ACHP Episode 440 Best Dad Ever!
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Like.
In it's unlike the flash in the
back.
Like 50s hair?
50 who Cent. 50 Cent $0.50 body
like he's.
Got a oh like 19?
Fifties, $0.50.
He's got a white T-shirt with
his fucking pack of cigarettes.
Rolled.
Oh nice.
Oh, in the 50s it was the the
duck tail.
Yeah, the duck tail, I used to,
I used to.
I used to duck tail in the back.
Did you?
I believe when I was in high
school.
In my 50s.
All right, driving my my parents
DeSoto to school.
All right, we're ready to go.
Me and the fans, have we
started?
Oh yeah, I've been recording.
Oh, the clock's running and
everything.
Yeah.
Welcome to 2026 PEOPLE.
I'm Mike Palmer, the host of the
podcast.
And for the next 60 minutes, oh,
wait, it starts again.
We're going to start here. 60
minutes.
No, yeah, 60 minutes.
Prepare yourself if we're not
doing it for 60.
What are we doing?
Well, we started.
We're going.
Oh, welcome to 2026, people.
I'm Mike Palmer, the host of
this podcast.
New Year.
For the next 60 minutes, I'm
here with my boys.
DJ Booty.
I beat the goalie and put one up
in there.
Hippelhauser.
I beat the goalie.
You took my reference and made
it your own, yes?
Yes.
Sitting in, pull the goalie.
You pull the goalie.
Sitting.
No, he.
He beat the goalie.
He beat the goalie.
They didn't pull the goalie.
He beat the goalie.
If he beat the goalie, that
means that she didn't want to
get pregnant.
She want to get pregnant.
Yeah.
OK, so they pulled.
On the goalie, didn't sound.
Very.
They pulled the goalie.
No, no, no.
Yeah, she wanted one more.
He beat the goalie.
OK, Can I, can I continue?
Can I?
Can I go on?
I guess you can continue.
He's sitting in the Mission
Control booth and then on the
ones and twos.
My Co host, my brother from
another mother, my life mate and
big boss man Mikey.
Can't believe Boots is going to
have more children than I am.
Step on Kevin.
He already has more than I do,
doesn't he?
No, he has.
Three.
Yeah, I have one more He.
Has 2 girls and one boy.
You have two boys and one girl.
He's about to have two boys, 2
girls and Sofia.
Ethan.
Right.
And now the new one.
And now new one.
OK, he's going to name Mikey.
You know, but the difference is
that he spread his seed across
various women.
I just had the one.
Doesn't matter.
Oh, I'm lucky.
I guess I'm lucky.
You know, that means you got
like a third of your stuff at
this point you've lost.
Financially, Paul, you know what
I'm talking about.
Right, I completely understand.
I barely have any of my shit
left.
Welcome to the shows, fellas.
Welcome.
Everybody have a good New Year's
Eve.
Everybody enjoyed themselves.
It was outstanding, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you so much for asking.
Oh, you're welcome.
Went to my friend's house and we
just kind of hung out, smoked
some cigars.
Nice.
Oh, so you did go out.
You said you were staying home.
Yeah, no, I just, we decided to
go up the street.
It wasn't parked.
Oh nice, good for.
You nice.
Yeah, just I.
Suppose that was your party you
didn't invite us to.
Did you have a good time?
It was a blast.
Did you have a good party?
Yeah, it was a blast.
OK, I heard Greg had a great
time.
Yeah, Greg.
You know, I think Greg had a
party.
Yeah, I think Greg is having a
party, but but he's he's dying.
Yeah, I had to help him put the
chairs in his car the day before
New Year's Eve.
Really.
Yeah.
Oh man, I forgot the beanbags.
He's dying.
He's dying.
Oh yeah, and the cornhole boards
with no cornhole bags.
I.
Gotta bring the bean bags.
All right, on today's show we
have a couple of updates from
some 2025 stories.
Stefan Diggs apparently did not
like his dinner and he's all
he's all choked up about it.
And in a similar story, you
can't eat here no more.
We have a cosmic first and we
are and we are in a front row
seat to see it.
We have a celebrity story y'all
ain't gonna believe.
And then in the in a last ditch
effort, we filed just one more
for the UTL.
Of course.
Then, 'cause it's a slow
Newsday, we have a full game of
What's the score?
But before we get started,
Mikey, how do you get some of
that apparently very expensive
chapter pod?
It's.
Not expensive.
And hard to get it.
Is on YouTube apparently.
I'll have to figure that out on
the shop.
I don't know what's.
Wrong.
I was looking at it when I
tagged it on the last story and
like this hoodie is $395.
It's.
A $400.00 hoodie.
Well, there's only one.
It's one left.
Some of the prices are in
foreign currency.
I noticed that.
Well YouTube has to get their
cut, so probably will that.
Must be what it is, right?
I think there's a decimal
problem with how they made you
enter the thing 'cause isn't
that like a 3995 hoodie I.
Don't remember maybe.
Oh and then the shirts are like
400 and something when they were
4999. 400 and something.
Yeah, the shirts are more than
the sweatshirt.
Yeah, it was weird.
I don't.
Know maybe it's in Cordoba it.
Could be.
Yeah, one of them was pounds and
one of them was DNR.
I'm not sure what that.
Currents, well you can ignore
all that and just go to
chapterpod.com where the prices
are correct and if you buy 1 you
get the 2nd 140% off.
Well, we were trying to figure
out why nobody's using that
page.
You're like, fuck's more
expensive over here.
Well, it's got like 57 clicks or
something like that on the hats
or whatever.
Nothing like crazy.
So I mean, I got to figure that
out.
I've never done any of that
before.
No, no, I understand.
I'm just telling you that.
If somebody knows how to fix
that, feel free to reach out
because we could use some help.
Yeah, like sponsorships.
And like and subscribe.
Don't listen to him.
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sponsorships.
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To our sponsorships.
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Maybe a DoorDash sponsorship,
no?
I lost, You know, I'm going to
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Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait.
Would that be loud?
Because people like DoorDash is
food while we're recording.
Would that be?
Would that be?
Acceptable.
Yeah.
Like, you know, a lunch.
A lunch in No.
Problem is, we're day behind on
these damn shows.
We'll get lunch tomorrow.
I'm fine with that, right?
I'll call you guys tell you too,
right?
Please go ahead.
I don't remember what I was
going to say.
Now I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Yep, good job this is 0.
Shout out to David Morris for
always, always highlighting when
Boots says something ridiculous.
Oh, I did see that this morning.
Yes, yes, the tall human bats
the tall.
Human bats in Australia.
Oh my goodness, that was
amazing.
You know when you said that I
pictured the The Rock'n'roll
vampires from that one movie
hanging upside down in the old
hotel, right?
That's what I was picturing.
And he said the human sized
bats, the.
Human sized bats.
And was that Lost Boys?
Yes, Lost Boys.
Thank you.
Incredible, incredible stuff.
The blonde guy and the guy with
the long hair and just but God I
hate you.
Oh God, all.
Right.
Is that it?
You know, don't go to Australia.
No, don't go to Australia as
apparently.
All right, couple updates and
some stories we covered way back
in 2025.
Gene Hackman and his wife died
in their home.
Remember this story?
Yeah.
All right.
When actor Gene Hackman and his
wife Betsy were found dead in
their Santa Fe, NM, home during
a February 26 welfare check in
2025, the cause of death was not
immediately clear, which sparked
national intrigue.
In March, the investigators
announced that Betsy, 65, died
from hantavirus pulmonary
syndrome, a rare disease
transmitted transmitted through
rodent urine and droppings or
saliva.
Here's the bad part, though.
Hackman, 95, who died of
cardiovascular and Alzheimer's
disease, was likely home with
his deceased wife for one week
before he died.
Yeah, no idea what's going on.
So Betsy died around February
12th.
He died around February 18th.
Yeah.
Can we?
He walked.
He walked.
Yeah.
He didn't know he was going.
He walked around the house
going.
Betsy, get up.
I'm hungry.
Right?
Betsy, wake up.
It's very sad.
It is sad.
Very sad all our old movie stars
are dying in sad ways.
Is that true?
Well, it's getting.
Not all of.
Them some but like the guy that
just died the director from here
we met Sally him and his wife
was stabbed to death by his own
son in their.
Sleep.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK, remember the father that
jumped off the cruise ship to
save his daughter?
Yeah, that that guy, that bad
motherfucker, Yeah.
Yeah, that they just finished
the investigation yesterday.
OK, so around 11:30 AM local
time, A5 year old girl went
overboard, falling 49 feet into
the ocean.
The girl's father subsequent
subsequent then jumped in after
her.
Luckily, both family members
were pulled out of the water by
rescue crews and returned safety
to the vessel.
Now the investigation results
were released yesterday.
The mother put the child in the
porthole, went to take the
picture.
The baby fell out.
The five year old baby fell out.
The father, the father wasn't
even there, She yelled.
Harry, the baby fell.
He runs across the deck of the
ship, sees the baby, jumps out
the window and saves the baby.
Yeah.
That dude's a legend.
Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
Well, there was, there was talk
that maybe he put the baby in
the hole or, you know, he was
responsible for it or something,
but he wasn't even there.
Apparently it doesn't even
matter like that.
It's all irrelevant to me.
It's like she fell out.
No one threw her out, you know?
Right?
So it it doesn't.
Matter.
You know what the mother did?
It's the mothers, yeah.
But it doesn't even matter who
put her in the in the tunnel.
It was the stupid bitchy wife.
No, it wasn't.
They said why she put her in the
hall and then let her go.
Trying to get a cool picture of
her.
Some people don't think these
things through, man.
You should you should think
things through.
I get it.
But you know what?
We're all not perfect like you.
People make mistakes.
Perfect.
People make mistakes.
No matter what you said.
I don't think you flip.
Have you been flipping?
No, I'm flipping.
What are you doing?
They're talking about my meeting
at 12:00 so trying to figure
this out.
Oh, all right.
Moving on.
Patriot Stefan Diggs faces
strangulation, assault charges.
Yes.
You heard about this?
Briefly, yeah.
New England Patriots wide
receiver Stefan Diggs is facing
serious legal trouble following
an alleged incident that
occurred on December 2nd.
Diggs has been charged with one
felony count of triangulation
and one misdemeanor count of
assault.
A motion hearing was held
Tuesday morning in Dedham
District Court in Massachusetts.
Diggs is scheduled to be
arraigned on January 23rd, the
Friday before the AFC
championship game.
What a what a clown.
According to a police report, a
woman told authorities on
December 16th that she was
working on a as a private chef
on Diggs residence.
On the night of the alleged
incident, she claimed that Diggs
entered her unlocked bedroom and
struck her across the face
following dispute over money she
said she was owed.
The woman told police she
attempted to push Diggs away
when he allegedly placed his
elbow around her neck in an
attempt to choke her.
She also alleged that Diggs
threw her onto a bed and
dismissed her claims of non
payment by calling them lies.
After the alleged altercation,
the woman said she left both her
job and the residence and stayed
with a friend.
When she returned on December
9th to retrieve personal
belongings, she was reportedly
directed to Diggs assistant who
told her.
We need you to sign this non
disclosure agreement, please,
and then we'll give you your
money.
She declined to sign the NDA.
Police said the woman initially
did not want to file charges on
December 16th, but later chose
to do so in December 22nd when
she found out she can make more
money.
Yeah, OK.
So.
He has strongly denied the
allegations.
His attorney, David Muir,
released a statement calling
them unsubstantiated and
uncorroborated.
OK, go ahead.
Yeah, David Muir.
That's a big name.
I mean, it sounds sounds a bit
wild, like I'm not paying you
for cooking and now I'm going to
come over there and strike you.
I don't like how did we get.
There, he could have been
liquored up.
I don't know.
I don't know the guy do.
You know.
I mean, this whole thing sounded
like the movie blow like as soon
as like he put her on the bed as
like striked her and give him my
money.
I owe you no money.
I don't know man.
You know, it's look, I, I hope
that that if it's true, I
obviously, you know, he needs to
suffer the, the consequences.
It just seems a little far
fetched with the information
that's kind of been given to us.
I don't know anything with these
athletes is possible.
Who knows?
Yeah, that's true.
Well, I mean anything with
anybody is possible, but.
Well, yeah, but you always hear
about this stuff with the
athletes.
They beat up their girlfriend.
They beat up this for the chef.
Wait, if I don't know, you
didn't like the rice, what
happened?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, it's not like he was.
She wanted to.
Get paid.
You didn't want to pay her?
Who knows what happened right
before he came into her room?
Maybe she went in and shut the
door where they were arguing in
the hall.
Who knows?
What about what the chicken she?
Wanted to get paid.
Maybe she was bitchy about being
paid.
It wasn't the quality of the
food, it was that, he said.
I ain't paying you for this.
Definitely the chicken.
Maybe she fucked it up.
Maybe she did.
I mean, we have no idea.
You know.
Still no reason to put hands.
He's got so much we.
Don't know if he did or he
didn't.
That's true.
That's true until all just
hearsay.
And that's a lot to lose.
You got a lot on the line to
lose to strike somebody. $69
million.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't, you know. 69,000,000 is
his contract.
Yeah, well, he's also going to
get more money if they win the
AFC Championship.
Diggs is wild like Diggs is
wild.
But man, I, I don't know.
I don't know about that.
I don't think he's that wild.
We never, I've never heard
anything in the news of.
Him really you never heard
anything about like this weird
pink powder that was all over
his face on a boat with the with
Cardi B and some other bitches?
Well, maybe that.
We have a story about Cardi B
later.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Strikingly.
No, nothing.
But nothing is salt based,
right, Right, Correct.
Right.
That that's my point, right?
What drug is pink powder?
I don't know, I have no idea.
So on his.
Peruvian.
It's pink Peruvian.
It's pink Peruvian.
Pink.
Pueblo and then to let somebody
do a video of it like what were
you thinking that was very.
Right, I know that's the stupid
part to get caught with.
Videos and then there was no
repercussions, which is even
funnier.
He's like throwing out the peace
sign at the video.
Like whoopee?
It's fine.
Give me some of that.
Yeah, Stefan, hey, look, look,
hey, throw out the peace sign,
Yeah.
Hold up, that big necklace.
But like, you know, the hard
part is being, being an athlete
like this is like you got a
bull's eye on the back of your
head, man.
Oh, always, yeah.
I mean, you know.
Who you bring into your to your.
Boys could be ripping you off.
You know, I mean something.
A lawyer.
Like, like this chef could this
chef could just be trying to get
a, you know, a payday, right?
Or this chef could have been
absolutely assaulted.
Sure, it could go either way.
It could go either way, but it
doesn't.
I don't know.
It just doesn't sound likely to
me.
Doesn't doesn't really make make
a lot of sense.
I got 70 million on the line and
I'm not going to pay you for
dinner like.
So what's the charge?
Here it was bad strangulation
and assault.
Where did the strangulation come
in the Fed?
He put his arm his.
He put her in an arm bar thing
and not an arm bar, but he put
his elbow around her neck and
choked her.
Was it so?
But there's this happened
December 2nd.
She filed charges. 16th.
Two weeks later, yeah.
Do you think there's any
markings at that point?
No.
So this is all speculatory.
Well, I mean, we don't know,
they might have.
She might have taken photos that
night when she got to her
friend's house.
So.
You got to prove that that was
him at that point.
Right.
Like, yeah, this goes nowhere.
Like if this gets yeah, if this
goes, you know, if, if something
like that were to go down, you
would legitimately have to call
the police instantly, right?
He hit me.
He hit me.
You go somewhere safe and then
you make a phone call, right?
You don't even go somewhere
safe, just lock the door.
Call 911.
I'm trapped in this room.
This guy just assaulted me and I
need I'm in fear of my life,
Right?
Right.
Cops come in, arrest him, right?
You make it out.
Now you got a case, right?
You've got evidence of battery
on you.
There's, you know, select people
in the house.
Like he could still or a good
attorney can still figure this
out.
But the reality is that none of
that happened, right?
None of that happened.
I think what happened?
Let's read on.
Wait, hold on, let's speculate.
Real.
Quick, OK, speculate A.
Little more.
I think what happened is he
turned her down.
I think she ate him the chicken,
he ate the chicken give.
Me some of that dig stuff.
He went to the room to go take a
nap.
She came in.
It was like, hey, throw me on
the bed.
He's like, no way.
I just want the chicken.
I just want the chicken.
Yeah, just want the chicken.
You ever see you ever see him on
on Family Feud?
Brandy.
It's amazing.
Stefan Diggs not.
Stefan Diggs, whatever his name
is.
They they, they go, he's doing
the final round and the, the
finish this sentence leave it.
And his response was in oh wow.
And it got 0 points.
Well, maybe.
And it was hilarious.
He said yes.
And then Steve Harvey, Steve
Harvey said, and your boys are
all saying, and that's your
problem and that's your problem.
So you know.
It's just speculatory.
So he's not the brightest light
in the shop either.
No, no, he's he's just Steven
Hippelhauser in his way through.
Wow, now he's a.
Verb.
Oh my God, what?
Do you do?
He's Steven Hippelhauser.
He.
Boots his way through it.
Multiple baby Mamas.
No, you know what's funny to me
is like I, I don't wanna, I
don't wanna bring this up again.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna not, I'm
gonna exclude all names from
this, this portion of this
argument here.
But like the outrage that I have
received from things that we
have said in the the previous
episodes about how we attack
somebody.
And I'm like.
Specifically.
I'm like, wait a second, have
you not watched a single show
over the past seven years?
We break everybody's balls.
Right.
Especially you guys and me like.
Right.
Yeah, the three of us.
We attack each other more than
we attack anybody else.
Certainly.
Beep beep beep beep beep.
Beep.
Beep.
I want you to bleep that out.
Alright, bleep that one out.
OK, 1759, don't say his name
either.
We believe that one out.
It's just it.
It boggles the mind.
Every time he talks now, it's
going to be.
This will be a lot of believing
like there.
There he beep.
There beep.
Dude, there are people that I've
known for over a decade and I'm
like, you don't even like, I
don't understand.
How did you get, how did you
draw that conclusion about us?
I told my wife what we were
doing to Greg the other day, and
we found out about the spot on
the back of his head.
Yeah, you guys are so mean.
Oh my God, it's hilarious.
I'm like, no, it's not.
You got to be thanked.
To work around.
There he goes.
There he goes into Greg.
Come back.
Listen to him.
There's a retarded brother,
Greg.
Yeah, and first, first of all,
she should understand this isn't
the first time Greg thinks
something's wrong with it.
Right.
He's dying every other week for.
Three days I texted him to tell
him who I was.
It's Palmer.
It's Palmer.
Did you make it home from work?
Are you OK?
We thrive on this sort of thing,
right?
All right, following Tuesday's
hearing digs to fix team digs,
defense team acknowledge it was
working toward a possible
monetary resolution.
Of course.
Pay her off.
According to the Boston Globe,
the Patriots released a brief
statement saying they were aware
of the situation, support Digs
and will cooperate with
authorities and the NFL.
The league confirmed it's aware
of the matter but declined
further comment.
Digs, 32, signed it New England
last year March on a three-year,
$69 million deal.
He currently leads the team with
82 receptions for 970 yards and
four touchdowns.
The coach says he didn't do it.
Like Rabel?
I don't know.
I had to.
Know he just.
Yeah.
See, he knows you still think
everything I say is real.
I just believe everything.
Look, I believe that there's
large bats in Australia, you
know what I mean?
I had to Google it and I was
like, wait a second, the biggest
bat as a as a as a three foot
wingspan be.
Careful of him.
Right.
If he's completely innocent, why
are they going to pay her off?
Well, it's just tell her to shut
her mouth.
I mean because.
It's easier that way, yeah.
Which is why you do it.
Well, you got to think too.
That even it does show, it does,
it does feel like an admittance
of guilt.
Right.
Well, yeah, that's why I was, I
was kind of going to say that.
I mean, the problem is, is that
even if it's not true, it still
hurts his image because.
He's a celebrity now he looks
guilty because he paid her.
Yeah, well, there's an
allegation, right?
Regardless, you know, people are
like, oh, remember that one time
when he almost, you know,
assaulted her?
I.
Don't know this one's this one
seems like it's as of right now
as as we're looking at it in in
this current moment in time, it
doesn't seem like there's enough
evidence where it would really
hurt his image long term, you
know, like.
No, I don't think it would.
I don't think it hurts these
guys long term and, you know,
unless they've killed somebody.
Yeah, it's just the now.
Well, I'll give you a case in .1
of my favorite wide receivers,
Ojo Cinco.
Yeah.
He got into a physical
altercation with a woman, lost
his job done.
You remember that year there was
so many of them?
Yeah.
The one that stands out the most
of me, though, is remember when
Ray Rice first had his
allegation?
And they're like, oh, he he beat
his girlfriend, right.
And everybody's like, no, he
didn't.
He didn't.
There's no evidence.
And then all of a sudden they
found the video.
Yeah.
He's just like dragging her
across the floor into the
elevator.
And they're like, oh God, say
they so rain no evidence.
Look at this video.
Look at this.
It's.
AI.
It's not real.
It's AI and how you yell, it's
AI I.
Don't know, but you know what
dude?
Who is the guy that beat up the
girl in the elevator?
Ray Ray Rice?
Oh, is that the one we're doing?
I'm not, listen, I'm not, I'm
not condoning any of that sort
of thing by any means.
That's not OK.
However, I'm going to tell you
like I would never walk up to a
bull and and hit it in the head
or something like that.
She legitimately spit in his
face.
What did you think was gonna
happen there?
I mean, that's you can't like,
don't, don't, don't do that.
You know, like, come on.
That's not that's not the world
we live in.
You gotta think things through
here, right?
I'm not going to walk up to a
police officer and try and take
their gun, you know what I mean?
Like who?
Gotcha.
You know what I mean?
Like by now, yeah.
You know, like.
I saw a video yesterday, I found
a, an Instagram that was showing
people stopping and trying to
stop cars.
You know, the barricades and
stuff.
Cars running over, cars running
over.
This one guy's yelling at the
cops face.
Cops standing there perfectly
stoic, not moving, not moving.
He's yelling, yelling.
Then he spits in the cops face.
That's it.
Yeah, that's it.
You're down, you're on the
ground, you have handcuffs on.
You have officially assaulted.
What did you think was going to
happen when you spit?
When you.
When you when you.
Go loogie.
You could see it in the in the.
Video When you assault another
human being, be prepared for the
assault to come back at you. 3
cops pummeled this.
Guy.
What?
What city was this in?
Oh, I don't know.
They don't at all.
Yeah, Seattle, maybe.
Who knows?
I'm just kidding.
The guy had cooked him dinner
prior to that and he didn't like
the food he.
Didn't like the chicken.
Didn't.
Like the chicken, it was a piece
of chicken he.
Keep going back to the chicken
jug we got to.
We got to move on for that.
All right, Speaking of chicken,
you can't eat here.
As restaurants industry endured
another difficult year, many
chains opted to close
underperforming location as they
try to turn around their
businesses inflation.
Wary consumers have pulled back
their restaurant spending,
choosing to eat at home or
chasing deals when they go out
for a meal.
People want a coupon Coop.
I went to Coop.
While some restaurants have won
over reluctant diners, the
industry has largely struggled
with the sales slump.
Traffic to restaurants open at
least a year fell every month in
2025, excluding only July,
according to Black Box
Intelligence.
I've never heard of this but
apparently they track all the
restaurants.
In years past, restaurant
closures have been more
concentrated across casual
dining change, which lost
customers to fast casual
competitors like Chipotle, the
number one health code violation
chain in the country.
Is it?
Yeah, 'cause they always have
that food laying everywhere and
it's on the floor and so.
Fresh.
But this year, change across the
industry announced plans to
shutter at least hundreds of
locations.
In such a tough environment,
some restaurant companies even
filed for bankruptcy protection.
Hooters, Pinstripes and On the
Border were some of the notable
names that landed in bankruptcy
court this year.
I never heard of Penn Stripes.
Anybody familiar with Penn
Stripes?
Boots Have you ever heard of
Pinstripes restaurant?
I know everybody knows who
Hooters is and I I know they're
closing doors.
They're foots.
You know what I have heard of
pinstripes, have you?
Yeah, you ever been?
Is it like a Hooters type thing?
Sounds like it might be like the
girls are wearing little pen
straight soups or something.
I think I have been.
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't
surprise me.
Yeah, I think it's a baseball
team.
Is it?
Oh, that one makes sense.
Pinstripes.
OK, here are the chains that
announced closures in 2025, but
you can no longer get your hot
apple cider.
Starbucks is closing 500
locations.
Really.
Wendy's?
Anybody still go to Wendy's?
No.
Yeah.
Hundreds of locations.
Wendy's is closing.
Really.
Yes, Denny's the favorite after
drinking spot where you get the
Grand Slam breakfast.
Oh yeah, moon's over my hammy.
Yes, 70 to 90 locations are
close.
That doesn't affect me.
I go to the waffle.
House, because nobody's drinking
as much and they get yeah,
Waffle House is the move now,
Yeah.
And they get old.
All the Denny's are getting old.
Yeah, we got to rent out those
things, Yeah.
Jack-in-the-box, we don't have
those out here.
That's that's a West Coast
thing.
But 100 to 200 locations.
That's a lot, because they're
only in.
Yeah, they're only on the West
Coast out here, aren't they?
Hardee's.
Isn't that the same company?
I think so.
I think it is.
Right.
No, you're talking about Carl
Junior.
Yeah, Carl's junior is the same
thing too, but I thought
Hardee's and Carl's junior was
the same thing too.
Those those are the same thing.
Listen, one thing I'm not going
to argue with Boots about is
fast food.
Yeah, that's not going to.
Thanks, He's.
Going to be locked in on that.
All right, Bahama Breeze is
closing 15 locations.
Oh, I hope not.
The one in Sanford?
You know the foods terrible
there just very pretty.
The drinks are great but the
foods no good.
You know, I, I agree.
I, I totally agree.
Brittany loves it.
Yeah, Adrian does too.
Every time.
She was kind of like.
Oh, the Bahama Breeze.
And I'm like fuck.
Because it's so pretty there,
it's such a nice looking place
and you sit outside under the
little tiki Hut thing or
something.
It's a nice looking restaurant
and it's a good atmosphere.
The food selection's terrible,
yeah.
Well, it's got great drink
specials and.
They got good drinks.
And you're really only supposed
to buy two things when you go
there, the tostadas and the
coconut shrimp.
You know he might love it.
Everybody does love the coconut
shrimp.
Yeah, it could be the.
Coconut shrimp.
Well, you know, I'm, I feel the
same way at Miller's Ale House.
I can't stand that place really.
Oh yeah, so bad, Yeah.
There's only one thing I get
there.
And what is it?
The Zingers.
Yeah, you get the zingers
covered with cheese, and what's
wrong with that?
More chicken and just tons of
cheese.
Can't even taste the chicken at
that point.
OK, All right, Zingers.
But the 15 locations we equals
1/3 of their locations.
They don't have many.
No, Yeah, Yeah, that's not a
lot.
Hardee's is closing dozens of
locations.
Oh God, biscuits.
You go to Hardee's for the
biscuits.
I do like their chicken
biscuits.
Amazing.
Like the Intel that we're
getting from what what what you
need to buy.
Purchase specifically from
specific food locations.
Hey, man, I mean, I know you're
on the road a lot, but I'm on
the road a lot too, you know?
I try, I try not to eat fast
food on it, dude, I eat.
The same thing every day.
It's chicken and rice.
It's already cooked.
I'm done.
I just eat it.
I take a bunch of snacks in the
car and then I try to eat a meal
at night.
Papa John's is closing 100 and
7000 and 73 locations.
Any of those shacks?
Papa John's shacks.
No, Shaq owns.
Oh, Shaq owned?
Oh, I thought there was some
type of special Papa John's
dude.
They they started going nuts on
their prices like they're it
was.
They've gone up.
Yeah, it's like, you know, when
the magic wind you get half off
and I'm still dropping $65 on
pizza.
I'm like, what the hell is going
on here?
Yeah.
So yeah, of course.
I mean, you, you've, you've
priced yourself out.
Yeah, the problem is, is
Domino's is heavily beating up
everybody.
You got a 599?
Kara Oh yeah, with the cheap
prices.
Oh, really?
I mean, Little Caesars doesn't
even do a $5 Hon ready anymore.
That's gone.
Yeah, that's gone.
It's like 7 or 8.
Bucks I prefer to to buy from a
local restaurant that makes
pizza.
Oh yeah, yeah.
I'd much rather do that.
Adrian likes Marcos.
I don't like Marcos.
No, there's a there's a place
called New York's Best Buy.
US Pizza Hut's bringing back the
buffet.
That is a game changer, fellas.
Like locations it is.
That's a good deal, Eric.
I know from you from the 1950s,
so you know.
Pizza Hut buffet.
Pizza Hut buffet with the red
cups and the sauna.
Yeah, baby.
It's fine dining.
When I was a kid, we're all
going to pizza.
Hut you know what?
Come on, He's not lying.
That was like a thing, right?
That was like, that was the
family night out.
Family night out you go to Pizza
Hut a couple of quarters to play
the weird video game over
against the wall while you're
waiting for.
Pizza.
What about Sizzler they're
bringing back?
Sizzler.
Oh, no, bringing back Sizzler.
I just like Sizzler too.
All right.
Noodle Company, which I'm not
familiar with either.
They're closing 29 locations
now.
Outback used to go there and
have to wait an hour to sit
down.
They're closing 21 locations.
Oh God.
Yeah, the deep fried vegetable.
Who doesn't love?
That dude, you know what man?
OK, whatever.
I don't care to be honest.
I, you know, I like some, I like
some of these more local
restaurants that are more mom
and pop owned.
Maybe, maybe it's a couple of
little franchise places, but
like, I don't know.
I like, I like going to dinner.
I think it's awesome.
I love even dealing with the
chaos of my kids.
Like we've brought now we bring
2 little chess boards and I'll
play chess with both two kids at
the same time.
Yeah or we'll, we'll integrate
it and stuff.
But like, I don't care.
I don't care.
Outback's gone.
You know, there's, there's
plenty of other places to go.
Well, but these are American
standard type restaurants that
are, yeah.
Disappearing Yo cowfish is still
legit.
They're at citywalk.
I love cowfish.
That's.
Too far?
Well, they're part of Outback,
so they're both.
Luke's is amazing in Winter
Park.
And I'm into Luke's.
Looks is awesome.
I mean, look, there's plenty of
like local restaurants that I
love, but I mean, these are like
certain places that's like like
Outback.
Like the only reason I'm going
to Outback is for the Bloomin
Onion and then I'll get a steak,
you know, as the.
Outback Special.
But yeah, exactly.
I mean the Bloomin onion man
that is the original.
Sirloin and a bloomin onion.
You ever had it at Texas
Roadhouse?
Yes.
It's not as good.
Not exactly the same thing.
Exactly.
Yeah, it's good, but not as
good, right?
They could bread good bread
there though.
Yeah, because you get the honey
butter there.
You don't get the honey butter
at the Outback.
Right, but you don't get the
pumpernickel bread.
This is this.
Is wild there's a change, OK.
All right, let's get out of
this.
We gotta move on.
I'm getting hungry now.
I'm getting hungry all right.
Super 3 super massive black
holes were discovered on a
collision course in the Cosmes.
And of course, in a cosmic
first.
Sorry.
Stroke drinks a Red Bull.
Some 1.2 billion light years
from Earth, the truly
extraordinary event is unfolding
on a scale almost impossible to
imagine.
It's really far away, in a
distant region of the universe.
Not 2, but three massive
galaxies are slowly being pulled
together in a colossal cosmic
collision.
The system, known as J 1218
forward slash 1219 plus 1035
represents an exceptionally rare
phenomenon.
While Galaxy mergers are common
over cosmic time, a triple
merger involving 3 galaxies at
once is extraordinarily unusual.
So these three galaxies are
being swallowed by a black hole.
Nice.
All at the same Galactus.
The blackest hole.
The blackest hole.
Galactus.
Oh, Galactus.
Galactus.
Oh, thank.
God.
What makes this event even more
remarkable is what lies at the
center of each Galaxy.
Galactus.
A small little Green Man with a
button.
Oh, Marvin the Martian.
Marvin the Martin at the heart
of Martin Marvin Martin at the
heart of all three galaxies.
It's a supermassive black hole,
and all three are actively
feeding as they consume
surrounding gas and dust.
The black holes ignite as an
active galactic nuclei, or AGN.
So each Galaxy is being
swallowed by a black hole, and
then all three of those are
being swallowed by a bigger
black hole.
We're all all coming together.
We're all dying and then where
are they all going?
In the black hole.
What happens in there?
What did you see the movie
Matthew McConaughey?
Where he's like yelling at
himself.
Yeah, they come out the other
side and there's a mountain that
turns out to be water and tries
to kill everybody on the
spaceship.
Oh, no, yeah.
In the process, they emit
intense radiation and launch
enormous jets of energy, visible
and radio wavelengths stretching
10s of thousands of light years
into space, space, space, the
final frontier.
According to astrophysicist Emin
Schwartzman of the US Naval
Research Laboratory, systems
like this are systems like this
are almost never seen in real
time.
Triple active galaxies like this
are incredibly rare, she said.
Catching one in the middle of a
merger gives us a front row seat
to how massive galaxies and
their black holes grow together.
But despite the drama, all three
feeding black holes are powerful
jets that emit poses absolutely
no danger to Earth.
We're fine.
It's not.
It's too far away.
At a distance of 1.2 billion
light years, how can I even see
that far?
I don't know.
I don't even know why we're
covering this, to be honest.
Could.
You 'cause you wanted.
'Cause I said science and you
took science as space and now
everything that you cover.
Is well, because that's all the
science that they put out.
As space, I want to know like
studies show that you know, if
you do this, you will.
Well, there is a, there is a.
What advantages is the Earth
coming?
Yeah, One of the consequence
things, yeah.
No.
Could you still not there?
Mikey, could you imagine?
We survive World War One.
We survive Hitler.
We survive too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We survive Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor.
Kind of.
Amazing.
We survive Godzilla.
OK.
But we're going to die.
By the Giant bands of Australia.
From the black hole, with the
mountain, with the water.
And Matthew McConaughey is going
to kill us.
Could you believe this?
What a story this is?
Let's.
Let's keep going.
Let's.
Move on.
Let's move on.
Let's move.
On even if one of The Jets
reported directly toward Earth,
which is not the best distance
would reduce any impact to
nothing more than faint radio
signals detected by a telescope.
Look, we have to fill time.
No, we don't.
Fantastic Four will save us.
Move on.
What's that guy's name?
Pedro.
What's the guy's name?
Pedro Gonzalez.
No.
Wow, that was epic.
Who was the guy?
Who was the guy that was
Mandalorian?
And then he was Mr. Fantastic.
Pedro.
I don't know his real name.
Pedro something Pedro something
Pedro.
Pedro Gonzalez.
It's not Pedro Gonzalez, Pedro
Menendez.
Fantastic for.
Pedro.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's too fantastic.
Wow, he's really going Mexican
on you.
Maybe he goes to Chipotle.
Pedro Pascal.
Oh yeah?
Well, that doesn't go together
at all.
Yeah, he's definitely.
Not matching.
I just love the fact that there
was there was a solid 45 seconds
there of people yelling Pascal
into their into their at their,
yeah, their headphones and.
Yeah.
All right, in celebrity news,
thank.
God.
I have to do a little disclaimer
first, OK?
I'm going to apologize in
advance for the next story.
I did not write or rewrite the
story.
It has some direct quotes in it
from the person's own language.
It might appear racist, but at
times it's their own way of
speaking.
When you say persons, is that
plural?
Oh my God.
Yes, yes.
Oh, I can't wait to hear out.
The story is from E
Entertainment News and was
written by staff reporter Haley
Santa Florentina.
Is this real?
This is real.
This is absolutely.
This is not you screwing around.
This is not me screwing around.
This is a real story, all right?
Cardi B speaks out on Stefan
Diggs.
Oh, this is the same guy that
choked the correct.
Oh, I didn't even put those two
and two together when I did.
The story?
Please don't say he choked her
too.
I actually mentioned him.
Yeah, you mentioned Cardi.
All of a sudden I said, oh, we
have a story.
She's having a baby.
Stefan Diggs, baby.
Oh, she's had it already.
Leave.
Cardi B.
Speaks out on Stefan Diggs
relationship criticism after
separate Christmas Christmases.
Cardi B fired back after her and
her boyfriend Stefan Diggs
separate Christmas celebrations
raise eyebrows among fans Cardi
B is up, so don't try to bring
her down after the 33 year old
and her boyfriend Stefan Diggs
celebrated Christmases
separately, their newborn baby
boy spending the holiday with
Cardi while the Patriots player
celebrated with two young
children.
He has some other relationships
and apparently bad chicken that
got cooked.
OK prompted criticism online.
Cardi responded to anyone to.
Yeah, responded to anyone with
raised eyebrows.
Y'all need to calm down, she
said in a video shared on X on
December 29th.
Is y'all cool?
Y'all been dragging me for three
or four days.
Y'all become And y'all been a
little bit too mean.
I can't change shit.
I can't go back in time.
I already had a baby.
Emphasizing she can't unbirth
her and Stefan's baby, she
continued.
I don't know why y'all want me
to do.
We can only go forward now.
Then, the UP rapper said she'll
need fans to stand by her as she
prepares to tour in 2026,
explaining that her schedule
will be demanding and she'll be
away from the kids, including
culture with AK-7 Wave 4 and
Blossom 14 Months, whom she
shares with a strange husband,
Offset.
Is that the man's name?
OK, I'm already super stressed
out, she said.
I need my support system, my
fans to love me.
I want you to come to my tour
and enjoy yourself with me.
Don't be dragging me, it's
enough.
Nevertheless, Cardi still feels
love for her fans.
I want good for y'all, she
concluded.
I want health, money,
prosperity, happiness for this
new year, for y'all.
Wish me the same thing, all
right?
Leave me alone though.
But while Stefan may have been
away from Cardi and their baby
son in the physical sense, they
were still on his mind,
reposting 1 of Cardi's photos in
which she cradled their son. 32
year old, wrote Miss Y'all,
adding alongside a winky emoji.
Winky winky.
Don't be squeezing him too
tight.
You making him soft?
OK.
Cardi's celebrations, meanwhile,
were full of presents, multiple
Christmas trees, including one
covered in footballs, a nod to
Stefan and a fruitless attempt
to capture the perfect holiday
photo with her kids, seen in the
carousel of photos she shared
with her kids crying, not
looking at the camera or to
engage with the new toys.
You made Cardi B sound like a 50
year old man from Texas.
Yeah, it's my voice.
It's her words.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I can't do Cardi's voice.
Out of all the stories that were
out there yesterday, this was
the one you bought?
This is this is the big one.
There were not there were not
stories yesterday.
That's what I'm trying to.
Tell you like, who cares?
Because it was funny.
Who cares that they didn't spend
Christmas together?
He's got I.
Don't know it was any
entertainment news.
He's got other responses you're.
Welcome to Pull stories for the
next show.
Why don't we do that for the
next show?
You pull stories.
I'd much rather criticize yours.
No, no, no, no are.
You watching E entertainment a
lot now?
No, but when you go through the
Internet, you try to find what
you can when there's nothing to
talk about.
Nothing to talk about.
Nothing to talk about.
Interesting.
I'm just going to tell all the
listeners out there, please God.
Watching Let Me Talk about
sports if you're looking up
sports.
Stories.
I wasn't looking up sports.
Please God watch the video
version of this because when I
was flipping through when Palmer
was reading the story and
Mikey's face was priceless.
Right.
It's completely priceless.
Are you?
Looking for something to talk
about?
Yeah, OK, we'll wait.
Let's see what I got here.
Oh, this is an interesting one.
Did you guys know?
Since Mikey likes science so
much, scientists successfully
cloned black footed ferret from
40 year old frozen cells.
That's amazing.
Wow.
You just found that.
That's incredible.
Yeah, Here, I'll tell you a good
one.
Potential hidden brain risks
from midlife weight loss A
December 28 study in jiro jiro
Science showed that Gero
science.
Yeah, Gero.
Maybe it's Euro.
Hero Science showed that while
weight loss improved metabolism
in mid age obese mice, it
temporary temporarily worsened
inflammation in the
hypothalamus, a brain region
controlling appetite and energy.
This inflammation linked to
cognitive decline and
neurodegeneration eventually
subsided but raises question
about rapid weight loss in
middle of age relevant amid
popularity of GLP one drugs
like.
That's about mice.
It's it's referencing Ozempic,
yeah, which is big right now
across the.
There's a new drug out now.
So now they're saying that
massive weight loss could cause
brain cognitive function, which
could be a problem.
What if Greg's on Ozempic?
Maybe that's why he's all of a
sudden he's retarded.
No, Greg's still.
No, he's been retarded I think
for years.
A doctor has just justified.
It right and he is bulking he's
still.
Bulking.
Yeah, he's still bulking.
He's definitely not losing it.
I think his brain problems was
from the accident.
I don't think that that was the
case.
Well, that's the part that he
hit though.
I don't think that that's the
case, to be honest.
You would think also that they
would have found it then.
I'm sure they did it at MRI
after the accident.
You don't think that tank of a
Jeep saved him?
I mean, that thing was built
like a.
He hit his head on the roll bar.
I don't think I don't think
that's the case.
Yeah, Greg seems the same since
the accident.
I did have an article, a video
that I watched and I wish I
could find it, but I can't.
But it it's a it's this guy.
He's does his podcast and I have
never seen his podcast.
I have seen his shorts and he's
always tired, which is
interesting to me.
He says that he doesn't sleep.
Eventually he's got to sleep.
But he was talking about limited
edition cigars and how retailers
don't have access to these L ES
because they have to sell more
Coraline and it's not fair to
the retailers that they have to
sell Coraline product.
And there was a retailer and he
was explaining that it's not
fair and all these other things.
And, and for me, I was like,
well, that's totally wrong,
that's totally wrong.
Sure, you know, and just a
simple simplify it and kind of
breakdown, very easy math.
We can break it down by
transaction.
If if you are a retailer and
you're a mid level retailer and
you average 30 to 40
transactions per day, you know
that's 30 or 40 potential
customers that you can introduce
to a new brand.
If a customer likes a particular
cigar from Dunbarton or Tawahe
or Roma Craft or you know,
Foundation, you can find
something.
Hey, you should try this as
well, right?
You're helping that consumer by
broadening the horizon.
You're going to give them
something that they like and
you'll help establish more core
sales from that brand.
So if you're going to go, if you
have the mentality of, well,
this isn't fair.
I consider that a victim
mentality, and you're not doing
anything to help your customer
understand what a product is,
right?
At the end of the day, as a
retailer, you need to pick your
horses and it's about 3.
You need three horses.
I say that all the time, right?
And those three horses are the
brands that you want to focus on
developing with your customers
'cause you either love the
product, you think that they're
super, super reliable, and
they're consistent, right?
Or you appreciate their price
points, whatever the case may
be.
So when you have those horses,
you generate core sales.
Core sales then develops you
into a relationship with the
manufacturer, brand owner.
Brand owner then sells you the L
ES.
Does that make sense?
Sure.
So why am I seeing a post about
a guy losing his mind about not?
And when he talked about the LE,
he said, hey, not only that, but
when I got the box LES like it
was sold to a guy that wanted
that brand.
Like he asked me for this box of
whatever it was and I sold it to
him.
I'm like, OK, well, you didn't
even introduce it to anybody
else.
Right.
I mean, if you only got the one
box, you sold the box outright.
So you just use it as a flip to
a guy that wasn't even, he
wasn't even purchasing the brand
from you off the jump.
Like, I wouldn't sell that guy.
Well, a lot of shops aren't run
the way we run the one here.
But that's the problem.
Right.
It is.
I mean, not that we have found
the secret to being successful
because obviously we're, you
know, I'm making money, but
well, it is run different and
it's run better than a lot of
shops that I go into.
I know that we joke about how we
don't make any money, but like
the reality is that we do pretty
well in the retail operation.
Sure.
You know, we sustain everybody,
everybody gets paid, right?
We never looked at somebody and
said.
Yeah, we're going to have to cut
back payroll this week.
You're not working.
Yeah.
You know, we got to make some
pull backs, right?
Even with the dips of the ups
and downs all year, you know,
we're still finishing pretty
damn good, right?
We're we, we press hard to try
and continue to grow.
We invest with particular brands
over and over again.
And then like the ones that
don't work, like if I have a
brand in the store, right, and
it's not going well, first of
all, that's probably on me and
the employees.
We feel that it's we just don't
like it in comparison to
something else, right?
So when that guy says, hey, I
got ALE and somebody's asking me
for that LE, I'm going to tell
him I'm probably not getting it.
Like, hey, like I got to be
honest, I'm.
Not going to qualify for that.
So it's.
Probably not going to happen,
right?
So sorry, you know.
Let me show you something else.
Yeah, but I I just found that
incredible that I'm I'm looking
at a retailer and this podcast
guy and I wrote on them and
like, I respectfully disagree.
He seems like a.
Good guy, podcast guy or the
shop guy?
Both of them I had no problems
with any of them.
Was it controversy?
What's that?
Did they write back?
No, no.
Controversy at Palmer.
But don't you think, don't you
think that that makes sense?
Sure does.
I mean that's, that's the way we
run our business.
Support Coraline and they're
like, well, no, like, OK.
Yeah, no, I just want the
special.
OK, cool.
No, you can't just have this
special.
I mean, I've gone out of my,
we've gone out of our way and
we've given people L ES that
don't support Coraline 'cause we
'cause we try and we, we invest
with them.
Like, hey, we believe in you.
We think this will work.
But I got news for you after the
second time of me just giving
you L ES to try and take care of
you.
I'm kind of done, right?
Like, alright, you've had a span
of two years to try and promote
and build our brand.
You're obviously not doing that
for whatever reason, and I'm OK
with you not doing it.
Right, you don't have to.
But I'm not going to give you
the L ES, right?
Why would I do that?
But.
We're going to have to cut ties
here at this point, so.
Let me know when you want to
revisit it and you know, and
really focus on the brand.
Yeah, but a lot of a lot of guys
don't run a shop anyways.
I mean, like let's say for
instance, Bob up the street,
right?
You go into Bob's, there is no
like, hey, how you doing, right?
What do you smoke?
Can I help you?
There's none of that.
There's no customer service.
Yeah, none at all.
And that's a lot of shops,
right?
A lot of shops and that's the
problem.
No, yeah.
And but you're never going to
completely change that because
these guys don't want to run a
business.
These guys want to have a cigar
emporium for themselves, right?
And other people can come and
hang out with them.
Which is fine, right?
Don't complain about not getting
limited editions.
Oh yeah, right.
Right, definitely.
Yeah.
I don't think Bob over there
probably gets many.
Right, Bob, did you get the did
you get the mommies?
Bob?
He's like, what?
No, I don't think there's
mommies.
Leave me alone.
The acids are over here.
Yeah, right.
You know what these brick houses
do?
You like a Predomo?
Yeah, I mean, dude.
I have a whole wall of that.
Right.
And, and that's perfectly
acceptable if you want to be
that you just don't complain
about not getting these other
things.
Right.
Yeah, Don't sit and complain.
Well, you know, I never, that's
my point where it's never
coming.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe he gets L ES or predomos.
It's like look.
I don't think they have.
L ES.
Oh, and there's that.
Look Postagna, Sanizafina,
Phosphoro, even FQ.
These brands are front and
center of our humidor.
Right, right.
Yeah.
So as you walk into.
Our guys, these are our people.
We will help them and we will do
everything we can to help them
develop and and build them
right.
And I'm not even talking about
our that's not even our main
course.
Roma, without question, like I
guarantee you and you could, you
could just go, you somebody can
call Skip or you could call
Rosales.
I guarantee you that our numbers
with them are consistently the
same, probably 5 to 10% growth,
maybe a little bit more every
single year, every single year.
Yeah, and they're in the back
right corner.
Yeah, 'cause we introduce it to
and we love the product.
We believe in the brand, We
introduce it to everybody.
Hey, if you like this, this is
$4.00 less and it's better.
You know, it's funny though is
every time I go in there I
always go into the back right
corner first.
As you should.
Yeah, I go over there, I look,
see if there's anything new.
I mean, of course we would know
there's something new, but just
to double check.
Yeah, sometimes some stuff will
pop back in stock or whatever
that, you know, we we were out
of for a minute.
Yeah, I usually grab like two or
three sticks every time I come
in at least, you know, and
that's one of them that I'll
grab.
And then I like to go to the
left side, you know, 'cause then
Espinoza's over there.
See if there's anything new with
those guys, right?
Or Room 101 or Yeah, I mean, but
you guys trained me to do that.
I mean, realistically, you just
named the three that we support
the most.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Did you see Booth is in Egypt?
No, that's awesome.
Yeah, in Egypt right now.
Well, you say that, but you do
support him the most.
But you support everybody pretty
highly, you know, like, you
know, foundations in there.
I mean everybody, yeah, Fuente,
like you guys still support
Fuente.
They have a huge a huge area.
But yeah, but Fuente is more
automated.
Right.
It's yeah.
It's not like you go.
Maybe you try this Fuente.
Yeah, I'm not walking somebody
over.
There, right.
Yeah, we're not saying oh.
But I mean it's support wise
like you guys still give them
this.
Of course they have the
opportunity.
I mean, look, I mean padrone we
don't really support.
No.
Like I don't go out of my way
and say padrone now there's one
that I love, right?
The 50th Toro Maduro, I think is
outstanding.
But realistically that that
brand has grown year over year
by itself, right?
I guarantee you the numbers are
staggering even with a downturn
in of a year or a rough year,
Like I guarantee you padrone
still grew in our store.
So yeah, there are.
But like your legacy brand, some
of those will be fine by
themselves.
But if you pick your horses of
your brands that you want to
grow with and develop with,
those guys will have your back.
You can kind of tell though,
when you walk into a shop
anyways, like if it's a good
shop or or a bad shop, right?
Just by walking in, in the
organization, like you can tell
like, oh, OK, this is going to
be rough, right?
You know, then you'll see like
there's no customer service.
There's hey, do you have a
Mexican Coke?
Nope, don't have that.
Hey, do you have a Bud Light?
Nope, don't have that.
Hey, you know, they don't have
anything.
All of a sudden it's like, man,
why the fuck did I come to this
place?
Wild, wild.
You have those, LES?
Yeah, I got those.
OK.
So good.
Moving on, Sir.
All right appeal filed in
California Utah lawsuit
emergency order requested
Several major cigar companies
have filed an appeal and their
ongoing legal fight against
Californias new unflavored
tobacco list which is said to
take effect on January 1st.
So it's already been as of this
episode, it's already.
Out it's it's a.
It's in effect.
On Friday, December 26th, the
plaintiffs in Rocky Patel
Premium Cigars, Inc versus
Bonita filed an appeal with the
US Court of Appeals for the 9th
Circuit Court.
At the same time, they asked the
court for an emergency
restraining order that would
temporarily stop California from
enforcing the UTL as it applies
to Premium Cigars.
Because the rule goes into
effect at the start of the new
year, the court is expected to
act quickly.
The lawsuit was filed by members
of the Cigar Rights of America,
the Premium Cigar Association
and several family owned cigar
companies.
The companies argue that the UTL
violates federal law and places
an unfair burden on premium
cigar manufacturers and
retailers.
California created the UTL as
part of a 2020 law banning most
flavored tobaccos and nicotine
products.
Under the new system, the state
will publish a list of tobacco
products that are legal to sell.
We already know all this
information.
They just filed an appeal to the
lawsuit that they said they're
or to the cease and desist
whatever that they did the other
day, right?
So we have not heard yet what
happened.
You probably won't.
It sounds like the you're going
to lose like California.
It's only like the last ditch
effort here.
It's the day before it starts.
Throw another piece of paper at
them.
It does.
It does violate federal law, but
that doesn't matter.
How does it violate federal law?
Well, I'm just oh, OK, let me
let me reiterate that.
These boots in boots attorney at
law.
It probably does violate federal
law because first of all you
can't even file anything and it
be known like this without there
being some type of grasp right,
some type of evidence inside of
that that supports it.
But it doesn't matter anyways.
The state can make its own
fucking law as long as it's not
harming anybody, right?
That's that's.
The thing it's, it's restricting
what they can sell, I think is.
And it's hurting small
businesses.
Right.
That's the federal law I think
that they're applying to.
I don't know exactly which law
specifically, but it's the one
that says we can sell anything
we want to sell.
You can't tell us what we can
sell or something, right?
It's just the bad thing is that
states can make up whatever law
they want.
But the court has already said,
no, I'm sorry, it's going to go
ahead.
And now they're going well,
let's look at it one more time.
Right.
Well, they need.
Come on, give it to us.
What are you doing?
What they need to do is stop
messing with California and they
need to get somebody in
Washington, DC on their side
that would help.
Why?
It's a state law.
Yeah, be.
Well, if you get somebody
federally on your side, they're
going to go to California and
go, hey, man.
The only way that that works is
cigar smoking becomes more
socially acceptable across the
board.
I mean, it's definitely socially
accepted in the Senate.
In the House, I'm sure they all
smoke cigars.
Well, that's different.
Though, well, not all of them.
Politicians, what politicians do
and what the people do are two
totally different things.
I mean, you know, I mean, I'm
aiming for a Somalian daycare
over here.
I need to open one of those up
like.
Steve and I were talking about
that upstairs because he didn't
know we talked.
We hadn't heard the show that we
did yesterday.
He has a Somalian.
Daycare, he said.
Some of them even the word
learning was spelled.
Wrong at leering.
Leering center.
That's incredible.
Oh my God.
Still have not looked into us
getting a grant we need.
A grant and this guy was like
this close to becoming the VP
of, of, of the United States.
Oh, Tim Waltz.
He was the.
Oh is there?
Are these his locations?
He's in Minnesota.
He's the governor of Minnesota.
Is it a federal grant they got
or a state grant?
Oh I have no idea, I just find
it all.
And they know which one to go
after.
I would I would think it'd
probably be a state.
And then he said that, you know,
he goes, he said something like
white men or criminals or
something like that.
I'm like, OK, what does that
have to do with anything?
Well, that was the the smoke
and.
Mirror, like somebody said to
him, listen, here's what you
need to do.
You need to go out here and you
just need to blame the white
guys for this, right?
OK.
And he's just like, no problem,
no?
Problem.
I blame the white man.
Politicians are so disconnected,
all of them.
I don't care what side you vote
for.
It's just wild to me.
I don't I, I don't understand
the concept.
It's crazy, yeah.
So there was something on the
news this morning about Barack
Obama's wife has gone like crazy
now or?
Something.
Oh no, that's not good.
No, not like with her political
stance.
Not like she's actually going
crazy.
Man, they've been saying that
for years bro.
They've been attacking her
forever.
Yeah.
What's her political stance?
Has something to do with she's
for communism now or something?
Her and Julia Louise Dreyfus.
Of course, because he's probably
involved or she's probably
involved in something that's
getting ready to come up in the
news and they do the smoking
mirror thing and don't don't
believe her.
This time of year, it's hard to
know if it's a repeat episode on
the radio or if it's actually a
new show, unless you catch it
from the beginning.
So I mean, it could have been a
repeat of something that's
already happened.
Yeah, I'm sure Michelle's fine,
you know what I mean?
She's got plenty of money.
Don't know.
Oh, we know.
We know.
Yeah, we know.
We know.
What kind of chicken does she
like?
Well.
I was.
Well, stay away from the chicken
jokes.
All right, we got a full episode
of What's the Score?
Or we could just stop.
We hit an hour.
Now let's get going.
All right, what's the score?
Is this the first cigar from
December 27th, 2025?
Brooks Whittington Cigars HVC
Cigars limited edition Nicaragua
HVC Black Friday 10th
Anniversary, Limited edition.
That's a good cigar.
What is it?
The Black Friday HVC. 10th
anniversary, are you with us?
Black Friday this year. 10th
anniversary.
Yes, just social review on the
25th of December, HVC Limited
10th Anniversary limited
edition, the current one that
they're doing now.
And then who?
Now you're back up to speed.
Who reviewed it?
Oh, you didn't even hear that,
Brooks.
Brooks did.
OK, Brooks.
All right.
This will be the last time.
In the just for information in
the People's Choice Awards on
Half Wheel, we're not even in
the running, really.
Yes, really.
They announced the six cigars
from the other day or something.
Weren't at Dunbarton, No.
I'm not even sure if there was a
number.
It's it's all higher end Pepin,
all that kind of stuff.
Well, I'm not saying that
anymore, Charlie.
The.
People wanted, so it's hard to
tell.
The people.
The people's.
Well, it's not like we pressed
hard and said, hey, we need you.
To I voted for us.
I mean, you didn't vote for us.
I didn't.
Was there a QR code for this?
No, there was a.
You had to answer 5 questions.
By the way, capitalist media.
What capitalist media?
Capitalist and the Montagues.
No, no, totally different.
That's a Capulet.
Yes, that's a Caplowitz. 1950s
you got the reference.
Yes, Caplowitz Media gave
Postana, San Andreas, Kapowitz.
Yes, yeah #2 Cigar of the year.
Nice.
Yeah, bang.
Yeah, Cigar Craig showed that to
me, which is awesome.
We just got a 9th place from
somebody else too.
I forget who it was.
But we need to properly.
We had to watch the whole video
and then it just flashed
through.
We need to properly acknowledge
all the people that had given us
some love.
So let's make sure that we do
that.
Obviously, cigar press number
six, that was a good one.
And there's another one, Cigar
culture.
I don't know.
I got to look, Somebody said,
hey, don't forget these guys.
They mentioned the group.
I'm like.
Oh yeah, there's several reviews
people want us to review.
Yeah, some of them I have not
heard of.
So what here's what I'm
thinking.
What we'll do is we'll
categorize every single cigar on
a 5 point scale, zero to four,
0123 or 4, right?
So 0 means we don't think it
belongs on the list at all. 1 is
OK, maybe 2 is it was good. 3 is
we can kind of determine, yes,
you know, maybe not where it
ranked, but we agree with it.
And then 4 is an absolute right.
And then we'll scale everything
and we'll determine who ranks
the highest.
OK, that's a lot of work it.
Is it's going to be fun.
Right, all right.
OK, Brooks.
Whittington HPC 10th Anniversary
Limited edition 90 Black Friday.
87.
He just looked it up.
How did I look at what do you I
have the buttons, I'm switching
and I have a cigar, a delicious
cigar.
Had your phone in front of you
the whole time.
Of course I have.
HVC Black Friday 10th
anniversary limited edition from
Nicaragua factory Fabrica de
Tobacco HVCSA de Rainier Lorenzo
Oh, he put his name in the name
of the factory.
Hello.
Rapper Ecuador and Habano 92
Binder Nicaraguan Filler
Nicaraguan length 6 1/4 by 54
It's around it's a $13 and they
smoked 3 cigars.
I'm going to roll to 88 cause of
its size.
Stay 87.
'Cause he already knows.
Pretty sure he looked, yeah.
Is that the number?
I'm not saying a word.
Why would you say that?
Because maybe you're close.
The flavor profile is
consistently rich and engaging
across all three cigars,
highlighted by creamy cedar
peanut shells, cocoa nibs again
with the nibs, and toasted bread
with excellent retro Hales
offering red pepper and sweet
milk chocolate that add depth
and balance. 89. 87.
Yeah, he looked he.
Looked.
He looked.
Is that the number?
Oh, I don't know, you need the
number.
Construction shines in terms of
drawing smoke production, as all
three cigars deliver
effortlessly draws in thick,
satisfying smoke from start to
finish, allowing the full flavor
to come through clearly. 87. 89.
Time to move me off.
Try to throw them off a little
bit here.
Burn consistency is a recurring
issue without even burn lines
throughout the smoke and
multiple touch UPS requiring an
all three cigars which detracts
from the otherwise enjoyable and
well flavored experience. 87.
I love how he's reading it like
Lorenzo, no.
Yeah.
It's Lorenzo's cigar. 89.
Well, I have not smoked every
Black Friday release.
I smoked quite a few of them,
and I've enjoyed most of them.
The Black Friday 10th
Anniversary Limited Edition is
no different that regard, with a
base profile that is creamy and
slightly sweet, plenty of
flavors, and some noticeable but
not overwhelming strength below.
In fact, the worst part about
the cigar was the construction,
and while none of the burn
corrections were major issues,
they were enough to negatively
impact the score.
This is a better cigar than the
final score will indicate, but
if you smoke it, keep your
lighter ready.
Is this the final thought?
Yeah, that was the final
thought.
I'm going to go 87.
Boots, what are you going to
say?
87.
Oh wow, it's 87.
Perfect.
Hit it from the very beginning.
First time in the entire I.
Nailed it, baby.
So.
Crazy First time in the history
of what's the score?
No, I promise you, I wasn't
looking at my phone.
I just thought it was funny how
Palmer gave in.
It wasn't like, you know, like
Steve Harvey, like if you, if
you say this stuff to Steve
Harvey and you're like, is it
this?
He's like, no, I don't know, you
know?
Because you never hit it right
on the money the very. 1st and
then he stuck with he.
Stayed with it.
He didn't move around.
Well, you know what?
I didn't look at my phone.
This could be a good day.
I'm putting a lot of money on
the line tonight on that Miami
game.
You might not have looked at
your phone now.
Maybe you already read this.
It was the top of the.
Page I have never looked at half
of his.
Page, We haven't had any money
maker picks either like the past
two weeks.
Oh, that's right, we forgot.
I don't even know what half
wheels page looks like.
Yeah, it looks like half a
wheel.
Yeah.
Those are really wild.
Yes.
OK.
Anything else?
Yeah, we have another one.
Yeah, we're doing too today.
OK, Yeah.
August 15th, 2020.
No way he can get.
This unless he looks like not
start looking.
It up August 15th, 2020 Brooks
Whittington Agonorsa leaf cigars
Nicaraguan reviews supreme Leaf
Toro Toro Toro Toro Supreme.
Supreme.
Supreme.
Supreme 90.
I'll go first.
He's looking it up right now.
No, no, he's got his phone on
it.
No, I'm sorry.
Looking it up right now.
Yeah.
I don't know how to do this.
Chet GPT.
What was the review of Supreme
Leaf?
Toro Toro, Toro, Toro.
It was a supreme leaf.
Yep.
Toro he stalling like.
Toro, you.
Mean he spelled supreme for you.
No, he's got yes.
The Toro.
Not one of the, not one of the
other ones you're looking.
Yeah, I'll probably, I'll this
will probably be high 92.
Oh, 92.
That's like, I can't say it the
right of the.
Screen.
Yeah.
Cigar reviewed.
Supreme Leaf Toro from
Nicaragua, from Tabago Valley de
Halapa, SA.
Nicaraguan binder, Nicaraguan
filler, Nicaraguan.
Length 6 inches by 54.
Same as last one, Michael.
Oh yes, but it's a different
leaf.
Toro Gordo MSRP $10.50 Release
date 2020.
They smoked 3 cigars.
I'll tap 89 because of the size.
Again, I'll go 89.
Why don't you like the size
just?
You're at 90.
Yeah, I brought it down 1.
But Toro is like the most one of
the most common.
Toro 6 by 52.
Toro 6 by 54.
It's just too much I.
See it's it's a.
It could be too much.
It's got to be, it's look, it's
got to be, it's not Roma, you
know what I mean?
Like those?
They're good.
Yeah, but wasn't this like
you're the donkey?
I mean, everybody likes bigger.
You're the horse.
That's not what I meant.
I understand what you meant, I'm
not falling for it.
I'm not falling for it.
I'm sticking 92 OK.
Yeah.
The Supreme Leaf Toro delivers a
bold, layered flavor profile led
by sweet cedar and dark
chocolate, complemented by
creamy nuts.
Oh, creamy nuts.
Creamy nuts, espresso, cocoa
nibs, and the distinctive Raisin
sweetness on the retrohale that
keeps the cigar engaging from
start to finish.
No cocoa nibs.
No cocoa nibs.
Didn't we do the Supreme leaf?
Not too long.
Ago, there's 75 different
Supremes.
Yeah, this is from 2020.
We have not done this one. 90.
Yeah, 92.
Construction is a strong point
with an excellent draw
throughout any burn that
improves as a cigar progresses,
allowing for consistent smoke
output and a satisfying overall
smoking experience.
Of course it's going to be
consistent sag and horse.
And it's the same cigar.
Just a different size, Just a.
Difference the 90.
The difference?
Now you're going 90.
I'm still we do the supreme leaf
robusto. 92.
Oh, you said 90.
He's a 92.
Sorry.
Final thoughts please.
As it no, no, this is another.
Clue.
Third clue.
As the cigar reaches the final
third, the increasing black
pepper and jalapeno jalapeno
become aggressive enough to
overpower some of the more
nuanced secondary flavors.
Honesty.
Slightly unbalancing the profile
at the end.
Oh, jalapeno on a stick?
Jose Jalapeno.
These guys need to stop eating
those flaming hot Cheetos while
they're smoking cigars.
I'm going to roll back 89.
It's a tequilas.
Because of the jalapenos.
Yeah, because of the.
Because it's overwhelming.
Jalapeno Jose Jalapeno.
But did it?
Did it say, did you say it was
overwhelming?
Yes, yes, that was the reason he
didn't like the jalapeno.
Oh God, oh boy.
Oh God, oh man.
He got a stroke.
I need oxygen, oxygen quick.
Buy him.
Buy him an oxygen tank.
Well, J WS upstairs if you like
to use his.
I'm not putting that nasty thing
in my nose that you yell.
Over Jesus.
Have you seen those two little
things that stick in his mouth?
Dude I love.
When he used to roll around with
the oxygen tank and make
everybody, make everybody.
Nervous so.
Everybody's like, this is great.
You smoking, right?
You smoking with that?
He's smoking.
Yeah, it's fine, don't worry.
It's.
Gonna be fine. 92.
Unless Pete throws another
burning lighter under his chair.
Final thought, I enjoyed the one
Supreme Leaf robusto.
Oh, I smoked quite a bit of.
The Toro shares a number of
similarities with its smaller
sibling, so it's not surprising
that I feel mostly the same way
about the new Toro in the same
blend.
Having said that, starting
around the beginning of the
final third, the combination of
jalapeno on the finish and black
pepper on the Retro Hale is
strong enough to mostly
overwhelm not only the one
dominant notes of creamy cedar
and dark chocolate on the
palate, but also the Raisin
sweetness on the Retro Hale.
Overall the Supreme Leaf Toro is
a good cigar now, but I think 6
months to a year will age plenty
of time to bring so much needed
balance to the final third,
which would make it an overall
complete experience.
The end.
Thank you. 89.
No, I was going to go there.
So go there.
Go there.
Yeah, I'll go 88.
Oh, nice move, 87.
Yeah, baby, I win today.
I thought for sure he was going
to be above it, so I figured I
was fine.
A bang.
I picked 2 with the same score
'cause I thought they will.
You know, I got to put a bet in
on Hard Rock real quick.
Guys, this is a great day.
Great day.
Have you picked out a name for
the baby?
Mike, we have not finalized it.
Mike would be a good.
Yeah, mine was.
I want to name the baby Pete
Mitchell.
Pete Mitchell.
Mitchell.
Yep.
Why?
Isn't that the actor?
Nope, that is the character.
What is the character?
From Top Gun.
Oh my God.
Middle name Maverick.
No, no, no.
Middle name.
Mitchell, Pete.
Mitchell Hippowauser.
Oh, I guess that makes more
sense.
Yeah.
I thought she was making the
last name Mitchell.
Yep.
OK, that's what you want.
What is Tia saying that was
going to be?
She likes Colton Edward.
Colton.
So it's going to be Colton.
It's going to be Colton.
It's going to be Colton.
Colton Sounds.
Better we never get to be.
You never get to say.
Pete Mitchell.
After Top Gun, yeah, she's not
beat for that, right?
Weak.
We can call him Goose.
No, no, no that.
Was talk to me, ghost talk to
me.
What's a different character?
I understand it's a different
character.
I thought you would have went a
totally different direction.
Yeah, like.
What Mike?
A lot of people in your life are
named Mike.
I can't think of his name 'cause
I'm retarded and I have the flu,
but.
There's a super flu by the way
now.
Yeah, I probably have that.
Oh God.
The guy who just passed the
director.
Oh, Tony.
Tony.
Yeah, I know.
I thought you'd he.
Doesn't like death.
He wouldn't name somebody after
a dead guy.
Kind of honor his name, you
know?
Well, his his real name was John
Anthony.
Yeah, and you guys?
We call him Tony.
John Anthony sounds good.
Yeah, he.
Don't like having dead people
Would make him sad.
My daughter's named after my dad
so well.
That's different.
That's your father.
It doesn't make you sad.
Well, yeah.
He doesn't like to talk about
death.
He freaks.
Out.
Yeah.
My Christmas party upstairs.
Yeah.
But the company 1 Miss Ryan, my
sales lady, yeah, she bought me
like one of those, one of those
pieces of glass that has, like
the 3D image.
Yeah.
Of me and Tony together.
Oh, man, that was rough.
That was rough.
It was very rough.
It's good, man.
Somebody's you know.
It's like a hologram and it
talks and it's he's putting.
No, it doesn't put his arm
around crazier.
AI.
You push a button and his arm
goes around.
Right.
Anything you guys kiss, I don't.
Know, I just think that's always
cool to kind of carry a name on.
Yeah.
You know, but Colton's cool.
Well, Edward, she likes Edward
for the middle name 'cause that
was her grandfather's name.
Got it.
So yeah, there's some.
It's dude, it's it's Colton and
Colton by a by a long shot.
You know it's Colton and the
dead grandfather against the
favorite character from the
airplane movie.
You didn't want to go maverick.
Well, I did, and she did like
that as a first name.
Yeah, Gerard's kid's name is
Maverick Mardo.
Yeah, I liked the.
I liked that as a first name or
Julian.
Julian was my other first name
pick.
Julian, Julian.
Julian the better Gordon.
Oh yeah, I didn't even think of
that, but like, I like the name
because I love Big Daddy.
OK, all right, cool.
Well, hey, 72 minutes, buddy.
To be continued.
Who we don't know his name
doing.
We should have the guy that's
coming in every time there's an
event at the shop.
We should have that guy sit in
and do the hosting.
OK, we can try that 2026.
Haven't we?
Been to get back to that once a
month thing that we were trying.
To do, Yeah.
I mean, like, listen, you know,
end of the year's kind of, yeah.
But we sort of got away from.
It but we'll, we'll continue to
mix it up.
I mean, I love having a carny on
standby and we could just, we
could always incorporate him.
Yeah, because the 7th and maybe
the 8th, I'm gone.
Oh yeah, I have that appointment
down in Neptune on the 7th, so I
will not be here 'cause it's at
like 10:00 in the morning.
You think you think Willie would
ever do it.
We should totally get Willie.
That would be a good, you know,
actually he he was in the
entertainment business.
Ask him.
OK.
Ask him for the 7th.
January 7th, yeah.
January 7th.
It's next week.
Willie Morente.
All right, guys.
Thank you very much.
We can talk about all this off
the air.
We appreciate you. 2026 is going
to be a big year for us.
Boots and I are going to start
getting paid.
Yes, thanks for sending the
DoorDash people.
It's fine.
We know we don't understand.
All right, guys, thank you very
much.
The episode 490. 494 How did we
jump off?
Wait 430?
Wait 39.
That's the one that went the
last live show.
We did a repeat yesterday, so
it's 4:40. 44440. 4:40.
All right, guys.
Thanks.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
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