ACHP EPISODE 500 ROCKETS, JAGS AND THE 1% FOR 500
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Are we recording?
Are we recording?
Why do you have your heart
monitor on the outside of your
shirt?
So it's not that you guys will
know when I die.
Oh, OK, goes.
Red.
If the red light flashes, we're
all in trouble.
Oh boy, show's over.
Show's over that day we're done
500.
No 500 content and here we are
just wasting.
It no, no, I'm recording.
He's recording.
This is all part of the show.
OK, but we cut this part off.
Don't let it happen, just leave
it please.
Welcome to a Cigar Hoser Podcast
episode 500.
How does this work?
So I don't shoot in my face.
Oh no, this is 500.
Is this the 5000 God?
Yes.
The trenches.
The Chinese are here, Jesus.
I.
Can't read the.
Telephones everywhere.
Someone's got to take me to the
hospital.
You're.
Going to have to clean all that
up.
Well, I sweep ash off the floor
most days.
Oh my God, there's going to be
remnants of that.
I don't know.
We get it upstairs, I'll get it
all up.
The Keano will be done.
Wow.
Yeah, plus it's Keano cleans
Zerno.
But I do have stuff all over the
teleprompter.
Like the celebration?
Give him, give Keanu something
to do for two months.
I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and
on today's show we have the
whole crew back together for the
500th episode.
Back from his new movie, Under a
tree, Illegal Love.
Phil Mcguffey.
He hadn't heard that yet.
No, that's great.
Then the creator of the show,
the man who without him, we
wouldn't be as successful and
unpaid as we are.
He keeps the show moving.
Mr. Mikey, step on.
Kevitch.
Hi.
Welcome, gentlemen.
Thanks for the contract.
Thank.
You for having me episode 500.
All right.
No, no Preston joke, huh?
No, it's only Tuesdays.
Oh OK, only for the Tuesday
show.
But now they they have a new
drinking game when he says
something stupid.
Hammered it all the time.
When you say he, you mean
Preston?
No, no, you there feather top.
Wow.
Preston doesn't say anything
stupid.
OK, I didn't say this.
Yeah.
All right, you guys know only 1%
of all podcasts make it to 500.
Really.
Most people have quit and given
up by now.
Not us.
Oh, that's an interesting fact.
In for the.
We're in for the, we're the top
1%.
We're in 1% of all podcasts ever
made.
Wow.
Our most popular show is on
YouTube.
I only checked on YouTube.
Yeah, because they keep track
better.
It's still episode 72 where
intuition beer.
OK.
Our most popular guest is
episode 238.
Skip Martin.
Excellent.
Followed closely by special
episode with Steve Saka, right?
Wow.
And then my personal favorite
episode is 279 when Phil goes
missing in the Nicaraguan
jungle.
That was great.
That's still the fourth highest
rated episode we have.
Yeah.
Oh, Phil is huh?
Well, you were missing and you
were Karen.
Karen was here that day.
Oh, I don't like her.
Oh, we love Karen.
I think about we might bring
Karen.
Back this year, Karen was
amazing.
I.
Don't like Karen?
I can't wait to see Karen again.
She.
Was she was great.
We love Karen, I have to say.
We still have Karen's hair.
You were speaking briefly before
about the podcast artwork that
was recently released and that
you said that you go ahead, what
were we going to say about your
mask?
I mean, I know the mask is gay,
but I like, I I do like the
artwork that Palmer came up
with.
That was, yeah.
Yeah, that turned out well.
Yeah, my beard was on point and
you know, it looked good.
Listen, you wouldn't want to see
the original.
I'm sure.
Dude, why are you taking all the
fun away from me?
Oh sorry 'cause it was fun for
me.
The first image.
Was.
Super good was way.
No, it was way more amazing.
Like the size of your head was
just so massive.
I we don't have a picture of him
with the mash, so I had to take
one out of the video and he
happened to be turned.
Yeah, just the correct way to
where your head looked huge.
Well, yeah, and his head is
bigger in this, in the on that
camera, that image too.
Well, first of all, he has a he
has a gigantic Dome.
Yeah, it looked.
No, but not bigger than Palmer's
though.
Yeah, I wear a bigger hat
apparently too, but I think your
face might be a little fuller
than mine, but it looked like
about the size of that light.
I think it's just the top part
of your head is bigger than his.
Yeah.
He's just massive.
He's just right.
He's more mass, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
You're like outer planet size
head, you know what I mean?
Jupiter.
Yeah, more like Jupiter.
Yeah, I'm like Mars.
Yeah, he's more Martian, you
know.
Yeah.
So with that thing.
Feel bad Mikey is more Uranus
size.
Dude.
The boom, boom, boom.
Always go to the Uranus joke.
You want to talk planetary
information?
You got to go, Uranus.
All right, tonight we've done
500 episode.
We've had just about everybody
that you could have on on the
show.
Anybody left any anybody else
left you would like to have on?
Not really.
Nobody.
No, man, you know.
About Guy Fieri.
Nope.
It'd be cool to have, but.
It would be cool to have, but
yeah.
I got to be honest, I like the
the intermingling that we've
kind of incorporated as of late,
right where we work people in
and it feels, it just feels more
natural, authentic, you know?
Yeah.
We could do a Guy Fieri work in
that might be fun.
Yeah, no, but like, he's not
going to know anything about the
show.
It's not like he watches or
anything, you know what I mean?
What if we dress up Greg as Guy
Fieri?
Still not as still not as cool.
Not like I'm like, he's just not
a guy.
I mean, he would be cool to
have, don't get me wrong, but
I'm not like, hey, you know, we
really need this.
I like, I really believe in us
and I like honestly, the three
of us together have the best
chemistry and then throwing in
the additional guy, right?
Every once in a while, no matter
what the spot is, that's always
entertaining, right?
It's like, oh, it's just a
different look, right?
Like Sweeney or Oliver was
really good.
Oliver was, you know, and, and
Greg as Greg.
Greg doesn't belong back there,
right?
No, he did not do as good a.
Job No, he belongs in this
chair, So whenever he's going to
fill in, we're going to put him
here.
What about front?
But like, I don't know, I enjoy
that.
That's so I don't look at
anybody in the industry and
think, man, we really need them
on the show.
I love having Matt Booth, come
on.
He's awesome, you know?
So if we had another person come
in, would you do any more of
your interview series like you
did, or is that be more like if
we did a special event down here
type?
Of no, I mean I would, I would
still do if, but like I would
still do interviews with people.
It requires a ton of prep work,
right?
So it, you know, it can't,
somebody can't just come in and
say, hey, I want you to
interview me on a podcast.
Like, great.
Right.
Like, yeah, somebody can't just
show up upstairs and go, hey,
you guys shooting?
This Saturday, I need about a
month of prep because I'll
listen to every podcast and, and
you know, because like, that's
where, that's where you find the
good things to talk about,
right?
When we, when we covered Pete
Johnson, I, I knew everything
about him and, and I knew the
questions that other podcasters
missed when they were
interviewing.
I think that's extremely common,
right I?
Mean would say something that
you thought of, something that
should follow, but the other
show didn't pick up on it.
Yeah, yeah, Like he, you know,
that's the that's what's always
intriguing to me is the person
you interview sometimes will
give you this gem, right?
They there's this thing they
want to speak about and
sometimes you just miss it.
I mean, and that's not me
bashing anybody doing their own
because I'm on their podcast,
because I'm going to tell you
there are times when I go back
and listen to our episode and
I'm like, Oh, I miss that.
Like that would have been
something we could have, we
could have jumped.
I could have jumped on that,
right?
So, you know, you take the
opportunity to go through
everybody else's stuff.
It makes it, you can really hit,
you can hit everything that they
wanted to talk about and you can
know what's important to them.
So.
Speaking of things that we're
supposed to have jumped on, we
still haven't called Joe
Pasquale.
I know I was thinking about
that.
Now you can.
I don't remember why you were
calling him at this point, but.
It is, it's, it's it's it's TPE
coverage.
Let's give him a call.
Oh.
OK.
Maybe even like a Bert
Kreischer.
I mean, he's everywhere.
He was here.
No, I know.
Oh.
That sorry.
Yep.
You know, I'll, I'll elaborate
on that in a second.
Let me see if he answers.
Does that sound OK?
Yeah, these are new microphones.
Well, they're same, but we
removed the lapels.
Oh, OK.
Trying to eliminate that
crackle.
OK.
Well, your call has been we
tried to call Joe Pasquale.
We're trying to get, we're
trying to get in depth TPE
Intel.
You could try the cigar guys,
they're all there.
Oh yeah, you think that we are
funny?
Think that they'll be funny?
Maybe Jared?
If you have Jared's number, call
him.
I'm not sure if Alex.
OK, so here's the thing.
The cigar guys are there because
TP won't ask them to be there,
right?
You think it's going to be?
Oh, they yeah, they won't say
anything bad.
You think it's going to be 100%
right?
Unbiased.
Yeah, not like there's nobody
there.
They're not going to go, you
know, there's nobody here.
Yeah.
Is Jacqueline out there?
The food is terrible.
I don't.
I don't know.
I don't.
Think Espinoza went this year.
I didn't hear anything about it.
So yeah, I would like, I would,
if I'm going to get somebody on
the phone, I want to get
somebody who doesn't care,
right?
And they're going to tell you
exactly something.
Yeah.
And Joe's definitely that guy.
But.
He's there as a retailer, I'm
guessing, yeah.
Well, Justin Andrews is there.
Same scenario, he's not going to
answer the phone.
He's going to and he's going to
give.
If he does answer, he's going to
give you his political, his
corporate response.
It's a great day.
We're showing this cigar.
Yeah, look at this diesel.
All these diesels all right on
the Today show, then we are go
for launch.
Jags are coming to Orlando.
Oh yeah.
And in cigars, we have some new
PCA cigars, a price increase
just in time for the PCA and
then we wrap up the show with a
what's the score?
But first, Mikey, how do we get
some of that chapter pod swag?
And what are the non funny
comments you would like to read
today?
Wow, you.
Didn't hear the ones yesterday.
Mikey's great.
I like my shirt.
Oh, is that what he's reading?
Yeah, all the ones you read.
Listen, just because you feel
they're not funny or they're not
worthy, I respect all the
viewers and listeners on this
show.
So I'm going to look at 3 and
I'm going to at least read off 3
or this.
I'm going to try and read off 3.
I'm just going from when you
said if they're funny and we
like them, we will read them on
the show.
I get it, I got it.
And now you've aggressively
attacked me about this and now
I'm going the funny ones.
Now I'm going to defend our
viewers.
Maybe there's another one about
somebody else that likes tuna
and macaroni together.
Maybe those That was a good.
One Mitch Maduro.
I don't understand who's the
one?
How's.
It going to call him out, say.
His name.
Say his name and you respect his
name.
He's a good person.
Somebody else who likes toast or
something, you can mention that.
OK.
Palmer, why don't you pick a
couple?
First of all, because then he's
got to do more work.
I got to do more work.
I would have them.
I would.
Have them trigger you.
I would have them prepared in
advance.
Oh, like and subscribe wherever
you're viewing or, or listening
to this show.
For starters, there's going to
be a new shirt dropping.
Oh, it's a surprise shirt.
Oh, like a gift box with a
question mark above it?
No, no, no, no.
I'm going to.
I'll drop it.
And what I'm going to do is if
you're ACH pod member of even
already placed a purchase,
you're going to get an e-mail
notification before it comes out
to anybody else and then I will
wear it on the show you.
Forgot to do that one, Phil.
It's, it's going to be, it's,
it's, it's a good one.
So is this another limited run
presale type thing?
It's not going to be a presale.
I got you because it's really
funny.
I mean, they're all limited to
an extent.
It's got to be a 500th episode
shirt.
No, well, I we're too late.
Too late, he's already designed
it.
I was given a tip by someone.
Some other shows and influencers
do like a type of point thing.
You know, you buy so many
shirts, you get so many points,
and then when you get to a
certain level you get a prize.
Point where you just got another
job.
Like a raffle thing.
Kind of, yeah.
OK, we could do something like
that.
Well, the the one that they
told, it was a car and I was
like, there's no way we're
giving away a.
Car, it's the raffle thing.
That's a raffle thing, yeah.
Where you buy, if you, when you
buy you?
Get you buy the swag, you get 10
points per shirt when you get
the first one to 100 points gets
a car.
But we're not giving away a car.
No, no, we.
Were trying to give away an
experience with Palmer and Phil.
Yeah, we tried that, that, well,
that that was a pay thing.
They had to buy that.
Oh yeah.
You know, are you still
available?
You know what?
Comment below and tell us what
you think a big giveaway would
be that we should do and maybe
we'll entertain it.
Also, we haven't done the the
review of the reviewers for the
smaller guys.
Oh sure, we.
Have however, we're really close
to PCA.
Maybe we wait.
Yeah, I would wait.
Let's wait till after PCA.
That way no one gets their
feelings hurt, even though we're
not trying to hurt feelings.
That way nobody gets their
feeling hurts and ceases in
person.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the important part.
OK, let me see here that.
Would create better content
though.
Yes, but it makes the show
awkward for us.
OK so I haven't read these yet
today.
Just so you know, it's usually
what happens.
So at Marty Cigar says the Peaky
Blinders movie seemed like its
only purpose to set up a spin
off focused on Tommy Shelby's
son.
That's probably accurate.
I haven't finished the movie
but.
Oh, it still didn't.
Finish I I started again last
night.
I got about.
I'm like OK, 15 minutes off.
So I got I have 45 minutes off,
so I probably have 30 minutes
left.
If I devote 2 more days to it,
maybe I'll be done. 15 minutes.
15 minutes at a queue, so Mark
at Mark Palmer said Raul Castro
is Fidel's younger brother,
which I feel like we knew.
Right, but there's a new guy in.
Charge.
Yeah, that.
Yeah, Raul.
Quit.
Yeah.
He's like, this is, I don't
know.
It's too hard.
No food, no power, no gas.
I must go.
Is is muy Doo?
Get a carburetor for my car.
I'm out.
I'm going to Miami Muy doodle.
Where I have my money.
Right where I have my money
hidden at SunTrust Bank.
At Epicurean smoke says Boots
new mask looks like he's about
to announce the new king of
Bourbon Street.
Bourbon Street also mono gay.
I think he's referencing the
city that we were talking about
at David Morris says.
Got to start incorporating
landmarks into the geography
quiz too.
First question, Boots or Phil,
where is Alcatraz?
Wow, thanks a lot.
Still in New York.
We got it, we got it.
We got, we got a couple of
Phil's here.
I'm going to keep this going for
a second.
Oh yeah, it was always great
when Phil's in it, huh?
And David Moore's also said, The
more I watch this, the more I
understand why Phil owns his own
business.
He's a walking HR violation.
That was funny, I don't deny
that.
Yeah, that was funny.
And people.
Probably complain to his wife
all day long.
And last one here, last one
here.
Wow, T money.
Guessing Phil has never sat in
an exit row.
The self preservation king would
trample kids to get off the
plane.
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Did you see drunk Chicken Cigars
pulled our story on then the
video and put it on their
Instagram page.
Did they?
Yes, they commented on our feed.
And now they're they are booked
solid for Saturday.
Did we say something bad about
them?
No, no, we just, we did their
press release.
OK, Yeah.
About the the the two new cigars
they have coming out and they
put it on their Instagram.
Page.
Oh nice.
Yeah, I thought it was cool.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
Look, at the end of the day, we
like to poke fun and have a good
time and we always say things
about everybody, but we want to
cover real cigar information.
Cigar news is going on in the
industry and hopefully that
shines some light on some of
these other brand owners,
manufacturers, retailers, media
people, all of it.
You know, it's really kind of
funny.
I was on social media or
something yesterday and I saw
this thing where it was like,
who's the best retailer?
And they were talking about
online and stuff.
And I saw the same names over
and over again.
And it was funny because, sorry,
one thing that was one thing
that was really in depth with a
lot of their responses was one
guy said, I like to go here,
here, here, here.
I'll go to all five of these
places, look for the very best
deal, look for the.
And I just because the deal is
there doesn't mean it's the best
deal.
I need to find out what the free
shipping, if there's any taxes,
whatever.
And then I determine which one
and that that's how I buy.
And you know, they're all,
they're all talking about
discounts and all this other
stuff.
And I'm like, yeah, like we're
not in that conversation.
But then today I saw Steve's up
there working hard, right?
And I saw I, you know, I saw a
few responses from some of our
customers and it was like they.
Were going off all day.
Yesterday, you know, Hey, thanks
for everything you do for me,
right?
Thanks for always taking care
of, thanks for always looking
out, you know, and I'm thinking
to myself, man, that's who we
are.
And I don't want to be in the
conversation with the other
dudes.
So sure that that was pretty,
that was a pretty cool, pretty
cool thing, right?
So I don't know, I wanted to
bring that up and mention it now
because you were kind of talking
about the other stuff and I
don't know, No, it makes sense,
right?
Customer service, taking care of
people and just looking out for
our customers, our media guys,
our media friends, other people
in the industry, whether they're
brand known as manufacturers,
whatever.
So.
I do like they think that Steve
basically lives here.
I mean, the messages for Steve
specifically come in all night
long.
Oh, like it's.
Yeah, yeah.
Like it's his phone.
And you know, he's just, you
know, he, he lives here.
I mean, I dude, look, I mean.
Which is, which is great.
Listen, Steve bought into the
culture.
He believes in US and he
operates at a temple that you
do, and he operates at a temple
that I.
Right.
Yeah, He took that concierge
thing and just ran with.
It yeah, and it shows.
Right.
So very grateful.
For all it's neat when you see
the messages addressed
specifically to him.
Right.
Where's Steve?
Like he's not here.
He has a family.
Hey, Steve.
Thanks for the message.
I would take four of those.
Yeah.
He's not here right now as
that's.
What I have to do on Fridays?
I'm like, OK, this is Palmer
Friday, Steve does have the day
off.
What can I do?
As it is, is it 7:00 on Sunday,
right?
He's not available right now,
right?
So I remember.
They come in at midnight, you
know.
Oh yeah, I'll take seventeen of
those.
Yeah, All right, let's get going
with the show.
All right, Artemis 2 is a go.
It is taking off.
By the time the show airs, it
will have launched into space.
Are you guys watching this?
It's at 6:54 PM this evening, I
believe.
Yeah, yesterday evening.
Well, yes, by the time this airs
it will already have taken off,
but they're sending four people
up to do I think it's 10 days.
Takes 10 days to go around the
moon and check all the sides out
and look for a landing space or
something I imagine.
See what the dark side looks
like?
Well, but it's still going to be
dark, so I don't know how
they're going to see anything.
Don't they have like special
lights or?
Nope, I heard them talking about
that on the radio.
Somebody asked that question.
Like, no, they're not giant
floodlights mounted on the
outside of the spaceship, no.
No.
Did you see that?
That we're really close to this
man?
My throat is a little messed up
today that we're really close to
having satellites up in space
that can direct sunlight to the
other side of earth when it's
night.
And you can do this via an app.
I saw that.
OK, Was that today?
That might be an April Fool's
thing.
No, no, that's a James Bond
movie.
But they could narrow it down
even more specifically and use
it as a laser, no?
This isn't a this isn't a laser,
this is about putting light in
specific areas and it cost like
1000 bucks or something like
that.
That's what I saw on social
media.
Could be fake.
But why would Why do you want to
make nighttime daytime?
If you're operating and doing
work in specific areas and you
need or crime scene like imagine
you had a crime scene and you
know hey, we got to wait till
daylight they.
Have lights.
Dude, I have seen it before
where there's like the police
will come out and they'll make a
conversation.
They'll say, OK, so this it went
down and we need to discover
evidence and stuff.
However, we're going to wait
till daylight so that we can
kind of view all these things
like now you can potentially
expedite all this stuff.
So OK, let's say, God forbid my
neighbor gets killed.
Yeah, and they need, they need
light.
So then the cop pulls out his
phone.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
All of a sudden lights up.
And now I'm awake at 3:00 in the
morning because it's daylight,
not because I can't sleep.
It would beam just on his house,
but yeah, I'm sure that's going
to.
Well, there's got to be an
overflow.
The houses are closer.
It's going to happen.
It's going to be an
inconvenience for.
You or say it's 3:00 in the
morning and I really want to
make Wake Palmer up and I just
go boop, boop, boop, boop $1000.
Amazing.
So wait, I love where?
I love where your heads at on
this.
Right.
Any of us can do it.
You.
I mean, I could download the app
from Apple and I can have the
sunlight, right?
Like I don't know if it's there
yet, but that would be awesome.
I wanna have enough money where
I can make my enemies miserable.
Right, like.
The sun is not.
That Palmer is an enemy, but.
The sun is still here.
It's 2.
I'm up.
Everybody else should be. 2:00
in the morning.
Just from Justin Andrews house,
right?
Oh.
Yeah.
Dude, how awesome would that be?
There's been a bunch of stories
recently, I don't know if
they're fake or not, about
girlfriends who are torturing
their ex boyfriends and stuff
and then they end up in jail.
Oh God.
They're torturing them.
Well, they're like, like one put
an ad in the paper that he's
selling a car or something with
a phone number at an
unbelievable cheap price.
So he gets all these phone calls
and stuff.
Oh my God, that's amazing.
Or the I mean you guys probably
heard this one.
The guy buys it, he goes and
buys a car for $500, takes it to
the airport and parks it in the
extended stay parking and just
never goes back for it and
registers it in his ex wife's
name.
You know what this is?
This is just an upgraded version
of when you ride on the bathroom
stall for a good time call,
right?
Exactly.
This is just a high tech
version.
So then she gets all these
tickets and bills from the
airport for thousands and
thousands of dollars because the
car's been there for six months.
I you know what, I like where
all this is going and you guys
are giving me some great ideas.
Just going to say that right
now.
I like the one where you you
buy, you buy a bunch of keys on
Amazon.
Just blank random keys.
Yeah.
And then you put tags on them.
If found, please call and you
put somebody like I would put
your phone number on them and
then just scatter them through
town and airports and things.
That's incredible.
And people are calling you
constantly going, hey, I found
your key.
Would you like, you know, send
me $10?
I'll just send it.
Back.
But at this point, you can
block, you know, you don't have
to.
Well, you got to block every
number that comes.
That just means they can only
call you once.
Yeah, what if they?
Text you AF100 key.
AF100 key.
I think if you're blocked,
texting doesn't go through
either.
Yeah, but like the silence your
unknown callers on right isn't
the same.
They can still text you.
Right.
And I just like the old
fashioned for a good time call
around the.
Stall I got to be honest, I
don't know what kind of time
span this light thing is
happening, but I hope that I I
become financially wealthy
enough where.
I Where are you going to do?
It where I can utilize this.
Oh yeah, you know, I would mess
with.
Greg.
No, I would mess with people I
don't like.
That was such a quick response.
Don't.
Describe me, Greg.
Triple G spot, it's really.
Triple G.
The problem is like it would
take one day of daylight at
night is not enough.
You would have to set it up so
that it kicks on at like 8:00 at
night and runs until like 5:00
in the morning like Alaska, and
then you would have to run it
it's.
A lot of money.
And you would have to run it for
a solid week at least to make
somebody miserable until they
figured out how to work around
it, you know, so.
They're saying, and I don't
understand why that when this
rocket takes off or when the
rocket took off, you could see
it from far, far away.
Yeah.
I mean, you see the map with the
rings.
Well, they, they've, they're
showing a map and they show the
rings like, OK, we can obviously
see it from here, but like you
could see it from maybe
Savannah, GA or even a little
further.
Away.
It's a big one.
Or is it just because I don't
know the time of the year that
we're doing it?
Who knows?
Clear skies.
And now there's a pink moon
tonight, would you say could
affect the launch?
So we don't know how it.
They didn't see the pink moon
coming.
No, for some reason they don't
know about it till the day
before.
Hey, we predicted this anti
gravity thing happening in
August, but you know, you know
that thing that we're going to
launch yesterday or today?
Yeah, Pink moon question mark
might be a problem.
Yeah, we don't want to get in
our way, sorry.
Oh yes, it's a 10 days other
than one Canadian.
What's the what's the Canadian
for?
Is he the expendable one in case
something bad happens?
It's good to have one, at least
one Canadian.
Three Americans and 1 Canadian.
Yeah, he's the one that brings
us back down you.
Know you're trying to show,
look, we're trying to mend
fences here.
We're showing unification.
Oh, 51st state. 51st state.
Well, no landing is oh on the
moon.
I thought they they didn't
schedule a landing.
Like what are they going to do
with them?
Just let them float around with
them when they're done, correct?
Maple syrup.
And then within the next two
years, if this goes well, we are
going back to the moon to land
for.
Some awesome by the way your
TikTok post got a lot of Flack
saying when you said that there
wasn't we didn't land on the
moon, land on the moon.
People started breaking down the
science of.
Course they did.
Yeah, I got a video sent to me,
yeah, from Epicurean Smoke so
that we don't have to discuss it
at the PCA.
Oh, that OK, Just to show you
that we did land on the moon,
right?
Right.
That's amazing.
But it's a girl explaining.
There's this guy that says all
the reasons I said that we
didn't, and then she explained
to each.
All the all the reasons.
Why he covered all the bases?
You found the exact video, good
for you.
Good.
All right, so we landed on the
moon, then we got that.
We're going well, that's what
we're going with today.
OK, tell us something else.
I like that we're not committed
to anything.
We can just.
We're not committed.
We can change opinions.
Sure, sure.
We don't have to dig in, right,
you know?
As long as we're talking about
outer space, there is an app
that has shows all the space
junk in outer space.
Apparently there's a lot out
there.
We had talked about.
That actually this is deja vu.
Yeah, we were talking about.
No, we talked about space junk.
Italian waste management, You
know, like the mobbed up way.
Hey yo, let me go.
Clean that up, we'll get that
dead satellite.
Well, Pete Hernandez floating in
the space.
What was that guy's name in
South Florida?
Wayne Heisinger or whatever?
Wasn't he like the big waste
Management guy?
Oh, I don't know.
Don't say.
Don't say his name.
Used to own the dolphins.
You should know that he used.
Wayne I don't know.
That doesn't sound.
Weight box.
I don't know who that is.
I used to have.
Heard.
How do you not know this?
You're a Dolphins guy.
Yeah, doesn't sound familiar
though.
OK, maybe.
You know why it's good to be a
Dolphin guy right now?
Why?
Because the Jags are coming to
Orlando and he may get to see
them play locally.
Wow.
NFL unanimously approved the
Jacksonville Jaguars to play
their 2027 home season at
Camping World Stadium in
Orlando.
This is a temporary relocation
because they're doing a $1.4
billion renovation to the ratty
old stadium they're playing at
in Jacksonville.
Wow.
Well, that's good for us because
we just, I just dropped my Bucks
tickets.
I got rid of the season tickets
so you can go see the Jags.
It'd be nice to just drive 20
minutes up the road, go see a
game and then go home.
Right, you're used to watching
football in bad neighborhood, so
you'll be fine.
Yeah, well, that's where the UFL
games are.
Oh.
Can't be able to say, well yeah,
they have.
We don't have another stadium
here in.
Town, yeah, well, the when it
was XFL, we used to go to those
so.
Oh, currently they're talking
about coming over the day of,
like all of them on a bus.
So 2 hour drive.
Yeah, but I guess there's things
they have to do to get ready.
Will the, I mean, I don't know,
they were talking about the
radio this morning.
I don't know if it's a good idea
or not.
Will they all be legs be tight
or something because they get a
chance to stretch because they
rode A2 hour car ride or
something?
I don't know.
I'm sure they'll probably come
over before 2.
Hours.
Yeah.
They're not showing up at noon
for a 1:00 game, you know what I
mean?
No, but I mean, if they leave
early, they'll say they leave at
8, they're here by 10 and what,
the game starts at one that's
still only three hours.
It's.
Probably entirely up to them.
If they wanted to get book a
hotel and just stay there, I'm
sure they could.
Yeah, there's a lot.
You know.
Well, they I think the team
wants everybody to ride
together.
On the bus.
On the bus.
Every.
Day that way you know the star
player doesn't get in an
accident by himself and nobody
and he doesn't show.
DUI or something?
He gets lost.
Pulls a Tiger Woods.
Hooker bites him by accident.
A hooker bites him by accident.
Oh, really?
On the Really.
And you never know, he had to
bump or something.
Construction area.
Is that what?
Yeah.
I'm gonna leave that one alone.
OK, no, go ahead.
Is that what happened to Magic
Johnson?
He's basketball completely
different.
Glad you said that, that's
terrible.
That's how he got it.
Yes, that's how he got it.
You know, just to.
Was it a male or a female?
I'm sorry.
Just to just to briefly recap
here.
Is was that a thing with him?
I'm sorry.
Phil, Phil said.
Phil said, I don't want to say
this and all I had to say was,
oh, go ahead and say it, blah,
blah.
It comes right out.
Racism.
Homophobia, racism.
Homophobia.
How was that racism?
Just because.
Because he was.
Black.
It actually wasn't.
It wasn't.
There was no racism.
It wasn't either.
It was just really.
We were going with it though.
So.
You got aids, maybe.
OK, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to all you hookers out
there.
I think you all have aids.
I.
Apologize.
All hookers have AIDS.
Great.
And just for the record, he
never had AIDS.
He never had AIDS.
He had HIV.
There's a difference.
Well, yeah, that thing too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, what's the
difference, really?
Let's get serious here.
There's a big difference.
He's like, dead or not dead.
Yeah, big.
Difference.
Don't you get a shot on the pee
pee no matter what?
No shot.
No, no.
No, it's just if you work out.
Just if you work out money.
Just if you work out before you
get your testosterone booster,
yeah.
And the pee pee.
And the pee pee.
Sounds like you're it's.
You have a, you have a video for
us today, Michael.
Nope, he doesn't.
Video.
Look at that, Mister Preppy.
Just send it.
Just send us a picture.
It's basically what you did
yesterday.
I didn't send you a picture.
It was just a picture.
That video was 2 seconds.
That was a good.
Picture some guy going I'm.
Going to have a video for you in
2 seconds.
Oh please be, continue forward.
It's going to be like a home
alone time talking.
It's.
Going to be Magic Johnson
driving a car.
Yeah, that's all this feed's
going to be now, Magic Johnson.
Magic Johnson goes.
That's what we talked about.
Do you want to get rid of this
like me?
All right, then, Randy Segarden
news.
Oh, we're just Fast forward.
To them, well, I mean, that's
that's the next thing.
We can sit here for 20 minutes
while he looks for a video.
OK, give me two seconds.
All right, we'll just sit here
11000 two 1000.
I got one for you.
I'm just oh, there it is.
Let me just record it.
They're not going to be any
good.
Oh, you got a screen?
Record.
There's music I can't play that
long.
Is there another Fratello?
Because that was good.
It might be fun to have on the
show now because he he's doing
all those little videos.
He's very opinionated.
Is he leaving tonight?
Fratello, Yeah.
Leaving where?
Is he going to the moon?
Oh no, he's just an accountant.
I found out.
That's so depressing.
He's.
Just an account.
He's like a rocket scientist.
He's a rocket accountant.
Yeah, Hey, how much did this
cost?
A lot.
That's one of those $10,000
hammers.
Put it back, we bought 2.
How many zeros?
I don't know.
Hold on.
Let me sell these Lunar cigars.
Let.
Me get my scientific calculator
out.
All right, we'll go on to the
news.
Go ahead.
Sweet Cap Quesada Superior
shipping in April.
Oh, a new line from Quesada
Cigars is named after a
traditional Spanish dessert, the
quesada.
We'll say Cake.
There's a new brand that will be
available in two different
blends, each of which have a
sweetened cap, the SU SU Supero
Man.
We're going with cake.
Cake Connecticut is made of a
Coke Connecticut seed wrapper
covering the Dominican binder
and filler.
Tobacco is grown in the
Dominican Republic and
Nicaragua, will be available in
two different batolas and will
come packaged in 15 count boxes.
You think people are doing more
flavored stuff because vapes
might be going away?
No, I just think they're looking
to try and touch into another.
Another market, yeah.
I'm not sure Mikey, but I think
you have Ash on your shirt or is
it just sparkles?
OK.
Yeah, Ash, it's.
Probably.
Ash, glitter, glitter.
Oh, from the magic.
Jones Oh well, he, he worked out
this morning.
He likes to, you know, paint
himself.
Oh, is that what he like?
That way everyone sees him
coming actually.
Likes is in the mirror and it's
a bathroom.
I actually didn't work out.
Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle,
twinkle.
Anything funny?
But can I get short robusto if
it's a 4 by 50?
How much is the robusto?
We'll only go with the one size
Quesada.
Flavored.
Sweet tip, yeah.
You.
Want to go first?
You want me to?
Sure, I'll go 6 bucks. $9. 1225
these are expensive ones, yeah.
Super expensive con leche.
It will be baggage in 15 count
boxes will be available in 2
sizes.
Oh, this is the the, the darker
1, the Oscuro robusto.
Same price and we're not going
to ask.
It comes in a Toro with a little
mini guy.
Well, cigars.
Regular production releases
produced at the Tabaco de
Esportante factory in the
Dominican Republic.
A cake is a delicate meringue
dessert, though the word also
means sigh in Spanish.
Well, that's confusing.
Perfect.
You mean see?
SI SIGH.
So you can either mean this
fancy dessert, or it can mean
you're just going.
I got a good one.
It's just a picture.
Just like yesterday.
But it's a.
Meme.
Is it a meme?
Now we send a memes.
Hold on.
I'm going to send it to.
You my my phone so it's confetti
on it.
This was this was from this is
really good.
I got to give it to him.
Alex made this post on a
Facebook group that says Cigar
Connors and it's it's Cash
Patel.
It's the image of Cash Patel and
he is sniffing the cigar from
the leaked video footage and
there's a bass a cigar band on
it and it says.
Anyone know what cigar is
smoking?
Look at that.
Yeah I tried doing a post on
you, went on it for our graphic
but Chet GPT kept turning it the
wrong.
Way it just wouldn't work.
You got to you're going to have
to, you'd have to Photoshop
that.
You'd have to work you some
skills.
Yeah, it did.
You know I'd recommended that.
And I told that I go fuck you if
I, if I have to do it myself,
what the hell am I paying you $9
a month for?
And then it apologized.
But in our photo I am in the
background smiling.
I did see that.
I saw that on the thumbnail.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's pretty creative.
He rode into a, he rode into a
different group.
Anybody know what's the car he's
smoking?
Wow.
That's hilarious.
All right, Hireman Solomon.
Yes.
I still, I forgot.
I still, I still deliver.
But I forgot I still deliver.
There you go.
That's not a video, it's a.
Picture that counts.
No, it does.
Yes it does.
No.
Yeah, no, The thing is you
provide a video.
I can't do that right now.
I did it.
Just saying I it counts in my
eyes.
One thing, 500 episodes, it
counts.
One thing it's.
Just the one thing I do, one
thing he does.
Just one.
Just the 1:00 during the show,
Yeah, you do the things, the
clippies.
The Clippies.
That is one thing that ChatGPT
said we should do to increase.
So I'm really mad at ChatGPT
lately.
Oh yeah, you should provide
many, many clips.
I'm like, fuck you, we do that
too.
Yeah, how many more you want us
to do?
Yeah.
How many exactly?
What did you do?
Is anybody I meet?
Oh, I watch your clips.
Do you watch the show?
Oh, the clips.
I'm like, oh, you and everybody
else.
Oh, you have a show.
Yeah, you have a whole show.
It's not just 32nd Little.
Wait a second.
How?
How do you deliver a new clip
every two hours?
It's something fresh.
And you guys are always in
different outfits.
Like, yeah, no, we do a podcast
every day.
We do every weekday.
We do a 32nd clip every hour.
Yeah, like, oh, let's do another
32nd.
Clip all right, hiring Solomon
and they are announcing a price
increase.
Prices are going up.
Hmm.
Iron Solomon has announced that
it will be implementing a modest
price increase in the coming
weeks.
The founder and CEO of Hiram
Solomon said that most any
individual cigar will increase
is.
As a percentage base.
It's a percentage, yes.
OK.
Modest, he says. 3%.
That was the number I was going
to pick.
I'll go 5.
Five good.
Congratulations.
He went the right way.
The only a few cigars in the
company's portfolio didn't see
any increase.
He did not get into specifics
about how much any particular
line would increase.
The company will be implementing
the increase right before the
2026 PCA convention and trade
show.
McAuliffe is adding mixed filler
color blend bundles to their
lineup.
Yes, I saw this.
Did you see it?
Did you read the article?
Wait, where did you see it?
I did briefly see it on.
I did read some of the article
on half of it, not the whole
thing.
Because at the beginning of the
article it says this information
was gathered from the Cigar Coop
website.
So we're not covering the story
because we don't have permission
and we don't want to be say we
are plagiarizing.
I thought I saw it on half
wheel.
It was half wheel, but half
wheel said they got the
information from Coop.
OK, well we got the information
from Half Wheel.
No, I don't think that's how
that works.
You want me to get on ChatGPT
and get a fake consent form for?
You, you know how he is.
Well, I'm going to cover it
anyways because.
OK, because I have no idea what
that means.
Because like the price point for
the cigars are really low.
It's like 6 bucks or something
like that.
And I thought that was pretty
good.
And we're actually working on, I
don't want to get ahead of
myself.
We're developing a product
that's going to be value
incentivized.
And I'm like, oh man, that's a
low price.
That's, that's a person we got
to compete against.
That's a competitor in that
space.
But then when you kind of, I
looked a little closer at it and
it's a mixed filler combo.
So what's that mean?
That means that it's like a, so
they call it like a Cuban
sandwich.
So it's so it's long filler
tobacco and short filler tobacco
kind of mixed in.
I thought they meant mixed
types, which wouldn't make any
sense at all.
So you know a.
Style of tobacco.
I mean, look, it's still a good
value on a jar, but the reality
is it's not all long filler,
long fillers where the the cost
is going to be a little more.
Did you say mixed color as well?
Color blend bundles, they do
those color blends where they do
like the red, the blue, the
orange.
So it'll be a mix filler blend
from those type of cigars.
They've been pressing harder on
the color labels.
That's been more of their thing.
I think that a lot of brands are
kind of doing that now too, like
the blue, the red, the purple,
the black, you know?
Because San Pari does the
colors.
No usual names.
We don't want a name, we just
want a color, right?
Makes it difficult though to
explain to a retailer when you
walk in and say I want the
purple one, like the purple
what?
Right, the one with the lines
with the purple one.
With the little bit more.
The purple one with the lines,
right?
I'll take the brown round one,
you know.
OK.
The big long blue one.
I don't know what that was
about, but.
OK, well I thought he was going
to say something else.
I just left it.
I thought he was going with the
brown color.
Got it.
Yeah.
And you got excited.
I was just, yeah, a little bit
emphasizing I'm like.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, now we're talking about it.
I mean, you know, you did jump
into Gary Sheffield's arms last
night.
I did.
No, I wish I did.
Kind of.
You saw Gary Sheffield at a
baseball game.
He.
Has no clue who that is.
Yeah.
Well, I recognize his name, but
I didn't know how he played.
He used to play baseball.
Oh, the one with the basket.
Yeah, the one with the basket,
yeah.
There were the little shorts in
the tank top.
That's correct.
Gotcha.
Yep gotcha.
Did he have the shorts in the
tank top on?
No, he was in this.
He was like low key.
Incognito.
Yeah, you were going to say in
disgust.
Disguise you.
Yeah, but but Phil over here
identified him.
Of course he did, and then leapt
into his arms.
Oh, because he loves he.
Loves celebrities.
You know how he goes, Phil.
Loves celebrities.
Yeah, freaks out, right?
Well, this celebrity is
different.
Why?
Because he was old.
Well, when I grew up, you know,
he's one of the baseball players
a lot of kids emulated.
Did you have his picture on your
wall in your bedroom?
Actually, I did have a poster of
Gary Sheffield.
I believe it, yeah.
Did you?
Who's your top three from
growing up that you're like,
man, I would just I would.
I would let this man coddle me.
Oh coddle, yeah.
Coddle tell me you said you'd
jump into his arms.
Allen Iverson.
He would not let you call him.
Yeah, I know Allen Iverson is
not, is not messing around.
He doesn't sound like a cop.
Yeah, he is not.
He's not cuddly.
Not OK with he's he wouldn't.
No.
OK, I like, but I like that
that's where you went off the
jump.
OK.
Michael Jordan.
All right, that's a given.
Basketball player.
Both basketball.
Yeah, I mean, you know, we had a
conversation about Griffey, Ken
Griffey.
OK, Kane Griffey, junior.
Yeah, Kane Griffey, junior, not
senior.
Not senior, yeah, just have
this, OK.
You know who senior is, but not
junior.
No, I know who, Junior.
Is not a senior.
So you went 2 basketball, 1
baseball?
Yeah.
OK, technically one of the
baseball players also played
baseball.
No football, huh?
That is true.
I mean.
Refrigerator Perry.
Football.
No, I met.
I met like one of my favorite
players of all time.
Who?
Dan Mario.
No Sam Madison.
Who's that?
He used to be a A corner for the
Dolphins.
He said beer.
Oh, OK, he makes that beer.
Sam Adams beer.
Does he the Sam Madison?
Sam Madison.
They shortened it for, you know,
they had to fit on the bottle.
OK.
The extra Sion just didn't fit.
You guys ever had a great Cliff
cigar?
100 years.
Ago.
Yeah, not the way it is.
You know, I've had one, but a
long, long time ago where
they're coming out with a new
sampler.
Oh yeah, if you want to try them
again.
Well, this is one of those
brands that really kind of got
destroyed, I believe by catalogs
you.
Know what?
You're probably right.
Yeah.
And they're only made in
Jamaica.
Yeah, Jamaica.
Jamaica.
I thought it was.
Bahamas.
Yeah, Bahamas.
Oh, it's an island.
Hold on, I'm looking at her real
quick.
Yeah, I don't think it was.
Jamaic, Oh, it is Bahamas.
Yeah, Oh my God.
Very close.
It's the next.
It's the next one over.
It's bohemian.
It's the next one over there,
not Jamaican.
You have to stop at 1:00 to get
to the other.
Oh, so they're not Jamaican
cigars?
No, apparently they're Bahamian
cigars.
Oh, OK, still odd.
Next month, Great Cliff will
release a new sampler called
Tasters that includes 3 by 38
versions of their six core
lines.
The Vitolos develop both as a
way to give fans of the company
a short 10 to 15 minute smoke
during their lunch break or when
time is limited, as well as they
give consumers that might be not
as familiar with the grey Cliff
a snapshot of the following
lines.
Or if it's cold, they can take
them up.
North.
Oh yeah, and not be masculine
and smoke the full cigar, right?
Is there a price on this?
Yes, there is.
Oh, I'd love to get.
This one back in the day at the
trade show when it was called
IBCPR before.
I mean it was not RTDA what it
was.
Aaron, not the original
original.
It was IBCPR, Great.
Cliff had this gigantic
chandelier hanging from the
rafters and that was one of the
first things you saw and like,
Oh my God.
So, you know, like going to the
show and being new when you saw
that you're like, I'm, I'm out
of my depth.
I'm out of my depth.
Greg, we should buy.
These we need the chandelier.
It's impressive.
We should buy these shiny now.
When you see a chandelier that
size, you know that you're
paying too much for the cigars.
That's the problem.
I've smoked in a great Cliff
lounge in China somewhere.
Yeah.
Still didn't like the cigar?
OK, but inside the samplers are
going to be their double
espresso.
Their Chateau Chateau Grand Crew
Crystal Espresso G2 in the
Heritage Royale Tasters version
retains the same blends with
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Addition to the offering
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do samplings or hey, have a
tasty.
It's hard to come back, it's
hard to come, it's hard to
recover once there's.
No price, sorry.
Yeah, it's hard to recover once
you've gone catalog the catalog
way, you know?
Right.
Well, because then you get, you
know, you know, I can buy this
online for half that price.
Right.
And so then what happens is the
retailer stopped carrying it
because like, I'm not going to
compete the.
Answer I can't compete.
With that and then eventually
what happens is that brand
slowly dies it's.
Very sad.
I don't think it's sad.
It's.
Very sad.
Well, they chose that route.
It's not sad anymore.
It's no longer sad.
Well, they went for the money.
They cashed out to get the Ki to
get the money.
But you know, I and I understand
it because this, this is tough.
Well.
This whole game is tough.
I thought I I had heard of a
story about great clip that a
lot of their downside was they
had like a whole beetle
incident.
You think maybe that was that
like pre catalog maybe maybe
they sold the catalogs to get
back out there?
No.
It's hot in the Bahamas.
Make it happen.
It's hot everywhere.
It's hotter in the Bahamas.
Think so?
Bahamas are the hottest pot.
It is hot air.
Conditioning, yeah.
There is no air conditioning.
And no AC there, no zero.
It's outlawed.
It's outlook.
Is it outlawed?
It's.
Been outlawed?
Bahamas, Yeah.
Interesting.
It's an environmental thing.
Yeah, they don't want Freon.
Yeah, no, Freon, I don't.
Think there's a fish?
Environmental is there.
Kills a fish, so why doesn't
they just buy the fish?
What is it?
Who?
AJ.
Well, he would have to move them
over to his place.
But what?
But this is a completely
different island.
Why would he buy the fish to
save the Bahamas?
Maybe he just buys the island.
You see that blue?
Might own it, we don't.
Know AJ Fernandez buys Bahamas,
Could be yeah.
Yeah, it's not big.
That's not big.
Right.
He get, you know he's right.
I'd check her.
Yeah.
Look for the change in the
cushions in the trucks.
Take this, take this necklace.
Necklace.
It's mine now.
Only AJ Island.
Only we would rename this.
Only AJ.
Only AJ somewhere quickly make
me a sign.
Make me a sign.
All right, Black Label Trade
Company does not need a sign,
even though they have a new
cigar called the Macabre.
The macabre.
Macabre.
That sounds familiar.
That's because John the Drew's
in Macau that one time.
He was in Macau.
And now you're mixing.
His last name is not really drew
completely.
I'm sorry, Jonathan Sons.
Still upset about that?
If I lied to.
Yeah, I feel lied, feel like
I've been lied to, feel like
I've been deceived and tricked.
I get it.
He has a different last name.
Did he just get that or?
No, he always had it.
He.
Always had it.
He just convinced us all.
His last name was Drew.
Wow.
Yeah.
Now he's called Jsi.
Actually knew that.
Wow, well you must be.
Well you used to be friends with
him till he was told he
couldn't.
Come here anymore.
He didn't.
He didn't tell me that.
I mean, we still get along.
I still see him still say hi.
Yeah, there were a couple of
years where he didn't say.
He distanced himself.
What is falling in the pools?
Like we have AIDS or HIV?
Wow.
I'm just trying to it's a call
back.
You distance yourself when
somebody has AIDS or HIV.
No, I don't personally.
But other people, sometimes some
people do.
Back in the 80s when it first
came out.
You distance yourself.
It was weird.
I didn't.
People did stay away.
Right.
It's like COVID but they wear a
mask somewhere else.
Did you distance yourself from
somebody with COVID at first?
Maybe when you were scared or
something.
I was never, I don't, no,
because the only person that I
knew that had it was my wife.
Lies you're not distancing
yourself with.
Lies, I did sleep on the couch
instead of the bedroom.
Lies.
He knew I had it.
So you kind of.
Distanced.
So I kind of, I guess I did, but
I was still still going.
Yeah, but I don't come to your
house on a regular, no.
But he did.
He came in and blew us all up.
He did remember that.
Yeah, I remember that.
Then we all got it.
He played it off too, right?
He's like, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm fine.
Then we can't breathe.
Right.
Palmer came to my house with
Chet and suits.
Oh, that's right, that's right.
It was brought in supplies.
Yeah, that was the joke.
That was the video.
That was totally different.
Yeah.
But we had suits on that.
So yeah, that was him screwing
around.
You had Tyvek on, that wasn't a
real suit.
As close as we could get.
Listen.
Painter suits listen.
We operate in the confines or
what gives what's given to us
that's.
Right.
All right, this cigar next month
will be the all new Black Label
Trading Company blend.
The Nicaraguan company will
release the Black Label Trading
Company Macabre Blend Wise.
It's a Mexican San Andreas
rapper over in Ecuadorian Habana
binder and fillers from
Nicaragua is produced at the
company's own factory in SLE,
Nicaragua, not the Bahamas or
Jamaica.
Obeya negra.
Yes, on debut there will be 3
vitolas, each of which has a
rabbito cap.
What is it?
What is the rib?
I mean I'm just now know what a
one O 9 is.
So now there's a rabbito.
I got to figure that out.
I don't know.
You don't know what that is
either.
I've heard of this one, I just
don't know what it is.
RABITO.
Correct.
How do you spell macabre?
MACABRE.
So they're coming out with a
Robusto, a Corona Gorda and a
Toro.
There'll be 800 boxes of the
Robusto and Tor, but only 650
boxes of the Corona Gorda.
Macabre is quintessential Black
Label, rich, dark and elegant
with a perfect balance of
strength and flavor, says James
Brown, the godfather of soul and
also the creator of Black Label
Trading Company.
Rabbito means like a pigtail
pigtail cap.
Why can't they just say pigtail?
We don't know what a pigtail is.
Because it's a rabbito.
This is real name, not brown
either.
It's not.
Probably not.
It's blue.
Why?
Wouldn't it be brown labeled
trading company?
That his last name was Brown.
Yeah, that's a good point.
He isn't so so this is this is
where I've heard it before.
It's usually described Edgar
Allan Poe's poetry is or stories
is normally described as
McConnell.
Can we just talk about the fact
that he's an habit?
Edgar Allan Poe.
No, no, no, yeah, no.
But I know I had.
I had to read some of these
things in school before.
We we don't work on that type of
level on this show.
Yeah.
Oh, you could mention of an
article written Playboy that
might be appropriate.
I think the name is poem Poet
Edgar Allan.
Poe well, I think they mentioned
this in Piggy Blinders recently.
Piggy blinders.
I'm on season 6.
I, I when the little girls
having the the sightings or
whatever in her dreams of the
grey man.
Yeah, I think they say the word
macabre.
That's why I was like, man, that
sounds so well.
Probably.
That sounds very that time,
yeah.
Interesting.
Sorry.
These aren't a first come, first
served basis at the 2026 PCA
Convention and Trade Show, which
takes place April 18th to the
20th in New Orleans.
First come, first serve.
You better get them.
Once they're gone, they're gone.
It's a good.
Approach, You know, come to the
show and you know, whatever.
Come right over, guys.
The first come first there.
Yeah, ours are too, by the way.
No.
What we do is we offer, we
incentivize access to the L ES
first when you purchase specific
packages.
Sure, yeah.
But once those are gone, they're
gone.
Once they're gone, they're gone.
So she come see us first.
Yeah, and then go see Brown.
And then go see the black label
run by the Brown family.
Yes, that's pretty good.
I like that to be to be exact.
Man, they got slammed.
Don't ask him for a Carol bash.
They got, they got hit last.
We got to throw something in all
those.
They got hit last year with
higher tariffs than anybody else
because they, yeah, then when
they came in, they got jumped.
They shipped at the high time.
Like there was a weekend where
you got screwed and they got.
Screwed.
That's when they're shipped
right I'm.
Like that sucks man, I'm sorry
to hear that.
Yeah, it's too bad.
OK, Couldn't buy another pair of
those boots I guess.
They're lovely boots.
I couldn't pull those off.
I don't think you could pull
those off.
I don't wear anything.
I wear like the black T-shirts.
OK, right.
Glad you clarified that.
Because I got you excited for a
second.
Yeah, he thought.
I mean, you had no pants on.
I'd love the fact that he wants
to coddle Allen Iverson.
Allen Iverson would kick your
ass May 21.
The minute you got close, he
would whoop the shit out.
I.
Wouldn't call, I would just like
to shake his hand.
I told you I wasn't coddling.
Anything like he ain't letting
you shake his hand?
AI never happening.
How about huge fans like stay
back?
Stay back, I hear you had COVID.
Stay back.
I got this three piece for you.
Wow.
Yeah.
Alright, it's time for the
industry's favorite game.
What's?
The score.
We should do 1 episode.
It's just a long what's the
score?
Sounds brutal.
Yeah, that sound brutal.
That's like the they having
Oreos with just the cream
filling events.
You get tired of it.
Just one time.
I don't wanna do it every day.
Yeah, I thought about making a
zebra.
Get tired of.
That bill does not get tired of
it.
Yeah.
Yeah, he smears the cream on
himself.
Yeah, yeah, he bathes.
That and then goes to bed and
Tia, I'm covered in the cream I.
Guess it's about smearing it on
myself, but guess what?
Guess what?
I found the double stuff here.
Wow.
Now I'm the double stuff.
Wow.
Alright, today's cigar.
Stuff on I'd like you to double
double stuff.
Me as well.
Wow.
Have a go there all.
Right March 31st, 2026.
Charlie Minato Cigars, The
Dominican Republic limited
edition review.
The Warped Cigar Slash Gelis
Family Cigars.
Isla del Crocodilio Blanco.
Crocodilio.
I like the name of this one.
It is a new review from today,
so this is when we're doing.
Nice and fresh.
Nice and fresh.
The guy's dropping reviews, he's
at TPE, It's pretty impressive.
Well, he does them in advance.
Even still, it's impressive.
There's four of them, Charlie.
Minano reviewed this.
Yeah, but you don't know how
when he actually reviewed it.
I just want to publish.
I'm just saying it's impressive.
How's it?
Hey, let's just shit all over
him.
Yeah, It's not.
I'm not shitting all over him.
No, Charlie seeing Charlie, you
know.
What?
This is the year we hug and take
a picture.
You know, the fact that you're
at TP and still job and reviews.
Palmer doesn't care.
Man, Palmer was well, I just
don't see it being a, you know,
an accomplishment that needs to
be addressed.
He's not impressed.
I'm impressed.
He's not impressed.
You should have said you're
impressed, Paul.
We probably got the hug.
Guess what?
Yeah, now I'm still getting the
hug.
No hug.
I'll.
Force the hug in my.
Head, OH.
He'll kick your ass.
He breaks Alan Ivory.
Is that what you're trying?
Alan Ivers is his bodyguard.
Oh yeah, I'm telling my friend
of Phil's.
Yeah.
Oh, but that, that's not going
to go over.
Not going to help with him.
Not going to help, huh?
OK, 88.
Crocodilio.
Crocodilio. 85.
So it's the Isla del Crocodilio
Blanco, country of origin,
Dominican Republic.
Tabacalera la Isla is the
factory Ecuadorian Connecticut
seed, Brazilian adaparaka and
Ecuadorian habeno 2000.
Filler is Nicaraguan length 6
1/2 by 55.
It's an 18 dollars cigar and
they smoked 3. $18.00.
Little man.
Was a rapper.
The Crocodilio computer paid
attention and not looking at
your phone.
I wouldn't have to read it
again.
I'm sorry, it was.
It's the Blanco, Yeah, though
it's a Connecticut.
That's all it says, OK.
Fun.
Well, you hope it's not a
discolor.
Tomorrow, the size.
It's a rapper Ecuador Kinetic.
Want me to just read the whole
thing over again?
Yeah, just.
One more.
Time, as I see the cigar we're
doing is don't, don't come.
Forward.
It's gonna be blurry.
They did they get blurry.
I like the auto focus binder is
Brazilian out of Baracca and
Ecuador and Habano 2000. 2
binders.
Yes, filler is Nicaraguan.
It's a 6 1/2 by 55.
It's round.
It's big.
It's an $18.00 cigar.
There's a box of 15 released on
March 4th.
They made 1500 boxes of 15
cigars. 87. 85 You know you.
Could at least let me finish
reading the reread instead of
just cutting me off.
I was.
Just trying to help you.
How is that helping?
Cause helping would be if you
paid attention in the beginning.
We know you only have so much
breath.
Left.
I already apologize and I said
man, we're here now.
So then I just needed to get the
Intel for me not paying
attention, just the stuff I need
to.
Know clue number.
One needing a rapper and you
know vitola, I don't.
Want the last episode of the
Cigar Hustler Podcast?
We hope you were doing we made
it to 500 top 1% and we quit.
That we're out, nobody goes to
five O 1.
That's just ridiculous.
Yeah.
Heart monitor went to red.
Number one the is the Del
Crocodile Leo Blanco Went to Red
offers a balanced Connecticut
profile with creaminess,
nuttiness, bread and wood
layered with light pepper and
saltiness.
The smoke has an airy quality
that helps separate flavors,
making it enjoyable and nuanced.
Experience boring you?
I always get tired when we start
doing these.
I start yawning on these.
It's because I need more oxygen
cause I've been talking so much.
Is that what it is?
Yes, OK, that was clue number
one.
Do I need to read it again?
Start over.
Yeah, I wasn't hearing anything.
80 Got a bunch of different
flavors, blah blah blah 88. 85.
Clue #2.
Because you're really hell bent
on 85.
No, I just, I don't know why I'm
not moving off.
Well, I'm really not.
I didn't hear what it was.
So OK, OK, I'm going 85.
Clue #2 performance is solid
where it counts, with a great
draw, strong smoke production,
and mostly even burns.
The Retro Hill adds extra depth
with more pronounced pepper and
richness, keeping the profile
engaging from start to finish.
90. 87.
See now he just went off 85
because you gave him a hard
time.
No, I mean, CC's nice.
He's going to rate it higher.
Charlie is not nice.
Charlie.
He's very, You're very nice,
Charlie.
Very handsome man.
I don't know why he thinks
you're ugly to people.
Charlie is legit.
The biggest issue is fragile
construction, particularly with
the wrapper and the cap.
Not rabido or one O 9.
Rabido.
Which showed cracking and
unraveling across multiple
cigars.
This led to some inconsistency
and occasionally impact on the
smoking experience.
Oh God.
Get off of him.
When he ONS like that get off
him.
It's so hard.
Sometimes like look if being on
the three thing all the time
makes it really hard for the
clips.
Well I just I only do it for
this section.
I get it, but like, after he
rattles off, flip to the two of
us or something.
Oh yeah.
Hello.
See just keep working is what I
need you to do.
I mean I need to not just hit
the button and check out OK.
Wow.
Thank you.
Why are you attacking both of us
now?
Just attack him, not me. 86.
I like when he talks from over
here.
Looks like they're.
I'm not flipping to you, Palmer.
Stop talking.
Because I can't see anything
with the feathers.
Remember 86. 85.
It's been a while since I've
been this impressed with a cigar
from Warped or the Gelles family
cigars.
The Isla del Crocodilio Blanco
continues this site's long
history of writing blends with
Connecticut seed rappers quite
well, but it's more than
deserved.
The flavor profile in the 1st
2/3 shows what happens when the
individual flavors are allowed
to breathe, making it easy to
find a lot of their nuance and
see how they interplay with one
another, intentionally or not.
The final third shows a
completely different side of the
cigar, a much better ending than
it would be a start.
That said, the fragility of the
fragility of the wrapper is an
issue, one that was inescapable
from the start of each cigar.
Hopefully there's a solution for
the wrapper that doesn't
negatively impact the flavor
profile.
Now play with us.
Did you were just on him that
whole time?
Yeah, now I'm on you.
Oh, I like that.
That's much, much better.
He would rather you were just on
him the whole time.
Yeah, just be on him, the whole.
Time.
Well, that's weird.
Is it?
Yeah.
Super 8787 is my final score.
This is the final clue.
That was it was his final
thought. 87 He liked it, but he
didn't like it cause of
construction.
Yeah. 86.
You went the wrong way.
Man. 91. 91 with cracking.
Issues.
Just the cap crack.
Wow, you leave Charlie alone.
Wow, my friend Charlie.
I will leave Charlie alone.
I like Charlie.
He's my friend.
No, he's not.
He called me Rockstar last year.
That was a year ago.
What is he, your dad?
No, his dad's dead.
Thanks.
No, my dad's dead.
Thanks.
A.
Lot.
Here we go.
We're not all lucky like you and
still have a father that's alive
that's.
Forever.
Hey Rockstar.
My mom's almost dead, so why
don't you bring that up too?
Yeah, why don't you bring that
up?
I don't know anything about your
mom.
Oh yeah, we just talked.
Other than you guys do bails.
Other than the fact that she has
no idea what's going on, that
she's dying.
Well, you guys totally say we're
all dying.
She keeps falling down and
cracking bones and things.
Yeah, and.
Oh, is she and refuses to go
into.
Pressure her eye socket.
Refuses to go into her.
God, what?
She she had a brain bleed before
that.
Oh my Lord.
I don't know.
It can't kill this old lady.
Battle axe Jesus.
She's mean and God doesn't want
her either.
You picking me up on Fridays for
my nails?
I got to take her for a haircut
this weekend.
Listen to her tell the Barber
that we took her car and she's
been going there for 20 years.
Neither one is true.
All right, anything else to add?
No, I was going to do some
different things for the 500
show.
I was going to do like comments
from celebrities, but we've done
that for your birthday and other
things, so that seems stupid.
Then I had a couple of messages
and I couldn't think of a funny
1, so I just scrapped that idea.
So that's it.
We went with the confetti.
I like the confetti, it was
good.
Yeah, even though it triggered
my PTSD.
Even even though even though
Phil has not experienced all 500
episodes as he was a.
Correct.
He came in later.
Yeah, he was a later at.
All.
Congratulations to the both of
you for making 500.
Oh, you as well.
You as well.
There is no two Finder gentleman
that I would rather be with
doing this podcast.
You mean sex wise?
As well as sex wise.
I don't like the last part but
thanks for doing the show of it
make you feel.
See, that's see, that's what
happens when you make a nice
positive compliment to Palmer.
He instantly discounts it.
By yeah, throwing.
I didn't discount it.
Oh, you could put your Weiner in
boots, Yeah.
Should we all show our wieners
for the?
Five.
No.
This is getting way too dark.
I was.
Trying to end with something
nice Here I was trying to end
with something nice.
Yeah, just rewind it.
Where?
Are we going next?
What are we going to do next?
With what?
The show.
We're coming here tomorrow.
What are you talking?
About no, I mean, he's got to
have a plan to go somewhere.
I mean, you know, we're making
shirts, lifting right now,
selling those like crazy.
We go five days a week.
We can't do 7 because of all of
our schedules.
There's no way we could get two
more shows in.
So what's the next step?
I think that there's still
things that have to happen here
for more efficiency.
Like I'm talking about figuring
out ways to muffle the echo.
I'm getting better with sound
and and mics, and I do have a
surprise that I'm working on
establishing.
It's to be determined.
When it happens, though, it's
gonna be great.
I.
Don't know what you.
Just I don't.
Know what you just said because
it was so cryptic?
It's gonna be great.
Yeah, he didn't give us any
details at all.
It was just like the numbers on
the Hushaja.
Because when it I'm gonna tell
you what.
Listen, yeah, tell us the
numbers for the Hushaja.
Yeah, you know what?
I don't care about what you're
talking about.
Just tell us the numbers.
When it hits, when we do it, a
lot of people are going to see
it and they are going to laugh
and it's going to get us a lot
of he's.
Getting rid of both of us.
No, it's probably just me.
It's a joke for me, I guarantee
it.
You'll see.
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Yeah, he doesn't use that word
on the other show.
Well, because it doesn't, yeah.
They educate and entertain.
Like us?
It's more you guys should record
the 45 minutes I have to sit
here and watch before start the
show.
Well, you guys are telling each
other how great each, how great
each other is and what you, you
know your coaching experiences
since you saw them last.
You not see him every time you
go to practice.
I see him on Wednesday.
And then when he comes home.
For only on Wednesday so you
don't see him every time you go
to practice or games.
No, I see him on sometimes.
I see him on games on Fridays.
But like, dude, that guy's
running around all the fields
making sure everything's good.
Well, I know, but it just seemed
unusual that when you guys sit
down and do your 45 minute chit
chat before you even start
playing what's going to be on
the show?
It's like you guys have not seen
each other since last Monday.
We.
Really haven't.
I told you what it was, Palmer.
It's a pump up.
Well, yeah, I mean, that's what
they're doing.
Yeah.
Right.
No, you're great.
No, you're great.
Yeah, I did this.
No, I did this.
I like your socks.
It's a.
It's a.
It's a.
Documented shirts.
Oh, it's like a production
meeting, for one.
And for two, I take back
everything nice I said about
both of you.
It's gone.
Forget it.
No.
No.
I mean, the back half of it is
your production meeting where
you guys finally decide what
that's what I, that's my
favorite part because I have sat
here, listen to this other
whatever that is going to be
called.
Then all of a sudden one of
you'll go, OK, what we do in
today's show, like, oh, that
means for like 10 minutes to
start.
We got to recap all of the stuff
that's going on.
Palmer, you the.
Other stuff has nothing to do
with the show.
Though all of the things.
Did you guys meet for breakfast
or something and work that out
before I come down?
Who has that kind of time?
Palmer, you should just do a
sound check, let the microphones
record, hit the record button
and call it a news show.
Like the Sweet Spot or
something.
The sweet, the sweet.
Spot you know, I could set the
wireless mics on the table, they
wouldn't even know they.
Had no idea.
Oh, should.
Have now been going to look, but
I might do that next week.
All right, that'd.
Be funny, Mike, you will forget.
All right, guys, thank you very
much.
Keep watching the show.
Apparently they got something
under his always under his hat
there.
So always.
All right, thanks.
We got to go.
Bye bye.
Bye.
Show Notes
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