ACHP Episode 441 Mr. Beast Season 2

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I'm Mike Palmer, your host, it is January 6, 2025, and with me today is Mike Palmer. Joining me today is Engineer Mr. Boots, Proof Autopilot is a Lifestyle Hippohauser, and then my co-host Mikey, he's not wrong, I'm just never right, Szczepan Kiewicz. Welcome.

Welcome to the show, gentlemen. Welcome. Thank you for having me, sir. Oh no, please.

It's an honor and a privilege. Please, 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 that's only a video board we move. Right. I don't know.

Something very wrong. I can't explain it, so I switched the board, put 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. No, no, he's over there clicky clicky, he's lighter. Clicky clicky. Oh, hi.

Oh, look at Boots. I like the Palmer look. Yeah? Yeah, it's very Cole Swindell-ish.

What's Cole Swindell? Cole Swindell? He's a country singer, but he wears like a blazer and a hat. And a hat, doesn't he?

Oh, a hat. Oh. Well, Mikey made fun of my hair last week, so I'm going with a hat for a while until the- I like the hat. I like the hair.

I wasn't making fun of it. It was sticking out in the back. It looked like I was running real fast all the time with the- It was the duct tape. And I did it this morning, and it was still sticking out.

I'm like, okay, we're going with the hat. Oh. I like this hat anyway. It's nice and comfortable.

It's a good hat. It's the best hat. It's the greatest hat in the world. Yeah.

Oh, is it made in Venezuela? No. We'll get to that. We'll get to Venezuela in a few minutes.

Don't worry. We'll 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? Well, I only saw shorts. Did it say we at all? Or did it say me?

Ooh, good point. The short I saw 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.

Yeah, we were nowhere to be found on the clips. I love that. Yeah, 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. I did catch that clip. Yeah.

Right. It's true. But now, the clips they put up, because that was like Saturday. Now, the clips put up today, you're not on this show, so they just wash through you pretty quickly.

Oh, he's just out of there, huh? Just flush through you like last week's pasta. Who are they replacing them with, Coop? No, it's just the two of them talking about how great their show is.

Of course. Yeah. It's a great show. It is a good show.

Was it in a humidor? No, it's in his garage. It's just Alex and the one guy you like now. Jared?

Jared. The one that works out. Yeah. Yeah, mostly just two of them.

Were all of them on the one you were on? Zach was there as well. One of the brothers. Zach used to be quiet, but once he gets to know you, he's louder.

He's the angry one. 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 only know Alex's name.

Jared's the one with the Tesla Cybertruck. Is he? Yeah. 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, no. And then Alex is the Puerto Rican non... Yeah, he's the non-Bosnian or whatever.

Bosnian, yeah, what are they? Does a non-Bosnian evolve? Well, no, it's not Bosnia, it's a different... What's the country there's...

Czechoslovakian? 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 Syrian.

Basa is the name of the brand. Right. That's not Syrian. Maybe they're Basanese.

Now I got to check. Now you guys see, it's not Syria. They're not from Syria. Not from Syria.

It's Armenian. They're Armenian. They're Armenian. I had the A right.

Man, thank God. Syria, Armenian? Assyrian is what I said. I was about to say Persian.

It's just Syrian. It doesn't start with an A. Assyrian is different than Syria. There's two different countries?

Yes. Well, that's confusing. Yeah, there's Assyria and there's Syria. Where are you going?

Assyria? Wait, are you going to Assyria or are you going to Assyria? Syrian is a gas, by the way. Apparently there's two.

All right, anyway, how do we get some of that CHPod swag, Mike? com, where you can buy one and get the second one 40% off. Spend $100 or more. I always look at you after I say it.

Spend $100 or more and get free shipping. And I got to announce a winner today. Oh, what did they win? What did they win, Ben?

It better not be a beanie. The SBC. Oh, you got that in already. Four minutes in.

The SBC shirt. Oh, that's right. Let's see. - What episode was that?

- I don't know. - That was like six episodes ago. - I'm still trying to figure out the difference between Syria and us Syria. - Well, he said Syrian.

- It wasn't ten days ago. - Seven days ago? - Because that's a 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. - Are you ridiculous?

- I don't know, I don't pay attention to you. - Oh, I'm gonna get the intro. - Oh, what is that? - He's looking at his clips with only him in it from Cigar Guys.

- Oh, yeah, I'm just looking. - From Cigar Guys. - Yeah. I think it was 437.

437! Let's see. Welcome to the neighborhood. Should have never said the number.

The one where the graphic showed the guy giving the headphones to Epstein. That was Epstein, yeah. I took that down fast, we didn't get to them. 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 Bonnie Blue one. Bonnie Blue, the porn star.

highest rated episode we ever did where they hijacked the bus or towed it right okay let's see so one 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 nine five one two three four five congratulations sam hopkins one two two one sam hopkins one two two one you're welcome i picked What's your number? Oh. He's happy about the Bang Bus. Bang Bus.

Ah, the Bang Bus, yes, yes. Was that what his comment was? So, Sam Hopkins, 1221, email... com.

com. I don't get that email, by the way. You do. What?

You get that email. I do? Yeah, I don't get that. Damn it.

That's probably why the other people weren't getting their shirts. Why you gotta stick it with me? I gotta make the shirt, I gotta... Well, I know...

You gotta make the shirt, you might as well ship the shirt. Because you got to know the guy. I do. Yeah.

We were on the bus. You got to know Sam Hopkins. I know, Sam. We're good friends.

We had lunch the other day. Where does he live? New Jersey. No, he doesn't.

How do you know? Because you had a 1 in 50 chance of getting that, right? Somewhere northwest east-ish. Probably more like 1 in 48.

Probably not Alaska or Hawaii. You never know. We don't have listeners in Alaska or Hawaii? I did have a listener in Alaska.

Yeah, Duque does in Hawaii. I did have a listener in Alaska, but he just moved back to Tennessee. Oh, that's quite the commute. Well, maybe the Eskimos listen to us in Alaska, they just can't tell us.

Oh, the Induits, yeah, maybe they do. Yeah. Running from the Eskimos to the polar bears. You know a polar bear can smell a human from nine miles away?

They got Wi-Fi in the igloos. No, they can smell. Yeah, I'm talking about the Eskimos. Oh, you're talking about the Eskimos.

You quickly transitioned, I couldn't let it go. Oh. I 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? No. All right, on today's show- I have to pay attention at all times when I think, because he's always lying.

Not always, but I do add stories when we don't have any. Oh, okay. On today's show, we have the biggest story of the weekend, but with a twist. 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 two of his record-breaking show.

Oh. Trump is all hyped up from his Venezuelan operation. Now he's claiming something else is his. Oh.

Then a feel-good story out of Ohio on how the Dukes have had her saved a busload 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 two-round episode of What's the Score?

And I have two videos for you today. Oh! And he has two videos today. That wasn't built in, but hey.

Because he only tells me right before the show starts. You did ask me. You said, do I have videos? Well, normally you say no.

But I said yes today. I know, you threw me off completely. See? All right, now in the news.

Knock, knock, knock, Mr. Maduro. Oh, it's the blackest hours before dawn on January 3rd, 2026, the sky above Caracas, lit up with thunders, roars, and streaks of American air power. S.

military aircraft, F-35, F-22s, B-1 bombers, electronic warfare jets, and stealth helicopters surged out of base across the hemisphere under the code name Operation Absolute Resolve. Oh. Michael just left. To snatch one of the Western Hemisphere's most enigmatic and embattled leaders, 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 were going to give 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 in precision strikes, blacking out swaths of electrical power and clearing a path for the elite ground force. Army Delta Force Commandos, backed by CAA intelligence teams, FBI hostage rescue specialists, and Marine and Navy support slid in on low-altitude helicopters, threading the needle through a hostile cityscape. m. S.

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, he got him. It's a good story. You're so rude. Yeah, it sounds like a fucking movie.

Oh, it'll be a movie. I'm sorry. It'll be a movie. Oh, here you go.

I'm sorry about that. What'd he say? He started cursing again. Oh, jeez.

He hit one per. All right. Yes, he's now in Manhattan. He's set to go for a judge today.

I'm in charge today. Is he staying at Trump Tower? A judge? What's the judge gonna say?

Well, they just stay! It's the world court. That's why they grabbed him. They served a warrant.

Oh, they did? Yes. The DA. If you'd let me finish reading the story, we would've got to that.

It was really long. " I don't think that's what he said. " 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. Hey, yeah, I'm in charge, blah, blah, blah. Trump went, okay. Oh, you know what would have been epic?

Okay. If Trump was like, I can't hear you, can you go outside? Maybe your reception's bad. Go out back.

Called them right as they're coming in. All right, so here's a couple of things that I learned about this. Wait, one more thing. Supposedly 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 blew 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 a - uh 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 to it. You have to be able to get to it. You gotta get to it.

Right. 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 Hellers - I didn't know we had stealth helicopters. Apparently we have stealth helicopters, too. You can't hear them? 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 before the amount of time I could get a friggin' pizza? Right.

It was 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 as a president. 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. I think it was a little overkill.

No. You think it was overkill? It was like 150 planes or something they said they sent. It's called a flex, bro.

Yeah. Flex. It's called confusion. You can't get me.

" What reflects when you just sent one? No. We could come out with one. But it wasn't even like during the daytime.

Yeah. It was at like one, two o'clock 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 it, he was in the Nike gray sweatshirt. Well, yeah, he was actually, yeah, Yeah, he was wearing a Nike tech jumpsuit. I saw a black one. Oh, Nike.

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 dicks, picked one up before they took off. Maybe it's Trump's.

Here, you can wear this. He has a presidential one. I used to have one. Oh, yeah?

This is the presidential secret service sweatsuit thing, it's a white one with a little blue logo on it. 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 flag.

Well, some people are complaining. Somebody's always complaining. Camilla's complaining, not Camilla. Who's the lady that ran against him?

Not Camilla, that's the other guy's wife. What's her name? The lady that ran against Trump. Yeah, I don't even know.

Mrs. Harris. Yeah, yeah, Mrs. Harris.

S. forces in jeopardy. He was off the pronunciation. Yeah, nobody got hurt, they'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? I know exactly where he was in the palace. Well, they've been watching this guy since 2010. Like, all right, check this out.

Check this out. Here's the inside of the palace. We built one over here. You won't come and get me.

You can just walk through. You won't come and get me. Okay. You can't get me.

Surprise! Cowards! Oh shit, they're here. Oh.

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 a bunker. If you're an American. We're the slaves.

If you're an American, you gotta be like, you don't wanna mess with the military. Except for the people that hate him. There's still the people that hate him. Americans hate the military?

No, 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.

They love the president. That means nothing to me. I'm talking about the execution of our military. Oh, yeah, like Boot said, nobody else could do this.

Can we all agree, can we just root for the one team, the military team? Like, we are, you know. Everybody was involved. Army, Navy, DEA, FBI, CIA.

Let's bring everybody in. Yeah, 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. Right.

So they took one hit. It was three Venezuelans. They took one hit, and then 50 miles away, a regular destroyer got their distress call, shot three missiles that go 80 miles, but they were already 50 miles. Right.

Three harpoon missiles and sunk two of the Venezuelan ships, and the other one went, We give. We sorry. We sorry. We give.

Go where you want. Well, don't shoot at our Coast Guard. Right. Don't shoot at the Coast Guard.

You're just puddling around. Just leave me alone. Yes. America.

Love it. So, absolutely. Very excited. Very excited.

I'm very excited for our military. You should join. You're still. I'm old, man.

You're still at the age. You got to be under 35. I think there was. Didn't they raise it?

I thought they raised it to 45. They raised it at one time to, yeah, I think it was like 42. They brought it back down. Right now, they're actually downgrading, if you haven't noticed.

Really? 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 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 okay. All of your service members, please tell us how wrong he is and what's going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let us know, because it sounds okay to us, but, yeah, please confirm or deny his information.

Please confirm or deny his information, because, you know, we're still looking for blue kangaroos, apparently. And gigantic human bats. Blue kangaroos? Cyan kangaroos.

Cyan is blue, we were told. Not red. I didn't say that, though. You said that.

That wasn't me. You said that. Yeah, that was you. Yeah, you said that.

Oh. Then I'm looking for blue kangaroos. Are you red-lighting still, or no? No, he hasn't been red-lighting for years, obviously.

Obviously. I still don't 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 don't know. Just for the record, I'm smoking this. Delicious.

Can you see that? Yep. You see that right there? Not for the Patreon, he's just smoking that.

That's the Posagna San Andreas Corona Gorda. Oh, that's right. It's not out yet. Oh, nice.

But we're officially announcing that we're taking orders. and orders out of today. We're going to get this party started. So, if you're a retailer or you're a customer and you want a retailer carrying the product, reach out to Mike at...

com. Mike P. Or at Mike, that would be you again. com.

com. Or just comment below and we'll work on getting together. So, boom. Corona Gorda dropped.

The first released media. We need to do a press release? Yeah, no, we don't have to. You have to do the press release.

No, no, 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 Ceniza-fina packaging, too. Okay, 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 two of Beast Games officially kicks off dropping 200 contestants into a brutal high-pressure competition for a jaw-dropping, how much do you think he can win, guys? A million dollars. Two million dollars. Five million cash grand prize.

Where is this? I'm going. Mr. Beast, he's already got the contestants.

You already missed it. That's one of the largest prizes ever offered in a 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 one is any indication, it's not just making, just the marketing hype.

Last season pushed competitors to extremes, including challenges where players were literally hunted by Navy SEALs and audiences could get enough. Season one 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 and watch. This is the TV show that hit our news. Do you know what other TV show is coming back?

And it's so funny. We talked about this the other day. No. What is it?

No. Nobody knows. No one knows. No idea.

No idea. Johnny Knoxville is 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 he could do some type of crazy prank or whatever. He's getting the TV show back. Oh.

There you go. Maybe he puts the Venezuelan guy in the porta potty on the crane. So, um, so you're going to go back and watch the original Mr. Beast?

I think I am. Yeah. Mr. Beast?

How do we get on this show? I want five million dollars. You have to get to the end. I'll get to the end.

I don't care if I lose my arm. For five million dollars, you're cut off your arm? Yeah. You should just send him that.

Wow. Do a video and cut it off and go for $5 million. Oh, don't do that. He needs a red light.

$5 million, I'll do this. And then he goes, but you already did it. He goes, no, no, I have another one. Well, there was more story, but you know.

For contestant, it's simple. Survive the chaos, outsmart everyone else, and walk away rich or leave with nothing. Love him or hate him, Mr. Beast has rewritten the rules of entertainment and with millions watching and $5 million 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.

Beast's show? No. Why not? I like his little Reese's Cubs, but that's about it.

Yeah? If you had to, like, are you worried about having bears involved or something? He doesn't have to be fast. Only faster than the other contestants.

No, he doesn't have to be faster than the other contestants. Well, they need to be able to stand up because I'm going to push him down. Sharks? Yeah.

I'm not fucking with that. I'm not. Oh, man. Second one.

There's not really anything where you have the possibility of dying, I don't believe. I'm sure somebody has gotten seriously injured and or close to dying on the show. No, his stuff's not Johnny Knoxville type stuff. It's like no sleeping.

Yeah, bury you alive. Don't you remember? I would 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. It was claustrophobic.

I couldn't do any of that stuff. Yeah, I mean, okay, 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'd be down. But there was people in Survivor that were in the hospital for months. Yeah, they had dehydration, they got bugs all over them and stuff. Yeah.

I would, uh... They were 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. Hmm. In the last... They'd probably bury you alive.

The last one out wins. Did you ever lay in Greg's coffin? No. 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 care.

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 with us. Yeah, it would be scarier to see the dirt on the windows.

Yeah, I'm good. I'd just close 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, jokes on you whenever taking the dirt off?

No, then they've killed you. Then it's a murder. I'm worth a million dollars 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. Ah, 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?

Yeah. Right. Is that where Bob Barker went? Well, if the military caught on to him, we'd have him wrapped up within less than 45 minutes.

There you go. There you go. Venezuelan guys should have listened to Bin Laden when he was telling about the bunkers. Oh, man.

45 minutes. That's so wild. That's so wild. You see it 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. Do you see what you're talking about on TV? Yeah, maybe we should...

I'm getting in my bunker. 45 minutes? We should settle down a little bit over here. You know, they had to have a conversation about it.

No, Trump called them. Well, supposedly, NATO's all upset that we did it. Some other countries are upset. I don't imagine Great Britain is upset.

I mean, if they are, they're stupid. Of course. " How fast I did it then? Yeah, it took your boy.

Hey, turn on the TV. Turn to Channel 7. Okay, look at that. Okay, order a pizza.

I've got 'em. Oh, sorry, was that too fast? By the way, we have the matching sweatsuits on. Yeah.

Did you see the sweatsuit? I 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. Is this in the middle of cooking? I just took him.

He's still holding the frying pan. Oh my God. I don't know what happened. Wait until you see.

I'm gone. Wait until you see one of my two videos from today. You're going to love it. Oh.

It's epic. Two videos from today. All right, carry on, let's go, we're 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, mm, that's ours now?

Well, we did that with that canal, the Panama Canal, right? I don't know. Did we take the Panama Canal? In the beginning, but then we gave it back, right?

What, we just signed the papers, by the way? I don't know how all that worked. I don't either. But, I mean, he keeps saying, we want that.

Yeah, I honestly don't know. I mean, there's a Danish country, 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 guess. 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 drawing it on a map and putting a flag on it. Greenland isn't really a threat, you know what I mean? Invading's like, you're not telling them you're going to take it. " "I don't think he's gonna, I don't think he can do that.

I don't think that that's okay. " "This guy was a problem. " "Well, first place, they're all covered in ice. " I think so.

There's oil in Venezuela. They have the most oil of anybody. Yeah. Well, that's the crazy part is that they're essentially one of the richest resources in the world.

Yeah, not just oil. 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 have spent a little more money there.

I got news for you. It wouldn't have stopped us. He could have hired a bunch of old retired Americans, and it ain't enough. " You think he's really going to go, "I'm going to stop you"?

" Yeah, I'll be on lunch. I'll hold it open for you, I'll prop it open. That'll be a small rock holding the door open. I'm gonna cash my last check and get Dale out of here.

Yeah. S. 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. S. , citing its strategic location for defenses, purposes, and mineral wealth. " Yeah.

S. control over the island as a fantasy. Yeah, it is. Stop it.

Stop it over there. You think maybe he knows something? No. I think he's a showman.

He's got another 45 minutes to kill him. Yeah, but remember, Pearl Harbor could have been stopped. Okay. How could Pearl Harbor tell me?

Remember, they ended up getting information that there was going to be an attack and they tried to strategically place military in certain areas and, you know, there's a whole thing with all that. Is there? Maybe he's thinking. Yeah, they didn't like believe it was going to happen or something.

Yeah. Yeah. So maybe. Maybe.

Maybe Greenland's going to attack. Greenland is the middle ground, 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 on the other side of the ground? I'll tell you one thing.

Russia or whatever? Oh, maybe there's something going on. I'll tell you one thing. Venezuela is no longer a problem.

No, well, they're part of America. The United States of America, Venezuela? Is that what they're called now? Well, wait, the vice president who is now in charge and their...

D. Vance? No, no, no, their vice president. No, there 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.

You think that guy, you think the VP is in charge now? Did he say, "I'm in charge"? Yeah, according to the news that I watched this movie. " Him and their Minister of Defense, or whatever they call him, they're saying now that military bases, and they showed a map where they're all at, are fair game.

We can attack all of these. I mean, it's stupid. It's like having a fly come and attack you, but still. But still.

We didn't take the president because we wanted to take the country. Yeah. Yeah, we took the president because he's a narco-terrorist. Yeah.

He's being... Wasn't he one of the guys that was going to be the Pope? The... Nicolas Maduro, isn't that his name?

No, no. I doubt he's Catholic. Whatever. I don't know.

Oh, Jared, the new mayor of New York City swore his oath on a Koran. Get out of here. Yeah, that's what he is. He is.

Yeah, but in the Koran, it talks about killing people who aren't followers of that religion. Yeah. It talks about killing women that don't listen to you. Okay.

I mean, if that's true, you know. Well, it's in there. I've never read the Koran. I've never read it either, so.

Oh, well, maybe you guys should pick one up and read and you'll know stuff. Yeah, check it out. Yeah. You guys don't speak, uh...

Koranese? Koranese. Koranese. You guys are wild.

Well, I don't. All right, now a feel-good story out of Ashland, Ohio. 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. Oh. 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.

Yeehaw! Sounds like there'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. Oh, wow.

What a coincidence. I have two videos. I have a place here for a video. I have two videos.

I hate videos because I'm going to put them on. 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? Is it the first one or the second one? 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. Because it is hilarious. The guy in the ski mask, okay. Have you guys seen that thing they do at 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. Nah, I'm just playing. I've never hurt 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 street lights all together?

You know what I mean? Just feel it out. " Wow, so he robbed her. Did he see it?

He stole a package from one place, and he ordered the other one, stuck something in the door. No, he stole the package from that place, came back dressed as an Amazon guy. Oh, that was the exact same door. Yeah, patched 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 them? I don't think he's really killing them. It's a skit.

Oh, okay. Okay, 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 thought behind that. Yes, the second one's funny, too. Oh, good.

It's Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan? Yes. Can we put this on the air?

We could put with somebody else's video? Yes, this is a short clip. Okay. This is a funny joke.

I was right in the middle of taking a shit, bro. All right, that one was funny. 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. Okay. How funny is that?

He's got Nicolas Maduro in there. That one was funny. I was right in the middle of taking a shit. Got 'em.

Got 'em. What a terrible way to be grabbed. Wow. This guy's a terrible person.

" And this is why. I'm waiting for him to get on the toilet. " On the Porcelain God. It's been 15 years.

He finally took a shit. It's been 15 years. In 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 in Mr. Beast's burial thing.

Yeah. With one arm. With one arm. One arm.

And they still didn't give you the $5 million. Joke's on you, buddy. Here's a candy bar. All right.

All right, Maine cigar tax goes up today. Uh-oh. 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 stakes cost a good bit more. The increase was part of the state's budget bill and raised the rate of cigars from 43% to the wholesale price to 75%, making it one of the highest rates in the country.

We're talking about the state of Maine, right? State, yeah, no, the city of Maine. No, because you said the Maine tax. Yeah, well, M-A-I-N-E, Maine's tax.

It's like Syria and us, Syria. Right, yeah. 56. 99.

44 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 9th highest price at the register. There's only one way that you hide that.

How? How do they hide it? You have to take less profit. How else do you hide that?

They're not going to hide it. No, yeah, I know that, but I'm just saying they're trying to figure out a way to hide it. Nobody's going to take less tax. Right.

It's brutal. I feel bad for any retail shops in Maine. Do you know any retail shops in Maine? No, two guys isn't in Maine.

They used to be, but they're not in Maine. No, they're not. They didn't used to be in Maine. I thought they were starting in Maine.

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. It was one of the little states up there that starts with an M. I mean, the irony in the fact that they...

I mean, I didn't get to go on the trip, so I didn't hear all this stuff first. Yeah, me either. The irony in 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. Well, they have representation now.

Yeah, 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 it or have anybody vote against it. Right. That's because he watches Conjunction Junction.

That's why he came up with that. Yeah, watch your function. Yeah, the mic's a little high, by the way. What?

Your mic's a little high. That's better. I thought you said mic'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? Is that okay now? No, you're good. All right.

Denver, Colorado's flavored tobacco ban now in effect. Very little cigar news. Oh, 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 1 vote of the Denver City Council and took effect on March 18, 2025. What are they gonna do? Do we have to?

Council against flavored tobacco because 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.

On all flavored? All flavored. Yeah, but how do we know that this one isn't flavored? Do you want to lick it?

Well, no, they're licking them in California. We're gonna wait and see what's on the waist. We're just gonna parlay off of the Cali's? So as they're licking the window, they hit the cigar at the same time?

As they're licking the window. Look, Colorado doesn't like cigars anyways. They don't like tobacco, period. Yeah, they only like pot.

Yeah, 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.

Yeah, like the guy in that 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? The 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. In 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.

Oh, I hate when they do that. Right. They're like, I'm going to kill you. Alright, however, a coalition of vape stores began a 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 the sale of almost all forms of flavored tobacco, including cigars, pipe tobacco, flavored vaping products, isn't 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 distrust me, that's flavored.

That's flavored, but like Virginia tobacco is not. Not flavored? No. Okay.

However, it does not apply to flavored tobacco intended to be smoked in a hookah. Oh, so that's fine. That's perfectly fine. That's perfectly fine.

See, here we go again. Is that because of percentage of tobacco? It also, nope. No, it's probably just like, oh, that's, you know.

Oh, one of those guys smokes hookah. One guy's a hookah dude. Yeah, one guy's a hookah dude, right. I love the cheese shot.

Wait a second. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on, hold on.

I have hookah places. Hold on. Let's not do that one. They already took Nicholas.

Now we have to save the hookah. One second here. I like my Starbuzz. He took Nicholas.

My Starbuzz Wild Cherry. Let's locate that. It also did not make it illegal to possess or use a flavored tobacco product. You just can't buy them.

Oh, man. Oh, good. So you're just going to screw over your small businesses. That's perfect.

Except for me. I'm okay. Retailers who violate the new law will face suspension of their privilege to sell the bag of products should they receive two or more violations within a one-year window. Oh, so you have to get three in a year to suspend your license.

" Oh, just to get the other one out? Yeah. Can you do the club method there? I don't know.

Can you change the name? New business. New business. Hello.

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. Well, no, no.

It's not a cigar, it's hookah. Yeah, they don't have any beaches to sell cigars on, so we're fucked. Just start labeling all the cigars as hookahs. Hookah, that's right.

This is for hookahs. It's handheld hookah. That's not a cigar. It's a handheld hookah.

It's a handheld hookah. Look, long hose. Oh, here it comes with a cold. Additionally, the window will expand in the coming years as of January 1st, 2027.

Two violations within a two-year period will result in a 30-day suspension. Hmm. I've really thought it out there. So wild.

Well, so, don't go there for your bubblegum-flavored cigars. Do they have bubblegum-flavored? I don't know. Alright, Half Wheel has opened us to submit a list for the Consensus 2025.

The 2025 is just two weeks away. Next week, Half Wheel will announce a variety of awards, finishing with our top 25 cigars of 2025, but the Consensus is a different sort of top 25 each list. Imagine if you could take all the various top 10, top 25 lists produced by Cigar Blogs, Magazine, Podcasts, and YouTubers into one single list. I think that we uh, I think Bear ranked us by the way.

Bear what? Bear. Oh, did he? Did his ranking come out?

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 have to go listen to that. Yeah. Oh, it's George. I don't want to listen to George's show.

He looked a little better. He had like a little orange hoodie. No, I saw part of the video. He like set the camera up like over by the door.

Oh, yeah. Kind of looked like JD. He's very small. Yeah, he did have a big orange toboggan on or something.

Okay, this year they listed all the shows that automatically get their list taken. Yeah. Are you talking about top 25 cigars list? But I did copy the list because I wanted to try to get on each one of those shows in 2026.

Except, how about that cigar? Because they're not on anymore. And there's a couple of magazines in there you can't do either. Okay.

But in order to be on the list, you 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 could be on. You're part of this show, it's the same thing. Do you guys want to? No, we don't get any money from cigars.

You want to pick our top ten? You want to pick top ten? You want to pick our top ten cigars? Today?

I'm not ready today, but we can do it. Yeah, we can do it. Yeah, we talked about doing that, and you talked about compiling the list. We can do that too.

It's our consensus. But it's not a consensus. We just judge the other people. We're just saying if the list is any good or not.

Well, we wouldn't be able to judge Coop. His won't be done until 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 Half Whale will be consistency. So there you go.

So I think they picked that date because that's when he finishes. To honor thy Coop? Honor thy Coopy. Charlie doesn't want him mad at him too.

And he'll be bad for the industry. Bad for the industry. Long-haired Charlie. Matt 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 format. Oh, we're on Rumble. Facebook, that leaves Facebook, YouTube, Rumble. Oh, I'm surprised he has Instagram and not Facebook.

Because 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 Ronnie does that all the time. Yeah, and so does the Volt guys.

Cigar Volt. Okay. Norm. And Taco.

Norm and Taco. Yes. All right, everybody's ready for the biggest game in the industry. What's the score?

Finally, we get one right. New year, new us, baby. Two years and I cannot do current cigars any longer because Boots cheats. Oh, was that a request by Mikey over there?

No, I don't have a request. I don't care if you win. By the general listening public. Oh, somebody commented?

Several people. Unbelievable. Boots cheating. Busted.

Busted. All right, first cigars from August 4th, 2020, Patrick LaGreed reviewed the cigar. Cigar, Jazz Sum Crawl, Limited Edition, Nicaragua Reviews, the Fuck the FDA Cigar. Oh, couldn't you just have said F?

It says it on here. I know. It wasn't me that time. Trying to clean up the show a little bit.

Cigar Review, Jazz Sum Crawl, F the FDA. Sounds stupid. Oh wait, you forgot to vote, sorry. Go back and vote.

You already knew the name, so it didn't affect anything. 86. 88. I guess you're going first.

You guys said the score too fast, I was taking a drink. 86 for Bootsy, 88 for me. All right, Country of Origin, Nicaragua, Factory, Tabacalera de Argon, SA, Wrapper, Mexican San Andres, Binder, not disclosed, Filler, not disclosed, Length, 6x52, Toro. They smoked three cigars.

So no information on the wrapper, no information on the binder? No, the wrapper is Mexican San Andres. 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 letter.

86. 88. Angry Palmer. What'd you call him?

Cole Trickle? What'd you call him? Cole Trickle, yes. Cole Swindell.

Cole Trickle from Days of Thunder. That's right. He looks like Tom Cruise. His namesake of his baby, Tom Cruise.

Yeah, you can name your baby Cole Trickle. You should name it Tom Cruise. Speaking of Tom Cruise. I saw a really funny TikTok that this guy squirted water in his face when he was interviewing him.

" Yeah, you saw that one. Yeah, it's old. Tom got so angry. Wow, he messed up his makeup.

Because, I mean, that was, because that was ridiculous. Why would anybody do that? Oh, haha, like you're, no, dude, that's not okay. It was ridiculous, but very funny in the video.

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. That's messed up. He was so angry from the birthday episode when they got the questions wrong, I squirted them in the face. The birthday episode where we played a game show and if you guys got the questions wrong, I squirted you in the face.

That happened one time. Well, yeah, I almost got killed. Alright, first clue. Flavor development improves nicely after the Rocky Star.

Once past the first third, the cigar finds its footing with a more balanced profile. White Pepper Becomes Focus Rather Than Sharp, White, or Wild Drywood Earth, and Enjoyable Earthy Coffee Notes, Emerge and Coat the Palette with Overpower, Without Overpowering It. Wait a second, you squirted him in the face? Yeah, him and Greg.

Yeah. I had a squirt gun hidden under the table. Wow. I'm gonna tell you something, Paul.

It's all one of the episodes, dude. Yeah, it's all one of the episodes. Paul, you got some big hones. " What the fuck was that?

He did it fast, he didn't even see it come up. Did you warn him that he was getting scared? No, that took away the fun from the game. No, and it definitely heated me up.

Oh my God. Did not go to a question two. Yeah. That was the end of the game.

Episode was over. Greg won, he didn't disagree. It was like a question on Palmer history. Oh God, that's great.

Yeah. Why wasn't that episode the most watched one? It's super old. It's super old.

It's super old. We were still in the office upstairs. Yeah. Oh, 86.

I'll stick to 88. All right. Clue number two. Strong technical performance overall.

Draw, burn, and smoke production are consistently solid across samples, aside from one slightly loose draw. Allowing the cigar's fuller flavors in the second third to shine with good body and strength progression. Mike is going to win this one. I can't even pay attention because I just keep thinking of being a coroner.

Oh my God, he's going to have a coroner here. I don't know why. I'm just like, how I see it though, is like you have goggles on. No, no, no.

I don't know why I'm thinking of this. Nope, right in the face. He's like, wrong. And I'm like, what the?

I'm like, 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. He was just hiding it. Yeah, it was under the table. Yeah.

I had it all set up. He did it like Peaky Blinders style. Yeah. He thought this was going to be a good idea.

That's going to 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 that by him.

I'm taking the fun away. How do you think we got there? Oh, I can't even see. My contacts are all blurry.

Yeah. He's going to go down. He's going to go down. You feeling pain in your left arm?

Yeah. 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 third and final clue, then we have a final thought. 84. Oh, man. 85.

For as much force and fury that the name of the Jassum 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 right 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 in 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 its blend did not live up to the cigars message do you get this I'm sorry He's still laughing.

Oh, I got to clear this image. Did Greg know? No. No, nobody knew.

I squirted Greg just for the hell of it. He took it a lot easier. Because it was over after that, so I was like, oh, oh. And you know what?

I think this is why me and Palmer became friends first. Yeah. Like, this whole scenario of the joke, like, he is an ultimate joke guy. Yeah.

It's, wow. 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 scary one. Yeah, pretty much. You must have woke up and your butt was hurting or something.

No, no. I remember 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. I don't 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.

You're done. I think I 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. You look like you're throwing them trying to show Tia where you were. All right, where are you going? Follow the chips.

This cigar sounds horrible. The only thing that sounds great is the name. Like... Patrick?

Is it Patrick? Patrick. 82. 81.

84. Yes. I was there. Yes.

I was there. Yes. No cheating. I won.

Yeah, there's no way he would have got that one. All 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 the 70s too.

I was like, man, who rated this? Damn. All right. This regards from April 18, 2021.

Charly Manado, 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 of Origin, Dominican Republic, Factory General Cigar, Dominicana. 99, they smoked 3 cigars. What's the rapper 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. You're just not funny. Eighty-six. Eighty-five.

Clue number one. The cigar's sharp, square-leaning box press and rich red wrapper pair beautifully with the copper tones of the band, giving the spirit of the lady a striking and memorable appearance. Is that correct? Set.

Eighty-six. 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 number 3. Underfilling leads to open draws, frequent touch-ups, weak smoke production, 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.

That's what my phone just said. What? That's what my phone just said. Are you playing off of Palmer?

You know he tries to do this to us, right? To what? He tries to like say it's a great cigar and everything with his comments and then he chooses like one bad comment. You always get two 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. He's going to just grab me by the collar and throttle me right there. If you don't think I can get to you before you can get out of that chair from here, I can definitely get to you.

You're going to struggle to get up. Now he's going to like-- I'm knocking everything over. He'll break everything. He's going to rig something now to where he can run and get away quick.

He better electrify my chair so that I don't move. I'll tie you down. I'll tie you 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 him. When I say now, you duck. I think you can tie me down, I can still get you with the chair.

No, no. That chair is everything you think. Alright, come on, next to the score. Is it my turn?

No, you said 84. You said 84 after you looked it up. We have one more clue, right? The final thought?

Yes. This is the final thought. The final thought. Oh, what?

What is it? Yes, it is. You said 84. I read three things.

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 we had the final thought left. You're getting old. You know, this is exactly how Nicolas Maduro got captured.

He couldn't remember. He couldn't remember. 85. I don't know if I left the rocket outside or not, whatever.

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. While 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. There'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.

Wow. Stick that. Stick that. 65.

Wow. New Year, new me, baby. I'm a winner. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.

New me, new year. He's got a baby coming and he wins. What's the score? Yes.

His life is good. Today's a good day. We have to bet. Yeah.

There you go. Oh, do you have a moneymaker bet? Oh, yeah. You got a moneymaker tip of the week?

No. I'm going to be honest with you guys. Because you want me to do like two days in advance, but I don't, I'm not prepared. We want one tomorrow.

Okay. 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. Okay, tomorrow. Perfect. Okay.

This was a good show. This was a good show. That's it. Like and subscribe.

Yeah. San Andreas, Corona Gorda is happening. Yeah. Are we going to smoke that on the Patreon?

No. It's going to get five stars. Palmer's going to... It's going to chew.

Nobody should mind it. Yeah. That's not going to happen. We wouldn't even do that.

It's burned perfect this whole time. Even it was bad. It's delicious. But it's not.

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. Boom. All right, guys. Thank you very much.

It's been episode 304. Alright guys, bye, it's been 400 and... 300, oh, 442, or 41, we're calling it 41. Alright, bye.

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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!