ACHP Episode 496 Draw The Line, Shag in My DM's & Legendary TV Cars

Episode Summary

Episode 496 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is a freewheeling roundtable with host Mike Palmer, co-host Mike Szczefankiewicz and engineer Phil McGuffey. The crew opens with kitchen-sink banter — Burger King's rumored half-sized Whopper, go-to lazy meals like tuna-and-mac-and-cheese and pizza rolls, meal-prepping chicken and rice, and Palmer's ongoing saga dealing with his aging, car-less mother. They also plug CHPod.com swag (buy one, get 40% off the second; free shipping over $100), limited swag drops, and invite retailers and media to book time with Powstanie via the Calendly link ahead of the PCA Trade Show in New Orleans.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Food, Family and Cold Opens
   Half-Whopper rumors, gas station cheeseburgers, lazy-meal confessions and Palmer's stories about managing his difficult, license-less mother.
2. 02
   Show Business: Swag, PCA Appointments
   CHPod.com swag deals, limited drops, and how retailers and media can book Powstanie meetings at the PCA Trade Show in New Orleans.
3. 03
   IOC Protects the Female Category
   The crew reacts to new International Olympic Committee gender-screening rules announced under president Kirsty Coventry and debate fairness and safety in elite sport.
4. 04
   Scrappy Kids and Youth Sports
   Tangent on Teddy's 400-meter win, flag football, and the boys who can't catch her.
5. 05
   Most Iconic TV Car Debate
   General Lee vs. KITT vs. Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308 GTS — plus the DeLorean, Bandit's Trans Am, Eleanor, Starsky & Hutch's Gran Torino and the A-Team van.
6. 06
   The Magnum P.I. Ferrari Auction
   The pilot-episode 308 GTS is up for sale again after selling for $115,000 on Bring a Trailer, and the guys argue over marketing and value.
7. 07
   Alien Abduction Rankings & Brightline Tangent
   New York's jump in UFO sighting rankings, Washington and Delaware's per-capita numbers, and a detour into Brightline train fatalities.
8. 08
   Shaq in the DMs & Iran's Military Video
   The alleged leaked Shaquille O'Neal messages to Sabrina Carpenter, NBA DM culture, and a mocking look at an Iranian military propaganda clip.
9. 09
   Cigar News: Cavalier, Mirapfel, Utah
   Cavalier Genève's 10th Anniversary cigar in 14-count boxes, Eric Vadella's hire as Mirapfel national sales director, and Utah legalizing online cigar sales with an 86% excise tax.
10. 10
    What's the Score: Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin
    The guys guess Brooks Whittington's 2010 review score for the Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin, a Nicaraguan Connecticut broadleaf single-store release that landed a 95.

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Transcript

- No, he likes to make the noise. - And action! - Welcome to Cigar Hustler Podcast, episode 497. You realize we're just three episodes away?

- Just three. - Three. So what, today is, uh, It's a Monday. Monday.

So, Thursday. Yeah, you said Wednesday on the last one. Well, I was counting the weekend. What, uh, are we doing some?

I do a show over the weekend. I don't know, what are you bringing in? Yeah, you're getting a new mask. We're getting, uh, you're getting a new mask, we're gonna eat the new Whopper.

Oh! Not the Whopper Junior? The new Whopper Junior. There is no new Whopper Junior.

Oh, you wait and see. It's smaller. Oh, really? Some say it looks like half of a Whopper.

It's a half of a Whopper. Really? Yes. Oh, wow.

You know, that would be smart. Just take the big Whopper and cut it in half? Yeah. And first of all, I would love just ordering the Whopper and them cutting it in half because it's really hard to eat the regular Whopper in the car.

So if you cut it in half. Why just have them cut it in half? They won't do that. No?

No. They really will. No, they won't. Try it.

You've tried? Yeah, they won't do it. You've actually asked this. I think you have to be nice to the person and I think you can get it done.

If you cut it in half of me, I'm sorry, that's against protocol. Yeah, hey, I'm driving, that's hard to eat. Can you cut it in half for me? Sorry, our guys on the line just aren't programmed that way.

I'm sorry, Phil. You can cut the paper too, I don't care. I'm sorry, Phil, I know that you come here every day. We just can't do it for you.

Oh, you know what? One night coming home, I got racetrack food, 'cause it was late and it was really nothing else. Oh, don't do that. I got a racetrack cheeseburger.

It wasn't bad. Oh my God. Yeah, did you die? No, for 10:30 at night, you know, it wasn't that bad.

It was hot, and it tasted fresh. What's your, so, can you, like, if you're at home, what's your, like, meal to make on a whim? Is there something that you can say, is it spam or something that you can say, hey? No, I go and look and see what's available, and then make something from that.

Okay, so there's no, like, I can just whip this together and it's decent? No. You don't have anything? With like a sandwich?

No, we like to mix it up and not have the same thing all the time. Right. But like, there's nothing in the house. There's no, you know, but you could put something together.

Is there something that you could put together? Like Nutella sandwiches? Yeah. Oh, there's always peanut butter and jelly in the house.

That's a go-to? Yeah, that's an easy, you know, little snack or a lunch or something you eat while you're moving around. Gotcha. What about you?

I know this question was geared towards me, so... so it's actually not but it's okay uh bologna sandwich or yeah or pizza rolls we do have p that's my wife's go-to is the pizza rolls i'm not a big fan of pizza rolls but there is usually a bag in the freezer yeah like uh and they have to be in the air fryer and they gotta be they have to go in double time oh double doesn't all the insides come out it doesn't matter so i have one i have The one that's a little twisted. Yes. It's a little twisted.

Oh, it's twisted? Yeah. Is this allowed for camera? You're sprinkling pre-workout on something?

No, no. And I haven't done this in a while, and I just started doing it again recently because I didn't meal prep this week. I didn't cook chicken. Right.

And like, I think... I don't like how you said meal prep, but I cook chicken. Yeah. That's his meal prep.

No, I know, but... I cook like five chicken or rices. Yeah. Right.

That's what I eat. I know, I get it. So what I've done, what I've been doing in a pinch is I'll do a can of tuna and like one of the insta heat-ups of mac and cheese, whip it together, boom, in business. Oh, it's like tuna matter.

Is that a thing? Yeah, that's- It's like tuna casserole. Yeah, whatever, it works. Crunch up potato chips and put it on top.

And then now you start going so deep into unhealthy at that point. Well, Palmer just reminded us when he used to get high back in the 70s. No, my mother used to make a tuna casserole that had crunched up potato chips on top and we were kidding. Oh, yeah.

What's a childhood favorite? I like crunchy in my food. Do you think you can get her to make it now? No, she's broken.

No. She's broken? She wouldn't even know. I don't make that.

What is that? That's disgusting. Right. Connor had to go over and do the grocery store trip for me this weekend because we had guests.

Right. " Yeah, no. I'm sorry, you can't visit on this day or that day, because my mother has to have a haircut. Was she always that agitated, or was that just...

It's more now. Okay, so yes, it's just magnifying. Yeah, well, when dad was still around, we have discovered he probably deflected a lot of it, or covered up for it. Or, you know, he was such a nice man that we didn't notice mom was an ass.

Right. You know, that type of thing. He knew how to counter it. Yeah, yeah, so now that he's gone, we all have to deal with her now.

You know what though? She has like a license to do this because of her age. She has a license? I mean, she's allowed.

No, you're not allowed to be rude. Yeah, you're not permitted to be a dick all of a sudden. Right. We walk into any place that she's got to go, she's been going there for 20 years no matter what it is, and she has to tell them we took her car.

Did she get a free meal? No. Like nails or haircuts. You know, they took my car.

We go, because you hit the house twice and ran into the garage door. I did no do such things. She's crying for help. Yeah, yeah, like we're, you know, being mean to her.

Oh man, I gotta be honest, I lean into that. I start elaborating and I'm like, that's right. And, we beat her. No, you can't do that because when she was talking that kind of crap at the hospital, the doctor was taking it as fact and we almost got in trouble for beating up an old lady.

You know what, you're right, take her. See what I'm saying? Right. " And she's crazy.

And she's crazy. But then when they ask her the questions so that you can put her in a home, for some reason she snaps through, she knows everything. Everything? I'm good.

I'm good. President is Donald Trump, we're fighting with Iran, and my left shoe is too tight, you know, or something like that. See what I mean? So, like, it's all a show.

It's all a show. Yeah. She wants to know how batshit crazy she can look around it. She's gaslighting you is what's happening.

All I can think about in that whole situation is Happy Gilmore when Ben Stiller comes to the door. " You're in my world. Did Greg find his glasses? He just said thank you to someone.

Yeah. Alright, welcome to Cigar Oster Podcast, episode 497. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and in Engineering, we have Phil. If you sleep under a tree, you're an illegal alien.

McGuffey. McGuffey. Hello, peoples. I'm running the board and as my co-host and this weekend's snuggle buddy of Mike Szczefankiewicz, 'cause we will have just gotten back from our weekend away, Mike.

Yes, it's lovely. Lovely weekend, take me to such a nice place. It's one night. Yeah, it's just one night.

Just one night. Are you guys sleeping in the car? Did you guys sleep in the car? We're taking the fifth wheel.

Oh, nice. Yeah, we're about, yeah, Pete gave us the keys. Yeah, Pete gave us the keys, and we're attaching it to the Hyundai. To my Elantra?

Yeah, yeah. We're just gonna, you know, drag it to Tennessee and take 18 hours a day. We're good to go. Be careful of the toilet.

Oh yeah, beware of the odds of the toilet. Yeah. The tank lately? Did Pete destroy it?

I feel like you guys already went on this trip. Were we talking about this like you guys already came back? Yes, yes, we're back again. We had problems with the toilet.

Yeah, we had problems with the toilet. And he did not empty the toilet. Right. And the fifth wheel kind of smelt like pee.

Like it had that distinct flavor. Yeah, that flavor, that scent. Like a homeless pee or like, you know? No, like living in a fifth wheel.

- Living in a fifth wheel of my friend's house. - What happened to Pete's camper? Did that never happen? Or did he already get rid of it fast?

- Never happened. - I thought he had it. - No, he still has it. - Oh.

- Oh, does he? - Yeah. - He doesn't park it at your house? - No, no, actually, where he got married, he parks it.

It's a pretty cool place. - Wait, you got invited to Pete's wedding? - Yeah, we talked. - Yeah, we talked.

- Oh, that's right, he DJed. - Yeah, that's right, that's right. - Steve, bait him in Wampum. - Yeah, we don't get invited.

- Oh, yeah. - However, he walked in, I just said, I need this, good to see you, gotta go by. Place a nice order, you know, always support Pete. Right.

He gave me a big hug and told me how hard it is to read this stupid machine. It is hard. He doesn't like this machine. Alright, on today's show, only women can compete against women.

Okay. What's the most iconic TV car? com. Utah.

But Mikey, first, how do we get some of that CHPod swag, and what are the comments? What you want to do is like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to the show. com for all of our current swag, where you buy one, you get the second one, 40% off, spend $100 or more, you get free shipping. I like to drop things every once in a while, quick pre-releases, limited runs, and then when they're gone, they're gone, like that Mr.

McGoomer. That you hit on Friday. Friday. Yep.

If you didn't get a chance to get it, if you didn't jump on it, it's gone forever. Bye, bye, bye. So, you know, shout out to the real ones who picked that up. Was he just singing an NSYNC song?

No, that's more Jim Cramer. Yeah, that was a marketing boy. Oh. That was a marketing boy.

Subconscious sales tactics. Right. Let me see if we have any updated comments. I think there is one.

Really? Really? Because I don't see one. I thought I saw a new one come then.

Oh. You all? Newest? Oh, nope.

Never mind. Nope. It's just the, you know. So, no, I have no additional comments.

Oh. However, Tuesday's show is going to have a lot of comments. Oh, I can't wait. I promise you.

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Because I had no YouTube comments currently. All right, then we're gonna roll into the news. Did you guys watch the Olympics last time? The Olympics around?

No, I just saw Lindsey Vonn go down or whatever her name is. Oh, I'm sorry, not the winter, the summer. That was how long ago? Two years?

2022, I think? Three years ago, something like that. Well, it's every four years. It's every four years?

So it would have been four years ago. I always watch the swimming. Right, and swimming is the one where they let the guy who now says he's a girl swim with the girls. Oh, got it.

Right, can't do that anymore. Oh, that's where he was going. We're shutting that down. We're shutting that down.

There was a new Olympic president. Yeah. " Right. But now you have to pass a biological gene screening that the Olympics itself will do to you, And if you're not a genetically original woman, you can't swim with the women.

Wow. Yeah, we do an anatomical screening. I mean, not anatomical, it's genes, because anatomical, they might look and go, well, that's an awful fresh looking, you know. Yeah, but you would know if it's fake.

Can you believe that we had to get to this? You know what I mean? Right, well, yeah, okay. But I guess too many of the new women, let's just say, were winning.

Well, it's like the smoking ban, like you say, like if you allow it in one place, it happens in another. You give them an inch, it takes a mile. This is what happened here. They gave these people an inch?

I don't know if I'd use that as the comparable, but okay. You know, for me, I just think that, like, it's just, it's like both sides of the pendulum. Eventually, you get to a point where it's just so excessive, as far as, What's going on out there? Are we expecting someone?

We're about to be raided. No, it's Greg. He can't wait to get in. It's not Greg.

It's two guys in suits. Oh, we're dead. This is the end. They're here for the aliens.

Keep the video rolling. We weren't doing a roof. Go away! Wow.

Sorry. We're not under trees. So bad. So bad.

So wrong. I will not be a part of that. Come on, Michael. Say something.

Say something. No, like, when it goes either way, you know, either there's this complete - Who is it? Oh, it's Carney. Oh!

Are you expecting a Carney? You can tell by that squeaky voice that that was Carney? Hey, Phil could've got it. All right, put the camera on me, I'm gonna read.

Don't worry, Phil. The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday the IOC unveiled this new policy on the protection of the female category. Yes. It always starts with something being practical.

Like, "Hey, this should be a thing. " "This should be okay. " And then it gets one degree further this way. " And then you get kind of attacked like, "Whoa, I'm not insensitive.

" I don't know who the former president was, but the new one is a woman. " Yeah, that tracks, right? She's protecting other women. That's smart.

So they're going to have a universal rule for competitors in female elite sports after years of fragmented regulations that lead to some major controversies. The new president, Christy Coventry, she did a U-turn immediately and said, "No, no, we're testing these people. " No more Joanna mans. No more Joanna mans.

Right, now he's insensitive. Well, that's from a movie. The trans people. Yeah, that's a movie.

But he's also, you're right, he's very insensitive. No, he's insensitive. She said, in a quote, "The smallest margins can be the difference between a victory and a defeat, so it's absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. " Yeah, I mean, like the boxing one, I remember...

Yeah, I said the boxing and karate, I remember that one too, right? " And didn't one young lady go, "Look, I'm not fighting that dude. I don't care if he has a ponytail. " This is the first time for everything.

This is ridiculous. Is that the "I've never been hit that hard"? " I identify as a woman now and I'm gonna go dunk on everybody in the WNBA. He's gonna play another 30 years.

Yeah, like 77-year-old LeBron joins the WNBA, you know, like... God, why is he so tall? That's absolutely absurd. That blonde girl would just slug him in the face.

Right. Oh, yeah, what's, uh, that's, you mean, Caitlin Clark's nemesis? Uh, no, no, she's on her team. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one.

Her hitman. Oh, yeah. Oh, they poke me in the eye. Oh, I will kill them.

Nope. Sophie Cunningham. Sophie, yeah, Sophie. She puts in that work.

she mean you gotta love she's from the trailer park oh is she yeah really like wow true story oh my god man like he can't help himself no he can't can there's gotta be a bad thing yes there's well that makes him scrappy yeah see i mean i couldn't even get the joke out before he said something that makes him so tough you know when they're part of the trailer parks they come out And they're real scrappy and grow up drinking beer, eating tater chips. You ever seen Kid Rock's music video, Podunk? No. You gotta watch that one time.

You'll understand what I'm talking about. It's also part of your TikTok feed? Is that part of your racist handbook? No.

I can assure you that Teddy lives in a normal residential home with, you know, three beds and two baths. You're talking about your daughter? Yeah. She is pretty scrappy.

No, I know, but I'm just, I mean, I don't, I'm not saying if you live in a regular home, you're not scrappy. Well, that's kind of what you just said. You're saying if you come to a trailer park, like, it's a different life in that place. And it makes you more scrappy.

She does run around with a killer German Shepherd, though, so, I mean, you know. There are times when we wake up in the morning, like, ugh, you can hear her just being angry and agitated. At the German Shepherd? No, just at Life in the Blight.

Just at Life in the Blight? Yeah. I hate this shit! Nobody's up making my cereal!

I love it. It's amazing. I have to keep running into these events. I always win.

Jax was defending her in the car. Dad, where's the chicken and rice? No meal prep. What's up?

Dude, she ran the 400 meter yesterday and blew him out of the water. I mean, we were in the car today, and Jax was defending her against Justice in the backseat, and she ripped Jax apart. " I'm on your side. Yeah.

I don't care. " Wow. Not giving you my dum-dums no more. Yeah.

Right. And, you know, it's crazy. And then, like, you're starting, like, when we do football for the sport, uh, for school, you're starting to see that, like, some of the boys really admire Teddy. And Teddy's like, pfff, you're not gonna be able to tag me.

And we're like, that's not happening. Like, keep your distance. You know, she's, she's tough, man. She's tough.

Right. So we could put her in male sports, I think. Oh, well, she didn't say you couldn't do that. Yeah, I think that'd be pretty cool.

Just men can't be in women's events. So you can't decline, you can only incline. Play up a level. Right.

Right. Huh, I wonder why they didn't mention it the other way. Realistically, because it doesn't make sense. Well, it doesn't happen very often either.

No, because, look, I mean, you've seen, I've seen comparables where they've tried things like this and it's not, it's just not equivalent, it just doesn't make sense. Right. This would be like a perfect time to insert a clip from Kindergarten Copic. okay well if you look i mean like look at the wmba no one's dunking and you know this true oh oh disco disco your lights your lights just went nuts go go what did your back he's he did like army crawl and touched the light watch them nice now everybody now everybody with epilepsy is freaking out oh my god this thing is off the rails today you've been doing podcasts too long today right i've overheated you only bought the one hour light right 30 minute camera one hour light right we have scale we need to scale up our equipment apparently well anyways to briefly surmise it's good to see this happen right and no men in women's sports and it's wild to hear that used to be men in women's sports and it's wild to hear that it took It took this long to get there, right?

Because if my daughter becomes an Olympian, I want to see her contend against other women. Oh. Well, by then, it might have changed back the other way again. Who knows?

I don't think so. Yeah, we don't know. You know, hopefully we've set this rule and we've kind of established this was dumb. Well, last time the Olympics, they took it the other way.

This lady runs her tenure and some guy comes in and goes, "Ah, I want to see all the dudes win. " -They're not dudes. -Well, he might call them that. -Why would you call them dudes?

-Because it's Boots' uncle. -It's Boots' uncle. -Phil's uncle. -Phil's uncle?

-Phil's uncle's, right. -A dudette. -Timothy. -What?

-His uncle, Timothy. -Timothy McGuffey. -Timothy McGuffey? -Well-known in the Olympic realm.

-Yeah? -Right. -As transgender? -No, a transgender supporter.

-Oh, okay, got it. -He was a shot-putter from back in the '50s. -Oh, really? -Yes.

-Okay. -After all the stuff I've said over the past two shows, you think I'm a transgender supporter? No, no, your uncle, not you. Oh.

Oh, okay, got it. You're Uncle Timothy. You're only Phil. Don't get confused over there.

Yeah. Yeah. Movie magic, sorry. Movie magic.

With your AI mask, apparently. Right, yeah. All right, what's the most iconic TV car? You can think of.

I think this is a great question. Okay. Should I answer it first before he gets completely racist about this? A car?

Yeah. There's only one car. There it is. Go ahead.

What is it? It's a General Lee. There you go. I knew he was gonna say that.

So, uh, and he's not wrong. No, it is an iconic car. It is very iconic. Uh, for me, as far as a TV- Wait, wait.

Because you live down south, I think I know what it is. Okay. No, you go ahead, though. No, you just told me to wait.

It's in my head. Say it. Knight Rider. That's correct.

Yep. You're from down south. I knew it. I'm from down south?

Yeah, you're from Miami area. So because I'm from down south, I mean, if I was in the Miami area, wouldn't it be Miami Vice? Yeah, it would either be one of those, but everybody liked the Baywatch guy more. There was only one car that was a character, an actual being in TV shows.

It talked, it advised, it could jump over. Well, it didn't really talk. What? You mean in real life?

Yeah. It's a show. Yeah, I know. Some things aren't real.

I got news for you. Peaky Blinders isn't real. What? It's pretty close.

Is that a historical document? Yeah. No, no. It's close.

It didn't happen. There had to be a guy with razor blades in his hat. You think so? Yeah?

Yeah. There was a Gypsy King. That's the line for him. And he met with William, with William, with Winston Churchill to overthrow Nazi Germany?

Maybe. Yeah, that happened. Totally. Oh my God.

So anyways, Kit apparently is not, he wasn't, it was, it was all fake, it was fictional. Fictional, yeah, it's not real, it's not real. But you know, it was real, the Targa top 308 GTS Ferrari driven by Tom Selleck in Magnum PI. Magnum PI.

It's for sale, you can buy it. That's the icon? That's the one. Well, that's the one that's for sale right now.

Gotcha. Well, Palmer never said what his was. I mean, from his time, I can only think of one. Yeah, what is yours?

Well, wait, I want to know what his one was. Yours would be The Love Bug. Oh, Herbie the Love Bug? Nah, probably not.

Was that a TV show or a movie? No, it was a TV show. It was a movie that I think they did Disney Channel type things for. So, you're saying that like- Disney Channel?

It was in black and white. That's not Disney Channel. The original, yes, but they've done a remake. And I don't think it did well.

Hmm. Hmm. So, the Magnum PI car? Is for sale, the original one that they used during the pilot that Tom Selleck drove.

It's for sale the same time we are at the PCA convention at Drake. Really? Yes. Okay.

You're gonna see it. There were 15 cars made for the show, but this is the one from the pilot that he drove and that he drives in all the opening, in the opening scenes. This is the original? This is the original.

This is the first one? Yes. Okay. Are we gonna guess how much we think it's gonna go for?

Well, it's been for sale for other, two other times. Right. So yes, you can guess. How much do you think it's gonna go for?

Who's buying it? Jay Leno? I mean, it's probably gonna be over a million. I don't know what that has to do with...

Jay Leno owns, like, a lot of the movie cars. Okay. Yeah, I know that he's a car guy, but, like, yeah, and he probably has money. So that's what you're saying?

He overspends on his cars? Yeah. And there's another guy, I think, that has, like, a huge collection of movie stars. Yeah.

Well, I'm sure there is. It's like a ridiculous amount that his kids would never get the money for because he paid overpriced for everything. Yeah. There's some big warehouse down in Miami where the guy smokes cigars with the Florida Cigar Club guys.

He has a bunch of moving cars in his warehouse. I had no idea that this guy was like Mr. Meacham Auction over here knowing the value of vehicles. Like, boom.

Paid too much. Walks away. Okay. Who guessed a million?

What have you guessed a million? He guessed a million. I don't think it goes as high as you'd expect, but I still think that that number is low. I'm going to call it $2 million.

$115,000 is sold for in March of last year. Wow. Yeah, you know what I mean? I was closer.

Yes, you were closer. Congratulations. It's something called Bring a Trailer Online Auction. Bring a Trailer?

Yes. When did it sell for $115? March of last year. I think that guy could make some good money, if it's done the right way.

And then in Greensboro, North Carolina, before that, it failed to sell after the bidding topped out at $120,000. Yeah, you know, the problem is that, like, we weren't, we didn't talk about Magnum PI. Yeah, no, but yeah. Right, it's an older thing now.

But those are the guys with the money, and those are the guys that are the car collectors. It's not guys your age. It's almost like it's too old, though. Yeah, and not prolific enough.

The car had been changed to fit Tom Selleck, and it has been put all back to original standards and sizes, which might take some value away, because he was so tall, the seat was made to go way, way back. Really? I mean, didn't Joe Burrow just recently buy like the Batmobile, like a remodel? The TV Batmobile?

No, no. The Dark Knight Batmobile? Oh. I mean, that'd be cool.

That was definitely more than 100 G's. Yeah. Are there any iconic movie or TV show cars that you would say, "I would like to buy this"? I can't think of one.

Yeah, Paul Walker's. The Supra? Yeah. The orange one?

Well, no, probably the Eclipse, right? The original Eclipse? Yeah, the original. Probably get that one for like 50 bucks.

Really? Yeah, Mitsubishi? Yeah. The one he crashed?

You want that one? No. Uh, that one's probably... Cheap.

Be cheap. Probably in shambles. What about, uh, uh, uh, Nicholas It's Cage's gone. In what movie?

Gone in 60 Seconds. Oh, yeah. Eleanor? Eleanor, the Mustang.

That's a nice guy. His Eleanor specifically though. You're a real hillbilly. Wow.

You really are. But you're right. Gone in 60 Seconds. Eleanor is alright, yeah.

We gotta talk about Poe from Con Air. What about Bandit's Trans Am? Smoking a Bandit. The 79 Trans Am?

Black T-Top with the gold Firebird. What would you want though? What would you want though? Is there one that you would want?

Well, that Eleanor. I've always liked classic Mustangs. Yeah. Okay.

Or even the Trans Am. That would be cool to have too. Yeah. Something that when they see it, they know what it is.

I think there's almost two versions here. Because realistically for me, I would go with, if I had to pick a car that I could actually bust out and use, I'd probably go with the original Charger from Fast and the Furious. Oh, the black one? Yeah, where they, it was like a, it's a 69 with different lights, or they, it's almost like a cross between two years.

Yeah, yeah, they modified it. Yeah. " Oh my God, yeah, that's, that, that, chargers in themselves, like those vintage years, super expensive because of Fast and Furious. Yeah.

They never were until that. Do you have to be a charger guy though? To know that? " That's pretty identifiable.

Yeah. Now, but like, when it comes to awesome, like iconic cars that aren't necessarily something that you could bust out and drive on the road, the first one that comes to my mind is the Back to the Future car for whatever reason. Oh, the DeLorean? The DeLorean that's, you know, that's got the vents or whatever on the back?

Yeah. Starsky & Hutch's Gran Torino? The red with the white stripe down the side? Oh, see, that's how we know you're old.

A-Team van? A-Team? Yeah, that's a pretty good one. Yeah, Greg has that.

Well, it doesn't really look like that. Looks pretty decrepit. Yeah, looks like the van. The Japan A-Team Sold.

Yeah. It looks like the Timu A-Team. Right, right. The Wish One from Japan.

Yeah. You're gonna get this. You're gonna get this. Yeah, well, Palmer, when you were growing up and TVs first came out, what were like- Well, they were black and white, so, you know.

Yeah. What were some of the cars? Lawrence Welk didn't actually have a car that he used on the show. For radio, when the radio, would they make sounds of the cars?

Right. Which one did we like? Vroom, vroom, vroom, right. Yeah.

20 was at a regular Mecham type auction. Was it? Yeah, but nobody bought it. Hmm.

Interesting. It's got to be hyped up. You know what I mean? You got to promote it.

Get Tom Selleck to come on. Yeah, but what's that gonna cost you? 50 bucks. What's he doing?

He doesn't have to do anything. There's no way. Yeah, he got sick. I don't think he's dead though.

He couldn't handle inflation with that money from back then? He still gets money every time Magnum PI is on the air. yeah who's watching it people nick at night probably palmer nick at night nick at night is that still a thing i have no idea exactly tell us palmer need i say more yeah the french people get like 20 million still a year from their thing the french people friends the friends people from friends none of them ever had to work again well one guy died well yeah yeah but that was a doctor that was a problem with his doctor over prescribed his uh oh really yeah that was the last thing i I said, the doctor went to jail. Yeah, he got charged.

Who gets his revenue at that point? I don't know. I don't think he was married. Maybe they divide it up, maybe that was the deal.

As we die off, we divide up amongst the-- Oh, it's like Highlander? It's like the Highlander. Whoever's left gets all the money. All of a sudden, Joey starts going around killing the rest of the Friends members.

Yeah, chopping their heads off. You know, like, oh my god, freak accident. I think I read Ross is the only one that didn't really do anything else after the show. Yeah.

Because he had the, he originally was getting more money than everybody else. Ross? Yeah. He did Band of Brothers, didn't he?

Yeah, but that was a movie, that was during though, was that after or was that during like a summer when they had it off or something? Yeah, I guess. " He had him auditioning for Pals? I think that was it.

Yeah, it's like a knockoff of Friends. Well, it was something similar to Friends. They don't live in the same kind of complex. Right.

Oh, and they don't get coffee, they get tea. They get tea? Right. They have British accents?

They have British accents. Right, right. Okay, perfect. But Joey was the smart one.

Yeah. And Ross was the actor who didn't make any money. I love how we're calling him by his actor's name. We don't know the real, David Schwimmer.

Are you happy here now? I don't know their names. If you'd have said that name to me, I'd have no idea who you're talking about. Right, exactly.

Yeah. Wasn't that Perry? Matthew Perry was the one that died. Yeah, that's...

Well, I thought that's who we were talking about. Exactly. No. Ross was the paleontologist.

You said his doctor... We were talking about Matthew Perry with the doctor thing, right? Yep. Yes, he's the one that...

Oh, then we shifted. The ketamine or something. Mask is too tight is the problem. Yeah, I didn't see how we shifted.

Wasn't it ketamine he was taking? Probably. Who knows? Not too much.

Michael Jackson drug? No. All right, we've gone off the rails. Moving forward.

Apparently there's a nose spray coming out that has ketamine in it. How excited are you? Ben sent me the story. Like, how dare you, Ben?

Ben is awesome. Don't trigger me. Yeah, you send the addict the information about the brand new drug that sounds amazing. By the way, Mjolnir the Crusher, France Little, sent me a clip.

He's like, oh, for your videos. And I'm like, I'm not playing that. What was it? It was like a cigar girl smoking a gigantic.

Oh, yeah. And he goes, read the comments. And I'm like, I'm not partaking. I am not partaking.

What was his name? The Crusher? Mjolnir the Crusher. Mjolnir the Crusher.

Wow, it seems like a video he would say. Yeah. Oh, it's Adam Acri's birthday today. Happy birthday, Adam Acri.

Is it? Like today, today, or? Oh, no, but this is Monday. I'm so confused.

This is Monday show or Tuesday show. You can stop doing that, yeah. Just let it go. Just let the show happen.

We're actually living three days in the future. The problem, see, here's the problem with you, Paul. Mjolnir McTavish, 60 shows in the past. You take the movie magic right out of this.

Yeah. Every single time. It's hard to keep up. It drives me nuts.

Just stop. Stop saying dates. Whatever. Well, we have stopped doing that.

Well, it's important to him. He's older. Remember how Doc Brown is? Yeah, I don't have a lot of days left.

I like to keep track of my days. Doc Brown was big that day. I have a target I want to get to, and then, you know, I have to keep track. What's the target?

I can't tell you. Builds a death clock. Nope. Is this the day you die?

Are you talking about a target like that? Yes. I want to at least get past that day. You should at least let everybody know, so that way they know the show is.

Somebody might get mad at me and just kill me beforehand, like the day before, just to piss me off. We could celebrate the day past that you survived. Well, I'll let you know when we pass. Oh, okay.

Then I won't have time to prepare. That's okay. Well, it depends on how we do the show. We might be able to.

Right. If we're doing something, you know, in advance again. If you die, I'm going to freeze you like Disney and figure out a way to have you come back. You know, he's not frozen.

Just so you can do the show. He was cremated. Are you going to freeze just his head or his whole body? Just his head.

Oh, okay. That's the only part he needs. It's like a Simpson. It's the brain.

Like Futurama or something. Right. Put me in a little jar. Yeah.

All right. Should we move on? We out of time? Yeah, we should.

All right. New York jumps to the number three for US alien abductions. Okay. Somebody keeps track.

I love the trend here in the shows. Look, sometimes it's hard to find content for two shows on the same day. Listen, I can talk about this for 25 minutes. " You know, it was just 200.

It's a drunk driver's fault. I don't know if that tracks, buddy. I think your comparison's a little off. Yeah.

Are you okay? Maybe. Can you give me something better? Can you give me something that I-- Let's talk about the illegal aliens.

No, no, I wanna-- I really-- No, no, not illegal aliens. These are aliens from outer space. Let's argue the fact. Let's argue the fact.

Oh, we're talking about real aliens. No, I would like you to really give me a distinct reason. " And then using, "Hey, this guy got drunk and killed somebody," as a comparison, if you could give me some type of comparison as to why the train shouldn't run, because somebody stood on the tracks, I would love to hear it. Because the conductor.

Conductor? Because the conductor's drunk. Do they have conductors on the breadline? The guy with the black suit and the little hat going, "Tickets!

" They're just automated now? It's been a while since I've been on it, but I don't remember that guy. Have you been on the Bright Line? I have been.

Oh, really? My wife just took it with her sister and brother-in-law when they were here. Was there a driver? You know, I didn't ask.

I would love to take it. You've never been on it? I'm not taking it. It's killed 200 people.

Not on the inside. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just watch out for the outside.

Don't touch that. Get out in there. Don't stand on the tracks. Really?

You've never taken your family down to Winter Park or something? Yeah, my car. I mean, that's all they did. They rode from there.

I'm talking about the one that goes from like Central Florida to South Florida. Oh, I haven't done that one. I've done the local. Isn't that the Bright Line?

Yeah, that's still the Bright Line, too. Yeah, the Sunrails is what Palmer's talking about. Oh, is that it? Thank you.

Wow, look at that. I thought it was the same thing. Nope. It's two totally different trains.

Listen, guys, this is just a character. I know what he's talking about. I thought about taking it down, but then once you get down there, you've got to Uber or rent a car or something. I think there's a way to get a chauffeur, too, tied into it.

Sounds expensive. I'm sure there is. Yeah. But isn't that fancy Uber?

Maybe. Oh, the black one. I'd like a, you know. What?

What did he just say? Uber black. Yeah. Oh.

See, you thought it was a racist guy. Well, with you, you can never tell. Wow. So anyway, the Empire State, which moved up two spaces from last year in alien abductions.

Yeah. Boasted a staggering, how many UFOs do you think they saw in New York? A lot, man. Within a year?

Oh, no, this is since 1974. Holy moly. We're guessing a number. 8,000 sightings.

I'm gonna go with 200. 8,314. Boom. Wow.

There's no way you'd seen this story. No. There's no way you could see this story. There's one for every 1,000 residents.

What? Yes. One in 1,000 residents have seen a UFO in the world. In the Empire State of New York City.

I believe them. I believe all of them. There's two states ahead of New York. Two states.

Oh no, behind, sorry, New York's number one now, they moved up. Oh, you said that they moved to three, so now they're number one? They're number one, they moved up two places to number one from three. So that means there's only 830,000 residents in the state of New York?

No, it's not what it means. Or New York City? That's not what it means. There's two states, okay.

Are you gonna guess? Guess one state. Two more states. I'm sorry, for what?

A state that has seen a lot of UFO sightings. I have the number two, oh wait, hold on, this is so weird. Oh yeah, so they are three, so I have one and two. Okay.

Okay. But they have moved up two spaces. So they're the third, and there's still two more that are superior. Correct.

Guess one state, what? Oklahoma. Okay, and I'm going to guess one state, Nevada. No.

Okay. Arizona. Washington State and Delaware. Yeah, because they have nothing to do in either one of those states.

- Washington State? - So they just make sure that- - Delaware's like this big. - Right, I know. One encounter for every 928 residents.

- Delaware? - Delaware. - It's tiny? - So is it, so wait a second, hold on.

- Maybe it's 'cause they're on the coast. - Hold on, hold on, hold on, because you're saying two different things now. Now the ratio of people, one to 928, is that that's not the equivalent of the amount of people, like, views. We have 8,000 views for New York.

Does Delaware have more than 8,000 views? They don't give the total, just how many per residence. They're skewing that. I'm willing to bet that they're skewing that.

There's no way. And what about Area 51? How does that not have a tremendous amount of... We don't see aliens there anymore.

Just every once in a while because that's where they keep them. Right. So when the ones from Delaware get caught... That's where they go.

That's where they get. Makes sense. Right. So if Delaware is a coastal city, maybe they see more because out over the water.

Just Delaware, not anything else on the coast. Well, it's small. Like you said, they don't have much to do. It's Delaware.

You don't think there's any UFOs that are trying to extract the guys from Area 51? Oh, like rescue? Yeah. No, no.

It's an air base. A lot of military. Like they got no seal left behind? That's an area?

Yeah. We gotta go get him? Yeah. We gotta go get Bob.

Yeah, Tom went down. We gotta go get him. Yeah. Can I believe this?

There's 49 guys down there. The humanoids have our friends. They have TikTok. We must use our superior technology and take them back.

Yeah. But they always crash when they get close. Oh, God! Oh, another one.

Oh, we lost another ship. Stop sending people there. For God's sakes. Borgo, what are you doing?

Oh, they got weird names, like Russian names. An interesting fact from one of our viewers watching, John Carney has just said to me that 41% of Brightline-related deaths are suicides. Oh, I didn't know that. Suicide by train.

So that makes it okay? So we can keep on with the train then? I mean, if there's no driver, I guess. So what you're pretty much- The driver is an engineer, that's who drives the train.

So what you're saying to me is if a drunk driver ran into a person who wanted to die, it's okay? Like, where are we at? Where's the line? I need to know where your line is.

I mean, I guess it'd be okay. Since it's on a track, would the engineer really be a driver or more of an accelerator? Because he's not steering. Did he accelerate when he saw the person on the track?

Is the question. Why do we drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? I mean, how deep you want to go? Right.

Right? Okay. Alright, so, UFOs, got it. Alright, been a rumor going around about Shaq.

about Shaq? Have you heard about Shaq's rumor? No. If this is one of those weird Kevin Hart things.

No. The rumor is he dropped into Sabrina Carpenter's DMs. You know who Sabrina Carpenter is? I have no idea who Sabrina Carpenter is.

She's on a Disney Channel show, right? She is some type of younger pop star. Okay. So, but he denies sending her racy messages to pop singer Sabrina Carpenter.

But they're like obscene messages. Yeah, that doesn't That doesn't really sound obscene. We're not going to say I'm on the show obscene. No, checkbox obscene.

You know what, dude, I don't know, that doesn't really sound on brand for Shaq, to be honest. Well, I don't think it is him either, because the stuff they said that he said doesn't sound like something he would say. But it is from his blue checked account that only he has access to, is the only thing. Well, you have to say it in a deep voice to see if it sounds like something he would say.

They did part of it on the radio today. This is why I had the radio on when you came in, I needed one more story. Okay, so, the rumor steamed it from a series of leaked screenshots circulating on social media that appeared to show the NBA legend sending explicit and unhinged messages to the singer. Yeah, that, I don't know, that doesn't track.

I mean, you never know, but... Watch me snap my fingers. Oh, was it the genie? Uh, I was thinking more of a Thanos type of weird thing.

There was something about he would capture all her farts in a bottle and spray them on itself, stuff like that. You know how you're gonna know it's true? Is when Kevin Hart comes out with the stand-up comedy of this whole thing. Yeah, why?

He did that? He does jokes about Shaq all the time. Oh, so you think that if it was real, he would make jokes about it? Yeah.

If it's fake, he wouldn't make jokes about it? No. It's not funny. I think it makes it even funnier.

If it's fake? Yeah. Well, not if you're shy. No, but like, I don't know, you know, like, it sounds like he- There's no funny.

It sounds like he got hacked, and somebody's like, what's the most outrageous thing we can do? Right, yeah. Yeah. He said aggressive flirting with the sender using nicknames like Big Diesel and making graphic claims about his physical size.

Yeah. Carpenter supposedly replied by telling O'Neal he was way too famous to be sending messages like this. Yeah, I don't know. She doesn't think it's him.

Either that or she's just saying, look, you're too famous to be sending me explanations about how big your little shack is. There's just no way. So she thinks it's fake? No, she thought it was real in the beginning.

She said, you're too famous to be sending me... I mean, we don't know. We honestly don't know. Right.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know, man. The basketball players lately have been kind of weird because Ant-Man, Ant-Man, Kevin Durant, and there's one more that's sliding a lot of people's DMs. Really?

Oh, yeah, and they talk about it all the time. Ant-Man, I thought he... Not just DMs, they're in comments. But I thought Ant-Man was like, you know, he's got kids and stuff now.

No? That's not something. He doesn't have kids, I don't think he has a wife. " You know, there's a whole bunch of stuff like that.

Kevin Durant's a savage. Yeah, yeah. He's not sliding into DMs. He's ripping Anthony Edwards apart on a daily basis.

Right, right. Especially for John Carney. Yeah, but we won't be able to hear that. So, he said that Kevin Durant is a savage and he's just ripping people apart on Twitter all the time.

Well, specifically Anthony Edwards. Specifically Anthony Edwards. Yeah. Who would you rather have on your team, Kevin Durant or Anthony Edwards, Phil?

Oh, Kevin Durant. Really? Okay. Probably the best scorer of all time.

What about you, Palmer? He doesn't. I don't even know what those people like. I'm going Ant-Man.

I like Ant-Man better. I mean, I like his style, but Kevin Durant's one of the purest shooters of all time. The second Ant-Man movie wasn't any good. No, it wasn't good.

The second Ant-Man movie. Ant-Man and Wasp. Oh, was there a third one then? What was the one when he went to the other dimension?

You know, I didn't see any of them. Oh. Don't like movies about people that get small? He doesn't like Paul Rudd.

Oh, you don't like Paul Rudd? Paul Rudd's hilarious. I like Paul Rudd. I think he's hilarious.

I didn't realize we haven't done Cigar News yet. We're 45 minutes in. Yeah, well, you're going to have to edit. I thought we're towards the end.

You're going to have to edit some stuff too. Yeah, there's something coming out. Yeah, especially the one, yeah. Hey, do you have a video for the show too, or?

I do. Oh. Oh. I have a video.

It's not the one that Crusaders sent you. I told you flat out. You made a comment that I don't have videos. I'm sitting in this chair, I'm going to have a video.

All right. What's this video? Oh, he sent it? Oh, that was my ding.

No, I'm sending it right now. Karnier was probably texting you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, it was Karnier.

Yeah, he's implementing things. So, this was a tweet from Iran Military Media. Oh, yes. Oh, so it's legit.

And it says, "To all American soldiers, we hope you've been informed that #Iran is the place We're Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, and I'm going to botch it, that Yemeni, Yemeni, thank you, fighters have mastered ground combat at a highly professional level. You're about to face a true master of ground warfare. Welcome to Hiran, Habibi. And there's a video.

Can we listen to a sound or no? No, no, no sound. There's music of like their military. But there are no more.

There are no more. We haven't destroyed the The military, just all the boats and the planes. I, you know, what's left fucking horse and carriage. I gotta be honest, dude, ground troops, they have legs, camels.

I think most of the people are in hiding. Look, how do we, how do we know these are their people in this video? Well, here's what I'm going to tell you. If we're going to compare, if we're going to compare a nine millimeter, well, let me know.

If we're going to compare the conversation of military solely based on production quality of the military, we blow them out of the water just with our ads for joining the military. That's what it looks like. It looks like the Navy SEAL ad. I.

Joe the movie. Just the movie? Yeah. Of the rock.

With snake eyes? This is the latest, yeah, here's the, oh, the snake guys, right, the snake guys, the ninja guy. Yeah, wait till these guys show up. That's right, these guys are coming.

We have a mutant ninja. He's so tough, he doesn't have to talk. You'll never hear him coming. You'll never hear him make us happen.

All our guys are called Ripsaw and Lady J and Sgt. Slaughter. Like, I don't know, like, what's the thought process of this? He says, hey, we're gonna throw this tweet out here, just so you know, we also have video cameras too.

We have AI as well. Isn't there like some type of comedian guy that's like a funny Iranian soldier thing? There is a guy that has a Middle Eastern accent who has become popular because of the war, but he's making fun of the people in the audience, other Pakistan, Indian type people. I haven't seen any of that.

Oh, he's hilarious. Is he? Yeah. Okay.

So, yeah. So, yeah, the video doesn't do anything. So, yeah, you're retired military. How does that make you feel?

Do you feel threatened by that at all? He's military adjacent. Shh. This is the closest thing I got.

Oh, okay, sir. Wow. I can't get your grandfather here right now, so. Well, if Carney was here, you could ask him questions.

He runs with SEALs now. He's practically, yeah. Practically one of them. It's not Stolen Valor if he's walking around in the military.

Right. Yeah. Because he gets to hang out. They probably showed him the handshake.

Yeah, like the secret handshake. Does he use the Home Depot discount? He does. He uses the military discount.

He does. He saves 10%. No, this doesn't make me worry at all. Yeah.

Do you feel worried about this? Do you think? Because they made a video? No.

This is pretty dumb. I mean, some of the pictures you can't even tell it's their people. Yeah, it's probably AI. It could be our people.

You know what? Check this out. Before Sora shut down. We show a really good video about seals.

We should make it ours. Before we close Sora, we put this together. Right, right. You know what videos we should show?

We should show the one when we extracted Bin Laden, and then we found all the guys in the caves and stuff. Maybe we should remind them. Send them to them. Email them these videos.

This is what just happened not too long back. You guys remember this? I would just send the video of the 49 people. Yeah.

And then the beeper one? Just send him a bunch of beepers. Prepare for ground. We'll just send these flying little drones in there.

Sir, you're never going to believe this, but what's all these beepers being sent to us? These are great. We need new beepers. They sent us 49 of them.

Says there's 49 of them. He laughs at his own jokes really hard. He loves his own humor. Give him a mouth, Boo-Boo.

Boo-Boo. Whatever his name is, who knows? Aga-Boo-Boo. Aga-Boo-Boo.

Okay, I hope to God you have some kind of Hooten Young news for the Cigar News. It would be nice, but there was not anything out right now. It would be hilarious. Oh, so he's...

Well, we've done an hour. You want to jump to what's the score? No, give me at least one Cigar News. All right, let's find a good one.

It's a Cigar Hustlers podcast. There's a 10th anniversary Cavalier Geneva cigar. They've been around for 10 years? Apparently.

Wow. It's got 10 different types of tobacco. They're sticking with the 10 thing. It's the 10th Anniversary.

So it's going to be 10 for the 10th? 10th Anniversary Cigar. Is it Boxes a 10? 10th Anniversary, you want to know what all the tobacco is?

No, just tell me, I don't need to know the 10 tobaccos. Is it Boxes a 10? Alright, hold on, let's find out. We got to get that far.

Sorry, it's a long list of tobacco. Right. No, 14 count boxes. We just blew it.

They blew it right there. They just ruined it all. Right out the window. We had a theme and we blew it.

And they're not giving the price yet. They're probably $10. No, they're not given the price. No, they're more than $10?

Not till the PCA Convention and Trade Show from 2026 from April 18th to the 20th. I'm going to guess with $14 in the box, they're probably not $10. We don't know the price. We know the price and not mentioned until you go to the trade show.

You got to go see them. Right. Nope, we haven't heard of that brand before. Chateau.

Is that legit? Ah. Okay. I have cigar news here.

Okay, go ahead. Yeah, Breaking Cigar News! Breaking Cigar News! Yeah.

Oh, actually, drinking, right? Yeah, Mirafel Hires, new National Sales Director, Eric Vadella, Eric Vadella, and he's in the audience right now. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah, new National Sales Director. Are we something big or what, huh? What's that? He said, are we big or what?

Yeah, we're kind of a big deal. Hasn't even been released yet, he came here first. Yeah, he wanted to announce it to us. Right.

And there he is. Would you like to interview him briefly? Can you hear me briefly? Uh, not with six minutes left.

Just a six minute interview. And you are, okay, thank you, man. I gotta go. He does have a nice suit on.

He is dressed way nicer than you are in your camo sleeveless vest. And sweatpants? Is that sweatpants? yeah yeah you know one guy is clearly established in luxury right and then there's brand and then there's john carney there's carney right yeah i like the new carter but to be fair his guys would kill you his guys take you to dinner you know i'm leaning towards the guys take me to dinner really yeah well then the other guys will kill you if i went to dinner no that's what they do So if you don't buy their cigars.

I'm not, I'm not. Oh, I have to buy their cigars or I die? Yes. I'm unalive.

That's, that's their new slogan. They're taken after the, the two girls. Oh, so it's four words, buy cigars or die. Right.

With a comma. You know what? That actually, I like that. You like that?

That's a pretty good slogan. Oh, we're going to take that then. That is trademarked. Buy cigars or die.

Yeah, it's four words. Two years, Dagestan, forget. Is there a comma? Oh.

Okay. Well, hey, congratulations, Erik. That's a big deal. You know, good for you.

I'm excited for you. That's a nice-looking watch. He's already got money. You gotta tell people it came with a job.

That's a good story. You have to do this. Breaking news, Eric Vadella gets new watch as he's hired for national sales director of Mirapfel. Oh, that's nice.

Yeah, it's a big deal. They're gonna be right next to us at the trade show. Oh, perfect. Love it.

That's probably why. It's better than waving to League of Fat Bastards guys for four or five days. We could snipe $100 cigars from them. There you go.

Yeah, like, hey, what's that taste like? All right, online cigar sales are going to be allowed in Utah. They voted them in. Oh.

Oh, it's official. It's official. In 2027, starting next year, cigar smokers in Utah will be able to order cigars from out of state and have them shipped to their homes in Utah. Well, welcome to modern times Utah.

Unlike California. Yeah. On Monday, March 23rd, Governor Spencer Cox signed HB447, A bill that reversed current laws that prevent a non-face-to-face sales of cigars and pipe tobacco to customers in Utah. Currently, Utah and Hawaii are the only two states that ban the shipment of cigars to consumers.

Not anymore. Welcome, Utah. As part of the new out-of-state retailers that went to sell customers in Utah, will need to obtain a license. There it is.

Oh, okay. Post a bond. Oh, post a bond. Ranging from $500 to $1,500.

Agree to a third-party age verification, maintain certain records for the state, and use signature-required shipping services Monday. And a second story, we decided this is not a good idea. Uh, we decided this is not a good idea? There's a lot of stuff you gotta do to be able to do it.

Oh yeah, this is terrible. This is terrible. Yeah. Keep records of all we ship to in their ages.

Or here's what we can do, we can just strike out Utah on the site so that we can't ship there anyways. Most notably, they will need to collect the state's excise tax on cigars, 86% of the wholesale price. Are you out of your mind? Without any sort of cap, the highest in the nation.

Okay, let's see, this doesn't work for us. All right, so Utah's still a train wreck. Right, still listed with Hawaii, places where you want to sell cigars. See, you tricked us.

Right. They thought you were doing the right thing. Right. And here you are, just screwing your own people.

But still, Greg, though, they have to keep all the records and everything for Utah. Yeah. In a separate folder, binder, and safe, apparently. I don't think we even wholesale to anybody in Utah.

No. Oh, I wonder if that makes a difference. No, they'd have to report their own. Right.

All right, now it's time for the industry's favorite game. What's the score? August 16th, 2010, Brooks Whittington is the reviewer. It is a Tatuaje Port Enderline.

97. Yep, Brooks, 97, and stick with my canvas. Cigar Review Support-- You have to go first this time. Okay, 97.

96. Country of Origin, Nicaragua, Factory My Father, Wrapper, Connecticut Broadleaf, Binder Nicaraguan, Filler Nicaraguan, based on the J21 blend of fillers. Yep, okay. It's a five and an eighth by 52, Robusto Extra, sells for $8 back then, and he smoked three cigars.

Phil? 92. You take your time. He likes a cigar as soon as we start the game every day.

Yeah, that's a good thing. You went to 92? 92. 93.

The cigar delivers a rich, well-balanced profile with notes of dark chocolate, leather, and coffee, while the spice stays controlled and never overwhelming. 92. 93. Ninety-three.

Clue number two: the transition into the second third is excellent, bringing in a creamy texture and deeper coffee flavors that add complexity and keep the experience engaging. Ninety-two? Ninety-three. Clue number three: the cigar can get hot toward the final third, and the strength ramps up unexpectedly, which may catch some smokers off guard.

Mmm, mmmm, 90, 93. Final thought. I have made no secret of the fact that some of the latest releases from Tatuaje have even been hits. The Tatuaje Petite Casador Reserva and Mrs.

Tatuaje Outlaw, but the Pork Tenderloin is everything great I have come to love from one of Pete's limited production sticks. Spicy and creamy all at once, with a noticeable strength and changing flavors. This one is a cigar that will only get better with time. I would suggest that if you are on the fence about buying any, you should take the plunge, and if you don't like them, I will buy them off of you!

Wow! Outside of the aforementioned Southwest Maduro, which wasn't meant to be a single store release to begin with, this is easily the best single store release that Pete has ever released, and I really don't know how he's going to top it. Phil? This was a really good cigar.

And Brooks loves the tat. 94. Oh, I win. 93.

You went the wrong way. Your way! 95! A 95!

Yep. Oh, man. Well, I nailed it last episode, so you didn't nail this one. But I win.

Wow. I win. 95. 95.

That's wild. This guy loves Tat. Every Tatuaje that he reviews is high. But he didn't say Coco Nibs.

It doesn't matter. He said the right Tat. Well, we might not have pulled Coco Nibs. You might not have pulled the Coco Nibs?

Yeah. I don't pull it. AI pulls it. And it was a good cigar.

I mean, I don't think it was a 95, but their scale's weird. You say that every 10. All the Tats were scored rather high except for one, and we've already done that one that scored low. That went the wrong way.

Yes. You went the wrong way. I thought for sure, like I was trying to bait him to keep it up there. Right.

I screwed myself. Yes, I liked your confidence there. Oh, I've got this, 93. Yeah.

Nope. You could've. Confidence remains. All right, April 1st, I'm doing an online hearth with the Beer 911 guys.

It's the only event I got scheduled at the moment, because we're going to the PCA trade show, the 17th, probably? 17th to the 21st, more than likely. Something like that. All right.

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Thanks. Bye. Yeah. Bye.

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