ACHP Episode 489 Fast Food, Flight Fails & Cigar Politics
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You all set over there, you
recording.
Yep, and go.
Welcome to a Cigar Hustler
podcast, episode 489, Take 3.
I'm Mike Palmer, your host.
And today in engineering, Phil,
say my name, Moore Mcguffey.
I want to be famous.
Hello.
And as my Co host Mikey, I'm
miss Preston, he wasn't here
today.
Stefan Kevich.
I do miss Preston, however.
Preston's at the beach and it's
very cold outside.
He's at the beach.
It's spring break.
Oh my God.
You know, people have beach
vacations and stuff and then it
becomes 45° outside the the.
Good.
I'm glad he's skipping podcast
work.
Good.
I'm glad it's.
Cold Oh, you're trying to Oh,
that's not nice.
That's not nice.
Not my boyfriend.
Oh, you you want.
To say I could say anything I.
Want you wish not going to
withhold from me.
You wish he was your boyfriend.
No, I don't.
No, no, he seems high
maintenance.
Yeah, no, it's pretty.
Too much energy.
Too much energy.
Too much energy, You're alive.
I'm old.
Too.
I'm old, I don't it's too much.
OK, well I mean now at least
it's nice and cold.
I get to wear my Espinoza
knuckle sandwich sweatshirt.
You're not wearing your
romacraft to bag.
I only have one jacket.
Yeah, 2 XL for me, XL for
Palmer, like we said earlier.
No, no.
I'm going to get one.
I figured how I can get one.
How do you get 1?
Rosales calls me all the time.
I'll just ask him, he'll send me
one.
You think so?
You can guilt them into it.
No, I guilt them as you go.
Hey, can you send me one of
those Roma jackets he just sent
one to?
What's his name?
What's his name?
Yeah, Gordon.
Julian Gordon.
Julian Gordon.
The better Gordon.
The better Gordon, Yes, Yes.
Palmer, you get to oh.
Man, you're on your own.
Come on, Palmer.
You're still trying to get his
Dum Dums.
We're going to Dum Dums.
We'll do better.
All right, on today's show,
McDonald's has a new deal.
More travel delays.
I spell travel wrong.
Cuba has two new problems.
And then in cigars, Missouri
steals from one to help the
other.
It's only AJ still.
And when you thought cigars
couldn't get any better.
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this episode of a Cigar Hustler
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Comments.
See, money just dropped in.
It's Mikey.
He's wow.
Mikey is angry in the show.
Did did he impress and have a
fight?
Yes.
Now we have to drink somebody
else, somebody else, mentioned
President.
Come on Mikey, you know better.
First of all, Phil would not be
hiking and if his wife fell in a
hole he would have been running
the opposite direction
instantly.
He is the self preservation
king.
Oh.
I've been working on a shirt for
you and it's been it's been
jacked up.
It was a Bing bong but I can't
get the background to work
right.
Every time I try and correct it,
it's a disaster.
Maybe I change it to self
preservation king.
You should just put a picture of
my face with this mask if you'd
like and then Bing bong at the
bottom.
I like self preservation King.
And in the background, his
wife's been eaten by a bear.
Yeah, and him running.
Him running?
Yeah, and the back T is being
eaten by a bear back here.
I think Bing bong, what's up?
Yeah, maybe, but like the for
whatever reason the also the
image on the face with the mask,
it just kind of looks weird.
Looks like you have a droopy
eyeball.
Yeah, 'cause the mask is weird.
Well, you're looking at a.
Rabbit mask this morning, did
you?
I have a real good one, but you
got to see it first.
I might have crossed the line.
Is it a bunch of Dicks?
No.
Then you haven't crossed the
line.
It is made out of leather.
Though is it expensive though?
A rabbit mask.
Like 8 bucks yeah nice.
Adjustable for your large melon.
Does it zip?
Does the zip mouth zip shut?
No.
No.
Is it only the eye?
Can we do one with only the
eyes?
It is from the nose up as you
requested.
The nose up.
Yeah, right under the nose up so
your mouth is open for.
But I can breathe out my nose.
Do you know where your?
Nose is you can breathe out your
nose I'm assuming?
I know where my nose is.
Nose, ear, Was it eyes, ears in
or I don't know.
Ears in mouth.
Ears in mouth, yeah.
What?
What are we talking?
About you don't know.
You don't know some of that.
Some of the kids nose, ears,
eyes and something but I don't
know how it.
Goes eyes and ears and mouth and
nose, head, shoulders, knees and
toes.
That's not how it goes, no.
Yeah, it's something about toes,
too.
It's head, head, head,
shoulders, knees and.
Toes.
There you go.
Head, shoulders, knees.
On mouth and nose, that's how it
goes.
Yeah, there you go.
Don't think it we.
Get don't Yeah, check the box.
I'm going to check the box.
Any copyrighted material on your
show?
All right, Yes.
Nursery rhymes.
All right, now the news.
We're ready to go to the news.
I think so, yeah.
All right, now the news
McDonald's is set to launch a
new Value meal deal.
McDonald's.
Another one, we're covering more
McDonald's crap, yes.
I don't you know how social
media works once you read things
like I looked at a suitcase on
Friday night, all I see are
suitcases now on TikTok.
All I see is the fighting like
like random.
You like the fighting stuff?
Yeah.
All right.
So the current meal value meal
they have is $5.
OK.
It's too expensive.
They're missing out on the poor
people.
They said it nicer, but they're
missing out on the poor people.
So how do you say that?
Nicer, first of all.
How do they say nicer?
Lower class, Is that lower?
Income.
Lower income, yeah, lower income
people.
Now they're coming out with a
Mick Value 2 point O.
Really.
Now, this was reported on Fox
because they got a hold of an
e-mail, an interoffice e-mail
that McDonald's is sent around.
That looks good on you.
Thank you.
It fits very well.
Yeah, it's there's a lot of
holes left in the back.
It might not get.
It might not get small.
Well, yeah, because normally I'm
unlike the last hole.
I have to glue the thing
together, right?
It might not fit.
Normal headed people might not
get small enough.
It does.
I learned that the last one that
I bought that only came in one
size, right?
This one had two size options.
Oh, so I picked the bigger 1,
yes.
Anyway, they're doing a three
and a $4.00 meal deal comes out
in April, featuring menu items
and meal deals for less than $5.
It's called the poor people.
It's it's featured to only those
that pay with EBT.
Meal deal 2 point O.
Meal deal 2 point O Yes, that's
what it's called.
Yes, they had an increase of
6.9% last year with the $5 meal
deal.
They're expecting much more this
year with the $3 meal deal.
Four.
I thought it was $4.
Three and four dollars, so there
are three dollar.
Options.
But what are these options for
this meal deal?
Well, we don't know.
They got a interoffice e-mail
that somebody gave them.
They don't.
We don't have all the details.
Oh, they haven't even said it
yet.
No, no, it has not been released
to the public someone, but we
get advanced notice.
So wait a second.
You're mean?
You mean to tell me that we can
get linked a leaked McDonald's
information?
Yes, but we can't figure out the
Epstein files.
Yeah.
Well, we are not Privy to the FC
files.
Like no one, no one dropped the
bomb.
On the they have those.
They just don't show anybody.
I know.
You think so?
Well, no, the whole list has
come out.
I told you I've seen the four or
five page list of names.
Oh yeah?
Well, the.
Clown the clown's not secretive.
The security with the clown's a
lot less.
Yeah, by the way, you know, one
of our your TSA short clip
person and then Jack Terano,
Skip and John Carney, all common
said, oh, it's not true.
It's not true.
That was for the pre-check,
yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And then I Fast forward to just
like a week later and I see
people just camping out.
Yeah, at the airports right now.
But we're about to cover travel
delays.
That's not TSA pre-check though,
that's cancelled flights.
But I did comment on the also
and I put the the the snippet
that I had read that said the
original plan was too close DSA
but they not TSA the pre shake.
But then they decided not to.
So when I covered the story, it
was going to happen.
So all right, travel to OK,
that's all the McDonald's stuff.
Perfect.
That's it.
I'm ready.
Yeah, it's a short.
It's a short thing.
Yeah, the fast food stuff's
getting old, but it was a slow
news do.
You remember back in the day
when you get like the the
cheeseburger fries and a coke is
like 2 bucks or a dollar or
something.
What a happy meal is that Now
you have a smaller children.
Oh, they're like 5-6 bucks,
yeah.
Is that what it is?
Every once in a while, that's
what Adrian and I'll do if we're
we like, need food but not
starving.
If we need.
Wine.
Yeah, like we're hungry because
she doesn't need a lot anymore
anyway, so she'll get one.
I'm like, oh, that's somebody.
And then she uses the toys at
school.
I have a friend that orders like
kids meals and he's in full full
on adults.
Everywhere.
Like he'll go to like Denny's
and get the kids chicken strips.
It's not Phil, by the way,
people out there listening.
Well, it's definitely not Phil.
Not.
Phil, he's not eating kids
meals.
No, that's correct.
Yeah, whenever we like, whenever
we're having like fast food, he
orders.
Like a small meal, like a kids
meal.
Oh, Chick-fil-A or whatever.
And like, he's a good friend of
mine, right?
So I judge him.
I let him know that I judge him.
I'm like, oh the.
Preston.
No, it's not.
It's not.
Preston's not a friend, he's
family.
You know you can't argue with
your spouse like that.
You got to let that go.
Well, you said you gave him a
hard time.
Didn't say you argue.
Yeah.
Is it the guy that went to the I
can't remember his name?
The guy that lives down the
street from you on the other
side of the road?
Guy that lives down the.
Home works on cars in his garage
when I went to a couple of cigar
events with us.
You talking about Kenny?
Kenny.
It is not Kenny.
It is not Kenny, but I, I too
would give he qualifies as well.
He's in the realm of I would
give a hard time too, right?
Right.
Yeah, yeah, I think he's the
only outside this area friend
that I've met of yours.
Yeah, he came to my house.
He, like, showed up at random.
Kenny.
Yeah.
On Saturday or Sunday.
Yeah.
And he brought like a dozen
Donuts.
Sorry, think of a video in my
head.
He brought, he brought a dozen
Donuts into the house, right.
And so like, you know, I was
like, oh, thanks.
Very nice.
You saw I, I had, I had three of
them.
I had three on Saturday.
Sunday it was.
On Oh, you said Saturday, I
think.
It was first, first, first, you
said Saturday.
It was on Sunday he caught me
so.
Jesus knows.
So so we all so we hacked
through these like these dozen
Donuts.
The two of you just ate
Saturday.
No, no, my kids and everything.
But I had three and he said wow,
I guess I got to get another
dozen Donuts to bring back to my
house.
Oh, I was like wait a second.
So what was I supposed to do?
Like have 1/2 of one or
something like.
One.
It was just one forever.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
Hey, we expected just to see
three children, two adults,
five, he expected to be 5 and
maybe the dogs maybe 7.
So I texted him.
I texted him later, said hey, or
I saw him later on that day.
I said, hey, you remember that
time he came to my house and
brought doughnuts that I wasn't
supposed to eat, but you offered
them to me?
Like what are we doing?
It's weird, yeah.
You weren't supposed to.
Eat maybe.
Maybe he was just stopping.
You didn't leave in the car
because they would melt.
No, he was like, hey, I brought
you guys Donuts.
Like perfect maybe?
She's giving me a hard time.
Maybe it was a plot.
A plot.
Did you feel OK after you ate
them or did everybody get sick
or?
No, my point is though that.
You shouldn't eat Donuts on
Saturday.
Like, I'm not going to eat, I'm
not going to eat just I'm not
just going to eat one donut on
Sunday and I'm not going to
order a kids meal for me at fast
food.
Oh, right.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
That's not me attacking you
either.
Just for the record, do you know
the apple slices?
Do you ever get the apple
slices?
Yes, they peel them completely
now.
There's no skin on them at all.
So you can gum them down.
Yeah, you can just.
Straight to applesauce.
I don't think they go bad
either.
It's kind of weird.
The apples.
Don't.
Yeah, they have to.
There, there.
There's definitely preservatives
in.
Them I'm going to test that next
time.
By images, but and you'll leave
them afraid you're leaving.
No, I'll leave one out and see
how bad.
Oh, outside, the package opened
in the air.
See how bad it's?
Just bring them here and leave
them on the counter.
It's not like Keanu's cleaning
the counters anyways.
Greg was down here yesterday.
Guy asked me when did Keanu
clean your last go?
I don't know.
I thought it was Thursday and
then one week it was Wednesday
and then last week I think it
was Tuesdays.
It doesn't even bring butane
anymore.
No.
That was real down here on the
project.
Greg tried to license lighter.
He's like what the hell?
All these empty.
Yep.
Yeah, Greg, you should be used
to this.
One over here, but don't touch
it.
That was mine.
All right.
Travel delays.
Yesterday was not a normal day.
There was a major disruption and
the percentage was unusually
high.
All the storms up north trapped
people in Orlando.
That was the footage you saw of
all the people just sleeping,
laying around Orlando.
Oh, I heard it was going on in
Houston too.
Yes, yeah.
You can't get above like Georgia
at the moment.
I think today it's a little
better, but yesterday was
terrible.
I mean, let's be honest, who
wants to get above Georgia?
Well, if you're going home
though.
I don't know why anybody lives.
Above Georgia.
Yeah, I don't either.
I talked to somebody yesterday
and I told them that I live in
Florida.
It's the only place I want to
live.
We should build a wall like
we're, you know, like north of
the wall.
North of the wall, yeah.
You know, just.
Make all the criminals and
everything sit on the wall and
protect us from.
The yeah.
And then everybody.
Yeah.
Well, then we could be
protected.
Yeah, protected from that.
That's a great idea all.
Right.
So there were 12,500 total
disruptions yesterday, delays
and cancellations.
I know of 1.
Roughly 8500 delay flights and
4000 cancelled flights.
People were trying to get out of
the great smoke and they're all
jammed.
Up.
Yeah, I got a little bit nice.
Nobody from the Great Smoke
could get home yesterday.
Oh my God, who was who?
Who did I see?
David Lafferty was stuck.
Oh yeah, David, Larry, I saw
that one.
Supposedly it's a little better
today, but the US Tilley runs
45,000 to 50,000 flights per
day.
So 25 to 30% of all flights were
affected yesterday.
Nice.
Did you see that?
He was at his hotel and the lady
had a heavy Spanish accent.
And he he, he came back, he went
upstairs, came back down and
said, oh, hey, I didn't get my
cookies.
And she said, I never offered
you.
I don't have cookies.
So.
But wait a second, You offered
me cookies before and she said
no.
I said do you need 2 keys?
Definitely not from Florida.
And he took it as cookies.
Galletas.
So you like 2 keys?
Yeah.
He's like, no, no, I don't.
You know what?
I'll take those cookies.
I was like, cookies.
See what?
Hey, Cookie.
I was like, this is what is this
DoubleTree?
What are we doing?
Did he press 2 to get the
translation where it just
English was a Spanish accent?
It's incredible, man life
experiences.
Also this past weekend, Sheriff
Chitwood arrested 133 people at
the beach for spring break.
Well, somebody fired a shot.
Yeah, there were 4 shootings.
Yeah, a lot of alcohol.
Yeah, 4 shootings only in one
area.
I mean, there were shootings.
Right.
It's a it's a terrible weekend
to go to the beach.
Yeah.
I mean, look, spring break is no
longer like, you know, we all
shelter indoors when you're
above the age of 23 is like, I'm
not going.
You know what's crazy is like
back in the day in Daytona, it
used to be MTV used to come and
it wasn't even as crazy as it is
now, right?
Like like there wasn't shootings
and stuff like that before.
Well, it was televised though.
You don't think so?
No, no there wasn't.
I think the problem is that
everybody's got a camera now.
Maybe that too, because most of
the footage is raw footage of
cameras running around.
It's not like the news crews
down there.
I heard that Houston is like
wild right now.
There's so many people that
travelled.
For spring break.
Yeah, for whatever reason, they
all went to Houston.
It's the same.
So like, I mean, I was driving
down US1 the other day on
Saturday.
In your Denali.
In the SUV one, yeah.
In the is that 2?
So I'm driving down, I'm driving
down US1 and it's like nothing
but gangster rollers.
Like, yeah, yeah, I all got, you
know, 20. 2 I don't want to
sound racist but looked like it
was BC Argo was going on yeah.
It's too late, yeah.
I understand, I understand that,
but.
I'm glad it wasn't me that's.
Why He said BCR Maybe I don't
know what I mean.
He came across that's yeah.
Anybody who goes to BCR or could
go to BCR knows what BCR.
Is.
Yeah, but it but it was unusual
because that's not normally how
Daytona Beach is all the time.
Yeah.
And I mean, it's spring break,
isn't, I mean.
A mix of people, right?
Yeah, plethora of different
cultures.
You know, they show the the four
police trucks with their lights
on and sirens as they're, you
know, moving everyone down the.
Beach.
Listen, if you live north of the
Wall, you have a lot of pent up
anger.
You come down here.
Yeah, right.
And you feel free.
I get it.
I get it.
Look North of the Wall.
Bad.
Yeah, they used to do MTV
singled out exhibit used to go.
I remember exhibits pit my ride.
He used to do it on the beach.
It was fake.
It was fake.
Wow.
He's just shook his head.
No, I did.
We get that on camera.
No of disbelief it was fake.
It was fake.
It was fake.
Messed up to the exhibit.
It was faked.
It's true pit my ride.
I know the cars, yeah.
There wasn't real stuff.
I mean, the show was real, yeah,
But the stuff they did to the
cars was not real.
It was fake, yeah.
And the people's reactions were
planned.
And exhibits.
Not really a rapper.
He's not a good rapper.
He's not really a rapper.
He's technically on his Facebook
profile page.
He is a rap.
It says I mean I could it.
Says I'm not a rapper.
I could change my Facebook
profile as a rapper as well.
You know what I mean?
Candy Rapper.
Just about everybody's now, says
social influencer.
Yeah, content.
Creator, content creator.
I'm just going with that.
Yeah, I read the other day the
show where they used to yell
move that bus.
What was that called where they
redid the house?
Oh, that was a dream house.
With Ty Pennington.
My my something dream house.
Anyway, there's still people
trying to pay those things off.
The Houses.
Yeah, because once they did, all
those changes to your house,
your property taxes shoot up.
Oh yeah.
And they and they don't help
you.
So you got to pay the taxes.
Yeah, but most, but most of
those people were like poor.
Yeah, those are poor houses.
Yeah, like $10,000 houses and
all of a sudden they're paying
taxes for a $400,000 house.
Yeah, like this mom and her ten
kids we're going to make this
huge house for.
Right, everybody gets their own
bedroom and a brand new kitchen
and now all of a sudden you owe
$50,000 in taxes every year.
She.
Sell the house.
Makes no money.
I mean, what are you like what?
Are they going to live?
What then?
Where are they going to live?
I think they had to pay for some
of the raw materials too.
I don't know, look.
Man, I'm not trying to sweat the
details here, but I'm going to
tell you that if you upgraded my
house and you and I went from a
two-bedroom to a 10 and then all
of a sudden life went sideways
and I couldn't afford it, sell
the damn house.
Or get a job well.
Life didn't.
Go no, you don't know that they
could be working.
Get a better job.
OK, but some sometimes people
are stuck.
If they had a better job, they
could have paid for the house
themselves.
Yeah, so just sell the house,
take the leg up right, Take the
West and either a where you
going to live, go rent somewhere
or something.
Can't afford that.
I don't have the.
I don't have the first and last
and security you.
Will when you sell the house.
You got to pay off the taxes.
I didn't pay them in eight
years.
There's no.
Money, but that sounds like
that's not a good idea.
It's OK, you don't have to pay
taxes.
Look at.
Wesley Snipes show All right,
you just calm down over there.
It's just not.
I don't like look.
That was a scam too.
All I'm saying is that someone
helped you right all.
Those reality shows are fake.
And you and you start to like
complain about that, but you
like there's, you have an
opportunity there to adjust.
So adjust, you know I hate the
victim mentality and stuff.
Yeah, I mean, we've got 12 jobs.
I feel so bad for you if
somebody upgraded my house and
my taxi shot through the roof.
You'd sell more hats.
I wouldn't be crying about it.
Yeah, I'd build a whole hat
making area.
Right.
There's four houses in my
neighborhood that looks like
your house.
Yeah, and they're all in a row
when we drive by it.
We call that Mikey Britney Row.
Mikey Britney Row.
It's a square house with a flat
roof just like yours.
Yeah, there's four of them.
It's just odd.
Just all of a sudden there's
four of them.
I don't know why all I could
picture when he said that you're
like, oh, I'd build a whole hat
empire.
The only thing I could picture
was the Dave Chappelle episode
where he's like closet full of
shoes.
Who needs that when you got your
own sweatshop?
All right, back to the show.
Get back to the show now.
Sorry.
All right.
As of today, there's 47 delays
and 13 cancellations out over
Orlando.
So 8 to 10% delayed, 2 to 3%
cancelled.
Total impact 10 to 13% of
flights affected in or out of
Cuba today.
Or in or out of Cuba.
In or out?
Of Orlando, Sorry, the next.
Story is my God.
Right the the spring breaking
Cuba.
Cuba has seized the United
States of America, right?
No, everybody's going down
there.
They have two cookies.
They have to, and they got
plenty.
They got plenty of cookies down
to cookies.
David Lafferty, Plenty of Cuban
cookies for you down there, if
you'd.
Like to hit this?
All right, Cuba's national power
grid collapsed on Monday.
Oh. 10 million people without
electricity.
Five people, no power.
The entire island is.
Dark.
The entire island shut down, No.
Power at.
All no power for those 5.
Homes because we have cut off
the oil supply to them and now
they have no oil to run the
power plants.
Well.
Well.
Hey, you picked the wrong side.
I don't know what to tell.
I don't know what to tell you.
Authorities say they're
investigating and have begun
efforts to restore power in some
areas, but there's not going to
be any.
Yeah, they have.
No.
That, in some areas means the
rich people.
The rich, yeah, the rich people
are enraged, people that are
tight with the communist
government.
The photos they show are is
everybody walking outside on the
street, it's pitch black and
somebody's got a headlights.
That's the.
Only lights that are on.
I mean, hey, maybe, you know,
this could be a positive.
Maybe we have reopened trade
with Cuba.
They become our buddies, you
know?
New cigars No.
We don't want their cigars.
I don't.
I don't think we want to be
friends with Cuba.
No, I mean, Biden sort of opened
that up.
Or Obama.
One of them did.
And Trump went, Nah, I don't
like them.
Maybe we could work it out now.
And now he's cut off the
Venezuelan oil, so they're like,
sorry.
You know, this is, I mean, this
could be a slippery slope here.
Start cutting off power to
different countries you're going
into World War.
Well.
They don't have any power to
shoot the missiles.
I can do that.
Dude, you.
Got to be able to power that
button you.
Got to be able to power dude
button.
You saw like the stamp one.
Of the batteries.
Don't work.
It doesn't work.
Anybody that thought that there
was going to be no repercussions
of when he asked for help and
they go no, no help.
Did they say no help?
Yeah.
Who has help?
Who asked for help?
Cuba.
No, no, Trump asked for help for
the the waterway.
The waterway.
Yeah, the waterway straight to
Hormuz.
I was trying.
To.
Get him to say.
It.
Sorry.
You always you're Mr. Magooded
again.
I was answering your question.
Thank you, Palmer.
Not his two XL, by the way, But
yeah, no, he asked for help and
everybody said no.
Are you sure about that?
Yes, yeah.
Yeah, they're only not letting
our ships.
Israel ships, and there's one
other country.
If you're anybody else, they're
letting you through.
Yeah, if you're the ally of
them.
Allied them.
If you're an ally of them.
Oh, is anybody an ally of them?
They have allies, might not be,
you know, anybody we know, but.
I'm looking this up.
Right now, so and if you give,
if you give them oil, we're
going to raise your tariffs.
So everybody keep that in mind
if you're watching the show.
I'm not giving them any of my
oil.
Not you personally, but if like
another country.
Well, I know we just released a
whole bunch of our reserve too.
We probably have so much reserve
it's ridiculous.
No, we do.
We have the biggest oil reserve
in the world.
We're.
Stockpiling.
We're hoarders, yeah.
Yeah, so you're right.
Apparently, no countries are
helping.
Yeah, nobody wanted to help.
So there's definitely going to
be repercussions, I mean.
Do we need help?
Can we just you know, there's
already 2 aircraft carriers
there, Send a third.
Well, push, push is going to
come to shove.
He's probably right now what
he's doing is, you know, he's
playing chess, right?
What?
Do you think chess not checkers?
Yeah, He's like, hey, you know,
OK, you guys want to help?
That's fine there.
Let's just see what happens in
the next couple of weeks,
everybody.
More tariffs.
Or whatever.
No power.
Oh, what you're saying is
because of the fact that they're
not keeping things regulated,
even the allies of Iran, yeah,
aren't getting oil?
Like, here's the problem.
Like the US, you know, everybody
thinks the US depends on
everybody else.
Well, everybody else does depend
on us for some things too.
Interesting, you know, So maybe
that's what he's doing.
We're the whole monitor of the
world.
We're just watching everybody.
I love getting my macroeconomics
from you.
Thank you for the record, it
makes me feel.
Make me feel smarter, it makes.
Me feel amazing.
No, not smarter it just makes me
feel amazing.
Yes, thank.
You Cuban President Miguel Diaz,
Canal boy, he's getting along.
He said I need 2 keys.
His open talks is watching about
alleviating the economic
humanitarian crisis, but U.S.
President Donald Trump is
repeatedly mused about
overthrowing the government.
We need help.
Nah, just going to push you out.
Over the weekend, he told
reporters he'll probably have
the honor of taking Cuba.
It's a lot smaller than
Venezuela.
I could take this one.
That's fine.
Wow.
By lunch.
OK.
But it was unclear on how.
We're not going to give that
away.
It isn't ridiculous.
So listen, let's Fast forward, I
don't know, three or four years.
Let's say that you work out
deals and all of a sudden Cuba
opens back up.
You don't think that that's good
for the cigar industry?
It's great.
Yeah.
Why is it good?
Yeah, why is it?
Good.
That's where everything
originated, right?
All Cuban seed everything right?
OK.
I mean, if you can, if you can
grasp that land again or grasp.
That fray, I'm sorry.
I mean like grasp that trade,
OK, then you can grow cigar, the
cigar industry more by having
more product, right?
Kind of.
What about you?
Do you think it's good or bad?
I don't see it being an
advantage.
Why do we want more Cuban
cigars?
I think that it would be great,
yeah.
Yeah.
Because here's what it would do.
Cuban postonia.
What a Cuban postonia.
No.
Here's what it would do.
It would become mainstream news,
right?
Right.
Cuban cigars are now allowed in
the US right?
People would be like oh Cuban
cigar.
More people would come into
stores looking for the Cuban
cigar.
Eventually they figure out the
Cuban cigar is a complete ass in
comparison to the other
countries and now you have more
cigar consumers.
Gotcha.
Right.
Or they smoked a bad Cuban.
You go.
These are supposed to be the
best.
These are terrible.
I don't want to smoke anything
ever again.
Well.
That's where you hope that you
have retailers explaining to
them like, I'm going to let you
have the cigar.
You've met some of them.
The retailers.
Yeah, they're not all good.
No, that's true.
They are not all good.
But if you're Goodwin, I don't
know why you haven't made an
appointment with.
Me, Yeah, Book the calendly
appointment.
Yeah, today.
The number 2 cigar.
Technically the number one.
You can't get one in three
anymore.
It's only been three months into
this year, we already got
another 91 on half wheel and
what are we doing?
It's just great.
Oh, as long as you brought that
up.
Cigar TV is doing one of those.
I know crap.
I can't think of what it's
called.
What's it when they do the
basketball with all the teams
this team plays?
This team bracket bracket.
They're doing a bracket with
Cigar Brands.
OK, There's a lot of them.
Yeah, we're not even on the
list.
Not even on.
We're not one of them, no.
I asked them why we weren't.
You did.
I said funny, we're the number 2
cigar and we're not even on this
thing anywhere.
They haven't answered yet.
No response.
No, but there's brands smaller
than us that are on there
really.
Who do you think is direct in
it?
Who do I think?
Why?
Who?
Do you think is direct in it?
Moving to the cigar TV guys, I
don't know which one of them
does.
They have a lovely.
Young I was going to make a joke
several times.
Interesting.
Yeah, and still the episode with
you has not made it to the their
normal rotation of shows either.
That's kind of weird too.
Listen, we're going to go.
Apparently we have to go the
really, really long way, right?
Yeah, shirts, hats and our own
show.
Not just even the long one.
The Really.
Really long way which.
Is fine, I'm fine with that.
I mean how?
Much more good stuff could we?
Do we start claiming we invented
cigars like Saka?
It's a, it's a great question.
I'll get back to you on that.
Yeah.
When you figure it out, you let
me know.
Yeah.
All right, cigar news.
Unless you have a video, of
course.
Something else you think is
funny that Boots and I won't
understand.
Oh man.
Of course I have a video.
Oh God.
You didn't have a video, or if
you didn't have a video today I
had one.
By the way that.
Oh, you've told me that I don't
have videos, and now guess what
buddy, I'm going to have a
video.
That sinking sound thing works
great.
Thank you for bringing that up.
I never thought to do that with
the videos.
Yes, you're welcome.
Let me see here.
Oh, here it is.
This is not a funny one, but I
thought.
Wait, wait.
The one we were watching.
I thought it was a good one.
Got it.
This is it.
Is this the laser?
No.
Is there music?
I don't see it play.
Oh, there it is.
No, it's OK.
Please, is this Iran?
Yeah, I didn't put the that that
part off, I guess.
Oh wait, but so it's just the 2?
Yeah.
So, so for our listeners that
aren't viewing but are
listening, it's a video of an
Iranian missile being
intercepted and blown up while
people were kind of watching it
at a party.
So they see this happening.
Yeah, right.
So I thought that was pretty
cool.
The laser wins better.
I haven't seen the laser one.
Oh yeah, there's a laser one.
Yeah, where Israel shoots a
laser up and takes a rocket.
Out.
And that actually happens.
There's a theory that the
president of Israel is dead.
President of Israel or the
President of Iran?
President of Israel.
Oh, why is he dead?
That's what's going on right
now.
And they're saying that like
there's been AI images of him
and he's had like a six finger.
Oh, is that, Oh, I thought
they're talking about the guy in
charge of Iran.
No, talking about him.
Yeah, he was at something.
He went, look, I don't have 6
fingers.
He was at He was at a coffee
shop.
Yeah, Oh yeah, yeah, the coffee
shop.
But then there was the other
guy.
But then people broke that down
saying that that there's a 78%
chance that that was AI as.
Well well, the six finger thing
is probably a good shot.
Do you know how AI loves to put
extra fingers on hands?
And yeah, but, well, this one,
even the coffee shop 1.
They're saying that the coffee
shop 1.
I did 1 today for today's show
and I put, you know, I have to
have something.
There's something in my hand but
it also so it has me holding the
camera like this, It has me
eating something here and then
there's a third hand that has it
holding a bag of food.
That's nice.
Yeah, I could.
Yeah, third hand would be.
Useful.
Yeah, it would be, you know.
Right.
And then sometimes AI won't
understand it, like you say.
Can you remove the extra hand?
Next thing you know, this one's
gone.
I have two over.
Here 2 left hands.
Or it'll turn it around
backwards.
I mean, we just don't know
what's real and what's fake
anymore.
I know.
Yeah, I know.
It's kind of scary, is it?
It's going to get worse as the
technology gets better.
Yeah, yeah, No, I mean, the
technology is good as long as
you just tell the app what to
do, right?
Like if you, you get very
specific with it.
I mean, dude, I've, I've taken
pictures of people, you know,
just kind of smiling and I'll
say like put a candy bar in
their hand and make them, you
know, eat it like a slob and it
dude, it's real.
Really.
Well, that's crazy.
Meanwhile, I can't get AI to
properly move the background of
my Bing bong.
Sometimes it gets stuck and it
won't.
You know, you'll remove the
background and it'll say I
removed the background.
You'll go No, he didn't.
No he didn't.
Still there.
Oh let me move like I have AI
use an app that that does all
the AIS together.
It's like, oh, let me move it to
a more advanced imagery AI,
yadda yadda, and then it moves
it there.
It utilizes all the AIS, Yes,
that's crazy.
That's awesome.
So then it says, OK, I switched
to this one, and now we did a
thorough check of the background
and then the background's gone,
and then it pops back up.
It's exactly the same, same,
right?
I'm like, Oh my God, what are we
doing?
I'll ask mine sometimes why you
can't do it and it'll it'll tell
me like, oh, I timed out or tell
you what do it this way and then
I can do it because it's, it's
trying to recreate it exactly
from scratch.
But if you send me the one you
already made, we're step past
that and right, it's like it's
making excuses.
Yeah, well, I couldn't do it
that way.
Say this.
Like I could but.
I just if you're telling me to
say this, don't you just do it?
I just feel, you know, I just
feel like this way is better.
Right.
You know, it really looks sharp.
If we did it like this.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Doesn't even look like me.
Yeah, but that guy's better
looking great, thank.
You thanks.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
All right, Cigar News.
Wait, wait, hold on a second.
So I've waited two days now to
see if this hits the news at all
and it has not hit the news.
What?
OK, what is it?
OK, this guy from 10 years ago
stole a treasure chest from from
a a sunken ship, right?
He didn't hid the gold and they
arrested him.
They found out.
They arrested him.
He just got released like a week
ago.
Yeah.
And he has not told anybody
where this goal is.
You think he you think he finds
the goal again.
Yeah.
Sure, he knows right where he
hit.
It O then how do you like
offload this gold without?
On the black market, don't you
watch TV and.
Movies, yeah, but it's like the
CIA doesn't know the black
market.
It's a CIACIA, he's not worried
about this guy that stole that
they got.
From the guy.
Well, maybe the FBI.
Yeah, I mean anybody this is an
international, this was an
international water.
So probably Interpol probably is
probably definitely involved
the.
Guy's probably trying to figure
it out.
You get rid of it in small
increments.
He sits tight, you know, he buys
a soda and drops a.
Is that how you would do it
right?
You go, you buy a pack of gum,
you drop a gold bar, and then
everything you know, you take
the change.
Yeah.
Like can you break this up for
me?
And that's how you launder
money.
Just like that.
Allegedly.
Allegedly Wesley Wesley slams
away.
Huh.
Just like.
That no, but if I mean the guy
knows that all eyes are on him
right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's not like he got out
of jail, grabbed a shovel and
went to the beach.
Yeah, nobody's watching me.
I just paid my debt.
He's sitting tight.
Man, how great would that be?
I mean, I I would do jail time.
How 10 years?
Yeah, I'd do 10 years if, if,
could you imagine how much money
is in this chest I.
Don't know 10 years a long time
dude. 10 years.
How old is he?
I think he's like 50 something
now.
So he lost his like his 40s.
Yeah, he lost the, you know, the
the my knees hurt time error and
stuff like that, you know.
He came out really jacked
because he works out all day.
Probably, yeah.
I.
Didn't see his, they just showed
his face.
There's.
Jack no way I would give up.
I don't know 10 years of my
time.
How much money are we talking
again?
A treasure chest like a.
OK, Is it a big treasure chest?
A big.
Treasure chest?
No, no, it's a big one.
Does it got diamonds and
emeralds in it or are we just
talking?
No, it was it's like these gold
coins.
It's they were talking about who
is from but.
Call it 20 million bucks.
Call it 20.
Million, 10 million a million a
year?
I don't know.
I don't know.
One of those coins is probably
worth like 100K.
Just one.
I'm not doing it.
Yeah, no, I don't think so.
It's not worth it.
What if it was like 500 million?
I'd do five years.
Oh my God, he jumped in.
Five.
No.
For the 10 million I'd do 5.
I'd do 55's easy.
You could do 55's easy.
I'm not doing it.
Five's easy.
Five's easy.
I mean, it's not like he's in
maximum security.
No, he's in.
He's probably in a federal pen,
right?
And he's probably in a nice one
with.
The yeah, one of the nice ones
with the Starbucks in it and
stuff, Yeah, you know.
I miss out on every all these
opportunities with my family,
no.
Listen guys, you guys do
something for the next 5 years,
OK?
When I get out, we're going to
be millionaires, 10 million.
Here we go. 10 million is not
enough. 500. 500 million, yeah,
yes.
Yeah.
'Cause it changes the life of my
family forever, right half of
Billy.
Half of bills where you that's
the number for you for.
No, well, that was just the
number that he threw out.
No.
Is that the number now he's
going to open the number.
You need to go less days is is
the way you're going to get me,
not more money.
Less days.
Yeah, like I'll do five years,
not ten.
I don't care what the price is.
That's.
Because your time is short.
Right.
I don't have, I, I might not
have 10 years left, but I get
it.
I get in prison free healthcare
and I get to work out all the
time and, you know, eat Bologna
sandwiches.
So I lose a bunch of.
Weight.
As long as they let you on
Facebook and TikTok, you're
good.
Oh, I'd become I'd be a
millionaire from social media if
I was in jail with access.
How much content he could create
inside?
A millionaire in prison, right?
Serving 10 years, right, I mean.
Well, I would be the number one
cigar guy, not #3.
Yeah, 1.
Day if Arturo Fuente and Bobby
Newman were in jail, all three
of us together, that being
great.
Bobby.
Me, Bobby and Arturo all.
Right, sorry, I just I couldn't
believe they make like all the
things that he pulls.
I'm surprised that other than
come out.
Everything I see, I've not seen
that.
No, Yeah, does McDonald's stuff.
OK.
All right, there's certain
categories I always look at.
Food is one of them.
Space is the other one.
Not only space oranges don't
wait.
A rocket took off last night,
but nobody cares about.
Rocket too.
Nobody can.
No, somebody wants to know if
the rocket is going to is going
to bring back aliens and they're
going to invade us.
Like if you'd have said that,
then that'd.
Be Oh, I could make that.
We can do it.
Yeah, Alien Invasion has another
3,000,000 hits on our Instagram
page, right?
There, Yeah, people are scared
of aliens.
Which we're almost got 3
million.
Are we really 22?
Is that not making money?
2,870,000 Geez as of yesterday.
Palmer, your voice is bubbly.
Just unplug where you plug.
I turned it.
Yep, there you go.
You turned.
It I turned it because it was
sliding off my leg.
Now we got a new new set coming,
yeah.
All right, all right.
Cigarnas.
Ratching Portable Draw analyzer
is coming out.
That's all.
Those is doing you want one.
Ratching.
RACHINGI don't know.
I don't.
Think that's what I don't think
that's how you say.
It's doing it again.
How about now?
Talk a little bit more.
Talk a little bit more.
No, it's still doing it.
You guys just finished the show.
I'm done.
This is you shutting down.
She's not.
Going to be able to hear me just
shut the I'll hold up signs but.
It's still doing it.
You got to turn off turn on.
Maybe if they get too hot or
something.
No, that's not the case.
That one's defective.
Yeah, we have one that's bad,
and apparently it's this one.
Yeah.
All right, how about now?
Yeah, we're good now to.
A point where here's what we're
going to do is when we get the
next set in, we'll turn them
both on and test them, make sure
they're both flawless.
We'll run them for like a week,
make sure there's no issues.
If there is, then we'll take the
crappy one out of that and then
put these two together and then
send them two crappy ones back.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, all right.
A Chinese company best known for
its electronic cabinet of
humidors has announced a new
portable draw test for cigars.
You asked me if I want one.
Yes.
Do you want one are?
They going to give it to.
Us.
No, they're no.
Who's the company I'm?
Addressing them yet because I'm
not spending. $600.00 on.
One is that much it cost.
Yeah.
Portable.
Sorry, I got a text message from
somebody I don't get messages
from.
It's just kind of weird.
Portable Draw Analyzer is a new
device that the company has
included draw testers and some
more expensive humidor options.
Oh, I didn't know they they.
So what would I do with a draw
tester?
I know what they're for.
I know how they use them in a
factory.
Why would I want one?
So you're not disappointed when
you light up the cigar, You can
check it and make sure that it's
optimal.
Oh, this is the perfect draw for
me.
How much is this thing?
It's like 600 bucks.
I think for $600.00 I'll just,
you know, roll the dice every
time I like 1.
It's one of those things where
you, you know, oh, check this
out.
I just I test.
Oh, you come over and visit.
I'm like, right, let's test
these.
Whoa, whoa.
This isn't, we don't.
This isn't how we smoke cigars.
We we have to test them first.
So this is right up there with
the machine that you poke your
cigar to get the humidification
of your cigar.
You know, I was talking to the
guy before the the draw machine
guy and I meant to get one and
then I totally forgot.
Are we playing a skit or is this
really?
No, maybe I'll run into him
because I wanted to use it on
the Patreon.
Oh, I went sure.
The way you said it fell, I
didn't sound like it, sound like
we were skitting.
It's the thing where we can
compare construction.
I was going to be the guy right?
Well, yeah, it's like hope them.
I could give you 1 if you'd
like.
Now, yeah, that'd be that would
be cool.
I mean, I've seen the humidity
11 time Pedro had one, yeah, and
I thought it was really cool,
but I never I never bought 1.
Like right.
Yeah, but that's it.
I mean, I'm going to sit down on
Saturday afternoon and check the
draw and humidity of all my
cigars.
Yeah.
They're going to sell like five
of these things.
Right, Paul, We smoke way too
many cigars even.
I'd already had to use it twice
today.
Yeah.
But it is a good tool for like a
podcast like that would, yeah.
Yeah, well, they should send one
to every podcast then, no?
We're going to get one from the
other guy, like the other guy,
cigar mechanic, I think.
How big is it?
Is that the magician?
I don't know.
Is it like the ones you see at
the factory?
The big wooden thing where I got
to turn the crank.
No Mctavish has ones.
Oh, they gotta turn the.
Crank.
They tagged him on this.
A couple of people didn't on
this pressure.
Because he's got one.
He's got the Not that 10.
Are they from Canada?
Are they Canadian?
So no.
So John, when you listen to this
and in 6 to 8 weeks a year, can
you tell us if you how often you
use the one you have?
Yeah.
I use it all the time.
Well, if it's 300 Pascals, it's
too loose.
If it's three to 500 pascals,
it's slightly loose. 500 to 1000
Pascals gridlock zone it's.
Going to be tight.
This is stupid 600 and there it
is, $700. 700.
They're going to have it at the
at the oh, TPE.
Oh, I got excited for me.
I was going to go over there
with a handful of cigars and
just.
They'll probably have on a PCA.
They're gonna do it The P at the
TPE trade show, which takes
place March 3rd, April 2nd and
Las Vegas.
Yeah, yeah.
That's best.
Cigarmatic introduced a much
larger, but still portable
machine.
Cigarmatic.
Sorry, I screwed that up, I
said.
Mechanic.
Yes, that's all right.
Things happen.
Cigarmatic has a much larger
Gaudia.
Portable machine designed for
cigar factories.
Does Skip have one?
No, I didn't think so.
He.
Doesn't believe in them.
Right, he just checks each one
himself.
He believes that, that you weigh
in and you know you do that
right?
It's not wrong.
All right, Missouri has issued a
bill that would cut property
taxes for disabled veterans.
That's great.
Well.
They're going to do it by
increasing tobacco taxes.
That's terrible.
So I thought, too, we're going
to pay for it for them.
Apparently, for the most part,
when elected officials wants to
raise taxes on tobacco,
including cigars, it's done so
under the justification of
public health.
But no, they voted.
So that's why we're not going to
go to the PC.
This.
Is the same place that just
said, hey, we're going to give
you a we're.
Going to give you an exemption
for smoking inside the thing but
you got to pay more tax so.
Apparently, we're a hot topic in
Missouri.
Yes, things are going on in
Missouri.
The.
Cigar industry.
Oh, you know what?
Yeah, we're going to allow you
to do this, but we're going to
raise your taxes on this anyway.
There's only there's only two
guys that think it's a good
idea, only two, whatever the
votes are.
I'm sorry, what?
There's only two guys.
Only who?
You mean like two people?
Yeah, two people put this bill
together.
Nobody else likes it.
Oh, OK, just the two guys.
Yeah, OK.
Oh, Representative Donald Mayhew
and Representative Bill Lucas
have introduced the Veterans and
Gold Star Family Property Tax
Relief Act.
Never trust a guy with two first
names.
Right, it's.
True.
Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, you know, like, do you
think veterans should be paying
property taxes?
No, I don't think anybody should
be paying property taxes.
Well, then that TV show would be
off the hunt.
Yeah, that'd be fine.
That'd be fine.
And you'd have your own house.
How about the government does
That's that's the way.
How about, you know, the
government, they the company
steps in and then the government
wipes their keeps their taxation
the same, not increasing it.
2%'s what they're looking to
raise 2% of the wholesale price.
Oh yeah.
For tobacco products, including
cigars. 2%, that's I mean.
That's how it starts.
Yeah, I know.
It starts.
I'm just saying.
I mean.
Actually, you know, they raise
the property taxes so they need
more money and it goes to 5.
Yeah, the percentage should be
0.
There should be no percentage.
Vaping is 10 if that makes you
feel better.
It doesn't.
You don't like vaping?
I don't, but I don't mean you
don't.
Want to tax that?
Either?
No.
I'm not going to listen.
Just because I don't like it
doesn't mean that I'm pro
taxation of it.
Oh, wait.
Uh oh.
There's more.
OK.
Currently the battery suckers.
So it's going to go to 12.
See.
They're only raising to 2%, but
it's already at 10%, yeah.
Well, there's less battery
suckers now.
It's not, it's.
Talking about cigars.
Now talking about cigars now.
Oh yeah, no.
Welcome back to the
Conversation.
Hello.
Hello.
So a cigar This 950 would now be
998.
Got it.
No, not OK.
This is not OK.
All right, run through this.
There's more facts, but
apparently we don't care.
All right?
Amar by AJ Fernandez is
scheduled for May.
Oh, Rafael Nadal?
No.
AJ Fernandez.
OK, continue.
Almost a year ago, a fire broke
out of Tablic Cholera.
AJ Fernandez Cigars de Niki
Ragua, the main factor of AJ
Fernandez.
For the company's next release,
Abdel Fernandez is honoring some
some of the help he received
following the fire.
Amar by AJ Fernandez is a new
line.
It's made entirely of Nicaraguan
tobacco, capped off by Habana
rapper.
While Amar is born out of the
fire at the factory in Esta Lee,
the line is being made at the
San Litano factory, the
company's second factory, which
is located in Octal, north of
Esta Lee.
Offered in 4 sizes.
The bloody, bloody, bloody,
bloody blahs and the bloody
bloodies.
The name is two different
meanings.
In Spanish, Amar means to love.
Well they're break the word for
moon.
So they love the moon to love
the moon to love the moon.
The company says it's
highlighted Abdel Fernandez's
heritage.
He is known for being Cuban but
also has Lebanese heritage.
Oh, there you go.
That's why it is love the moon.
To love the moon, yes.
Like the lunar phase that
directs follows a moon at full
illumination, Amar represents
reflection, gratitude, personal
growth and new beginning, said
the company in a press release.
A JS passion and perseverance
only made him return stronger
and the cigar community
unwavering support overwhelms
him with appreciation fuels his
purpose as he says only AJ.
Only AJ only.
I saw a picture of Rafael Nadal
holding this up and AJ was in
the background like yesterday.
Oh.
That's why I thought it was
Nadel's.
Well, didn't Rafael set him up
in the new factory?
So we probably went oh look
picture.
He loves taking pictures,
Rafael.
I don't think Rafael set him up
in the new factory.
Oh, I said.
But Altadis is now working with
AJ for the majority of their
production I.
Thought I saw a photo when the
other one burned down of him
like with his arm around AJ in
some.
New.
Factory like it was just set up
and everything was nice and
clean.
Oh, you're right.
They they went and helped.
They yeah, there was something
like that.
You're right.
All right, now it's time for the
industry's favorite game.
What's the?
Score.
Today's cigar, April 5th, 2000
or 2015.
Brian Burt is the reviewer.
Cigars is the Dominican Republic
limited edition.
It's from the lost and found.
It's called the Buck 15.
The Buck 15.
Never heard of it before.
It seemed like an excellent
choice.
It's.
Something that cost him $1.15
Phil.
I.
Went first yesterday.
You.
Didn't go first yesterday.
We went equal amounts yesterday,
85, 88.
I'll go first moving forward
since you're a crybaby.
All right, so lost and OK you
two stop arguing.
The lost and found buck 15 is
Dominican Republic factory not
sane rapper Dominican Republic
binder in Dominican Republic
filler Dominican Republic.
It's a 5 by 50 robusto.
Back then it sold for $10 and
they made 100 bundles of four
cigars or 400 total cigars.
They smoked 3.
It was a bundle of four cigars.
Yeah, 88.
Yes, 100 bundles of four cigars.
Yeah, 85.
The Buck 15 is a visually
appealing cigar, especially with
the absence of a band allowing
full attention to the wrapper.
The light tan color with a
subtle mint green tint gives it
a unique look and the wrapper
itself is well applied with a
soft, inviting feel.
The pre light experience is also
enjoyable, offering delicate
aromas of fresh alfalfa, honey,
vanilla with a cold draw that
brings an interesting mix of
pepper and sweetness. 88. 85.
Number two, the first third,
delivers a well balanced and
nuanced profile featuring notes
of pepper, caramelized sugar,
fresh hay and a light floral
component.
While the flavors are on the
milder side, they work together
nicely and create an enjoyable,
easygoing start.
The cigars also perform well in
this phase with a solid smoke
production and generally even
burn early on and draw that,
while slightly open, still
provides A satisfying smoking
experience. 87.
I'll say 85.
Third Clue The cigar struggles
significantly with construction
and consistency.
As it progresses, soft spots
along the body lead to burn
issues that require multiple
touch ups and relights,
ultimately disrupting the
experience.
Flavor wise, the profile takes a
downturn, the second final
thirds losing its earlier
balance and becoming dominated
by harsh pepper bitterness and
even sour notes. 81.
I was supposed to go first.
Oh, sorry.
Say 81. 85. 81.
Final thought, the idea behind
Lost and Found is an interesting
one and definitely a neat
project to release cigars that
might have otherwise never seen
the light of day.
Sometimes, however, it seems
that these cigars weren't
released for a reason, and I
think that's what happened with
the Buck 15.
The blend seemed to be there
with a decent profile upfront
and one that could have
continued to be OK if the
construction hadn't been such a
mess.
The burn issue went far beyond
what what was just a WAVY
wrapper burning, but instead had
entire sections of tobacco that
almost seemed to refuse to
ignite.
The nature of this project seems
that lost and found.
We'll have some good releases,
some great releases, and then
others that just missed the
mark. 77.
76 OH.
We went the right way.
Yes. 68. 68.
Wow, 68.
Man, we've been, there's been a
lot of, you know, as as we read
these through the shows, right,
there's not a lot of good cigars
out there like especially on
construction wise.
Well, yes.
I've been trying to pick the
lower scoring ones because
anywhere between 80 and 92, you
guys are less pinpointing and
more range where you're just
trying to beat.
I mean the idea is to beat the
other guy obviously, but it with
the lower scores you guys get
more specific and get closer to
the.
So Palmer's got a method.
Well, I there's not going to be
that many bad ones, you know,
but I'm trying to get things
that aren't in the like 82 to 92
range, so I'm getting above or
below.
That I got to tell you, Phil,
two out of three people on the
in this podcast have methods.
OK.
The lower the score, the better
because I mean, you go 44, how
did they ever get a 44?
Better say bye soon because it's
starting to crack all again, all
right.
Tell them where we're going to
be, Michael.
We're going to be at Boll Weevil
Cigars and Humidorfine Cigars in
Dothan, AL March 20. 7th and 20.
8th, 7th and 28th.
So if you're available and
you're in the area and you want
to come out, come hang out with
us.
Yeah.
And make sure you like and
subscribe.
We're reviewing or listening to
this show where we provide
entertainment.
There it is.
There it is.
For all our viewers and
listeners, thank you so much for
watching.
And Phil, anything else to add?
No, just make your point.
We want one of these dope little
hats.
We may have a special guest
tomorrow.
So you know.
Oh, all right, guys.
Thanks.
Bye.
Bye.
Show Notes
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