ACHP Episode 525 Kamikaze Dolphins
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Welcome to a Cigar Hustler
podcast, episode 525.
I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and
with me today in engineering is
the heart of the show, the
literal backbone of the company,
Mr. Phil Mcguffey.
Oh, hello, peoples.
Hi.
Hello.
And then as my Co host, you know
Mikey's here.
Hi.
Oh, this is the pump me out
today, huh?
Yeah.
It felt, it felt like you left
bitter and and and angry
yesterday.
We've been a little rough on you
lately.
So yeah, we've been a little
going a little hard in the paint
and we recognize it so.
Did someone play it in the
comments?
No, no.
At our production meeting that
we had before the show in the
mornings and we don't invite you
to, we talked about it there.
We like to reflect a little bit,
Yeah.
You know, kind of aggressively
attacking Phil too much so,
yeah.
Maybe we'll just.
So we got to let them know we
appreciate them, yes.
Palmer Usually when I come here
in the morning time, yours is
the only car here.
He came in early today for the
production meeting.
Well, today, yeah.
Well, normally it's after, after
you leave, we have one.
But he came in early today
'cause he doesn't have time
after.
Yeah, it depends.
Honestly, it depends for me on
the weekday.
Like I'll come in earlier as
soon as I drop off the kids if
I'm not doing the gym.
This week, unfortunately, is so
crazy.
Did you even drop off the kids
today?
You were super early today.
Yeah, I just hit all the lights.
Right on today's show, the war
is over.
We won.
Well, nobody's saying that.
Iranian SeaWorld, no more snacks
on Delta.
McDonald's is making some fluid
changes.
Iranian SeaWorld.
And Yellowstone is unbearable
then in cigars and limited
edition cigars on the way and a
double what's the score half
wheels sort of getting back in
the swing.
They did 2 reviews today we're.
Working on it.
Redemption.
Well, they did a post, it didn't
make sense and I was trying to
explain it to Charlie and he
just kind of the like if you
looked at the screen and shout
out to Mctavish brought to my
attention.
If you look at the screen and it
was on the Camacho Factory
Unleashed three.
Yeah, before you clicked on the
link, it said good news,
Michael, reviews are back.
It has been three years since I
first reviewed the cigar and
this is the third release in the
Unleashed series, so it didn't
make sense.
It's almost like someone else
wrote it.
Yeah, so I said something to him
and like we had a brief back and
forth and the conversation was
just going sideways.
I'm like, I don't, I don't know
what's going on here, so I let
it go.
All right.
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I know.
You know what's really funny,
guys, is before the show he had
to make a jab to me saying that
I was slow.
And he wasn't paying attention
to what I was saying.
And what he was saying actually
made zero sense whatsoever it.
Did.
No it didn't.
What we're doing only deals with
three.
It could only be 3 possible
things because of how I said it.
If you knew it wasn't that one
couldn't have been one of the
others. 1 is a cigar event in
the Dominican Republic.
I understand.
And one is a trade association.
Yeah.
So there's only three things out
of the country that we talk
about that.
No, we talk about a lot of
things out of the country.
What events like that do we talk
about that we are interacting?
With this is not an event.
Well, now we're talking about
it, and we're not supposed to be
talking about.
It's an association.
It's that one event that Coop
went to with the wrong pants.
What was that called?
That's another one, yeah.
What was that one called?
The one in Nicaragua?
I don't know the name of it and
I'm not going to mess.
It up.
I never get to go.
And you've already been yelled
at today.
Correct, seems to work it in the
game when he has to leave early.
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How about the tumblers?
I'm not there yet.
I'm doing.
Listen, I just got to survive
this week.
No, I but we're having someone
do the tumblers.
It's not like you, you have to
have time to make the tumblers.
I can take over the tumblers if
you want.
I I was talking to him yesterday
and he thought I was talking to
him about the tumblers.
He's like, I can't possibly do
that.
That's too detailed.
And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
it's not what I'm doing.
I'm just showing you something.
OK, we'll talk to him about the
tumblers.
I'll get it done.
Is he coming in?
I got to do a thing with for
Hector.
There's a lot going on.
Hector Alfonso.
Yeah.
Not to mention we're we're going
as fast as we can, dealing with
as many PCA orders that we can
get out right on top of retail
orders, on top of online.
Like it's like I'm going to drop
11 teams to 6:00 on Monday.
Oh yeah, good for you.
Yeah, got your work in almost in
half.
We're proud of you.
So, well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
So that means that.
Do you have 6 bigger teams?
No, no one sport's going away.
A bunch of sports are going
away, seasons are ending for a
bunch of things, so good deal.
Yeah.
Oh, like you're not stopping it.
Like you're it's just in
remission.
You know basketball's ending, 3
basketball teams are ending and
two football teams are ending
so.
Forever.
End of the season.
Oh, just the season.
Just the season they pick up in
like 2 weeks.
Well, three of them won't be
back till next year.
Oh, basketball.
Because normally football stops
and then picks back up and then
yeah.
Well the rec stuff, but the
school stuff is is done for the
year.
Oh, this is the school.
OK?
Yeah, yeah.
The thing it wasn't going to be
the coach of, he's the coach of.
Yeah, that thing.
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah.
I remember.
Are you the volleyball coach
yet?
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yeah.
We're heard on two different
servers in India, Phil.
Oh, I hope they didn't hear that
racist stuff you were talking
about.
Oh, I'm sure they.
Did yeah they unsubscribe?
And if you would like to read
the comment today.
And they're probably they're
very it.
Wasn't a comment.
Oh, wasn't it really?
No, it wasn't.
Damn it.
We got to have.
Put it up where it goes.
We got to have a person today
with Mr. Palmer.
Did you guys came in early?
He didn't read like some
comments from yesterday's show
at rooks Coding says come on
guys I know Mike can't see the
screen loli was only going along
with Palmer, but that was a
great picture I posted it was a
great picture and I cannot see
the screen.
I'm just that good at this game.
I can't see the screen.
Congrats see money at real smoke
pot says Congrats see money on
the last minute win.
He slid it in there real quick.
I'm.
Trying to get that hat out
today.
We'll work on that.
Rock is unchanged.
See Gran Torino.
Like saying a slur from his from
this movie From his movie LMAO.
Talking about the fish head
thing.
That's mine from the movie.
Exactly.
Makes sense.
Yeah.
And at CW6383, I'm jumping
overboard and swimming to shore.
I'm not staying on the HMS
Typhoid Mary.
Typhoid.
Yeah, I mean.
I mean, if you're within
distance of the port, you could
see it, yeah.
I'm in for it.
I'm getting the hell out of
here, right?
Yeah, but then what do they
shoot you?
What's?
The odds they're going to see
you jump off, you do it at night
like you're a Navy.
They would shoot.
You zombie zombie.
Umatuma virus.
Umatuma.
It's not like that I have.
No idea how you say it, I can't.
Pronounce umatuma.
That's where we're going with
for now all.
The people in India just just
cancelled.
It's not an Indian thing.
Sounds more like American Indian
than Asian Indian.
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show.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
said Tuesday at a press
conference that Operation Epic
Fury, roughly 2 month military
operation that kicked off US and
Israel war with Iran, had
effectively ended.
It's over.
Epic fury is.
Epic fury has ended.
We are now on strictly defence.
No more offence unless they
attack us first.
OK.
I don't see how that how it's
over though.
I mean.
Stock market surging.
Yeah, and gas prices are coming
down.
They are.
Now all the air and attacks are
just to clear the Strait of
Hormuz, so they're probably
going to have another name
probably tomorrow.
Epic, epic Hormuz.
Clean straight of Hormuz.
Epic.
Blow these guys up.
Let's go.
Operation purge the drain.
Oh, that's good.
Purge the drain.
Purge the drain, pull the plug.
Pull the plug.
Sink the Titanic.
I thought if things were over
and all is good, then why do we
have to?
Well, because there's all those
mines floating around that
nobody has a map of where
they're at.
This is an easy situation.
Oh, that sounds like good.
Is he?
Is Rubio here?
What's the situation?
How do you How do you solve it?
You just take one of those
bomber deers, put them, put them
over the straighter mutes and
drop the bombs, baby, 'cause
when they blow up, they're gonna
blow up all the mines.
Oh, I I just didn't just do
bombing runs and straighten
until things stop blowing up.
So it's operation Purge is what
you're saying?
Yeah, purge the drain like you
said.
And as the bombers fly over,
they do the purge noise.
Yeah.
Accidentally drop one on the
guys that are not letting us
through like.
A couple of boats in the harbour
and.
Stuff.
Yeah.
Hey, you remember you guys
wouldn't let us through.
I'm sorry I'm.
Sorry, whoa.
We're terrible at this. the
United States has shifted to a
defensive posture.
In parentheses, focus more on
restoring commercial passage
through the Strait of Hormuz,
the narrow waterway that carries
a significant share of the
world's energy supplies.
His remarks came days after the
Trump administration told
Congress hostilities against
Iran had formally ended.
We're not mad anymore.
We're everything's fine.
We have a peaceful.
Peace.
But nobody's saying we have
declared that we have won.
No, that's part of part of the
deal.
Part of the deal?
Yeah, well, that's the problem.
There's not a deal yet.
It's coming.
Like who broke up with who?
Yeah.
Right.
I didn't break up with her or
she didn't break up with me.
I broke up with her, right?
Yeah.
That's not going.
It was us, not you.
It's OK, we can still be
friends.
It's kind of like when Brad Pitt
broke up with Angelina Jolie.
Is that what happened?
Did you ever really hear about
that?
I thought Angelina broke up with
Brad.
We don't know.
I think that's what he's saying.
Yeah.
Yeah, I heard that too.
Yeah, I heard she's a little
Coco for Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Well, she's a thespian, so fine.
Not commenting.
Right.
And an unrelated story, Iran has
been they're saying that they're
using kamikaze dolphins.
Kamikaze.
Dolphins ran to use kamikaze
dolphins to attack US ships in
the Hormuz.
Well, we're back on the attack,
that guy.
Oh, we're playing defence.
We're playing defence, not
offense.
I wonder if it's that 17
Dolphins that got loose.
We're fighting is oh, they, they
got.
Them.
Yeah, they found.
The ones that that got away,
you're.
Not going to believe this, Sir.
Sir, you're not going.
To believe this, there's these
dolphins out here that hate
America.
Yeah, they're yelling.
No Trump in Dolphin.
They're they're saying no kings,
yelling, yelling, no kings.
These guys strap.
And they have infidels tattooed
on their fins.
These guys strap bombs on
dolphins and then made it like
the dolphins were on their side.
Yeah, they're kamikazes.
No, wait.
A second.
They've got bombs on the end of
their noses.
The fact a Bottlenose these are
bomb.
Nose the fact that you believe
this, they don't have dolphins.
Well, they probably strap bombs
to them, hoping that they'd run
into something.
Eventually, Team Trump said the
idea was first reported by the
Wall Street Journal on April
30th, with an article claiming
that Iranian officials have said
Iran could use mine carrying
dolphins amid continued concerns
over Iranian mines disrupting
the shipping operations in the
straight of removes.
US Secretary of Defense Peter
Hagseth.
Is that you?
Said Hagseth?
Yeah, fielded questions on
whether or not Duran had
dolphins and he said they don't
have dolphins.
The idea is not very far
fetched, it seems to Several
nations, including United
States, have reported used
kamikaze dolphins in conflict
areas, though not as weapons.
However, he dismissed the idea,
saying he could confirm that
Iran did not have dolphins to
deploy as part of the operation.
When he was asked if we had
dolphins, he said I can neither
confirm nor deny that we have
kamikaze dolphins.
We absolutely have dolphins, but
they're not kamikaze dolphins.
Maybe either one or two.
No, I think that they like RAM.
They're very That's what a
kamikaze does.
But they don't die.
Well, they have to to explode.
We don't.
We don't have.
If they just ram a ship, it's
really not going to do anything.
It's not.
They don't really ram ships like
they ram people.
So we have to sink the ship to
get the people in the water.
No, it's all about people like
in the water, you know, like
going into bays and stuff.
I'm not an expert, but I don't
think the Strait of Hormuz is a
big beach area at all.
I don't think there's much
resort.
You're right, you're not an
expert.
No, but.
Am I?
But there's.
Not a lot of.
I don't think that we deploy
dolphins in the Strait of
Hormuz.
I'm just simply stating that no,
there's been, there's always
been a theory that we have had
dolphins protecting naval bases
and all this other stuff we do
in bays.
Yeah, we do.
Right, but they took the ones
here to the streets.
See, our master commander is is
confirming this.
No, he did dogs on land.
From just production meeting
said you'd be nice.
I've seen them.
In the kamikaze dolphins.
Yeah, no, not the kamikaze
dolphins.
I've seen the ones over in
Virginia Beach do.
They have the red and white
circles on the side like the
kamikaze pilots.
No, they're not kamikaze.
Yeah.
They might have one.
Maybe he's very angry and sick.
No.
So he's willing to give up his
life.
No.
They get dolphins with cancer.
That and this is how they use
them, No?
Wow.
Yeah, that's not true.
Everything gets sick.
It's not my fault.
It's your fault you have so much
ash on your shirt.
It's all over your car too.
What are you doing actually on
the outside of your car?
Yes, it's been there for two
days.
Are you driving very, very slow?
No, I think that it was.
It happened when it was raining.
And you just thought this looks
nice.
No, I was thinking, I don't
care.
That's what I was thinking.
This car is too clean.
I don't care I'm I'm, I'm not
focused on my image and how
things look like.
I don't care how my car looks.
My car makes me happy and get in
my car.
I drive.
That's it.
Every once in a while the guys
out back washing cars say, hey,
you know what, it's been a year,
clean the car and he goes
awesome, you got it, car clean.
Just so happened that when he
clean the car, two days later
ash is stuck on the car.
So maybe next year the the ash
will fall off, OK, Or maybe a
good rain, good rain will get
the ash off.
Yes, I.
Don't know why you're attacking
me.
I'm.
Not attacking you, I've just
noticed it that it's there and I
would think the vigorous driving
that you do would clear it off.
No stuck on because of the rain,
OK.
All right, let's move forward,
you 2 vigorous guys.
Car washing dolphin uses his
little tail.
Yeah, but it might blow up
because he's a kamikaze car
wash.
Well, no, that's a completely
different.
Dolphin in the Strait of.
Hormuz they have different jobs.
From the USA, right?
Yeah.
The ones from marine land they
they closed over in the
Panhandle I.
Think I heard Pearl Sabor has
them too.
Oh, do they?
Yeah, you know, you know the
Europe Tobacco Association,
right?
Yeah.
They probably need them in
Europe.
Where you're not going.
Right where I'm not going, I
don't want to go.
To Europe?
Why not?
You don't want to go to Europe.
No, I'm talking about peril
Sabor.
Not safe anywhere.
You have not to go to Europe for
either.
Yeah, it's not safe anywhere.
What do you want to go to Europe
for?
Old buildings?
You can go to Detroit.
You can see old buildings.
I wouldn't mind seeing Rome.
When we get our headphones set
up, we're going to call Matt and
we're going to ask him.
I'm sure it's quite lovely.
My dad enjoyed going there.
My parents went once.
I've been to Rome.
You know.
Maybe maybe your wife would like
to go.
I think she wants to go to
Paris.
I don't think Rome is high on
her list.
Paris probably more dangerous
than Rome.
Yeah, they don't like Americans.
It's not safe anywhere.
Anymore.
OK.
Yeah.
I don't know how you're going to
be a national sales manager
travelling.
I don't mind travelling
nationally.
In the USI.
Don't mind AUS, it's outside of
the US.
Our first year I want I'm.
Not the international sales
manager, all right.
Well, I just got off the phone
with Compton Cigars.
Compton.
Yeah, Compton, that's.
Going to be our first event.
That's way worse than overseas.
What are you talking?
No, it's not.
All right, Delta Airlines is
announcing what?
Tupac talks about.
Yeah, but he's dead now.
Yeah, and and see.
What I'm saying, yeah.
Yeah, but I don't think Biggie
Small or whoever shot him is
looking for me.
Biggie Smalls didn't shoot him.
Oh, who shot him?
Oh God, let's not get into this.
I think Sugar was behind all of
this.
Suge Suge Knight, Suge Knight
and Diddy.
We believe in Jeff.
We have reason to believe that
these two were behind all of
this.
Yeah, this is a long story.
We'll add that to the graph.
OK, OK, my wives who shot?
Who shot?
Did he?
No, wait, who shot Tupac?
Who shot Tupac?
And there was a third one when
he went, oh, the timeline for
something.
Yes.
All right, we'll add that to the
chart list.
All right, Delta Airlines
announced a significant
adjustment to its complimentary
in flight snack and beverage
service effective May 19th based
on distance.
Under the new policy, passengers
and Main Cabin and Delta
Comfort, which would be the same
as the business class on Spirit
on routes under 350 miles will
no longer receive complimentary
snacks and drinks.
So that means they'll sell them
to you, not that they're not
doing it, they will sell them to
you.
Conversely, flights between 350
and 499 miles will be upgraded
to full snack and beverage
service, a shift from the
previous limited options.
OK.
Service on flights over 500
miles will remain unchanged.
All right, now I'm trying to
make sense of this.
Between 3:54 nine miles will
upgrade it to full snack and
beverage service.
So basically anything over 350
you get full snacks better.
I don't know why they listed 500
miles separately. 350 miles one
way.
I'm assuming yes.
That's a really short flight.
Yeah, you just have to fly out
of state basically.
Yeah.
So 350 miles is what like here
to Atlanta?
Atlanta's shorter I think than
350 because it's a quick flight.
No, it's like a 7 hour drive or
something.
Atlanta's over 300 and. 50
miles, yeah, Atlanta's over 350,
so just short commuter flights
sounds like.
Are you looking up how far is
the flight from Orlando to
Atlanta?
So anything over 500. 460.
Miles Yeah, There you go.
What can do?
So you can buy, you can buy some
nuts, but you don't get to.
Well, they're saying
complimentary, so that implies
that you could probably buy it.
But as I originally read a
different article, there was no
beverage or snack service on
flight 2:50.
No more.
That makes sense too.
No more delicious cookie.
Yeah, a lot of times you don't
anyway.
Or they just come by with like a
bottle of water and give
everybody a bottle of water.
Yeah, it doesn't say.
Like this is not an alarming
thing.
So what's a flight to Atlanta is
like an hour?
Yeah.
So anything under an hour, which
really they don't have time at
that point anyway.
Yeah, they're up.
They're down.
Yeah, they go up and then
they're down.
Yeah, the waitress is just
throwing water as she walked
down the house.
I got to have it back.
Drink fast.
Airline stated this decision,
which effects approximately 450
daily flights, was made to
enhance operational consistency
and safety on very short routes.
Passengers in first class are
exempt from the service cuts and
will continue to receive full
complimentary service regardless
of the distance.
That's right, you enjoy those
privileges.
On a 10 minute flight, would you
like a martini?
Yes, and a steak.
For $1200.
For $1200 For 12.
Distance you could walk.
You had to pay for the martini.
No, no, not first class.
All the booze is free, is it?
I've never been there.
It's free.
Well, he's older, so naturally
he should have had more
opportunities.
Flights.
They have an ice cream tray for
business.
I never said first class on
international.
Did you eat business?
Did you eat the fried Chinese
ice cream?
Fried ice cream is a Mexican
dish.
Doesn't the Chinese have like
fried ice?
Cream, they do the green ice
cream.
Oh, the green.
Tea tastes terrible.
And.
There's a brown one that looks
like dirt that tastes like dirt.
Probably is dirt.
They're resourceful.
Could be oh, they got to feed
them something.
There's a lots of the people's.
McDonald's is quietly ditching a
popular in store feature
nationwide.
Anybody want to guess?
Employees.
Clever.
And it was fast.
Congratulations.
The bathrooms.
No.
Chairs.
Nope.
All right, one more, one more,
the ball pit.
That's been gone.
That's been gone.
Well, I was right.
Those were nasty things.
Transition expected to roll out
gradually as restaurants are
remodeled with completion plan
for 2032.
They're taken away the
self-serve drinks.
Oh, why?
Let's read on, yeah?
'Cause people are fat, that's
why.
People are fat restaurant the
reduced labor and maintenance
demands and adapt to changing
consumer habits that
increasingly favored take out,
delivery and drive through
service over dining in
McDonald's confirmed the change
in the statement, saying as
confirmed in 2023, McDonald's
will be transitioning away from
self-serve beverages.
Not enough people are using it.
It's not cost effective to have
it sitting there because most
people don't eat a McDonald's
anymore.
Well, yeah, I mean, you get it
to go, you got these plastic
benches.
Right.
It's very uncomfortable.
What do you want to?
Sit there intentionally
uncomfortable, I would say.
Probably yes.
We don't want you to stay.
Then we got to clean up after
you.
It is a nice stop on the road to
get a drink or something and
because I usually all have free
Wi-Fi.
Two things, yeah.
And it's good Wi-Fi.
It's good Wi-Fi.
I like it.
Starbucks are those places like
that where you have to agree to
get emails and stuff from them
and give them your all.
Your.
Information just straight
McDonald's Wi-Fi.
Straight making these Wi-Fi.
Straight making these Wi-Fi with
a soda or coffee.
You sit there all day if you
want.
Ronald McDonald, baby, that's.
Right.
So they're going to remodel all
these for the next 10 years or
so and it be done by 2032.
By then they might change your
mind.
Start putting them back in.
Yeah, five years later.
Oh, and and the new change
everyone's eating at McDonald's
we're putting back in the drink
service.
Plus also maybe people were
abusing the free refills 'cause
now you'll be less likely to to
get a.
Refill, I don't think that.
I think that that's marginal.
I don't think that they care.
No.
Yeah, yeah, like the Uber guy
going there and having to wait
for your food.
He uses your cup to get a drink
and then brings you your drink.
He uses your cup to get a drink.
I don't think they give a drink
to the to the Uber guy.
We'll never know.
We'll never know.
Well, most places put a sticker
over the top of it.
Yeah, he takes.
Come on, You don't think you
could take that off and put it
back on?
I can barely get it off clean
when I want to drink out of it
when it gets to my house.
Well, now your muscles are
going.
Now it's very sticky glue.
It comes off in pieces.
See, You know what?
I try to be nice to him and this
is what I get.
He's been attacking me the
entire show.
He really has.
I didn't attack it.
All gloves are off.
You just called me old twice.
We.
You are old.
Well, oh see, it's so easy it
could go well.
You are fat.
See.
You shouldn't.
But I didn't.
But I didn't say that though.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
Yeah.
You look beautiful.
Wow, stop.
Attacking my friend.
Yeah, stop attacking me.
Whether that's make delivery,
the app, kiosk, drive through or
in restaurants, you cannot get
your own drink soon.
OK.
All right, a bear.
What is the we're talking now?
Yeah, we haven't talked about
any.
Well, he's been he's been
playing with his phone.
I figured he'd just.
Rattling through things we
don't.
Have 1/2 hour.
I still got another.
News story you in a rush our
people want to hear.
Things they are hearing, things
they're hearing me talk as
you're texting away on.
Your phone?
Yeah, you're just.
You ever mix fountain drinks?
I did, yes.
What did you?
What would you mix?
I knew you'd say.
Are you new?
Yeah, you're you're you're a
fast food connoisseur.
Sprite and Powerade Sprite.
And Powerade.
Yeah, I used to do the ocean
water before it was really ocean
water.
That's what it's called, ocean
water.
At Sonics it is.
So it was a blue Powerade or
something?
Blue Powerade, yeah, and Sprite.
Oh, that sounds good.
It is good.
Who knows what's up?
Well, yeah, I mean, I would
accept his recommendation as
fact.
Like you said, he's a fast food
connoisseur.
What about you?
Ever mixed sodas?
When I was a kid, you do a
suicide where you just get on
some of the all of it.
It's called the suicide.
Suicide.
You never did that.
No.
His parents didn't like him.
He wasn't allowed to go, Greg.
You get whatever you want, Greg.
I love these suicides.
Mikey starts to do it.
Put that down.
What are you doing?
You ever hear a New Jersey
Turnpike?
Yeah, that's not a, that's a,
that's a alcohol thing.
Yeah, I mean, I used to work in
a bar when I was.
Like, yeah, it's all the
alcohols, the bottom of them or
whatever.
Put, no, it's not the bottom of
it.
So what it is, is at the end of
the night or as you get close to
the end of the night, like all
your drinks are made in and
there's like this rubber lining,
right?
So you could take that and you
dump it all in and then you can
serve it.
It's called a New Jersey
Turnpike.
Yeah.
It's gross.
Yeah.
Well, at least it's not all the
half empty glasses.
What are you talking about?
It's it's that might as well be.
It's the overflow, it's not the
stuff people have been drinking,
it's when they pour the drinks
in the glass they spill on the
pad.
Yeah, because they wash that
rubber mat well, I'm sure.
At the end of every night.
Yeah, they rinse it off.
We do, yeah.
You rinse.
What do you think?
They do in the glasses.
That goes through the three
sinks.
Yeah, OK.
Well, I would do three sinks.
That was what we did when I was
a bartender or bar back.
OK.
Is that what's wrong with that?
I think.
You get the brushy, you get the
brushy.
Brushy.
Yeah.
And you got the the water and
then sanitizer.
Yeah, but the mat doesn't go
through that.
At the end of the night I would
actually put it through that and
then I would rinse it.
After the New Jersey Turnpike.
Yeah, right.
So he's clean the.
Next.
So the whole night you've been
touching the mat.
He didn't touch at the bottom of
the clean glass that he
scrubbed.
Oh, nobody touches the mat,
Palmer.
Why would you touch the mat
you're touching the?
Glass, whatever.
I would say that we touched the
mat.
Yeah, you've obviously never
been in a bar.
Here we have a bar upstairs with
a mat.
The bar upstairs is way
different, yeah.
Bar upstairs is not.
Bill Bar.
It's not even close to where I
used to work.
Oh, I know it's nicer upstairs.
I've been to the place I used to
work.
Yeah, there's a lot of people.
Place.
Right by the bear place.
Speaking of bears.
Right by the bear place.
Yeah, yeah, the restaurant, it's
like Big Bear or something like
that.
Big Bear.
Something bear.
South Florida.
Are you there with your mother?
Oh, but it wasn't the place
anymore.
It was like something else.
Yeah, it's called something
else, but Greg said that was the
bar you guys worked at.
Did he just admit to dating your
mother?
No, I didn't.
That'd be great because you owe
me some birthday presents.
Come on Bootsy, let's go out for
a drink.
What are you getting in for
Mother's Day?
He doesn't.
He gets her Valentine's present.
You know, I'm gonna be like
Palmer.
I don't have any kids with a
lady so.
I have, I have.
I have kids with all my wife.
I'm going to tell you right now,
you better acknowledge your wife
on.
Mother's Day.
I've already got it.
Yeah, exactly.
It came yesterday.
It's hidden in the guest room.
Yeah.
I thought you say you don't get
her gifts because the kids are
grown.
Up.
I don't, but there's things
going on.
Oh, OK, got it.
I don't understand this guys.
I don't like how do you not like
do you get your mom your wife?
Did you get your wife Mother's
Day gift?
I did when the kids were
younger, but now the kids.
Still the mother.
Technically no.
Yeah, I was as I was saying it,
I had to stop, right?
Yeah, but no.
But she's still a mom.
Right.
And she has two sons.
I got a friend that like my best
friend's mom, I always give her
a Mother's Day gift.
OK, she's not your wife.
Yeah, but she probably treated
you like a son more than your
mother did as you were growing
up.
Probably.
There you.
Go Mother's Day is not about
acknowledging the the mother of
your children, right?
Mother's Day is about
acknowledging mothers.
Yeah, well, then I would like
all of you to get my mother a
present, because I'm not.
I would, but she's not going to
remember, so I'm going to tell
her that I did.
She don't even know what's
Mother's Day.
I'm going to say, hey, Happy
Mother's Day.
I hope you like the gift they
gave you.
And I'm going to walk away and
she's going to say, who the hell
was that guy?
Yeah, well, she's only met you
once.
Yeah, you.
Know what would be even funnier
is if she remembered me right?
Yeah, like, oh, hey, Mike, like,
oh God.
So yeah, I don't, I don't know
how you.
Told me the other day MM and his
wife are going to come in this
weekend.
I'm like, I am Mike, I'm not
coming.
She mixes the wives up with the
sons.
So like my brother's wife's name
is crap I can't even remember
off the top of.
My head now.
Oh man.
Tina, you should have said
something.
I don't know why he said you.
Gotta remember.
Yeah, Yeah.
Aaron.
Her name is Aaron.
Because Mike and Aaron's coming
in this weekend.
I'm like, Mike is not coming
with Aaron, Mom, Why not?
Because I'm not married to her.
I'm right here.
I feel like you add to the
situation.
You make it worse.
You probably.
Do Oh, I'm not nice about it
because she wasn't when Dad was
going through it.
She wasn't nice to him about it.
Raymond, I've told you 12 Times
Now, stop it, Dad.
Just looking at us.
Well, why?
Don't you lay back and let's
talk about this.
Yeah, you want you want to do a.
Little therapy.
Let's unpack this a little more.
That was what I was looking for.
Let's unpack that.
So yeah, acknowledge you should.
You should acknowledge your wife
on Mother's Day.
I always tell her Happy Mother's
Day.
You going out to dinner or
anything?
She wants to go to the beach for
the day because none of the kids
are coming to visit.
Connor will probably get her
something, or at least a card.
He always does that.
He calls her mom.
I can see Connor giving doing
that.
Excuse me?
OK.
Yeah, still got that little bit
of a linger.
It doesn't go away for like a
month.
I know.
It's just less, yeah.
You feel like you need like a
really big one to get it out and
then it just.
Right.
The coach I coach with, he
started coughing yesterday,
started coughing you.
Don't call him Preston anymore.
I'm like, here we go.
No, that's a different coach.
He.
Didn't say his boyfriend, he
said the coach.
I thought maybe he was mad at
him.
That's what you said.
No, no, no, no.
He's also my boyfriend.
Don't be, you know, don't you
discredit my coaches.
I like when they're on the
phone, they all call each other.
Coach, hey coach.
Hey coach.
Hey, Coach.
It's just one big coach or so.
No, no, it was so and so.
I was like, oh, sorry to know.
It's like a little club.
Totally different coach.
It's incredible.
It's been confusing.
When you guys are all hanging
out together.
Do you guys watch?
It Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Do you guys watch the TV show
Coach?
No, there's ATV zone.
They used to be, yeah, I've seen
it.
Yeah, I've seen it.
Nope.
OK, Anyways, continue.
Tell us about the Bears, Mike.
The bear injured 2 hikers on a
trail at Yellowstone National
Park.
That's your tongue.
I thought you were gonna tell me
that the RIP show came on and it
was terrible.
Oh no, there is a new episode of
the Bear that came out.
I saw that too but I didn't.
The bear The bear where he's a
chef.
No.
I saw something about the TV
show The Bear too, but it wasn't
this.
Yeah, this is ATV show and I
don't like it.
You don't.
A lot of people like this TV
show.
What TV show?
The Chef 1.
The bear.
The bear.
I tried watching season 1.
I didn't.
Really care.
There's not a new season,
though.
I saw.
So maybe they were referencing
the actor from the bear or
something like that, but the
headline had something but a
bear.
So anyway, they prompted a
closure of some areas, park
officials said Tuesday.
Subscribers to the oh, I don't
know what that is.
The National Park Service said
in a statement that hikers were
injured Monday by one or more
bears.
Oh, a group.
A pack of bears.
What's what do you call a group
of bears?
A cuddle?
No, it's not that sloth.
A pack.
And that the attack was under
investigation.
More details were not
immediately released Tuesday.
The attack happened on Mystic
Falls.
Trail call a group of bears.
Near the ever popular Old
Faithful geyser.
Oh, tried by Old Faithful.
A group of bear pairs No.
What's a group?
What's a group of pears?
What's a group of pears, a
basket, a bowl, a bunch, or a
cluster?
A cluster of bears.
What do you call a group of
bears?
Let's see.
Oh man, you know what AI is?
Sometimes it's good, sometimes
it's still so bad, right mind
Now when I'm doing graphics,
sometimes it cuts and paste
itself.
So I like change this to this
and it just takes the image I
wanted and it just slaps it on
there.
Well, it's 'cause you guys are
working at your AI like a
Chinese sweatshop.
Faster.
Faster, I ask it all kinds of
things.
Right.
How do?
You do.
A group of bears is most
commonly called a sleuth or,
ironically, A sloth.
Oh nice.
So it's all connected.
It's all intertwined, the animal
Kingdom.
All intertwined.
So apparently one of the guys
got his face bit and his chest
torn open.
They airlifted him out to safety
where the other guy was just
driven.
I.
Want to go on a helicopter?
There's only room for one and he
doesn't have a face.
I don't want to have a face, you
know what they're saying?
But I have his face here in my
pocket, yeah.
If you're going to be a bear, be
a grizzly.
Right.
So, but they don't know if there
was one or two, but they have
closed all the trails around Old
Faithful.
Wait, Frank, I got to see his
teeth.
I got to see which one he is.
It was the first time a bear has
injured somebody.
Yellowstone National Park this
year.
Oh, just this year.
This year.
There's got to be a bear attack
every year.
The last time someone was
injured was September of last
year, so not that far away,
agency said.
But it's been over a decade
since they killed someone in the
park, so you know.
You know, I don't want to sound
crazy here, but like reoccurring
bear attacks.
Yeah, yearly.
That's still a thing.
I'm.
Kind of not going on the
Yellowstone Trail, right?
Well, first of all, this guy
hasn't been pronounced dead yet
'cause he's in the helicopter.
Yeah, no, this guy's not dead.
His chest was ripped open and
his face is off I.
Mean well his shirt was bloody
so they're assuming he was
ripped open.
They didn't like check him
before they took him away in
the.
Helicopter wasn't there like a
Canadian trail, remember?
That yeah, last year where they
attacked a group of school
children, 1 Bear.
Yeah, I mean, if I'm going to do
something like this, I feel like
I need to be armed with like an
elephant gun or something.
Well, this is my old faithful
People go to it all the time.
Yeah, how do you, how do you not
pack heat?
How do you not see the bear?
Well, you could see the bear and
you know, then they're stupid
and go, oh, let's take a
picture.
How close can I get to the bear?
You think that's what happens?
This guy had no face.
Yeah.
One time I went pick.
I might have told the story for
one time when Connor was young.
I went to pick him up at his
daycare and it was over by
Wekiva and they were on a bear
lockdown because a bear had
climbed onto the property at the
school.
A black bear.
Yeah, a black bear.
There's a big black bear.
So I asked.
I go, they go.
We're on lockdown with soon.
The police get here.
You know they're going to do
something.
I go so I can do something to
the police.
Get here.
Except we don't recommend it.
So there's a walkway between the
one building and the other
building where the bear was.
I walked past the bear to go get
Connor.
Did you?
Yeah, Hello, Bear.
Don't attack me, Bear me.
Who's about as close as me and
you?
Yeah, but that's a.
It's a black bear.
That's a suburbian bear.
Well, I know, but still.
I mean, everybody else is hiding
in the office.
I'm like, right, I've been here
for hours and went.
To the police, get here.
The bear that ripped the face
off is literally in the.
Wild.
He's a grizzly.
Yeah, he's a grizly bear of some
sort.
He's not a Yeah, he ain't a
black bear.
Lance Crosby, 63, was killed by
a grizzly bear in Yellowstone
back in August of 2015.
So 11 years ago, a man had his
body ripped apart.
Did they get that bear?
It doesn't say, but I think they
go.
It's like an alligator.
Once it bites somebody, I think
they.
You got to get to take care of
the.
Barry, kill it.
It develops a taste.
Make a rug.
Yeah, some trails in other parts
of the park have been closed
after Monday's attack, the Park
Service said in a statement.
Season Park employee Mary
Jaskula, who saw the victim
being put on the stretcher, said
the attack was sobering.
Very much reality check, Jaskula
said.
And we have read a quote.
Once the once you enter the
forest, you become part of the
food chain you.
Are the food, Jay?
All right, we got a new contest
early.
We can talk about the Bears
somewhere.
I never know what you guys are
doing.
Yeah, let's talk about the
bears, because I know it's going
to jade you a little bit.
No, let's not talk about the
bears.
Go ahead.
All right, There's a new
contest.
Tell me.
All right, yesterday's video,
there was a place where we had
to bleep out something that I
said yes.
So here's the contest.
You have to find the bleeped out
section.
Several people have already
asked.
Well, 2, not several, it's two,
several or two.
OK, people have already asked
what it is not telling, but you
got to find that.
And then the last clear comment
before the bleep is there was a
time when you'd sell six or
seven of those.
So you have to comment on this
show, not that show, this show
with the and what you think I
said, all right.
And the funniest one wins.
OK, how long do they have?
They have until since you're not
going to be here Monday, they
have until Tuesday's possible
live show.
OK.
So see, this is what episode
this is.
No, this Tuesday is not going to
have a live show.
You're mixing up days.
Oh yeah, that's a week or.
So, so Wednesday.
I'm going to so today's the
25th, 26th 27 by episode 228.
Well, that way it's easier
because the day thing 228 yeah,
3 episodes from now.
So 528.
Yeah, it's 528.
Because you said 228.
Listen, guys, just get it in
before Sunday, please.
It's.
Not Sunday.
It's Tuesday.
OK, where are they going to win?
Oh.
I didn't grab it that lighter
cutter set that I showed the
other day.
How about Phil's mask?
No.
Anybody wants that?
Thing nobody wants that.
Thing you're headed on for a
month now.
So they get the pick, they get
the pick.
That thing's going in the
garbage.
They get the pick you want to
put the lighter.
In there, in my locker, I'm
going to throw that away.
The Phantom of the Opera.
There's no need to keep going.
Just, well, I can sign it.
Let's give it away.
OK, well, let's ask if people
want it.
Well, there you go.
If you guys want, if you guys
want to win.
Phil's old mask.
Phil's Phantom of the Opera mask
and then eventually this Mardi
Gras mask.
Phil will have to come up with a
contest on how he's giving it
away if you guys want.
To, I mean, they got this
comment below or something, but
just say, hey, yes, you want to
do it or, you know, whatever.
Yeah, we're not hanging on to
these things.
Memorabilia.
No.
Well, we used to.
There's no reason to.
They ended up just being thrown
away when we lost the studio.
Yeah.
All right, Michael, do you have
a video?
I do.
Oh how exciting.
I have a video for you.
Is it Palmer coming in late?
Is it dry in here to anybody
else?
It's very dry in here today.
No.
Yeah, it's a little.
Bit Nope.
So this is a video that came
across my feed today from Cigar
TV.
Oh, I'm getting away from the
three camera and put it just on
monkey.
Attaboy.
And by across his feed, he means
he looked at it right before we
started the show.
Yep.
Here at the 2026 PCA Convention
in New Orleans, we have the
quinquad scenario that we're
going to be dropping out later
this fall.
This is my 50th kind of birthday
cigar, you could say.
So the idea it'll be a 5 by 50,
kind of staying in line as far
as the robusto size, I'm going
to make it out of Costa Rica
Tobacco's Costa Rica.
It'll be the second cigar that
we've ever made outside of our
factory.
The first one we did with Ernie
Carrillo for skips for his
version.
This will be mine.
So this is over here.
This is the craft edition.
So we just dropped this.
This is the craft 2026 got the
multi colored stripings.
It's a very decorative beautiful
cigar.
We did about 2000 boxes.
This is the 2026 version this
year we did it with the the
leather overlap and years before
we've done metal.
So this is a unique layout.
Again, my name is Michael Rizzos
of Roman Crafted Back, and
you're watching cigar TV.
OK.
Let's talk.
Yeah.
So first of all.
Cigar TV never covers us.
Oh, I didn't think we were
talking about that.
That's not where we're.
Starting No.
Oh, sorry.
I thought that's why we were
watching a video.
No, no.
Yeah, OK.
Well, there's that.
Do another bleep out contest.
No, I think that's, no, that's
staying.
Yeah, there's that.
We were with this guy all week,
for starters.
Well, for all.
Let me back it up.
Michael Rosales does not get
enough attention as far AS Roma
craft, as far as I'm concerned.
OK, Right.
That's correct.
Is that we all agree on that?
Yeah.
I mean, the guy puts in the
work, the guy's a sale, the
guy's the row in the Roma,
Right.
And all you hear about is skip
all the time.
Well to be fair, Skip post all
his own stuff.
Mikey or Michael never post
hardly anything.
No, he posts a he.
He posts a lot.
Like when he goes to events and
stuff.
Yeah, but not I mean skip posts
when he has to go to the
bathroom.
Yeah, I mean, he posted.
Yeah.
I've never seen a bathroom skip
post.
Yeah, I haven't seen that one,
but I understand what you're
saying.
It's.
Kind of weird.
He's very regular, just so you
guys know.
But you understand what he's
saying, no?
I understand what he's saying.
Like, put like, like, yeah, but
that's how Skip started, right?
Yeah, he's always been on social
media, right?
Regardless, I just, you know,
regardless of whether he posted
a lot or not, he doesn't get
enough attention, correct, In my
opinion.
Yeah, we were with this guy all
week.
Right.
Yeah, Talk to him almost every
day.
Did you know about the Micro
Rosales Quadrinario?
I saw that 1976 thing.
I thought it was another, you
know, some kind of bicentennial
cigar they were doing.
I didn't realize that's what it
was.
I mean.
Yeah, I I've never heard of
that.
Yeah, I mean, they do all that
stuff with prohibition and
everything.
I thought they, well, there's
some type of bicentennial cigar
coming.
Out, I thought.
I thought he did his own cigar.
Well, when he started in the
business, he had his own cigar
made in Costa Rica.
No, no, it was after the
Frenchie.
No.
There was another one.
It was like a Barber pole.
He has had a couple of blends
made for himself to smoke.
Oh, maybe that's what it was.
Where he's come in, Yeah, He's
given me one or two before
where, you know, go, Oh, that's
weird.
What is that?
And he'll go.
I just had him roll it at the
factory.
I got like 20 or 30 of them.
Maybe we shouldn't be saying
anything to Monkey.
Oh, you've gotten 1 before?
I've been there when he gave me
one.
I bought them from.
Here, have I?
Yeah, you bought them?
I'm, I'm telling you, there was
a it wasn't the French.
Just filled for the cigar.
That's $10.
No, it was a it was a maquette.
It was one that he really liked.
A maquette that he made.
Yeah, and the size that he
liked.
Maybe that might be right.
That might have just been for
him though too now.
You could just be a maquette,
like I could see that, but he
hasn't done a 50th.
It was like a French name.
French fry.
Oh.
French bread.
Wasn't the French fry that was
like a French name.
French.
Grassant.
Start with AM.
Mauson.
Start with AM.
Yeah.
Maquette no Marinero.
No, it's like.
M Bombay.
Muzzinet or something?
It was Muzzinet, yeah.
It was something like.
That Maserati.
No.
Michelin moon pie God.
Please just call skip.
Missouri.
Montana.
Malibu Moon.
When we're doing cities Mountain
Valley.
No.
Are you calling Skip?
He's not up.
Is this his nap tech?
It started with AM and it was
like a French name.
I can't wait till we got this
headphones set up.
Please God, answer might be too
early.
One of the show does this.
I love this.
Especially when they answer and
they don't.
Answer.
Who are you calling skipper?
Michael.
Yeah.
Maybe you should just call
Rosales.
He's probably up.
He drinks coffee, he's not up.
Not even a voicemail.
He's an hour behind, right?
Yes.
So yeah, he's not up the one
that hasn't been shown enough.
Good point.
Call that.
Maybe they're talking to each
other.
They're probably podcasting.
Damn it, he's calling me now.
Wow.
Wow 2 Fer now I'm going to call
somebody random and see if they
answer.
Maybe nobody wants to talk to
you, Michael.
I bet you Brett Frye knows.
Or the Cow.
What's his name?
Ronnie.
Ronnie would know.
Hold on, hold on.
I want to see if I'm going to
strike that.
Doing.
My man, you're on the podcast.
I just want to see if you
answered.
Fucking figured as much.
Oh, I love this guy.
Man, documentation or not, I
want you to know that when I see
your name, yes, my guess is you
are in my phone because you
understand the rest of it.
People are like, hey, how do you
say that?
You know, 'cause I wore your
trade show badge around.
I said I don't fucking, but he's
a good friend of mine and
they're like, does he know how
to say it?
I said absolutely not.
He can't even say this.
Yeah, no one can.
Say this.
No one can say this.
It's a mystery.
No one can say it.
Yeah.
But that's, I think that there's
power in mystery and I think
that that's one of the things
that's been tragically eroded a
bit in our beloved industry.
You know, power of mystery has
been kind of corroded a little.
Bit yeah, the curtain has been
pulled back indeed, a little bit
yeah, the.
The meat.
Flaps, as they would refer to
them in other industry slaps.
Yeah, Yeah.
OK.
Well.
This guy's.
Pension that it.
That's a little.
Test, listen and you're awesome.
Fucking beat people over the
head for your Patreon bullshit.
That's what about me.
Like that's it.
I called.
I called, I called Skip.
He didn't answer.
I called Michael, he didn't
answer.
I said, all right, I'm going to
call somebody.
I bet you, he answers.
Now we know.
And you?
Rock of Ages.
And you fucking delivered.
Is he a patriot as?
Always What's the F words
please?
Thanks everybody.
Yeah, no, we love you.
All right, buddy love.
You bye love you.
Just, you know, he called two
other people first.
You too.
OK, bye.
Bye.
Bye bye.
Is he in a meeting?
I found out the name.
Yeah.
Yeah, Skip texted me.
That's good.
It's the Mon Cherie.
Oh the Mon Cherie.
Yeah, that was the one for
Rosales.
Got it.
Yeah, sorry.
Matt Booth answers.
But everybody, Matt Booth
answers yes.
Are they still doing the
meetings?
Probably.
Who?
Justin.
Yeah, that's why, he whispered.
No, he's just screwing around.
Oh, OK, go ahead.
Oh, sorry.
Cigar News.
You know, if you engaged with
us, that'd probably help.
Wait, were you I?
Was engaged with you.
I'm the ones who reading all the
stories.
No, yeah, but like after I talk
and I say something about, you
know, like you got a guy on the
phone, blah, blah, blah, blah,
you could come back and say
something witty.
Customer had texted me and I had
to answer the customer by.
The way that's.
My other third or fourth job,
that being very.
Bitter.
You never finished what you were
talking about.
What?
Were you talking?
About you're talking about, did
you ever see this birthday cigar
when you guys were there?
Yeah, I thought that was weird.
I thought we were done with that
when they didn't answer the
phone, Yeah.
Because you transitioned to
Monterey.
But either way, I'm excited
about the birthday cigar, the
Queen Quad scenario.
We might not be getting it
because he didn't tell us.
Yeah, we didn't even know IS.
That what they're calling his
too.
It's going to be confusing,
yeah.
That's why I said I was like, I
was wondering if they're going
to call it the Queen Quad.
Genario it should be called like
Queen Quad Genario Tambien.
Something.
Yeah, they really say that's
what they were calling it.
I thought he just said that.
Was Skip Cigar the Queen Quad
Genario?
I don't, I think it was a Queen
Quad Genario.
That is what was on the front of
the box.
Yeah, maybe it's the 1976 Quinn
Quan de Janeiro.
Maybe.
Yeah, he didn't mention at all.
It's weird.
Nobody.
Over there did think I make it
to 50.
I walked over there and was
looking at it.
Yeah, would you make a 50th
birthday cigar?
We're.
Going to call it the Quinn
Quanero.
It's about it's about 8 1/2
years away.
From 1987.
Actually, my birthday is coming
up.
I know this.
Yeah, it's in the calendar. 42.
On the calendar.
Oh, please don't look at me.
Oh no.
I didn't say Oh no, I just have
42.
Yeah, but you made that face.
That was a bad thing.
I don't remember 42.
Well, you don't remember a lot
of things.
Yeah.
Grand, it's time for you over
there.
Touch my Gran Torino.
You tear it up, I'm going to
take a.
You tired of cleaning chocolate
off that equipment by the end of
the show too, by the way?
Oh good.
You leave him alone, he needs
his snacks.
Yes, no, it's from he needs.
His fuel you'll be quiet over.
There, it's from all the ashes.
All right, pay attention because
there's only one cigar story, so
we're going to try to read it.
Slow all.
Right, we'll just.
Why we're at 51 minutes.
Because it's a cigar show, we
haven't had any cigar news.
No, just read it super fast.
Limited edition size of the
Macanumo Gold Label series is
making its way to retailers
today called gold bullion.
Oh God, oh God, the cigars box
Prestoro measuring 6 inches by
54 ring gauge.
It comes in 20 count boxes and
it's 1349 limited edition gold
bullion brand.
It's a general cigar.
Nobody cares.
The golden chicken.
It wasn't even on a good
website, but it was the only
current news story that nobody
cares.
Nobody cares.
So there's a lot of information
because it's got a weird, but
it's got a weird wrapper.
Yeah, very rare.
The Connecticut rapper from the
lower half of the plant so.
You know, very rare.
So it's time for the industry's
favorite game.
What's the?
Score.
The day cigar February 13th,
2021 Brooks Whittington cigars
it's the Dominican Republic.
We're pro Sabor is limited
edition reviews taba Calera SLU
Vega.
Vajilli.
Vega Fina.
Year of the Ox.
Oh jeez, 84.
Today was the day to hit page
#13 lucky.
The reviews are on numbered
pages.
I don't like anything on page
one.
It's mostly numbered cigars and
so I like to go to the end where
they have the bigger, better
names.
But today was page 13.
Oh, 81, he said. 84.
Oh, did you say?
Yeah, it's the year of the Ox.
It's from the Dominican Republic
Tabacolera de Garcia.
It's got a Bano 2000 rapper
$9.48, about 16151 dollars.
It was released six years ago in
2020 and they smoked 3 cigars.
85.
Yeah, I'm a Go 82.
Blue number one beautiful
presentation with that oily milk
chocolate wrapper and the
flavour profile delivers creamy
oak and cocoa nibs.
Leads the way with a smooth
balance character that's easy to
enjoy from the first draw. 90.
100.
They're supposedly there's a 99
but I can't find it.
Oh, really?
I thought we did a. 99 yeah man
auto devil off.
Oh, did we do it?
Yeah.
There was more than one.
Then just one.
There's only one Oh OK clue #2
the evolving sweetness is a
standout, shifting from Raisin
to caramel to milk chocolate,
adding depth while maintaining A
consistently creamy medium body
profile with solid overall
construction.
You think you reviewed that
cigar, like, post threesome or
something?
That's why it was in 99.
Yeah.
Like, you know, how do you hit
that number?
Like some strange went down
recently and he was like, it
didn't matter what he was
smoking, you know?
There a good low main box and
then.
Straight to the threesome.
I didn't hear anything you said.
I'm a stick 90.
You're so angry you need a hug
91.
Why do I bother if you're not
even listening?
I just got consumed with the
fact that.
Charlie, I don't want to hug.
I'm hot and I'm sweaty.
This jacket's too heavy for this
season.
But I wonder, I wonder where the
grey shoes?
Comes to threesome.
You know, you could have just
wrote me that thank you note
that I wanted yesterday and
everything would.
Be fine.
Oh, you are sweaty.
I know this jacket's heavy for
the.
Season that's that's what it is
he's sweaty I.
Forgot to turn the air on too.
I'm, I'm so like used to
switching the cameras based off
of hearing your voices when you
were talking, when you were
hugging him.
I switched to your camera.
Yeah, you.
Can do a good job of it too.
I was I was admiring that on the
clips today.
Thanks.
Like damn, he's fast.
Cigar lacks the strength and
punch it advertised to have an
early burn draw inconsistencies
keep it from feeling as refined
as it could be. 84. 89.
I heard everything you said on
that one.
The Vega fan of Year of the Ox
is a great example of an
extremely smooth blend, whereas
the dominant flavors change
very, very little, which when
you're talking about a cigar
this size, is usually not a
great thing.
While the main complexity in the
profile comes from a morphing
nature of the sweetness of the
retro Hale, in this specific
release, the sweetness changes
from dense Raisin in the 1st 3rd
to caramel sauce in the second
third before ending up as a
distinct milk chocolate note in
the final third.
All three of which are combined
with just enough black pepper to
keep things interesting.
You have your final thought.
That was the final thought.
I wish the cigars tasted as good
as they say they do.
They they have not even.
Closed all this caramel, Raisin
and chocolate stuff.
It's like smoking a candy bar,
apparently 86.
Well, I guess if you smoked some
Drew Estate you'd be close
808687.
Ding Ding, Ding.
Got it on the nose.
Only because he wanted to go one
above me.
I I figured it'd be a higher
than the 86.
I thought it was going to be
like 89 or 90.
Exactly.
So that's why.
We get one more.
You beat me.
That's all that matters.
Yeah.
Charlie Minato, It's a Cuban
cigar.
It's the Romeo Julieta, Club
King Julieta. 82. 87.
Country of origin Cuba Factory
We know say rapper Cuba Binder
Cuba Filler Cuba Length 5 1/2 by
42 Cuba It's a petite Corona or
a Mervas.
Petite Corona.
Or mervas I like.
The size. 03. 82. 88.
The flavor profile shows flashes
of classic Cuban character with
cedar, oak, nunniness and
evolving notes like cream,
citrus and even red wine that
adds some complexity when the
cigar settles in. 84. 88.
Clue #2 great packaging.
The presentation overall.
I don't think they ever
mentioned the packaging before.
The tin feels premium, travels
well, and the cigars themselves
have a solid hand feel despite
the other issues.
Yeah, but it's the tins, right?
It's.
A petite corona and a tin.
Yeah, so whatever, 84. 85.
Construction is a major
drawback, with an extremely
tight draw, frequent burn
issues, and lingering harshness
that negatively impacts both the
smoking experience and the
flavor delivery. 84.
I didn't hear what you said
there, 85.
The Club King might be a good
cigar, but these examples were
not.
At best.
The draw was very tight, but
even that seems generous.
If this was a cigar that I was
having to smoke for review, it
wasn't a cigar that I was having
to smoke for review.
I wouldn't have kept smoking any
of the samples based on the
draw.
The flavor was better than the
construction, but still not good
and certainly not enough to make
up for the construction.
I think he was construction woes
or often times over inflated but
cigars like this don't help to
try to change the narrative.
I thought they bought their
cigars.
They did.
He said samples.
You just call them samples.
OK.
Well, these are older, so maybe
back then they took cigars.
I don't.
Know who's this?
Reviewer Minato.
Minato.
So nice these.
Are so nice. 85.
I'm going to shoot low here.
I'm just going to, I'll I'll go
for trying to hit it and I'm
going to go 75.
You went the right way, 66.
Really.
Yeah, he said it was bad.
Why'd you go so high?
Because he's usually nice, he
never goes super low.
But he said it was bad.
He wouldn't have smoked it if he
didn't have.
To Did You hear the red wine and
All that bull?
He's the yeah, but he couldn't
get any air through it, so he
only tasted that a little bit.
He's.
The toughest come?
On anyway.
Doesn't RJ do a lot of
advertising?
No boots lost, but he won the
game.
I didn't win because I hit.
The head get on the nose.
Because of my off.
Victory dance or whatever it is.
It's not as exhilarating as the
first one.
No, I like fireworks.
Let.
Me turn these off, they don't
ever shut off.
Save the stuff for later.
OK, anything else that Mister
Palmer?
Nope, that's all I got.
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