ACHP Episode 519 The Asian Worms Attack
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Here we go.
Welcome to a Cigar Hustler
podcast episode 519.
I'm Mike Farmer, your host, and
with me today in engineering is
Phil Mcguffey.
Hello.
Oh no.
No, not today.
We're we got some serious
business.
Oh, and then it's my Co host
with a new feature.
What's on Mikey's mind?
Mike Stefan Kovic, I.
What's on Mikey's?
Mind, let's go into the 1st.
Oh, I thought, I swear I had you
set up to do it.
I want to do the chapter pod,
all that stuff, and then we'll
break into it.
That's the way I had it set.
Up.
Sorry.
On today's show, Asian jumping
worms are here.
Icon Park has been taking over.
Jimmy Kimmel is back in trouble,
of course.
Taylor Swift has been granted A
trademark.
Oh, and then in cigars, I found
some news.
There are some news.
There's some news.
Well, it might be.
It might be a little old news,
but there is still news.
Thank the Lord.
There's always news.
There's always, well, no, not
always news.
There has been news.
You are the news anchor.
You discovered the news I.
Discovered the news all right
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Wow.
There you go.
That was it, me.
Yeah, you yesterday you said he
didn't know what he's talking
about.
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Now you're on the list.
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Something Phil was doing and you
said, well, T Money doesn't know
what he's talking.
About.
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sports, probably.
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sheesh, we don't have time for
any of.
That time for that.
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show.
What you guys do in your
company?
Yeah, we don't have time for
that.
Mr. Fancy Suit.
Brett Mercurio says the same
thing.
You guys need to quarantine in
the abandoned Sloth World
building.
Oh yeah, that'd be.
Nice, that would be nice.
Yeah, there's no power, no
water, no electricity.
Yeah, it wouldn't be.
Maybe it wouldn't be that.
We'll die, we'll get cold snap
or what is called.
Cold Stun L Wolpi Boy Jason, we
appreciate the hard work y'all
put in to the show every day but
damn take a couple days off and
get some rest.
We will survive without the show
for a day or two.
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else.
Never surrender.
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I'm gonna surrender.
Never give up.
I'm gonna let you in on a little
secret.
We won't survive without you.
You might survive without us,
but we won't survive without
you.
So we're gonna.
We're on it.
We're and we're gonna deliver,
even if we're half a person.
Yeah, we're trying to get to
1000 before Palmer dies, so.
1000 episodes.
Yeah, better hurry up.
Ruckus on Jane says Mikey is
patient zero in this scenario.
Yes, I am.
Nope, Preston.
Oh yeah, he blames Preston.
Real Smoke Pod says the look and
sound of panic when Phil almost
took out the show was priceless.
Yeah, keep those feedback.
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every time I do, Mikey gets
worse.
Yeah, thanks bro.
I appreciate you guys.
That was a pretty funny, funny
portion of the show.
When utter panic sets in.
But I'm on the man, man.
I got antibiotics now, so we're
rolling today.
Not.
Not contagious.
I don't think I, I don't think
I've been contagious for a
while.
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Now to get on with the show.
Asian jumping worms have been
present in some parts of the
country for more than a century,
but this threat is growing as
they move West.
It's What are you laughing at
over there?
Chuckles.
What a story.
Asian jumping worms cannot be
eradicated.
You can't kill them, really.
Yes, they chew up the ground and
make it look like coffee
grounds.
Really.
Yes.
People are texting me.
You can't kill them.
No.
What happens when you top them
up?
Well, that way you can step on
them, but there's no pesticide
or anything that kills them.
What about?
Acid, yeah.
Well, that's going to ruin the
ground.
You can't put your plants.
Down.
Hey, listen.
If you pour acid all over your
vegetable garden, you can't grow
vegetables.
We got to go Nagasaki.
We got to go Nagasaki, you know
what I'm saying?
Well, they have shown up now in
the Colorado and the Colorado
Department of Agriculture.
Asian jumping worms are red to
brown colored and can grow up to
6 inches in length.
They are known as crazy worms,
snake worms and Georgia jumpers.
They actually jump Georgia
jumpers.
Yes, they first arrived in the
US and from Asia in the 1800s,
most likely from imported plants
and agricultural products.
Their name comes from the
behavior when disturbed, they
thrash, spring into the air and
even shed their tails to escape.
Wow.
These are terrible things.
We got to jump.
Fortunately, they are not in
Florida.
Why are they not in Florida?
It's too hot.
They don't like it here.
Too hot.
Too hot across the Midwest.
Well, hey I.
Guess we're safe.
We're safe down here for the
moment, but still they're in the
northeast, South of East
Northwest.
But they've been spreading in
recent years, more recent
appearing in West Coast and
Canada.
So they're going north, they're
not coming South.
Sorry, John.
They're going to the 51st state.
They're going to the 51st state.
We're fine.
We're good down here.
OK.
All right, did you see on the
news where the Icon park was
taken over by teenagers?
No.
They did one of those takeover
things.
You know where Icon Park is?
In Florida.
Yeah, down on I Drive, where the
big The Wheel is and the other
stuff.
Thousands of teenagers converged
in Icon Park.
Really.
And then there were riots and
fights and nine teenagers were
arrested.
Why did they do this?
It's a thing teens do.
They do a takeover.
That's all.
They all, they somebody, I don't
know who organizes these things,
but somebody picks a place, they
all go there and they cause
mischief and mayhem.
OK, only nine got arrested.
Yeah, only nine.
They were the slow ones,
fighting they.
Were fighting, they were
fighting.
They were the aggressive ones or
the slow ones was everywhere.
Yeah, ones that couldn't escape.
Right, One of the parents is
complaining that their child was
roughed up a little bit by the
police.
Yeah, I.
Don't care, I'm gonna rough him
up.
Which hooligan was it?
Which you went specifically in
the name?
No, they're not releasing the
name, but his last name started
with an H, they said.
Oh.
Hipp.
Wow, wow.
It's as close as I can get to
his name.
I don't know where.
I don't know where to go from
there.
Interesting.
But what are you done if you
were down there?
I mean, I'll sudden you're there
with your family and all of a
sudden all these kids, just they
all come in at one time.
It's not like onesie twosie show
up.
They all like, arrive and then
come in like ants.
You ever see Man on Fire?
Yeah.
Denzel Washington.
I wish you had more time.
You're going to put a bomb up
somebody?
'S where he's leaving, he's
trying to get out of the club.
He starts firing the round of
the shotgun in the air.
Oh.
Is that what you're going to do?
That's how you clear him out.
That's how you clear him out,
baby.
Boom.
I don't remember the part Palmer
was talking.
Hey, he's.
Got the guy strapped on the hood
of the car.
Yeah, trying to get information
from.
Him, he already got it from him
and they said one, one more
wish, one more wish.
I wish you had more.
Time and then he blows up.
They're making the show on
Netflix.
TV.
Yeah, I saw that.
Is it Christy beforehand?
Yeah, it's.
Supposed to be him before.
It's a prequel.
It's a prequel.
It's got to be because he gets
killed at the end of.
The movie?
Well, not You don't know that.
He's been shot 4 times already
to before they haul him away.
So what?
Pretty much.
You don't know, it could be an
after.
I don't think it's an after.
Yeah, Liam Nelson never dies.
Liam Nelson.
Liam Nelson.
Who the hell is Liam Nelson?
In another movie, I'm just.
Liam Neeson.
Yeah, that.
Guy.
Yeah.
Liam Neeson.
He's not in the movie.
I'm just saying in his movies he
never dies.
Oh yeah, that's gonna be the
same thing.
Either does Thor.
Thor doesn't die in all those
movies he makes for Netflix 4
The guy who plays oh in.
Extractor or.
Something.
Yeah.
Extractor.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it's a dental movie.
What's it called?
Chris Nelson.
Extract Chris Nelson Chris
Nelson, Liam Liam.
Liam Hemsworthy or whatever it's
called Liam Hemsworthy.
That's the brother.
I think that's his.
Brother Hemsworthy, not one's
worth, 1's worthy.
Isn't that that his left?
Emsworth.
Emsworth.
Chris Hemsworth.
We're not getting any names.
Right now fun of me.
AB Recoverable sloths have been
emancipated so.
Yeah, I was gonna, dude, there
was a little clip on that, but
it didn't.
It didn't.
It killed off after, so I didn't
say what.
Emancipated.
Also emancipated.
No, I didn't do all of it, so I
had to let it go.
Aw, it's too bad.
All right, Jimmy Kimmel's back
in the news.
What would you do if it happened
to you and I called?
You could, you could just leave.
I mean, I'd leave.
You don't have small kids.
Right.
No, but I would put my arm
around my wife who's probably
panicking at this point and
leave.
Or let her beat 7 or 8 of the
kids up for teacher ninja stuff.
She knows.
Just leave.
Would you?
If they're in your way, you
start running them over.
With the car.
Yeah.
Yeah, honking horn.
Push them out the way.
Sure.
I mean, that's legal.
You can do that.
Yeah, I mean.
I think if they're not even.
In the state of in the state of
Florida.
Like what are you doing as a
parent?
Like if I find out that my kid
went down there, I'm like what
the hell is wrong with you?
Right.
Yeah.
You give him the speech.
What are you doing?
I just saw you on TV.
Right.
You're going to go to jail.
Speech man, spank that kid.
Get in the car.
Get out of there.
So what do you do?
If it was my kid.
You abandoned No.
Yeah, he's not going down.
There, you're down there, you
abandoned your pregnant wife and
you get in the car and you
drive.
Off and your children?
No.
Daddy's going for the car.
And then it never comes back.
Yeah.
No, but I did like the part
where you guys say you can run
them over.
I mean, that's.
You can in Florida.
Super GTA ish.
Yep.
Super GTA.
Super GTA.
That's right.
You play GTA seven?
Yeah.
Oh, here we go.
No stars, baby, no.
Stars cops aren't looking for
me.
It's too.
Funny, OK, and and if it was
your kid?
He's getting spanked.
Spanky.
Spanky.
He's 18 years old.
You're spanking him.
Yeah.
Yeah, he might play back.
Yeah, OK.
Come on.
Do you think your kid at this
point wants to fight you?
Maybe.
There's it gets to that age.
Yeah.
Yeah, they blow up on you.
Do you think he'd take you?
No.
No, no, even the bad hips, the
bad knees, all the bad, bad,
bad.
He's not, no.
It's not happening, no.
Oh the wait, does he think he
can take him?
Or the kid could take Boo.
He's saying if he thinks my son
could take.
Him I think your kid could take.
Him.
Oh, I don't think he could take
him unless he's gotten a whole
lot bigger.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Interesting stuff, yeah.
Mine though, right?
Take me.
Did your kid ever want to fight
you?
Adrian's kid did.
Yeah, as the whole you're not my
dad thing.
Well, that happened twice.
Why does my mother keep texting?
So weird she doesn't know how to
text they're.
Probably voicemails.
He almost had to take me and
Connor both because when he
tried, Connor boat up behind me.
Really.
So there's nothing but your
boys?
Never.
No.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, you're a good dad.
OK, they.
Just figured they could take me
and there's no point to it.
Yeah, what are we doing?
We're going to kick his ass.
We're.
Going to kick the old man's ass.
Come on then, you just beat up
an old man.
OK, go ahead and move on.
Do you ever want to fight your
dad?
Oh yeah, I almost did.
Oh, Mikey's super aggressive.
You.
Well, I don't.
Even that's why I figured it,
but I figured it was an easy
yes.
I didn't think you'd ask that
question, to be honest.
Yeah.
Did Greg ever want to fight your
dad?
No, no.
No, Greg's a golden child.
Yeah.
Oh, Dad liked him better too.
It seemed like you and your dad
were closer than Greg and him.
I think my dad, I think my dad
liked me more as we got older.
But no, for me, Oh, there was, I
mean, yeah, there was a time.
There was a real time where it
almost happened.
I was like, I'm ready if you
are.
And he left as a mess.
He walked out of the house.
Yeah.
So.
Well, it's turned really sad.
He.
Probably would have kicked my
ass.
Yeah, he's a big dude.
Yeah.
But I was not very fast, but he
was big.
He was solid.
I was pretty big and angry.
You're much bigger now than you
were then. 18 I was pretty big
17.
Oh, I didn't know you then.
Yeah, I was pretty big.
It's pretty strong.
I was getting divorced, rather
for the second time.
Yeah, nice.
I liked the last comments that
we were talking about
millennials and you're like,
wow, 1984, That was my junior
year in high school.
Yeah, when I was a junior year
in high school, OK, I could have
been your dad.
You can still be my dad.
He's dead.
Oh.
Yeah.
And I am short of son so.
There you go.
Let's move on down 1.
All right, Jimmy Kimmel's back
in the news.
Did you guys hear anything about
this?
No, I.
Did.
You did, I thought you only get
you news from me.
Yeah, I saw it on social.
What?
Did Preston tell you about it?
Yeah, Preston told me about it.
First lady Melania Trump is not
happy about late night host
Jimmy Kimmel's recent joke about
her.
Look at Melania, so beautiful.
Missus Trump, you have the glow
like an expected widow.
But he made this comment two
days on tape before the
assassination attempt.
Kimmel quit during a sketch on
his show Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The segment was the comedian's
mock alternative speech to the
White House Correspondents
Dinner, which aired 2 days
before the real event at the
Trump's attended together after
gunfire, authorities subdued a
heavily armed man, Blahdy blahdy
blah.
But Trump and Melania are asking
the TV station to fire him
because of the comments.
Of course.
Seems a little extreme.
I mean, hindsight's 2020, but he
didn't know that was going to
happen.
Right.
Yeah.
How do you feel about it, Phil?
Do you think that?
Did the show come out before the
thing happened on TV?
Did it?
Did it come out before or after
the thing happened on TV?
Palmer It happened.
So it was prerecorded.
It was prerecorded.
They played it at the dinner.
They played Jimmy Kimmel's show
at the dinner.
Not the show, but at the
comment.
So the.
Comic came out.
The comic came out on TV after
the thing had happened.
Oh OK so it so it still
released?
Right.
Yeah, they should have.
They should have probably have
cut that part out or.
Edited it.
Yeah, Yeah.
OK.
That's a great.
That's a great point, Phil.
I honestly didn't think of it
like that.
Yeah, I guess I could.
Have well, I just thought of it,
of how we do things, I mean.
Right, realistically, yeah,
you're right.
I mean, we're, we're a we're a
fine-tuned machine over here,
right with with millions of
dollars behind us, like NBC or
whatever, whatever friggin right
network he's on.
Like, I don't have a problem
with Jimmy Kimmel making the
joke, right?
Because, look, it's comedy.
It's supposed to be funny.
Or at least he's trying to be
funny.
Now the people take it as funny.
Look, that's entirely up to the
person.
You could say, hey, that wasn't
funny.
That wasn't OK.
And then at that point, don't
watch Jimmy Kimmel, right?
Like, right.
OK.
Now from the from the producer
side or the executive side, this
happens and this is about to
air.
Hey, we got, you know, I'm
running the cutting room floor
and I'm saying, hey, we got to,
we got to squash that.
Joke like, yeah, you think
somebody should have thought of
that?
Yeah, the timing is off now.
It's completely inappropriate.
We got to let.
Bad taste, we shouldn't do it.
Right.
You know, now this thing has
happened, We got to let it go.
We got to, we got to, we got to
trim that off.
So I wouldn't, I wouldn't for
optics purposes.
I think that's why Trump does
all that whatever.
But I think realistically, from
a business standpoint, if I run
that company, I look at who's
supposed to make that call.
And because they didn't, that
guy's got to go, that guy's got
to go.
That makes.
More sense.
You're no longer protecting the
best interest of this
organization by letting
something like that happen,
right?
And it maybe you're jaded as a,
as from a political standpoint,
whatever.
And you, you know, you're like,
I'm going to let this RIP when
you shouldn't have because it's
not funny.
No.
Well, I'm sure after it happened
because of everything going on
with the assassination, nobody
even thought that that you know
that that was still there.
I would even remembered that he
made an off color comment yeah
that's associated right till it
aired and like oh shit I forgot
he.
Said, well, that's a lame ass
excuse.
Yeah, like you got to be on the
ball, right?
Like this is not, you know, this
is your national television.
Man, I mean, Jimmy Kimmel always
says something about Trump
anyway, so you would think like
the editors would go, hey, the
assassination you just have.
Maybe we should watch the the
episode before we release it
just in case there's any
sensitive.
Stuff, you know, but that's
that's a good point too.
There's something to be said
about constantly doing something
and then developing A tolerance
for it.
That's actually unacceptable,
right?
Because if you constantly berate
a person and you're grooming
your crowd to be used to it, now
you have the attention of
everybody and now they're like,
hey, this is not OK, you know?
So like, I don't know, I don't
watch a lot of late night shows.
I think what's the other guy?
I.
Don't like his personally.
Jimmy Kimmel, like Fallon, will
cut some Trump jokes.
I like Fallon Joe.
Better Fallon cuts Trump jokes,
but he doesn't do it every
single goddamn episode.
You know what?
I mean, yeah, yeah, he doesn't
kill.
It like and and he'll also he'll
he'll also put punch jokes to
the other side.
You know where you know that
Kimmel just outright does not
like Trump.
Yeah, and it's no longer funny
anymore, at least in my opinion.
Right.
Yeah, I don't think it's.
I'm sure that there is there are
people that love to watch it
just to hear about it.
I'm sure that there are Trump
people that love to watch it
just to get upset about it.
Like, I don't have the time and
energy for either one of those
things, to be honest.
And like, the fact of the matter
is like, it's too, it becomes
too much.
It becomes too much.
I mean, we even talk about
stuff, but we have conversations
on the show that if we become
redundant about something and we
bring it up and we're like
hazing Phil about one thing in
particular and we do it two or
three times consecutively, we're
like.
Every day.
We're like, OK, we need, we need
to walk this back a little bit.
This has become too much, right?
So like.
This mask.
So it's kind of twofold, right?
One is don't.
Don't make it your whole thing
because it becomes too much.
Sure.
And and for two, that editor
should have did a better.
Job Well, there's got to be a
series of people that heard
that.
I mean, there's got to be a
director, a producer.
I mean, there's tons of people.
Somebody could have spoke up and
went, hey, that one thing, maybe
we should cut that out.
Clip that out right.
This just happened.
Clip that out right.
That's like saying, you know,
Oh, well, what if a plane runs
into the World Trade Center and
then, you know.
Right then a plane runs in.
911's like, oh, you know, you at
least got to wait a decade or
two before you start cutting
right 911 jokes again, you know?
Maybe this is the same guy.
What?
Maybe it's the same editor?
The same editor, yeah.
Oh, that guy didn't do there
wasn't that didn't.
Happen that was a fictitious
event I'm.
Sorry, I thought you were saying
that was a real thing.
Don't do drugs man.
Wow, keep your kids in school.
So yeah, this is what we're
talking about, the hazing stuff.
Yeah, no, this is not exactly
what we're talking about, the
hazing stuff.
I feel like it is.
You'll be OK.
You'll be OK, Phil, get back.
Get back in your shelter.
You'll be fine.
Wow, single person shelter.
All right, let's move on.
Just enough food for me for 30
years.
OK, Taylor Swift has been
granted A trademark for her
voice and her face.
This is some AI shit.
What's going?
On right, it's going up against
AI, so she's got it until she
dies and then 70 years after
that.
Wow.
So AI cannot copy her face or
her voice.
This is so the creepos can't
copy her face.
Or the voice.
I mean, it's a thing against AI
until the laws get into the
place where they don't have to
do this, OK.
So what determines the image
looking like looking exactly
like Taylor Swift?
I don't if it's like a any other
trademark 20%.
Right, so so.
Change the nose.
Right, so I could say to AII
need someone to look similar to
Taylor Swift.
Well, that's what I have to do
when I do images.
I have to do I need a Trump look
alike, right?
And then maybe as far as I'm
concerned is Trump.
I mean it.
Looks just like him it.
Looks just like him as far as I
know.
I need the voice to sound
similar to right right Taylor
Swift.
I guess she's just trying to do
the best she can.
I mean, what else you going to
do?
Just give in.
No, I mean like this.
Her face and her voice is worth
a lot of money.
I'm not upset about it.
I think that this is
interesting.
It's interesting to see where
this goes.
Now other, you would think.
Now other celebrities and
singers will start to do it
right.
Guys, it's probably just like
the Disney thing.
Remember when Disney did this
whole like trademark or ban
against using characters or
whatever?
Or they bought some company that
was going to AI their characters
and then then they decided just
to shut down the company.
They're like, well, this is a
terrible idea.
Yeah, 'cause it started being
creepy stuff.
Like a billion dollars later,
like, oh, never mind they.
Bought it just to close it.
Right to write it down.
Let's smash this technology
right now for Ariel's doing
something to the crab, right?
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Like poor Taylor, that's
probably what she's thinking.
She's like, you know what?
There's some creepos out there.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to be
doing something with the some
weird guy, Yeah.
I think that we're witnessing
the end of social media.
That's what we're witnessing.
Nah.
Well, I I do know Facebook.
From what I understand, I went
to this networking event for
weddings and they said a lot of
people aren't using Facebook
anymore, they're moving to
Instagram.
Yeah, Facebook is your old man
platforms, you know, you know,
right?
It's your older people.
So eventually that will just
probably you know.
Migrate to something else.
Well, everything turns into
something.
I mean, we don't have Myspace
anymore.
Well, the generations turn on to
something else.
Right.
Yeah, they'll find something
else, like.
Tik Tokers have a specific age
demograph other than you and
you.
Right.
Like watching?
It's like watching TV.
Yeah, I forgot.
I forgot.
Probably you had TikTok.
I have to send you Tik.
Toks no don't send me tik toks.
Snapchat was a big one for for
younger kids.
Right.
Yeah, I can't watch your snap.
Let me have you snappy.
What's your snappy?
What's your snappy?
I can't get them to Snapchat.
I can either, you know it's
funny too.
Like that shit drives me nuts
too when like.
I'll use some of the filters
sometimes, but that's all.
Easier, yeah, but we're like,
you're hanging out with somebody
that's younger and like, you're
like, what the hell are you
doing?
You're taking a picture every 10
seconds.
I got to send snappies.
Yeah, like, OK, let's pump the
brakes on that for a second.
Like nobody cares.
Oh, they my fans, they care.
They all three of them.
I have more than three.
It's for my friends.
I've noticed Instagram is is
ramping up.
I'm getting more, more play on
Instagram than than before.
Really.
Yeah.
Well, they said at that
networking event, they said that
people are starting to use the
search engine on Instagram a lot
because it's an AI driven one to
puzzle it.
What does that mean?
I don't know like anything that
they want to search like good
food in my area and they they
search it on Instagram because
you can go to the pages of the
restaurants and most companies
have a page of Instagram, but
it's because it's through AII
guess it centers it to whatever
you search or.
Oh, that's interesting, Meta.
I mean, Facebook is Instagram
so.
Yeah, they're both owned by the
same company.
Well that was my argument when
they were asking questions like,
isn't Facebook the same thing as
Instagram?
It's two.
It's two different platforms.
Facebook's becoming a lot more
ad driven, is it?
It seems, yeah.
There's a lot of ads on
Instagram too though.
Yeah, but they're pretty
pictures.
It doesn't seem as bad.
I don't have to watch a video
about Cheerios.
Because they're more tasteful,
they're.
Better done, better done.
It's a nice picture and some
music.
Not somebody, not the honeycomb
bee or whatever it is.
Well, I don't think I have any
honeycomb bees on my.
Well, you will now 'cause you
just mentioned it.
Congratulations.
Honey Nut Cheerio.
Honey Nut Cheerio.
The bees live their life right
honey nut, and die.
And then TikTok, I mean if you
watch one video, next thing you
know, 75 videos with the same
song, just different people.
Yeah.
Oh, he liked that song Prayer
the show more.
Bring him some more.
Bring him more photos.
Nothing says better than a jet
bug getaway or whatever it was.
Oh, he really?
Likes that he watched it twice.
No, I we got to go to the
bathroom with my phone running.
Please stop Joey, nothing is
better as well.
All right, Mike, you got a
video?
I don't have a video today.
Womp womp.
I failed you.
Good, I don't have to cut 1.
In it was just a matter of time.
I don't have to cut it in.
It's fine.
All right.
Cigar News.
Should act like you have a video
then pull one up.
Oh, but Speaking of which one he
does videos don't do the three
shot.
It's very hard to put the video
in and hard for him to edit.
I've tried explaining that to
you multiple times.
I'm sorry I did a three shot
when we're all watching the
video.
Yeah, but don't do that.
Yeah, don't do that.
It's hard to put the video in
and it's hard for him to cut it
out, Yeah.
OK.
God damn it, how many times I
gotta tell you?
You can cut between the three of
us.
Please don't beat me.
The problem is, the problem is
Phil.
Phil always wants to be on on
the.
Screen he wants to be on the.
Screen.
So now that he has this option
of like, all right, well I'm not
saying anything but I I want to
be on the screen anyways so he
hits this button.
I'm just, I'm just waiting for
the time when Palmer's like,
yeah, I'm not really watching
the videos and edit them
anymore.
I was gonna leave the camera on
me the whole time.
I don't watch the show.
I don't watch the entire show.
Please.
I don't have that kind of time.
All right, so I just do it in
the middle.
All right, two new Davidoff
Winston Churchill's heading to
travel retail.
Davidoff has announced that it
will add new 5 1/2 by 55 Gran
Robusto vitola to the 2 Winston
Churchill lines.
The upcoming Davidoff Voyagers
selection.
Anything you can charge you can
get in trouble for going on
Voyagers.
He doesn't have trademarks, I'm
sure.
That's probably right.
Winston Churchill is an 8
counting box that contains 4 of
each of the Davidoff Winston
Churchill's and the Davidoff
Winston Churchill the Late Hour.
Each cigar has an MSRP of how
much are these little babies?
$17.00.
Dab dab it off.
Dab it off, fat Churchill. 19.
35 I want to I want to be
offered to global travel retail
accounts.
What does that mean I.
Have no idea.
Duty free shops.
Maybe.
Not.
Not this place, probably.
Worldwide.
Expected to arrive on May 14th.
Oh, your voice worked well with
that, Yeah.
It was worldwide.
You could do like the movie
trailers.
Oh yeah, we got to start doing
some drops real quick.
Right before his voice gets
better, right?
The white banded Winston
Churchill, which Davidoff is
referring to as the original
series, uses an Ecuadorian Roja
ROJIZA.
ROJIZA.
Yeah, Rojiza.
Rohiza rapper.
You got to roll that.
R Roll the R Rohiza, We'll just
go to the Mexican San Andreas
Negro binder and five filler
leaves.
Dominican piloto, megiordo seco,
peloto seco and hybrid orlo
peloto seco and seco from both
Condega and Estele.
Nicaragua Cigar features a
secondary band that reads the
original series.
A small package update for the
line.
The Late Hour uses an Ecuador
and Habano maroon Escuro wrapper
over a Mexican San Andreas Negro
Bonder and Dominican tobaccos or
Loviso pilotos, Echo and San
Vincent Majordo viso and a viso
from SLA.
Wanted tobacco in these things.
Very specific.
Stuffed.
Very specific about what's in
these and guys, sorry my cough
comes when I talk.
It's nice as a good change
though because most people go
I'm disclosed or Nicaraguan.
I need somewhere between.
Jesus.
When you get down.
Sip of water or what?
No, I have a drink.
I need somewhere between beyond
Undisclosed but be behind what
we just got right.
Oddly specific.
I need mid level.
Undisclosed.
Yeah, give me mid level, you
know.
Oh, Speaking of mid level Drew
Estate's opening farmers factory
in Dominican Republic.
Wow.
While it's beginning was in New
York, Drew Estate has long been
associated with Nicaragua as to
where the company's factory is,
and the local culture has been
reflected in the company's
artwork and occasionally it's
cigars.
Now Drew Estate.
Is it called Sans Estate now?
Nope.
Is expanding its footprint as
the company has announced that
it has its own farm and building
its own 73,000 square foot
factory in the Dominican
Republic, both under the banner
of Drew Dominicana.
Everything change.
Oh sorry, everything changes
today to Jonathan Drew Stance,
Co founder and President of
Druid State.
Oh, that's not it.
That was like a merge between
Tube and Drew.
Yeah.
It was weird, yeah, with the
strip.
Can't get it with the voice.
Sorry.
Forever be our home base.
But today with the planting our
official flag in the Dominican
Republic, we run to something
very big, very purposeful and
powerful.
We're meeting a moment of
evolution head on with the open
arms as we embrace a new season
of learning and organize growth.
Everybody put the open arms up.
Open arms fell Open arms fell,
fell open arms.
There you go, the Drew State
culture, what are proudly call
our subculture.
We now include a vibrant
edition, layers of Dominican
influence that will shine as
bright as the sun itself.
So why are they going to make it
in public?
I get to ask the questions.
I asked you.
Viva will ask the questions.
Viva will ask the questions.
Phil, why do?
You think they're going to the
Dominican Republic?
Less tariffs.
Less tariffs.
Exact same tariff from both
countries at the moment.
Currently, the tariffs are the
same.
It is simply magical according
to this.
OK.
Why do you think they're going?
I don't know.
That's why I asked you.
I want.
To hear your point of view.
Imagine his bets.
Imagine his bets.
Expanding, making it bigger, I
don't know.
Didn't didn't Fuente go to
Nicaragua from Dominican
Republic?
Yeah, but I mean, you would
argue the other way.
You'd argue the fact that
Nicaragua has better tobacco
better, you know, better ability
to make better cigars.
Well, they've come out with two
cigars that are Dominican now,
correct?
The Dominicana Dominican, Yeah,
and the League of Bravada
Dominican.
Oh, they came out of the League
of Bravada Dominican, Yeah.
OK.
They announced it at the PCA
trade show.
I'm surprised you were there.
I thought you would.
Have I was busy?
I was busy too, it was still in
it.
I guess you're not that busy.
I think that it's.
I think that they're called.
The underground, El Tigre
Dominicano, we have it upstairs.
I think that they're hedging
their bets.
That's what I said.
You said I was wrong.
I didn't say you're wrong.
I think that realistically, like
there's a lot of turmoil off and
on in politically from from
Nicaragua and the United States.
And if that goes sideways and
you no longer have the ability
to sell cigars into the US, then
you're done, right?
So if you if you build a
different factory in a different
country, at least you have the
option to to continue to
produce.
You might be able to facilitate
getting tobacco over there so
you can still make similar
cigars, right And keep things
operational.
I don't understand the bad
relationship or whatever between
the US and Nicaragua.
Like what's the these guys
produce coffee and tobacco?
What's the deal?
It's a political thing.
See, there's politics involved,
not just what we get from them.
Yeah.
It's a question of, you know,
like from a disclaimer.
Nothing we say is true and or
factual.
We have no idea what we're
talking about.
Not.
Pay no attention to us.
Not a political or World
Economic person here, however.
A Polish guy from Miami.
I'm not even from Miami.
Don't give me that credit.
I believe that when you kind of
look at things, I'm sorry, when
you look at things from like a
world standpoint, specific
countries support specific
countries, right?
So like China, Venezuela,
Nicaragua, they're all
originally tied together
supporting each other.
Now we hit Venezuela.
Boom, right?
But I still believe that I could
be wrong, that Nicaragua has
close ties to and Russia as well
like those those guys are.
The bad guys.
I don't.
Are they mad?
I mean like.
We don't like them.
I don't know man.
I I can't look at media and
assume anything.
I always have questions.
Like Russia, North Korea, China.
Not Venezuela anymore.
We own that right, Nicaragua.
I mean, like, do any of them
really want to mess with us?
I think that's.
I think Russia and China.
I mean, Kim Jong Un called after
we got Maduro.
We cool, right?
Yeah.
We good right by.
The way I'm not at my house.
GI Joe, I'm not at my house.
I'm not going to any means no
meetings.
Cancel all meetings.
Yeah, not with the other 48 of
you, I'll tell you that much
right now.
Who is Glenn Wolfenstein?
I have no idea.
CEO of Drew State.
Why have we never seen this man?
I have no idea.
Pay no attention to the man
behind the curtain, Glenn.
Wolfensohn.
CEO of Drew State and press
release said every department of
Drew State has been working to
drive this project forward and
to them I am so thankful and
proud.
It sounds like this is the guy
that does the work.
I am Glenn Wolfensohn.
Where the other guy is going, it
turns some culture.
We are really cool.
What a weird voice.
The farm is located in Villa
Gonzalez, Dominican Republic and
we'll provide Drew Dominicana
with the ability to grow
proprietary tobaccos, special
tobaccos.
I mean, that's kind of
interesting because, you know,
like I remember back in the day,
Drew always said we buy, buy the
crop and we take care of these
farmers.
Are they still taking care of
those farmers?
I hope so.
Well, they bought the farm.
Sounds like they're expanding,
so do they need more tobacco?
I mean that would make sense,
but you would hope that they
would still back and support the
people who made got them to
where they are at.
Who is Manuel Perlata?
I don't know, but I bet she
knows Glenn.
He's known for decades working
with David House, Dominican
operation.
He's running the farm.
Got him.
All right, Glenn.
This project represents years of
work behind the scenes, says
Martin van der.
This is all no new name.
Who's Martin van der Linden?
He's friends with Wolfenstein.
He is head.
He is Drew State's head of
tobacco procurement.
Who are these new people?
Sounds like Russia's taking
over.
I think I met this guy.
First thing we find out is Drew
is not called Drew.
So many things.
So now all of a sudden there's
these 17 people with these long
names that are all these.
They're all German.
They're all German.
We, we have taken over Dominican
Republic.
We like the tobacco here.
The tobacco is very good.
Is the five year plan up?
Tobacco.
I'm waiting for a new name.
After every quote, there's a new
name.
Dominican tobacco has incredible
depth and character, but only
when you invest properly.
We are verging the best product
you can.
Only make truly great cigars.
With great tobacco.
Well, exact opening date has not
been announced yet.
The company is targeting early
2027.
So where did they make the 1st 2
Dominican cigars?
The factory's not running yet?
I don't know.
Dominican factory of some sort.
Interesting.
I mean, it's only they don't
know.
Everybody in the industry.
True, they could have it made.
Anywhere they want, right there
are sons of state.
Sons of State.
Real name's not Drew.
It's.
Very upsetting.
Maybe this middle name?
Sounds like it doesn't.
Matter.
I don't go.
By Michael.
Ray, you should.
No, I shouldn't.
Ray Estate.
Ray Estates, Constella Group and
Fox Knives announce tangles in a
new joint venture.
Oh boy.
Now he's making knives.
We got to be careful.
He's ran out of tobacco money.
Now he's going after his
utility.
Oh my God.
Allegedly he's.
Arming his people don't.
Die on us.
I think he's.
Poisoning me.
I think this is it.
This is it.
There's a new.
Name coming to the cigar.
Accessory space tagalism wow tag
T.
AG.
LIENZA, Lindza, Taglenza,
Taglenza, Taglenza.
Very good.
I thought Ricky was getting up
to look.
Oh, I got to bring my knife from
13.
Knives too.
What I got to plug that guy?
Oh yeah, my cutter.
It's a joint venture announced
by Luciano Morales, president of
Constello USA, and Gabriel
Frata, president of the Fox
Knives.
Wow, There's a lot of accolades
there.
Technical England's.
Will be both a brand and a
distributor for Fox Knives cigar
accessories in the Americas.
Outside of the Americas, those
products will continue to be
sold under the Fox Knives name
as part of the launch of
Taglins.
The products will now come with
a lifetime warranty.
Oh nice, and a three pack of
Marlon.
Wayne's cigars.
Fox Knives.
That's right.
He didn't.
That's why.
I mean, he cut something on that
table.
There you go.
Taglins, right?
Fox Knives is an.
Italian.
Knife company that has made a
variety of novel cutters,
perhaps most notable the 749
seven. 49.
Next year, the company will
celebrate its 50th anniversary
and make a 750 and a press.
Release the pair.
Said that there is a simple oh,
the pair.
Now they're talking as a group.
There's a simple conviction at
the center of Taglenza that the
accessory is not secondary to
the ritual.
It is part of the ritual has to
cut is the first decision at
open six parent and reveals the
product shaping the encounter.
That's this is complete Luciano
bullshit stuff.
Whoa, he owns it alleges.
No, he likes the very flowery.
In the thing, the knife.
The knife is part of the process
and it cuts up in the thing.
Oh my God, I meant go.
On how much?
Money How much money the.
Company is focusing on cigar
cutters.
And related instruments design
for cigar and through use to
value craftsmanship,
functionality and enduring
design.
The cigar is never only a
product, it is an encounter
between time and tension and
human hands, said Mary Alice in
a press release.
The same can be said of a well
made cutting instrument.
With Taglenza we are now simply
entering accessories.
We are extending the velocity.
Wait, wasn't he making
accessories with that leather
guy?
I don't know.
Yeah, he he was making a cigar.
For the guy that made the
leather cigar purses and stuff
and that didn't work out, he's
no longer associated.
We wanted a partnership we are
creating.
Objects that serve with.
Ritual and intelligence,
elegance and performance.
But something is made with it.
This is very long, all right, so
skip it.
I am.
As for the name the company.
Says it evokes essence Del.
Taglio.
The essence of the cut All
right, now it's time for the
industry's favorite game.
What's the?
Score.
Sorry, he's still droning on.
Oh my Lord.
He's still going.
On here we go.
All right, First cigar, June
22nd, 2016.
Brooks Whittington Cigars,
Dominican Republic.
It's a Gurkha cigar.
The Gurkha.
Sniper.
It comes in this.
Really cool leather.
Or plastic box OK, like a gun.
Case Sniper.
Sniper.
OK, somebody give me a number.
Now remember, this is not your
personal opinion.
It is Brooke Whittington's
opinion.
Oh, OK, 65. 8484.
Cigar is the Gurkha sniper is
from the Dominican Republic
factory and we know say rapper
Dominican Republic binder
Indonesian filler Dominican
Republic in Nicaragua linked 7
1/2 by 52 is a Toro extra.
It's $12.00 case of 20 that it
comes in a case 240 dollars came
out in 2016.
They smoked three of these
puppies. 65. 84.
Clue #1.
Rich, evolving flavor profile
with earthy oak at the core,
layered by dark chocolate,
espresso, licorice, cinnamon and
flashes of Raisin sweetness that
kept the profile interesting. 66
85 clue #2.
Excellent.
Draw on solid overall.
Construction with strong smoke
output and strength built up
that added body the cigar as the
cigar progressed. 66, 87.
Burn consistency.
And cigar softness.
Were concerns the overall spongy
samples and multiple touch UPS
point to construction issues,
while the sweetness never fully
developed into the standout note
it hinted at early.
Somebody didn't change the bands
70, 81.
Final thought.
This is the final thought, Phil
OK reading the review.
Above you might notice.
The liberal use of the
adjectives such as slight, mild
and light used repeatedly
throughout.
The reason for this is simple.
While the flavours of the Gurkha
Sniper were enjoyable, they were
also extremely light, leading to
a profile that just not distinct
enough to really make much more
than a general positive
impression.
Having said that, other than
the.
Somewhat fragile wrapper.
The construction was quite nice
for all three samples, and there
was plenty of smoke production
throughout.
Excuse me?
In the end, the Sniper is a
decent enough cigar that really
could use a more distinct
project to put it in a major
contention with other cigars in
the same price range.
Sniper.
Sniper.
By Gurkha. 7870. 9.
You went the right way. 84 Oh, I
had it right.
Oh. 80.
Four, it worked.
Only one of them worked.
Ouch.
Now turn it off.
Turn.
It off.
We're on fire.
I was.
That was the first number I
pulled.
Yeah, 80 that's why.
I say I should just stick with
my.
Number, yeah, but he's he's like
it's super light.
Doesn't There's no real taste?
How'd it give 84?
I kicked your wrist.
Not only did I win, but I had it
right off the jump and then I
just did conservative to take
the dub.
Yeah, you went way too low.
Brooks doesn't normally.
Go that low 84, I guess we're
going to.
Have to smoke this night huh
sniper?
It's from 20/16/20. 16 You can't
get these. 10 years ago.
They find cigars.
And give them names you.
Know you can't find us anymore.
Yeah, it's 10 years ago.
Go smoke the ghost.
All right?
Come back.
Tomorrow where we talk.
About Mikey Beat Up Coupe on the
show, we review the developing
palates.
See if there's a fight.
That's it.
Anything else?
What are the odds?
If he gets mad and then leaves.
And he leaves, leaves.
Leaves the show.
I don't think he.
Leaves turns it off I think.
If he did anything, he'd
probably.
Like not talk.
Let's take a bet on this.
You think it would just not
talk?
I think it would leave.
Why not talk?
That just looks worse.
Do you think there is any?
Comments made of anything of the
podcast of our podcast and or
post Anya by Coupe.
No, no, that's not how he does
things.
No wait, it's APCA review show.
Are you going to bring anything
up about him unsubscribing?
You going to ask him?
Maybe we'll see how it goes, I
don't know.
You don't have a plan, no.
So what if he's nice?
You're nice, yeah.
That's not fun for us.
I'm going to are all the fans.
We want to see a.
Scuffle.
Fight, fight, fight, fight,
fight.
I don't.
Want to fight?
We're going to start typing
fight.
Argue, argue.
Argue.
Argue.
Argue.
I don't want to fight.
This is your one.
Chance to confront.
Him I don't want to fight.
I don't want to.
You do.
You want to fight, I don't.
Want to fight?
You like to fight.
I'm not afraid of it.
You're an angry.
I'm comfortable with it.
You're an.
Angry.
You're a very angry.
Man, I'm not angry.
This is your chance.
To unleash, I don't need.
To fight, he's not a bad guy
like.
The coward of the county you
shut.
And lock the door.
This is, this is it.
This is where you fight the the
bad guy.
He's not going to do it.
I know he's not.
That's why you have to.
You have to start.
Something I had to provoke him
cook dirt in.
His out kick dirt.
In his face.
I'm not.
I'm not doing that.
Go over.
Weasel.
I'm not.
I'm not that guy.
You can be call them.
A weasel, no.
Power is ridiculous, I.
Disagree with that?
Say something like.
You know what gets me?
When media people unsubscribe
from media sources so they can't
get any more media.
But they claim to be unbiased.
Yeah, and when they wear wrong
pants.
Yeah, throw the.
Pants in just for the hell of
it, yeah.
They really know who it is.
They really know.
Who you're talking about that?
I'm not.
Indirect.
I'm direct, right?
Socka Socka.
What would you do if a?
Media Source Unsubscribe from
your press releases.
Oh, that's perfect.
Soccer, we go I.
Don't fucking care.
Yeah.
He's a whatever, screw him.
I don't, you know, you can see
that.
I don't know how you track.
That or make it really awkward
and ask Lafferty.
See if anybody unsubscribed.
All right.
I don't care or fish stick.
You can.
Ask fish Stick No.
Fish stick Fish stick's very.
Unconfrontational.
So it was a Canadian, by the
way.
I don't like that he jumped
forward.
He's got to go back and listen
to all the episodes.
Hey fish thing if you were at
the PCA.
Would you visit every cigar
company and interview them or
would you just pick?
They don't.
They don't do interviews of the
show.
They just.
Walk around, say hi.
Yeah.
They just log.
Stuff in their head, it's not
good for him.
Which is smart.
It's very tiresome.
To go around and do all that.
Stuff.
I don't know how those shows do
it.
Then you have to go back and
edit everything.
Yeah, I mean, I still.
Haven't done the little Little
Debbie's exposed one, right?
And I got to get on that.
You got to get on that.
It's tough, right?
So.
After you beat up Coop, you'll
be all wound up.
I'm not beating up Coop.
Come on, man.
No, you got to get James and
simply still.
He's beat up Coop.
No, that's not fun.
You know what, Palmer?
Invite him into the.
Comments tonight invite James.
Yeah.
He'll be there.
You think so?
I don't think he's there.
Why not?
Why would he be there?
See.
You beat up coop?
I'm not going to beat up coop.
Don't.
Disappoint me, Mike.
OK, I.
Asked for so very little.
Yeah, you asked for a lot.
No, I don't.
You're very demanding.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are.
So.
We'll be talking about.
Mike beating up Coop tomorrow?
Yes, I'm not beating up Coop.
I'm going to stay up and.
Watch this SO.
I would like to see something OK
and your maintainment.
And goodbye like.
And subscribe.
Like, like and subscribe
wherever you're viewing or or
listening to the show.
I apologize for my senile Co
host.
Not senile.
Goodbye.
Very angry.
Goodbye.
Show Notes
On todays show
Asian Jumping Worms are here, Icon Park has been taken over, Jimmy Kimmel is back in Tourble and Taylor Swift has been granted a trademark on her face and voice. Then in Cigars