ACHP Episode 517 Going Canadian, The Draft and an Influencer Named Sam
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And action.
Welcome to us to go, our Hustler
podcast episode 517.
I'm Mike Palmer, back from the
dead and your host for today's
show with me today in
engineering and star of the Male
Poor industry, Phil Mcguffey.
Still on that, huh?
Yay, Phil.
I took the foreskin part out and
with me back from his successful
appearance at Marine Land as a
killer whale.
Mike, Stefan.
Gavin, here I am in the flesh.
Wow.
He sounds worse than I do today.
Yeah, we'll wait till the
coughing starts the.
Coughing's minimal.
It's just this, I mean, look,
this is a week long talking of
at the Convention Center plus
being sick, right?
This is what it is.
Well, I get the.
First cough and.
Whatever you did as a killer
whale.
Yes, sure, all that salt water
swimming around that cold salt
water didn't help any yesterday.
I did get the pat a Stingray.
Oh, you didn't die.
You survived.
I touched it.
Oh yeah, you didn't die like
Steve Irwin.
Yeah, you don't.
The trick is not to go over
instead.
Of crikey.
Crikey.
I wonder what happens if I put
this Barb near my chest.
Right now, get right over his
Barb.
Is he?
I'll tell you what, it was a
cool little field trip.
They went out and they were
trying to catch fish with Nets.
One of them caught up a gigantic
puffer fish.
Oh yeah.
It's pretty dope.
This was that an aquarium or
where was this?
No, it was Ponce Inlet.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, nice.
And then and then they dissected
a squid.
They killed a squid.
There were a lot of dissecting
the.
Squids.
Squids were already.
Dead.
Well, they somebody killed it.
Somebody killed them, yeah.
Did they like squirt away with
the ink?
What?
No, but they pulled the ink out.
That's cool.
I bet one in China one time and
I didn't know it, but I bet the
ink in it ran down my face and
they're all he and I'm like
what?
And then I had purple ink on my
face.
Did it come off easy or no?
It was a little hard to get off.
I'm sure it was, yes.
You didn't freak out.
No, I just think on today's show
we have the draft with Phil
Mcguffey.
OK, we're all Canadian.
Maybe a Special Forces soldier
got a big payday, an influencer
has been outed and in cigars.
It's a big day in Vietnam.
Michael Herclight celebrates 30
years and the final numbers are
in for 2025.
All.
Right.
Plus, a crowd favorite wants to
score.
All this and more and it was a
217. 200. 0500 and 17.
Sorry, it's been a long week.
He's losing his.
Mind, I was so excited.
I was so up for the whole thing
I think.
Everything.
You're doing great.
Don't put him down.
He's doing great.
He's losing his mind a little
bit.
Keep it going, Keep it going.
You know, the weirdest thing is
my eyes all of a sudden have
gotten worse.
Yeah, from the cold.
I don't.
Maybe they're just tired.
I don't.
Know your eyes are probably just
tired.
I mean like without glasses I
can't see anything anymore.
Oh right, everything's blurry.
I'm blind.
All right, before we get
started, Michael, how do we get
some of that?
See, what do you smoke?
What is that lovely cigar?
I'm having to sneeze a fina.
Oh nice, that's one of my
favorite Connecticut's.
It's up there in my top three.
How do we get some of that
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Yep, some comments from like
yesterday's questionable show
Guns, Gear and smoke says that
had to be the funniest comeback
I've ever heard on this show.
And it was at all at the and it
was at the last 10 seconds of
the show.
Oh yeah.
Was that a little that?
Was that the foreskin jab that I
caught at the end or?
Where I said my Dick was bigger.
Nice.
He wanted me to be his stunt
double and I said I can't, my
Dick is bigger.
Francis Stiletto 6O35, says
Palmer sounds like he's got the
black lung.
Pretty much.
Now Mikey does.
Josh Bowling says shots came
with Palmer's cough, I need
another bottle.
Oh, shots came with Palmer's
cough, I need another bottle.
Sorry, my T Sharp 4 says wow,
you guys really struggle without
the King in the studio.
We know who's pulling the rope
the hardest.
Looking forward to the next
podcast.
Now listen.
Look, they're they were doing
their best Palmer's, you know,
he's dead at this point, even
sick as a dog.
But you know, they're still
providing content.
I don't know what was up with
law.
Maybe he was having an off day.
Maybe this transition into evil
law because you know.
Not working out well.
I don't think it's not that it's
not working out well.
Maybe it's we're finding our
footing stuff, you know?
Yeah, we'll have him back on
again for a redemption episode.
Yeah, I think he could have
definitely bring the boom a
little bit more.
Oh fuck you.
Don't like the?
You don't like the word of the?
Boom no I got a call at one O
clock that I just blew off
again.
That's.
Right, that was today.
T money double O 70 yesterday.
I see why Phil loses What's the
score so often?
He clearly doesn't pay
attention.
Charlie's by far the harshest
reviewer on half wheel.
That's not true.
Don't listen to him.
T Money doesn't know what he's
talking about.
Charlie is very gracious with
his reviews.
Right, he's very nice.
And OK, so we're giving away one
of our hats from the show.
All you got to do is comment
below on this episode and we'll
include it.
If you include, if you commented
on any of the other shows
previously where I announced it
a couple days ago, you're going
to be in as well.
We'll announce the winner
sometime in this week.
Yeah, 'cause this will be mine.
I like, I like how you always
have to check.
You always have to like, say it
out loud.
I'm going to say it in my head.
You just let it go.
Just let it process in your
brain.
No, no.
And then I have to mark it with
words.
No, let the movie magic happen.
You're the one that's always
about the movie magic.
I say it with words and you
still ruin the flow and you
screw.
It up.
There's a process every single
time.
So yeah, that's all I got.
But now let's get on with the
show.
On with the show.
Millions of Americans may
qualify for Canadian citizenship
now.
Apparently if you have a
relative that was Canadian and
lived there for 1000 days, you
too could be Canadian
citizenship.
Oh, really?
We're all citizens though, John
Mctavish.
Yes, he's our relative.
Yes.
Unfortunately, by the time he
sees this, it'll be well past
1000 days of.
Great.
So a grandmother, a great
grandmother, a great, great,
great grandmother, a great,
great, great, great grandfather.
Any relative that you had in the
past would qualify you for dual
citizenship.
Well, I didn't.
That didn't happen for me.
Well, maybe.
Maybe John Mctavish could just
identify as your relative.
Are you part Canadian?
I think Adrian has some
relatives that lived in Canada
way back.
I think they came over from
England into Canada.
Hey.
So you're Canadian by injection?
Whoa.
No, he's the injector.
I'm the injector, yeah.
Yeah, I'm saying, you know I.
Don't know but maybe we could we
could get what advantage is it
to be a dual citizenship with
Canada other than if Trump
finally goes crazy when you got
to hide?
Well, you'll have to pay higher
taxes.
No, they have lower taxes don't.
They No, they don't.
Yeah, they they definitely have
higher taxes.
Oh crap.
I don't see the.
I don't see the plus side here
anywhere.
No, there's definitely benefit.
I think that it's smart if you
have the ability to become a
dual citizen for some of these
countries.
Yeah, why not do it?
Because look, you don't know the
future.
Right, you're hedging your bets.
Yeah, if it ever, if the shit
ever hits the fan, you just
we're moving.
But Canada though, I mean the
shit hits a fan here, pretty
much going to hit it there too
isn't.
It zombie apocalypse you can
just land in forest somewhere
far away from everybody.
I feel like they're still oil.
You know, if the economy
implodes in the US for whatever
reason, I don't know, is it a
big ripple effect in Canada?
I think so.
They're connected.
You got all that syrup though.
Yeah, but how long can you?
Live.
On How long can you live on
syrup?
Forever.
He needs he needs some syrup.
Oh.
It was me yesterday, it's him
today, the drinking game today
is Mikey coughs.
What's really bad is the
microphone's near his throat,
right?
So when he swallowed, you could
hear everything.
Oh, I am sweating profusely all
of a sudden.
Yeah, I got really nervous.
No, I mean like I've just
started sweating terribly, like
down my back and.
Oh, Jesus.
Apparently just one side of my
body I'm having a stroke.
This is it.
The zombie apocalypse is here.
Oh, you mentioned zombie
apocalypse.
Here we go.
We're going to want brains, and
we got that thing to go after.
Yeah.
Oh wow, wow.
Go ahead, continue.
Oh this is nice.
So how about how about that
weather out there?
Let's let's move on to the next
story because the sports roundup
is Phil Mcguffey with the draft.
Hello.
The first The first round of
2026 NFL draft was lacking when
it came to surprise trades
galore dominated the first round
trades trades deals being
executed on Thursday night and
16 making multiple first round
picks as a result of these
deals.
It was truly a stunning evening
of highs and lows with some
teams absolutely destroying the
draft process and the best way
by finding incredible value,
while others were left to shake
their heads over what could have
been.
Here with the update is Phil
Mcguffey from Cigar House or
Podcast Sports.
Yeah, well, I wasn't prepared
for this.
I mean, I wasn't told I was
doing this essentially.
You're the sports guy, aren't
you?
Making bets on these people.
You know, I didn't get to make
any bets on the draft thing.
I wish I would have because I
definitely would.
Took the bet for the two
quarterbacks in the first round.
That was a real bet.
Yeah, that was a that was a real
bet.
Well, two quarterbacks go in the
first round.
Yeah, that doesn't happen often.
He was the number one pick.
That was obvious.
Well, Ty Simpson didn't go to
what, 19th, 20th, Somewhere
around there.
I didn't watch.
Oh, I like, I like.
So out of all the picks, I like
Tampa Bay's pick the most.
Bane, Yeah.
Who?
Yeah, his last name is Bane.
Oh, Bane.
Yeah, he played for.
Batman character Bane.
Oh, actually, yeah.
They kind of do a thing with him
with that.
But I thought it was the best
pick.
I mean, he who was injured right
at the end, but I think he's
going to be good.
So the lung thing, does he have
the like his mouth breather
thing he's going to do now?
You know, they have like a
little Yeah.
They had a little picture of him
online where he was like Bane
and Batman.
You.
Weren't coughing like that
upstairs.
Something's happened.
As soon as I started talking.
Yeah, a lot of talking.
More dry throat.
I can slick back the side of my
head.
I'm so sweaty over here.
That's nice.
Anyways, it wasn't an eventful
draft.
You kind of knew what was going
on.
Well, I have a video for us
later in regards to the draft
so.
Oh, on the draft is.
Torch losing some of its appeal
because of all the gambling
accusations.
I think it is.
It doesn't seem to be as popular
as it once was.
I mean, I've definitely stepped
back.
Well that's the only reference I
have from my personal
surroundings.
I mean people still go to the
games and stuff, but it seems
like it's not talked about as
much as it used.
To no, Well, you're also in this
kind of weird lull, like you're
right at the playoffs for the
NBA and the NHL and it's not far
enough along where everybody's
talking about it, but the games
are great right now.
Like I'll if the if there's a,
if there's a basketball playoff
game going on, I'll sit and
watch it for sure.
Yeah, they've been really close.
Yeah, the the Knicks game last
night was wild.
Yeah, it was good.
So.
So yeah, no, I mean, you know,
NFNFLI, I'm definitely a little
more jaded towards the NFL now
progressively through the past
couple years.
You know, and then I saw like a
like a Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Facebook page, like the
bandwagoners have left and, you
know, now it's just real ones.
And I'm like, OK, I go.
In 2020, when I was a real one,
they only let nurses in for, you
know, for the Super Bowl for
also in 2020, they limited my
seats, right?
So I didn't have access to all
the games.
And when I got to go to a game,
I had to sit up in the rafters
70 feet away from everybody, you
know?
They treated us like Allegiant.
In 2022 they they moved me from
instead of an annual payment to
monthly to and.
And the whole purpose of that
deception was to keep you locked
into the next year before that
year started.
Right keeps going.
Family keeps.
Going, which I don't, which I
don't appreciate, right?
So no, you know, Liam Cohen saw
it coming.
He bailed.
The big one was Mike Evans left
and went to San Francisco for
less money.
And I think that's all because
of the fact that Todd Bowles
shouldn't be the head coach.
He's obviously protected.
I don't know if that has
anything to do with what's the
guy's name of the hat.
He won the Super Bowl with us.
Gruden.
No Bear Bryant, No Brian
something Brian Song.
Who was the Super Bowl coach?
Brian.
Brian Young with the hat.
Look it up.
Super Bowl coach with the hat.
Tampa Bay Bucks coach Super.
Bowl, Brian.
Williams, John.
Tampa Bay Bucks coach Super
Bowl.
Brian Mcguffey, Phil's brother.
Phil.
Yeah.
Brian Mcguffey, Phil's brother.
Brian Stepan Kevich.
Bruce Arians.
Bruce, it's not even Brian.
Yeah, it's a BBR.
Yeah, so.
Bruce I would have got if you
said Bruce I.
I mean, Todd Bowles is obviously
protected.
By Bruce.
So, you know, if they fall flat
this year and then then what
happens?
You just have this entire
organization completely fall
apart.
You're trying to get more money
out of your customers and
you're, you know, everything is
backwards.
So, you know, So yeah, no, I'm
still a fan.
I'll still watch.
But I'm not, you know, I'm not
as committed as it was.
I don't have to sit down on
Sunday at 1:00.
There's talk that they might be
the next team to come over to
the stadium here in town, when
they revamp theirs year, when
they redo Raymond James next.
Oh, Camping World.
Yeah, Camping World.
Cool.
Yeah.
And then I'm sure that the price
will go up over there.
Yeah, of course, probably he's
got to go.
Up they got to pay for the new
stadium.
Well, you can expect the tickets
at Camping World to be super
expensive, right?
So.
All right, Speaking of gambling,
the ultimate prop bet was made
by AUS soldier and now he's
charged with using classified
Intel to win a $400,000 on a
Maduro raid and he's due in
court.
I heard I heard about this.
OK, this is interesting.
U.S.
Army Special Forces soldier
involved with the capture of
Venezuelan President Nicolas
Maduro is due in court Friday
after being charged with using
classified information about the
mission to win more than
$400,000 in an online prediction
market.
OK.
Federal prosecutors say Gannon
Ken Van Dyke uses access to
classified information about the
operation to capture Maduro in
January to win money on the
prediction market site Polly
Market.
Van Dyke, who is stationed at
Fort Bragg near Fayetteville,
NC, was charged Thursday with
unlawful use of confidential
government information for
personal gain, theft of non
public government information,
commodities fraud, wire fraud
and making an unlawful monetary
transaction.
It's a lot of things.
Yeah.
He could face years in prison.
A publicly listed phone number
listed for Van Dyke isn't in
service.
Court records don't list an
attorney for him yet.
OK, you got a problem with this
guy doing this bet.
Yeah, I do.
Why?
Because he used in.
It's like insider trading with
stocks.
He was on part of the group that
was going after Maduro, and he
bet on the date that Maduro
would be captured.
OK, so then you're but you're
not OK.
So you're not OK with all the
politicians that do insider
trading every?
Allegedly, no, I'm not OK with
that either 'cause.
They get away with it and none
of them are being accused of any
of this.
Well.
If we can prove they did it, we
should get them too.
You it, it doesn't matter.
The, the, the problem for this
guy isn't the fact that he did
it because there are plenty of
people that do this sort of
thing.
At least I believe that that's
what it is.
Sure.
However, he's not on anybody's
team and because he's not on
somebody's team, he's not
protected.
So they're going to hang this
guy out to dry when
realistically, I mean, who did
he hurt?
Nobody.
And there was a big variable in
all this as well.
What's that like?
He was specifically betting on a
date of capture.
Like it wasn't 100% that they
were going to capture him.
Yeah, they could have failed.
Yeah.
I mean the, the guy, the the.
All right, then, then, then I
don't care.
That's like Pete Rose betting on
himself.
The win.
This is exactly what this is.
I mean, the dude, the guy flying
a helicopter was riddled with
bullets, Yeah, and, and flew
out.
And right before he went out, he
said, OK, here, here, take over.
I mean like so many things could
have gone wrong on this thing.
Yeah, let me file a helicopter.
I got to get 400K.
Well, I don't think he, I don't
think this guy was the pilot.
Well, he would have been if if
things went wrong.
And we're going to fight.
A 4K on it.
And we're going to throw this
guy to the wolves.
I mean, I'm not OK with that.
It's not like a lot of stuff
there.
What's probably unfortunate in
this event though is that even
if he beats all the stuff and
you know, civilian type court,
he's going to probably get hit
in military court.
He's not going to beat it.
No, he's not going.
To I'm just saying if he if he
was too, he wouldn't beat it in
in military court.
Why is that?
Because they'll hit you with
UCMJ Article 13, which is a
discredit upon a military
branch, whatever service he's
in.
So because his name's in the
news and it's making making them
look bad, he's going to get hit
with that.
Did you hear him just drop UCMJ
article 13 like?
That's our catch all.
It's a catch all.
Have you have you ever been part
of the an accusation in in
resulting in the US?
What the hell did he just say?
MC, Article 13.
Actually, I did go to Captain's
mask one time, but no.
Went to the captain's mask.
Is that like a buffet lunch or?
Something no.
It's like you have to go in
front of the captain for
disciplinary actions.
But.
What did you do?
Is that where you got the mask?
So you made you wear that?
No.
Is that where they touched your?
Is it the private spot?
Is it the eyes wide shut show in
the in the military or
something?
No, there was a it was like a
alleged fraternization which I
had met my wife and because she
was in the same unit as me, the
the chief that I had didn't like
it 'cause he liked her and and
he tried to bring me up on the
on the charges.
Did you do a little a little bit
of courting on on base?
It's not, to be honest.
It's kind of like if you were in
here and Mike, you was sitting
in that chair and Palmer and me
were staying at attention in
front of you.
That's all it really is.
And then you judge me.
I'm talking about you meeting
with your wife on base.
Like what went down?
Well, yeah, we we dated, but
we're not we're we were part of
the same command, but not the
same unit.
Little blasty Blasty in the base
camp or something?
No, no, none of that.
I would never do it on the base.
Oh yeah, just outside in a truck
or something.
Outside of my apartment, no.
Where's the fun I?
When you were on magazine
detail, what was it that she
did?
Magazine detail.
Weren't you the guy that put the
magazines in the little rack and
stuff in the PX?
Oh, sorry.
So dude, how do you not?
How do you not do it on base?
'Cause he didn't live.
I mean, I I liked my job, I
liked what I did, so I wasn't
doing it on a base.
No risk it.
No biscuit.
That sounds enticing to me, you
know what I mean?
Especially when I was young.
You're looking at a court
martial now.
You're not looking at a slap on
a wrist.
Yeah, I'm not doing it on base.
Not bad.
I know the rules.
Wow.
Which I didn't get charged the.
Man who jumped in a submarine is
there banging her up.
Against me up.
Against the torpedoes.
It was actually really.
So what was really bad about the
whole situation is this guy
involved himself into something
because he liked my she would be
my girlfriend at the time, but
because he liked her.
So what ended up happening is
the captain dismissed me and
then moved this guy's orders to
Bahrain and he had to be there
for the the remainder of his
contract, which is really bad
'cause he found he's, he found
out that there was more people
involved with him than anything
with me.
It was, it was a whole thing.
It's a whole thing.
It's it's.
Bahrain, isn't that a desert
country?
That was the point, the base
that got attacked by Iran.
So they moved a Navy guy to a
Sandy base.
No, it's a, it's a naval.
It's a naval base.
It's a Sandy base.
Got you.
They put the boats on the sand.
Yeah, that's where.
Well then they kind of a beach,
I guess.
Yeah, that's where the Gurka
factory is.
Gurka, where they make the
Pickles.
Yeah, wow.
Oh, Gurkha's a guy, not Gurkha.
Yeah, Gurkha.
Yeah, Gurkha's a.
Gurkha.
I can already read the comments
for this show at Ben Rollins
says You idiots.
It's not.
That's not how you say it and
that.
Article 13.
It's Article 23.
And just for the record, there
he was brought.
Up on that, he's been discharged
dishonorable.
There's 3 warships, 2
destroyers, 5 things in Bahrain
retards.
That place is crazy man.
Like and.
I bang my girlfriend on every
submarine in the in the base.
Those guys, they're, they're
called, they call them Gurkhas.
And they they.
Have those curved swords.
Right, they call them Gurkhas.
Yeah, and they they do gate duty
for the naval base.
They do what duty?
Gate duty so.
Gate not gay duty.
Yeah, yeah, GAT.
E You should.
Have been.
You should have been a gurka.
Well, but yeah, if you, if you
do something wrong, man, you're
getting chopped up, not shot.
Yeah, those guys are tough from
what I understand.
I.
Don't want to mess up they.
Don't carry guns, they carry
knives.
Right.
Big ones, yeah.
Curved swords.
Yeah, it's this story is
unfortunate, man.
It's just kind of crazy.
They're like the Indiana Jones
thing, but the Indiana Jones
shoots him.
They missed they in with a Zord.
Yeah, this guy got screwed.
Yeah, I'm not OK with it.
Yeah, I'm not OK with.
It Why didn't he put the button
in somebody else's name?
He supposedly he did.
The only way they caught him was
because of his login when he
his.
Login.
When he went to go check it his
login, they traced it was his
e-mail.
They traced his e-mail back to
him personally.
Secretsoldier@gmail.gov but.
He But when he won he took the
money out.
He deleted the he had the the
company who are Poly whatever
delete the account, erase his
information and then move the
money to a offshore account.
So that money still there?
I would I would assume so.
I I don't know, it didn't say
any of that.
Article He's going to get
dishonorably discharged and
still have the money.
Was it 400 K?
Yeah.
Yeah, he bet 33,000 to win 400K.
OK, so over 10X is money.
Yeah.
I don't know, should have got
the hell out of the country.
So if you went to all that
trouble, he knew it was wrong.
Of course he did.
Yeah, of course he knew it.
Look, you know what I got to be
honest, I don't, I don't think
the argument isn't for me.
Is it right or is it wrong?
The argument for me is like, is
it punishable?
And I, you know, like if we're
gonna hold this guy punishable,
accountable, then I want to see
some other people be held
accountable as well.
But we all know that's not how
this works.
No, that's not how it works.
You know, and, and like, that's
the problem I have with it.
I don't know this guy.
I have no idea who he is.
Oh, he's a great.
Guy but it.
They captured Maduro.
But it sounds like he.
Part of the raid?
Or was he like the guy sitting
back at the No?
No, he's part of the.
Raid It sounds like he took all
the money.
It sounds like he took all the
money that he had and put it on
this the guy who was fighting
for our country.
I don't see how oh, Oh my God,
somebody just bet this like
could be the day.
You know what I mean?
Like I don't see how.
I'd like to know how many bets
were on this.
Yeah, I.
Didn't even know you could bet
on stuff like.
That Oh yeah, this has this has
been very common lately, the
past couple.
Years, dude.
You can bet on if the sun comes
out today.
Yeah, it's a good chance.
What?
What's the odds against I?
I don't know.
I mean, how much can I win, $5?
It comes up tomorrow.
The problem is, is when you bet
on it, it's just completely doom
and gloom for the next three
months.
Well, the sun always comes up.
Double down, double down.
Yeah.
Let it ride, let it ride.
Right.
I'm up to $8.
No, you're down $8000.
No, it came up every day.
I bet that it would raise.
Yeah, OK.
Yeah.
Still sweating?
All right, moving on.
A successful influencer was
outed as an Indian man named
Sam.
Sam, OH.
An AI model and Magna
influencer, Emily Hart is
reportedly created by an Indian
man identified as Sam using
Google Gemini.
Oh.
Now if you see this, it looks
very real.
OK.
Yeah, the reason behind the
creation was financial
difficulty during medical school
is he wanted to save up money to
move to the USA.
He created an AI content creator
that generated thousands of
dollars from that account.
He further expanded his earning
opportunities by leveraging the
models popularity to sell
merchandise so she would hold up
pictures of different things.
This guy crushed.
This guy crushed it till he
finally found out.
It's Sam.
OK.
Hello.
It is me.
This guy's smart.
Yeah, what's the problem?
I don't understand what the
problem.
Is right and she became MAGA so
she was That's a Trump thing,
right?
Magna influencer Emily Hart
turns out to be fake.
Wire reported that a medical
student from northern India who
only goes by Sam, aimed to ease
his financial difficulties and
pay off his education bills
created Emily using Gemini AI.
He created her to cater to a
patriotic and conservative
ideology with the concept based
on topics including anti
abortion, anti immigration.
The idea stem from him ran
really scrolling through
Instagram before heart went
viral.
He used to create scantily clad
women using Gemini nano banana
and post them on social media.
However, this idea didn't take
off.
Therefore, he turned to AI again
to take ideas from it on how he
could make his influencers stand
out from the crowd.
So AI helped him create somebody
that was appealing to the eyes.
That's amazing.
Isn't it?
I mean.
Yeah, they look pretty real too.
For one, I had to talk to this
guy for doing it.
Yeah.
And for two, how stupid are we
as a society?
Well, there's people getting
catfish not even seeing.
Anybody.
I mean, listened.
Look, we put up a ton of clips.
We work our butts off.
One clip so far has popped for
well over 3 million views and
it's about anti gravity and the
world ending.
And like we provide so many
other great clips and.
But that's the one that though
everyone's like, no, you guys
are retarded.
They're stupid.
Like all these things come out.
It's like real chill.
Just relax, Yeah?
Just calm down, it's fine. 3.5
million views later, you know I.
Still no money.
It's, it's, you start to lose
hope.
You start to lose hope in
society, you know?
He made her an Instagram account
at Emily under score Heart dot
Nurse, showcasing her identity
as a registered nurse.
Revealing how the the content
skyrocket in popularity.
He added every real life post
was getting 3 million views, 5
million views, 10 million views.
The algorithm loved it.
He extended his income
opportunities by selling
subscriptions to Fan View and
Magna Theme merchandise.
How much did he make?
Enough to pay off his medical
school, apparently.
Good for him.
Stupid magazine out at him.
But there's people that don't,
you know, that don't read there.
I mean, everybody's not.
Going to take a small hit,
somebody jumps on, they're like
you're a fake.
Right.
You're a fat little Indian dude.
Can't believe you did that.
I love that one, here I am.
How do you know he's fat?
I just.
He's an Indian, he's probably
not fat.
Maybe he's not fat.
Yeah, that is Sam.
I mean, there's so many ways I
can go with this.
I was going to.
Let it go.
Oh my goodness, I don't even
know what that was.
Are you sure he's that Indian?
What do you think he's got?
AI don't know.
Maybe he's Comanche.
Yeah, maybe he's Comanche named
Sam.
I don't think so.
Sam can be Comanche.
Nope.
It would be runs with.
Wolf.
You mean like little Sam?
Runs with a wolf, Runs with a
wolf.
Where are they running to?
Sun and sky, Sun and sky.
Yeah, yeah, they're really good
Indian names.
Over Yonder, by pine tree over
Yonder.
By pine tree.
Over Yonder by pine tree.
I don't think they use Yonder.
No over horizon by pine.
Tree Anders's middle name.
Conceived at military base
illegally, as in boots.
His first kid.
Too bad he's not on the show.
It's Phil.
Second kid he's.
Close.
Oh, why didn't you name him out
to the base?
Hey her, out to the base.
No, it would have been a
weirdness.
That'd have been awesome.
What was?
The base God, now you're putting
me on the spot, Yeah.
Bruce, make one up.
It's not like we can check it.
The base I was on, Yeah.
Oh, it was Little Creek.
The base of oh, that would have
been great.
This is Little Creek.
Little Creek Hippelhauser.
Little Creek Hippelhauser.
That's nice.
She was born at Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, whatever Ben wants
to call it.
Yeah, you will respect Ben.
Apparently he was in.
He was in the real Navy.
Ben is a real soldier.
Right.
Yeah.
Sailor.
Sailor, what's the difference?
Water or land?
They're all soldiers.
No, some are sailors.
Sailors aren't soldiers.
No, they're sailors.
Sailors are sailors, yes.
Marines are Marines.
And the army is soldiers.
He's military.
I'm.
Not military.
There you go.
No, he's saying like that's
military.
Yeah, we know.
All right, you got a video for.
Us, I do.
Oh.
I'll even put this one in.
I do since you botched the last
one.
Well, you couldn't hear it
anyway.
It was terrible video.
The one and and nothing for
nothing.
I don't appreciate you guys
attacking my guy Josh.
We listen.
I don't even know who the guy
was because I wish there was
some type.
Of if you didn't want it
attacked, you couldn't hear what
he was saying.
Well, he wanted to go, oh, it's
a great message.
He did a great job.
Oh, look at him with his hat on
backwards.
It looks like he's from the
Peanuts comic book.
I mean.
Well, there's another one, I
said Harry Potter, but the
peanuts?
Yeah, the maybe.
I mean, you, you could have got
some jokes, but like, I don't
know, Guy did all right.
As far as I'm concerned, the PCA
was good.
He he's working his butt off.
He was supposed to come by and
talk to us and he just gave us
and ran.
I was just surprised by the
appearance like I I was
expecting like a herclots type
did.
It's difficult, man.
It's difficult to do all of
that.
I mean, look at us, we recorded
and then we said, hey, we're
going to keep recording and we
didn't, right?
So there were two days on the
weekend that we didn't record
because I wanted to be ahead of
this going into the next week,
and that didn't work out.
Right, right.
So, you know, like you, you have
intentions when you're at the
show that you're going to do
specific things.
Man, it's just so much going on.
But I mean, I saw him three or
four times.
I go to tell you when I saw and
I like, I like Scott, but I
think I saw Scott once.
Scott Pierce.
Yeah, I don't even know what
Scott looks.
Like when he was running it.
You think maybe it's because
Harborski is is more easier to
to find in a crowd because of
his no.
No, no, like I was like.
If Scott Pierce came by, I don't
even think I would notice.
He, you know, he, he doesn't
have any.
He looks like Loreen, right?
But does he?
But he wears a suit.
Right at the show he does, yeah.
I wouldn't see, I wouldn't
notice a guy like that.
I'm, I got to tell you in that
that Instagram really post, he's
like, I'm going to do some R&R
watching an F1 race and I'm
like, you fucker, I want to go
to F1 in Dubai.
Yeah, wherever he's going, yeah.
He's not part of the PCA.
So, well, I mean, you're kind of
part of the PCA, but you're not
part of his PCA.
Yeah, yeah.
Not the board.
I mean, realistically, I can't
go anywhere you watch.
He wanted to go with us for a
week to go to F1.
I'm like OK.
It's not that.
Fun F1 Have you seen F1 racing?
You've gone to F1?
Really.
When'd you go in Detroit?
There was F1 in Detroit.
That's the Formula One racing,
right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Downtown Detroit.
Really.
OK, I was in the Kmart booth,
they had Mario Andretti was
their driver.
No kidding.
Yeah.
Yeah, remember he used to work
for Kmart.
Yeah, F1.
It's worse than NASCAR because
you can't see the rest of the
track.
You only see one the.
One little.
Spot.
Yeah, one second.
Here they come.
He's in NASCAR.
You can see them as they come
around.
I mean, that's dull enough.
Right.
But F1's worse ramp.
I like F1, I'm not involved.
Because you're watching it on
TV, they show the car the whole
time.
Yeah, some.
Some sports are better watched
on TVI.
Don't know NASCAR's better.
I'm just sitting there and
everybody goes, hey.
I don't know, there's a cool
place where I can sit and watch
and see some bad ass cars haul
ass.
You know it's breathing for a.
Second, OK, they're so fast it's
blurry, you can't even see them.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
Ramp, ramp ring up.
I'm sorry that you had such a
bad time with.
No, I didn't have a bad time.
I was there with a pretty girl
and.
Oh yeah.
I didn't marry that one.
She was too smart.
She got out, she ran away.
I was smart enough to marry that
one it.
Worked out well then.
Did you meet Mario Andretti
though?
Yeah, what does he look like?
A.
Little Italian guy.
Did you guys cuddle?
No.
Wasn't that kind of a thing?
No, no.
It was just a quick little just.
Shake your hand.
Move on.
Moving down the line like from
Kmart was a big deal.
Look at you OK, master blender
of the Kmart.
All right, so video what we were
working at here.
Oh yeah, yeah, we were trying
the video we.
Were talking about Joshua
Bursky.
Joshua Bursky's terrible video.
OK, he can invest in a
microphone.
I mean, he's going to Dubai for
God's sakes to watch F1.
He can't buy a $20 microphone.
OK, it wasn't the best for
audio.
You couldn't hear it.
But.
I think it was just off the and.
His little mustache drives me
crazy.
It looks like you.
It grows over his lip.
I I'm going to get him to come
down here and I'm going to have
him bring up a.
Talk.
See, that was it.
He was going to make an
appointment.
He was going to pick a date to
come to be on the show.
But no, no, he blew us off.
Just text him later.
I texted him when I couldn't get
in that morning.
Yeah, and he responded.
Yes, he did.
He did.
But I had already gotten in.
But the fact that I was texting
him, I think it's the way we got
in.
Oh, yeah, I'm going to text the
guy.
I know the guy.
Oh, wait, a matter of fact, here
he is.
Nope.
This is you.
Yeah, he sent him a video.
On Leon.
All of us go.
To.
Palmer with the audio or without
the audio?
On a fantasy football draft,
when the clock runs out on you
and then it auto drafts you a
player you don't want.
That's literally what happened
to the Steelers tonight in the
NFL Draft.
Let me set the scene for you.
Because the Steelers held the
21st pick in the first round
when they were on deck.
The Cowboys were on the clock at
20, and at that point, the
Steelers made a call to wide
receiver Makai Lemon, a player
they never thought would fall to
them in the first place.
And considering the Cowboys
didn't need a receiver, they
told Lemon he was going to be
their pick at 21.
Seems normal, but stay with me
here.
This is where it gets crazy.
Because apparently at the exact
same time the Steelers were on
the phone with Lemon welcoming
him to the franchise, the Eagles
made a trade with the Cowboys,
moving up to 20 and leapfrogging
the Steelers.
And I want you to take one guess
at who the Eagles took at pick
20.
And by the way, if you like
elite sports content like this,
make sure to follow none other
than Makai Lemon.
But wait, I'm not done.
The Steelers were so blindsided
by this, they didn't have anyone
else they were ready to select.
So apparently, according to a
Steelers insider, they took a
man they didn't even want.
Have you ever heard of such a
thing in your entire life?
In fact, the player they ended
up taking at 21 was the 41st
ranked player on most draft
boards.
That, my friends, is what we
call an all time blunder.
Have you ever heard anything
like this, Phil?
Were teams then do the research?
Is that what you're.
Yeah.
Well, where they're unprepared.
So they went to draft this guy,
this wide receiver, and then the
wide receiver got taken.
Yeah, because of a trade.
So they even called the guy.
And then at that point they they
had no decision.
So they just auto drafted.
Like, I don't know, does that
make sense?
Maybe.
I mean, yeah.
Not for the Steelers, though.
You know, I'm a little surprised
about that.
I mean, maybe somebody like the
Browns or, you know, somebody
that's not winning.
How do they determine who the
next pick is?
Like, I don't know, you get this
guy.
Well, normally, normally you
have a whole bunch of scouts,
right?
And then they get their their
top picks of who they scouted.
And then you have a whole board
room and then you guys go over
all the picks and then you
create a list.
And then, hey, this is who we
would pick.
And this is their only job all
year long.
Right.
Yeah.
But so the NFL has the same
something similar where they
have rankings of people.
Correct.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, you're talking about where
he said he was ranked 41 on
Yeah, that was probably like Mel
Kippers or that's not the like
NFL teams boards.
That's individuals who've been
sports casting this for a long
time.
Yeah, but they said clock run
out.
Here's your guy.
Is that the way it's set up you
only have so much time?
Yeah, well, that's what they're
saying and.
Then when the time runs out you
just get whatever.
You get this guy.
How do we determine what this
guy is?
Oh, you know what?
I've never heard of that.
I've never heard.
I don't think anybody's time's
ever ran out.
We don't know for a fact that
that happened or not.
Oh.
OK, but we just saw what
somebody said.
I mean, listen, it's look, Sam
convinced a lot of people, you
know what I mean?
Like this type could be
completely full of that.
Could be.
Right.
Could have made all this shit
up, right?
Gemini stuff up.
I mean cursing a little bit is
not a big deal.
If you just hear too many F
words then just edit them out.
Duck duck Eddie.
Duck duck.
OK Beep beep beep.
Beep beep beep beep beep beep
beep beep beep beep beep beep
beep beep beep.
OK, go ahead.
See.
Moving on.
Forget Pete, if he keeps
laughing, I keep doing it it's
way.
Worse.
Oh man, sorry.
I know that you don't have a
take on this, so we can just
keep moving.
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, I mean it, it does seem
stupid.
Why wouldn't you?
If if that's the way it works,
you run out of time, you get it
Like an auto ad.
Wouldn't you have somebody lined
up you wanted?
Or do they like you go to the
4240 second guy on the list and
all of a sudden you've got, you
know, Phil Mcguffey here coming
in, went right out of here, you
got Phil Mcguffey.
I know I'd stop breathing there.
For a while I thought that was
it.
You got Phil Mcguffey coming in
as your tight end.
Yeah.
Phil Mcguffey, tight end, is not
a good pick.
No, that's what I mean.
But but you know, you're stuck
with him now because that was
what it was.
I heard his.
I heard his injury, Brown.
And now he I'll take the money
and then he gets $42 million to
sit on the bench.
Most of them are injure pro
though.
It was the tight ends.
All right around with cigar
news.
There we go.
The final numbers are in for
2025 and in the results of the
unchanged from the year before.
So we don't care.
Numbers from last year the same
as numbers from this year
really.
Imports of premiums and handmade
cigars for 2025 were flat,
essentially unchanged from 2020.
Four 429.8 million premium
cigars imported into the United
States, according to the data
released by the Cigar
Association of America.
That is CAA Scott Pearson, the
boys with.
The suit.
What?
With the suit.
Yes, despite the lack of growth,
that final tally is impressive.
Not long ago, 300 million cigars
was the benchmark.
It's like yesterday.
There's nothing to you guys.
No I I got some stuff from this
for.
Stand out here, but 2025 marked
the 5th consecutive year that
premium and boards exceeded 400
million cigars and only 2019
imports.
A little imports were 338
million cigars.
Looking back many years, the
cigar market was in decline with
shipment stuck at 100 million
cigars per year.
In the 1990s, shortly after the
launch of Cigar Aficionado
magazine, cigar imports boomed.
Well, I did get the information
from their magazine.
They're taking credit for the
boom, OK, soaring from 100
million to 400 million cigars in
the space of five years.
Imports cooled around 1998 and
rose again during the pandemic
and what was considered another
cigar boom.
I got news for you.
Yes, you made a comment that I
don't you just OK.
That what?
Then I just said OK to kind of,
you know, whatever, we're at 44
minutes and we just covered
cigar news, so I think we're
doing all right when it comes.
To time, OK, But this is the
perfect mix here for us.
Yeah, this is the perfect storm.
This is the perfect storm.
Yeah.
What?
What do you mean?
This is This is what works for
us.
The.
Three of us.
Yeah, you guys talked for 10,
almost 15 minutes about the drab
and I was just sitting over here
texting my wife.
Yeah.
So.
Did you take a steroid shot or
something today?
No, I wish I had one that would
be.
Great.
No, he knows to bring it.
Yeah, I.
Feel better today than I did
yesterday.
Yeah, he knows I.
Woke up feeling better.
When you're reading, it's like
your eyes are super wide.
Because I can't see you as well
today.
He just wanted to be done with
the podcast yesterday.
You could tell.
Go back and listen to that show.
You could tell.
Yeah, I was dying.
Yesterday he was dying.
Poor Law.
Oh, a lot for a lot.
Was scared for his life, he told
me.
We threw him.
Scared for his life.
He's like, oh God, he's like, I
thought I didn't know if Palmer
licked any microphones or what
he did.
I didn't know if I was going to
get sick.
Sleeveless law?
Yeah, he cut those off for the
show.
He's like, he's like, this is
just a look.
He's like, I'm a lot cooler than
this, trust me.
I'm trying this out.
The farmer tan doesn't work
well.
Yeah, I think it was a bit much.
The sunglasses, too.
Right.
Sunglasses.
Too scary over from the trade
because the trade show I told
them they look good with the all
black outfit.
Oh.
Yeah.
You look like a Cuban pimp A.
Cuban.
Pimp OK.
So do you think that importation
of cigars, the tallying from the
previous year is a lead
indicator or a lag indicator for
this industry?
I'm thinking it's a lead
indicator.
I'm.
Interested.
OK, Why?
Because.
It explain to me the difference
between a lead and a lag.
Lag is that it's bad.
No.
A lead indicator is something
that shows you like a forecast
for the future, and a lag
indicator is showing you kind of
what has already happened.
Oh, then it's a lag.
It shows you what already
happened.
OK.
So it doesn't really help you
forecast into what the future is
for sale for sales.
OK.
What about you?
Do you think it's a lead
indicator or a lag indicator?
I mean, if you're speaking about
the whole industry as a whole,
it would be a lead indicator
based off of more cigars means
more potential for sales, right?
OK, that's why he's got the
mask.
It's a it's definitely a lag
indicator in my opinion.
Right.
It shows you what's already
happened, not what could happen.
Yeah, that, well, I think it's
even worse than that.
And here's why.
You, you have a better idea as a
tempo of what's going on in the
industry judging by the overall
sales from retailers, right?
And in my opinion, retailers say
it's the faucet up, up top
somebody.
Just went to the bathroom where
the.
That one of your phones are
going off.
The retailers purchasing is
really going to give you a
better indicator as far as
volume and traction in the
economy.
Now, what I think has personally
happened is you had that huge
increase of importation from
COVID and beyond, and then it's
kind of sitting flat now.
And the reason why it's starting
to sit flat is because there's
too much inventory for your
retailers, right?
They're like, no, no, I'm good.
All right, I'll take onesie
twosie.
I'm not going to because I still
have all this other stuff.
So that tells me that 2026 in my
opinion will be a down 1 when we
go to the see this number next
year and the 2026 numbers are
in.
I think importation will be down
maybe about 3 or 4% if I were to
guess.
And the funny part is, is that I
don't think that sales will be
down for retailers in that year.
I think they'll finally have the
the time to kind of catch up
from all the inventory that
they've taken on in the past
three or four years.
I think that too many people are
sitting on too much stuff.
That's why it's flat.
Next year it'll be down.
Makes sense, yeah.
What do you think?
Lead Indicator Phil.
Yeah, sounds great.
I like cigar, Cigar good.
I don't know, man.
I mean, we've been covering
this, you know, for the past
however many years I've been on
this with you guys, so.
Yeah, he's been here from the
beginning.
He's just like 5.
Yeah, 5 or something.
So every year, you know, we, we
discuss this and, and I don't, I
don't know, I don't remember
what we said last year.
I don't know how it panned out.
You know what I mean, 20. 25 was
rough.
It was a tough year.
Yeah.
But I mean, I'm just assembly
stating the fact that this data,
it's good, good to know, But I
think that it's a lag indicator.
I don't think that it helps you
predict the tempo of the current
economy.
There's too many, too many
variables where it comes into
play.
It doesn't happen.
It's, it's not like, Oh my God,
we're up, you know, it's.
Just yeah, it's, it's an
accounting of what has happened.
Right, we're up.
Because that many cigars are in
doesn't mean sales are up.
Yeah, or down.
Well, that's why I was going to
ask you personally, like does do
those indicators affect you at
all?
Have that.
I mean, I'm, I'm correlating,
I'm tied to them to some degree
on the small level.
But you know, I think big
picture wise, I think big
picture wise you're going to see
that it's, it's going to be
slower.
Your importation is going to be
down next year.
They have, they have said lately
that there's an uptick in cigar
sales.
This is just an article that I
read on Facebook, which I don't
know if it's true or not, but
somebody had posted it.
There's been an uptick on cigar
sales because of of the age
group.
So the younger age group is
smoking more cigars?
I don't know if I believe that.
I saw something about cigar
sales are up too on retail
level.
I believe, I believe that cigar
sales are up.
I don't believe that it has
anything to do with younger
smokers.
It was specifically the age
group from 21 to 30.
Man, I wish that were chew, but
here's what I want to tell you.
Excuse me?
We were sitting in that
hospitality seminar with Rocky
Patel and Nick, now Hudson or
something like that.
And that guy seemed very, very
charismatic, by the way.
And he's asked a question.
He's like, OK, in the room.
How many of you guys are Jen's
ears?
How many of you would think the
room's packed?
Packed it's standing room only
in the back, all the tables and
chairs are full.
How many people think, raise
their hand and said I'm a Gen.
ZR.
Gen.
Z is what, 90s?
I don't know.
I don't.
Know Joshua and Greg.
Am I?
I'm not a Gen.
ZR, I'm a millennial.
Oh, probably nobody.
I don't know Gen.
Z before or after you.
Gen.
Z is 97 to 2012.
That's.
When they were born.
Probably none.
Probably none, I mean.
Quarter, so you think none,
none, yeah, anything on?
No, probably some.
So think about it, if they were
born in 2000, they would be 26
years old.
Right, I saw some 26 year olders
working there.
OK.
So how many of them, how many
Gen.
Z years you think were in this
meeting?
2030. 20-30 How many you think?
I still think, let me pick a
number of five.
OK, it was 1. 1.
I was closer.
One guy raised their hand.
So you got to focus on those
guys.
You got to educate them on
cigars so that they become
comfortable with it and they
want to be a part of this
community so they better
understand what it is.
And that's something that, I
mean, I think we do a good job
of it to some degree.
We cover we, you know, we
provide a, a fresh angle of
things.
But like if you look at some of
these older retailers, a lot of
these older retailers, their
consumers are starting to get
older and they're starting to
age out.
You know, we have that yummer,
Yummer.
We do have some of that younger
demograph that 35 to 45 for
sure, 'cause we kind of cover,
we cover everything.
Sure, Right, Right.
But I don't see a lot of
21222320.
I don't see 242526, you know, So
that's going to be a problem for
this industry if, if we don't
figure it, figure that out
'cause they're sucking on
pouches, bro.
Right, they're vaping.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the thing with the pouches
is that they can advertise in
different areas.
Yeah.
You know, well, I just like to
berate people that suck on
pouches.
Well I think I think do you
think the vape stuff is starting
to really die out?
So just recently this is a story
real quick.
After saying that I was in a bar
with my buddy.
We were watching the basketball
game and there was a couple of
vape people.
Well they were completely not
nice with their vape stuff.
They were not being cool.
Yeah, they were just, you know,
lining it off inside the bar.
Oh man.
Right.
And the bartender, the bartender
kept asking him like, hey, can
you stop doing it?
Because it's just, you know,
it's almost like the place looks
like it's on fire.
You don't like that tutti frutti
shit in here?
Yeah, And they're like, oh,
yeah, ha ha, ha.
You know, they were laughing
about whatever.
And then she finally just told
them to leave.
They did a couple more times.
Were they chicks or dudes?
They were guys, so they were
chicks.
No, there's a lot more guys that
vape than chicks, man.
From what I said, yeah.
I just meant they were feminine
because they had the vapes.
Oh, now that's now that's gender
specific.
Right.
But I asked her, I said I, I
said I didn't know that you guys
allowed, you know, tobacco
products or anything like that
inside of the bar.
She goes, oh, well, Vape's not a
tobacco product.
I said it is.
So it's grouped inside of that.
And she said, oh, I didn't know
that she goes, I'll probably
tell the owner.
So that way they didn't, you
know, they can't do that inside
the bar anymore.
Good luck with that.
That's the thing about vaping is
he pull it out of pocket and he
tuck it away.
Can't do it on airplanes
anymore.
No, you can't.
You're not supposed to.
Kind of hard to hide it on an
airplane, you know there's smoke
coming up.
It's ridiculous.
Vaping is ridiculous.
They would allow vaping on
airplanes before.
Yeah, in the beginning.
Like what?
Like you couldn't take apart one
of those boxes and build
anything with.
It the law wasn't really
established.
Yeah, that.
I mean, nobody really knew what
it was like.
Oh, it smells good in here.
Smells like.
Grapes.
OK, sorry, next story.
I'm I'm me.
Am I?
Cigar?
AMI Cigar.
OK AMI Cigar kicks off in
Vietnam.
Yay.
One of the most anticipated
cigar gatherings of the years
kicked off in this Thursday in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
More than 100 cigar enthusiasts
from different parts of the
world gathered to celebrate the
20th anniversary of AMI Cigar.
The event could not have started
in a better way.
In the year that the Habanos
Festival was postponed and with
the world going through a
particular time, Ho Chi Minh
City was set as an Oasis for
friends to reunite, celebrate
friendship and share a cigar
together.
Yeah.
Ho Chi man ho.
Chi Man City, it's very hard to
find cigar news this time of the
year.
This is from Cigar Journal.
Have you?
Ever been to Vietnam?
No, we talked about going to one
time, but the guy we were going
to do furniture from Vietnam.
But our guy, our furniture guy
that we were working with had
been in Vietnam for different
reason and he was opposed to
doing business with the country,
yes.
I ain't doing it.
I don't want to go there.
Lost a lot of friends.
Yeah, I got reasons not to go.
OK, OK, the.
Only place that that I could
have went that I declined was
India.
I did not want to go to India.
Why not?
It's not clean.
Yeah.
Well, you could have met.
You could have met Sam.
You could have met Sam.
It's.
Allegedly.
It's very dirty.
I'm sure that there's.
Cows running everywhere because
there's sacred cows.
Where's your sacred cow?
Do not touch.
I'm sure, I'm sure that there's
pretty areas in India.
Well, I'm sure there is, but I
don't imagine the factory areas
if they're worse than the
Chinese, which I was told I
ain't go.
Got it.
Have you ever been to Vietnam?
Maybe in a previous life, but
no, not in this one.
OK, previous life.
All right, me neither.
When you were what?
I don't.
Know, let's keep it moving.
I was born in 87.
Intriguing in his previous life.
He believes in reincarnation.
Oh.
Got you.
Oh, back when you were a a
kumquat or something?
Yeah, whatever.
Fiero Otego launches Fiero Otego
Metropolitan 30 years.
Whoa, did.
You say hello to Mr. Herklotz at
the I saw him once from a
distance and we did not make eye
contact, so I did not say hello.
Yeah.
It's one of the sad parts of the
trip because I like him.
Yeah, dude, we're busy, man.
We're very busy and we're under
the weather.
Does this tell you like what the
wrapper or anything is?
Let's find out, because this is
from a different magazine.
Vera Otego is celebrating the 30
years of the Metropolitan
selection with a new limited
edition release called.
I thought we covered this
already. 30th anniversary.
Did we really?
Yeah, I.
Don't know, it was a different
magazine that came out today.
I think we covered it.
Go ahead.
Well, then, this is an old story
then, yeah.
Vera Ortego Metropolitan 30
years, 6550 Toro with Ecuador
and Habano rapper Dominican
Binder and the Dominican and
Nicaraguan Filler.
Our class described the blend as
rich, complex and intense.
It's a music note.
It is manufactured at the
Quesadas factory Tepico de
Exportacion.
The Star.
In the Dominican Republic and
available in 10 count boxes.
What?
It's the star.
It's no longer a leaf.
No longer a leaf at the star A.
Symbol.
Oh, production is limited to
2500 boxes.
The MSRP is. 25 bucks. 30th
anniversary Yes 30 bucks he.
Went the wrong way.
He went the wrong way $13.50.
Remember the story?
Oh well, good thing it's over.
There you go.
OK.
All right, it's time for What's
the?
Score.
April 17th, 2023 Charlie minato
cigars Cuban habanos essay It's
a redux gentlemen.
Romeo and Julietta club king.
89. 85.
Cigar Review The Romeo and
Julietta Club King Country of
Origin Cuba factory We're not
saying Rapper Cuba Binder Cuba
Filler Cuba Length Cuba Ringgage
Cuba.
The length is Cuba.
No, it's a 5 1/2 by 5542.
The petite Corona, it's $12.84.
It was released in February
26th, 2020.
They smoked three of these on
the Redux. 89. 85.
Clue number one Beautiful
presentation with an oily milk
chocolate wrapper, classic Cuban
style color and a surprisingly
flavorful cold draw delivering
sweet floral notes.
Nuttiness and a unique
complexity right from the start.
89. 86.
Clue #2 Construction was a major
strength, offering massive smoke
production and even burn, and an
impressively long smoking time
of nearly two hours, showing
excellent craftsmanship. 90. 86.
Third clue.
Bump, bump, bump.
The flavor profile leaned too
dry, harsh and mineral driven
for much of the experience, with
bitterness increasing in the
second-half and not enough
rewarding complexity to balance
it out.
Bump, bump, bump. 88. 86.
Final thought, some cigars are
just not going to become good.
This particular 10 of Romeo and
Julietta Kings has been that.
I want to be careful by saying
that doesn't mean that all Romeo
and Julietta Club Kings will be
this bad or even bad.
I can only speak for the four
I've smoked to date and they've
all been terrible.
Fortunately, I don't stumble
across cigars this bad all off
all that often, but it's an
unpleasant reminder that it's
possible to make a cigar that
looks pretty, has excellent
construction, and still a bad
cigar. 77. 76.
He went the right way. 68th
gentlemen.
Wow. 68 That was low.
I thought it was low enough.
For that means no fireworks.
Yeah, no fireworks.
We got the fuel and we'll load
it up and ready.
You're going first on Monday.
Greg Greg brought bought the.
Fuel, yes.
No instructions, I just put some
in each one.
I told him he was on the
contract, he said.
I don't know what I was talking
about.
He's not a lot.
He's got Anda.
Also, oh, is that a?
Yeah, those are going around in
the industry apparently.
Are they?
Yes, apparently.
Oh wow.
We're not, but we're not allowed
to talk about.
It not allowed to talk about.
It oh OK.
So, all right, anything else to
add?
Nope.
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Thank you.
Goodbye.
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Show Notes
On todays show
We have the draft with Phil McGuffey, We are all Canadian maybe? A special forces solider got a big payday, An Influencer has been outed and in cigars big day in Vietnam! Michael Herclots celebrates 30 years, and the final number are in for 2025 plus a crowd favorite what’s the score