ACHP Episode 441 Mr. Beast Season 2
Transcript
Oh, welcome to Scars or podcast
episode 440.
One, bring the heat.
I don't know if this is one or
two.
It depends on what we do with
the other show.
Yeah.
Let's go.
I'm Mike Palmer and your host.
It is January 6th, 2025.
And with me today is engineer
Mr. Boots.
Proof autopilot is a lifestyle.
HIPPA Hauser.
And then my Co host Mikey.
He's not wrong.
I'm just never right.
Stepan Kevich, welcome to the
show, gentlemen.
Welcome.
Thank you for having me, Sir.
Oh no.
Please Honor and A.
Privilege, please.
I'm I'm glad you're here again.
So Friday show no sound.
So Friday.
Show no sound, just me and you.
Just me and you no sound.
So apparently every time it's me
and you.
No sound so.
Something happens when we move
the board and I'm flipping.
Something which is odd because
it's only a video board we move.
Right.
I don't know.
Something very wrong.
I I can't explain it so I
switched the board, put our our
backup board or our original
board whichever way you want to
look at it.
And we'll see how that goes.
See if we have sound today.
Right now, we're not flipping
video to video.
It's no, no.
He's like Clicky.
Clicky is lighter.
Clicky clicky.
I like.
I like.
I look at boots.
I like the Palmer look.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's very Cole Swindell
ish.
What's Cole Swindell?
He's.
A country singer, but he wears
like a like a blazer and a.
And a hat.
And a hat.
Oh.
I'm making made fun of my hair
last week so I'm going with a
hat for a while until.
The I like the hair I wasn't
making.
Fun of it was sticking out in
the back.
It looked like I was running
real fast all the time with the
IT was the duct and I did it
this morning and it was still
sticking.
I'm like, OK, we're going with a
hat and go with a hat.
I like this hat anyway.
It's nice and comfortable.
It's a good hat.
It's a good hat.
It's the best hat.
It's the greatest hat in the.
World.
Greatest hat in the world?
Yeah.
Is it made of Venezuela?
No, we'll get to that.
We'll get to Venezuela in a few
minutes, don't worry.
Let's.
Talk about that.
Don't worry all.
Right.
All right, Mikey, your episode
of Cigar Guys came out.
I just saw.
Oh yeah, yes.
How'd it go?
How'd it go?
Well, I only saw shorts.
Did it say we at all or did it
say me?
Oh good point.
The short I saw was it was a me.
Is it just my show?
It was your show again.
Oh, I have to watch it now.
I got to watch it and see.
They're very complimentary to
you, though.
I mean, Alex obviously loves you
so.
Yeah, we we were nowhere to be
found on the clips.
I love it.
Right.
Yeah, we're not.
We weren't asked to attend or
anything on the show.
Yeah.
Apparently the only person who
works harder than him in the
industry is you.
Yeah, So I did catch.
I did catch that clip.
Yeah, right.
It's true, but the now the clips
they put up this 'cause that was
like Saturday, now the clips put
up today.
You're not on this show, so they
just washed through you pretty
quick.
Oh, he's.
Just out.
Of there flushed through you
like last week's pasta.
Who they replace them with?
Coop.
No, it's just the two of them
talking about how great their
show is.
Of course.
Yeah, right.
It's a great show and a.
Humidor it is a good show.
Was it in a humidor?
No, no, no.
It's in his garage.
Yeah, it's just Alex and the one
guy you like now.
Jared.
Jared.
The one that works out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mostly just two of them Were
they was all were all of them on
the 1 you were on?
Zach was there as.
Well, one of the brothers.
Zach is the used to be quiet,
but once he gets to know you,
he's louder.
He's the angry one, yeah.
Wait, is Zach the one who lost
all the weight?
He's the one that works out all
the time.
No, that's Jared.
Oh, Jared.
I get them.
I I only know Alex's name.
Jared's the one with the Tesla
Cyber truck.
Is he?
Yes, yes, he is.
Yes.
Zach's the one with the Viper.
I don't know what Zach drives, I
just know that he was very quiet
in the beginning.
Oh, he's not quiet now.
And then Alex is the Puerto
Rican non.
Yeah, he's the non Bosnian or
one.
Bosnian, Yeah.
What are?
They various.
Does a non Bosnian evolve?
Well, no, it's not Bosnia.
It's a different what's the
country that's from?
Czechoslovakian.
Assyrian.
Syrian.
Not Syrian either.
Oh gosh, no, it's not.
It's not a short word.
I.
Thought they were Syrian.
Oh, they're.
Not BASA is the name of the
brand.
Right, that's not Syrian.
Maybe they're basin knees?
Now I got to check.
Now you guys see it's not Syria.
They're not from Syria.
Armenian.
They're Armenian.
They're.
Armenian, I have the A right.
Man, thank God.
Syria.
Armenian.
How do you have that?
Syrian is what I said.
I was about to say.
Syrian It doesn't start with an.
A Syrian is different than
Syria.
There's two different countries,
yes.
Well, that's.
Confusing.
Yeah, There's us, Syria, and
there's Syria.
Where you going, Assyria?
Wait, you going to Syria or are
you going to Assyria?
Syrian Does it pass?
Apparently there's two.
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Oh, what'd they win?
What did they win, Ben?
Better not be a beanie.
That the SBC.
Now you got that in already. 4
minutes in the SBC shirt.
The SBC.
Shirt so so let's see what, what
what episode was that?
I don't know that.
Was like 6.
I'm still.
Driving for the difference
between Syria and US Syria.
Well, he said.
Syrian it.
Wasn't 10 days ago.
Is that the gas?
There goes the neighborhood.
I thought it was they commented
on every episode between now and
then, no?
I didn't say that.
Oh, really?
Ridiculous.
I don't know.
I don't pay attention to you.
I'm going to get into.
Oh, what is that?
He's looking at his close with
only him in it from cigar.
I'm just looking.
From the cigar guys, yeah.
I think it was 437. 437 Let's
see.
Welcome to the neighborhood.
Should have never said the
number.
One where the graphic showed
showed the guy giving the
headphones to Epstein.
That was Epstein.
Yeah, well, yeah, I took that
down fast.
They gave me trouble.
Or it's got, I mean, this one's
got 20 comments, 438 Bonnie
Blue.
Maybe it's that?
One.
All right, let's do that one.
Perfect.
The bang where the Bonnie blue
one.
Bonnie Blue the porn star.
Highest rated episode we ever
did.
Where they hijacked the bus or
towed it?
Right.
OK, let's see.
So one.
Oh, we have a we have a bus
story today.
Oh.
Perfect.
It's like full circle.
There's a lot going on with the
buses lately.
Yeah, all.
Right.
Pick a number one through 9. 5.
1234 Five Congratulations.
Sam Hopkins, 1221.
E-mail Sam Hopkins, 1221 You're
welcome.
I picked your number.
He's happy about the Bang bus.
Bang Bus.
The Bang bus, yes.
Is that what his comment was?
So Sam Hopkins, 1221, e-mail.
Info@potioncigars.com.
POSP i.e.
C hcigars.com.
And we don't get that e-mail by
the way.
You do what?
You get that e-mail.
I do.
Yeah, I don't get that.
Damn it.
That's probably why the other
people weren't getting their.
Shirts.
Why you guys sticking with me?
I got to make the shirt.
I got to well.
You got to make the shirt.
You might as well ship the
shirt.
But you got to know the guy.
I do.
We're on the bus.
You got to know Sam Hopkins.
I know, Sam.
We're good friends.
We had lunch other day.
Where's he live?
New Jersey?
No, he doesn't.
How do you know?
'Cause you had a one in 50
chance of getting that right.
Somewhere northwest east.
And I got a feeling probably
more like 1 in 48, probably not
Alaska or Hawaii.
You never know we don't.
Have listeners in Alaska.
Hawaii, I did have AI, did have
a listener.
Yeah, we do.
Yeah, Duque does in Hawaii.
And I did have a listener in
Alaska, but he just moved back
to Tennessee.
Wow, that's quite the commute.
Well, maybe the Eskimos listen
to us in Alaska.
They just.
Can't talk the into it yeah
maybe they do yeah running from
the Esk of the polar bears yeah
You know a polar bear can smell
a human from 9 miles away They.
Got Wi-Fi in the igloos?
No, they can smell.
Yeah, I'm talking about.
That oh, what are you talking
about the the Eskimos?
You quickly transitioned.
I couldn't let it go.
Oh, I was almost pulled a story
and it listed the animals and
how far away they can smell a
human and the polar bear was the
furthest, Yeah.
What was the second furthest?
Giraffe.
Really.
I don't know.
No, he's lying.
You can't tell.
You can't tell.
All right, on today's show we
have.
To pay attention at all times
when I think, 'cause he's always
lying.
Not always, but I do add stories
when we don't have any.
Oh, OK.
On today's show we have the
biggest story of the weekend,
but with A twist.
We have how we have details from
the operation to get Nicolas
Maduro and his wife from the
presidential palace.
We have the details.
We have details.
Mr. Beast is back with season 2
of his record-breaking show.
Trump is all hyped up from his
Venezuelan operation.
Now he's claiming something else
is his.
Then a feel good story out of
Ohio on how the Dukes of Hatcher
saved a bus load of kids.
Then in cigars, the taxman
giveth and the taxman taketh
away.
No more flavored cigars in the
Rockies.
And then it's consensus time
again and we have the rules.
And then a full 2 round episode
of What's the Score?
And I have two videos for you
today.
And he has two videos today.
That wasn't built in, but hey.
'Cause they just fine, 'cause he
only tells me right before the
show starts.
You did ask me, he said.
Do I have videos?
Well, normally you say no.
But I but I said yes today.
I know you threw me off
completely.
See.
All right, now in the news.
Knock, knock, knock, Mr. Maduro,
it's the blackest.
Hours before dawn on January
3rd, 2026, the sky above Caracas
lit up with thunders, roars and
streaks of American airpower.
More than 150 U.S. military
aircraft, F35 F, 20 twos, B1
bombers, electronic warfare jets
and stealth helicopters surged
out of base across the
hemisphere under the code name
Operation Absolute Resolve.
Oh.
Just then, Michael just left to
snatch one of the Western
Hemisphere's most ignomatic and
embattled leader, President
Nicolas Maduro, from the heart
of What are you doing?
Heart of his capital.
The orange one has fuel in it.
Thank you.
I thought you gave me a kiss.
The orange one has fuel in it.
As the first light of January
3rd hadn't yet crept across the
Venezuelan sky, air defenses
were knocked out and precision
strikes blacking out swaps of
electrical power and clearing a
path for the elite ground force.
Army Delta Force commandos
backed by CIA intelligence
teams, FBI hostage rescue
specialist and Marine and Navy
support slid in on low altitude
helicopters, lead threading the
needle through a hostile
cityscape.
Around 1:01 AM in the heart of
Caracas, the commandos breached
Maduro's fortified compound, a
maze of steel doors.
In defensive positions.
Venezuelan forces exchanged fire
and one US helicopter took hits
but remained airborne.
Can't shoot down our
helicopters.
Apparently using meticulous
rehearsals and mock house
training scenarios, the assault
element bulldozed through
resistance and surgical forces.
We get it.
We took.
We took.
It's a good story.
You're so rude.
Yeah, it sounds like a fucking
movie.
It'll oh, it'll be a.
Movie.
I'm sorry.
It'll be a movie.
Oh, here you go.
I'm sorry about that.
What did he?
Say he started cursing again.
Oh geez.
You get 1 per.
All right.
Yes, he's now.
He's now in Manhattan.
He's set to go for a judge
today.
Is he staying at Trump Tower?
Judge, what's the judge going to
say?
It's the Trump.
It's a world court.
That's why they grabbed him.
They served a warrant.
Oh, they did.
Yeah, he's for the DA.
If you'd let me finish reading
the story, we would have gotten
to.
That you come and get me, you
coward.
I don't think that's what he
said.
I think what he said was why is
there all these helicopters and
stuff around?
Well, supposedly Trump called
him.
I saw a video today.
Trump called him before he did
it.
And the guy kept saying you
can't get me.
Yeah, well, you're I'm in
charge, blah, blah, blah, Trump.
OK.
Oh, you don't have been epic.
If Trump was like, I can't hear
you, can you go outside?
Maybe your reception's bad, go
out bad.
Call them right as they're
coming in.
Right.
So here's a couple of things
that I learned about this and I.
Wait, one more, one more thing.
Supposedly we bombed the we
bombed the grave of the guy, the
dictator who was in charge
before him to put him in power.
Oh, insult to injury, right?
Took.
That guy out too.
He was already dead, but we blow
up his grave.
We'll.
Kill you till you're dead.
Now you'll never find them.
You can't get him.
He's in it.
Oh, no more.
I heard that we took out their
service to air defense.
Yes, that was in the story.
From the air.
Yeah, yeah.
How else did you take it out?
I don't know from the ground,
you have to be able to get over
there and said you.
Have to be able to get to it.
You got to get to it.
That's apparently that's pretty
impressive from what I'm trying
to.
Understand.
It is super impressive actually,
yeah.
Well, I would imagine our
stealth bombers and stealth.
I didn't know we had stealth
helicopters.
Apparently have stealth
helicopters too.
You can't hear them?
Nope.
Yeah, you don't remember that
from the movie when they did Bin
Laden.
No, Yeah, but they still shot
one of those down.
I mean, how about the fact that
they extracted him with before
the amount of time I could get a
freaking pizza?
I mean like pretty quick.
It happened fast. 45 minutes,
like that's incredible.
These guys are efficient.
Like, I don't care if you, I
don't care if it's a Democrat as
a president or if it's a
Republican president.
If if you do something like
that, I mean, that is absolutely
amazing.
That is absolutely amazing.
No other country in the world
can do it.
Dude that is a statement.
That was definitely a statement
as far as military is concerned.
Shout out to our military man.
My God, they're amazing.
They're a little overkill.
No, you think it was overkill?
What they it was like 150 planes
or something they said they
sent.
It's called the Flex bro.
Yeah.
Flex.
It's called confusion.
Or you can't get me like OK bro,
OK I.
Got it.
Or flex when you just sent one?
No, we took him out of one.
But it wasn't even like during
the daytime.
Yeah.
It was at like one 2:00 in the
morning.
Yeah, you always go at
nighttime, right?
Everybody knows that I would
sleep during the day and stay up
all night.
Yeah, I love it.
I mean.
And they took his wife.
Man, she's.
Responsible too.
You see they just dressed him in
black jumpsuits, they put a
hoodie on him and a black
sweatpants and off he goes.
They put him.
He was in the Nike Gray
sweatshirt.
Well, yeah, he was actually.
Yeah, he was wearing a Nike.
I saw a black.
Jumpsuit, which was weird.
Come and get me all right.
That's going to be the new Nike
slogan.
Come and get me, Come and get
me.
Yeah, that's what it seemed like
when they were showing the
picture of him.
Yeah, like you could clearly see
the Nike Air signs.
Yeah.
They ran down to Dick's, picked
one up before they took off.
Maybe it's Trump's.
Yeah, presidential.
One I used to have one, Oh yeah,
used to have a presidential
Secret Service sweat suit thing.
It was a white one with a little
blue logo on.
Nice.
Oh man, shout out to our
military for getting that done.
That was awesome.
I don't care if you're for it or
against it.
It's definitely an American.
Well, some people are
complaining.
Everybody's somebody's always.
Camilla's complaining.
Tara.
Not Camilla.
What's?
Who's the lady that ran against
him?
Not Camilla, That's the other
guy's wife.
Call it.
What's her name?
The lady that ran against Trump,
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't even.
Know Missus Harris?
Yeah, yeah.
Missus Harris, what was her?
She's complaining that he put
U.S. forces in jeopardy.
He was off.
What are you talking?
About yeah, nobody got hurt.
We're fine.
We just removed a guy in less
than 45 minutes.
The amount of preparation it
took was probably two months.
Oh, way longer than that.
And we had that guy in and out
within 45 minutes.
Can you imagine?
Exactly where he was in the
palace.
Well, they've been.
They've been watching this guy
since 2010.
All right, check this out.
Check this out.
Here's the inside of the palace.
We built one over here you can
just walk through.
Won't come and get me OK.
You can't get to me.
Surprise cowards.
Oh, shit.
They're here.
Oh, do I have a bunker?
Put me in my bunker.
You had no bunker.
Damn it, I knew we should have
built that.
Should have built the bunker.
If you're an American, we're the
slaves.
If you're an American, you got
to be like, you don't wanna mess
with.
The For the people that hate
him, still the people that hate
him.
Americans hate the military.
No, no, they hate Trump.
I don't care.
I don't care about any of that.
They have every right to hate
the president or love the
president.
That means nothing to me.
I'm talking about the execution
of our military.
Oh yeah, like Butcha, nobody
else could.
Do this like it's, you know, and
we all all agree for the can we
just root for the one team, the
military team, like like we are,
you know?
Everybody was involved.
Army, Navy, DEAFBICIA.
Back everybody back-to-back
World War champs.
I mean, come on, you know?
I just saw a story before you
got here.
I don't know if it's true or
not, but supposedly Venezuela
attacked a Coast Guard ship.
Oh yeah.
And Coast Guard's not made for
naval battle, so they took one
hit.
It was 3 Venezuelans.
They took one hit.
And then 50 miles away a regular
destroyer got their distress
call shot 3 missiles that'll go
80 miles, but they were already
50 miles, 3 harpoon missiles and
sunk 2 of the Venezuelan ships.
And the other one went, We give,
we saw it, we saw it, we saw it,
we give.
Go where you want, dude.
Well, don't.
Don't shoot at our Coast Guard,
right?
Shoot the Coast Guard.
You're just gonna be stupid.
Puddling around and leave me
alone.
Yes, America.
Love it.
So absolutely very excited.
Very exciting.
I'm very excited for our
military.
You should join you're you're
still I'm old man.
You're still at the age.
You gotta be under 30.
Five, I think there was a Is it?
Didn't they raise it?
I thought they raised it to 40.
Five.
They raised it at one time to,
yeah, I think it was like 42,
but they brought it back down.
Right now they're actually down
grading if you haven't noticed.
We have too many.
Yeah, yeah, they're doing like a
lot of so we call it the Fat Boy
program, but they brought back
the where you have to do a
failure of three times of your
your yearly.
PT thing.
PT yeah, PT test before they
took it all away like you didn't
have like if you failed, like it
was OK all of you service
members.
Please tell us how wrong he is
and what's going on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let us know because it sounds OK
to us.
But yeah, please confirm or
deny, please.
Confirm or deny his information
because, you know, we're still
looking for blue Kangaroos.
Apparently and and gigantic
human bats.
Blue Kangaroos.
Cyan Kangaroos.
Cyan is blue, we were told, not
red.
I didn't say that though.
That wasn't me, I.
Didn't say that.
Yeah.
Yeah, you said that.
And I'm looking for blue.
Kangaroos, are you?
Are you red lighting still or
no?
No.
He hasn't been.
Red lighting for years,
obviously.
You can still remember that one
cigar we reviewed.
It might be time to turn back on
the red light.
Might be.
Just for the record.
He got unplugged for a Christmas
tree, so now the trees are gone.
So I.
Just for the record, I'm smoking
this.
Can see that.
Yep.
You see that right there?
You.
Had a not for the Patreon.
He's just smoking that.
That's the post Sonia, San
Andreas, Corona, Gorda.
Oh, Jerry.
It's not out yet.
Oh nice.
But we're officially announcing
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Taking orders out of today.
We're gonna get this.
We're gonna get this party
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we'll work on getting together.
So boom, Corona Gorda dropped
first released media.
Can you do a press release?
Yeah.
No, we don't have to.
You have to do that.
I don't.
Know, I understand, but I didn't
know if we were counting this as
a press release.
No.
Well, this is considered our
first.
We need to do one for the new
Sunnisafina packaging too.
OK, well, let's do that as well.
All right, Mr. Beast is back.
YouTube's biggest star Jimmy
Donaldson, better known to the
world as Mr. Beast, is back and
he's raising the stakes even
higher.
Starting Wednesday, Season 2 of
Beast Games officially kicks
off, dropping 200 contestants
into a brutal high pressure
competition for a jaw-dropping.
How much you think he can win,
guys?
$1,000,000. $2,000,000. 5
million cash grand prize.
Where is this I'm going?
Mr. Beast, he's already got the
contestants.
Should we already missed it?
That's one of the largest prizes
ever offered in reality
competition, according to the
Beast Games website.
The challenges are designed to
test the limits of human
strength, intelligence, and
strategy.
And if Season 1 is any
indication, it's not just making
just the marketing hype.
Last season pushed competitors
to extremes, including
challenges where players were
literally haunted by Navy Seals
and audiences could get enough.
Season 1 went on to become the
most watched unscripted series
ever on Amazon's Prime Video.
You guys watch any of it?
No, I did not.
I didn't either, but I think I
might go back in.
March, is this the this is the
TV show that hit our news.
Do you know what other TV shows
coming back?
And it's so funny.
We talked about it the other
day.
No.
What is it?
No, nobody knows.
No one knows.
No idea, no idea.
Johnny Knoxville's coming back
for Fear Factor.
Yeah, I saw that.
Wait.
He wasn't in fear factor before.
No, we know that.
But we talked about what if
Johnny Knoxville was one of
those guys where, like, he could
do like some type of crazy prank
or whatever.
He's getting the TV show back.
Oh, there you go.
Maybe he put some Venezuelan guy
in the port a potty on the crane
so.
So you're going to go back and
watch the original?
I think I am.
Yeah.
This or bees?
How?
Do we get on the show, what, $5
million?
You had to get to the end.
I'll get to the end.
I don't care if I lose my arm.
For $5,000,000 you'll cut off
your arm.
Yeah, you should just send him
that.
Wow.
Do a video and cut it off and go
for $5 million.
I'll do this.
He needs a red light. $5,000,000
I'll do this and then he goes,
but you already did it Go No,
no, I have another one.
Well, there was more story, but
you know for contestant did
simple survive the chaos,
outsmart everyone else and walk
away rich or leave with nothing.
Love him or hate him, Mr. Beath,
Mr. Beast has rewritten the
rules of entertainment.
And with millions watching and
$5,000,000 on the line, Beast
Games Season 2 isn't just a
show, it's a spectacle.
It's a spectacle.
Are you excited?
What would you do on Mr. Would
you do Mr. Beast Show?
No.
Why not?
I like his his little Reese's
Cubs, but that's about it.
Yeah.
If you had to, what, like are
you worried about being like
having bears involved or
something?
It doesn't have to be fast, only
faster than the other.
Contestants faster than the
other contestants.
Well, they need to be able to
stand up because I'm going to
push them down.
Sharks.
I'm not fucking with that.
I'm not.
Oh man, second one.
There's not really anything.
We have the possibility of
dying, I don't believe.
I'm sure somebody has gotten
seriously injured and more close
to dying on the show.
No, his his stuff's not.
Not Johnny Knoxville type stuff.
It's like no sleeping.
Yeah, bury you alive.
Don't you I?
Struggle with that with the no
sleeping.
Thing I'd struggle with the
buried alive.
I'd eventually fall asleep.
I'm not being buried alive
either.
I'm slightly claustrophobic.
I couldn't do any of that stuff.
Yeah, I mean, do you OK?
You guys watch Survivor right?
Yeah, yeah, I'm a little too old
and out of shape to do any of
that physical stuff anymore.
I I'd be.
But there was people in Survivor
that were in the hospital for
months.
Yeah, that dehydration, they got
bugs all over them and stuff.
I would I.
Remember like worms in her legs.
I think the.
Claustrophobia thing would
bother me but I'd still do it.
You'd be buried alive.
Sure, in the last they'd
probably bury you alive.
The last one out wins.
Did you ever lay in Greg's
coffin?
No.
I, I saw the thing.
I mean, it's slightly like the
size of the pool table.
I mean, you're not, you know,
and it had windows on the side
and on the top.
Oh, there's Windows.
I don't, but you're still
buried.
I mean.
Then they cover you up so the
windows get covered with dirt.
I don't care if this whole room
gets buried alive.
Yeah, it would be.
It would be scarier to see the
dirt on the window.
Yeah, I'm good.
I just closed my eyes.
You.
Know and then they talk to you
through like a pipe or something
in the top.
What if what if they're like
junk's on you whenever taking
the dirt off?
No.
Then they've killed you and then
it's a murder.
I'm worth $1,000,000 dead.
Yeah, but you don't know, He
could be a, he could be the the,
the killer.
Oh, that's just the thing.
Yeah, he's Kevorkian of the game
shows.
Right, there's probably a guy
like that out there, we just
haven't caught him yet.
Oh, that says he's doing a game
show and he just kills you.
Is that where Bob Barker wins?
Well, if the military caught on
to him, we'd have him wrapped up
within less than 45 minutes.
That's right.
There you go.
Yeah, Venezuelan guy should have
listened to Bin Laden when he's
telling about the bunkers.
I man, 45 minutes.
It's so wild.
It's so you.
See in the movies all the.
Time.
What do you think?
Putin said after that?
You know, you should probably
talk to the Chinese guy and
they're like.
Bro dude she want you to have it
on TV.
Yeah, maybe we should get to.
My bunker. 45 minutes.
Maybe we should settle down a
little bit over here.
They, they, you know, they had
to have a conversation about it,
like.
Oh no.
Trump, they had to talk about
it.
Well, supposedly NATO's all
upset that we did it.
Some other countries are upset.
I don't imagine Great Britain's
is upset.
I mean, if they are, they're
stupid.
But of course.
No, Trump.
Trump called and said, hey, did
you guys see what I did so fast?
I did it then.
I took your boy.
Yeah.
Hey, turn on the.
Turn on the TV.
Turn to Channel 7.
OK, Look at that.
It's OK.
Order a pizza.
I've got him.
Oh, sorry.
Was that too fast?
By the way, we have the matching
sweat suits on.
Yeah.
Did you see a sweat suit?
The same one up.
Yeah, it took your boy, He's
out.
I took your boy.
He's out.
Doesn't he look like he's
playing like some virtual
reality thing?
Isn't that cool?
He does.
He does.
Somebody sent me a picture of
him holding a fish like a bass
and.
This is in the middle of cooking
and I just took him.
He still hold the prime.
Oh my God.
I don't know what happened.
Wait until you see I'm gone.
Wait until you see one of my one
of my 2 videos from today.
You're gonna love it.
All right, carrying on.
Let's go.
Running out of time all.
Right.
Trump is all wound up now.
So now he decided he needs
Greenland again.
Trump repeats threats to annex
Danish territory.
Can we just do that?
Is that a thing?
Can you just go that tears now?
Well, we did that with that
canal, the Panama I.
Don't know, right?
Did we take the Panama Canal?
In the beginning, but then we
gave it back, right?
What?
We just signed the papers I.
Don't know how all that works.
I don't either, but I mean he
keeps saying we want that.
Yeah, I don't.
I honestly don't know.
I mean.
There's a Danish country.
It's it's a legitimate country
still.
If we're stealing people, if
we're kidnapping them in 45
minutes, we can say whatever we
want.
I.
Don't know, it's kind of a fine
line, I guess, You know, like
you don't want to start invading
things I.
Mean well, he's not invading,
he's just drawn it on a map and
putting a flag on it.
Greenland isn't really a threat,
you know what I mean?
Like invading's like you're not
telling them you're gonna take
it.
Yeah.
Yeah, invading.
You send a bunch of military
over, there's a fight involved
and everything.
He's just going.
That's mine.
That's mine.
Mine I don't.
Think he's gonna.
I don't think he can do that.
I don't think that that's OK.
That's not OK.
It's not OK. 45 minutes.
I can take Dana.
I can take this this.
Guy was a problem.
This guy was a threat.
Well, it's always.
Greenishes was always.
Yeah, like what's the threat in
Greenland?
Well. 1st place, they're all
covered in ice.
It's not really green.
Yeah.
Why would we take over that
it's.
A trick so resources military
bases.
Oil.
Is there oil in Greenland I.
Think so.
There's oil in Venezuela.
They have the most oil of
anybody.
Yeah, that's, that's the crazy
part is that they're essentially
one of the richest resources in
the world, not just.
The oil and minerals and all
that kind of stuff.
Yeah, and they're one of the
poorest countries.
Well, except.
For this guy's palace.
Except for this guy.
Who?
Apparently doesn't have the
right type of security at the
palace.
Should've spent a little more
money there.
It I got news for you, it ain't
gonna it wouldn't have stopped
us.
He could hire a bunch of old
retired American.
It ain't.
It ain't enough.
I'm going to tell you right now
if you're retired, it's, let's
say you're a retired SEAL and
then your buddies go, hey man,
we're coming in at 1:00 AM.
Just by the way, you think he's
really going to go?
I'm going to stop you.
No, he's going to go come to the
door on the left.
That one's mine.
Yeah, I'll be on lunch.
I'll.
Hold it open for you.
I'll prop it open.
It'll be a small rock holding
the door open.
I'm going to cash my last check
and get the hell out of here.
Yeah.
Protesters demonstrated against
the prospect of annexation
outside the US consulate in
Newark in March.
Donald Trump has begun proposing
annexing Greenland after
Denmark's leader urged him to
stop the threats over the
island.
Oh, man.
Speaking to reporters, the US
president said we need Greenland
from the standpoint of national
security.
Trump has repeatedly raised the
prospect of the semi autonomous
Danish territory becoming an
annex part of the US, citing its
strategic location for defense's
purposes and mineral wealth.
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens
Frederick Nielsen responded by
saying that's enough now, yeah.
And describe the notion of US
control over the island as a
fantasy.
Yeah, it is.
Stop it.
Stop it over.
You think maybe he knows
something.
No, I think he's a showman.
He's got another 45 minutes
show, man.
Yeah, but remember, Pearl Harbor
could have been stopped.
OK, how could Pearl Harbor tell
me?
Remember, they ended up getting
information that there was going
to be attack and they tried to
strategically place military in
certain areas.
And you know, there's a whole
thing with all that.
So is there?
Maybe he, yeah, they didn't
like, believe it was going to
happen or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe Greenland's?
Greenland is the no Greenland is
the the middle ground like like
the Battle of Midway, right?
Oh, really?
Yeah, maybe that's the middle.
Ground.
Interesting.
Well, if you went over the top,
it's sort of up there.
What's what's on the other side
of the?
Ground, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you one thing that.
Russia or whatever.
Oh, maybe there's something
going on.
I'll.
Tell you one thing, Venezuela's
no longer a problem.
No.
Well, they're part of America.
Well, the.
States of America, Venezuela.
Is that what they called now?
The the vice president who is
now in charge and their JD
Vance.
No, no, no, their vice
president.
No, they he was like a lady I
think or something.
Right, he's not in charge.
Yeah, he is.
We didn't put anybody in charge.
We just took the guy out.
Yeah.
So next in.
Line guy, you think the VP is in
charge now?
Did he say I'm in charge?
Yeah, according to the news that
I watched.
I'm in charge.
And they're the minister of
defense or whatever they call
him.
Yeah.
They're saying now that military
bases and they showed a map
where they're all at are a fair
game.
We can attack all of these.
I mean, it's stupid.
It's like having a family come
and attack you, but still.
We didn't.
We didn't take the president
because we want to take the
country.
Yeah, we took the present,
'cause he's a narco terrorist.
Yeah, he's, he's being he's.
Being wasn't he one of the guys
that was going to be the Pope,
the Nicolas Maduro, isn't it?
No.
No, I doubt he's Catholic.
Whatever, I don't know.
Oh, Jay, the new mayor of New
York City, swore his oath on a
Quran.
Yeah, that's what he is.
He's.
Yeah, but in the Koran it talks
about killing people who aren't
followers of that religion.
Yeah, talks about killing women
that don't listen to you.
OK.
I mean, if that's true, you
know.
Well, it's in there.
I've never read the Koran.
I never read it either, so oh.
Well, you maybe you guys should
pick one up and read and you
know stuff.
Check it out.
Yeah, you guys don't speak
Koranese.
Koranese.
You guys are wild.
Well, I don't.
Boom.
All right, now feel a good story
out of Ashland, OH.
School bus was rolling along any
other day full of kids, noise
and routine until something
suddenly went wrong.
The driver began to suffer a
medical emergency.
Her body went rigid.
Her foot stayed on the gas.
The bus started drifting,
picking up speed.
No one in control.
That's when Katrina, a 14 year
old, noticed First she saw the
driver wasn't responding.
She realized that wasn't normal.
Panic could have taken over, but
instead instinct did.
The driver struggled to stay
conscious, pointing towards the
radio.
Katrina's brother understood
immediately.
He jumped into action, grabbed
the radio, and made the call for
help, clearly explaining that
the driver was in trouble and
the bus was still moving.
At that time, Karina moved
forward.
She didn't slam anything.
She didn't overreact.
She slowly pulled the parking
brake, carefully easing the bus
down instead of locking it up.
Her brother took the wheel,
keeping every kid on board safe.
The bus came to a controlled
stop.
No crashes, no injuries.
Dozens of kids protected because
the two young people refused to
freeze when it mattered most.
Later, when asked how he knew
what to do, Katrina's brother
said something that stuck with
everyone.
He said.
I learned it from watching the
Dukes of Hazzard movie Sounds.
Like.
It's going to be an Adam Nielsen
movie soon.
That'll be another movie.
All sorts of movie ideas.
It's good because they're
repeating movie ideas.
Michael, do you have a video?
I have.
I have.
What a coincidence.
I have two videos.
I have a.
Place here for a video I.
Had two videos.
I hate videos because I'm going
to.
Put well, we're going to have to
and we're going to have to fix
how you upload it.
So I want to get it approved.
I did the last one.
Did you see the last one?
No, do you not watch the videos?
I do.
No, he loves them.
I love the Dottie.
Are we watching it the.
First one or a second?
Oh, I didn't know we were.
Watching it, I want you to start
with I want you to start with
the one with the guy in the ski
mask.
This is hilarious.
This.
Guy in the ski mask OK?
You guys seen that thing they do
with red lights now where the
walk signal will change before
the light turns green?
So if you're turning right, the
people will already be in the
middle of the crosswalk and then
you can just hit them.
You don't even have to wait, I'm
just playing.
I've never heard anybody.
But seriously, why are we
staggering streetlights just in
case the first person in the
right lane might be turning?
I support the idea of
pedestrians being more visible,
but what about all the people in
the other lanes who are just
going straight?
Are we 100% certain that the
number of deaths that will be
avoided actually outnumbers the
amount of people who are now at
serious risk of offing
themselves simply due to the
stress of traffic patterns that
don't make any sense?
How about we just get rid of
streetlights altogether?
You know what I mean?
Just feel it out.
You guys seen that?
Wow, so he robbed her?
He stole a package from one
place and he ordered the other
one.
Stuck something in the door.
He stole the package from that
place, came back dressed as an
Amazon guy.
Oh, there's Jack.
Same door.
Yeah, patch the door and then
breaks it later.
This guy has a series of these
things.
I started to go down this rabbit
hole yesterday.
It is hilarious.
He's like murdering people while
he's talking about all of these
things that he feels like are
obscure.
It is amazing.
It is absolutely amazing.
Is he really robbing him?
I don't think he's really
killing.
Them it's a skit.
Oh, OK.
OK.
Is the second one better?
What is the second one better?
You didn't like that one?
I didn't find it funny at all.
How?
Did you not find that funny?
I didn't.
Find it funny?
At all.
Oh my God, the hell the thought
behind that.
Yes, the second one's funny too.
Oh, is Joe Rogan?
Joe Rogan, Yes.
Can we put this on here?
Is there we could put somebody
else's video?
Yeah, this is a short clip.
OK.
This is funny, Joe, all right in
the middle of taking a shit.
All right, that one was.
Just cut out the beginning of
the sound or whatever.
Just cut out the Joe Rogan.
Well, he doesn't say Joe Rogan,
but his face is there, so I'll
cut that out.
Yeah, OK.
But that how funny is that?
He's got, he's got like those
Maduro in there.
That one was funny.
I was right in the middle of
taking a shit.
Got him.
Got.
Him.
What a terrible way to be
grabbed.
This guy, this guy's a terrible
person.
No, no, you know.
What I mean, if he was really
taking a shit, you know, all the
sudden they kick in the door,
you're sitting and I go, come
on, I can't finish in.
The US military, I'm waiting
before you.
I'm waiting for him to get on
the toilet.
I'm like.
Yeah.
We don't strike until he sits
down on the porcelain God.
It's been 15 years, he finally
took a shit.
It's been 15.
And Yellowstone where that guy
gets killed on the toilet.
That would be the worst.
Way.
Oh God, yeah, it's.
A pretty bad way to go, yeah.
You know, another bad way to go
is and Mr. Beast's burial thing.
Yeah.
You know, with one arm.
One arm and they still didn't
give you the $5 million.
Jokes on you buddy.
Here's a candy bar, all right,
Main cigar tax goes up today.
A significant increase to the
tobacco tax rate that was
approved by lawmakers in July
will go into effect today,
January 5th, and cigar smokers
should see their favorite sticks
cost a good bit more.
The increase was part of the
state's budget bill and raise
the rate of cigars from 43% to
the wholesale price to 75%,
making it one of the highest
rates in the country.
I'm.
Talking about the state of
Maine.
Right state, Yeah.
No, the city of Maine.
No, because you said the main
tax.
Yeah, well, Maine mains tax,
it's like Syria and US Syria.
Yeah, In practical terms, a
cigar with an MSRP of 950, we'll
see a tobacco tax increase from
approximately 204 to 356 by half
wheels estimates a rise of
$1.52.
For a more expensive cigar, such
as one price at 1599, the tax
rate goes for about 344 to $6.
Ultimately, retailers determine
how to pass the tax along to
consumers, so those numbers may
vary slightly.
Even with its former rate of
43%, the state had one of the
highest tobacco tax rates in the
country.
And with no cap on the tax, that
cigar, with an MSRP of 950, had
the ninth highest price at the
register.
There's only there's only one
way that you hide that.
How?
How do they hide it?
You have to take less profit.
There's How else do you hide
that?
They're not going to hide.
It no, yeah, I'm I know that,
but I'm just saying they're
trying to it's half wheel said.
They're trying to figure out a
way to hide it.
They're always going to take
less, less tax, right?
It's brutal.
I feel bad for any retail stop
shops in Maine.
Do you know any retail shops in
Maine?
There's got to be.
No, Two Guys isn't in Maine.
They used to be, but they're
not.
No, they're not.
They didn't used to be in.
Maine.
I thought they were starting.
New Hampshire.
No, he's in New Hampshire now.
This is a fun game for me.
They used to be in
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts.
It was one of those weird little
states, right?
There one little states up there
that starts with an MI.
Mean the irony and the fact
that.
They and I didn't get to go on
the trip, so I didn't hear all
this stuff first.
Yeah, me either.
The irony and the fact that they
left the place that, you know,
the whole Tea Party and all that
other stuff because of the
taxation, because of taxation
is.
Right, without representation.
Really comical to me, yeah.
They have representation now.
Now they have representation.
Well, we have representation
now, so it's fine.
Is that how that works?
No, it's not why it's fine.
But they left because taxation
without representation.
We were given taxes without no
way to talk about or have
anybody vote against it.
Right, that's 'cause he watches
Conjunction Junction.
That's why he came over.
There, watch your function.
Yeah, there it is.
Mike's a little high, by the
way.
What?
Your Mike's a little high.
Better.
I thought you said Mike's a
little high, like I don't do
drugs.
What are you talking about?
I feel like I slumped in the
chair.
Oh, if you go back and look at
that Santa Claus episode, that
was a little rough.
Right.
Is it too low boots or is that
OK now?
Oh.
You're good.
All right, Denver, CO's flavored
tobacco ban now in effect.
Very little cigar.
News.
Here we go.
No cigar news at all today.
As 2026 kicked off, so did the
enforcement of Denver's new ban
on flavored tobacco products,
which voters approved in the
November election by nearly 72%
approval rate.
The ban was originally approved
in December 2024 by 11 to one
vote of the Denver City Council
and took effect on March 18th,
2025.
What are they going to do?
Do we have to?
Counsel against flavored tobacco
cause the children are.
Smoking.
Do we have to register
everything there as far as what
our shoelaces are?
No, it's just a ban.
Just a flat out ban.
All flavored.
All flavored.
Yeah, but how do we know that
this one isn't flavored?
Do you want me to tell?
Do you want to lick it?
Well, no, they're licking them
in California.
We're going to wait and see
what's.
On this, we're just going to
parlay off of the calories.
So as they're looking the
window, they hit the cigar at
the same time they're.
Licking the window.
Look, Colorado doesn't like
cigars anyways.
They don't like tobacco, Period.
Yeah, they don't like pot.
I just, I'm tired of the
regulation.
Like, it doesn't matter if you
like it or not, you're supposed
to, I know, protect freedom,
rights, America, you know what I
mean?
Like what are we doing?
Certain things that you can't
do.
Like what?
Murder.
Yeah, no, it sounds like Mr.
Beast is doing that.
So.
Yeah, that makes sense.
You can't murder.
Well, maybe some people are for
murder.
Maybe some people are like,
yeah.
Like the guy in the video?
Like some type of purge?
Well.
There's a lot of people that are
probably for that, they just
can't do it.
For murder.
They're purging.
Oh.
Like the people that like to
drive over the lines even when
it's daytime and it's on a
Monday, you know, You ever seen
those people?
Oh, they pass.
Yeah.
And the no passing zone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's just one step away from
murder.
You're right.
Right.
Or they speed up when you're
turning left.
I hate when they do that.
Right.
I'm going to kill you, Jesus.
All right.
However, a coalition of vape
stores began his signature
gathering campaign to get the
issue off the ballot so the
voters could have the ultimate
say, collecting approximately
17,000 signatures, but they had
to stop because they all had to
get new vapes.
Once certified, the ban was
placed on the election as a
referendum 310, the voters being
asked whether to keep it in
place or repeal it.
The ban applies to sale of
almost all forms of flavored
tobacco, including cigars, piped
tobacco, flavored vaping.
Is it all tobacco flavored?
Is it just plain pipe tobacco?
No, when they say flavored
tobacco they mean like a flavor
like cherry grape I.
Don't know they don't mean like
smoke distress me that's
flavored that's.
Flavored, but like Virginia
tobacco was not not flavored,
no.
OK.
However, it does not apply to
flavored tobacco intended to be
smoked in a hookah.
So that's fine.
That's perfectly fine, perfectly
fine.
See, here we go again.
Is that because of a percentage
of tobacco?
It also Nope.
No, it's probably just like
that's.
One of those guys smokes.
One guys a hookah dude, Yeah.
One guys a hookah dude.
Right, I love the Seashop.
Wait a second.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Hold on.
Hold hookah place.
Come on now.
One second.
They already took Nicholas, now
we have to save the hookah one.
Second here.
I like my Starbucks Nicholas, my
Starbucks Wild Cherry.
Let's look at that.
It also did not make it illegal
to possess or use a flavored
tobacco product.
You just can't buy them.
Oh.
Man, good.
So you're just going to screw
over your small businesses?
That's perfect, except.
For me, OK.
Retailers who violate the new
law will face suspension of
their privilege to sell tobacco
products should they receive 2
or more violations within a one
year window.
Oh so you have to get 3 in a
year to suspend your?
Life, I mean, but the shitty
part is though, is like some
retailers are so dubious that
they'll be like, hey, someone's
so selling.
Oh, they just get the other one
out, Yeah.
Can you do like?
Can you do the club method
there?
I don't know, I'm not can.
You change the name.
New business.
New business.
You know, I'm sure that follows
your personal name like it's
probably attached to you.
My name now Nicholas.
He's.
Not Nicholas.
Suspension starts in a minimum
of 30 days and increases to a
year for four more violations.
Oh.
Can you imagine having to close
your business for 30 days like
there's no catching up?
Right.
Well, you start selling hookah.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh no, not.
Cigar.
It's hookah.
Yeah, they don't have any
beaches to sell cigars on, so
they're they're.
To start labeling all those
cigars as hookahs, this is.
For handheld hookah.
That's that's not.
A cigar held.
It's a handheld hookah.
Look long.
Hose conditionally, the window
will expand in the coming years.
As of January 1st, 2027, two
violations within a two year
period result in a 30 day
suspension.
I've really thought it out
there.
So wild.
Well, so you don't go there for
your bubble gum flavored cigars.
Do they have bubble gum
flavored?
I don't know.
All right, Half Wheels opened us
to opened.
Submit a list for the consensus
2025.
The 2025 is just two weeks away.
Next week half we will announce
a variety of awards, finishing
with our top 25 cigars in 2025.
But the consensus is a different
sort of top 25 each list.
Imagine if you could take all
the various top ten top 25 lists
produced by cigar, blogs,
magazine, podcast and Youtubers
into one single list.
I think that we, I think Bear
ranked us, by the way.
Bear.
What Bear?
Oh, did he?
Did his ranking?
Come on.
Oh, he just had George on his
show.
This.
Week.
I know that was the show that he
ranked us on.
Oh, did he?
So I had to go listen to that,
yeah.
It's George.
I don't want to listen.
To George, he looked a little
better.
He had like a little orange
hoodie.
I saw part of the video he'd
like set the camera up like over
by the door.
Oh yeah, kind of look like JD.
He's very small.
Yeah.
He did have a big orange
toboggan on or something.
OK.
This year they listed all the
shows that automatically get
their list taken.
Yeah.
So are you talking about top 25
cigars list?
But I did copy the list because
I want to try to get on each one
of those shows in 2026.
Except how about that cigar
'cause they're not on anymore
and there's a couple of
magazines in there.
You can't do either.
OK.
But in order to be on the list,
she must include must meet the
following qualifications.
You have to review at least one
cigar in 2025.
Can't own a cigar company or
store?
Yeah, that's how we're.
That's why we're always out.
Well, I can be on.
You're part of this show.
It's the same thing.
Do you guys want?
No, we don't get any money from.
We don't want to.
Pick our top. 10 We don't get
anybody you what done you want
to pick.
Top You want to pick?
Top Ten You want to pick our top
10 cigars?
Today, I'm not ready today, but
we can do it.
Yeah, we talked about doing that
and you talked about compiling
the list of all the lists that
we're going.
We can do that too.
It's our consensus, right?
Well, we just, but it's not a
consensus.
We just judge the other people.
Right, right.
Yeah, we're not saying.
Yeah, we're just saying if the
list is any good.
Yeah, well we wouldn't be able
to judge Coop.
His won't be done till mid
February.
Well, you have to January 16th,
so he's got to be done by then
because he is included on the
list of things that halfway will
be consistency.
So there you go.
So I think they put they picked
that date because that's when he
finished.
To honor thy coupe, honor thy
coupe.
Charlie doesn't want him mad at
him too, and he'll be bad for
the.
Industry bad for the industry,
long haired Charlie.
That Charlie is bad for.
The industry all right, it must
be posted somewhere outside of
Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok,
which I guess leaves some sort
of video for.
Me.
Oh, we're on Rumble.
Facebook.
That leaves Facebook, YouTube,
Rumble.
Oh, he.
Did.
Yeah he did.
I'm surprised he has Instagram
and not Facebook.
'Cause maybe Instagram feels
like more short form and
Facebook could be a long form
where you do a live.
I guess that.
'D make sense to me well.
You can do Instagram live.
For a long time, yeah, I guess
so.
I guess.
I guess Ronnie does that all the
time.
Yeah, and so does the vault
guys.
Cigar vault Norm.
Norm and Taco Yes Hey,
everybody's ready for the
biggest game in the industry.
What's the score?
Finally we get one the right.
New year, new US baby.
New year new man, I cannot do
current cigars any longer
because boots cheats.
Oh, was that a request by Nike
over there?
No, I don't have a request.
I don't care if you win.
Makes no difference the general
listening public.
Oh, somebody commented.
Several.
People.
Unbelievable.
Oh, boots cheating.
Busted, busted.
Who in cheat?
All right, first cigars from
August 4th, 2020 at Patrick
Lagreed reviewed the cigar Jas
some crawl limited edition
Nicaragua reviews The fuck the
FDA cigar.
Couldn't you just said F?
It says.
It on here I know.
It wasn't.
It wasn't me that time trying.
To clean up the show a little
bit.
Cigar review Jason Crow F the
FDA sounds stupid country Oh
wait, you forgot to vote.
Sorry, go back and vote.
You already knew the name, so it
didn't affect.
It 86. 88 I guess you're going.
1st I said to score too fast, I
was taking a drink. 86 for
Bootsy, 88 for me.
All right.
Country of origin Nicaragua
Factory Taba Calera de Argon SA
wrapper Mexican San Andreas
Binder Not disclosed Filler not
disclosed.
Length 6 by 52 Toro.
They smoked 3 cigars.
So no information on the
wrapper, no information just.
No, the wrapper Mexican San
Andreas.
Oh, you didn't say that.
Yes, I did.
All the descriptions are Argon.
Rapper Mexican San Andreas, I
said that.
Did you?
Yes, you're busy clicking the
liner. 86. 88 Angry Palmer Would
you call him?
Cold Trickle?
Did you call him?
Cold trickle, yes.
Cole Swindell Cold.
Trickle from days of Thunder.
He looks like Tom Cruise, his
namesake of his baby Tom Cruise.
Yeah, that's yeah, You can name
your baby Cole Trick.
You can name it.
Speaking of Tom Cruise, I saw a
really funny TikTok though this
guy squirted water in his face
when he was interviewing.
Him and he said why would you do
that?
Yeah, you saw that one.
Yeah, it's old.
Tom got so angry.
Yeah, they messed up his makeup.
Because I mean, that was that,
because that was ridiculous.
Why would anybody do oh ha ha,
like you're no dude, that's not
OK.
It was ridiculous but very funny
in the video.
You didn't you didn't laugh or
chuckle when you saw it.
No.
Oh, he's mad.
I'm like.
That's messed up.
That's messed up.
He was so angry from the
birthday episode when they got
the questions wrong, I squirted
him in the face.
What?
The birthday episode where we
played a game show and if you
guys got the you guys got the
questions wrong, I squirted you
in the face.
That happened one time.
Well, yeah, I almost got killed.
All right, First clue.
Flavor development improves
nicely after the Rocky star.
Once passed the first third, the
cigar find its footing with a
more balanced profile.
White pepper becomes focused
rather than sharp white or wild
dry wood.
Earth and enjoyable earthy
coffee notes emerge and coat the
palette with over without
overpowering it.
Wait a second, you squirted him
in the face?
Yeah, Hitman Greg.
Yeah, I just squirt getting
hidden under the table.
Wow, I'm going to tell you
something.
On the episodes.
Yeah, you got some big harness,
he.
Was like nopes.
I was like what the hell?
What the fuck was that?
He did it fast.
He didn't even see it.
Did you warn him that he was?
Getting no no, that took away
the fun from the game.
And it definitely heated me up.
Oh my God.
Did not go to a question 2.
Yeah, you know, that was the end
of the game.
Episode was over.
Greg won.
He didn't just breathe.
There's like a question on
Palmer history.
Oh God, that's great.
Yeah, why wasn't that episode
the most watched one?
Just super old.
Super old.
We were still in the office
upstairs, Yeah. 86.
I'll stick 88.
All right, clue #2 strong
technical performance.
Overall, draw, burn and smoke
production are consistently
solid across samples aside from
1 slightly loose draw, allowing
the cigars fuller flavors in the
second third to shine with good
body and strength progression.
Mikey's going to win this one.
I can't even pay attention
'cause I just keep thinking of
being scorn.
Oh my God, he's going to have a
coronary.
I don't know why.
I'm just like how I see it
though.
It's like you have goggles on.
I don't know why.
Like I'm thinking of this.
No, I'm writing this.
He's like, wrong.
And I'm like, what the Oh my
God, I'm going to kill you?
And that was the end of it.
Did you see the squirt gun?
No.
He was just hiding it it.
Was under.
Yeah, it was under the table.
Yeah, I had it all set up.
He did it like Peaky Blinder
style.
He thought, he thought this is
going to be a good idea.
That would be funny.
That's so unlike Palmer, first
of all, because he would always
run everything by you.
Well, how do you think we got
there?
I can't run, I can't run that by
him and we're taking the fun
away.
How do you think we got there?
Oh, I can't even see.
My contacts are all blurry.
He's going.
To go down, he's going to go
down.
You feeling pain in your left
arm?
Yeah, 86. 88.
The early sour, damp cedar and
chalky notes are off putting
while some of that smooths out
mid smoke.
Those issues resurface in the
final third along with increased
roughness and sourness,
ultimately disrupting balance
and shortening the enjoyable
window of the cigar.
That was the 3rd and final clue
we have a a final.
Clock 84.
Man 85.
For as much force and fury that
the name of the Jason Crow F the
FDA carries, the cigar itself
falls a bit short in comparison.
The start of the cigar isn't the
best I've had and in some cases
can be a bit off putting,
needing the entire first third
to write the ship.
The second third is where to
find pretty much all the best
that the blend has to offer, so
enjoy it as the final third
generally sees it come undone
with each puff, leading to a
finish that generally didn't
leave me excited to light up
another one.
The construction was mostly
good, save for the issues with
the tobacco at the head of the
two samples and a slightly loose
draw and one cigar.
It's worth a try, and while I
certainly appreciate the
sentiment, the cigar ultimately
left me feeling a bit
disappointment.
Feeling a bit disappointment
that it's Blend did not live up
to the Cigar's message.
You good dude?
He's still laughing.
I got to clear this Did Greg
know?
No, no, nobody knew.
I squirted Greg just for the
hell of it.
He took it a lot.
Because it was over after that.
So I was like.
And you know what?
I think This is why me and
Palmer became friends first.
Like this whole scenario of the
joke, like he is an ultimate
joke guy.
Yeah, it's wow, that's.
I mean, I'm still curious as to
what went down in that garage
where you guys started to part
ways as friends.
I only remember like the first
30 minutes.
Yeah, that's probably the yeah,
pretty much.
You must have woke up and your
butt was hurting or something.
No, no, I remember like, like, I
was slowly, like, falling down
on the couch.
Yeah.
And I was texting Tia, like
help.
Yeah.
SOS and I shared my location.
Then after that, I blacked out.
Yeah.
Remember, I somehow went in the
house and got in bed and they
were looking for me everywhere
and I was just sleeping in the
bed.
And.
I got woken up and yelled at.
It was a mess in the garage.
Apparently he couldn't get the
chips in his mouth.
Maybe I was trying to survive, I
don't know it.
Looked like you're thrown.
I'm trying to show TA where you
were.
All right.
Where you going?
Follow the chips.
The cigar sounds horrible.
The only thing that sounds great
is the name like Patrick is
Patrick.
Patrick, yeah. 82. 81. 84, yes.
I was there.
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Yes, yes.
No cheating.
I won.
Yeah, there's no way he would
have got that one right.
I had convinced myself at this
point that it was going to be in
the 70s.
You know, I was thinking it was
going to be in 72.
I was like, man, who did?
Who rated this?
Damn, alright.
This cigar is from April 18th.
April 18th, 2021 Charlie Minato,
Dominican Republic Cigar from
General Cigar.
La Gloria Cubana, Spirit of the
Lady Toro. 86.
This is a cigar that a lot of
people smoke.
Is it?
La Gloria, right?
The brand.
Yeah, the brand.
I've seen the cigar once.
I saw the band. 85.
Country Origin Dominican
Republic Factory General Cigar
Dominicana Rapper Michael the
Rapper It's Honduras.
Olencho.
San Augustine.
Not Venezuelans.
OK Binder Cameroon Filler,
Dominican Republic, Mexico and
Nicaragua.
So did you get all that?
OK, all right. 6 by 50 Toro 1299
they smoked 3 cigars.
What's the wrapper though?
I don't remember.
Did they tell you?
I told you that first.
Are you sure?
Yes, let's get the weird name.
Honduras.
Yeah, but the solo de Oro or
something?
I was just kidding.
I know you were.
There's no funny. 86. 85.
Clue #1 The cigar, sharp square
leaning box press and rich red
wrapper pair beautifully with
the copper tones of the band,
leaving the spirit of the lady a
striking and memorable
appearance.
OK.
It's 86. 85.
At its best, the profile shows
enjoyable notes of nuttiness,
grapefruit, peanuts, Brandy,
cedar, leather, lemon on the
retro hill, offering brief but
interesting complexity at a
medium full.
Level 87. 85.
Glue #3 Underfilling leads to
open draws, frequent touch ups,
weak smoke production and an
overly long final third
dominated by bitter earth, wet
leaves, minerals and plastic
like off notes with too little
sweetness or contrast to
maintain enjoyment.
What are you doing over there?
What are you doing Googling?
Yeah, I'm looking it up 84, so
that's what my phone just said.
What?
That's.
What my phone just said.
Are you?
You're playing off a Palmer.
You know he tries to do this to
us right?
Do what he tries to like say
it's a great cigar and
everything with his comments and
then he chooses like 1 bad
comment.
You always get 2 positives and
one negative.
You get that every time.
Yeah, and a square gun.
We might bring that back this
year.
Oh my God that would be
hilarious.
From here I got a better head
start because upstairs we were
sitting right next to each
other.
It would just grab me by the
collar and throttle my right
there.
If you don't, if you don't think
I can get to you before you can
get out of that chair from here,
I can.
I can definitely get to you.
You're going to struggle to get
up.
Now he's going.
To I'm knocking everything over.
He's going to.
He'll break everything, Yeah.
He's going to rig something now
to where he can run get away
quick.
He better have some.
He better electrify my chair so
that I don't move.
I'll tell you now.
I'll tie it down.
Hey Greg, for the part of this
question, I need you to stand in
front of your brother.
Just right there.
A little to the left so I can
still squirt them.
Right.
Yeah, I think when I tie now you
ducked.
I think you could tie me down.
I could still get you with the
chair, no?
No, Yeah.
No, you can.
That chair is everything you
think?
All right, come on.
Next.
Let's score.
Is it my turn?
No, he said 80, you said 84.
You said 84 if you looked it up.
We have one more clue, right?
The final thought?
Yes, this is the final thought.
Oh, what?
What is it?
Yes, it is.
You said 84.
You said two positives, one
negative and then a final
thought.
So final thought is left.
Yeah, that's what.
I said you just.
Said that this was the final
thought, did you not?
No, I said.
The final thought left.
Getting old.
You know, this is exactly how
Nicolas Maduro got captured.
Couldn't remember.
Couldn't remember. 85.
I don't know if I left the
rocket outside or not.
What happened?
Let me go ahead and check.
All right, final thought.
It's been a while since I've
smoked a true dud from General
Cigar Company, but these three
cigars were duds.
Well, it's not an offensive
flavor profile.
There's nothing that I tasted
that was compelling.
It almost seems like I tasted a
cigar that was supposed to be
flavored, but what I got was
missing the flavoring.
It's also the issue with whether
these cigars were underfilled,
which if they were, might also
explain why the flavor profile
was so off.
Perhaps both issues are present.
There was a time when General
Cigar Company was missing the
mark with cigars like this on a
semi regular basis, but those
days are long gone and it leads
me to believe that the cigar I
smoked simply weren't what
General intended them to be. 83.
82. 75.
I didn't cheat.
Stick that, stick that. 75 Wow.
New year, new me, baby.
I'm a winner even.
The blind, even the blind
squirrel, finds a knot every
once in a while.
New me, new year, he's got a
baby coming and he wins and
what's his score?
His life is good.
Today's a good day.
We got the bet.
Yeah, there you go.
Oh, do you have a money maker
bet?
Oh yeah, you got a money maker
tip of the week.
No, I'll be honest with you
guys.
Wow.
Because you want me to do like 2
days in advance.
I don't.
I'm not prepared.
We want 1:00 tomorrow.
OK.
For two days after that day,
right?
No, it doesn't matter.
It could be for.
It needs to be for the following
day.
Like Thursday?
Well, there's no Thursday Night
Football, is there?
No, we need something for
Wednesday.
Give me a basketball thing for
Wednesday tomorrow.
OK, tomorrow.
Perfect.
OK.
This was a good show.
This was a good show.
That's it.
Like and subscribe.
Yeah, Posane, San Andreas,
Corona, Gorda is happening.
Yeah.
Are we going to smoke that on
the Patreon?
No.
No, it's going to get 5 stars.
Palmer's going to Yeah.
Why?
Are we?
Why are we?
It's got a tune nobody should
mayonnaise.
Yeah, that's not going to
happen.
It's burned perfect this whole
time.
It's delicious.
I don't know what to tell you.
This is one of my favorite sizes
so.
Yeah, it's a good size.
It's.
Coming out.
All right guys, thank you very
much.
Been episode 304.
All right, guys, bye.
It's been 400 and goodbye. 300
or 442 or 41, we're calling it
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Show Notes
On todays show we have the biggest story of the weekend….But with a twist we have how the detail from the operation to get Nicholas Maduro and his wife from the presidential palace. Mr Beast is back with season 2 of his record breaking show. Trump is all hyped up from his Venezuelan operation and is now claiming something else is his! Then a feel good story out of Ohio how The Dukes of Hazard saved a bus load of kids! Then in cigars The Tax Man Giveth and the Tax Man Takes Away! No more flavored Cigars in The Rockies! And then its consensus time again and we have the rules then a full two round episode of What’s The Score!