
something they had prepared for
because he threw some freaking
Flyers.
I don't think there is any way
to prepare for it without being
live on the field.
And the reality is that when the
field is wet, your receivers are
a half a step behind right?
So the longer, the further out
they are on that route, the
further away they're going to be
from where you think they're
supposed to be, right.
So until you kind of calibrate
that, I mean, Baker was off too.
Once the field was wet, I could
see that he was throwing ahead
of guys.
And that's just because you're
not putting into effect the fact
that they can't run as fast and
move as fast when the grass is
wet.
So it was good.
I great game.
The the bucks should not have
won it.
Yes, they should have.
No, no, the the IT should have
actually been a wider margin.
I hated that late touchdown that
the freaking Pats gave up to
make it look like it was closer
than it was in the second-half.
First half they they bucks won
the first half.
The patriots looked like
garbage.
They played adjusted really well
and played good in the
second-half.
The the Patriots are really
good.
OK, yes, the Patriots couldn't
convert first downs.
They couldn't convert first
downs.
The Bucks could consistently
convert first downs going down
the field even though things
look messy.
So that's where I'm going to
argue with you as far as why I
think that the Bucks should have
won.
I mean, there is legit 3 plays
that broke out into 3 touchdowns
that caused New England to win
that game.
Now is that on the Bucks 100%.
Do they need to fix that?
Absolutely.
However, the one thing that
Brady could always do that I
haven't seen Drake May do, or at
least in that game, is
consistently go down the field
and convert, convert, convert,
right.
It was always a slant pass,
quick outs, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom.
It was ball was out of his hands
in less than two seconds.
That's what Drake May is going
to have to do.
They had a lot of big bodies.
Gronk was a big body for quick
passes.
Edelman was quick short term.
His first two steps was
incredible.
You had James White in the
backfield who was a great pass
catcher.
I think you're going to see a
lot of that with Henderson.
You're going to start to see
that mature a little bit.
He's a stud athlete, the guys.
Fast.
He that was a broken play.
They weren't letting him go, but
that was a broken play.
But he dude, when that play
broke, he was 50 in the yards
downfield.
As soon as it broke, he was gone
and he ran clear across the
field to make sure if you should
score or not, which I'm glad he
did.
But I mean that kids fast and
he's this is a breakout for him
and it's going to be it's going
to be huge and they're going to
have to play with him.
The problem is when you get back
to those running backs, you're
like your third string running
back, even though he's a stud of
an athlete, you don't have every
play opened up for him.
You don't run every play.
You haven't got reps on it.
So in the coming weeks, they'll
be more of the the playbook that
opens up.
You know, I used that, for
example, when Dobbs went in for
Drake May, they kind of ran the
playbook because I think that
guy is like, when I go in, I
want to, I don't want this to
change.
Yep.
So I think that's a really
different mentality and he
wasn't in there long enough to
see what part of the playbook
they haven't got towards yet.
It wasn't situational.
It was kind of wide open.
They were driving down the field
and they just continued to
drive.
But yeah, the Patriots were
really good.
Their offensive line is
excellent.
This team is not 100% different
from last year.
I think the biggest thing that I
take from this was, was Gerard
Mayo that far disconnected with
his leadership ability that that
this one change of Mike Vrabel?
I think Mike Vrabel is patriot
red, white and blue.
But so isn't Mayo.
OK Mayo is just as important as
Rabel was and Mayo might even be
was might even be a better
player than Rabel was.
Mayo was a complete stud.
Was McDaniels offensive
coordinator last year, too?
I don't think he was last year.
No, he wasn't.
So those two things are really
important.
And leadership's massive.
He wasn't.
O'Brien was last year and he and
and Mac Jones did not get along
well.
And he was not, I don't think,
dialed in to have a player like
that.
I think Bill O'Brien did really
well when Brady was around
sometimes because Brady's an
alpha through and through and
you're not going to tell him he
he had such a big chip on his
shoulder that I'm going to do
this, I'm going to be the
greatest I'm going to be.
It's a very different mentality
which we've seen that that
change.
So I think Brabel brings a
little bit of that hunger back.
I think May brings a little bit
different approach, pardon me,
as than Brady obviously did.
But the guys a stud, they're
good.
The team looks good.
They're certainly going to win
the AFC East this year.
I mean, the Bills just imploded
yesterday and the Dolphins can't
keep it what they're doing.
The Jets are a joke even though
they beat Cleveland.
In the suck bowl OK, so now one
last question before we cover
the rest of the NFL.
If on the strange situation
where Tampa and New England wind
up in the Super Bowl, are we
going and is hooting and Young
handling the sponsorship for
that?
Because I definitely get.
Where's the Super Bowl this
year?
Where is the Super Bowl this
year?
New Orleans.
No, it was in the New Orleans
last year.
I'll look right now because
you're not looking.
Palmer, where is I?
Can't look and run the board at
the same time.
This year, well, but boots can.
No, he can't.
That just doesn't switch then.
Levi Stadium, Cali.
Oh yeah, Santa Clara, Yeah.
That's very far.
It is far I would consider going
yes, and I'll use all my
negotiating tools.
This is why it's important for
Houghton.
Yeah, yeah, we got some behind
the scenes deals working and
we'll talk.
I would be, I would love to go
because the the unique thing
with that for me is the odds are
against the team that's won so
many Super Bowls, whatever,
going ever going back again,
right?
It takes a lot to do that.
Look what's going on with the
Cowboys.
Yeah, but the systems are right
the.
Systems are right, but every
chance you have is maybe one
last chance because the odds are
probably it's been our time,
right?
So I, I'd always wanted to go.
So if they go again, I'm going
to try to find a way to try to
go.
Hopefully I'm financially in a
spot to do it, but if I am, I
would go.
Don't don't forget about small
people.
I won't, I won't, I won't.
We'll go.
We're all, we're all on this
ride together.
But that would be really cool to
see them.
Tampa, New England.
Yeah, it'd be.
I think it'd be a great Super
Bowl too.
And by the way, they're two
really good teams.
We'll get into some of the teams
that scare me with New England,
but we're NFC East champs now.
So we won the NFC East, we beat
all of the NFC East.
You mean AFC?
No, we're NFC East.
We beat all.
You beat all.
Everyone in your division.
Gotcha, NFC Champs, Rabel said
that on the way out yesterday at
the game, said NFC East Champs.
We beat Carolina.
NFC South.
NFC South, Yeah, Well, we'll
probably beat the NFC East.
Too.
There's not too much going on in
the East, no.
Apparently South.
Apparently the ball just got
fired, so yeah.
Yeah, weird.
That was a weird, not a weird
firing.
Weird hiring all around.
It was awkward.
Bill Belichick was involved, and
that's what.
Flores he.
Should have picked Brian Flores,
man, He was.
He's great.
He's a really great coach.
And look, the Dolphins are
kicking themselves in the ass
too, because that guy is a
culture guy.
He's really good.
Flores is great.
Yeah, the Yeah, man, he got
wrong there.
And they're starting to see that
maybe they'll bring Brian Flores
in, right their wrongs.
He should.
Doesn't he work for?
He's a.
Defensive coordinator for the
Minnesota Vikings.
OK, but didn't he didn't he go
work for Pittsburgh the year
after that?
That's the Mara family.
And they're also the same people
that actually, well, they're
they're related to the people
that own the Giants.
No kidding.
Yeah.
They're all like intertwined.
Yeah.
Yeah, the Mara family was close
with them.
So they're all connected.
You can look it up.
But yeah, maybe they can right
their wrongs.
Moving on though.
Baltimore Ravens Did you buy the
dip in the stock for the pre
season darling?
Baltimore Ravens If you want to
get back in the Baltimore,
there's probably limited time to
do so before others crowd you
out.
After conquering the Vikings
2719, the Ravens are on a
three-game tilt come against
teams that are combined 7 and 20
so far this season.
Wow.
OK, so they're rolling.
Is Lamar Jackson back?
Yes, he is back.
What a freaking animal of a
human being and football player
that guy is.
I thought three years ago the
NFL was going to figure him out
because he ran all over the
place.
He's not a big dude.
He's 6, he's jacked, but he's
like 6-1, like 215 and he took a
hit in the playoffs or the end
of the season like 3 years ago.
And I'm like, oh, that's the NFL
figuring this dude how they rung
his bell and and I'm like, yeah,
this is going to be kind of
over, man.
He's great.
He's fast.
Yeah, he's fast.
Former MVP, still at MVP level.
The guy's a stud and I've not
seen a player in a long time.
You lose that one player and
everything falls apart.
I mean, everything falls apart
when he's not there, right?
True, very true.
Massive impact.
I think he has the biggest
impact on his team overall,
which is obvious, 'cause they
didn't, they weren't even close
when he's gone.
Man these.
Socks.
They are terrible.
And then they come, boom, he's
back and they're freaking
rolling on the Vikings, who are
a good team.
Yeah, they're not having the
same year.
They had the patches, but
they're still.
Strides on a little bit, but
they have a lot of weapons.
I don't think they should have
gotten rid of Darnold.
I don't think JJ McCarthy's
going to pan.
Out.
I like McCarthy a lot, but I
don't think it's going to work
out.
I don't like the fact that he
was hurt and he had to get a
second opinion outside of the
establishment.
Like that's that shows that you
already have issues with staff,
in my opinion.
So, all right, what else you
got?
I hate the Ravens, love Lamar
Jackson, Houston Texans
playmakers.
It still seems like the two time
defending AFC S champions are
long shot to make a playoff
push, let alone repeat for the
division crown.
But in a 3629 win over the
Jacksonville Jaguars, the Texans
at least kept themselves from
falling too far back into the
post season chase while
highlighting their promise.
So Hooten Young is actually an
official sponsor of the
Jacksonville Jaguars?
Really.
Yes.
Oh good, then we can go to games
in 2027 in Orlando.
We may be able to go to games
this year, You never know.
We'll see.
We might maybe do something in
January.
We'll.
See what happens?
Now we're talking.
Funny, now we're talking.
What Jacksonville Jaguars Good
team?
Underperforms at times,
Overperforms at other times.
It's a true description for me
of Jacksonville as a city.
Underperforms at times.
Overperforms at times.
Just announced that they're
gonna be playing on Orlando next
year.
Well, 27, right?
2027.
Gonna be awesome.
They were.
They were gonna choose between
Gainesville, FL or Orlando.
How those two choices even
compared to each other is
bonkers to me.
Outside of Florida, having the
stadium to have that many people
fit in and the facilities, but
like getting to it, I don't.
I don't know, man.
I think that was obviously they
made the right decision.
I don't know, maybe.
Do you think they were using The
Swamp against Orlando?
That was a pitch.
Yeah, we're looking over here.
It's like, bro, come on, stop it
right now.
What are we doing?
So coincidentally, the Citrus
Bowl here is going under a major
renovation again after this is
done.
So I think maybe that was in
play.
Hey, we'll do some of this stuff
to help you out here.
Maybe we'll look at doing some
other things with you, but you
could have some better
facilities the.
One thing I don't like about
Jacksonville is how they how
Liam Cohen did Tampa Bay dirty.
He agreed to the terms highest
paid offensive coordinator, and
then he slid over there,
slithered over there.
He did, he did, but he's a he's
a player's he's a player man of
the people, though, like he's a
he's a leader of men.
It seems like they because he's
kind of he's kind of dopey and
some of the stuff accidentally,
but he's obviously the people
players like him.
Nobody said anything dirty or
nasty about him as players and I
think you would have heard about
that.
I think I don't know.
We'll see what happens.
Jacksonville's a tough market
man.
They they had that they had a
good year with Jalen Ramsey was
there.
They were kind of they were kind
of talking shit about the
Patriots and then the Patriots
shut them up and and ruined the
freaking franchise in one game
in the playoffs.
So that that really haven't been
the same since then.
But they got a lot of talent,
man.
They're our fun team to watch.
They're they're good.
They're they're in most games,
You know, 36 to 29 is not a blow
up by any means, but you got to
you got to you got to have a
defense, man, 36 points is
you're not going to win many
games in the NFL at 36 points.
No, very true.
So Jacksonville Jaguars Hoon
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That's right.
None, none.
We made nothing on that.
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Just free plugs?
So yeah, remember DeMarcus
Lawrence?
Here we go.
DeMarcus Lawrence.
It wasn't the most laborious day
for Lawrence or any of the other
Seattle Seahawks defenders in a
4422 route of the Arizona
Cardinals.
But when linebacker Tyrese
Knight twice stripped and sacked
Jacoby Brissett, the edge rusher
cleaned the things up both times
by running the ball back for a
score.
With that, the four time pro
ball selection tallied as many
touchdowns in a single game as
he did during his seven-year
career with the Dallas Cowboys.
These Cowboys defenders playing
in other places are just
cleaning how house.
Yeah, well, you know what, man?
At the end of the day, it's
still the most valuable team in
the entire world.
So who's really winning?
That star is beautiful, man.
And money in the bank, man.
Patriots with six Super Bowls
are not valued higher than them.
And it is, it's, it's, it's part
of who people are out there.
Oh, it's everywhere, dude.
Yeah, and there's there's like
100 million people.
They're the the fan base of
them.
Even people who aren't fans,
like I'm a secondary or tertiary
fan of the Cowboys.
Like I love watching them lose
because it's funny because of
how it worked up the primary
fans get but a little bit in
behind, you know, our age, we
grew up when the Cowboys were
great.
So we watched it.
So it's fun.
Like I like watching Cowboys
games and it's good for the NFL
when the Cowboys are good and
they're always good.
They just can't close the door.
You know, they just, they, they
just hit walls and that's what
they've been doing the last 2530
years is just keep hitting
walls.
Then you go get your door.
He's just sitting there doing
nothing.
He.
Got to.
He's going to die in Cleveland.
Go get him.
There's some argument to be made
that he should have gone to the
Ravens because he would have
been back up to Lamar Jackson
and he would have been playing
these last three or four weeks.
There's no way in the face of
the earth they're going to keep
him on Cleveland.
They're that's punishment for
whoever is mad at Dion.
It makes sense to have Shador
give him a shot in Dallas.
What do you have to lose?
How many jerseys you'd sell?
Them I go get Shador and I go
get Shiloh and I put them both
in Dallas, so.
What do you think of a coaching
situation in Dallas?
You know what?
I don't really pay that close
attention to it because they're
not important enough to notice
right now.
They're not going to win the NFC
East.
Philly's going to take it,
right?
You know, So I don't really, I
mean, when they're on, I'll
watch them, especially on prime
time.
But I'm I'm honestly I don't
have a a close opinion on it.
My other take from this game and
from the last couple years here,
how much longer are the
Cardinals going to allow it to
go the way that it's going with
Kyler Murray?
I think it's gone.
I think it's going to be at the
end and he's going to be done in
the NFLI.
Think he's going to be a backup?
Yeah, he's done this season.
I think it's it's over.
He goes away.
Yep, Yep, I think he does.
I may get one more chance
signing almost somebody.
He's not starting anywhere.
There's too many young players
and he's young.
But man, the Cardinals are a
disaster.
Too many video games bro.
Yep.
Yeah.
Just sometimes you just don't
have it.
Have you watched any of the
Johnny Manziel stuff recently?
Man, he's got such a unique.
You got to watch some.
I won't get into here as a long
story for another day, but I
mean, he's got some unique
perspective on how he screwed up
in the NFL and what was
important to him and his fame
that he had going in.
I mean, his fame peaked in
college and he, he admittedly
said that, you know, he bought
into that fame and it, it
destroyed him, destroyed what he
was doing.
And his really unique mindset.
I, he's on one of these reality
shows where they're doing like
military activities and he's
doing the show 'cause he's like,
I want to prove to myself, you
know, some certain things and
he's got a really unique
mindset.
So he's going to be somebody
interesting to look at over the
years.
You start to hear him talk about
things and mentoring young kids.
He's got a really unique point
of view.
Kyla Murray, same type of thing,
not fame, but like got caught
in, hey, I've got tons of money,
I got this, I'm talented, I'm a
stud athlete.
It takes, you got to take it to
a whole other level, man.
You got to live and breathe it
to be successful.
Look at Brady.
I mean he destroyed his family
on it twice.
Right, it takes a lot.
Yep, it does.
All right, let's try and push.
Through Matthew Stafford's MVP
momentum, the Los Angeles Rams
quarterback across the mid
season point is a top choice for
NFLMVP and US 80 Day Sports
informal poll on the award.
If he keeps stacking days like
this, the 37 year old former
number one overall pick could be
exceedingly difficult to catch.
Stafford tossed four more
touchdowns in his 4226 win over
the injury ravaged San Francisco
49ers.
In doing so, he became the first
quarterback in NFL history to
have three consecutive games or
at least 4 scoring strikes
without tossing an interception.
Matt Stafford, perennial first
ballot Hall of Famer, total
stud.
Loved to see him, got that Super
Bowl, loved to see him get out
of the Detroit.
Yeah.
I do, I agree.
But I Matt Stafford's awesome
man.
He deserves that.
And if you're going to have the
conversation of top 10
quarterbacks of all time, if
he's not in the top ten, you,
you don't know what you're
talking about.
And I'll put him above Aaron
Rodgers.
Yeah, I agree.
All right.
What else?
New York Jets leftovers?
They suck.
Sauce Gardner and Quinton
Williams got got raptured to
better settings via trade.
You could forgive any Jets
players who felt left behind as
they faced off against prospect
of finishing out a lost season.
Yet Aaron Glenn's charges didn't
merely go through the motions
coming out of the by finding a
way to put together A20720 win
over the similarly hapless
Cleveland Browns.
Nothing to talk about there.
They suck, dude.
I hate The Jets.
The Browns are disgusting.
Someone had to win it.
NFL Week 10 losers.
Buffalo Bills troyed after
knocking off the Chiefs last
week.
Sunday should have amounted to a
cool down exercise for the Bills
team.
They had a stunning 30 to 13
loss.
Reheated many of the same
problems that have held Buffalo
back this year, man.
They just got a lot of money
tied up in a few players, man,
and that's it's coming to roost.
I just I don't like their coach.
No.
I don't like them, no.
He when they were up, he talked
a lot of shit.
They never did anything with it.
And now he's paying for it and
they're paying a lot of players
and it's just not enough money
to go around.
And that that mentality, Josh
Allen's great.
He can just only do so much,
man.
You have to, you have to, you
can only do so much.
And that's what I think you're
running into in Buffalo.
Carolina Panthers a home date
against the one win New Orleans
Saints should have been a
launching pad for a Panthers
team coming off a surprising
upset of the NFC North leading
Green Bay Packers.
But Carolina put up a 7A7 dot
and lost 17 to 7 and face
planted and revealed that the
team still doesn't appear to be
a serious threat to end it's
seven-year playoff drought.
The Bucks needed that, so I'm
glad they lost.
They did.
That's good.
The division's really helping
the Bucks out too, a little bit.
And they're they're good.
They're just playing some good
teams right now.
They got a lot of injuries.
Man, they're what are they, 8-7
and three now?
I think so.
Yeah, 7:00 and 3:00, They're
second in the league.
They're going to be fine.
Pittsburgh Steelers offense When
Aaron Rodgers stumbles to one of
the worst outings of his
historic career, it's natural to
write off the performance in the
2510 loss to the Los Angeles
charges.
An outlier.
But even if the Steelers don't
flatline like this in the
future, this attack might not
bounce back to full health on
its own right away.
It seems like the Steelers, no
matter what they do, they end up
having over 500 seasons making
the playoffs.
I think they're going to do that
again this year.
Mike Toblin's one of the best
coaches in the league for sure.
Period.
Six and three the Bucks. 6:00
and 3:00.
We had a buy.
Buy this week.
Need it.
Last week.
Oh, buy the week before.
But they haven't.
Maybe they'll get a buy again
this week.
Panthers are five and five.
They got Panthers who they got
coming up this next week.
Great question.
It's an away game, I can tell
you that much, because I won't
be there.
Let's see.
Oh, the Bills in Buffalo, that's
not good.
There's going to be a redemption
there.
The Bills need the win, the
Bucks need the win, and it's in
Buffalo.
Wow man, that's the game to
watch this week.
That's a big.
That's a big if.
Whoever loses, that's a big dip
in the wrong direction.
For sure.
Just record wise, Brian Dayball,
the New York Giants coach is
something that his hot seat
peers don't.
He's fired a highly compromising
rookie quarterback who developed
has become the organization's
top priority of 2025.
But Jackson darts president only
matters when he's, you know,
actually on the field and Brian
Dayball got fired.
So that's.
That's good.
We already kind of.
Covered story.
Yeah, so there.
I'll see what happens.
Injuries, injuries a thing than
that.
Jackson Dart's young, I think
the the he.
Can't keep playing the way that
he's playing, dude.
But I I think that was just a
really cool start to the air
cause Cam Skedaboo and Jackson
Dart's little bromance was fun
to watch.
But Dave Ball was, obviously
these guys are good coaches,
don't get me wrong, but Dave
Ball was out of his element in
there from the very beginning.
He got rid of Saquan.
He got rid of Jones.
Jones is doing great in Indiana.
No, he's not a good coach and
he's like smooching Jackson Dart
when he would do well like.
I'm not saying he's a good NFL
coach.
He's a good coordinator.
He's had a successful career.
He's going to continue to have a
successful.
Career, yeah, but just because
you're a good coordinator does
not make you a good head coach.
But they the Giants have some
issues that I think they're
cultural ones because when you
move, you move someone away,
Daniel Jones, and then he goes
and becomes one of the top
players in his position in the
league.
And then you got rid of the
arguably the best player in the
league with sake one and that's
insanity.
So there's something going on
there.
And they they even said it.
They were on that behind the
scenes show.
They're Hard Knocks or whatever.
And there's a literal interview
where they're sitting in the
office and the owners say, if we
get rid of Saquon and he goes
through the Eagles, I'll never
forgive ourselves.
How do you let that happen?
And they even said, oh, he's our
most popular player.
It wasn't as he's in the best.
He was the most popular the
same.
He was the franchise.
What a bad business decision.
I'm not saying I would know what
to do, but I just know that
getting rid of Saquon, he wanted
to stay there and then you'll
let him go to a division rival
and win a Super Bowl.
And he's a good team player,
too.
And he seems like a great guy.
When he could have broke a
record, he's like no man with
the.
Other yeah, he seems like a good
guy, so I don't know anything
about him but externally screwed
up Giants bye bye Brian John
Morton.
How does Detroit Lions offensive
coordinator end up in the losing
category after 4422 win over the
Washington Commanders?
Simple.
Coach Dan Campbell took over
play calling duties for Morton
for the contest and the offense
responded with a season highs of
546 total yards, 226 rushing
yards.
Less than two weeks after Morton
acknowledged he had failed
Jameson Williams by not
involving him more in the game
plan, the speedy receiver
notched 119 receiving yards and
a touchdown, with Campbell
taking over all.
Right.
We got to get out of the NFL.
We got more to cover. 4/22.
We're almost in an hour.
The House Cowboys Marshawn
Nealon found dead and apparent
suicide Police say Nealon, 24,
was found with a self-inflicted.
Gun this is.
The Collin County Medical
Examiner's Office will determine
cause of death.
Man mental health.
Mental Health.
So sad man.
And then having this
conversation with my son about
it is crazy.
Dude what a bummer.
The kid had a great game prior
to, I don't know, I don't think
Dallas won that game, but he
still played amazing and.
He scored his only touchdown in
his career.
He did, he did and and to lose
out like that, I.
Can't express enough the
importance of of mental health
and having the solution, I don't
know his thing, but having the
solution, not always having to
be medication, 'cause I'm going
to tell you, we're going to find
out that he was on something and
he was probably on multiple
things and they didn't work well
together.
And he got in a situation where
his mind didn't know how to
comprehend what was going on.
And his only solution was, this
has to happen this way, right?
Terrible, brutal, brutal.
If you're watching this and you
have mental health challenges,
substance aren't the answer.
And there are people out to
help.
You call John, call anybody call
John, correct there are.
People that will help you and
there's always a way out.
This guy had his whole future
and his life ahead of him, and
there, trust me that whatever's
going to happen to you is not
worse than what you're going to
face on the other end of that
ball.
But it's so easy to say when
you're not in the thick of it,
you know what I mean?
So never judge a person for
going through it.
And it's unfortunate when
they're not reached, for sure.
So OK, what you got?
A lot of Marshall Nealon That
wraps up the week of training
stories through the football.
So yeah, we got there.
Now we get this cigar news.
Now, yeah, now cigar news.
Let's light this cigar up again.
We're still smoking the barrel
aged test one.
Remember, this is test one just
fresh out of the barrel.
So this will be a project we use
for hooting young.
This will be paired with our
barrel picks that we're just
started doing, so if one of our
clients or customers does a
barrel pick, they'll get to have
a custom blend that's aged in
their actual barrel, which is
pretty cool.
Nice, so let's get in some
information.
Cigar Page open world's largest
cigar store in 2026 Cigar Page,
undoubtedly the fastest growing
cigar retailer of the last
decade, will add its first
physical store next year.
Won't just be the company's
first store.
Cigar Page claims that it'll be
the world's largest cigar store.
The cigar store will be located
in 10 110 Harvard Ave. in
Bethlehem, PA.
If anybody knows that address,
it's very close to Keith Myers
other previous business that he
started called Cigars
International.
The company says the total
building will have 66,000 square
feet of usable floor space.
About half of that will be used
for the retail operation, which
include 24,000 square feet of
retail space, 32 foot ceilings,
4000 square feet of outdoor
patio space in the middle of the
Lehigh Valley.
Beautiful during the summer,
winter months.
That 4000 square feet not going
to be good unless it's heated,
but I bet it is.
Indoor seating for more than 200
patrons.
A full service bar with 42 beers
on tap.
A second story mezzanine lounge.
A 20 foot tall stone fireplace.
The star of the show will be the
humidor, which is how the
company will make its claim as
the world's largest cigar store.
The retail humidor will measure
4400 square feet in the area,
but 60,000 cubic cubic feet in
volume.
It will be filled with 750,000
cigars, a a representative told
the Bethlehem City Council.
That's expected to operate from
11:00 to 10:00 PM.
Thursday to Saturday and 10:00
AM to 6:00 PM the on Sundays.
JG Petrucci, the company's
development partner, will break
ground on the building later
this year and expect to open in
late 2026.
Operated by Brand Shopper LLC,
Headquarters is in in that town
will use the rest of the
building's headquarters space.
So they're building headquarters
and warehousing facility there,
which means that 100 employees
will be based out of the new
property and 25 new retail
employees included to use and
plan.
It's 23,000 square feet of the
new building for warehouse and
storage space.
OK.
Do you do business with the
cigar page?
I do not.
OK.
Do you think this is good or bad
for the industry?
It's a it's a double edged sword
here, man, Double edged sword.
Anything that promotes and grows
the cigar industry has a
positive impact on cigars,
especially when it's something
this nice.
This move is not out of
necessity in where they're
building it.
This is out of pure competition.
This is we're going to go after
Cigars International, we're
going to go after SCG and we're
going to eat part of their pie
directly.
Obviously, they have plans to
probably open other locations up
after this, probably down the
road 510 years or whatever down
the road here.
So this is one of many.
They're incredibly well funded
because they're partners with
Vandelmeers who own Alleva and
Jay Cortez.
They're billionaires.
So they're incredibly well
funded and I'm assuming,
assuming they probably have
other investors, rich people
generally go in with other
investors as well.
So they probably have private
investors that are involved in
this.
But anything that's nice
elevates the cigar industry.
I think I'm good for where the
other side comes.
An issue is generally these
types of battles become a cost
game.
So if I'm a small retailer or
I'm not one of these big guys
who can compete on pricing,
Cigar page is already at the
bottom of the barrel on pricing.
They play a lot of games which
are dangerous to brick and
mortar retailers for Aleva
products, for example, Leva
cigars, if you want Aleva, the
cheapest place to buy them is on
Cigar Page.
That's direct to consumer.
That's a really challenging.
It's not that they just sell
them.
They sell them at the cheapest
price that you can't even
compete with and they don't
allow you to.
So that's damaging.
So it's going to bring some
attention to that, but I don't
know, maybe they'll maybe they
already hit the bottom of the
barrel, they already race to the
bottom and maybe they start
racing up to the top as they
slowly compete against CI.
Well, the rumor is that the
pricing is going to get raised
right, but OK.
So as a brand owner or a
manufacturer, what do you think
it that you can do in order to
maybe still facilitate working
with them, but protect the
integrity of smaller retailers
as well?
It's very easy to do this.
You just don't allow them to
sell more product than they can
sell organically.
So if you see somebody running a
deal on one of these big
websites, like a good, good
deal, I'm not saying like a
promo where you're adding in
like 10 or 15% discount or some
free product or some swag.
That's pretty industry average
standard.
That's a lot of industry like
getting stuff.
When you see 30% off discounts
on brands, 35% like you see from
Cigar Page, that's because
they're trying to move through
quantity of product.
And the only way they can do
that is if the partnership they
have with the brand they're
doing that with is allowing it
to happen more than once.
If it happens more than once,
it's because they're in bed on
it.
So if that happens and the
products not moving fast enough,
the next step that you need to
do because these companies have
metrics where it's got to turn
so quickly.
So what you do is you do a promo
with them.
OK, let's do a promo where we do
10 or 15% off and we'll give
some swag or we do a special
product project that companies
with it.
So you can do things like that.
But that's that's the way to
manage it.
If you work with them, say, hey,
I'm not trying to do $1,000,000
in business with you.
I'm happy doing 3040 grand a
year or whatever that number is.
I'm just using some numbers.
So you just manage it and you're
comfortable with that.
So if you go to hey, I want to
move more, I could move more.
That's when they start to chisel
you.
And so you just have to stand
your ground on it and you have
to be OK with with the number
and that that helps you grow
with brick and mortar.
So if you can maintain your
price integrity and not oversell
to them, they're not going to
sell it at that price.
If they're selling 35 points
off, they're either one trying
to get rid of it or they're
getting a deal where they're
getting extra margin.
They're just trying to move
through it.
And if you see it more than
twice, it's because the
manufacturing partner or the
brand owner's in bed with them
on it.
So it's very simple.
You just approach them that way.
I'd like to do this.
I'll give you some sort of a
standing discount because I'm
not going to put any marketing
dollars into it because you
promote everything that you do
on your own.
So we'll give you some sort of a
discount for you giving us that
exposure and then you just let
it be what it is and you be
happy with it.
I have a different take.
I would charge more.
That's an.
That's another way to do.
It I would charge them above
wholesale costs by about 10%
because at that point, all the
things that you're kind of
stating, I got to stay on top of
it and regulate it.
And I'm not doing that.
I'm not watching everything that
you do.
Like, that's not why I'm in
business.
I'm not here to babysit knowing
that you're going to do the
right thing.
I can just protect my best
interest by saying here's the
price, it's 10% higher than
everybody else.
If you really want to continue
and grow with us, great.
If not, then I will continue to
grow and develop with other
retailers.
So when I was with LFD we did
have somebody that baby sacked
accounts like that.
So if you have people that can
do it, you can keep an eye on it
because what they'll use to you
as a barrier to entry is like,
well, we can't do this if you're
going to charge us more and then
you, and that's fine.
So then you make that decision.
But if you want to do business
and you do go in and play ball
the way they want to play ball
initially, you got to go in with
a discount.
You got to go in and make sure
it's beneficial.
And the way I look at it is I
don't give anybody a bigger
discount than I have built into
what my marketing budget is.
So I treat it as a marketing
thing.
Hey, you're going to put forth
your effort to move this.
You're going to market, you're
going to advertise.
So you should have some margin
on it.
And I would do that.
I do that with brick and mortar
retailers too.
Hey, you're going to do an event
and you want to do a promo or
you want signage or you're going
to do something in the store.
I'll give you the points you
need to make it happen.
So that's the way I look at it.
But then there's excessive
numbers when you get to the
point where, hey, well, we could
do $2,000,000 with you if you
gave us 35 points, Oh man, I can
make, I could make 2 or 300
grand off of giving you these
points and do nothing.
So that's, you just got to not
be greedy.
And then you got to, you got to
be patient.
But that's where I say it's a
double edged sword.
So for the industry, I think
it's good.
I think they're building
something beautiful.
Whenever you build something
nice, that never hurts.
But then you know, see how it
manages what's going on and then
what their growth strategy is
after that.
So yeah, it's 5050 on what I
what I think the benefit now I
will tell you the, the future of
this industry is solid brick and
mortar retailers that have
chiseled out their niche.
I think you guys have a very
distinct niche in that and that
has room to grow.
And then I think the real big
future is who's doing it the
biggest and the best.
And that's just the nature of
what's going to happen.
And what this is a move towards
is, is to direct to consumer.
Is that direct consumers the
answer to a question nobody
wants to to ask.
The future of this industry is
how close can you get to direct
to consumer?
Because that's where all the
extra margins are really at when
you add a middleman in there,
because we it costs a lot to
have reps on the road that
working and going out there.
The closer you can get to direct
to consumer, it cuts that out.
And every other industry is
already doing it.
Like you can buy Coca-Cola
online, You can buy Coca-Cola
directly from Coca-Cola.
You can buy wine directly from
the vineyards and you can buy it
in liquor stores.
Every other industry does it.
You can buy Louis Vuitton from
Louis Vuitton online in person.
So this industry is going to
continue to move more and more
that way.
And the more and more places
open like this and it compete
against each other, the less,
and this is just being honest,
the less the noise and the
complaints coming from smaller
brick and mortars have an impact
on what you're doing as a
manufacturer.
So this is taking power away
from smaller brick and mortars.
And this is just an, in my
opinion, a natural progression
of how the industry is moving
and trying to get closer to
direct to consumer type margins,
which in this business are huge.
What else?
What's next?
It's.
A hot 1.
It's a hot 1.
Flor de la Centilla San Andreas
arriving at TAA retailers.
Not only is it a good thing that
I'm reading this today, because
I can pronounce most of these
Spanish words better than
Palmer, yes, but Flor de la
Centillas TA retailers.
I used to be on the board of the
TA Retailers Association as a
board member, so this is a cool
one here close to my heart.
It appears that My Father's
Cigars has released a new
Mexican San Andreas rap version
of Flor de la Centillas line to
a handful of retailers that are
members of the Tobacconist
Association of America.
A representative of the TAA told
Half Wheel that My Father's
Cigars, Inc showed the new line
at the recent meeting and trade
shows, which was held in late
October.
The TAA representative told Half
Wheel that the cigars are not
part of the exclusive series
program, but were offered
exclusively to TAA retailers for
immediate future release.
The representative went on to
say that while not confirmed,
it's expected that the line will
be offered to all retailers in
2026 at the PCA trade show,
potentially in New Orleans in
April of 2026.
My father has not replied to
multiple emails seeking details
and images of the Florida Blast
and TS San Andreas.
The company has not added the
new line to the website and does
not appear to have posted about
it on social media.
It was also not part of the TAA
social media post announcing new
cigars from the annual meeting.
It's offered in two sizes, both
which come with a soft box
press, a San Andreas Robusto 5
by 5212 dollars, MSRP box 240
and then the Toro 6 by 5413
dollars, a box of 2260.
Cigars feature the same primary
bands, the Florida Las and TS,
with addition of black ribbon
around the foot.
As for the blend, the retailer's
listing says it's dark Mexican
San Andreas wrapper and for
context, the original Florida de
la Sentias, which they did,
debuted in 2012.
Cigar of the Year also as well
utilized the Nicaraguan Sun
Grown wrapper and Florida de la
Sentias Maduro, which debuted in
2015, use a Habano Scurro
wrapper.
There are a lot of conflicting
reports about the binder and
filler, and one of them using
the same Nicaraguan tobacco
found in other Florida de la
Sentias lines and one coming
from Honduras. 1 retailer
indicated that the cigars are
made of the company's factory in
SLE and my father has used TA
retailers in the past, a group
of AD retailers for other type
of releases like this and that
have become regular production
before.
OK.
Well, sounds like, do you think
they dropped the ball on
releasing the information before
TAA and that's why they're kind
of catching up or do you think
it's why?
Why would not have it with all
the other?
Things.
I think this is a really unique
way to to get the group of 80
retailers to all be bought in on
launching a line that you want
to launch and other people and
you get to say, hey, you have
exclusively for a short period
of time.
So I think it makes them feel
special.
And at the end of the day, what
it does is allows them to add 2
skews to every single shelf and
then they release the full line
and they add 6 because they
already have it.
So it's already bought in.
So I think that's the concept
behind.
It's like, hey, we have this, we
want to release it.
We're going to do with the trade
show.
We'll give it to you first, you
feel special and then we'll do
our exclusive series thing too.
And then we'll release it to
everybody.
And then we have a proof, proof
of concept that we can put all
those facings in very easily.
You already have the two, now we
have the five or the six or
whatever it is and you have it
on the shelf.
So I think that's why they do
this and it's worked well for
them.
But why not have it incorporated
in the TAA news?
Why not have the information
kind of solidified?
Why not answer?
I think they take it to them at
the show at the TA convention
and tell them they're, hey, we
have this available just for you
guys.
But it happened.
The TA happened what, last week?
Yeah, and.
They don't do any press releases
on it.
I think it's just, hey, you're
so this is so unique to you,
you're going to test it for us.
And then and it's a, it's a knee
jerk buy, everybody buys it.
You know, you get 8080 retailers
that go heavy on it, you know,
buy 1020 boxes of each.
So you sell 3000 boxes in a
matter of 10 minutes and they're
all in on it because you can't
say no.
So I think that's what they do
with it.
And they did that in the past
when I was with TAA and on the
board, they did it and it worked
great.
And everybody said yes and, and
it works.
So I think that's exactly why
they do it.
And they don't release any news
because it's a headache to do
it.
Then you have other people
asking about it kind of creates
a little bit of a interest on
the news.
We're talking about it.
And then then when it comes up,
people have already kind of
spoken about it.
You've had some success in the
store and then you have 80
retailers that bring everything
in and you can say, hey, it's
done really well.
So that's how I look at it.
OK.
Constella Group signs with
Kretek International for
Canadian distribution Constella
Group has a new distributor in
Canada as the company has
entered into a distribution
agreement with Kretek Canada.
We have the privilege of
watching Luciano Cigars
establish their cigars as some
of the most respected in the
premium category, said Nicholas
Brumm, director from Ketek
Canada.
Ava press release Their passion,
dedication and a commitment to
the excellence mirror our own
values and reply blah blah blah
blah.
Blah.
OK.
Anyway, Costello and Luciano are
gonna distribute cigars Kretech
in Canada.
Cool news story.
Canada's tiny business.
It's great Cigar Mark.
There's a lot of good cigar
smokers up there, but it's like
.05% heavily taxed small
business, small peas cool to
distribute in Canada, but very
small business that these that
are capable of doing.
But so cool story.
I don't think it's a shockwave
across.
If you want to do distribution
in Canada, you give them a right
price, they'll distribute it and
they make good money on it and
they'll go with it.
But I don't see this being a I
don't think Luciano and Costello
group are gonna like take over
Canada, which right seems like
from the press release, they're
getting really hyped on this.
But this is good for them.
OK.
But yeah, Canada's awesome.
Tough place to do business The.
First time I like, I didn't have
to say anything.
I'm like, OK, great, yeah.
That's perfect, yeah.
There's a joke in there though.
I'm not reading the rest of that
freaky.
There's a joke in there.
That's OK.
Is there, is there a joke in
this, In this, In this?
Yeah.
That's OK, Go ahead though,
Quote.
The sports was really long.
Just keep going, keep rolling.
Canada retails and consumers.
An announcement from the two
companies described the
partnership is a meaningful step
toward both companies and for
the Canadian cigar landscape,
saying it underscores a shared
vision, root and an excellence,
authenticity and commitment to
elevating the cigar experience
for discerning retailers and
consumers.
They claim that it will provide
Constella groups before Leo with
increased access and exposure to
retailers nationwide, as well as
the sports structure as sure as
hell better designed for
sustainable growth and enhanced
visibility.
Nicholas Brumm, director of
Treatech Canada and Luciano
Moreres of Luciano Cigars and
president of Constella USA and
soon to be Canadian Prime
Minister.
Treatech represents distribution
excellent at the highest level.
He better not take my cousin
out, said Luciano Moore, as CEO
of Luciano Cigars and Costello
Group, in a press release.
This collaboration is about
shared purpose and it built our
brands on authenticity, quality
and relationships pretech and
bodies those.
Jokes.
You got the joke.
Canadian Prime Minister there
we.
Go jump to Rocky Patel.
Mark Carney is going to stay
Prime Minister Rocky Patel 13th
anniversary shipping next week
during his 30th year in
business.
Rocky Patel with no actual
accent and with his premium
Cigars Incorporated, has
experienced its fair share of
shipping delays, most recently
for the cigar made in honor of
three decades.
That shipping delay has been
resolved finally, and the Rocky
Patel 30th Anniversary is ready
for release next week.
And the company will be shipping
the new Rocky Patel 30th
Anniversary, which includes 4
cigars, all kind of branded
differently.
Three of them are regular
production line, while there's
also a limited edition version
that uses a different blend.
The core Rocky Patel 13th uses
San Andreas from Mexico, 2
binders from Nicaragu and
fillers from Honduras and
Nicaragua.
The company says the rapper is
aged for seven years, while the
fillers are aged for at least
five.
If this was M Bombay, this would
be a 12 year old cigar.
It is made at the company's
tobacco, the M Cuba SA factory
in Estelee, Nicaragua.
It's offered in several
different sizes, ranging from
the Anniversary Toro, the
Anniversary 60, the Anniversary
of Busto, and it was all
announced in April and $1.00
more per cigar than when it was
announced.
All right.
That's exciting.
All the shipping is the limited
30th or Rocky Patel 30th
Anniversary 6 1/2 by 50.
Toro, let them go, let them RIP
through it all, right?
Yeah, 1000 bucks of those babies
coming out and the cigar is
going to begin shipping on
Monday.
So today the company hosts a
launch event early this week at
Smoke on the Water in Weston, FL
Rocky Patel start in 1995.
That's a great check, Rocky.
Patel and and partner Phil
Zangi, owner of Debonair, to
start Indian Tobacco Cigar
Company.
I like smoke on the water.
It's.
Survived by Rocky Patel Smoking
water is a good spot.
Yeah, yeah, it makes everything.
Me.
Awesome.
Cool.
Spot no drama.
Great shop of the week is old
time Cigars.
Wait, you skip, you skip part We
got to go to.
What's the score?
Oh.
Now we go to what's the score we
want?
To tell you the shop of the week
is Old Time Cigars in two
locations, Casper and Claremont,
and they are sponsoring this
week.
They are sponsor.
We got sponsors.
They're sponsoring.
Yeah, we're.
Going to get some money out of
Jonathan.
Yeah, they're gonna they're.
What's the score with Palmer?
Sponsored by the Cigar.
Yeah.
Shop of the Week.
Old time.
OK, All right.
Send you the invoice, John.
He commented on the last week's
show twice.
Yeah, we've been having more
interaction with them on social
media and we like what they're
doing.
They're doing great jobs with
their great job, video shorts
and all those other things.
Doing a great job in the shops,
man.
They're they're Jonathan's
infusing a lot of energy in
there and the, the remodeling, I
mean, he's crushing it, doing a
good job.
Absolutely.
What's the score of Palmer?
Let's do it.
All right, what's the score of
the first Cigar is from November
8th, 2025.
It has been reviewed by Brooks
Winningham.
It is a Nikki Raguan review The
Tatwa Hey Fausto FT110.
Do you want to go first?
Yeah, 94. 94 Have you seen this?
No, he looked pretty smirk about
that.
Man, they love.
They love.
That's why over there and they,
the Faustos are really clever.
One they haven't redone anything
with recently.
So this is new.
Fausto 94 is what I'm starting
with.
I'm gonna work it.
Down 92.
All right, 9294 factories my
father's cigars essay rapper is
Ecuadorian Habano binder is
Nicaraguan filler Nicaraguan
length 4 3/8 inches, ring gauge
is 60 and they smoke 3 cigars.
89.
OK, 60 ring gauge.
Ain't the big boy?
Brooks Brooks 91.
All right, clue #1 after such an
interesting cold draw, I'm a bit
disappointed with the with the
opening puffs, as a combustion
of spice, black pepper, and dry
earth sets the tone for the
three cigars.
After about 10 puffs, a
combination of gritty earth and
a vegetable note that reminds me
of grilled asparagus, it takes
over the top spot on the
profile.
We have a new flavor grilled
asparagus, grilled asparagus,
followed by secondary flavors of
sawdust, ants, gritty earth,
cinnamon, creamy peanuts, and a
light charred meatiness.
Grilled asparagus.
Does it make his pee smell?
It does, I don't know, but it
switches to the creamy.
Peanuts.
I always thought with half wheel
reviews would mean like it
doesn't get a good squirt.
That doesn't mean disappointing,
doesn't mean anything anymore,
correct?
I am going to go.
I am going to go 87.
OK.
I mean, if they use the term
Icarus flying too close to the
sun, I just wanted to know it it
hits in a low 80 at that point,
I'm going to bring it down to
90.
I'm a conservative 90 right now.
All right, clue number two.
The first thing I noticed about
the second third of the FT110 is
that there is a noticeable
decrease in the amount of spice
on my tongue.
The second thing I notice is
that I is that the main flavors
have changed to a wonderful
combination of charred meat and
coffee beans.
I'm.
Going to stick with an 87
because that's just still a good
score to have.
So we table the grilled
asparagus.
No more vegetables.
And now we're in the meat.
Meat.
It's a full entree.
Meat and coffee. 87 I'm still
stick with 80.
Seven.
I like my 90. 90 clue #3 The
amount of red pepper on the
retro hill has been cut in half
for all three cigars, and while
the 1st and 2nd cigar still
feature the familiar German
chocolate cake note, now he's in
the dessert.
The sweetness on the last cigar
reminds me strongly of a
Hershey's milk chocolate bar.
This is a Habano wrapper, it's
not Maduro.
Correct.
Where are they getting this
sweetness from?
Habano can be sweet.
Can not not German chocolate
cake?
And Hershey's chocolate bar.
What I really like about Habana
wrapper is it's more neutral
than anything, so you can tweak
a lot of things with the
internals and get that
sweetness, whereas your San
Andreas or your broad leaf will
take over a little bit more.
And Matrafina.
Yeah, but I mean, what's the
priming on the Matafina?
It's distinct in its flavor
profile, but.
I'm going to stick with the I'm
going to stick with the 80, the
87.
Is this my final score?
No, no one more.
I'm going to I'm going to eke up
to 91.
All right, final thought.
Even after almost 15 years of
reviewing cigars, there are
cigars that surprise me in the
Tetua.
Hey Fausto FT110 is one such
example.
Going into the cigar, I was
thinking the combination of the
Fausto blend and the 60 ring
gauge vitola would have no
problem knocking me for a loop,
but instead I ended up with a
cigar that was almost tame,
especially after the first third
had passed.
Having said that, I found the
second third to have the most
complexity, with main flavors of
charred meat and sourdough bread
that combined nicely with the
black pepper and chocolate syrup
sweetness on the retro hill.
Compared to the original T11 and
some of the smaller Fausto
Vitolas, the FT110 is
significantly mellower in
nature.
But consider the 60 ring gauge.
I'm not complaining at all.
I'm going to give it the 87 just
cause of the 60 ring gauge.
If it was smaller size you would
have gone 9187.
OK, I'm going to go.
I'm going to come back down, but
I still think it's going to do
well.
I'm going to go 90. 86.
Damn.
Mr. Carney wins.
Wow, OK.
Big ring gauge man.
It's used words like Considering
the big ring gauge size, I was
pleasantly surprised.
The big ring gauge, I just don't
like giving it.
But Brooks usually pelts well on
anything to Tuahe so.
I think that's a good score
though, 86 for a 60 ring gauge
that they don't normally would
would do that on.
I think it depends on who's
doing the review.
True, true, but I think that's
they'll they'll claim to you
8687's not a bad score.
Yeah.
You know 868687 it is.
OK, 87 it is.
All right, Next Cigars from
October 3rd, 2019 is reviewed by
Mr. Charlie Minato, 10 Honduras.
Oscar Valedari's tobacco and
company review the Superfly
Toro.
OK, I'll go first.
This time it's my turn 82, 83
oh, playing it close.
All right, factories.
Oscar Valedari's tobacco
company.
It's a Mexican San Andreas
Binder is Honduran filler,
Dominican Republic, Honduran and
Nicaraguan.
Length of 6 inches, Ring gauge
54.
It is a Toro and they smoked 3
cigars.
Superfly.
Superfly. 84. 83.
Despite a heavy dose of
chocolate on the pre light parts
of the cigar, there is none of
it once the smoke hits my mouth.
Instead, the Superfly begins
with earthiness, peanut butter,
and an almost Nacho like salty
corn sensation.
Nachos.
Nachos on the Superfly.
Doesn't really give us much
Intel there, 84. 83 OK.
I wonder what actually change,
at least when it comes to the
flavors in the mouth, though
that's not a bad thing.
Retro hills are much stronger
with Ritz crackers, minerals and
an A1 steak sauce.
Double positive compliments from
Charlie. 83.
OK, I'm supposed to go first but
OK.
He's very excited. 85.
All right, next clue.
Flavour is full, body is closer
to full, and strength is medium
full.
All three cigars need a touch up
to keep the cigar burning until
the end. 85. 83.
It's like he knows.
All right, this is the final
thought.
This cigar sucks.
The cigar was terrible.
I just just gave it flowers for
the entire article and now I
just want you to know I hated
it.
I'm not entirely sure what to
make after smoking three of the
Super Flies.
It's a solid cigar with some
flaws, but also one that shows
potential of being a lot better.
When thinking back to the rest
of the cigars I've smoked from
the Oscar portfolio, I'm led to
believe that this is probably
right in the middle.
I haven't smoked the Wild Hunter
that Patrick recently raved
about, but I think this falls
short of the Altar Q and the
Oscar, though Better than the
Ciceron edition and the 2012.
Shit.
This one's brutal.
That's why I'm sticking with my
same number.
Here do I think it's going to be
higher or lower than 83 is the
question.
I'm going to go 84.
Sticking with my 83.
Scores 88 yes. 88. 80.
Eight.
Got one.
OK, anything else to add, Mr.
Carney?
What else you got on the yadda
yadda there?
That was brought to you by our
shop of the week old time.
Cigars.
We have two.
Locations Casselberry and
Claremont.
Well, you will be at the
boardroom tomorrow night for the
Hooten Young Surprise.
I've arranged that I.
Appreciate that.
Yeah, we'll Hooten Young whiskey
and hopefully Hooten Young
cigars at the boardroom down in
South Florida tomorrow night.
We got Jonathan at Old Times and
Casselberry going and see him
doing a mistake.
What else I got going on, man?
We got veteran's day tomorrow.
It's a big, it's like Super Bowl
for Hooten Young, which is huge,
so that'll be exciting.
We got a busy week with that.
Norm's coming to town on the
12th, so we're doing a cigar and
whiskey dinner with Hangry
Bison.
In the Lakewood Park.
Yeah, Lake Mary location, Yeah.
So right across thereafter.
And then I've got that out.
Yeah.
So we got all sorts of stuff
going on.
And then next week I'm out in
Houston.
And then for Bentley, we've got
Bentley Half Coronas coming out
very, very soon.
They're going to be releasing to
the market.
I've put it in a few spots
already just to test, but we got
5 packs coming out.
We'll be smoking that on the
Patreon after, so that'll be
fun.
But yeah, busy month my some
events in Houston next week.
Then the week of Thanksgiving,
I'm going up to Massachusetts.
My dad's getting open heart
surgery.
Oh, that's a big one.
Yeah, he's 77, so that's hoping
to add 10 extra healthy years to
his life.
So we'll be up there with the
family over Thanksgiving.
I'm going up on my own, so we'll
do that.
So not a lot of cigar stuff as I
end the month.
This next two weeks, heavy
cigar, then some family focus.
And then December is going to be
a lot real heavy Bentley work in
December.
But we've got we've got some fun
things coming for for Hooton
young.
So just stay on my social media.
I won't talk about all of it
here, but some fun things happen
with Hooton Young.
Really fun things happen with
Bentley and I appreciate
everybody's support of
everything I've been doing.
It's a good time to be John
Carney right now.
It's it's fun as it looks.
Realize behind the scenes that
it's a lot more work than it
looks like.
So I'm not just riding around
having fun.
There's there's a lot that's
going behind it.
So I appreciate everybody that's
been receptive to everything I'm
doing and I appreciate the
opportunity to to host again.
So thank you.
I'm always open doing it.
I appreciate I didn't ruin it
the first time, despite some
feedback from some of the
Espinosa.
How do you think he did Palmer?
Do you think he did better or
worse than Jack Torano?
He was a little long winded.
Oh, than Jack Torano.
Yeah.
Oh, I like John's version, but
he was a little long winded
today.
Oh, I mean, I have a lot to say.
I hadn't been.
I've been traveling around.
I was on an airplane.
Sighted.
All day yesterday, nobody to
talk.
To I mean, we're.
Still OK if he had nobody to
talk to all the yesterday, I
understand how we're.
Still right on track.
We're at 85.
Minutes.
But I am, I am tending.
Whenever you have me on
something, I'm planning on
talking.
So you invite me on?
Yeah.
You invite me to the guest or
the host, so.
I love it.
That next week, or next time
he's on, I'm going to make this
sports section small.
Yeah, that's, that's on you,
right.
That was for.
One thing that was my fault
heavily on Jack, because Jack's
got an incredible voice for
this.
He's phenomenal at.
I have a distinct voice, but
Jack has a great radio voice,
very much so.
He does very good at reading
things.
He's got that that I don't know,
that deep inflection at the end.
So he's got a great radio voice
for.
I'm working on a UFC fight card
for the next time we go to Vegas
for PCAI.
Was figured the main event could
be Carlito and Jeremiah.
Your fault.
That would be good.
Maybe you guys could do like a
Co main like you and Jack
Turano?
We could do commentary on it and
be Co hosts.
We could host the show.
We could host the show together
one time if you wanted to do
that.
That would be fun.
Just have the two of them and we
both sit over here.
Yeah, got a little ball busting.
I can commentate.
How funny would that?
Be fun if they would love to do
Jack.
If they came in and did the
Coho, the whole cigar house,
whole show right, that'd be
awesome.
Jack's a great guy.
Man, what a great.
I love hanging out with him.
He's great to hang out with.
He's he's super personable and
he's been a good friend of mine
in the industry.
I think maybe he thinks
differently.
I don't know, Jack, do you?
Are we friends, Jack?
But no, he's a great guy.
No, I'd love to Co host with him
sometime.
That'd be fun.
We can go head to head here.
I'll give hot takes and he can.
He can be political.
That would be awesome.
OK.
Do you have a listener of the
week?
He just did.
It was Jonathan.
Oh, OK.
He was the listener of the week.
Yes, Jonathan, at old times.
And we also have some, we have a
special listeners of the week,
Corey and David that are in the
house, right.
Now, right, we have a live
studio audience.
Indeed that are on there.
Who got the barrel aged cigar?
I only had.
I only had four.
So did you smoke it yet or I
haven't?
Cool.
They're on their way to
Lazonapalooza.
That's going on this weekend.
Speaking of the Jack and the
Espinoza guys, have you guys
have been down on that before,
huh?
Yep, going.
Maybe we're going to try and
break for Thursday.
We'll see.
Man, he's done a good job with
that.
I when he first year he did it,
I'm like, it's hard to pull
stuff off like that.
And now he's done it now for a
long time and it's a cool event,
man.
They really do do a good job
with it.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week is Lazonapalooza, so
if you're in the area or if
you're not in the area and you
can get down to Miami and get on
down there.
Anything else?
Mr. Palmer?
Mr. Carney.
Nope.
That's it.
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Show Notes
Welcome to The Cigar Hustlers Podcast, Episode 413!
This week — cops chase down Breakfast, Kim Kardashian hits another legal speed bump, and the NFL delivers plenty of winners and losers in Week 10.
In cigar news — Cigar Page is building something massive, Rocky Patel’s got big anniversary plans, and a few surprises are hitting retailers across the country.