Achp Episode 479 They Just Don't Learn

Episode Summary

Episode 479 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast finds Mike Palmer, Mikey and Phil McGuffey running through their usual mix of news, banter and cigar industry headlines. The first half is off-topic current events: an update on the escalating Israel–Iran conflict and strikes on Iranian leadership, the early-morning lunar eclipse the crew mostly slept through, a Brevard County school district cracking down on student vaping with handheld metal detectors and closed bathrooms, a Montgomery County (Alabama) school system dumping its electric bus fleet for 140 diesel buses after a fraud scandal, Justin Timberlake's attempt to block release of his 2024 Sag Harbor DUI police video, and the seven takeaways from the Bill and Hillary Clinton Epstein depositions.

The cigar news segment covers three stories. Aladino (JRE Tobacco Co., the Eiroa family's Honduran operation) is releasing the Aladino Declaration, a 6 x 52 Toro shipping this summer for the United States semiquincentennial — priced at $15, packed in 13-count boxes honoring the original 13 colonies, with Betsy Ross's flag on the outside and the Declaration of Independence text inside. Casdagli Cigars is teasing two new versions of its Daughters of the Wind line, including a Daughters of the Wind Rosado with a Costa Rican-grown Habano rosado wrapper made at the IGM Cigar Factory. And German distributor MK & Söhne, run by brothers Adam and Daniel Kohles, has rebranded as Kohles & Söhne and relocated near Hamburg; the company distributes Ashton, My Father, Padrón and Rocky Patel in Germany.

The show closes with "What's the Score," where the guys guess Brooks Whittington's halfwheel redux score for the Espinosa Limited Edition Nicaragua Warzone Toro — a Cameroon-wrapped, La Zona-made 6 x 52 with Honduran binder and Colombian/Nicaraguan filler. Five years of age improved the Cameroon character but not the bland first third; the redux landed at 88, matching Palmer's guess after he also nailed the original 84. The hosts also plug CHPod.com swag (including the new Smoke & Subscribe triple torch and single flame lighters), read listener comments, and announce upcoming appearances at Bo Weevil Cigars and Humidor Fine Cigars in Dothan, Alabama on the 26th and 27th.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Listener Comments & CHPod Swag
   The crew reads recent YouTube comments and plugs the new Smoke & Subscribe triple torch and single flame lighters at CHPod.com.
2. 02
   War Update: Israel, Iran and Iraq
   Strikes on an Iranian Supreme Council gathering, Iran-aligned militias in Iraq, the pager attack, and rising oil and diesel prices.
3. 03
   Lunar Eclipse and Rocket Launches
   The hosts compare notes on missing the blood moon eclipse and being jaded about Florida rocket launches.
4. 04
   School Vaping Crackdown and Electric Bus Fraud
   Brevard County wands students for vapes while an Alabama district swaps 140 electric buses for diesel after a fraud conviction.
5. 05
   Justin Timberlake's DUI Video Lawsuit
   Timberlake tries to block release of his Sag Harbor DUI footage, sparking a discussion on owning your mistakes in the social media era.
6. 06
   Seven Takeaways from the Clinton Epstein Depositions
   Bill and Hillary Clinton's sworn denials, the photos, the travel records, and why depositions may not lead anywhere.
7. 07
   Cigar News: Aladino Declaration, Casdagli and Kohles & Söhne
   Aladino's 250th-anniversary Toro, Casdagli's Daughters of the Wind Rosado, and MK & Söhne's rebrand to Kohles & Söhne.
8. 08
   What's the Score: Espinosa Warzone Toro Redux
   Guessing halfwheel's redux score on the five-year-aged Cameroon-wrapped Espinosa Warzone Toro, which came in at 88.

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Transcript

Welcome to Cigar Hustler Podcast, Episode 479, I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and with me today is Phil. I don't like the new equipment, they might get rid of me, McGuffey. Wow. Over in engineering.

And that's my co-host, Mikey. I'm still coming down from my Preston High. It is Tuesday. Wow.

Wow. Hi, how are you? Hi. That's all he's got now.

No sugar, just Preston. No sugar, just Preston one day a week. Right. He left fast today.

He's a busy man. Well, we had to get back and get the house ready for Mikey. Wow. And he comes over later?

Sir. But I'm pumped. I made a couple of comments you had to explain to Preston what I'm talking about. We're on the, we're on the, uh, playoffs are about to happen.

He's got the girls league that's about to go on. He's got baseball. You know, you guys have not created a girls league. His kids are in baseball.

Oh, I thought maybe he was running a baseball league now too. Wait, he has kids? Yeah, he doesn't just do. He does a whole league and then he has kids?

Yeah. Oh my Lord. He has two, right? How do you think it all started?

He didn't just decide, I like to hang out with kids, I'm going to start a business. He's got three. Oh, three. Oh, just like you.

Oh, this makes sense. He's got an identical set to me. Oh, two boys and a girl? Aw, nice.

Is his wife named Brittany, too? No. Well. There was something I was going to talk about at the beginning of the show, and now I don't remember.

Just a matter of time. I don't know. All right, on today's show, we've got a war update. Uh-oh.

The Lunar Eclipse. Vaping is a problem in Brevard County Schools. Of course it is. Montgomery Public Schools has a different problem.

Justin Timberlake is trying to stop his new movie from being released. Oh. And then we have the seven takeaways from the Clinton questioning on Epstein. Ooh.

Like, did you have sexual relations with that woman? No. I did not. There is a question similar to that.

Yeah. Then in Cigars, we have two new cigars and a new company name. But first, Mikey, how do we get some of that CHPod swag? And what are the comments?

Are we not doing a what's the score? Are we doing comments now? Oh, yeah, there's a what score at the end. Yeah, now this is where you do the comments, either before or after you tell them about the swag.

com for all of your Cigar Hustler podcast swag. It's not working for me, the angle. Where we just released the Smoke & Subscribe, Triple Torch, and Single Flame Lighter. Shout out to my boy, Francis Saletto.

Yes. Oh, what'd he get? He purchased the lighter. He's the best.

Triple Torch. Oh. Yep. That the big one?

That's the big one. Oh. That's the big one. So, getting into our comments recently.

Like and subscribe also, wherever you're viewing or listening to this podcast. Thank you. Oh, I got a new comment that I haven't even seen yet. Let's just read it.

Oh, it's raw. But new, fresh. It's ODB. " Aha.

Yeah. Wow. T-Money really, like, tries to hit deep. Tries to stir it up.

Yeah. He lets you know. I've never said anything bad about Team Lion, only Palmer has. And you shouldn't.

Oh, jeez. That was before. That was before. I love him now, he's great.

He's the best. Stay off of me. AnnMariePoorPat6805, welcome back to the comment section, AnnMarie. Oh, where has she been?

She said, "Thanks, guys. Now I can't get Squatty Poutty out of my head. " Hope you don't have one. Thank you.

Stephen Wells wrote, "I get it. Phil has some limitations. I wouldn't expect him to design the Mars Lander, but I did think he was the guy to get three Whoppers, maybe, maybe we need to bring in a backup quarterback like the commercials, we might have one in mind, yeah, well, you know, wow, and then David Morris, 7700 says on the topic of the poop pill, I think that's how they help curve C. diff, old turkey baster up the poop chute with good dookie, that's true.

That is very true, in order to, you know, they'll give you someone else's fecal matter with bacteria to help it repopulate. Oh, man, that's where they got the idea. Yeah. Hmm.

So, yeah. That's it, just three, four? What's that? That was like five.

There were a number more. That was, that was what I did. The word is infotainment. It's not infotainment.

Yes, it is, according to T-Money. It's edutainment. No. That's, those, I did see that, but I'm not seeing it here.

Oh, oh, uh, uh, Mitchie Maduro did write, they removed Gullible from the dictionary, and you go, oh my god, they did, oh my god, yeah, no, you believed it, was awesome, uh, went right over his head, and, yeah, that's all I see, I did see that infotainment thing, but I don't see it now, oh, weird, maybe you corrected it, so. So, if you want to hear your comment, potentially, on this show, please leave a comment below on any of our episodes, especially the newer ones. The funnier and more insulting, the better. Yeah.

The more you make fun of Phil, the higher the chance that it's gonna be. Yeah, obviously. Or Palmer. Right, if you make fun of him, he's not gonna read them.

That's all right, me and Palmer are sifter, though. I'll make sure, though, if you make fun of him, I will make sure he gets read. People don't really make fun of me. Please, somebody make fun of Mikey.

All right, is that it? You done? That's it. I have to make sure you're finished now before I move on to something else.

That's very thoughtful of you. You got a little miffed. You got a little miffed? Was it yesterday?

It was yesterday's show. Oh, thank you. I know they all run together, but it was yesterday. All right, we got a war update.

S. forces now. Yes. Was that like 20% of the population?

I don't know how many of them there are, exactly. They really have no leaders. We will form, and we will fight. All right, the airstracks in Iraq have killed the militia members.

Yeah, I mean, it's not a problem anymore. We will fight, and then we are gone. It's over. Iraq's military is actively defending its airspace.

They have drones now. Oh. I don't know. Where are they getting their drones?

On Amazon? Well, when ours crash, they pick them up. Yeah, and they glue them back together. Oh, that's nice.

And they put a little flag on it. And this just in. This just happened. Okay.

Uh, Israel forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering, uh, Tuesday, which is today. Right? Today's Tuesday? Well, yeah.

Well, this will air Wednesday. Right. As the group was meeting to choose a successor to the lead regime after the Ayatollah, Ali Khomeini, was killed on Saturday. Right.

Who's the new guy? Gone. Yeah. And it's done.

There was 49 of them at the meeting. Wow. So number 50 is the lone survivor. 49 of Iran's most senior leaders leaving Iran's military fractured and leaderless.

Think about this. Let's think about this process here. And who is in charge of this military? Okay.

Let's get everybody get together so we can discuss the strategy to attack Israel. To elect a new Ayatollah. No, no. Before that.

Oh, before that. Right, right, right. Let's all get together. All get together.

And we're going to go meet in this building. Building gone. Right. All dead.

And it's over. And you're done, right? Okay. What do we do?

Okay, we need to have another meeting. Let's get everybody together. Let's get everybody together. And then let's try and figure this out.

All 49 of us who vote come together in the meeting. Yeah, it'll be secret. Yeah, I mean, why didn't they just find out who's leaking the info? So apparently there is no Zoom meeting.

They don't have Zoom? Apparently not. They all met again and, hey, they're all in the same building again. You're not going to believe this.

It's the one next to the other one. Can you imagine the phone call? Did you get a phone call? Hey, you are not gonna believe this.

You're not gonna believe these idiots. They're back together again. Oh, these are different. These are the 49 that are like the Ayatollah.

These are the leftover ones after they killed the other one. This is level two. Hey, we've reached level two, and level two has now gotten together, and they are just... Now they're gone too.

Yeah. You know what would be great if, like, the person behind all the telling the secrets is like Snoop Dogg or Kanye or something? Snoop Dogg. Yeah.

It's CIA, man. They're everywhere. Dude, this has been an attack. This has been strategic, has been developing, and they have been patiently waiting for this.

If they didn't know that they were in trouble when the pager thing happened. Do you remember the pager thing? I remember the pager thing. They got new pagers and they all blew up?

Like, at that point... We have distributed all the new pagers to everyone. Right. Please turn them on at the same time.

Boom! Oh! They got us. okay level two guys boom don't use the pager this is before all that you know we have said cell phone this is one of the first attacks so there was so from what i understand there was there was supposed to be an attack on israel from like five different fronts and everybody was getting together to do this allegedly whatever look again i'm just a cigar guy so calm down yeah we don't know all the facts please don't get your real news from us and then when they attacked That's when all this started to happen.

All right, cool. The second that I'm on the team, where I realized that the other team infiltrated our pagers and blew us all up, like, I think I'm done here. I feel like, I feel like... Look at this nice pager coming in this box.

It's very nice. I feel like at this point... It's Motorola. We are in deep water here, and no one has life jackets.

We should stop meeting. Yeah. I wish to surrender. We need to speak to somebody.

What exactly do they want from us? We're out of our depth. " Right. No, I mean, yeah, that's true.

Because it was funny that he, I mean, you know, and they're broadcasting it all over the country over there. Well, yeah, he's trying to get them to take over the messed up government. Right, he wants them to take over. Well, I mean, who's left?

Well, he doesn't want American troops to go in. Like, "Hey, you got a leg up now. " Right? We have killed all of them that are in charge.

By the way, we're going to kill the next 49. We're killing them 49 at a time. That's the way it's going to be. It's a bulk buy.

Right. We're only using one bomb at a time. Right. It's very conservative.

Very conservative. Yeah, I mean, dude, you don't want that, you don't want, you don't want American troops to go in here and to take over. Like, that's the biggest mistake. Well, don't they have to eventually?

Somebody's got to walk in and make sure the right people are in charge? Or is that we just send CIA guys in? Oh, well, you hope that there's a revolution and then it goes in the right direction. If it goes in the wrong direction, I got news for you.

There'll probably be a meeting where they all get together. And we do it again! Yeah, here we go. Start over!

One of these stupid as the third time! You're not gonna believe this. You're not gonna believe this. You're not gonna believe this.

They're all together for a third time. Mr. President, the revolution went bad, and there's a new Ayatollah, and they're in a meeting right now. Do you want us to take them out?

With the beepers. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Should we do the beepers or send the bombers when you want? What do you want to do?

Because this is getting kind of funny. Right. Let's get them on laptops. Hey, did you guys hear anything about us taking over the oil?

What? No. I saw some type of conspiracy thing from somebody online today. On TikTok?

No, no, it was on Facebook. It was definitely legit. " Well, because they get it from Venezuela, and we already cut that off. So now they get it from these guys, and now we cut that off.

Well, when I looked at CNBC this morning, oil was up 8%. Yeah, yeah, the price is going up on that one. So that was accurate with what you said yesterday. Yeah, gas prices are up too, I saw today.

I mean, they're probably going to go up about 10%. Yeah, especially diesel. I guess, especially diesel, sure. Yeah, it's at almost four.

You know, what is kind of funny though, is if you go back just a week ago, I specifically said, how do you get people to stop talking about Epstein files? The only thing you can do is... Maybe we should go to war. Go to war.

Yeah. And here we are. Well, we're in a conflict. Yeah, it's a conflict.

Yeah, we're not gonna. Epic Fury. They give it a cool name. Yeah.

So, I saw, I saw, dude, I saw like three or four protesters on the street already. We should make t-shirts. Here? Yeah, here.

Oh, Lord. No war, release the files. No war, release the files? Like, I'm not, I'm not entirely.

We're busy with war. I don't entirely disagree with that. You know, I still want to see, I still, heads need to roll for the other thing. But you're gonna kind of get into that.

We're gonna get into that? We're gonna get into that in a little bit? Yeah. Which should be interesting.

Hmm. Because, I think Bill Clinton was a good president. I saw a video right before this other show we'll talk about too. Okay.

Alright, do you guys get up and see the lunar eclipse at 6 o'clock this morning? Absolutely not. It was the blood red moon. Oh, you didn't tell me about that yesterday.

Didn't they say like the plants were gonna align or something like that? That happened last week. Oh. That was Friday, I think.

Oh, really? I got up to go see it, and there's so many big trees in my neighborhood, and I couldn't find the moon. You couldn't see it? Couldn't find it.

So you got up. I got up, well, yeah, I got up 30 minutes early from my second sleep. Right. Went outside, went all the way out in the street, walked down the street a little bit, and like, no, I can't see it, it's a waste of time.

Can't see a damn thing. Sun was coming up, so I figured, well, the moon's going to be that way, but too many big trees, couldn't see it. My hair was quite nice, though. Did you?

It's not going to happen again until 2028 or 2029. So this is like three years? This is 26, two years. Two to three years, I guess.

Well, I guess when you get Palmer's age, you know, three years is... It's a gamble. Yeah. It's a gamble, I gotta tell you.

You may or may not see it, I don't know. It could happen. But it made all the satellites glow red in the sky. Oh, really?

Supposedly. Because they're reflecting the red light. Oh, yeah. That makes sense.

Too bad. Did you see any satellites? I was pretty tired. Yeah?

I wanted to get that 20 more minutes of sleep. I had to go back to bed. Actually, I took a shower instead. Oh, good for you.

So, did you see the Blood Red Moon? No. I did see the rocket launch last night. Yeah, I meant to watch that, too, and I missed that two nights in a row because it was rocket launch?

You know, I don't know if it's just me, but do you guys get super excited if there's a rocket launch? Until I go out and look at it. It's pretty cool. It is cool, but I mean, there'll be another one next week.

See, that's exactly how I feel. " Everybody stopped watching the race, and now we're looking at the rocket, yeah, I'm like, this is Florida, like, we have these all the time, like, why is everybody so surprised? It's like getting up to watch the sunrise, you know, I gotta tell you, if you don't tell me that there's a rocket launch tomorrow, if you don't tell me that there's a red moon, well, I can't cover every single story. Well, you're, but these are things that you're covering, and you're covering them daily, I have no idea.

Well, we weren't gonna cover the rocket launch, 'cause that happens all the time. Yeah. They have a TV channel that you can watch all this on. So, like, I'm not going to get that news.

Unless you're giving me the news? I'm not getting... How could you not know about the Blood Moon? It's everywhere.

I didn't know there was a Blood Moon. Oh, my Lord. Dude, there's no way... You guys are way too dependent on me.

Yeah, I mean... No, I'm extremely dependent on you. It's not way too. I'm extremely dependent on you.

For everything. Do I need to come check your groceries and make a list for you every week, too? I mean, we were talking with Miguel Shadel about all the things you do. " I'm like, well, I got all this to do, I start rattling off my things, and then I'm like, and then, well, then Palmer's got to do this, he's got to do this, he's got the marketing, he's got this, he's got this, he's like, that's a lot.

Yeah. Because if I can help you at all. Yeah, it's like, well. If you'd like to come set up the equipment for me, Miguel.

How do you feel about email blasts? How do you feel about email blasts? Can you imagine if we sucked Miguel into something like that? Anyway, you can help.

All right, here, here's the login. Here's the login. On Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it's in store. Right.

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, it's online. It's online. Online. So, if you could start handling...

You could take... Just take one of them. One of them was fine. Yeah, just do online or in-store.

You pick which one. Online's harder. Yeah. There's not always something new.

There's more links and stuff. Yeah. All right, the Brevard County School Board said it's seen a steady rise in the number of students bringing vapes to school. Big shocker.

So, they're closing bathrooms. Because the kids go in the bathroom, three or four of them go into a stall, they pass the vape around, and then they vape in the bathroom. It's just like smoking in the boys' room from back in the day. Oh, I heard, yeah, I heard about this school, the principal.

So they got permission from the school board, they got handheld metal detectors like at the airport. Oh my God. Now they wand everybody for vapes, and if they catch you smoking a vape, if it's nicotine, you have to, you get suspended. If it's marijuana, you get suspended and have to go to a course on addiction.

Marijuana bad. And marijuana bad. Well, I don't know. Some of this seems like BS to me.

Because I'm going to tell you right now, dude. So many kids are sucking on those damn pouches. Pouches are everywhere. Oh, the pouches instead of the...

Yeah. Can you consume vape under 18? You're not supposed to, no. Yeah, so then why wouldn't they just get arrested?

Is it 18? Is that the age? Is it 21? So how are they getting them in the high school then?

Go parents, obviously. Because you didn't get alcohol when you were under 21? I either confirm nor deny that statement. There's plenty of...

What's it called? smoke shops. When it's gone past the date that you can be crippling charged? Oh, then yes.

Oh, uh... Yeah, that thing. Oh, someone's yelling in their podcast right now. Yeah.

Yeah, we just talked about this the other day. Yeah. Yeah, we were just, yeah. Yeah.

God. Damn it. Next topic. Are we moving on?

Yeah, go ahead. Wow, that was a quick story. I think it has a lot of stories. Seeds of the crime.

I don't know. God, what is it? I was going to say process of elimination. That's not it.

Time in prison. Crap. Time served. Nope.

I'm going to yell it out here in a minute. Did you find it? Quickly, because my head's going to explode. Statues of limitations.

I like that I got there, and as I'm getting there, he's like, he starts to mimic my words. I saw your lips moving. The camera doesn't have a delay on that. What?

It's like your lips move before you speak. Yeah, is that what happens? Yeah. My lips move before I speak?

Yep. Interesting. All right. A school in Montgomery County Public Schools, in 2021, they decided they were going to switch to all electric buses.

Womp womp. That person's fired. Who did that? Is this in Florida?

No, it's Alabama. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

They beat with electric buses, but the district exited its contract with the electric bus company in the fall because they found out they were snookered into it by the school transportation official who committed fraud oh boy so now they're buying how many is it exactly they're buying 140 diesel buses wow that's a lot yeah they got rid of all of them yeah you can't get the parts like Costco it costs more than I thought the charging is way They were way more expensive than they were told. And the transportation guys are going to jail. They were bamboozled. They were bamboozled.

You know what's funny is, it sounds like regular politicians at work, this guy got caught. Right, exactly. He went to a school war meeting, I got a deal for you guys. You're not going to believe this.

You're not going to believe this deal, it's so good. And we're all going to be green, and it's going to be nice, we're going to make the news. 140 electric buses, look at these, they're beautiful. We're cutting edge.

Oh no, you can't charge them. them. How do we plug them in? Wait, there's a plug?

Yeah, they only had the one battery. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to get everybody together in the same room. Okay.

Here, I'm giving everybody a beeper. Everybody take these. It'll be fine. Now they're writing a check for 140 diesel buses.

Alabama. That's got to be expensive. I bet that diesel bus guy was pissed at first. No, not anymore.

Now they're double. Oh, they're charged. Oh, so no more business? So we're closed.

We're nothing. No, screw us. The gas guy, too. They're getting rid of him.

Electric is the way. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's fine.

Oh, I'm sorry. You need the buses now. Oh, remember what they cost before? Now it's twice that.

Well, we're going to tack on a 20% surcharge. That guy's probably really pulling his hair out, though, because diesel just went up 40 cents a gallon. They don't care. It's government money.

Yeah, government money. Swipe a card. All right, Justin Timberlake's in the news. Oh.

It's really easy to charge a card when it's not your money. Yeah. You know, before you jump to that. I mean, that's why I always say, even with us and all these things, like, act like it's your money.

If you treat it like it's your money, then you'll make the right decisions. Oh, I have no money, so. That's the biggest problem with any government expenses. Well, it's not ours, who cares?

So, Justin Timberlake, let's go. He's got a new movie coming out. Yeah. But he's suing to stop it.

Is there a documentary about him and Britney Spears? No, it's a video showing his DUI arrest. What? That's cool.

Remember last year when he got the DUI in that little seaside village? If I wrote you a symphony. In Sag Harbor. Click, click.

Interview Monday, Sag Harbor Mayor Thomas Gardella confirmed negotiations were underway and said the village is trying to be as transparent as possible. He's claiming that there is proprietary information that is in the video. Like you can see his ID and that kind of stuff. Right.

Let's blur that out. Yeah, just edit that out. You can see the deal the towns probably make? We need you to come do a free concert.

Right. Yeah. We would like to be the backdrop for your next movie. Yeah.

He's probably afraid that Brittany's gonna know where he's at. I think it's the other way around. What's the other way around? I think he's cut in on the deal.

You think he's making money? Yeah. Hey, here's what we're gonna do. Well, it's the Freedom of Information Act.

The police department is supposed to release the video. Yeah, but he can't show his face. Somebody took this video and made it... It's the police camera footage.

Right. And somebody's taking this and making a video out of it, a documentary or something, some type of video. No, the news places, because now the time is up that they had to keep it from everybody. Ah.

So ABC, CBS, what's the TV show that everybody gets over? TMZ. NBC? TMZ.

TMZ. Everybody wants it now and he's trying to sue so that nobody can have it. He's trying to prevent the video. He says it will hurt his image.

Why? I mean, you should have been driving and drunk. I mean, look, dude, you know what? Here's the funny part.

Nobody got hurt, right? To my knowledge. Yeah, no, you just got pulled over. So the guy made a mistake.

Right. People make mistakes all the time. Sure. Thankfully, nobody got hurt.

Right. And, you know, you live and you learn. So, if it's not some type of docu-series or something, that's what I was thinking it was. " Well, it'll be all over the TV.

TV. Right. You know. And then they'll make a Netflix movie and use it.

It's because I started out at Disney. Because of Disney. Oh, I can't ruin my image. I think his wife is Matt Adam, Jessica Biel.

Is that his wife? Are they still together? I think so. I think they're divorced.

I was going to say deleted. I think they're divorced. They're deleted? You think they got deleted?

Oh, it's terrible. Man, Jessica Biel. He was arrested on June 18, 2024, so I guess now is the time where it is up. So I guess it's gotta be like 18 months or something.

They are still married. Right now. Just for the record. If you're famous, you would think, don't drive drunk.

They always get caught. You should have a guy. Yeah, why don't you have a driver? You can afford a driver?

I mean, you know what, dude? If only there was an app where I could hit a button. And call a car. And have somebody just arrive.

Sometimes without a person at this point. Right. You know, no questions asked. Nobody knows.

There's nobody there. They don't like, he doesn't have a $20 guy? But look. Was he getting drunk by himself?

But either way, no matter how we got there, we got there. Look, people make mistakes. No one's perfect. That's the hardest part about this whole social media thing that I always struggle with.

It's like you start picking apart a person, you're going to find something. Sure. They screwed up somewhere. That's how you learn.

So now we're starting to ingrain into our kids that you have to be perfect all the time. And you wonder where all these panic attacks and all of this crap comes from, it's because they're so concerned about being perfect that God forbid they should make a mistake, it's the end of the world. Then you have suicide rates going up, all of these terrible things, when in all reality, look, man, people make mistakes, people screw up. So if I'm Justin Timberlake in this scenario, I go the opposite way.

And I lean into it and say, Hey, yeah, you know what? Not my best moment. I screwed it up. Here's the video.

This is me being an idiot. Yeah, put it out and then do an anti-drunk driving video or something. Right. This was me three years ago.

I'm a better person now because this happened and I'm thankful for the police department for pulling me over and nobody getting hurt. Yeah. Done. As you're explaining that whole process.

Yeah. Every time you said something new, Palmer's eyes got whiter. I wish I, yeah, I wish I was flipping back and forth. It would have been great.

Yeah? Like, were they excited? No, it's almost like he was getting nervous. Like, you were like, "Suicide!

" And he's like, "Oh, God! " I got news for you. No, I'm not saying, like, he was committed. What I'm saying is, like, the panic attack, like...

I understand what you're saying. I'm going to tell you, if I did, right here on camera, you guys would be famous. I got... Wait, suicide or panic attack?

I'll just wait. Just wait it out. Go ahead, Michael. I got news for you.

It's the other way around, as far as a podcast. I'm more concerned about what he's going to say than he's concerned about what I'm going to say, because there have been things in the ongoing podcast throughout the past week that I'm like, oh, God, I wish he didn't say that, but it isn't enough for me to be like, hey, cut that out. Like, hey, you need to crop that. Yeah, we know where the line is.

There's a line. Yeah, there's a line. Oh, no, I don't know where it is. No, he doesn't know where it is until I tell him about it.

I have no idea. And then I get an over-exaggeration. Am I even allowed to talk anymore? Should I not say anything?

Don't want me to speak? just stop talking fine I won't talk fine it's your show it's your show that's what you tell everybody right so no he's not worried about what I'm going to say at all I don't think he was worried I just thought the anxiety in him was like there was things I thought to say but they're not really pertinent and it could come off the wrong way so I didn't say that I mean my breathing started getting heavier as he was listing off everything I didn't know that was possible wow Wow. Mm. Mm.

Mm. Mm. Moving on. All right, here are the seven takeaways from Bill Clinton's, um, what, it's not indictment, what was it called?

Deposition. Statue of Limitations. They're allowed to release his deposition? Oh, the video's out.

Yeah. Wow. I released a video of him and her. Mm.

Hers not so good because all she did was get mad and yell at people. Hillary? Can't believe you're asking me that. This is a lynching, you're just after information, this isn't even news.

This isn't even news. Why are you asking? Yeah, hers are terrible. This is, well, that's a good strategy.

Right. Just anger. Demonize people. And she almost got up and left one time.

Oh, like Real Housewives. Right. But she came back? She never actually left.

She would like, oh. Okay, fine. Ma'am, you were under oath. Yes, ma'am, you were under oath.

Mrs. Clinton, may I remind you that you were under oath and you were not allowed to leave. She doesn't like the women that are asking her questions for some reason. Like I've never been under oath and lied before.

That old thing isn't, you know, how do you make me, yeah, cross my heart and swear to tell it's real, alright, Bill Clinton denies any knowledge of the Epstein crimes. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't hear anything about it. I have no idea. I have no idea.

Wait, what, what's going on there? He repeatedly stated under oath that he did not know about Epstein sex trafficking. Ask my wife. Ask my wife.

Yeah, but there's a photo of him with, He's with one of the girls. There's a picture of him in a hot tub. He's laying back with his hands on his chest. He says he was only in the hot tub for five minutes, and then he got out, he has no idea who the woman was, they blacked out her face.

But then they asked, but the women, the people that were in that pool were the people that are in your party, right? They were with you or something? I don't know, I don't remember. And he said, no, he goes, well, yeah, but I didn't know who they were.

The little video I saw, they handed him a bunch of pictures, he's going through the pictures, he's looking at them, he starts smiling. His attorney takes him away from him, and he reaches over and brings them back over and starts looking at them. Nuh-uh. Wow, Bill.

Really let them know that you don't know who it is. Right. But he's smiling as he's looking at them. " I remember Cassandra.

She was nice. I like her. Number two, Clinton acknowledged travel, but said he did not go to the island. Well, there's receipts for travel.

I was on the jet, but I did not go to the island. Isn't there a painting of him at the island in a woman's dress or something? Isn't it iconic? Yeah, there's actually one on the island in the buildings.

He says he only used a plane for humanitarian work. Oh, that's what he's supposed to say. And he swears he ceased to contact Epstein before the criminal stuff. How did he know?

If you stopped talking, how did you know? There you go, right. Yeah, we stopped talking before the criminal stuff. But you said you didn't know he committed any crimes.

Is anybody in charge asking these questions? Are you asking these questions? Just give me a detective that can read beyond fifth grade? I mean, dude.

Well, these aren't, these are senators and congressmen. Oh, so they're definitely not qualified. Yeah, they're not. Yeah, they're asking them whatever questions they want.

It sounded like it was, uh, Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns. Yeah, it was like that. Yeah. Right.

Is, uh, so did, did Julius Caesar really stay here? Right. He also says he was never, this isn't listed on here, but he said he never had him at the White House, and then they showed a picture of him with Epcena at the White House. Oh, God.

With the dark haired lady who gave up all the information. This is, you know, oh my God. What a disaster. The guy's like 900 years old, maybe he just doesn't remember.

I mean, it's just his word against, you know. Right, it's all hearsay. They're not a lie detector in him. Right.

There's nothing you can do. All right, number three, he denied visiting the island again or participating in any wrongdoing. Clinton said he never went to Epstein's private island, and similarly denied any sexual contact with anyone connected to Epstein. Sounds familiar.

I don't know an Epstein, I never heard of Jeffrey. Even when presented with photos. Do you see these pictures? These are pictures of you on the island?

That's not me. That's exactly what he did with Monica. That was a... It was pictures of him on the island?

Yeah. And he said he wasn't on the island. With women. I wasn't there.

Wow. I guess in an era of AI, you could really deny everything and go, that's not real. Well, these pictures are, I guess you can make them look old, though, as far as that goes. Yeah.

Oh, my God. " I mean, I can make the graphic for this week, the three of us on Epstein's Island. No, please don't. Please don't, yeah.

And Boots still have the mask on. I need a group photo of us before everybody leaves today. Yeah, why don't you just put us in the boat and Coop could be on the island. That's not nice.

I'm sorry. That's not nice. See, that's crossing the line. I wouldn't say that.

Yeah. You always count on boots. Sorry. Hillary Clinton said she never met Epstein during her closed-door deposition.

She stated she did not recall ever meeting Epstein, never flew on his planes, and never visited the properties, and denied having knowledge of his crimes. I don't know this man. I've never met this man. You can't prove I met this man.

And I don't even know what crime he committed, either. Where are the emails? We got rid of those. Possible deniability.

Yeah, I got rid of those things. Allegedly. Well, they're gone. Alleged.

They're alleged emails. Oh. Yeah, Hillary was literally in the back of this interview throwing the computer out the window. Shut up, Bill.

Bill's like, look at your pretty pictures. I remember her. Wait, no, I don't remember her. I don't remember her.

I don't remember doing that one. You got an image of her turned around? Yeah, maybe I'll do that. Oh, you got an image on the top of her head?

Oh, yeah. That's not Monica. That's not Monica. Number five, the deposition process was tense, especially for Hillary.

Hillary got visibly frustrated with Republican lawmakers and nearly walked out at one point after photos from the private disposition leaked. One of the people that were questioning, I guess, were taking pictures with their cell phone and sent it to people outside of the room. Nice. I don't understand the purpose of these things, these depositions.

What happens to them? Well, nothing, because we don't know. They denied everything. A deposition is for information to be used by both parties inside the court of law.

It's stuff that can actually be used. That's hearsay. That's it. I understand that.

Thank you. But what's the point? How is any of this going to be used, or how will there be any punishment ensued on anybody? There's not.

Well, they had probably thought that they would, you know, they're under oath, they would tell the truth. But like you said. They're politicians. Exactly.

That's what I'm saying. It's their word against everybody else's. So, I mean, all you gotta do is say, no, nobody can prove it, except they have photos and they deny them the photos. Well, that one guy with the sweaty guy, the prince or whatever.

Yeah. They call him Prince Sweaty or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah. Prince Charles, or the king's brother.

He said that, supposedly he said, well, it can't be me because I don't sweat. And then they show pictures of him sweating everywhere. Exactly. And this is you after eating a Bon Bon?

Right. This is you sweaty woman. What a disaster. This is just such a mess.

Here's the scarier part. So like I think that the only reason why that some of these things are coming up is because this is the time when people would take legitimate pictures and they weren't using a phone, right? Right. The actual cameras.

Right. You think these parties are still going on? Epstein's dead. Okay.

And? Oh, you think like there's another regime. It could be like another island that somebody else has. That's what I said before, I mean, how do we know this doesn't, you know, there's not dozens of people with islands.

So really, well, even with islands, just like parties or whatever, I bet you that these things are still going on, but they're just better at it now, they're just, no phones. Right, phones all stay out, no phones. Everything's abandoned, or they have some type of thing where there's, you know, no electronics, there's no internet, there's no nothing. Even Diddy had photos.

Maybe that's what they were doing on Iran. They were all getting together to find out. 49 guys are getting together, they're going, uh, who's got the video? Oh, where's the island, buddies?

Where's the island? Epstein said we would not get in trouble. I feel like you were trying to be funny there, it just didn't work. Yeah, it didn't come on to it.

Didn't track. Yeah. Alright, number six, political contact and partisanship clouded the proceedings. Hillary Clinton accused Republicans of using her testimony to distract from other political issues and lawmakers raise unrelated theories.

I just have to get up. I have to get up. I'm finished. You guys just don't want to talk about the war.

Right. Or Pizzagate. What's Pizzagate? Pizzagate is, I'm going to screw this up too, is like, there's some type of relation between using the term pizzas and...

Oh, he's talking about the pizza boxes. and something, yeah. Like... And the kids?

Did he told his son to get rid of all the pizza boxes? That, supposedly, that happened. And supposedly, like, the reference during emails, like, they have code. Supposedly, there's a code involved.

Ah, gotcha. I don't know why that door opening scared me. Everything should scare me. That's the FBI.

How did you know I was at Clintons? Oh, God. Oh, God. I want to live, kill my family.

All right. Wow. I'll tell you where they're all at. I'll tell you where they're at right now.

My wife is upstairs. Number seven, Bill Clinton referenced others past ties to Epstein. Oh, my Lord. Others what?

He told about, why are you talking to me? You should be talking to this guy. Oh, he threw him under the bus. He threw other people under the bus.

I love it. Oh, Donald Trump saying Trump spoke of having some great times with Epstein. Okay. Oh.

Was that at the Sizzler? At the Sizzler. That was just a pivot. You know, Trump said he had a great time.

See, that isn't as cool as him throwing somebody else under his own party under the bus. You know what I mean? Oh, another Democrat? Like, that's just slinging.

You're just slinging at that point. Right. You know? You should ask Pelosi.

Pelosi. I think she was on the list. They're all on the list. Yeah.

Yeah, I want to see something like that. It's long but distinguished. Like, there was a guy, I saw a recent interview where there was a guy talking, and he's like, oh, that's not true. This is what happened, and this is, I don't know if it was in relation to Epstein, but this guy starts leaking things out and starts giving out all this info, and the attorney says, if you don't stop talking, I'm going to effing kill you.

Oh, wow. Oh, you're in trouble. And he was like a rich dude. He's like, go away.

I'm going to keep saying what I want to say. I'm going to keep talking about other people. What if you, okay, you get invited to the island. You don't know what's going on there.

You get invited to the island. " You just hide at that point, I guess. Stay in your room, whatever. Surviving those three days aren't the problem.

The bigger problem is, you survive the three days, you understand what happened, and you don't say anything. Oh, you're right, yeah. You need to, at that point, as soon as you land, you need to say, "I need to inform the right people. I need to make sure that there's a backup plan, because when I exit out of this world accidentally, I did not want to kill myself.

Like, you know, you have to have all your ducks in a row. S. Marshal. S.

Marshal. Well, because you, well, you wonder how entrenched it is, like, you know, our networks involved. Start writing down names everybody you saw at the airport. " You know, alleged.

Allegedly. It would have been bad for Bill. Whatever the case may be, you know. Saw a report today that Epstein was a lizard man on the island.

What? Okay, now we're getting crazy. It sounds weird. Did you see the Jim Carrey thing?

I saw, well, which Jim Carrey thing? So, uh, there was a, there was a, uh, Jim Carrey was out and about and they said that's not Jim Carrey, that's a, that's a clone. They've been saying that for years. They're saying that this is a clone guy?

Yeah. It was actually an artist who did it. Oh, it wasn't him. Yeah.

Oh, the guy with the long hair and everything. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.

That was crazy, because it kept coming to my feed, like, this is not Jim Carrey, this is why he used this, and I'm like, is this a conspiracy? Like, what's going on here? Do you think Jim Carrey's dead, or this guy just jumped? No, he's alive.

Oh, okay. But this guy purposely went in and did this, to look like Jim Carrey. His eyes were different. Yeah, they say he looked different, had longer hair.

Yeah. And he could speak French. Oh, really? He was getting an award from France or something and he spoke French in the speech.

Like, really good. No kidding. All right, Michael, you have a video for us? I do not.

Wow, we're 40 minutes in already. We're rolling right along, buddy. All right, Cigar News. Aladino Declaration honors American semi-quincentennial.

What now? What, what, what? Aladino Cigars. Uh huh.

They're making a cigar to celebrate the semi-quincentennial. Okay. Got it. JRE Tobacco Company to the list of companies that will release cigars this year in honor of the 250th anniversary of founding of the United States of America.

Is this a thing, 250? Is that a number? I mean, it seems like an odd number to... 250 is a big deal.

Is it? Yeah, we're gonna have UFC fights at the White House. Oh, is this the one? Yeah.

The new Aladino Declaration is a 6x52 Toro that will ship to stores this summer. Coming out on July 5th. Oh. They're not saying anything about the cigar.

We're making a cigar. It's going to be good. It's going to be 6x52, and that's all we're saying. 250 a year.

It's made entirely of the company's tobacco. I mean, as it should be. They have a ton of tobacco. A ton?

Oh, yeah. And they use it. Oh, you know why they have a ton? Yeah.

They use it. I didn't know it was one of the things I wasn't supposed to say. Oh, it is. Oh, the Aroa family, which owns JRE Tobacco Company, is a prominent grower in Honduras.

All right. How much is this declaration cigar, gentlemen? It's a six by 52. Aladino?

Phil. Yeah. 16 bucks. I'm going to go over here and I'm going to say, I mean, 25 sounds perfect for 250 years, but I'm going to go.

Oh, that would be a nice price. $22. You went the wrong way. $15.

Yes. Oh. His streak is still on. And it goes on.

Daddy better use the good arm. Daddy better start using the good arm. Comes in a box at 13, honoring the original 13 colonies. Oh, that makes sense, I guess.

On the outside is Miss Betsy Ross. Oh, just a flag. Sorry, just her flag, not her. Oh.

Well, the inside of the box features a modern American flag, as well as words from the Declaration of Independence. Murk. Does it have Canada in there? Our 51st date?

No. I thought that was going to be... Oh, Greenland is back on the... We're back on the table?

Back on the table. Back on the table. Apparently... They need money.

Russia supposedly leaned on them a little bit or something. Yeah, they need money. Oh, and they're like, whoa, we want this guy instead. Yeah, we want this guy.

This guy over here. Oh, he wasn't kidding. Bring the hospital boat back. We will take the boat.

Did you see that... I heard that a lot of the Mexican stuff was actually AI videos? It wasn't real? No, I didn't see that.

So the cartel is doing AI videos now? Somebody did the in Mexico. Oh, I did hear, though, Iraq released a video of the USS Abraham Lincoln being sunk. And that's not true?

It's from a video game. It wasn't even AI? They used the footage from a video game. It wasn't even AI.

Wow. But all the people are like, "Oh, we sank the board! " Wow. They even listed what video game it was from in the news.

Really? They said it's not AI. It's footage from the video game, I don't know, We attack America or something, I don't know. Are we okay with that video coming out?

Sinking the Abraham Lincoln? Yeah. I haven't even shot at it. And a video game, though?

And a video game? Yeah. Well, there's a video game where the White House gets blown up. I've played that one.

There's a couple movies like that, too. Call of Duty? Call of Duty? You're a big Call of Duty guy?

No, my son's a Call of Duty guy. Oh, I'm into Call of Duty right now. Oh. I don't have a set.

When he used to live with this, I would play every once in a while. And die quickly, but... Right. And you can't play with the kids because Why are you switching your clothes and your gun And making your gun a different color I'm getting bored I want to play Yeah they're playing Versace And you're just trying to kill somebody Alright Castagli C-A-S-D-A-G-L-I Castagli Castagli Castigli Castigli Castigli I don't know.

They're teasing that they're putting in the Daughters of the Wind Rosado line out. Okay. And a post on his Facebook page, whoever that is, Cas, Cas de Guili, announced that it will be releasing two new versions of the Daughters of the Wind line this summer. The company says that the new Daughters of the Wind Rosado will be made at the IGM Cigar Factory.

Have you heard of that one? MGM? Have you heard of, no, IGM. Have you heard of the company?

Cas de Guili? Castelli? I don't know. I don't know.

They're going to put a Habano Rosado wrapper grown in Costa Rica. The rest of the blend has not been announced. The regular Daughters of the Windland is made with a Costa Rican binder and filler tobaccos grown in Dominican Republic and Peru. Peru.

They put it on their Facebook page, but they will not answer any requests from Half Wheel about information. Speaking of putting it on the Facebook page, did you see what video I put up on the Powstanie Mafia page? I did. Did you see that?

I did see that. That's pretty cool. Very cool. I thought it was going to be longer.

Well, I can start threading them together. Oh. But they're AI, so I think you can only do like eight seconds at a time. Oh, I gotcha.

But that was the first one. Oh. I think you can, I'll take that one and say, okay, now I need an additional eight seconds added to that. And then you can cap cut them to...

Yeah. And now put them all together. Alright, MK and Son is rebranding. MK and Son?

MK and Son? S-O with the two dots over it, H-N-E. Son. Son.

Son-E. Son. Son. The rebranding and calling it Colas and Son.

So Son stays. Son stays. There's more Son. We have another comment.

Yeah, we do. MK and Son, a German distributor, has announced that it has rebranded itself to Colas and Son. Brother Adam and Daniel Koles announced MK & Son in mid-2023, though it didn't begin distributing for brands until the following year. First of all, it's German.

It's way more intense than the way that you're saying it. I'm sure it is. Koles & Son! Koles & Son!

Yeah, there you go. Much better. With a reference to the brother's father, Michael Koles, previously the brothers worked for Koles & Kopp, a different German distributor. A totally different one.

Now known as Coop Tobacos, in addition to the name change, the brothers have moved their business back to Hermann-Lonsweg 36 in Relink, a northern German town near Hamburg. Previously, the company has been operating from a location around the corner, but is now back at an address they previously used, oh, we have a quote, "It feels like coming home," said the brothers in a press release. Tobacco history was written at this location, for us, it marks a return to our roots, and at the same time, a clear commitment to the future of the fatherland, of the company. Kolaitzenzun is the German distributor for Ashton, Maezelva, Padrón, Rocky Patel, and others.

I hurt myself. All right, now it's time for the... Oh, wait, did you want to comment? You want to say something?

Make a little witty dander? I mean, there's nothing really to say about that other than, well done, sir. Well done. Thank you very much.

You know, I was concerned at first. Oh, you got to get to the quote. But you brought it up. Got to get to the quote.

And you delivered. All right, it's time for the industry's favorite game. What's the score? The score!

It really needs music. All right, today's cigar from March 2nd, 2026. It's a recent one. Brooks Whittington is the reviewer.

Espinosa limited edition Nicaragua Redux. Uh-oh. It's the Warzone Toro. The original?

Yes, it's a Redux. Warzone 1. Yes. Was there more than one?

Does a Redux mean they're just re-smoking? Smoking is a Redux meaning they are re-reviewing a cigar they reviewed before. I'm sorry, I'm confusing the Warhead with the Warzone, and then I yawned. Can it get worse?

I think it could get worse. So why do they do a Redux? To let you know that after it aged, did it taste better or worse? I thought maybe they just ran out of cigars.

I'm gonna go 84. Cameroon wrapper. This is a good cigar. Is it?

Yeah, I smoked it. I smoked it! I seen them! I'll go, I'll go 88.

88. Alright, Cigar Reviews is a Warzone Toro, Country of Origin, Nicaragua, Factory, La Zona Cigar Factory, Rappers Cameroon, Binders Honduras, The Filler, Colombia, and Nicaragua. It is a 6x52, it's round, and they only smoked one because it's a Redux. 85.

It's just one of them smoking a cigar and they can write it off so that they review it. " Is that what they, they'll go through the humidor, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, look, there's a war zone. We can redux this.

I can redux it, I guess. I liked it. Uh, 88. Oh, he moved up.

Oh. No, is that 88? Clue number one. The flavor profile develops nicely after the initial light, delivering enjoyable notes of aged cedar, Creamy Leather, Sourdough Bread, Walnuts, Coffee Beans, and a well-balanced White Pepper and Honey Retro Hail that works surprisingly well together.

Mmm. Sounds delicious. Eighty-seven. Eighty-eight.

Number two. Construction is strong overall with excellent draw resistance, thick smoke production, solid firmness, And the only one minor burn correction needed after a long one hour and 44 minutes smoking time. Almost flawless. 89.

Oh, look at him trying to get me to move. 88. The cigar starts off with a noticeable metallic bitterness spice combination that isn't particularly enjoyable. And the burn line becomes wavy enough in the second half to require a K.

Correction. Do you guys correct your cigars if they burn crooked? No. If it gets out of hand.

Only, yeah, if it gets super wonky. The only time I really have significant burn issues is usually in the car. In the car, yeah. Yeah, like if one side's not burning or something.

Yeah. 86. I don't know. I'm going to stay at 88.

I like the number. All right, final thought. I had two main issues with the Warzone Toro. First, when I reviewed it, the blandness of the first third and the lack of Cameroon-esque flavors in the overall profile.

Well, after five years, the first problem remains, but thankfully the second one has been rectified. Other than a burn line that tended to waver at certain points, the construction was quite good and the strength never rose above a solid medium. Five years of the humidor has improved the Warzone Toro noticeably, But, it still falls short of the short Churchill Vitola. Sorry.

Unbelievable. Alright, that's the last thing. 85. Mmm, middle of the road, I see.

It's a good number, because I have to go. You can go higher or lower on this. Well, it's generally the way it works. Yeah, every time.

That's a good number, though. Because if I go lower, then Jack and them are going to get mad. If I go higher, I could possibly win. But I'm going to have to go for the W today, boys.

I'm going to go 84. You went the wrong way. Yes! 88.

Woo! Man, I was on the nail. Quincidential? Quincentennial?

No. Coincidentally? Yeah, thank you. The original score was 84.

That's hilarious. So I hit it both on the nail. Oh my God. And stereo, you went the wrong way.

I knew that I could get him to jump. I thought he had it. I was so rooting for you there, Phil. I know.

I should have keyed on your face, getting bright red. Your streak is over. I played with my right hand on that one. Daddy played with his right hand today.

Daddy played with his right hand. Just today. Yeah. I'll go back to my left tomorrow.

Just to let you know. Just enough to let you know. Just to smack you a little bit. Just to let you know you are not in charge.

Like Bane in Dark Knight Rises. Do you feel in charge? Yeah. Okay.

All right. Anybody got anything else? Yeah. What's the date?

So we're going to be in Alabama? Bo Weevil. 26th and 27th. We're going to be at Bo Weevil Cigars.

Thursday, Friday, I believe. And Humidor Fine Cigars. Yes. Dothan, Alabama.

We will be there. We. We. Me and you.

Yes, both of us. Me and you. What is it? What are the dates?

Thursday, Friday or Friday Saturday? It's a Thursday, Friday, I believe. Thursday, Friday? Cool.

I believe so. Do we have to leave? How long is the drive, is it? You did it once before.

It's like five or six hours or something like that. It's longer than that. Well, we're going to make some stops along the way, we'll leave early. Yeah, it's got to be at least like 8 or 9.

Are we going to leave Wednesday or Thursday? Thursday. Got you. Efficient.

Yes. How are you going to coach the games on Friday night? There shouldn't be. Oh, you have arranged.

Games don't start until April. These are the last games. Oh, this is the last free weekend. Now he can get his Call of Duty on, sorry.

Call of Duty? Call of Duty on? What are you talking about? It's a whole different video game.

Dude, I told you he does porn. Let's seek professional help, please, for all of us. What are you impressing him to talk about? What?

On your podcast, when there's no games. Oh, there's plenty of things to cover. It's about coaching. We're not talking about live events.

Oh, I thought you guys talked about your games. No, we mention it sometimes, but I got news for you. No, they go over drills and stuff. Yeah, I got news for you.

On average, I'm coaching five games a week, well, you can't cover all that in a podcast. So all your teams, you don't coach the same kids every day? No, there's a little bit of overlap for a couple of players that'll play on two teams, but more often than not, they're different sets. Yeah, Palmer, he has the same teams every week, is that what you're asking?

No, they were talking today on the show about how often you need to practice, and Preston said once a week. Mike, he's coaching five days a week, four days a week. Yeah, he's got 20 teams. You want me to answer this question?

I can answer it for you. Well, that's why I was asking, so I assumed, like, on Monday you're coaching one team, Tuesday you're coaching a different team. No, no, no. To some degree, maybe.

Like, Monday is the bigger kids, the seventh and eighth grade team, and the fifth and sixth grade team. We do practice consecutively. Everything's together, those three teams. And then Thursday is the third grade and fourth grade teams, because there's two of those teams, boom.

And then when kindergarten starts back up, she'll be Wednesdays. Oh, so no coaching on Tuesday? No, you're incorrect, because on Tuesday is now school teams, so I coach two school teams on Tuesday. I coach a kindergarten team and a fourth grade team.

So then they are different teams every day, different sets of teams. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

It's like the same kids are practicing five days a week. Some of them, I mean, like, Justice is on all those, you know. Well, he's your kid, I mean, he goes anyway. Yeah, so he'll do fourth grade for school and then fourth grade for rec, and then he'll do basketball for school or basketball for rec.

Yeah, you're the coach for the school now, right? I'm the assistant, yeah. Oh, the assistant. I consider myself the assistant coach, yeah.

Do they consider you the head coach, though? No. Is the head coach Father Murphy or something? No, no, the head coach is my friend and he knows way more about basketball than I do.

So I would not, I would not, I would not gun for that, no, we work extremely well together, like, you know, we talk over things, we work on what we think the good course of action is, and like, in that, in coaches, in Preston's thing, he's talking about, well, you need a coach to be able to handle the rotations while you're focused, I'm the one that handles the rotations for basketball, I'm like, okay, do, do, do, here's the time, blah, blah, blah, coach, I'm seeing this, I'll let him know I noticed something in the game, I'm gonna sub this kid out for that, you know. Oh, your coach's staff. Yeah. Nice.

I remember what I wanted to talk about at the end of the show. You mentioned that you reward the children with candy? Yes. Can we have candy at the end of a good show, too?

Can we have candy? We would like to have dum-dums? You want dum-dums? We would like dum-dums.

You know what's hilarious? At least we get something that way, Phil. Right. Yes, we would like dum-dums.

It took you 58 minutes to remember that memory? Well, because he started talking about coaching, so it spurred something. " It's true. He wasn't even like surprised I called back in 15 minutes.

Yeah, we were, oh, well I was in the call, I was on the car ride with my brother, and I said that we were talking about something, and my brother told me that I was delusional, and that we did not have that conversation. " He's like, no. I was like, okay, get back to me. Hang up the phone.

Hang up the phone. Look at Greg. I said, he'll figure it out. Within 10 minutes, Palmer calls back, says, okay, yeah, we talked about this.

We talked about that. I said, this was the number, and this is how it ended. That's funny. Yeah, and this was exactly the subject that we were talking about.

I said, perfect. Thank you. That's what we were talking about. Sometimes you just got to crank the motor a little bit.

Sometimes you got to, you know what I mean? Make fun of it, but it works. I saw maybe I'm wrong maybe I read it wrong but the basketball league is it getting a new coach a new the one that you don't prefer no okay I thought I saw something on Facebook that he's moving to Tennessee oh really yeah I didn't hear that he's taking over the team that's in Tennessee oh wow Jorge's going away Yeah, I didn't want to say that. I didn't know if you cared about saying the name.

Well, I don't hate the guy. No, yeah, yeah. I have no idea what you're talking about. I like the guy.

You know? The design of that league is what the problem is. Yeah, I think they had like a guy next to him that looked like his replacement. Oh, very nice.

That's not going to change anything about the league. I'm going to miss Jorge. I like Jorge. Oh, well, yeah, but wasn't he like the lead of the league?

He runs that league, yeah. But he's part of a franchise. Oh, so there's other people that create the rules and stuff. Create the bigger problems, correct.

All right, one more question. Go ahead. Phil, will you be willing to take the mask on the cruise and take photos of you in the mask? When are you going on a cruise?

Thursday, Friday. He won't be here. Yeah, mask pictures? Mask pictures from the cruise?

I don't know, you guys are trying to get rid of me off the show. We can't replace you. I can't replace you. I know you can.

Who would we replace you with? That new board. We would need somebody that like drools on themselves all the time and just, you know. Well, didn't Brandon replace me at one point?

Yeah, and he's way more intelligent. Yeah, he's not funny. Yeah. He's very dry.

There's no replacing you. Okay. Maybe. All right.

Good. All right, guys, been episode 478. Thank you. Bye.

Bye-bye.

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