ACHP Episode 474 El Munch, CIGARS, Frozen NY
Episode Summary
Mike Palmer is joined by co-host Mikey Stepanovich and engineer Phil (plus a fill-in "Phil 2") for episode 474 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast. The show opens with housekeeping — the channel is now officially monetized with YouTube ads, CHPod.com swag deals, and listener comments from Brett Mercurio, Epicurean Smoke, Music God and TX Southpaw, including a note on how fast the Knuckle Sandwich birthday cigars sell out each year. The Patreon giveaway cigar this week is the Viaje Gojira.
The news block runs long and loose: Texas Governor Greg Abbott's travel warnings for Mexico amid cartel violence and roadblocks following the death of El Mencho (and a running bit about a torched Costco), the BAFTAs incident involving host Alan Cumming and an award recipient with Tourette's coprolalia during Michael B. Jordan's segment, and a major blizzard burying New York and New Jersey under 18–22 inches of snow with 400,000+ power outages and states of emergency across the Northeast.
The cigar news is the meat of the episode. The crew digs into the Supreme Court ruling against the April 2025 "Liberation Day" tariffs and the administration's immediate pivot to Section 122 tariffs — a flat 15% base rate for 150 days, which raises rates on the Dominican Republic and Honduras while dropping Nicaragua from 18% to 15%, and what that means for cigar price increases. They then break down Pro Cigar 2026, which closed with a record $618,188 raised — the first time the humidor auction cleared $500,000 — including AJ Fernandez's reported $150,000 winning bid on the Fuente humidor, plus lopsided results for the PDR, Casa Carrillo, Arnold André and Reyes humidors. They also poke holes in the newly announced Cigar Masters online cigar education platform ($24.99/month; a $120 intro course listed as "out of stock") featuring names like Mitchell Orchant, Klaas Kellner and Nick Hammond.
The show closes with two rounds of "What's the Score," guessing Half Wheel scores for the Crowned Heads Four Kicks Mule Kick redux (85, from Brian Burt) and the JSK Nugs Habano CBD cigar reviewed by Charlie Minato (80), followed by a long tangent on notable Canadian musicians and appearance announcements at Northport Cigars and Bull Weevil Cigars.
In This Episode
- 01Monetization, Swag & Listener CommentsThe podcast is now running YouTube ads, plus CHPod.com merch deals and a Viaje Gojira Patreon giveaway.
- 02Mexico Cartel Violence & Travel WarningsGreg Abbott and the State Department warn travelers as blockades and unrest follow the death of El Mencho.
- 03BAFTAs Tourette's IncidentAn award recipient's coprolalia outburst during the BAFTAs sparks a discussion about how live shows should handle it.
- 04Northeast Blizzard18–22 inches of snow, 70 mph winds and states of emergency shut down New York, New Jersey and much of the Eastern seaboard.
- 05Section 122 Tariffs and Cigar PricesAfter the Supreme Court struck down the 2025 Liberation Day tariffs, a flat 15% Section 122 rate raises costs for the Dominican Republic and Honduras while lowering Nicaragua's.
- 06Pro Cigar 2026 Record Humidor AuctionThe Dominican festival raised a record $618,188, with AJ Fernandez reportedly paying $150,000 for the Fuente humidor while others sold far below estimate.
- 07Cigar Masters Class Education PlatformThe guys review the new $24.99/month online cigar education platform and find the intro course listed as out of stock.
- 08What's the ScoreGuessing Half Wheel review scores for the Crowned Heads Four Kicks Mule Kick redux and the JSK Nugs Habano CBD cigar.
Brands & Cigars Discussed
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Transcript
Welcome to a Cigar Hustler podcast episode 474. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and with me today is Phil McGuffey over in engineering hit three. Mike, say hi. Bing bong.
There you go. It's a new Phil. New Phil. And that is my co-host.
Long lost brother. Mikey Stepan Gavich. We go to three, two. Camera two.
He's got it. All right. Relax. I can't see.
You can hit the buttons. All right. Say hello. Hi.
How are you? Thank you for having me. Oh, thank you for being here. Yes.
All right. On today's show, Mikey's next dog will be El Mencho. El Mencho. El Mencho?
El Mencho. El Mencho. A dog? You have El Chapo.
Oh. This is the next guy. El Mencho. El Mencho.
Baptists were an effing success. Can't go anywhere on the eastern seaboard. It's all snowed in. And then in cigars, Pro Cibor sets records and we have some tariff news.
Tariff. Okay. To be determined, tariff news. Well, no, he's issued new tariffs.
Oh. He fixed it. He fixed it. A new Cigar Masters Class, and then a game of what's the score, but first, Mikey, how do we find out about what all the comments were on the show over the weekend, and how do we get some of the CH Pod swag?
Alright, well, so for the Patreon, we're going to be doing this Vyaje, what's it called, Phil, number two? Gojira. Gojira, that we received from Team Money. So, it looks like this.
How does that look? Where's mine? Looks good, okay. I have one here for you.
Oh, okay. 1 grams. com where we have all our latest swag. Just like that hat that Mr.
Palmer is wearing. Look at that. Boom. If you buy one, you get the second one 40% off.
And if you spend $100 or more, you're going to get free shipping. Now, on to some of our comments. There's a lot of them. There is a lot of them.
We won't get to all of them. We'll get a couple. Brett Mercurio, he said, "Congratulations, new merch suggestion, skip ad shirt," as there are now ads on our- Oh, that's right. Yes.
Yeah, when I uploaded the one that showed today, it asked me. " Yeah. Yeah. I clicked the box.
We're officially monetized. We're sorry if that upsets you. Buy whatever it is they put up. No, don't buy.
Just watch the ad. For some reason, we have said no gambling and no alcohol. Yeah. Was that you?
No, I didn't. Oh. 'Cause they give you a choice of things that you are, you know, you're happier that you're okay with them advertising. Right.
For some reason, gambling and alcohol was checked off. Maybe YouTube does not allow gambling and alcohol. Oh. Well, I mean, you can permit them.
I can't. It's just an automatic off. Oh, really? I think it's a YouTube thing.
Okay. Um, look, this has been eight years. This has been a lot of hard work in building. I'm glad it worked.
Somebody saw one already. A lot of hard work and building, and yeah, we're going to do the ads with YouTube, is what it is. It's not going to be… It's midway, mid-stream or whatever it is. Yeah.
Well, whatever it is, you know, it's not, at least it's not going to be biased. We're not going to sway our conversation by them at all because we have no idea where they are. Yeah, that is true. And they're not a company that we're endorsing, so there you go.
Epicurean Smoke, my new friend, says, It says, "The hard-hitting questions we want to know the answers to," which is the top-reviewed reviewers. Ah, the review of the reviewers. Do you have that for today? The B-Squad?
No, no. That'll happen as we kind of progress, maybe through the week. " Or, you know, just like, um, that was a respect thing we're talking about last week. Uh, just like the fact that some of these, some people feel invincible and then they get jacked up, um, Dean, somebody called him Dean the Queen.
And let's see, one last one here from TX Southpaw. Those knuckle sandwich birthday cigars are super popular. I've seen a few stores cleaned out in a day. Sounded like y'all were headed that direction too.
Yeah, um, it's a very popular cigar every year, 55, 56, 57. They're gone here. Yeah, they sell out quick. All right.
So, let's get into it. Ready to move on with the news? Yeah, Phil, are you ready? Bing bong.
All right, make sure you're flipping there, buddy. I am. See that your hands are occupied. Now the news.
S. government travel warnings It's a warning as violence and security operations intensify in parts of the country. Get out of Mexico! Or...
Or what? Hide. Hide? Hide.
Shelter in place. Hide or shelter in place. They killed El Mencho? El Mencho?
El Mencho. I don't know how you say his name. Yes. It means the Mencho.
So, and now they've gone, they've done a bunch of blockades and all this. There's roadblocks everywhere. Yeah. They're supposed to be clearing those out one by one.
" I'm gonna send you an image. What is it? I've seen pictures of the guy. He's all over the place.
He was the least photographed man in the world until he died. I'm gonna send you an image. I want you to look at the image. I don't want you to say anything about the image, 'cause then I'm gonna speak about the image.
Oh. Okay. S. Department of State sent out a warning, but I don't know where any of these cities are except- Don't go to Mexico?
Except Puerto Vallarta. What the problem is is the people that are already in Mexico. Yeah. I guess it's a border crossing thing.
Right. Don't go. So, I sent you an image. I want you to look at it real quick.
And this is what kind of draws the line for me. I want you to look at it and then I'm going to tell you what it is. You see the image? Yes.
Okay. Look, you want to torch a gas station. You want to create road blockades and all this chaos. But when you burned down a Costco, Costco's in Mexico, I guess, that's kind of where I draw the line.
Is that it? You had it now. Yeah. 50 hot dogs.
You know what I mean? Everybody loves Costco. We didn't pull the story for today, but they're also doing McShakes, the McDonald's Irish. They're doing the green shakes.
The drug cartels are attacking the green shakes? Apparently, because they don't like those either. Oh, okay. It's damn Irish.
Well, I mean, I want to back up here. Yes. Like, if you were in this cartel, you don't look at Costco and be like, "You know what? " Like, how do we, how did we go?
How did we attack Costco? It's an American company. I don't know why they're blaming us. They killed their own person.
The Mexican military killed this guy. Right. And we just had advisors. Yeah, it just feels to me like they shouldn't have, they shouldn't have done that to Costco.
Nuevo León State. So, do you think that ... Oh, original Phil is right. So, do you think that ...
Do you think that there should be American intervention at this point? Yes to be. Sure, why not? I mean, as soon as the first American that gets hurt, let's just send everybody up.
Yeah? You think we just claim Mexico? We just take it. That's the first state, because Greenland's not working out for us.
We took Gulf of America, then we're going to go take Mexico. Greenland's not working out for us? We haven't taken ... No, they sent the hospital ship away.
We don't need your hospital ship. No. Oh. Oh, yeah?
Right. Is that what happens? " We're fine. Don't touch it.
We're fine. No one's sick here. Don't take it. No takey.
Huh. Very interesting. Canada. I mean, we beat them in hockey, so, you know, now they're all pissed off.
Yes. I messaged my only Canadian friend. Actually, I have a couple Canadian friends. John McTavish?
Yeah, but I did... I have two Canadian friends, but one of them is in Africa right now. " Who won that hockey game in Italy? And he sent me back like a raining, a guy standing in the rain that was very sad.
It was very sad. A Canadian standing in the rain? Yeah. Look, you know, listen, as the Phil's transition, you got to stay on top of the flippy flippy.
You got to stay on top of the flippy flippy. Bing bong. Bing bong. It's like, it's like...
Phil 2 did a great job. Thank you, Phil 2. Phil 2, thank you for filling in. Thank you for filling in.
Ah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. Sir, uh, don't forget your Phantom of the Opera mask. I'm from Reacher. Uh-huh.
Is the camera on? Hello? It is on. You better put on your mask.
It is on. You better put that mask on before somebody sees who you are. I'm back. We'll edit you out.
We'll edit. I had to go, um, sorry. Is what? Uh, well, I took that, that trash to the dump.
Yeah. Oh, that was, was that a good joke? No? That was not a good joke.
Another good transition. Geez Louise. The poor man did a wonderful post today, standing in a tobacco field, something about him and Jesus. Oh, he's still around?
Was it a real tobacco field? Yes. Yes, I believe it was. I believe it was.
We're talking about the Mexican cartel killing everybody in Mexico. Oh, yeah. I was hoping we'd talk about that today. Yeah, but we're done now, but thanks for coming in.
Oh, great. I'm glad we talked about it. Go ahead. If you want to chime in, Phil, we'll let you.
I think it's great. You think it's going to make it over here? No. You think I'm going to cross the border?
No. Do you think they're the ones that took Samantha at Govfrey's? Yes. What's going on with that?
You don't hear anything anymore. We've moved on. Yeah. I mean, she cycled out of the nose.
Yeah. Actually, I think that maybe she's the one that murdered El Mencho. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah, that's what happened.
Oh, like a secret agent. She was a super secret. She was kidnapped. As a cover.
Yeah. And then she went in, allegedly, and she destroyed him. Suede him with her feminine wiles. And then.
Sure, take me for elderly trafficking, and then she killed him. So now there's a, so, yeah, exactly, so now there's a Mexican war on NBC, that's what's happening. Oh. Yeah.
I still don't know why you would burn down a Costco. That's, doesn't make any sense. You don't. They don't have good deals?
I don't know. It's a terrible thing to do. Those damn hot dogs are too cheap. Yeah.
Too cheap. I just, that's how you know that no one's in charge right now, the cartels, because somebody should have stopped it, you know? Yeah. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Don't touch that one. Well, they did show like all their armored trucks. Did you see that? I heard that they're, yeah, they got like a whole army.
They're not well trained from what I understand. They look really sharp, but nobody knows what they're doing. They have their own sirens and stuff. They have lights on top.
They got rocket launchers. Yeah. You think the president calls our president and says, hey. Well, supposedly like one of the things that I read was this was, well, the Kill El Micho or Mencho, whatever his name is.
That was actually a secret operative thing from Trump, supposedly. Who told you that? That's just what it, that was the face of the book. Where'd you hear that?
That was the book of face. You heard it on Facebook? Yeah. Oh, okay.
I heard we were just advisors. We just supplied intel. Yeah, well, you know, there's obviously a lot of speculation and rumors and everything flying all over Facebook right now, so. Yeah, and that's where you get your news?
No, no, no, I was just scrolling through, I was like, let me read these comments. That's where you get your news. You gotta go through a lot of toe fungus ads. No, I don't have any of that.
Well, no, when you click on the ad, I don't see it until you click on the story about something and then that's the first thing that pops up. I always get ads of like anything we talk about here on Mondays. Really? Yeah, like for the whole week, like I'm trying to get it off of my feed.
You got anti-gravity on your feed? Yeah, there's like a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah. Last time we talked about that, there was like all this alien talk all over my whole Facebook.
Did someone just drive away with their truck? Did you just drive away with your truck? Yeah, is it? Yeah, yeah.
I thought his truck just drove away. Yeah, no, they gotta go put gas in it for me. Oh, okay. Just make sure to just steal it.
He has people to fill up his tank. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Successful fill.
Well, I had to get here. That's why I was asking the questions in the text messages. That was a Mexican president's name, Claudia Scheinenbaum. I don't know.
It seems legit. Is that Jewish? It sounds Jewish. Yeah.
Is a Jewish lady in charge of Mexico? Maybe. That would actually make a lot of sense in things. Seems odd.
Cleaning things up down there. Getting to work. Everything's super cheap. Whoa.
Sorry. Oh, my God. What? Dude.
We're talking about the hot dogs. Oh, my God. At Costco. He racist already.
He says terrible things all the time. He does. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten like a nasty anything from anybody. Palmer used to get all the nasty.
You know what it is? People just know that you have an extra chromosome. They're like, oh, that's okay. It's okay.
Oh, is that it? He's almost got Down syndrome. No, not almost. Wow.
" You know? You can't even get to the airport. All the airports are shut down. I heard that they own, don't they, aren't they running one or something?
Southwest and there's another airline, Air Canada are not flying planes into Mexico. What's that email look like? We regret to inform you that you're not, your plane is not coming to get you. Yeah, there's a fire at the airport and we can't land.
That's what Air Canada is, huh? Southwest? I don't know. Southwest.
Where Spirit, they'll go in. Yeah, spirits should be balls to the wall. No questions asked. Runway.
I didn't eat one of those. There's a field back behind the airport. Hey, we've relocated. There's a road up the street.
There's no camera here. I know, it's serious. There's no camera? No.
It was on. Not for me. It was on. Oh, it's black.
I mean, I guess I could put that on. No. No. It was working before.
I don't know. What'd you do? Did you hit the button? Oh, I've been, I've been right here the whole time.
Turn this cord. It beeped. That was my, that was just my, uh, watch. There you go.
He's, he gets, he's upset about his camera time. Right. Well, well, I wore the hat. I'm not visible.
Because last time we were yelled at about not wearing hats, and now me and Palmer have the hats on. Excuse me, yelled at, that's a bit excessive. Well, okay. Maybe you raised your voice at us.
Spoken to. Reprimanded. Spoken to. You know, people don't see what's not on the camera, so.
Pick any of these synonyms you want there, boss. I just had questions. I was just told, before you walked in, Phil, I was just told he's leveraging the other companies I worked for against this one, and now he's my boss here, too. Oh.
That's how that works. That's exactly how that works. So, you know, it's serious, because they have canceled all the soccer games in Mexico. Oh, boy.
Oh, boy. Oh, man. I knew it was serious when they destroyed that Costco. Now, no.
Yeah. Four soccer games was postponed in the violence the Reuters news agency reported. Well, yeah, duh. Oh, you know what?
This is actually kind of crazy because they have World Cup coming up. So, like, are these guys going to be able to practice and do what they have to do? Probably not. Nope.
No practice. Everybody is sheltering in place. How long do you think the violence ensues? A week.
A week? I heard that's how long you do it when the head guy dies. That's the rule. Oh.
That's the rioting pace? Clubhouse rule. Yeah. Seven days?
Seven days. Seven days of purging. Seven days and seven nights. Seven days and seven nights of rioting.
Wow. That's the cartel rule. I feel like we could clean this up real quick. We could send some people.
We got peoples. Yeah. And seven days. How do we tell the good people from the bad people once we get there?
They're all dressed the same. You want to make an element? The cartel's got on the army outfits that the army wears. I'd probably look for all the guys with the spider tattoos.
Look, man. How do you see that from a distance? It's the third time I'm trying to talk, but okay. Go ahead.
No, I'm done now. All right. I would look for all the guys with all the spider tattoos, you know, Paul? You already said that.
No, I know. But you said we could talk now. Yeah. Stay on my phone.
Can you look up if they have teardrop tattoos for him? I like the other Phil. That's fucking way better. All right, we're moving on.
We done with this? Yeah. All right, the BAFTAs were this weekend. Did you watch the BAFTAs on TV, Michael?
I don't even know what that is. Yeah, what is it? That is the British Academy of Films and Television Association Awards. It's their version of the Oscars.
Okay. Did you watch? No. When didn't you watch?
When was it? Saturday night. Saturday night, I was at a high school basketball game. Until when?
Until he went to sleep. There's a six hour time difference. Until about nine o'clock. Oh, it's still.
And then I went to dinner. So Alan Cummings had to come out after the show started. He was the master of ceremonies. Okay.
They were giving an award to a gentleman that had Tourette syndrome. It was a movie about his life. Okay. So when these two black actors came out to take their award before he was given his award.
Right. He set his Tourettes off and he started yelling racial slurs. Oh, boy. You know what, dude?
I actually saw that clip on social media. Yeah. Racial slurs and F-bombs from the crowd up at the two men. Wow.
Okay. I didn't see the clip. So, does this guy got a pass? Well, yeah, he got a pass.
I guess before the show started, they brought him out and said, "Here is whatever his name was. He has Tourette's. " Right. We just want you guys to know he's over here because he's getting an award.
I don't think they intended on the racial slurs and the n-word and stuff. I don't think I saw that coming. I mean, he has very specific racial slurs with Tourette's. That's kind of weird.
Well, I guess there are levels of Tourette's and he has the racial slur level, apparently. I guess. Yeah, there's a name for it, but I don't think I have it. Racial slur level?
Yes. You think it changes, like the words change when there's like an agent on the stage or something? You think like his Tourette's like just morph? Koporelaia, which involves uncontrollable utterance of culturally taboo or insensitive words and phrases.
There's a name for this? There's a name for this particular version of mine. You think that like really racist people would learn this term and actually how to say what it is? You say they have it?
" "You know, I just, I'm just really, I have a problem. " "Don't hurt me. " That's how they find other things. That's what they say.
That's what they say. That's what they say. That's what they say. They only said that he might do involuntary noises or movements.
Wow. I guess they should have checked who was getting the next award. Oh, man. If you're the PR guy for this BAFT or whatever, aren't you like, hey, we're just not going to give them the award on stage?
Yeah, give it to them. They do that all the time for the special awards at the Oscars. The Oscars. This is his highest moment probably ever in life.
This guy has a tremendously bad mental illness. Keep him backstage until it's his turn. No, no, I think you should just mail it. You should just mail it.
Put a picture of him up? Well, can't they do one of those luncheons like they do for the, you know, hairstyle award that they give out? Maybe he was adamant about attending. Like, no, I want to be there.
No, no, I really want to go. Or you could flip it and be like, you know, almost like the Tom Brady roast. He said it's a roast, he's going to start roasting people, because then people wouldn't care, oh, he's saying racist stuff, that's normal on a roast. They could have given him his award before the two black guys got their awards, and then ushered him up.
Somebody didn't plan this correctly. That's so bad. It was two well-known black actors, too. Yeah, yeah, I saw, I can't remember who it was.
I can't remember the names. I saw it briefly. Yeah. They're British?
No. I gave the awards to all the movies. It's just their version. Okay.
Wow, that's weird. I can't think of a movie the older man had been in. Must have been a great movie. Who was it?
I don't remember his name, but that's why I was trying to take the movie he was in. Oh, look this up. You know, you're asking a person whose memory isn't that good to begin with. I'm terrible with names, but I'm good with faces.
Right. Was he, was it a white older guy? Oh, it's Michael B. Jordan.
Michael B. Jordan was the younger one. He's definitely not older. It's the older guy who I can't think of his name.
They're both in Sinners. Oh, Forrest Whitaker? Nope. Was he?
No. Stop naming just old black men. Wow. Delroy Lindo.
Nope. Delroy Lindo. Yeah, he's like an actor that you just don't know his name. Right.
Yeah. But you've seen him. Oh, that guy. Yeah.
Hmm. Yeah, as soon as you saw his face, you'd go, oh yeah. It's kind of like the guy on Shrinking. Like, yeah, I've seen him before.
Stuff. Harrison Ford. No, I'm just kidding. He was the other guy.
Michael B. Jordan has some money. That might not be a good thing to happen. What?
Where you got some racial slurs. You gonna attack the guy with the mental illness? No, he's not. How did they act on stage?
You only saw a still photo. They just kind of moved through it. Oh, they didn't. Yeah.
" I don't know, how do you handle that? Yeah, I don't know, do you just ignore it? I guess, yeah, you know, like you're thrown in that scenario. I don't know how you deal with that.
" I mean, you don't even know at first he was the one who said it. Right. It could have just been somebody from the audience. " Oh, what?
Right. Yeah, you don't know that it was that guy. I thought it was that guy. Right.
It could have been Will Smith. It could have just been Will Smith. It could have just been Will Smith. It could have just been Will Smith.
He likes to act out at an org joke. Yeah, that's his MO. Yeah. Okay.
All right. So, moving on. All right. A blizzard has struck New York, New Jersey, and anywhere from 18 to 22 inches of snow fell overnight.
Mm-hmm. Travel bans are out till 12 noon. There, too, you have to shelter in places like Mexico. Mm-hmm.
Power outages for over 400,000 homes in New York and New Jersey area? Yeah. There's snow everywhere. A lot of snow.
There is a state of emergency in New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania have all declared states of emergency with the New York City Mayor Zoran Mandabini. As I told everybody in New York, don't go outside. Don't go outside, it's cold. Don't go outside.
No, it's two feet of snow. snow. Yeah, it's cold. 70 mile an hour winds.
Wow. 70? That sounds miserable. It does, and it's cold enough here.
It's supposed to be colder here tomorrow. Is it? Yeah. That's so nice, because it was like 85 yesterday.
Saturday. I know. It's crazy. That was too hot.
No, it's fine. I'm ready for the heat. It's hot. My grass looked green for that day.
Oh, did it early? Mine's too bright. It's going to die again. At least the northerners don't have burn bands like we do.
Yeah. Right, yeah. We're in the burn section of our state now. Yeah, what's that What about?
It's because it's so dry and everything's dead. So everything burns? Yeah, it burns easily. You throw a little cigarette out your window.
Well, thank God there's no Mexican cartel here. Right, they would have a field day. Everything would be burning. Smokey the bear pops up.
I would have armed myself and protected my Costco. Did you go to Costco and sit over? Not today. They're turning the Sanford Mall into a Costco.
Are they? Yeah, it's supposed to be like the biggest one in the United States. The biggest Costco? Biggest, yeah.
Sanford Mall? Uh huh. This is finally the decision that they've made. Everybody voted, and they said yes.
We haven't had a decision like this since LeBron James going to Cleveland. They're putting apartments on the second floor. Oh, Costco apartments? Yes.
Like, does it come with, like, sodas and hot dogs? I don't think they're included. Probably free membership. Maybe, maybe.
Complimentary membership? Yeah, like the executive one. It's part of your rent? I like what's going on here.
This makes me happy. You like the Costco? Will there be propane and gas there? Probably.
I imagine they will. Nice. I hope they have that little Sears thing out and put it over there. I like it.
I hope they have diesel fuel. Yeah, for you? Yeah. They're not going to do it.
Not going to do it. Maybe because it's the biggest one. We'll put that fitness center back up. Oh, a gym?
Costco gym? Kirkland Signature Weightlifting? Yeah, there's already a gym there. They just have to put some equipment in it.
There you go. Would you join? No. It's much closer.
Much closer, you can do it back and forth to work. I love my gym, I have a system, I'm not changing that. Well, couldn't you have the system at the new gym? No.
Why not? Because I like my system. And you can go and your kids could do go-karts and things while you're working out. I'm not doing that.
No. Okay. All right, what else you got? You got a video?
I do not have a video today. Surprise, surprise. You got to read in the middle of the show, you want to talk about hockey? Uh, we already kind of did talk about hockey.
We just said they won. Yeah, we talked about John McTavish. All right, and one kid got his teeth knocked out. He did?
The kid who made the final score that put us over the top. Did you see that shot? No, but I read the story. That shot was epic.
Yeah, like Willie said, poor Canada, it's a game of inches. Again. I don't feel bad for Canada for losing in hockey. No, no, he was just saying that because, you know, the Blue Jays lost in an inch.
Oh, did they? Yeah, against the Dodgers. Can't just get their ass kicked. America.
Did the female hockey beat Canada, too? Yeah. Oh, so they're just losing everywhere. Yeah.
Yeah, well. Sucks to be Canada. Maybe we should rethink that 51st state thing. Collecting the L's.
Collecting the L's. And then you guys would be winners, too. Yeah, then you guys would get dubs. You know what I mean?
Can't beat 'em, join 'em. That's the same. There you go. And if they don't want to be a star on the flag, you know, they could just be a territory.
Yeah, we could put a maple leaf up. Yeah, like Puerto Rico. We could put a little maple leaf in there. Most people won't even know that you're a part of America.
Right. Just like Puerto Rico. Yeah, and then we can have some kind of Canadian artist do the Super Bowl, and then we could all be outraged. Oh, there you go.
" He's being sued. By who? Uh, that house that he built as part of his, uh, thing, apparently it's a real house, and the guy who owns a house is suing him because he didn't give him permission to duplicate his house. Oh, my God.
What are we doing? I don't know, it's another Puerto Rican suing him Puerto Rican, I don't know what to tell you. What does that mean? Oh, yeah.
It means the guy who owns a house is in Puerto Rican. This was a big Puerto Rican thing. " You think Greg would be a subject matter expert on this? On the phone right now, Greg Szczepankevich, half Puerto Rican.
Is that why you're saying that? Yeah. He's half Puerto Rican. Because he's eating so much rice and beans.
Because his wife is Puerto Rican? Right. Right. Right.
Right. You guys are too much. I just want to know, I'm only affiliated with these people on the show. He's the boss apparently.
I don't speak with them outside of here anymore. Yeah, he's the head boss. He's the head guy apparently. I have no control over what they say.
No, we review it before every show. No, we don't. Oh, yeah, we don't. His line's pre-recorded, because if he wants to take it out, he can.
It's not happening. All right, Cigar News. Yeah, no kidding. The day after the Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump didn't have the legal authority to enact his April 2025 Liberation Day tariffs, the American President announced that he would increase the base level tariffs.
There you go. Like, I don't understand. From 10 to 15 percent, the new rate is part of Section 122 tariffs. He found a new rule.
Like, that's the funny part to me. Oh, I can't do it that way? Oh, we're here. We talked about this.
Well, yeah. Well, yeah. I, you know, I mentioned that because we called Nick at Cigar Den, who we should call again, It could be funny as hell. Yeah, he has nothing else to do.
Two guys is open. Do you see his video this morning? No. He's outside with his phone on the end of one of those selfie sticks.
Yeah. And you can't hear half of it because the wind's blowing so hard. Right. He's puffing his little cigar saying, "We're open!
" Wow. If you can make it. Good for him. Poor little man.
Such a great video. So what the hell were you talking about? Cigar den. Oh yeah.
Cigar den. Yeah, they're like, "Oh, the tariff's gonna go away. What are you going to do now with your price? I'm like, dude, the tariffs aren't going away.
You think that this is not a guy that just says, all right, you won. He figures out a way to do it. Well, but. Tell me.
The Dominican and Honduras tariffs went up. Our tariff for Nicaragua went down. It did. Because it's 15%.
We were at 18. Oh, it went down? So ours went down three. Theirs went up five.
Nice and even across the board. So everybody's at 15 now. Woo-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Well, it makes it easier for Tanya when she's doing her spreadsheet there at the White House.
Yeah. Right. 15 and carry the one. Everybody at 15 now.
It's so much easier. It's so much better. Here comes an Excel sheet. So that's even funnier now because now you're going to hear more price increases from the Dominican Republic and from Honduras.
Right. But it's only for, it's like 150 days. Rule 122 only gives them 150 days. It's a temporary thing.
Oh, and then I'm sure that it needs like a two-day break, and then you could just re-instill it. I don't know how that works. That's what I was thinking too. Yeah, there's probably, yeah.
Take a day off and put it back on. Yeah, there's some, oh, expired. Everybody ships the cigars on Tuesday. Expired.
New one. Or by then, he'll find a new rule. Yeah. That's right after midterms, right?
123. If you haven't learned this by now, the golden rule is those who have the gold make the rules. Yep. Yeah, so if you think for one second, That tariffs are going away because this guy's going to just back down.
I'm not going away. You're out of your mind. Where are they originally at? I have no clue.
Probably zero originally. No, nobody was zero. Nobody is zero. You don't think it ever started at zero?
No. And then I like how... Back when the Indians were trading for beads. I like the beads Americans, sir.
I like how some people were like, "Oh, well, now the rebates are going to the businesses. They should be going to the consumers and all this other stuff. It's like, okay, dude, like, I don't, he's not gonna pay anybody, like, good luck with that. Yeah, you're not getting money back.
Yeah. Good luck with that. What do you want to go? You're gonna go to court for that?
Okay. Right. Go to court. It's like if the UTL goes away, nobody's getting money back.
It's like you, you believe in the system, the, no, that's not, that's not how it works. That's not how the system works. The system works, people. Come on.
The rich will always continue to get richer. That's just how that works. Speaking of rich people: Pro Cigar, Pro Cigar 2026, the Dominican Republic most prominent cigar festival came to a close Friday evening with the traditional gala night and the annual humidor action for chair, auction, why do you say action? I don't know.
Another typo. For charities, along with the organized, it raised, guess how much money it raised? Rekord numbers. Rekord numbers, Phil.
Rekord numbers. Last year was very disappointing. $300,000. $600,000.
$618,188 in total. That's a pretty good guess, Mike. I saw it. He saw it.
He cheated. Mostly from the Humidor auction, but also through some direct donations. This was the first time that the Humidor auction raised more than $500,000, surpassing the previous record set in 2024, and a notable increase from what was characterized as a disappointing 2025. Yeah, something about when you raise prices, you have more money, I don't know.
I think opening it up to people that weren't there helped too. I think AJ won that thing for $150, though. AJ bought the Fuente one for $150. Yeah.
So, yeah, opening up made sense online. You see what they got against what they said it was worth was just ridiculous. Yeah. Some of them were.
But that's what an auction is supposed to be about. Right. No, I mean like the PDR one they said was worth $18,000. Okay.
That was the lowest one. It got $600. What? Yes.
It got $600? Yes. From $18,000? Yes, they said it was worth $18,000 and it went for $600.
That's ridiculous. I would be so pissed. The Casa Carrillo, I mean, only went for $2,500 and it was a double digit too. I don't remember specifically what that one was.
What does that tell you? Nobody likes PDR cigars. Yeah, or like the people in the organization won't even support them. Arnold Andre, I don't know what his went for, but he, they only got $700.
I'd be so pissed. I'm guessing it's Andre cigars. I'm guessing. Like whether you like this guy or not, he went out of his way to build a thing, to give away.
Right, donated it to the organization. Right. And somebody said, I'll give you 50 bucks for it. Reyes went for $700.
What are these things that they're giving away? It's humanors. Yeah, they're humanors full of cigars. Right, so AJ's, but the Fuente one went for $150,000?
Yeah, AJ bought it. That's wild. Only AJ. Only AJ.
Toro Fuente had another one and it went for $3,500. You think that's just the one check for the $150,000? You think it's installments? One check.
He's just walking around the briefcase? Yeah, if he was there, he could have went on the phone. Yeah. Probably has like an old freezer box, like a walk-in freezer box.
Right, full of cash. Cash is all on the shelves. Hmm. Just brought it in, laid it out on the table.
Hold on, I'll be right back. Put it in the car. Put it in the car. Here you go, take it.
Put it in my car. You know which one it is? It says only AJ on the car. It's on the license plate.
No, it says only AJ. Now I write off. Dominican Republic. Only AJ, Dominican.
It's the one I drive when I'm here. Before I go back to my reef I have made outside my villa. He has a reef? Yes.
Yeah, he bought the reef. Like a coral reef? Yeah. So they got mad at him and said that he couldn't.
Is that illegal? Yeah, they got mad at him, said he couldn't do anything to it, so he bought it. So he bought it. Is that a true story?
I've heard that too. That's the rumor? Yeah. That's okay.
What do you mean? It's a third world country. The government's offered enough money, they'll sell anything. No, it's illegal.
You can't have that reef. I give you a million dollars. You can have it where you want it delivered. Would you like it today?
You can't drive your boat over that. I can't. I'd buy it. I can run it over as much as I want.
Jet ski everywhere. Oh, we have new cigar, Coral Reef Cigar. Coral Reef Cigar. It's called AJ Reef.
AJ Reef. Only AJ Reef. All right, the Cigar Masters launched a premium online cigar education platform. Oh, this sounds fantastic.
It did, didn't it? The Cigar Masters has launched an online cigar education platform offering more than 25 hours of professionally produced video content according to a press release issued February 11, 2026. Let's see, our show's 30 minutes long, or an hour long, 30 minutes of that is cigar news, cigar updates, cigar information. We're approaching episode 500, so we can give you 250 hours of content, cigar-based, for nothing.
Well, you have to watch it. No, no, no, don't you say that last part. Don't say for nothing. Yeah.
I'm giving everything away over there. Yeah. You do have to watch ads now. For God's sakes, man.
99 a month. That's a deal. 99. Right.
So what does it include? All right. These are the people that are included in the videos. Okay.
Alexander Groom. No idea. No idea. Mitchell Orchant.
Klaas Kellner. That I know. AJ Patel. Okay.
Sounds familiar. Yeah, it does sound familiar. Nick Floats, Darian Spizzania, Raul Bravo, and Cigar Inspectors Usman Daywood. And what do they, what do they say?
They cover. Mike Lim has described his documentary style, exploring film, exploration filmed across multiple continents covering tobacco production from cultivation through manufacturing, cigar history, vitolas, vintage cigars, aging cigar and drink pairings, counterfeit detection, cigar retail, and lounge business, and tasting and appreciation. Sounds like they put a lot of work into this. 99 per month.
What's the highest? You can cancel at any time. Well, I went to the website. Yeah.
I know you did. You did do some more, you know, investigative. Yeah. So, the webpage, I assume it's the same webpage.
It was called the same thing. Right. I googled the name. It only had one feed that I could find.
It was for $120 for four hours. Okay. Dang. Introductory course on those things that I mentioned before.
And now, and I quote you, "explore the heritage and culture that shaped cigar traditions, learning to conduct the tasting ritual with confidence and understanding the etiquette So I said okay, clicked on that, went a little further, and it said out of stock, can't buy it. Are you sure it was the same site? Same name, I googled, I just took the name from the article and put it up at the top. There is only one Cigar Masters.
Same people. What's it called? Cigar Masters. Hold on, I gotta go back to the top.
Settle down. Hold on, I'm almost to the top: The Cigar Masters Class. Cigar Masters Launch Premium Online Cigar Education Platform. Cigar Masters Class.
There's several other classes planned. Master of Cigars Online Education. That could be it, I don't know. That's the only one that pops up.
Very pretty website. Click the link. Is Alex Spitsanya on there? It's a very pretty site.
Explore Courses. Learn more. That's $120. That's it.
Out of stock. Out of stock? It's a video. How does a video become out of stock?
Yeah, digital video. They only have the one? But this is like in euros and tuition. 50 euros.
Oh, maybe it's a VHS. It's a VHS. Oh, God. Some serious missteps here.
Another great idea by a bunch of fancy guys that nobody... Well, we did a press release and we don't even have... Right, it doesn't even work. Oh, my God.
There was no link mentioned in the press release. Bro. The only person that covered the press release was the magazine that the guy is in that is part of the group. Oh.
Mm. So how'd you find it? I go to other places for cigar news when Half Wheel doesn't have any. Gotcha.
Okay. What's he doing over there? He's boiling an egg. Sounds like it.
Beaming it up, Scotty. He's smoking the Viaje, what is it? Phil number two? Gojira.
Gojira. Gojira. All right, now it's time for the biggest game to ever hit the cigar industry. What's the score?
Okay, today's This first cigar, March 17, 2014, Brian Burt, um, sorry, Brian Burt reviewed the cigar. From Deltono, Florida? Yeah. Yes, Crown Heads, Dominican Republic, Redux, Four Kicks, Mule Kick.
Uh-oh. What year was this? 2014. This is old.
Uh-oh, my engine's revving. Me first? Go ahead. Okay.
Four Kicks, let's go 84. So low, 89. Okay, Cigar Reviews, Four Kicks, Limited Edition, 2012 Mule Kick, Country of Origin, Dominican Republic, Factory, Tablical Era, La Alizia? La Alizia.
That's what he said. Okay. Wrapper, Ecuadorian Habano, binder, Nicaraguan filler, Nicaraguan size, 5 and 7, 8 by 52, it's a Toro, and they only smoked one because it's a Redux. Phil?
82. 89. Clue number one: the construction was flawless, especially after some humidor time. Boom.
A razor-sharp burn line, sturdy ash holding over an inch, and an ideal draw made the cigar perform exactly how you want a limited edition to perform. Flawless. 33. 84.
Ninety. Clue number two. Clue number two. The flavor profile still delivers a refined combination of milk chocolate, nuttiness, cocoa, and cedar with added layers of cinnamon and light citrus in the second third.
For a sub-$9 limited release, it offers impressive complexity and value. Eighty-five. Clue number three, compared to earlier experiences, the flavors felt slightly muted, and the cigar developed a noticeable bitterness toward the end, leaving it just short of the standout performance it once had. Just short, huh?
Just that it once had. 88. Good one. 89.
Final thought. To say the very least, I was disappointed in this Redux. I had very high hopes for the cigar, which scored so well initially. I speculated that the mule kick was slightly over humidified when I reviewed it and wrote that I hoped some time and rest would bring out even more flavors.
That leads me to believe that either the cigar smokes better at a higher humidity, this was a fluke and a bad sample, or this is a possibility the mule kick was the prime when it was released and hasn't done well with age. Whatever the case, maybe despite the delightful construction, the muted profile, and lack of previously enjoyed flavors, it really put a damper on my enjoyment of the cigar. Unlike you. Unlike you.
Unlike me what? You're at your prime now with age. Yes. Yes, exactly right.
You're flourishing. Sweating my ass off. Sweating your ass off? Sweating.
Is that why you slide out of the chair? Maybe. Because the diaper gets wet. Diapers are in my pants, I keep telling you that.
Because you have ass sweat? I have ass, yeah, ass sweat. Tremendous ass sweat. You better be careful, you get one of those bedsores.
There's giant light here, I might burst into flames now. Yeah. We should, we should do a giveaway where we do a trip to Mexico. Puerto Vallarta, here for you!
Oh, sorry, we were gonna do it, but the flights aren't available. The flights are canceled, sorry, Southwest canceled the flights. I don't think we can do about it. And we have no money, so we're gonna let Greg drive you to Mexico.
Yeah. In the show. In the show. Right.
You see, he drove in today with all the windows down. The guy's dying of pneumonia, and he's got all the windows down driving in on that car. Is he dying of pneumonia? He's still sick and coughing.
He's always dying of something. We're all dying. That's true. Some of us faster.
Eighty-six. That's a good number. That's a good number. That could be the number.
Eighty-five. 85. Did you look it up? No.
Wow. You went the right way. I know. Score is 85!
Boom! Nailed it! I went again. You went again there, Phillip.
You know, I feel like America, and you must feel like Canada. Just by an inch. Just losing all the time. Losing everywhere.
Losing with the tariffs. Losing with the hockey. What do you have? You got the syrup, I guess.
Right? Still got syrup. That's syrup. I mean, they got the Mounties.
Yeah, they don't. Oh, they don't exist anymore. Yeah, there's like one guy now. Really?
Just a ceremonial group now. Yeah. Wow, that's messed up. I don't even have that.
They have the falls. Niagara Falls, we have half of them. So do we. I wonder if AJ's gonna buy the other half.
They got the Big Mac, we got the Big Mick. AJ's gonna buy the other half. AJ buys half in Niagara Falls. Canadian side.
What do you mean I can't bring my boat in here? Because I can. I can. Did you see my reef?
AJ Fernandez buys Canadian half of the Air Falls. Now he makes new cigars. He's called AJ Falls. AJ Falls.
Only AJ Falls. Only AJ Falls. All right, this Wednesday I will be at Northport Cigar. Wait, wait, wait.
There's only one. Oh, is that the first one? Oh, I thought the show was over. I thought the show was over.
I get all excited. He's got to change his diaper. We've got to get him to bed soon. All right, May 9th, 2019, Charlie Monado, Cigar, Just Some Crowl, Nicaragua Reviews, the Nugs Habano.
Oh, boy. Your first winner. 65. Listen, this is why.
Wriste, don't come for me, for the love of God. I think that Charlie and Half Wheel don't necessarily get along with Wriste, so... And I feel like this might, this, maybe this was the reason, so that's why I just shot it low. So don't hurt me.
Twenty-two. Twenty, oh my god. You can come for Phil, though. You can hurt Phil, come for Phil.
I don't, I mean, I don't, the numbers don't matter in half will. We already know this. Don't hack our YouTube page, please don't do it, please don't wreck any other stuff. Can they hack our YouTube page?
He's like super smart. Yeah, he can, yeah. He can do all kinds of things. Jessam, Crowl, Nugs, Habano, Country of Origin, Nicaragua, Factory, Tabla Calera, De Argon, Wrapper, Ecuadorian, Habano, Binder, Undisclosed, Filler, Undisclosed, Length 5x48, Robusto, they smoked 3, and they were all really high.
I'm gonna go 65. Is this the one that has the marijuana in it? The Nugs? Yeah, it has, but it's not THC, it's, uh, what's the other one?
Elemental P? Yeah. H-O-O-B or something? Yeah.
CBD. CBD. CBD. Oh, fake stuff.
Um... Fake stuff. I don't even know where to go with this cigar. Okay.
I never even heard of it. I went at 22, so I would go up. Yeah, you probably weren't even a cigar guy at that time. No.
And their name is, were just some Nugs? Is that the name of this one? Joseph McCrawl. Joseph McCrawl is the guy's name.
Oh, that's a name? Yeah. Oh. It's the name of the brand.
Oh, okay. Ristey is the guy. Ristey is the guy's name. Oh.
Uh. Ristey. Where'd you say you were at? 65.
You're still in the 60s? Yep. I'll go up a little. 25.
Okay. I was just being dumb. Clue number one. Cigar delivers a consistent core of nuttiness, coffee, toast, and bread, With white pepper and earth adding depth to the middle third.
When the flavors come together, it shows a solid medium full profile with good balance and involving complexity. 80. Oh, wow. That's a super big job.
Do you listen when he talks? Yeah, but Brian just did a review and he did a 180. He thought it was gonna be in the 90s. Well, I just kind of score along with what he says and then I make a decision on the final thought.
That's how you play the game. I'll go to 70. Instead of just saying random numbers. Seventy.
Clue number two, why they keep bickering. Construction shines in the draw department. All three samples offered a great easy draw with ample smoke production, allowing the flavor profile to express itself without resistance. You're up.
Eighty-five. Seventy-five. Seven-niner. Clue number three.
The biggest drawback is inconsistency. Uh-oh. Flavors can feel muted or generic at times, Retro Hells introduced the odd sour note, and burn performance varies significantly, including uneven burns in one sample that raced through the first third too far, too quickly. Yeah, I mean, look, it's, you know.
It's the marijuana. Yeah, it's difficult to calibrate, I'm sure. Sure. 72.
Oh, um, Craig is leaving. He's done. Yeah, you can quit. 75.
All right, final thought. I hate wrist day. My name is Charlie Monado. Oh God.
This is still a cigar blog and our process is to review cigars in the same manner each and every time. So, while every other discussion of the nugs will start and end with CBD, mine will finish with the cigar. We'll finish with the cigar. I think this is somewhat in the middle of the pack for JSK offerings to date.
At times, showing very developed flavors, but oftentimes lacking that precision. Outside of touch-ups, particularly after the first third, I can't say there are many negatives about the nugs. But I do wish two exemplary characteristics were more consistent. Seventy...
76. 75. You went the wrong way. 85.
He got an 80? He got a different, he got a decent score. That wasn't bad at all. It's, okay.
He took it for what it was, a cigar. You faked me out. You said they had no good relationship there. You lose again.
They don't, but in the final thought, he said, "We're gonna do what we do. This is a cigar. " Blame Canada Blame Canada That's you You're Canada Canadian Phil Canadian Phil Canadian Phil does have a sticker of Biggie Smalls on him Yes he does I'm looking at him right now Not that we've doctored that thing up with Canadian memorabilia You start dropping your A's a little bit, you know John McDavish, when you hear this in six months Can you send me a bunch of Canadian stickers? The only sticker of singer they have is Drake Wasn't the...
Some of the Canadian flag stickers Wasn't that My Heart Will Go On, Lady Canadian? What's her name? Who? Titanic.
Thank you. Celine Dion. She's Canadian. Yeah, but she's almost dead.
What do you mean she's almost dead? She's got that disease where she turns into stone. What? She turns into stone?
Yeah, her joints and everything lock up. Oh, my. You mean she can't move, not turns into stone? Well, yeah, but it's called something like stonophobia or something.
I mean, it's got rocks in the name. Wasn't Bon Jovi Canadian? Yeah, Bon Jovi's Canadian. A couple of good things come out of Canada.
Oh, Celine Dion's number one. Joni Mitchell. That's a little before you guys time. Yeah, was she like a folk singer?
Yeah. Neil Young. Before you guys time too. I know who Neil Young is, bro.
Yeah. Don't come from me. Leonard Cohen. Michael J.
Fox. The Weekend. He's Canadian. Drake, obviously.
The Biebs. Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber? Justin Bieber.
Justin Bieber. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Does he wear anything but underwear now? He just runs around in just his underwear all the time.
Pretty much. I mean, that's, listen, if I was, you know, if I had tons of money. Well, that's what you do at home anyway, so. Yeah, if I had tons of money, I'd probably just be out in my underwear.
Right. You know? Your wife says you just run around in your underwear at home. Brian Adams.
Yeah. Shania Twain. Wow, there's a lot. Everybody's mad at her now.
Why are they mad at Shania Twain? I don't know, it was something she did where she was dressed, And Bieber Boxers? Something. I wish.
Bieber Boxers? Something unbefitting a woman of her age. Alanis Morissette? You mean Alice?
Alice? Yeah, Alice from the Brady Bunch? Alice Morissette? No, Alice and Morissette?
Isn't that a guitarist? It's Alanis. It's not Alice. Alanis Morissette?
That's a guitarist, right? No. She's a singer. I think she plays the guitar, though.
Maybe I'm thinking of somebody different. Yeah, obviously. No, not maybe. You definitely are thinking somebody different.
Alice in Chains? That's a band. Yeah. Who's the guitarist in that?
Nobody named Alice. Not Alanis Morissette. And not somebody named Alice. Whatever.
I think Alice in Chains actually has a member name Alice. And they're not in chains. That was your top 10 notable mentions. Michael Bublé, Avril Lavigne.
Michael Bublé. Nelly Furtado. Wow. So there you go.
You're in some good company. How come they don't have their own award place? Canadians? Yeah.
Well, you've got to have a Tourette's person there. It's too expensive for the taxes. Probably. Who's even in charge of Canada now?
I would say that we lost our one Canadian listener, but like you said, he won't hear this for six months. He's so far out. He's so far behind. He's an out-listener.
He listens to every episode. We love you, Canada. Just in his own time. We love you, Canada.
Even if you lost a lot lately, it's okay. In six months, you're going to get a hate email. You're going to rise out of all your L's. Six months we get a nasty email.
Like a phoenix. What is this about? Why are we getting an email from McDermott? What the hell is he talking about?
What are you talking about? What are you talking about? The hockey team. Yeah, we love Canada.
Hockey? Football season again. Hockey? I'm like, I didn't even watch it.
I just caught the highlights on the news. That's how involved I was. I just knew I'd give you a hard time. Did you guys watch any of the Winter Olympics at all?
No. I didn't either. Care less. Yeah, nobody cared.
Just give me the stats at the end. Tell me the golds. I told you why, though. It's ridiculous.
They're not going to watch something that already happened. Yeah, but nobody really watches the Winter Olympics anyways. And I want it to be where if you got the, if you, whoever wins the most gold, they get to have it in their country. Right, you have it the next, next time.
It's a reason, the home field advantage is a reason to do well. Did you watch the closing ceremonies? No. The pro support wouldn't look like it was better.
Yeah, it probably was. They were just done. Well, you know, they're out of condoms. Right, everybody's mad, everybody's all looked up, or there's pregnant women everywhere.
everywhere. Everybody's chafed with STDs. I mean, like, you know. With STDs.
It's just going around. Things are wild. STDs running through the sports people. Conneria all over.
Rampant among athletes. This is just a joke. Don't hurt me. Hey, am I got anything else?
Not going to say where I'm going to be? Hey, where are you going to be? Hey, Wednesday. I'm going to be at Northport Cigars over in Northport, Florida from 1 to 5.
Come see me. That's awesome. And we got an event coming up. Uh, Friday.
You won't be here. No, end of March. Where are we gonna be? We're gonna see Bull Weevil?
Oh, we're going to Bull Weevil Cigars and, uh, um, humidor, fine humidor. When is that? It's like the 25th and 26th or 26th and 27th, or whatever that Friday, Saturday is, I think. Okay.
That sounds exciting. Yeah, it's Saturday. Friday, Saturday? I don't know.
Or Thursday or Friday? I don't know. You don't know? Are you guys flying or driving?
We're driving. Ooh. Yeah. Because I like to pop into Pensacola while we're over in that area.
Oh, God. I think it's Thursday, Friday. I think it's Thursday, Friday as well. Yeah, 26th and 27th.
Okay. Sounds perfect. Can't wait. Where are we popping into?
Pensacola. Oh. Because you don't ever go there. It's kind of out of the way.
Yeah. About an hour and a half. Closer than we would have been from here. Yeah.
All right, guys. This has been episode 474. Enjoy the ads. Oh, we got ads?
We have an ad in the middle. Oh, yeah, you missed that. Yeah, we're added. We have ads now.
We got ads. Yeah. All right. All right, bye-bye.
All right, go. Bye.
Show Notes
On todays show….Mikey Next Dogs Name will be El Mencho, BAFTAs were a Fing Success…can’t go anywhere on the eastern seaboard its all snowed in! And then in cigars Pro Sabor sets records, and we have some tariffs news! A new Cigar Masters classs, Then a game of what’s the score!