ACHP Episode 414 We are Going To Mars!!
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Welcome to sky rows podcast
episode 414 blue origin nails of
Mars mission launch and lands in
the booster like a boss.
A whole team is searching for a
missing mannequin named Beverly.
Dictionary.com says the word of
the year is 67.
Oh God.
Kaya Trump makes her LPGA debut,
California targets flavored
tobacco, and New Jersey wants a
higher cigar tax.
Of course.
They want a higher cigar tax.
Yes, they want to raise their
taxes.
We'll get into that in a few
minutes.
Before we get started, Michael
has a small presentation.
I understand you need to make.
I do.
So we launched our war bear
hats, all blacked out war bear
hats and we had 20 of them
available for sale and they sold
out in less than 24 hours.
So unfortunately we didn't even
get to really talk about it on
the show.
However, we are accepting more
pre-orders.
If you want a hat, e-mail us at
info@chapterpod.com and we'll
set you up for a purchase or
text us at 954-547-5333.
Say hey, I want a hat and we'll
make sure that you're in line
for that as well.
But in the meantime, the reason
why I we originally made a batch
OF25I destroyed 1, making a
little melty.
I got I got a melted 1 and I'm
holding on to that one actually.
Exclusive.
It's an exclusive.
Oh sign it.
People could win it.
And then at the museum and then
I set aside a couple others for
you guys, so.
Oh.
Mr. Palmer.
Oh bam, can you?
See that?
How's that?
Look beautiful.
Bam.
That's a hot item, people.
And then Mr. Bootsy, oh, under
thrown, but you made it OK.
It's the highest quality hat we
can get our hands on.
I I wanted it to be special.
I don't like doing anything half
assed.
So gentlemen, enjoy your hats.
This is the first batch.
There's a little bit of a
learning curve for me in
production, but I think we
figured that out.
I love it, it fits nice.
Yep, and thank you everyone for
your support.
We appreciate you guys all
always sticking with us and and
continuing to help us grow this
brand.
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Oh, did you say that?
Yeah, my apology.
Sorry.
Sorry.
I hate he like he always rides
me on that.
Always.
He just wants to make sure.
Want to make sure everybody
knows that we're just giving the
bank away.
He's taking care of the.
People, we're giving the bank
away and I'm.
Giving everything free shipping
discount.
Yeah, well, you know, we bought
a, I bought a hat press and I
wasn't really happy with the hat
press and how things worked out,
so we just bought a $2000 hat
press instead.
Oh, everybody buy hats now.
Everybody buy hats.
Buy all the hats you can get.
Please we.
Already got.
We got some we got.
Please buy.
Please buy the hats.
We're already working on
expanding, so we got we'll sell.
You this hat for two. $1000
Yeah, this is one, one of one.
This is a a game game worn.
One off the melted very rare.
Super rare.
OK, what are what are we doing
for Patreon?
I don't know.
Take your hand.
We're doing a hooting young
something.
Operator.
Booting young operator.
Operator, how's that?
Turn, turn it the logos.
You see the band the.
Yeah, turn the band.
There you go.
Perfect.
Smooth.
Operator.
OK.
Nice.
All right, this past weekend we
had an event with Pete Johnson
with Tatwa.
Hey, cigars here in the private
lounge.
Sure did.
How do you think it went,
Michael?
It went really well, man.
You know, we didn't really get
to know Pete as even though
we've been in this industry for
16 years, right, We didn't
really get to have anyone on one
time or really kind of talk with
him and.
He was on my list for the the
guest I wanted us to get.
Yeah, he was the last guy on the
list.
So now I'm happy.
We can stop the show now.
You've.
You've.
Completed it.
I've completed my list.
The show is over.
It's.
Like no, no one else.
It's like Thanos.
We got everybody that was the
last one on the list 'cause we
didn't think he would be a get.
I mean, when we did the list a
couple of years ago, yeah,
you're like he we don't buy his
stuff.
I don't.
Ever.
Yeah, he was the guy I wanted to
get as well.
Right, Super nice, super nice
man.
Yep, and it was a great podcast.
It'll be when are we going to
listen?
Open that up Friday.
We normally do it on the Friday
after.
OK, so yeah, that's going to be
a great podcast.
Listen, here's what I did is
like I do whenever I interview
somebody, I go all the way.
So I interviewed, I watched as
many.
This guy's driving me nuts with
this crinkling.
I interviewed, I went through as
many podcasts.
Thank you both.
Thank you, Ginger.
As many podcasts as I possibly
could in a month of where he's
been on.
And I listened to all the things
that he said, all the things
that I thought that should have
been addressed and what he likes
to kind of repeat.
And I wanted to get away from
all of those things.
So if you want to listen to a a
Pete Johnson to Twahe podcast
that is like no other, listen on
this Friday.
Also, please like and subscribe
to our show.
Right.
Yeah, do that too.
And there were several times
where he said, how did you find
that out?
Yeah.
What are you trying to make me
cry?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you know.
It was not a cigar interview.
No.
It was good.
You did a good job.
No, I find those things boring.
So how did you get in the cigar
industry?
Right, You can look that up.
Young man, bound your cigar.
You know, what's funny is when
we started our our podcast,
right, how you got in the cigar
industry was awesome.
No one else was doing that, you
know, And then as time kind of
went by, everybody started doing
it.
And then that's when we kind of
pivoted off of it.
It's like, OK, well, if
everybody else is going to cover
that, then we got to cover
something.
Else yeah, by the time you get
here, you said it already 8
times, you just want.
To go over it again.
So it was a great interview.
Give it a listen or watch.
Need the YouTube views.
We're so close, so close, so
close.
You know, I'm, I'm glad that you
looked into him before you did
the interview because you were
able to come up with questions
that nobody else has come up
with.
And I, I think that's great
'cause I, I don't like watching
these other podcasts 'cause it
is the same repetition stuff.
You know, I mean, you know, all
those other podcasts are
important.
They they are, but I'm just
saying like it's nice to see
some type of new content.
Yeah.
I think that the reality is that
we always try our best to push
the envelope and figure out new
things and reinvent and kind of
make things better.
Yes, for lack of at least
different, Yeah, different,
different, I think different and
better.
And better.
Sure.
Better than some, that's for
damn sure.
Yeah.
Some some long ones better than
some long ones.
See, we can get secret shots in
too.
That's OK.
All right, let's go.
All right, let's get into some
trending news.
Jeff Bezos Blue Origin launches
a landmark Mars mission in new
Glen rockets first big test Blue
Origin, the rocket company
founded by Amazon multi
billionaire Jeff Bezos launched
its towering new Glen rocket on
a mission that marked its first
major.
Are you going to keep clicking
that lighter over there?
Wow, he's got to light it.
Carrying a pair of satellites
that are destined to take a
long, winding trip to Mars, New
Glen took flight from Cape
Canaveral Space Force Station
just before 4:00 PM Eastern Time
this past Thursday.
Blue Origin also landed the
first stage of the rocket back
on a seafaring platform for the
first time, marking A monumental
stride forward in the company's
efforts to make the New Glen
rocket and usable, less
expensive and better competitive
competitor for Elon Musk.
SpaceX Blue Origin has been
slated to launch the NASA
mission called Escapade on
Sunday, but cloud cover resulted
in the decision to postpone lift
off.
The company then had a work then
had to work with the Federal
Aviation Administration, which
recently implemented a ban on
most rocket launches during
daylight hours amid the
government shutdown.
Oh, I wonder why that is?
No daytime rocket.
No daytime rocket to find a new
opportunity to take off the
launch of the Escapade.
Short for Escape and Plasma
Acceleration Dynamics Explorers
Much?
Escape is much better.
Plasma.
Plasma Acceleration Dynamics
Explorers marked the first
flight for New Glen with a
customer payload on board.
The Rocky had completed its
inaugural flight in January,
carrying Blue Origin made
demonstration technology and
it's cargo Bay.
I wonder what that was?
Amazon packages.
Pretty much.
The footage, shown during Blue
Origin's webcast of the Escapade
launch, shows the new Glen
Rockets first stage booster
landing upright on a seafaring
platform.
It means it's in the water.
OK.
The booster is designed to be
recovered and reused to drive
down launch cause Blue Origin.
During that January mission, the
company failed to recover new.
Musk is already doing that.
Though, Yeah, but this first
time they were doing this, guy
did it successfully.
So time's moving on.
Other people are doing it.
Like Blue Origin attributed the
failed attempt to engines that
did not properly reignite.
Oh, that would be a problem.
But the company did not appear
to experience any such issues.
He's got enough money, so really
it's.
Kind of like overnight when
overnight doesn't happen between
5:00 and 8:00 AM.
Exactly.
Exactly.
OK.
Failing to land the rocket
booster doesn't necessarily
affect how companies access the
overall success of a mission, as
the primary goal of any rocket
launch is.
You said we deliver its cargo to
orbit and take off.
But Blue Origin had made clear
before takeoff that the steps of
recovering and reflying parts on
its rocket.
Reflying.
That's a weird word.
Parts of the Rockets are crucial
to the company's business model,
and Blue Origin said it spent
the past ten months largely
focused on tweaking the New
Glenn vehicle in hopes of
guaranteeing a successful
booster landing.
OK, you done.
Yes, that's the end alright.
OK, so who do you trust more to
get us to Mars, Jeff Bezos or
Elon Musk?
How fast you want to get there?
I just want to know, I want a
successful launch.
I want there with the people,
with the people I want, and then
I want the back, want the back
and then people to come back.
With a successful landing.
Yeah, who do you think?
Well they the only thing they
didn't successfully land the
first time boots was the rocket
boosters, not the actual rocket.
Oh.
OK.
So the part with the peoples
doesn't come back.
So who do you trust to get it
done first?
I.
Don't know, You kind of leaning
towards Elon, Yeah.
Why are you leaning towards
Elon?
I don't know Bezos's background
with that type of information
just cause I'm not familiar.
Maybe he's a scientific genius
too?
I don't know.
But Elon seems like he's more
hands on where Bezos pays people
to be hands on.
Yeah.
And who do you think?
I think Elon, I mean, he's the
pioneer of it, right?
Yeah, I didn't even know Blue
Origin existed till the story.
Oh, really?
I I.
We covered the.
We always cover Elon.
No, we covered the blue origin
where the females went up in the
air or whatever.
Oh, is that him?
Yeah.
Oh, where they sent the movie
stars and stuff up and then
what's your name?
Says now she's an astronaut.
And then Bezos opened the door
and then they like reshot it.
Oh, I forgot that was him.
Like wait, wait, wait, go back
in, go back in.
Go back in.
We got to shoot this Ray.
Like hey.
Yeah, he's been.
Blue Origin's been around for a
little while.
Little bit.
Well, Elon's already been doing
it like on a regular.
Yeah, I think Elon's more
advanced.
I think he's a little.
Ahead SpaceX.
SpaceX just sounds better.
Yeah, than Blue Origin, Yeah,
Blue Origin sounds like a like a
a pill that you take or sounds.
Like Walmart or something.
Yeah, well, maybe he's the
Walmart of the space industry.
He is, kind of is.
He's the Amazon.
If you like space travel, try
this brand too.
Right, If you really like space
travel, what do you think?
What do space travel Can't
afford?
Fly Blue Origin.
Yeah, they're cheaper.
They're cheaper, less expensive.
It's less expensive the.
The seats are plastic and
they're a little tighter
together.
They have the AirTran seats in
the.
Yeah, but we'll get you there.
Yeah, you'll you'll arrive safe.
We are going to charge you for
your carry on.
Yes.
Everything's extra.
Luggage is extra, oxygen's
extra.
Oh, you wanted to breathe.
Oh, you wanted to breathe?
Oh, oh, that's enough.
That's enough.
Charge well this helmet for
$2000 like 20,000 whatever.
We need you to log into your
app.
We need you to make a I gotta
pay for Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi is extra too, Sir.
And once you reach, you know,
20,000 feet, right, it's gonna
be different Wi-Fi.
All right, so we all trust and
and Elon, we trust over Jeff
when it comes to getting to.
Yeah, unfortunately.
Space now when it comes to my
package.
Right.
I don't want Elon touching my
deliveries.
Yeah.
Nope, don't touch.
Myself, we had Amazon delivery
this morning at 6:00 AM.
Did you?
Walmart's making a run for it.
They're still They got to.
Find a rocket.
They're doing rockets, too.
No, they'll as far as Amazon,
they're going to, they're going
up against them, Yeah.
I don't know but.
Yeah, they're doing like home
delivery for free and all that
stuff.
It'd make more sense if they can
iron it out.
If Amazon had a store, I would
go.
I like going to the store.
Yeah, sometimes.
Well, they almost had a store.
Yeah.
Well, some places don't they,
where you walk in and the cart,
whatever you put in the cart,
you get billed for.
Yeah, it was.
Apparently it was.
It was a terrible.
Nightmare.
Was this people watching or
something?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, people, yeah, people
watching and see if you're
shopping, it's worse than the
self checkout of Walmart.
No, the people watching were
scanning the items for you and
putting them in your cart or.
Something.
Oh, is that what it was?
That was the story I heard.
I don't know if it's true or.
Not that would be funny.
Yeah, at the end of the day.
What are these guys with
binoculars up in the corner?
Well, they do like a like a
sidewalk sale at the like the
one here in Deltona.
Yeah, the warehouse they sell
returns off or something.
Yeah, you can go there.
Yeah, you can go there.
They have it all on the table.
Now you now you don't know what
it is, right, But you can kind
of tell by the packaging.
Or, oh, it's a mystery.
Yeah, it's like.
They they have different size
boxes I think, don't they?
Yeah, yeah.
It's a mystery box.
Yeah.
Stop it.
No, I swear.
Have you done this?
No, I have not, but I know
people that do go do this.
I've seen it online.
Yeah, the people they do
unboxing videos like I just
bought this at the the Amazon,
whatever they call it and they
go, I got ATV and a laptop and
oh, soap.
And how much do they spend?
Depending on the size of the
boxes, how much you spend.
So there's probably like 5000,
two 100 and up something.
Like that we should we should do
it one time and make it like a
real.
We should totally get one.
We should do.
That, yeah.
Let's get, let's do this.
Let me know when it happens.
I think it's only on like
Saturdays or Sundays.
A.
Certain day, yeah, yeah,
alright, we'll we'll look into
that.
We'll find.
It's every week, every week.
Oh, that's awesome.
I would say, hey, let's go do
that.
However, we just overspent all
of our money.
Yeah, we don't have it.
We don't have on a on a $2000.
We need to sell 2000 more hats
now the hat heap.
For us, so.
Hats.
Beanies.
Beanies are coming.
You're getting a headache.
Any type of hat of yourself?
Any type of hat what you think
of?
Getting a head of yourself.
Beanies are coming.
Oh yes, Beanies, yes, OK.
All right, moving on.
Yep, all right.
Town pleads for the return of
their beloved local mannequin.
Uh oh.
Tourism officials in the small
South African town are seeking
for tips about the disappearance
of the beloved local mannequin.
A mannequin swimming in the dam
just outside town.
Like a mannequin like in the
mall mannequin.
Yes, somebody stole it.
And threw it in the water.
No, they have a small dam that
they keep this mannequin in and
it's become like a tourist thing
for this, for the small town.
Somebody stole the mannequin.
Thank God it's it's about chest
deep in the water and she's
waving as you drive by.
Somebody stole.
Somebody took it.
In Nua Bethesda Tourism said on
social media that the swimsuit
clad mannequin known as Beverly
vanished from her usual spot in
the water of the of a farm dam
on the road.
Beverly isn't just any man
again.
She's been a quirky, much loved
part of our little town's charm.
The post said Rhino Grief, a
local sculptor and artist,
placed Beverly in the dam about
two years ago after she was
inspired by a Facebook joke
about skinny dipping in the
small dam on a trip to Port
Elizabeth.
I found a mannequin in a second
hand shop over there, Grief told
Eyewitness News.
I thought, OK, this is Beverly,
she's going to be the one.
I brought her back to my studio,
dressed her, made a stand so
that she doesn't fall over in
the dam and down and put there
about two years ago.
Since then, she's become a real
presence in the area, Grief
said.
The suspects said the suspects
it would have taken multiple
people to move Beverly due to
the heft of her concrete base.
If anyone has seen Beverly or
knows where she might be, please
send us a message or contact Nua
Bethesda Tourism or send tips to
info@chapterpod.com.
We could try to help them get
their Beverly back.
If you know her whereabouts this
sounds, this is awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm very excited for this.
About Beverly.
Yeah, about the fact that she
was stolen.
Why are you excited that she.
Because it sounds like kids are
getting back to being kids.
Yeah, I hope it's kids.
I mean, if it's an adult, If
it's adult.
Not just one.
Because of the size of the
concrete base she was in, it
would take several people to get
her out of the.
Yeah, so if it's some teenagers,
like, hey, you know what we're
going to do?
Like, let's go get Beverly.
Let's go steal Beverly.
That would be absolutely epic,
you know?
And then hide Beverly in this
guy's closet.
Yeah, yeah, or whatever.
Or put Beverly on the top of
your school or something, you
know?
Do you snap her legs off and
just leave the legs somewhere
with the concrete and just take
a knees up?
Separate the torso.
Be easier to move.
Yeah, be easier to move that
way.
Does anybody check if the legs
are still in the water?
Maybe they just snapped her off
I.
Don't know, it sounds like
somebody's got a story for life
though.
Hey, do you remember that one
time?
Remember that.
One time we this is in South
Africa, so it'd be a slight
accent.
That's in South Africa, yes.
I'm really bewildered by her
name being Beverly.
Yeah, I don't know why they
called her Beverly.
I have no idea.
They they don't mention how she
got her name.
His name's Rhino.
Yeah, the rhino saw her at the
second name store and went, oh,
that's Beverly.
That's just her.
Right.
I should take her and put her in
the little.
It looks like a small baby pool
is what it looks like.
Yeah.
But it's it's very deep.
That's a dam.
Yeah, at a farm.
So it's like how the farm waters
their crops and stuff.
Oh, OK.
When I when you said dam, I'm
like thinking, you know, like.
Yeah, I had to read the article
twice because when I saw the
picture I'm like, looks like a
deep baby pool.
That's not that deep.
I was at a dam for the entire
city.
Maybe in Africa?
South Africa?
Maybe South Africa?
Oh, I hope it's some kids.
I hope it's some kids.
We'll try to keep an eye on the
story, and then we'll look for
updates so that you can be
thrilled with how it turns out.
Beverly's just going to randomly
appear or never be seen again.
I think she'll never be seen
again.
You think she's gone?
They're going to have to get
another one to name it Beverly 2
or.
Or maybe Beverly makes trips
like they put her, like around
the world.
Oh, that would be.
Great, Like a Becky yeah Oh
yeah.
Instagram page Beverly Beverly
Beverly Travels.
Boy they have to get that
concrete off of that's going to
be paying the ass.
Trim Beverly.
Right.
All right, moving on.
FAA lifts flight reduction,
emergency order today.
The sound that you may hear may
be the collective sigh of relief
of US air travellers and of many
more flights taking off and
leaving.
As of 6:00 AM today, Eastern
Standard Time, the government
shutdown induced cancellations
and delays on 40 major airports
and consigned to the history
books.
The Federal Aviation
Administration and the staffing
levels have stabilized since the
government reopened last
Wednesday, meaning it is safe to
proceed with regularly scheduled
flights.
Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy said Focus will now return
to bring in more air traffic
controllers to improve
conditions.
Well, it's about damn time.
It is the longest government
shutdown in history.
And I heard that like some
Democrats decided to switch
their votes or something like
that.
That's what I heard too.
There was enough of them.
Got together and went, look, we
got to get these people.
We're hurting the people.
We're hurting the people, so
let's just just vote with the
weirdos over here.
That's what they said.
I'm not taking sides one way or
the other, right?
But they're like, you know,
we'll just consign to it and
we'll worry about whatever they
won't give us later.
Yeah.
I mean, look, you're, you're
supposed to be for the people.
You're sticking to your guns
about your own policies and your
beliefs.
And like, and you know, what was
crazy is a lot of our customers,
not a lot, but we had a handful
of customers that were
struggling because they hadn't
been paid in months.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's rough.
Can you imagine?
No.
Like how far does it go before
you start going?
I'm losing it.
I'm not doing the job.
Not only that, but like.
What I know is so many people
still went to work, they just
didn't get paid.
Yeah, so things still happen,
but they just did it for free, I
guess.
Well, they got caught up
eventually.
Do they get back pay?
Yeah, of course.
Do they?
Yeah.
Oh well then I would have kept
working too then.
Yeah, I think that's the thing.
And and if they maybe stopped
working, like maybe there was
something in their contract
where they didn't get paid or
you know, something like that, I
don't know.
How terrible is it that there
has to be a clause in their
contract says in case the
government stops, you have to
keep working and we'll pay you
later when it comes back?
It's so, it's so ridiculous.
That somebody thought that one
day the government would shut
down, right?
I would never fathom that, you
know, and this now, it's like
every couple of years it
happens.
Yeah, it's repetitive, but this
was the most obnoxious one for
sure.
Yeah, it's the longest.
So next time they'll have to go,
we gotta go.
For the record, we need 42 days,
right?
Now Palmer, you're, you're a
little older than me and Mikey,
so.
Thank you.
Is that the end of your
statement?
Pete Johnson to let him know
that as well.
Yeah, Pete Johnson said.
I looked older and shorter.
Older and shorter in person.
Well, at least he had some
characteristics about you, yeah.
Right.
At least you watched.
Yeah.
So.
My question is, is when you were
younger, right?
Like let's say your 20s?
Yes.
Did any government shutdown
happen back then?
Or no, it's in what you guys
remember lifetime it it didn't
happen back then.
Oh, OK.
Wasn't common.
Nope.
Nope.
They worked together.
Yeah, isn't that wild together?
Well, we're all against the
Indians back then, so yeah.
It was true.
We had a common enemy, so
everybody, you know, fought the
Indians and and before that we
fought the Greeks.
So, you know, things happen.
The Greeks, right?
Yeah.
I go back to that before.
Oh, really?
Oh wow.
The Americans thought the.
Greeks, well, we weren't called
the Americans back then.
We were called the indigenous
peoples.
Oh, so you're talking about like
BC?
Yes BC what about the dinosaurs?
Did you have to fight the
dinosaurs?
No, no, fortunately I was after
the dinosaurs.
You're after the dinosaurs.
Right after, just slightly.
OK.
Slightly My parents remember
dinosaurs.
Your parents remember the
dinosaurs.
Dad used to always talk about
the dinosaur he had as a pet.
Nice.
That's good.
Was it a triceratops or?
No.
Is that one where it can?
Where that fan comes up around
his face and spitters poison?
Yeah, the spitter.
Spitter.
Yeah.
Yeah, the spitter.
We know him as a spider, as a
spitter.
What was his name?
It's a spitter.
Spitty.
Spitty the spitter.
OK.
My dad's not invented.
He didn't have a not very
inventive.
He wasn't reinventing anything,
just this is Spitty the spitter.
Spitty the spitter, right?
Exactly.
OK, all right.
In the world of sports, Kaya
Trump is ready to live out her
childhood dream in the
spotlight.
The granddaughter of President
Donald Trump will be making her
LPGA debut this week in the
Annika at Pelican Golf Club.
Oh.
Did I pronounce that in the
Annika Ann?
And that's.
Got someone will correct you,
don't worry.
Yes, the 18 year old high school
senior already sounds like a
pro.
She handled a 12 minute news
conference Tuesday with poise
and maturity.
I think I'm going to learn a lot
no matter what happens.
Kaya.
Trump said.
I guess it's Kaya, yes.
I'm just going to go out there
and have fun and see which way
it goes.
I'm going to take a lot away
from this.
Obviously, competing with the
best players is going to be cool
to be inside the ropes with
them, playing with them,
learning what kind of shot they
hit.
What do you do on the course?
So yeah, just look forward to it
and playing with the best.
Trump began playing golf at age
2 and is committed to going to
the University of Miami.
She received one of three
sponsor exemptions for the
tournament that are usually
given to players who can help
promote women's golf.
Trump is more than 9 million
followers on social media.
WNBA star Caitlin Clark is also
playing in the tournament.
Oh, she's not a golfer.
She's a basketball player.
Yeah, so this is like a
celebrity.
Apparently it is.
I'm not.
I'm not as impressed.
Now you're walking.
Well, she made the LBLPG.
A Well, this is the tournament
though.
Like, so there's three sponsors
to get attention to it.
Oh, she's one of the three.
Yeah, Caitlin Clark's one of the
other ones, right?
Isn't she hurt?
Has she been playing ball?
I have no idea it.
Was an off and on thing.
I got to be honest, I'm
distancing myself from sports.
I haven't been just too busy
with all this other stuff, with
all the kids stuff.
With all the kids sports, yeah.
And you're just a different
level of sports now.
Yeah, and it just feels so
saturated with sports betting
and things being slighted that,
you know, at least that's my
belief that it's not really
entertaining to watch anymore.
The sports betting videos
online, are she getting
ridiculous?
Oh yeah.
For the new thing over in Tampa.
Oh Hard Rock.
Hard Rock.
So I mean, every time you're on
any of the social media
platforms, you're going to see
at least one.
It's a.
Huge, huge money pit.
Oh yeah.
Right, I like how at the end
they go.
If you have a gambling problem,
contact Gamblers Anonymous at.
Speaking of gambling problem
boots, do you have a gambling
problem?
No, I do not.
You don't, no.
Do you do parlays?
I do, yeah.
How often do parlays?
Every day, every day?
Every day you do parlays.
Would you like the Gamblers
Anonymous phone number?
It's 888.
Admit it.
Yeah, we have it.
Yeah.
So.
So now that so since you since
you don't have a problem, but
you do parlays and you do them
every day.
How much money have you made?
I've I've probably made some
around 6-7 grand.
Over the entire lifespan of you,
you're betting you've made 6 or
$7000.
Yeah.
I think we've been doing it for.
I've been doing it for probably
about six months.
Seven months, yeah.
Yeah, and you have it kind of
written down.
As for the fact that this is
where I've made money, this is
where I've lost money.
Like you got like an Excel sheet
or something?
Yeah, in my notes.
You have a note.
On my on my iPhone.
You do?
Yeah.
Really.
I'd like, I'd love to see that.
OK.
I'd love to see that.
Yeah, no, I, I started out just
originally, I started out by
myself and then Jinj was
starting to help me out because
he knew a little bit more about
it and then.
Because he's doing the Korean
female cricket.
Well, we used to do Korean
baseball, Yeah, but that
doesn't, it doesn't work out all
the time.
Doesn't work anymore.
No.
OK, not as advantageous.
No, those guys are completely
unpredictable.
Yeah.
And you can't really watch it,
right?
You know, it's really hard to
follow.
You don't know what the outcome
is.
Yeah, I lost a shing too.
Right.
Oh, I told you to bet on
Shushin.
You bet on Shin too.
Yeah, it took the under.
Damn it.
Yeah, well, and then and then I
created a group.
If you win betting on Koreans,
do you win Korean money?
Yeah.
So wait a second, hold on.
You built.
You built a group.
I built a group.
Yeah, Gamblers Anonymous.
Now we call it the money makers.
The money, the.
Money makers.
Presumptuous, but OK.
OK.
All right.
And who's in the do we, we don't
want to disclose who's in the
money makers.
Is it how many people are in the
money makers?
I think there's 14.
You have 14 people in the money
makers.
Yeah, I got 14, but it's like
it's buddies like from the
military and high school.
Yeah, stuff like.
That other Navy guys that didn't
get on boats.
A couple of them were on boats,
Still on boats.
So it's a close.
So are any of these people like
inside baseball?
Are they experienced with like
do they have access to say hey
so and so sick so we should take
this or are they just all?
Yeah, yeah.
No, no, these guys.
Like you.
No, these guys really like are
in tune.
They're in tune.
Yeah, they're, they're really
researching.
Yeah, they have their finger on
the pulse of the Korean sports
world.
I know there's one guy, he's in
tune, but he throws a lot,
throws a lot of money.
And he sometimes he, we call it
going ham, right?
So he, he starts going ham when
he hits one, then all of a
sudden you get like 20 bets
thrown in.
It's like, oh man, you just won
all that money.
Why are you throwing all that
in?
Yeah, well, it's funny to watch
sometimes.
I see a money maker's shirt in
our future, just for the record.
Do you bet as a group?
No.
So we we.
Oh, we just listen to each other
and fucking rattle off then I
was curious.
You know, because like.
A yeah, we, we, we research as a
group and then we, each
individual puts in what they
think would be a good bet
parlay.
And then if you want to tail off
of it, then you'll tail off of
it.
Then you make your own bet on
that research.
Is there one guy that's usually
right all the time?
Maybe like every other day.
So 50% of the.
Time.
It's a day.
You do it every day.
They do it every day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what he's starting with.
I don't know what.
Parlay is and I don't know what
this tail thing is that you
mentioned.
I thought it was alright.
So just so so you're right 50%
of the time and you're making
and you've made six or seven
grand.
How?
Much have you lost?
Probably about. 15 or 16 grand.
No, I've, I've won more than
I've lost, but I probably, you
know, I started out with $50,
OK. $50 make you.
Holla And then I had it up to 4
grand and then I went down to
like 2 grand and then went back
up to three grand.
So I probably like if you say as
a total like putting money back
in, I've probably lost about
around close to the same maybe
around 5 grand, OK.
So.
So as long as you don't get that
back down to less than 50.
As long as I'm still playing on
my original 50, I'm.
So you've never put more money
in than the $50?
No.
Nobody out of his pocket.
All right.
And you so you probably have
what like 1000 or 2000 in there
right now.
So I never keep it in the app?
No, I keep it in a separate
savings account.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
So I don't want to keep it
accessible.
You know, I want to keep like a
three-step process, if you will.
OK.
So have you put more money into
the separate savings account?
No, no.
No, only the $50, only the one
time, yes.
OK.
All right, money makers.
Here comes money.
Money, money, money, money.
Nice.
Hey Michael, you got a video for
us to watch?
Today, I can't wait for the
jokes to come out on that one.
It's gonna be awesome.
Yeah, the guy with the math
problems is gambling all the
time.
Oh boy.
You know what's funny is if I
ask people to comment on the
show, if I give something away,
everybody comments.
Of course if if I don't.
No.
One comments, the comments
become lighter.
Somebody, yeah, lighter.
I was gonna say somebody
commented the other day.
So.
Alright, so which one are we
watching?
We have two videos here.
And we should watch both.
I meant which one first.
One's kind of an industry one,
and one is AI.
Sent it to you too, Boots.
Yeah.
Turn your volume all the way
down.
Is turn your volume.
Turn your volume down.
With the music last time.
This one was a big one.
Jack Doherty getting arrested in
Miami.
Did you see this?
But I I did, but I didn't pay
attention because I couldn't
remember who he was.
OK.
So I didn't, I, I, you sent me
these while I was outside in my
truck and I did watch them, OK.
I don't know who Jack Doherty
is.
OK, this is amazing because we
actually covered Jack Doherty in
the past.
What?
What did we cover?
He crashed his McLaren.
So oh.
OK, I remember that story.
Yeah, he's that douchebag guy.
Is this the arrest after the
crash?
No, this is years later.
Oh, and apparently arrested.
For something completely
different, yeah.
Oh, OK.
So he is a YouTube, yeah.
OK, All right, go ahead.
You can lower it.
You don't have to have the phone
up in your face.
Palmer, put it down.
I don't like it.
I'm like, There you go.
Yeah, That's so funny.
That's one guy.
Just.
Grabbed the the cops gun but
it's.
And the cop talked, the cops
sent me on.
I'm like, I don't care who you
are bro, who do you think you
are?
Back up.
I'm just.
Here, I got it back up.
Don't worry about it.
Back up, yo, Back up.
Cop has made himself.
Yeah.
That's.
Amazing.
Cop pulled him away?
OK, you're done yelling and put
him in a car.
So what was he arrested for?
I, I don't know, I think that he
had drugs on him or something
like that.
Allegedly, allegedly.
We'll see.
I know I want.
This boy is videotaping him and
just pulls him away.
I like the fact that his
security guard is like standing
right next to him and there's
nothing you can do about the
cops there.
You get arrested.
Oh, there it is.
The security guard, the large
black man.
Yeah, yeah, he just walked by
and yelled at the camera.
Well, I know at one point the
one cop said, you know, I told
you to get out of the middle of
the street.
Wow, you didn't get out of the
middle of the street.
Why are you standing in the
middle of the street?
Yeah, let's see.
He was arrested for drug
possession after blocking Miami
Beach traffic for social media
video, police say.
Well that's stupid.
I've got drugs in my pocket.
Let me go stand down and block
traffic.
Miami Beach police announced
that the 22 year old was taken
into custody early Saturday on
multiple charges, including
possessing amphetamines and
marijuana along with resisting
an officer without violence.
Amphetamines.
Yeah, Miami Beach Police
Department remains steadfast in
its commitment to maintain
public safety in order
throughout the city, regardless
of celebrity status.
The agency said the department
will continue to take proactive
enforcement action against
behavior that endangers
residents, visitors or officers,
and will hold all individuals
accountable under the law.
So this guy's fucking in the
middle of the street.
With a with pockets full of
amphetamines, apparently, yeah.
Yeah, it's impeding traffic.
Was he an idiot?
He's a he's.
A very rich idiot.
But still, I mean, hand the
drugs to one of your boys if
you're going to go out and
stand.
You got a bounce, you got a
security guy.
The security guy should be
holding your drugs.
Yeah.
Right.
If I had a guy, if I had a guy
that I paid money like he would
have the drugs.
If I was a drug guy, he would
have my drugs.
Yeah, it's like a juice box guy.
Like, hey, juice box and you
have a juice box.
Guy exactly?
Apparently money makers a juice
box.
Guy money.
Money makers got a juice box
guy.
Give me a pill.
All right.
Which one you want?
Blue, Red.
White.
Yeah, like hire a pill.
Guy, this is going to happen.
I'm going to pay you, and not
only am I going to pay you to
protect, you're going to protect
me against everything.
Who's you need?
Protection.
Like if I'm carrying, if I'm a
gun guy and I'm carrying Heat, I
maybe I make him carry it.
Well, when you have that much
money, Palmer, when you and you
go out in public like they all
have.
Security, security people,
whether they need it or not,
yeah, just.
No, but this guy says a bunch of
dumb shit to people all the time
so he needs.
His YouTube type thing he makes
the stupid videos where he.
I think, yeah, he's gone out of
his way to to antagonize people.
Oh.
He riles people.
Up.
Yeah, so he needs someone on
standby, but it works apparently
because.
He's rich and we just bought a
hat press.
Yeah.
And we're net negative.
We're net negative again now.
We were, we were we.
We were up.
We were doing so good up we.
Were good.
We sold out in a day.
We were.
We were having a party.
And then, yeah.
And I realized there's a flaw.
Hey man, it's progress buddy.
Yeah, no, it's perfect.
Three steps forward, 2 steps
back.
It's not it's, it's just one
step.
It's just, it's all progress.
As Miguel Rocha said, it's all
progress.
Thank you, Miguel.
Rocha, yes.
If you like to invest in our hat
business.
You leave Miguel alone.
Miguel's a great guy.
Another video, and apparently
it's about the gold Estrin.
Yeah.
So this was pretty cool.
This is more cigar industry,
right?
So so Fred Roue acquired one of
the smaller Matt.
Fred Roue from Cigar Press.
Yes.
Oh wow, I like him.
Acquired one of the smaller Matt
Booth astronaut things.
It's like it's like a 2 footer
instead of A4 footer or whatever
the hell it is.
Or maybe it's like a maybe it's
like 18 inches or so.
And then he had it decked out by
this guy Nick, Nick Goss.
So check this out, but don't
play the audio.
Look at that thing.
Wow.
Dude, that's incredible.
Think of it, was the big one
done up like that?
That's cool, Fred, if you'd like
to come decorate our big one.
Fred didn't do it, Nick Goss did
it, but.
Fred, you said.
Fred arranged it.
Yeah, Nick Goss, the salesman.
Yeah, I guess I don't know.
Who's Nick Goss?
I was going to ask.
Who he does sale, He's the guy
that wears the hat and he wears
AT shirt with his own picture on
the T-shirt thing and then that
guy.
I don't know.
Oh.
Yeah, it looks like something he
would do.
He sells for Espinoza.
Does he?
Amongst other people.
So he's a broker, Yeah.
This is cooler than the Gold 1.
It's super bad ass.
Oh, I meant I techie.
Techie with this.
Yeah, video.
Yeah, it's that Nick, because
his logo's there at the end.
So that's pretty cool.
So Nick Goss is a broker for
Espinoza.
Yeah, amongst other.
He's El Presidente Goss Tobacco.
Yeah, he's.
New Englandy, I think, if I
remember.
Correct, New Englandy.
I think he's a broker over that
way.
OK, nice guy I've.
Been.
Yeah, he's in New Hampshire, I
think.
Yeah, Rhode Island, Maine, New
Hampshire.
Right.
Well, Nick.
You did a job man.
You did an amazing job on that
and it deserved to highlight SO.
I think I read that he had some
guy that paints motorcycles do
it for him or something.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, he he arranged it, but and
then like told him like I would
like this.
I would like that.
Oh well, however he got it done,
yeah, it's bad ass.
It is very cool.
So shout out to you, Nick.
So who's who's it go back to?
Does it go back to Fred?
Is it Fred?
It's Fred.
He goes in Fred's office,
wherever that may be.
Yeah, he doesn't invite us over.
Nope.
Rightfully so.
Paul.
Paul does.
Yeah, Paul does.
There, it's close.
I understand that it's close to
where it lives.
You can't see it from there, but
right, it's close, though.
All right.
Switching his cigar, World of
Information California says
initial UTL enforcement will
focus on obviously flavored
products.
That would make sense.
When California's UTL
enforcement begins next year,
the state says it will focus on
going after products that are
obviously flavored.
Obviously in parentheses or
quotation mark.
Sorry.
Perhaps more importantly, for
products that aren't obviously
flavored, the state intends to
focus on educating companies on
how to become compliant and not
immediately issue fines to those
companies.
This.
Wait, so are they talking about
the manufacturer or are they
talking about the company that
sells it?
It's extremely complicated.
So, so let's well, so let's let
me kind of explain things to
you.
OK, Let's say we feel that
stuffed animals, bear stuffed
animals, are no longer permitted
to be sold in California.
Bears.
Yes, I'm with you.
We can't identify stuffed
animals as a whole, So what you
have to do is you have to submit
your stuffed animal that isn't a
bear and show me that it's not a
bear, so I can build a list of
all the stuffed animals that
aren't bears.
Gotcha.
They're doing that with cigars,
flavor infused cigars.
As long as you have a
traditional submit, show me what
it is so that way I don't mix it
up.
That's the rule.
Gotcha.
So that rule in itself sounds
extremely pointless.
Right, 'cause is it anything
flavored or is it infused or is
it sweet?
Tip, it's just infused flavor
infused.
So sweet tip doesn't.
Count.
I don't think sweet tip counts
I'm.
Not sure, I think it would
still.
But again, who knows?
But they're building that.
List so so now they're going
around saying well, we're not
going to pursue the people
excuse me, the people that are
traditional yet right right OK,
however, if your flavor infused,
we are going to submit now
here's a caveat.
If I make a flavored cigar, you
good.
Yeah, I'm.
I need to lock in.
Look, I'm.
Not sleeping over here against
the wall of snoring like you do
so.
Was I on camera at the time?
Yes, I was not on camera.
I'm not on camera when you were
talking.
If I have a flavor infused cigar
and it is imported by Romacraft,
Romacraft has to file that UTL
with California, not me as the
owner, the importer does.
So it's straight from import.
Right.
So just to make matters even
more complicated, so if I, let's
say I have something over there
and it's even if it's not
flavored, it's traditional and
they say, hey, you got to, you
got to file this.
I might not be able to file it.
The importer has to file.
Yeah, so it's a complete
disaster through and through.
Do you think this kills out
infused or flavored cigars?
Obvious, obvious flavored
cigars.
Do you think it kills out
flavored cigars in California?
Well, just as a whole, because,
well, I guess because I, I don't
know, they put flavored cigars
all over the US, but if they
have to import the cigar and
this person sells a cigar to
California, then they have to
register it from the import.
Well, you're not allowed to send
flavored cigars there at all.
Right, that's what California's
trying to do.
Get flavored cigars out of
California.
Correct.
Oh, so it doesn't matter?
What doesn't matter?
'Cause then people just won't.
They can't put flavored cigars
in California, so it doesn't
matter for the manufacturer.
But it it doesn't matter.
But wait, now I'm confused.
But you don't have to say you
are infused.
You have to prove you're not
infused right.
It's.
Not the registering all the
infused, the registering all the
uninfused.
Right.
When somebody makes an infused
cigar right, they when they come
out with a press release in the
description it would say
infused, right?
OK, sure.
Then that would make it infused.
So those are obviously not going
to California, but we have to
prove that our cigars are not
infused.
Right.
Oh, that just makes it harder
for the guys that aren't doing
the wrong thing.
Right, Correct.
Wow.
So I mean, but realistically if
you're a California guy and you
like ACID cigars and it's
considered infused, maybe you
can't get it in California, but
if you really want it, you can
still get it right?
Like.
Online.
Oh, maybe online doesn't ship to
you, or maybe you worked out a a
deal with somebody and maybe
somebody does ship it to you
online.
Or maybe you just travel to
Arizona or whatever and load up
and then come back.
So what happens it?
Just makes no sense.
You're creating a vacuum.
You're creating a vacuum so that
other retailers will be able to
produce.
Now, what's even crazier is that
I've heard that some big brands
and some manufacturers allegedly
want this to happen.
Really.
Yeah.
Because what'll happen is
they'll file their Utls for
their traditional cigars and
they're allowed on the shelf.
And now it's a lot thinner as
far as their competition, right?
Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't make
it thinner.
If you're a bigger business and
you can afford it, absolutely.
If you're a smaller business and
you don't do enough business in
Cali, what happens long, long
term, you pay the price, right,
right.
So go ahead.
They're messed up over there in
California.
Oh, you just explain the rest of
the thing.
There's no reason to read the.
Story was it so?
Yeah, this is just a story about
how they've change the policy to
where we're not going after this
guy, we're going after that guy.
Yeah, until we decide to go out.
For that guy, this goes back to
the same thing I said before.
No speeding right unless you
have the blue car.
Blue cars are fine for now.
Yeah, for now.
Till Tuesday.
We may check, don't.
Worry.
We talked to the guy who knows
the guy.
We talked to the guy who handles
the lawn for the guy right and
he said don't worry, blue car is
fine for now.
Right.
Wild man, it's this is crazy.
It's California, man,
everything's crazy out.
There.
Yeah, but you know what, man?
Here's the problem.
The problem is there aren't
enough cigar smokers where
people say, hey, dude, what are
we doing?
This is insane.
Right.
Yeah, you don't have a big
enough pool of people to really
defend it.
Right, not enough people are
mad.
So they're picking on the little
guy.
Well, they're and when they're
gonna, and their argument is
that they're aiming for
something else.
They're aiming for E cigarettes.
Something like, well, exclude
premium cigars.
Just exclude them all.
Yeah, it's easy enough, right?
Well, the, but then do they have
to define what makes a premium
cigar?
Cause what's the FDA?
What's the definition of a
premium cigar?
This doesn't fall under a
category of discrimination.
I don't know.
I know there are lawsuits
pending, but some lawsuits were
in the wrong District Court and
then all and then they figured
out that it's got to go to
another District Court and
they're and they're trying to
work it all out.
They put this in the wrong
court.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
So I don't know, it doesn't
sound like it's going away.
No, it seems like it's going
through and we're getting
closer.
January 1st, that's when it
starts out, right.
All right, we'll keep you
updated as more information
becomes available.
But PCA is in Dubai.
Right, PCA is in Dubai right
now.
They're having a good time.
Black Label Trading Company
announces the release of the
Lahero Hawaii.
Oh, is it infused?
As an R Field Wine Company
Exclusive tastes like pineapple.
I don't know, it does taste like
pineapple.
We have no problem with this
company.
Black Label Trading Company is
pleased to announce the release
of the Lohero Hawaiian as an R
Field Wine Company Exclusive.
Handcrafted at Fabrica Oveja
Negra in Estele, Nicaragua.
The Lohero Hawaii is one of my
favorite releases from our R
Field Exclusive portfolio.
For his release, we changed
things up by using APA Broadleaf
wrapper instead of the original
Ecuadorian Maduro.
This big, bold cigar represents
what Black Label Trading Company
is all about.
The dark, earthy profile is
blended with peppery spice,
creating an intense but elegant
cigar.
Said James Brown created a BLTC
and partner of Fabrica Oveja
Negra and the Godfather of Soul.
Yes.
Watchman Wow, I got it.
Lara Hawaii will be available at
our field wine company in
Honolulu, HI.
Country of origin is Nicaragua
rappers Pennsylvania binders
Ecuador Habando filler is
Nicaraguan.
Black Label Trading Company is
redefining the standard for
cigars making standards for
cigar making.
Sorry with a less is more
philosophy.
Black Label Trading Company
creates hand premium handcrafted
premium cigars of the utmost
quality and small batch limited
quantities.
OK, so they moved to APA
Broadleaf, but then they said
Ecuadorian Maduro was the
original Ecuadorian Maduro.
What?
That's.
Ecuador.
Maduro.
Maduro.
Ecuadorian Dorian Maduro Maduro,
yes.
Was it Ecuadorian?
Was it broadleaf or something?
Or it's.
Maybe Dero?
Just no, that doesn't work.
I understand.
That maybe that's how they
represented the tobacco.
That doesn't make any sense.
Everybody doesn't tell you what
kind of tobacco what is.
This tells you what color it is.
This is Maduro, yeah.
Ecuadorian.
Ecuador.
Right.
It's the biggest thing that
bothers me.
When a customer comes in
upstairs they go, I just like
Maduros, right?
Well, OK, you just said you like
about 75% of what's in this.
Room.
I like the dark ones.
So Maduro is more like a color
than a tobacco, right?
So let's start here.
You like this one?
Why don't I have an edit?
How about this one?
How about this one?
Right.
Help me out here Sir, I need a
little more information.
Just take the padrone 50th.
Let's call it a day.
Yeah, this is perfect Maduro for
you right here.
Maduro.
There's Maduro right here.
The best Maduro you can get,
right?
Yeah, good Maduro for you.
So yeah, so I would hope it
tastes like pineapple, but it
probably.
Doesn't.
Probably doesn't.
They don't seem like a pineapple
flavored.
No cigar company.
Our field is a is a big store in
my in Hawaii.
Yeah, Marvin's a good guy.
All right, a new bill would
increase New Jersey cigar tax to
50%.
Really what happened?
I thought that they were voting
somebody in.
They're trying to get this other
guy who's going to drop the tax.
Was in New Jersey.
I thought that was somewhere.
Else as in Jersey.
Last week a bill was introduced
so that would increase the state
tax for cigars sold in New
Jersey from the current rate of
30% to a whopping 50% of the
wholesale price.
Senator Joe F Vitale, Democrat
Woodbridge, has introduced S
4820, which would modify the
state's tax rate for other
tobacco products, including
cigars.
Currently, a cigar is charged a
state excise tax of 30% of its
wholesale price, typically half
of the MSRP.
This means for a cigar with an
MSRP of 950, the whole 950 cigar
anyway, wholesale prices like
the 475, that cigar is charged
30% of the 475, which would be
$1.42.
This isn't added to the price a
consumer pays, meaning that a
950 cigar likely retails for
1093 before the state's 6.625%
sales tax is added at the
register.
If S4820, the tax would increase
to $2.37, meaning the price
would now be $11.88 before sales
tax.
In addition, at 4820, which
changed the moist snuff tax
rate.
Oh, moist.
Moist snuff tax rate $0.75 per
oz to $1.50 per oz.
Currently, the bill has no other
sponsors.
There does not appear to be a
companion bill in the New Jersey
General Assembly.
It passed the New Jersey would
go from having a 13th highest
tax rate for cigars to the
seventh highest in the nation.
So the cigars are being taxed
coming in, not being sold out.
No, you pay the tax when you buy
it.
So if you go there and buy a
cigar, all the taxes rolled into
it and you pay it and then they
I assume the shot I.
Got confused when he said the
wholesale and then they tax it
on the wholesale.
Well they are there, so it's not
the retail price, it's taxed on
the wholesale.
Price.
I mean, you're easy to confuse,
let's be honest.
Yeah, it was amazing.
Oh, so they make it lower that
that?
I mean, that's not bad.
No, they're going for 30 to 50.
Because you said they tax on the
wholesale, not on the retail.
Right.
Yeah, that's how they always
tax.
Oh, well, I know.
OK, Yeah, but when you go to buy
the cigar, you also get a tax of
New Jersey.
Sales tax sales.
Tax on top the sales.
Tax didn't go up.
It's just the.
The other tax?
Wholesale import tax or
whatever.
Well, the tax, the sales tax is
a little higher because the tax
is now on the well.
It's always going to get passed,
yeah.
It's always going to get passed
over to the yeah.
I mean, when you walk in there,
the price on the cigar already
has a 30% added to it.
Not like you go ring it up and
it you know, and all of a
sudden.
What is the tax in New York?
It's high.
It's high.
Is it 50% or something?
It's higher than the.
It's high in Virginia, too.
Let let me ask you this what's
the tax in Florida?
I just know a sales tax is 6
1/2.
Yeah, So what's the tax for
cigars in Florida?
I don't think there is any tax.
Who?
Who?
I know, I know.
There is not one because.
Florida doesn't have.
A0.
We are in a Texas lawless swamp
here.
Zero.
And that's how it should.
Be this is a great place.
I don't understand what the
purpose is of the taxing.
First of all, it makes no sense.
Why are we raising a tax on
cigars just because enough
people aren't going to defend
it?
Yeah, we're an easy target
because nobody's going to get
upset, but they said this guy
doesn't have any other sponsors,
so he made the bill and nobody's
jumping on board.
So why make the bill at all?
Right.
Maybe the guys against tobacco,
I don't know.
Who knows?
It just, and if only 1% or 3% of
people are smokers in this
state, right?
It's not like you're really
making a big nut off of that.
It's crazy.
You want to know who it hurts?
It hurts your small business
retailers in New Jersey, right?
Right, the small mom and pop.
Cause what do they do?
Brick and mortar stores.
They go and purchase online,
they go and go to New Hampshire,
they go to, you know, wherever
right to buy where there isn't
that tax and they save $2.00 a
cigar.
I mean, look, if you save 2
bucks on a cigar at 20 cigars,
it's 40 bucks.
That's huge for a guy that's
smoking on the regular.
Yeah, it just doesn't make any
sense.
No, the taxation doesn't make
any sense, right?
At all representation they
should throw them all into the
Bay and have the cigar party.
Only that I mean they print the
money.
I never understood the taxing.
Like you guys make the money
one, there's a button, there's
zeros you add.
No zeros, there's no pennies, no
more but.
No, I'm talking about, you know,
with the commas.
Yeah, yeah.
Not the, not the decimals.
There is plenty of commas.
I just don't understand it.
Maybe I'm just dumb.
I you know.
Yeah, what does New Jersey do
with all that tobacco tax money?
Yeah, what are you?
You got to put it towards.
No, that guy gets a new house.
You're going to put it towards
cancer funding or something?
No, definitely.
Not you guys don't don't cause
cancer so.
Oh, well, that's what they would
say.
Oh, it's for, you know, we'll
give it to heart disease or
something, some crap like that.
You guys haven't solved heart
disease.
They know smoking.
You L know you smoke.
Oh, whatever.
It's called Texo Joe Smoko.
Yeah, that's that group.
I'd really like to see the
transfer in the accounts from
the tax account to the heart
disease account to see if it
really goes.
There goes to the one doctor.
It's.
Got to be somewhere.
If they do it, there's got to be
a paper.
Trail the good doctor.
You'll never find that paper.
Trail.
Carry to 1.
All right, Viaje is adding a new
Vampire Dust red, bringing back
zombie farmer Bill Hatchett.
Yep, next week Viaje I get Viaje
and Tatwahe.
Two totally different.
Things, yeah, but they sound.
Very one's travel, one's tattoo.
Yeah.
We'll be shipping a pair of
cigars to retailers, a new line
called Vampire Dust Red, and the
return of zombie farmer Bill
Hatchett.
Yes, the company has kept almost
all the details of the Vampire
Dust Red under wraps, though
Half Wheel has learned a few
details and I transferred him
over to cigars or podcasts
first.
While the blend is undisclosed,
it is different blend from the
Vampire Dust Purple.
Well, that seems obvious.
Good job Charlie, that came out
in 2025.
It will be offered in a single 5
by 54 vitola, a size it shares
with a Vampire Dust Purple line,
so they'll do the same.
There's 2 sizes of the red.
I just read the stories I.
Don't.
It's incorrect.
There's two.
There's 2 sizes.
What is the second size?
I don't know.
Different, it's different.
Pricing has not yet been
announced.
Shipping alongside the Vampire
Red Dust will be the return of
the zombie farmer Bill Edget,
the first time the cigar has
been released since 20/21.
It is still a 5 1/2 by 54 box
pressed Robusto using a
Nicaraguan Criolo 98 wrapper.
Is that right?
Or is that 2 sizes too?
There's the there's 2 sizes of
vampire dust red.
It's a 5 by 54 called the Weight
of absence.
And then there's the vampire
dust red, which is a 6 by 52
Toro the silent invitation when
we have to correct half wheel.
All is lost in this world.
Where?
Did you find the information?
The invoice for the cigars that
are coming to.
Oh, so you're getting the cigar?
If you were, they're waiting on
you to go.
When I looked it up on half
wheel.
I looked at what I do I.
Went to halfwheel.com, I checked
it out.
Pricing is said at $11.67 per
cigar, $350.10 for a box of 30
cigars.
Zombie Farmer Bill Hatchet
debuted in 2016.
And you got the wrong You got it
wrong, Intel.
This is from I got this off half
wheel today.
You said the the retail value is
how much 11?
67 per cigar.
And the box price?
Is $350.10 no?
How many cigars are there?
So you're.
MSRP per box is 288.
It's.
Just doesn't know if I have will
OK today.
Unless you're talking about the
the.
This is the farmer Bob Hatchett.
Oh, that's 350.
All right, girl, So you just
just call me Jets?
Alright, I'll call my jets now.
You're right, Charlie.
I apologize for my friend there.
Please excuse my friend.
No, I lost where I was.
The town is back.
I was.
Stuffed Turkey cigar back story
explained that the character was
the person who got the Turkey
from the farm to the table.
The zombie part of the name
comes from a line that debuted
in 2011 as a follow up to the
company's WMD and Moab cigars.
With the storyline that's the
same came the people's
transitions to zombies after
being exposed to the radiation.
Oh.
Crown heads.
Crown heads.
You want to correct this one,
too, No?
Crown Heads adds a new vitola to
Tennessee Waltz Throughout 2025,
but especially in the last
couple of weeks, John Huber of
Crown Heads has been teasing a
new look, new sizes, and new
plans for Tennessee Waltz.
Introducing Introduced in 2014,
Tennessee Waltz was previously
offered in a loan 5 1/2 by 52
Robusto extra.
OK.
Is that correct?
I don't know.
That originally was only sold to
retailers in Tennessee.
That's correct.
Well, the company is based now.
Oh, that's where they're based
now.
The line is getting two
additional Vitolas and new
packaging.
This will be offered in three
Vitolas, Tennessee Walls OG,
Tennessee Walls CG and Tennessee
Walls Toro.
Bloody bloody, bloody bloody
bloody.
That began as a personal homage
to my grandfather and since its
release in 2014 has been our
love letter to our home state of
Tennessee, said Uber in a press
release.
The demand from retailers and
consumers outside of Tennessee
over the years led to his
decision to expand the brand and
finally give this extraordinary
blend its full stage it
deserves.
While Crown Heads has hoped to
ship the new line in October,
expected to arrive in stores
nationwide next week.
So it's the end of November
Cigars, named after the song
which was made famous by Miss
Patti Page.
There you go.
I like what a lot of crown heads
is doing.
They're they're doing a lot of
things right.
I did.
It's like a box.
I like the orange.
Yeah.
I did not know that they were
based out of Tennessee.
Yep, Nashville.
It makes sense.
Boots.
Watch.
Your foot's getting tangled up
in the corner of your bus.
Up.
You snagged one.
Don't pull them.
There you go.
Yeah.
Because that's where what's his
name?
Used to know Wes used to live in
Tennessee.
Makes sense.
All right, you guys ready for
the hottest game in the cigar
industry?
It's time for What's the Score?
What's the score?
Today's first cigar.
It's from November 16th, 2025 so
this is the most recent review
from Patrick.
OK.
From Constella Group Limited
Edition Nikki Raghwan reviews
the Maria Lucia Limited edition
PCA 2025.
OK, why are you guys laughing?
I just heard you say Costello
Group.
Yeah, well, I was the one at the
top of the page.
I I don't pick, but it's just
the way it works.
Well, I guess I do pick, but it
was the top of the page.
That's how it happened.
Cigar Reviews.
Maria Lucia Limited edition PCA
2025.
It is from Nicaragua factory
undisclosed.
Luciano Tobacco's essay Anybody
know where that is?
Yeah.
And Esther Lee, obviously.
Yeah, it doesn't say.
Or in Nicaragua it's.
Somewhere in Nicaragua, rapper
Mexican San Andreas, Lajero
Binder, Ecuadorian Sumatra Seed
and USA Connecticut Broadleaf.
USA, Connecticut.
Broadleaf.
Yes, USA, Connecticut.
Double binder.
Filler from Brazil, Modafina,
Nicaragua, Peru and South
Africa.
Oh, a little bit of South
African tobacco there.
With Beverly.
Yes, maybe we're looking for
Beverly.
Maybe that's who took Beverly.
He took Beverly.
That would make sense.
That would make complete sense.
It's a 6.52 shape round.
MSRP is $20 a box, 10 is $200.
Came out in 2025.
Number of cigars released 1000
boxes of 10 or 10,000 cigars.
And Patrick smoked three of
these little lovely cigars.
Scores, gentlemen, who wants to
go first?
You want to go first?
You want me to go first?
I'll go first.
OK.
Let's go 84. 86 first clue.
For the most part the cigars
look good, with one cigar having
a pretty rough looking cap that
is darker than the rest of the
cigar and not cut with a crisp
edge on it On one side of oh on
one, sorry, not cut with a crisp
edge on one side of it.
The same cigar also has a
slightly jagged seam line hidden
on the backside.
All three cigars have a pretty
typical network of veins,
visible but neither distracting
nor obtrusive.
I'll go 83. 8386 the first puffs
are a mix of minor flavors.
Specifically minor flavors.
Yeah, specifically a little
creaminess, a little earthiness,
a little bit of crunchy edges of
well baked brownies, all
finished off by a little black
pepper, though the pepper might
be better described as a little
more than a little.
It's an enjoyable profile with
what I call a lot of edges.
Not that it's sharp, but that
there's a lot of texture to the
smoke.
He's using the edges a lot in
this.
Very edgy.
Very edgy in this review, Mr.
Patrick.
Was that it?
That is it.
That's clue #2.
Sounds like he's enjoying it a
little bit.
So 84. 87 Next clue Flavor is
medium plus body is medium and
strength is mild.
Construction is very good,
highlighted by solid clumps of
ash, while the draw, smoke
production and burn lines are
all good.
Boots.
I'll go to 86.
Oh, slid in there under me.
I'll stay 878687.
Right.
All right, the Maria Louis final
thoughts, gentlemen.
Oh, we're already there.
Wow.
After the third clue, you go to
final thoughts.
OK.
Quickly.
The Maria Lucia Limited Edition
PCA 2025 starts on a very good
note.
Coach through its second third
with a profile that I didn't
call rather team then reignites
the flavor in the final third
with a couple of different
results.
The third cigar was head and
shoulders above the others with
a nuanced dance between similar
and complementary flavors before
giving my taste buds a dessert
like sweetness as a parting
flavor.
The other two didn't reach that
level with 1 putting off smoke
that I found irritating and
intrusive to enjoy the cigar.
Oh.
Boy.
Construction and all three
cigars was very good and I have
no demerits to report in any
category.
I enjoyed all three cigars with
no real complaints about
anything they had to offer.
The only thing I want is more of
its best part as this could
produce a really stellar smoke.
This is a tough one.
It's going to be either 86 or
87.
You think so?
I think it's lower.
You think I'm gonna stick a 86?
Do I think it's above or below
86?
I should have stayed at 86 the
whole time.
What did you say, Boots?
I'm sorry. 86. 86 all right.
I'm going to go 87.
Good move.
It's 89.
Wow, 8989.
He liked it.
He liked the one of the three of
them so.
Yeah, but that's 33%.
Wiener Wiener Cheeky and Deaner.
What?
What?
All right, second cigar.
Yes, from August 1st, 2021.
Reviewed by Mr. Charlie Minato,
12, from Altadis, USA. 13th.
Honduras, limited edition
review.
The Henry Clay Warhawk.
Lonsdale.
I don't know I've ever had.
I've had a Henry Clay before.
82.
Yeah.
Are all the Henry Clay's the
same?
I don't know.
You don't know if it's like the
one I had, I'm definitely gonna.
Yeah, I'll go like 80. 80 Yeah,
all right.
The Henry Clay Warhawk Lonsdale
is from Honduras.
Factory is La Flor de Copan.
Copan.
Rappers Ecuadorian Connecticut
Binder USA Connecticut Broadly
Filler Honduras 6 and three
quarter by 42 Lonsdale $7.75 A
cigar they smoked 3.
Sounds light and dry. 82.
You're going to stick out 82, So
yeah, yeah, 80.
The first puff for the Henry
Clay Warhawk Lonsdale is very
similar to the cold draw medium,
full in intensity, though the
flavors don't last very long.
I pick up flavors similar to
French bread, earth, and fruit.
That's that's medium intensity.
82.
Yeah, 80.
Stick in an 82, stick in an 80.
I find the retro Hales to be a
bit mushier than the rest of the
flavors.
Bushy.
Everything is slightly off and
the individual flavors are more
distant from one another.
Retro Hales finish with a
sensation that reminds me of
Raspberry muffins.
I don't think I've ever had a
Raspberry muffin, so there are
some mineral flavors, saltiness
and black pepper.
Flavor is full.
Body is medium plus in strength
and is medium. 81.
Oh, you went down 1?
I did.
He went down 1.
Push the 70s.
Nah, I'm going to be at 80.
I don't think it goes under 80s
I think.
It might be.
All right, clue #3 I believe.
Yep, it takes a bit more than
two inches, but eventually the
Warhawk has a very noticeable
profile shift.
While there are some remnants of
the first third, the nuttiness
has transferred into a more
distinct peanut shell flavor and
creaminess remains earthiness in
something that reminds me of a
cheaper white rice takeover as
the main flavors.
So it has like no taste.
Have you seen Peanut shell and?
White rice.
Cheap rice, but. 79.
Yeah, it sounds horrible.
They picked out are just. 79. 79
for the big man over here.
I'm sticking to 80. 79 and 80
Final thoughts Excuse me While
this might be one of the simpler
blends on paper, it delivers a
ton of flavor.
If you like the combination of
nuttiness, creaminess, and black
pepper, this might be right up
your alley.
It's a bit less earthy than I
found the regular production
vitolas of this blend to be, and
seems to be a tad bit stronger,
at least by the end of the
cigar.
I doubt this will be one of the
cigars I think about when I
think of Stogie's Exclusive, but
if you put them all on the table
and asked me to smoke them one
by one, I'm guessing I'll pick
this one before at least half
the table.
Just half of the cigars on the
table.
His descriptions are all over
the place.
Anybody reading a peanut shell I
mean.
I mean, he sounds like it's like
a light cigar, but he's saying
it's like medium and then he's
saying it almost sounds like he
doesn't like it, but then he's
like, I'll pick this one up over
the other half.
I like what Charlie does it
because you can't tell by by his
description, right?
I hate this cigar.
It's terrible.
It burned funny. 752 right?
86.
Oh yeah, See, he he was trying
to bait me.
No, I listened to the final
thought.
Thing.
Oh, is that what it was?
Yeah, I'm going to go 85.
I root for boots every week just
so he might win one.
It's an 89. 89. 89.
Oh my.
God.
Every week it's come on boots.
Come on, Boots.
You can do it and then he goes.
You can do it.
Well, give me like a like a eye
nod or something like put your
eyes up.
I can't.
Even see you from over here.
No, I can see you on the screen.
Oh, oh, gotcha.
Yeah, there you go.
Up, up.
Just put your eyes up.
Yeah, there.
Scratch my head up, Yeah.
Or scratch my head down right?
89 It sounded like it was a
horrific cigar.
Going through the reviews this
week I've noticed all the low
ones are Toro Fuente cigars.
No, that's not true.
He booted us.
No, but the no.
But these those scores on Toro
Fuente are lower than our score,
right?
Well, do these guys like
stronger cigars or do they like
lighter cigars?
I think Charlie enjoys more
Connecticut flavored cigars.
You would think he would.
Rate Shop of the Week.
Shop of the week, boss.
Cigars, hey.
Welcome back to the family and
then Listener of the Week.
Listener of the Week.
Pete Johnson from Tattoi, a
cigar.
Apparently he's an avid
listener.
Really.
And I look shorter in person.
And older.
In person you can only see your
shoulders enough.
Yeah.
I tell him I sit on my feet.
That's why I look.
So tall you sit on your Well,
you put yourself in that
category then, right?
OK.
It just means he watches, so
that's fine with.
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Show Notes
Welcome to Cigar hustlers Podcast on today’s show we have
Blue Origin nails a Mars mission launch and lands the booster like a boss.
A whole town is searching for a missing mannequin named Beverly.
Dictionary.com says the word of the year is… “67.”
Kai Trump makes her LPGA debut, California targets flavored tobacco, and New Jersey wants higher cigar taxes.