ACHP Episode 537 Self Pleasure Break

Episode Summary

Episode 537 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with Mike Palmer, Mikey T, Triple G (Greg) and a late-arriving Phil McGuffey working through listener comments and merch news — including pre-orders for the BDP 4th of July Palmer shirt and shout-outs to listeners who ordered early. Greg finally answers the long-running mystery of the "wall of retired hammers" in his background: after his father passed away, his brother turned the handyman's collection into wall art hanging over a poker table. The crew also defends media personality Skip's blunt opinions about Halfwheel's PCA coverage, argues that friends give honest opinions rather than yes-man flattery, and trades good-natured jabs with Justin Andrews of Diesel Cigars over Instagram comments.

The news block is pure Cigar Hustler chaos: a hazmat incident in Mountainair, New Mexico that hospitalized nearly 20 first responders, a Spanish sexual-wellness company offering employees a paid 30-minute "self pleasure" break in the name of mental health and productivity, a fire alarm evacuation at the Kia Center during a Laura Pausini concert, Dunkin's new 48-ounce coffee buckets, and a deep, skeptical dive into the alleged murder-for-hire plot involving TikTok influencer Gabriela "Gabby" Gonzalez, her attorney father, and her ex-boyfriend, targeting singer Jack Avery of Why Don't We over a custody dispute.

Mikey T debuts the episode's new recurring segment: calling retailers to hear their worst customer stories. First up is Norman from Cigar Vault in Oakdale, who describes a man who arrived straight off the bus from a mental hospital with a bag of meds, claimed to be CIA, tried to pocket lighters, bought a house blend and then asked the register clerk to lend him ten bucks — plus a customer who took his shoes off, walked the shop in socks, and demanded to be paid for mopping the floor. Retailers with stories are invited to email the show.

Cigar news covers the wide release of Don Emmanuel's limited edition Sun & Moon (two 6.5 x 50 toros, $25 each, $350 boxes, 777 boxes made, debuted at Empire Cigar Lounge in Miami) and Natura Third Harvest, a 7.5 x 38 Lancero grown entirely on Jacob Yfrach's farm in Constanza, Dominican Republic at 4,500 feet, distributed by City of Palms. The show closes with What's the Score, guessing Brooks Whittington's 2012 Halfwheel review of the Mayorga Torpedo (Segovia Cigars, Nicaraguan Habano 2000 wrapper, $4.75) — praised for flawless construction but slammed as bitter and sour, landing a shockingly low 45, possibly the lowest score the game has ever featured.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Merch, Patreon and Listener Comments
   BDP 4th of July Palmer shirt pre-orders, CHPod swag, and shout-outs to the listeners who ordered first.
2. 02
   The Wall of Retired Hammers
   Greg explains the hammer wall art his brother made from their late father's tool collection.
3. 03
   Defending Skip and Halfwheel's PCA Coverage
   The crew argues people are entitled to opinions, praises Halfwheel's work ethic, and pushes back on online pile-ons.
4. 04
   Justin Andrews Instagram Beef
   Playful trash talk with Diesel Cigars' Justin Andrews over comments, lemon cake, and food-named cigars.
5. 05
   News Roundup: Hazmat, Spain's Pleasure Break and Big Coffee
   New Mexico first responders hospitalized, a Spanish company's paid 30-minute self-pleasure break, a Laura Pausini concert evacuation, and Dunkin's 48-oz coffee.
6. 06
   The TikTok Influencer Murder-for-Hire Case
   A long breakdown of the alleged dark-web hitman plot against Why Don't We singer Jack Avery and whether the story adds up.
7. 07
   New Segment: Retailer's Worst Customer Story
   Norman from Cigar Vault Oakdale shares the 'CIA agent' with a bag of meds and the sock-footed floor mopper.
8. 08
   Cigar News: Don Emmanuel Sun & Moon and Natura Third Harvest
   Shipping details, pricing and production numbers on two post-PCA releases, including Natura's single-farm Constanza tobacco.
9. 09
   What's the Score: 2012 Mayorga Torpedo
   The panel guesses Brooks Whittington's Halfwheel review of a bitter, sour Mayorga Torpedo that scored a brutal 45.

Brands & Cigars Discussed

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Transcript

I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine.

I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and an engine. In Engineering today, we have Phil, I hate Greg, I could have been here yesterday, McGuffey.

There he is. That is my co-host, Mikey T. Money, I apologize, I still didn't bring your gift to the show. I still haven't brought it.

What? Step on cabbage. Yeah. That's it, I'm going to ask Brittany to put it in your bag.

" No, no, I'll bring it. Yep. I'll have it. It'll be done.

And here we are. Here we are. Next week. Now it's Tuesday.

I don't wanna hear it from you. On today's show, New Mexico may be toxic. Spain is... What are you doing?

Oh. That's what he's smoking. What are you smoking? Maripel.

Oh, Maripel. Spain is so relaxing. Oh. Fire, fire isn't the normal chant at a concert.

Really? How much coffee is too much? A lot. And then we have a story that hits a little close to home.

Then in cigars, we have some new stuff, and finally, a what's the score. But before we get started, Michael, how do we get some of that CHPod swag now that the website's back up after we didn't know it was down? It wasn't down, it was just a-- Oh, just a glitch? Yeah, yeah.

Like everything else around here, glitching? Glitch in the matrix. Glitchy, glitchy. Everything's glitchy and everything's flooded.

For starters, like and subscribe if you're reviewing or listening to this podcast. Hit it. Hit it. Boom.

Da da da da da da da da da. Thought that was a new thing he wanted to do, we're just gonna start singing. Right. Cigars are podcast karaoke.

Oh, we're infringing. We are now accepting pre-orders on the BDP, 4th of July. Palmer shirt. Somebody should have ordered one they told me they were.

Yeah, so shout out. Shout out to the real ones here. David Hoffman, Travis Peterson, Corey Davis, Julian Gordon, Paul Carlson, Michael, I'm going to destroy that name. Szczepankiewicz.

Szczepankiewicz. Szczepankiewicz. Yeah. I believe that he is on YouTube.

He must be Michael Z Cigar Guy. Oh. And Matthew Brugger. Yeah, there's my man.

We appreciate all of you guys. I mean, you're all my man, but he just smoked a BDP and said he was getting the Fanboy T-shirt. Nice. Yeah, we appreciate all your support.

Those are all the pre-orders? Yep. Nice. So you guys are ahead of the curve.

Nicely done. com for all that swag. com, us, Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where if you pay for the whole year, you get 10% off. It's a great deal.

It's a great deal. It's a great deal. I felt left out. Some comments.

We didn't set that up beforehand in the production meeting that Phil did not again show up for. Yeah, where were you? I even texted. Production show.

- I'm having a busy day. - Too busy for the production. - Get into some comments. This is so hilarious for me.

I love this comment. - Before you read it, I have been watching the clips and looking at the YouTube stuff. I have been seeing some of the comments and they are. I mean, listen, everybody's great, man.

These movie posters. I mean, everything. - That's fantastic. - Yeah.

- Ruckus Unchained. - Oh, your mom. - Oh, your mom. - AKA my mom.

Your mom commented, how nice. Why does Triple G have a wall full of retired hammers? Why does Triple G have all these hammers? See, well, this is how, you know, obviously Ruckus Unchained is not my mom.

Well, no, your mother doesn't know. Yeah, she just doesn't know. She just doesn't know, she has no idea. She just doesn't know, she has no idea.

Why are all these hammers on the wall? And how would Ruckus know? We'd be in the house? Yeah.

His mom was just here. Yeah, she was just here. She's probably never thought to ask. Now this is her opportunity.

She's just here. Okay. No, no, no. Don't ruin it.

What do you mean? No, he's telling Ruckus. Well, I know, but just keep the legend alive. No, if you want to keep, I mean, we can keep the, look, if we're going to continue to berate Ruckus Unchained and just call him my mom.

Right. Okay. I think that it's only appropriate that we answer his question. Well, unless they ask like, why does Greg wear blue underwear?

It's blue socks, technically. Oh, blue socks, sorry. Whatever it is. Okay.

All right, go ahead. Tell mom. So, when my father passed away, my brother took all of his hammers and made like a wall art out of them. So, that's why they're retired hammers.

Is it two or three rows? It's two. And it's rows of eight, I believe? It sounds about right.

So my dad was like a handyman, construction worker, whatever, and you know, he had this technique and skill that it was much easier just to go buy the tool again than to go find the friggin' thing in the garage. O. for a lot of that. It's like that episode of Friends when that one person died and they step into the closet and all the sweet and low fell out of the ceiling.

Yeah. Except with your dad, you guys stepped in the closet and all the hammers came falling down. Well, I mean, when we cleared out his house, I couldn't even tell you how many table saws and things we just threw away, there was just so many of them. Right.

You know, it's like, here's another one, here's like DJ Khaled, another one, another one, so, but my brother wanted to keep on the hammers, so. Nice. Yeah. It's over his poker table.

Yeah, I mean, you want to give him his address too, or like. If you want to. I mean, you already, you've. I'm just painting a picture.

Two rows of eight. He lives at one, two, three, partridge in a pear tree. What's the background of the felts of the poker table? You know, I'm just trying to help your mother out.

Your mother likes me, she finally remembers my name. Oh, that's not true. Somebody that finally remembers your name in your family, huh? Right.

Sorry. @benroland6241 says, "Everything about TSA gold sounds terrible. The military has done this 500 times. And if you do that 500 times, you end up with the Teemu version of what you had.

It does sound a little vague, to be honest. It's like, oh, this thing was for corporate yada yadas. Right. how do they make money?

I mean, why would you want to do it if, I guess, the government pays you to do it? Well, the government funds it. Right. I think you're talking about two different things.

it wasn't privatized TSA? Yeah. That's right. That's what gold was.

Was that? Yeah, that's privatized TSA. The other one is TSA off-site. Got it.

Oh, yeah, I think this, I'm all for this. I'm all for competition. Here's the thing, here's the difference, Ben. When you're referencing the military doing something like this 500 times, are you referencing, like, the government doing something 500 times differently?

Or a private corporation doing something differently? I think he's implying that they use private enterprise to do certain jobs the military use. Yeah. Those guys aren't in business anymore.

Yeah, maybe supply or something like that. I don't think they have, you know, bring in the Marines that we got from Timu. Like the $50,000 charge for installation of an AC unit or something? Yeah.

Yeah, the $800 hammer. He's probably referring to like Blackwater type stuff. Mm-hmm. Private entity.

Uh, okay. All right. Uh, well, they're still around last time we checked. Yep.

You mean Blackrock? Mm-hmm. Yeah, Blackwater's not around anymore. Blackwater's not around anymore.

Blackwater's not around? No, no, it's a rock. They turned into rock? Yeah.

Eventually, they merged into it. You know, that's kind of funny. Yeah, like, all of a sudden, Blackrock appeared out of nowhere after Blackwater. Isn't that weird?

Change your shirts, fellas. We're now Blackrock. You're not going to believe this. Rock harder than water.

Well, the water was the navy side, so now the rock is the army guys. When you report to work tomorrow, you're just going to want to go across the street into the other building. Yeah. The feds will be raiding that other one.

We'll hand you a new shirt as soon as you walk in. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Welcome to Black Rock! Our sign's in Japanese, don't worry about that.

Right. Oh, Black Rock! Come on in. Okay.

" Maybe the representative would have yelled at me out of the hotel room that the morning he was drunk, we were leaving. I'm gonna have money. Don't leave me. I'll get a plane.

That's right. That's right. Oh, yes. Good job, Datta Cash.

Nice callback. If you leave me, don't leave me. I have money. I'm rich.

I have money and I will get a plane. Well, Greg probably said it because he's Spanish. Yeah. No, you weren't here yesterday.

I'm sorry. You got to listen to the shows when you miss them. Were you going to make that mandatory? Sorry, guys.

I have such little time now. I mean... You were driving around the car today. You could have listened.

50 Minutes. Yeah, instead of listening to your, man, I had a joke there, but I couldn't. Rap music. How come, like, the shorts don't come up of that show?

Like, I didn't see any of yesterday's show. Because they're not, because as the week progresses, they back up a little bit, because I need enough to play through the weekend. Oh, okay, got it. Yeah, I was, I was wondering, I was like, I was looking, I was like, why isn't there anything from yesterday, all the day before?

Yeah, I don't want to give them that much time, I just want a bunch of shorts that I missed. It's actually from two days before. Yeah, and they're great, by the way. Yeah.

A lot of controversy with some of those posts. I sent the one about my wife to her because I told her about that story. She was thrilled, so I sent her the clip today. You wanted to flatter her a little bit?

Yeah. That you're punching above... Well, it doesn't flatter me, it flatters her. Yeah, that's what I said.

Oh, yes. You wanted to flatter her a bit. Yes. Okay.

You good? Yeah, I'm fine. Yep, everything's fine. Everything's fine, everything's fine, move on with the show.

And then, I'm already at David Hoffman saying, I bet Phil, we did that one. Okay, if you wanna hear, there's some short clip stuff too. Yeah, yeah, read them please, God. No.

I was dying laughing. No, we only do the show stuff. Last night. No, but are you talking about the Skip stuff?

Yeah. Dude, look, here's what I'm gonna tell you. Sorry. Here's what I'm gonna tell you, 'cause this continues to come up.

up the reality is all skip said all skip said on the clip not the comments all skip said all skip said the comments are a little worse okay i can address that too if you want no no first of all make them all skip said was look half wheel is a standard half wheel and half wheel is a standard Right. 100%. You want me to boil it down to this little fragmented sentence, that's 100% true. Yeah.

And nobody works as hard as Halfwell. Correct. That's why they got all the money. Because they covered every booth at PCA.

Right. When others said they couldn't. Yeah. And as media, you should do that.

That wouldn't make sense. Right. They're a little smarter with it. They split up.

yeah oh yeah but like here's regardless how you do it but like but the reality is the reality is that people are entitled to have an opinion about people sure right and you shouldn't get uppity about it people say shit about us all the time all the time like okay whatever yeah you know like like bad for the industry right we made t-shirts did i dirt bags right dirt bags did i did we go We should have. Did I text my friends to email the other guy? No, I didn't. Well, you texted me to email him.

Hey, can you email him? Well, you didn't ask. I'm not suggesting you to say anything. It hurt my feelings.

But what are we doing? Oh, so, whatever. Now you're just sending me down this whole other direction. Sorry, yeah.

Here's my point. The idea is, look, people are allowed to have opinions. Of course. Whatever.

Opinions are like buttholes. And if you want to get upset about it, then get upset about it. That's the reality. Now the comments.

I had to turn down my monitor. There was something else, too. Well, you're supposed to comment about the comments. Comment about the comments.

Yes. Look. Look. Are you good over there?

Oh, I gotta get that out. Yeah, here I am. Here's what I'm gonna tell you. Skip is one of the most direct people I know.

He's direct on Facebook. He's direct in person. I'm talking to both of you. You're gassing me up.

No, you're good. This is great, actually. Because I don't like my friend being attacked. I didn't attack him once.

It doesn't matter. You're in my sights now. No, that's the truth, right? He's a direct person.

And you may not like what he says. But guess what? A lot of it's his opinion, and he's entitled to his own opinion. And you know what?

If I wanted to be around a person that told me, that wanted to be like Drake in the Katy commercial, right? Like, "Oh yeah, these are great shoes, these are great boots, and completely full of shit," then I would surround myself with idiots. But I'm not going to do that. I'm going to surround myself with people that are intelligent, that have different perspectives, and may not agree with me all the time.

Yeah, the real ones. Those are called friends. Yes. Right?

Not yes men. Right? Yes. Exactly.

I'm not saying yes. Exactly. Exactly. You set that up.

I have to say yes. I was going to say yes man. So there you go. All right?

That was great. I loved it. Now if I gotta get this motherfucker back on the show, I will, because you know what, I told them, hey, don't worry about it, let it go, but then the little shit comes out of the woodwork, and I'm like, oh fuck, here we go, yes, it was great, I wish we put clips on the board still, it'd be funny, I wish comments on Facebook weren't typed out, I wish they were like audio version or like a video version, if they put them up that way, I like the Justin Andrews commented on my Instagram. Did you see that one?

Yeah, I saw him. Did you see my response to that? I'd fix his blurry cigar photo for him because he was like, oh, I didn't take pictures of the people. He gets a little hurt sometimes, huh?

I don't, who knows? I think he drinks at night and he starts saying mean stuff. Yeah, he gets all cussed. He gets personal and makes fun of me.

He wrote, oh, you're adorable. I love when someone who still uses a booster seat says disabled, bring a ladder, little buddy, because That's the only way you can punch down on me. That's funny to me, okay, like, whatever, I don't care, so then I let him know, metaphorically speaking, you nincompoop, anything physical may cause you to have a coronary due to excessive lemon cake consumption. Yes.

Right? Right, exactly. Two is excessive, in one sitting. Yeah, lunch, just a standard lunch for him, lunch, double dessert.

He was probably eating those while he was typing that. Yeah, he was probably, he's like, you know what, you got icing all over his phone now. While I sit here listening to Ariana Grande eating my lemon cake, smoking my diesel, he doesn't smoke diesel, he smokes Roma, behind closed doors, it doesn't want anybody to know, it's funny, all the cigars are called food names, yeah, mama soup, something about spaghetti, something about pasta, now he's doing barbecue, burnt ends or something, here, so for the short clips, Don't wonder who we're talking about. We're speaking about Justin Andrews of Diesel Cigars.

Okay? What cons text? Dude, if you're going to see the 30 second clip and you're curious, go watch the goddamn show. I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah. Dude, see what you've done? I didn't. I thought those was great.

Gassed me up. This is probably one of the best parts of the whole show. Until we get to, you know, what's the score? Don't come from my friends, bro.

Don't come from my friends. That's the new segment. Don't come from my friends. Each episode, you'll defend a different friend.

Is that it? Is that the segment? That's like three episodes. Wow.

No, no. Somebody else say something angry. If we put it out there, they'll all start making fun of people in a line. Whatever.

We need somebody to make fun of something. Make fun of me tomorrow. I may join them. Well, that ruins your segment.

Yep. That's out the window. Okay. Are you done?

I don't know what's going on. I think I'm done. This isn't where the new segment comes, right? This isn't the new segment?

No, the new segment will come... Instead of the video, are we giving up on the video segment? I've replaced it this time around, like here's one, I have some ideas, I have some ideas, and I'd like this to be part of a weekly segment. Oh, just once a week?

Yeah. Okay. So maybe we redo this on every Friday, releasing on Tuesday. And it has nothing to do with Preston, right?

It may. It has nothing to do with Preston. We're not talking flag football, are we? Infiltrate.

Infiltrate. Infiltrate. Flag football in you. Preston, come on in.

No, it's funny. We've actually done some clips of this in the past, and it's always resonated well with our listeners. So I had the idea that like, well, wait till we get to the middle part and you can explain it then. It has nothing to do with making fun of Phil, right?

No. Because realistically, though, I mean, you're going to want to do this relatively soon, because I mean, you don't want it to be extremely long shows. All right, just skip all the news and let's get to the segment. Skip all the news.

I don't know which news we have some lungs and some shorts. I'm filled with time. Go ahead, just start. Three people are dead.

Nearly 20 first responders ended up hospitalized after walking to what police say may have been an overdose scene in New Mexico. Ooh. Authorities say responders in mountain air started experiencing not -- why? I don't -- I heard a noise and I switched to the -- why?

Oh, with you chugging your drink? Yeah, you look like something out of The Simpsons. He starts talking, I'm going to take my Red Bull. I'm sorry.

It's because I'm listening and I can hear something happening. I'm like, oh, what's he doing? Dude, you will be replaced. Well, you should turn and look with your head.

Well, you know, to be fair, if you replace him, it's going to cut to you when you... No, well, it's not loud enough. It was kind of loud. Why are you guys always trying to cut me out?

But you don't show up on time. I can't look at him, there's just, the sun's in front of me. Anyway, mountaineers started experiencing nausea and dizziness after exposure to an unidentified substance inside the home. Hazmat crews later entered the scene in level A suits.

Tell us what level A is. It's one above level B. Okay. Investigators worked to determine exactly what crews were exposed to.

Two first responders were reported in serious conditions. Okay. So they still, it's weird, all the stories. Sounds like a meth lab.

Yeah. Well, all the stories have been coming out lately, they tell you what happened, but they don't tell you why. Yeah. It's like this thing, you know, like, they're stretching out the news stories.

Yeah, they want you to circle back later. Yeah, now come back tomorrow and find out why. Yeah, did you hear about Kyle Busch? Yes, but they're not saying why.

Right, Kyle Busch died. So I didn't, I didn't pull the story. And, like, three different places of the story, nobody knows why. Yeah, there's a possible, he had, like, alleged severe illness.

Yeah, he got a severe illness, went in the hospital, never came back. Yeah. Forty-one. Because they don't want to alarm everybody until it was the hoony hoony.

Hoony hoony, yeah, the hoony hoony. If you drive real fast, it speeds it up, allegedly. Like it forced it in through his sinuses. Right, moves it into the brain.

Yeah, like the bacterial thing when you swim in the pond. In the hot water, that's coming up, that's going to happen. Amoeba? Yeah, the amoebas.

When you get in the edge of the muddy, goopy water, it goes in your brain. Yeah, the amoebas. The amoebas, happens every year. Yeah, Amoebas.

Amoebas. Amoebas. Amoebas. What is plural for amoeba?

Amoebae. Amoebus. Amoebus. Yes.

It's more than one amoeba. Amoebus. Miami employee. A company in Spain recently attracted widespread attention after reports emerged that employees were being offered a paid 30-minute extra break.

What do they get to do? What do they get to do? They get an extra 30-minute break every day. What's the company?

It's in Spain. I'm not saying the name of the company. It's Spanish. They get to rub one out.

No, they get to sleep. They get to rub one out. Self-pleasure break during the work day. Wow.

Got 'em. Is that a thing? Yeah, you can't just do it like you do upstairs. You gotta wait until it's time.

Hold on, everybody. This is the time. Pass out the lotion. Yeah.

Everyone, everyone ready? Go! This seems a bit obnoxious. The policy was, why?

Why is it obnoxious? How do you not get arrested for this? It's in Spain, for God's sake! It's in Spain, yeah.

You can do whatever you want there, apparently. It's not like you do it at your desk. Like if you announce yourself being a peeping Tom, you don't get in trouble? Yeah, yeah, it's peeping Tom time.

Excuse me, sir? It's time for my pleasure break? Yeah, lady, you taking your shirt off through the window? It's my pleasure break.

If any of the female would like to join me? Guys walking out trying to keep it down. I got a little excited before the break time, I'm sorry. I need to go early?

I was counting the seconds. The policy was reportedly introduced with the intention of reducing stress, supporting mental health, and enhancing overall workplace productivity. Next week's meeting. There's no way.

Next week's meeting. I'm going to get up and leave. You go. He's going on his pleasure break.

He has a set 30 minutes. He needs 10 seconds. Well, I like to cuddle myself. You know how every company ends up having another meeting after this, and they're like, So, we're not going to do the pleasure breaks anymore.

We're actually bringing a psychiatrist because everybody's really messed up from all of them. There's a terrible mess in the bathroom now. Someone has to clean it. And Jody walked in on me.

This is wild. " That's right, Jody. We talked about this. We could pleasure break together.

Oh, what are you doing here? Why do I always run into you in here? What do you want me to do with those cannons? Are you going to make racial slurs about me?

You're in the final room, file room, Frank. Of course, I gotta be here. This isn't the room for it, Frank. We talked about this.

Right. This is the lunch room, Frank. Oh, sorry. Not from 2:00 to 2:30, it's not.

The company was specialized in sexual wellness products and education. There it is. The initiative for part of a broader effort to normalize discussion surrounding mental health and personal well-being in professional environments. They want you to talk about it.

You guys are gonna mess this all up. Mental health. Like, it's a serious thing. And now you're, you know, it's like, hey, rub one.

Dude, if I have intercourse with my wife, I want to go to sleep afterwards. I'm done. I want to relax. This is by yourself.

What? This is by yourself. Self pleasure. She doesn't come visit you at work every day from two to three.

If she did, I'd be even more tired than I am in the middle of the day. Supporters of the policy argued that employees are already permitted breaks for coffee, smoking, and casual social interaction, and therefore a stress relief oriented break should not be viewed differently. Hmm. It's like a smoke break?

So if you smoke, you get two breaks? That's what I'm saying. Smoke a cigar. As anticipated the policy generated a significant public debate online, some individuals commended the company for adopting an unconventional approach to employee wellness, by others questioned whether the initiative exceeded appropriate professional boundaries.

Social media users quickly labeled the policy "The Masturbation Break", contributing to the rapid spread of the story internationally. How original. And even the next story here: Kia Center was evacuated during the interview, the They're in a Latin artist Laura Pozen's concert as fire alarm sounded mid-performance on Thursday night. That's basically the end of the story.

They're not saying what happened. Seriously? Seriously. What a waste of time.

Right. They just say that she says she was sorry on her Instagram. It's like they're filling air. Well, the problem was is that the guy started writing the story and then found out that nothing really happened, nothing big.

" "I'm very sad about it," she shared on her Instagram. " He had to hand in a story by the end of the week, or he was fired. Oh, okay. That was it, huh?

That was a terrible story. The next one is slightly better. Slightly better? So skip it.

Well, then we get into the big story. Okay, give me the big story. All right, hold on. Whatever that means.

Duncan's coming out with buckets of coffee. That's okay. Yay. 48-ounce coffees.

Well, the Detroit Lions coach is probably grateful for that. What's his name? I love that guy. Ben Lee.

I don't know. Dan Lee. Ben Lee. Dan Lee?

No, not Dan Lee. It's Dan something. Who's the coach of the Lions? Dan something.

Dan. Dan Tanna. Dan. That's not Joe Montana.

I said Dan Tanna. What's wrong with you? Dan Tanna is a character from a TV show. Dan something.

This is what happens. Dan. Up check. Dan Dan.

Campbell. Right, Dan Campbell. This is what happens when you're out of football season. Yeah, I should have thought about it.

I love soup. I thought about soup. All right, a TikTok influencer. Uh-oh.

This is an international, well, no, national story, I guess. Okay. A TikTok influencer, her father and another man have been charged in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting a singer in Los Angeles. Prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Oh, I guess I should have finished this. There can be only one. A. District Attorney's Office.

The alleged target was her daughter's father, Jack Avery, a singer, songwriter, and former member of the boy band, Why Don't We? You ever heard of Why Don't We? You ever heard of Why Don't We? You have young daughters.

No, this story sounds hilarious. Fake? Yeah. -It's not fake.

-It's fake, it's fake. -What? -He's messing with us. -He must be.

-Yeah. -I don't know. -Okay. -Why would I make this kind of mess?

-I don't know. Prosecutors say Gonzalez was in a bitter custody dispute with Avery over their seven-year-old child. Gonzalez, who has nearly one million combined followers on TikTok and Instagram, appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday afternoon. Prosecutors alleged she did not act alone.

The Influencer's father, Florida Attorney, Francisco Gonzales, and Kai Ferron Cordray, C-O-R-D-R-E-Y, her ex-boyfriend from Hawaii faces the same felony charges. According to prosecutors, Francisco Gonzales is accused of paying $14,000 to hire a hitman to kill Avery. - $14,000? - $14,000.

Apparently, it's not very expensive nowadays. A lot of competition out there. It must have been the crackhead in the middle of the media. Court documents allege that he, his daughter, and her then boyfriend, as the middleman, arranged for Avery to be killed in the LA area.

I read four different articles about this. Okay. It started out in the news two days ago. Okay.

Uh, the, uh, the Kai, is that what his name? Kai. He went on the dark web to hire a hitman to supposedly take- Allegedly? I said supposedly.

Okay. He's covering your ass. I'm sorry for protecting you. Offered the guy $10,000, and the guy turned out to be an FBI agent.

Okay. Surprise! Yeah, and then the guy asked for a little bit more, so they got another $4,000. So $14,000.

So this Kai guy put up 14 G's. Well, he said the father put up 14 G's. Ah. He doesn't have that kind of money.

His name's Kai from Hawaii. So how do we know the dad's in the home? Accessory. Additional documents allege that Gonzalez believed that it would be cheaper if Avery were dead, so they have some type of documents or text messages or emails or something.

Or this guy, you know what, the dad said this. Well, it could be that too, who knows. But they said documents, so I don't know if that makes it a document. Write that down.

Now it's a document. Now it's a document. Dead then to continue the expensive custody battle. The alleged plot was never carried out, well, because I hired an FBI guy.

But they hired an FBI guy, so I doubt he was actually going to do it. Okay, so how do they link all of this? How do they link the guy from Hawaii to the other two? Like, I don't understand.

Well, I don't know. From what I've read, when he hired the FBI guy, he gave a little bit too much information to the FBI guy. Yeah. So, I don't know.

Maybe, like, the dad and the girl wanted the whoever in Hawaii to find somebody for them. Yeah, that's what they did. They had him act as a middleman because, I mean, that way he is not directly connected to them, I guess. All right, so let's just think about this for a second.

Okay. So you're gonna tell him... Think about it? What are you talking about?

So you're gonna tell me... Let's break this down. Okay, Dad, I don't like... They have more views than me.

Dad, I don't like baby daddy. You know, I don't want... custody battle, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, they're going through a big, expensive custody battle.

No problem, honey. What's your ex-boyfriend doing? Well, I don't know if she started dating this guy again, or if he was the patsy, or I don't know. Okay, so either way, you know, but that's the guy that made contact.

Yeah, I don't know if this guy has his underworld connections or whatever. Apparently he doesn't, he just went on the dark web. Well, I wouldn't know how to even get on the dark web. And then where the hell is this guy?

Is this guy in Hawaii? Oh, I don't know. He's from Hawaii. Allegedly.

If you ask me questions, I don't know. Well, no, the articles say he's from Hawaii, and his name is Kai, so that sounds like a Hawaiian name. So like, I mean, just, I'm stereotyping not being racist. Whatever.

I'm not getting involved. Good, please don't. Yeah, I mean, I don't, like that, like some of that, that just doesn't make sense. It sounds like a made-for-TV movie.

Like why, why would... Like a Hallmark one. No, no, not that type. First of all, if, why would I tell my daughter, "Hey, you know what?

What's Kai doing? You know what I mean? I don't know. Maybe they are all three sitting around talking.

I don't know. Maybe he started dating her again after she broke up with Backstreet Boy #5, or whoever he is. Or maybe he's just a crazy fan that... Who, Kai?

Yeah. Well, maybe they know from when she dated him that he has underworld connections. The dad? How does the...

You know what? I know that Kai has... - You know what, I don't like you dating that Kai guy because he's a little shifty and he knows people that we don't need to be associated with. - I don't know.

- How does a dad get involved at that level? That doesn't make any sense to me. - At what level? Of who your daughter's dating?

- Yeah. - Don't you think you always know who Teddy's dating? - An in-depth dive? - Well, he is a lawyer.

- Okay. - So he can have background checks done. - Okay, this is perfect. Because, okay, let's say that we argue that fact.

And you say that he knows who he is and to stay away from him. Would you then call him to put out a hit? If you need somebody who's got those type of connections, why not? If you don't like this guy...

Listen, I don't like you, but I need you to kill someone. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly my point. Well, you don't like him because he knows people who kill people.

Maybe that's why you don't like him. Look... I don't know. The guy's name is Kai, for God's sake, and he's from Hawaii.

His name isn't John Gotti from Staten Island. You know what I mean? Well, what's a mobster on Hawaii called? John Gotti from Honolulu?

Yes, that's correct. No, it's not. He's called Kai. What they do is they move out of New York and they retire in Hawaii.

Did you see the movie with Drac and the Aquaman were brothers and they're in Hawaii? Drac? Who's Drac? The guy who played Drac, I don't know what her name.

Batista? Yeah, Batista. Batista and Aquaman. Yes.

Okay. Great. The bad guys in that one weren't called John Gotti. What were they called?

They were called Kai or Cuckoo or something. Cuckoo? I don't know. The head guy was Kumonamona.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Cuckoo for Coco? It was something weird Hawaiian.

The head mob guy from Hawaii. So, if the head mob guy from Hawaiian had the connections, then why would he be going on the dark web? Well, it's not like you pick up the phone book! You go and you talk to your people that are in the little thing, right?

I don't know. Well, LA's far away. You would still have to... Oh yeah, they have to find an LA guy.

You're not going on the internet is my point. It just doesn't make sense. Normal people who have a brain would never document anything over the internet like that. And I probably wouldn't tell them, look, daddy's guy giving us the money.

I probably wouldn't tell the hitman that. How's the Hitman that? Well, here, I'll give you 10,000. You know, I'm not even gonna ask if you're a cop.

Okay, so I can argue that, too. I can, I can argue. Right. Exactly.

So I could argue that, too. If you were a cop, you'd ask for way more. You know, it's like, hey, so I got this friend. Wait, isn't that a point?

You go, 10,000 is kind of cheap. You should do it for 10? There's gotta be something wrong. I don't know why I'm in this chat group called Cops and Donuts.

Anybody want to kill someone for me? You know what? Here's another four. Cops, Donuts and Killers.

My god, cops don't have to kill us, you gotta pick, you gotta pick, make sure you put the right word out. Look, here's my point, you know, it sounds to me like this is like an asking for a friend statement. Like, hey, so like, if I wanted so-and-so to be unalived, I mean, not me, if this guy wanted so-and-so to be unalived, that's what it sounds like to me. " Well, I don't think Kai has $10,000.

Do you know Kai's financial situation? No, but from what I read- If he's mobbed up, Palmer. Listen to me. If he's mobbed up, then he's deaf.

If he's Hawaiian. From what I read, the father did give Kai the 10, and then gave Kai the 4. Okay. Wow, there's a lot of charges being brought against one of these guys.

" You know what I mean? Okay, I don't know. Maybe he did, who knows, I don't know. You know what, man, you know what I'll do?

The Bureau just let me go yesterday. Mm-hmm. So give me the 14. Hire me.

Sign this document too. 14 sounds like a hell of a deal. And don't worry about the thing that says "Incarceration". Okay.

All right. Whatever. I think we beat the dead horse out of this one. Yeah.

Moving on. Hold on. She's in custody for $2 million in bail, scheduled to return to court Thursday. Her father expected to be extradited to Los Angeles.

You got two million dollars, who do you think you kidnapped, Chelsea Clinton? Sorry. All right, Michael, what's your new segment? So, do you remember when we called Alan from Caribbean one time?

Yes, yes. We did more than once. Yeah. And it was great.

Yeah. So, I'm thinking about, why don't we do a segment where we reach out to retailers and they tell us about a bad experience with a customer? Okay. Give us your worst customer experience.

Will this be set up in advance, or are you just going to randomly call somebody and hope they have a bad story? Let's tell the truth here. It's going to be set up in advance. Okay.

Let's not get on that expectation, because what if you forget? Here's what I want. I'm going to mention this now, and then I'm going to mention this afterwards, okay? If you're a retailer, and you have a really bad customer experience, and you want to share it on the show, email mikep@poshikcigars, and we'll start setting this up.

Oh, so apparently now I have a new segment on the show. Oh good, I don't have enough to do, now I have to sort through stories. Photos with the stories would be nice too, if you take pictures of the people. Well, a lot of these guys are probably gonna be already our customers.

Okay. You know what I mean? Take a picture of the individual. Take a picture of the person.

So if they have a good, I'll make the final save, if the story, if we can put the story on or not, we'll go from there. Okay. Okay. Alright.

Now, your segment. Yeah. They email me. Yeah.

I have to cull through these and pick out the good ones. And then submit the good ones to you. You approve. Then I have to recontact the person who sent it and set them up to make a phone call.

No, no, I'll talk to them afterwards. " Well, why don't they just send all the stories to you? You're gonna have to do it. Welcome to the dark side, dude.

It is what it is. That's the worst thing ever. You know what? Preston came in yesterday.

He's like, what are you doing? Editing shows? And I'm like, no, that's not the only thing I do. And he goes, how do you have time to do anything editing shows?

Exactly, Preston. I don't understand either. He doesn't get the fact that we do six. He's like, you guys do one every weekday.

I'm like, yeah. He doesn't believe you or he doesn't? He's like, that's crazy. I'm like, I don't know.

I know, we can't get him on time for one day a week. And he's like, man, I'd be late five times. He brought his daughter yesterday, so he couldn't say anything. - How's up, we're calling someone.

- Oh, are we doing this? - We're doing it actually today. - Hey, what's up, Mike? - Hey, guys, what's up with you?

This is Norman from Cigar Vault Oakdale. - Hi, Norm. - What's up, buddy? - Hey, how's it going, Mike?

- How's the pool guy? - How are you? - You're on the show. - Yeah, you're on the podcast.

- I'm on the show. - You're on the podcast. - Fantastic. - Say the phrase it pays.

Win a free cigar. So listen, I know that we, I like, I came up with this concept, I know that we kind of had this brief conversation, but I want to know, and the listeners want to know, about what happened to my mic. You two, you just turned my shit down. I'm going to kick your ass.

Tell me about the worst customer experience you have had in your retail shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - Oh, one of the craziest ones would have been, actually this week, we had a guy that got released from a mental hospital and showed up right off the bus with a bag full of meds that came in and was telling everyone he was the CIA and wanted money. - No kidding. - Was he smiling?

- Was he a hitman? - You know, Palmer, I'm going to say you could have outran him. oh oh wow that guy that guy must be pretty slow so he was relatively so he's well fed in the in arkham asylum is what you're saying yeah well fed and elderly he's elderly he meant old if he if he would have said he could have outrun him phil then it would have been a fat joke wow he said me so it's an aged it's an age thing yes i like how you paint this picture like i'm super fat or something you You are old. You are fat.

What do you want? Wow. Jeez Louise. You're attacking me for what reason?

I have no idea. Well, I can't affect my age, but you could eat less. All right, so you had a CIA agent come into your shop recently. With a bag of meds.

Were they good meds? Did they share? Yeah. What kind of meds?

Do you know what kind of meds? No. We lost track of the meds while he tried stealing our lighters. So that was pretty good.

Oh, nice. One was a purple Flintstone. Did he buy anything? He did buy a cigar.

He bought one of our house blends. Can you let him fucking talk? Are you going to over talk Norm, too? I'm funny.

You're not funny because no one can hear you because you're over talking somebody. Can you let Norm talk, please? This is Phil. You can just talk to me.

Go ahead. So what did he buy? What's going on, Phil? He bought one of our house blends.

And he paid for it? Yeah, he paid for it, and while he was at the register, he asked Matt if he had some money. Nice. I gotta pay for the cigar, can I borrow 10 bucks?

Very nice. I'll pay you back. All right, what about, do you have any other ones? Because you told me one other one that I thought was pretty good too.

Yeah, I mean, we've had a customer come in and take their shoes off and walk around the establishment with their socks on, And then he came up and told me that I should pay him for mopping the floors. That happened. Did he like scuff his feet around as he walked? I, you know, it was just one of those things, man.

And it was like, I've tried to explain to him, I was like, man, we mop our floors every week. So, I don't know. A lot of times. Some of the things that you see in a retail store is next level.

It's next level. So, all right. Well, thanks, bro. I'll let you go.

I know you got the pool guy there, and I know you want to keep him busy. So, Norm, Cigar Vault, Oakdale, thanks so much for your time. Thanks for sharing some of your experiences with customers. Thanks, Norm.

Appreciate it, guys. Take it easy. Bye, bro. Later.

You didn't like that? He's got a better story that I've heard before. No, Palmer is mad because you shut him down. He does have a better story, and we started with that story too, but it's just kind of long and winded.

It is a longer story. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay.

So you're disappointed that we didn't talk about the hooker? No, no. No, I just, I don't know. We're only at four minutes, so we're good.

We could have done that. We're only in four minutes, it would have been fine. com, or if you have his phone number, just text him and we'll work on getting you set up. Nice.

All right. Good job, Mikey. Do you have a video? No, I said I had that segment.

Oh, instead of that. That's what he said, he was replacing it. Okay, what day of the week would you prefer to do this on if we're going to make it just one day a week? I've already said it's the end of the week.

Oh. For Tuesday's release, or Monday's release. Monday's release. Monday's release?

Yeah. All right. Yeah, because Tuesday's is the double half-wheel thing. Yes.

And I'm thinking as it kind of develops, see if it sticks, if it works well, then we'll keep it going. If not, we'll kill it off. No big deal. But if we did something differently every weekday, like we had these different little things that I would take care of and kind of set the subjects, I think it'd be good.

I'm sorry. He sounds like that cartoon white dog that laughs on me. Yeah. That's what he sounds like.

Eventually, this will go away, but I liked how Mikey said. Oh, I thought he meant the cough. I thought he meant the bit. No, no, no, the cough.

I'm sorry, it got me. These things that I'll do. All right, Cigar News. Oh.

Don Emmanuel, Sun & Moon gets a widespread release. Oh, Sun & Moon. The photo was out of focus that they used for this. Nuh-uh.

The Sun was out of focus, the Moon was in focus, they come half and half in a box. They take a picture of it at the show? I don't know. Maybe they're just using like one of those Nokias.

I don't know. Son & Moon, the new limited edition from Don Emmanuel Cigars, is on its way to stores across the country after making its debut at the exclusive to, oh wait, making its debut as an exclusive to Empire Cigar Lounge in Miami at an event on March 25th. Maybe the photo is from the event March 25th. Empire.

As the name would suggest, the project contains two cigars, one named Sun and the other named Moon. Nice how that works out. Really? I feel like you've said this before.

Yeah. This is the shipping. Ah. Both are Toros measuring six and a half by 50 and have an MSRP of $25 each.

There's really no new cigar news right now because we're coming out of the PCA. We're just announcing the shipping of this stuff. We're announcing the shipping of the Sun and Moon. A $350 box.

Delimited 777 boxes. How many is in a box? 777. In a box?

No, they made that many. 777? 777. Like a joker, like a jackpot thing?

I don't know, it says 777. 777? No mention of a joker. You know, I didn't mean joker.

Like a, you know, 777, a slot machine, 777. Oh, no mention of a slot machine. No? No, sun and moon, not slots.

Why would you pick 777? Maybe it has something to do with sun and moon. Maybe that's why it's considered a lucky number or something. I don't know, I fast forwarded through the story, you didn't seem to want to talk about it.

This is you shutting down? You're shutting down. I'm not shutting down. I have another story.

This is me shutting down. But this is a shipping story too. Natura Third Harvest ships to stores. I don't remember talking about this one because this is a long green banded cigar.

Sounds like the bread. Natura Cigar Company's newest single farm vintage cigar is on its way to stores. The Natura Third Harvest 7 1/2 by 38 Lancero is made only from tobacco grown at the company's farm. This is a follow-up to the company's first harvest and second harvest, so this is the third harvest.

By the Costanza. You know what's better than one dragon? Three dragons. Two dragons.

Exactly. Each cigar was made from tobacco from a different harvest at the company's farm, so all their cigars, one, two, and three, are made by tobacco grown exclusively at their farm. At their farm. Just different times.

There you go. Pricing is set at, how much are these lovely Lancero cigars, gentlemen? It comes in a box of 10. Hold on, he's got to put his Princess Peach mask on.

How much is a box? Oh, it's cigars. How much is a cigar? He doesn't even listen when you talk.

I know. I listen. Third harvest? 15 bucks.

This is the third harvest. 13 dollars. $36. Yes, I win.

Holy moly. It's the third one. This is the San Peri Harvest. This is the best harvest.

This is the Return of the Jedi, is what you're saying? Right. Yeah, exactly. This is the good one.

It's not quite Empire Strikes Backs. Better? Right. It's better.

Oh, it's distributed by our friends at City of Palms. Yay. So you may or may not get them. I don't know.

No, no. We've worked it out with City of Palms. We like City of Palms. Oh.

Okay, then everybody's gonna get them. Ventura is a brand from Jacob... Jacob the Ladder, please be it. Y-F-R-A-C-H.

Yiff. Yiff. Yiff. Say that one more time?

Yiff. Yiff. Yiff. Jacob, Yiff, who was growing vegetables in the Dominican Republic during COVID, he began experimenting with growing tobacco at his farm in Costanza.

Now, wait a minute. Isn't that a guy's name, Costanza? Yeah, that's from, uh, Seinfeld, George Costanza. Oh.

Constanza. - Yeah, that would be Constanza. - Yeah. - So this guy is a vegetable grower during COVID, but he can't sell them, so he starts playing with tobacco, and all of a sudden, he's making cigars.

- They grow cucumbers and the cigars. - The farm in Constanza is located in the mountains at 1,350 meters, or 4,500 feet of elevation. The area has the coldest, freedom. Average temperature of anywhere in the Caribbean, which creates unique conditions for the tobacco.

Because of the temperature, Yiff, it says that he's able to have longer growing seasons and curing times, which allow the leaves to retain more of their oils, which in theory, should provide more flavor and body. - Mmm, mmm, mmm. - Now it's time for the industry's favorite game. - What's the score?

- Today's cigar, February 5th, 2012, Brooks Whittington, Mayorga, Nicaragua, Cigar Reviews: The Mayorga Torpedo 89 Mayorga? 75 a cigar. Holy moly, that low, 2012? And they could only afford one, they smoked one.

It's tough out there on these streets, 2012. Well, 2012, they were new. Didn't have a lot of money for review cigars. We hear, $4 cigar.

Can we get it together over there, Mr. Yonny Yonny? I'm a train wreck. No, I can't get it.

Hands hurting today. '89. Yes, it's because I'm old. Yes.

Oh, you have your headphones in. Yeah. So you can't get away with your bullshit. You can get away with your little comments.

Chunky Monkey. Wow. Ooh. Chunky Monkey Peach to you, buddy.

Chunky Monkey Peach. The new ice cream from Cigar Hustler Podcast, Chunky Monkey Peach. Shhh, 85. Clue number one, the construction on the Mayorga sounds fantastic.

I'm sorry. Perfect burn, effortless draw, solid smoke production the entire way through, it's hard to argue with the construction. A little less aggressive in the earlier reviews, apparently. Oh, you didn't redo that?

No, no, that's them, I didn't do that at all, that was Brooks in 2012, Brooks in 2012, well, he was just starting, he's very positive, very upbeat, he's not the bitter man he is today, 89, 85, the aroma, the clue number two, the aroma seems to have outperformed the flavor profile, that sweetwood smell, dry character, probably made the experience more interesting than the actual tasting notes suggest, hmm. Mmm, 87. 85. Clue number three.

A cigar being described as bitter as hell for nearly the entire smoke with a sour finish is brutal. Sounds like the blend never found balance, no matter how good the construction was. 80. Mmm.

Is Segovia, is that a... I think I know who's better. I know whose factors. Segovia?

Segovia? The country that got lifted up in the air in the movie with the Avengers? The Segovia Accords? No.

I don't think so. The one where they had to blow it up and make it all land in pieces. They had to evacuate everybody out of the suit. Like a Pangea?

Pretty sure that's a grocery store in Segovia? Yeah. I figured, yeah. Let's go...

Man, that was a horrible... I don't have a clue because I'm going to stick 85. Did you hear to give yours Mike? Yeah, he's at 80.

Oh, it's been so long. Wow. Final thought. I knew almost nothing about the Majorga before it was handed to me to review.

However, this cigar smoked like exactly what it was. A 15-year-old smoke that was expired. It really was a tale of two cigars while the construction and draw were absolutely wonderful. The overwhelming bitterness in the profile destroyed any chance that I was going to taste And taste any other flavor of note.

In fact, pretty much the only good thing about the Mayorga, other than the aforementioned burn and draw, was that it burned very quickly for its size and thus was over quicker than I expected. Wow, he really didn't like it. But he said it nicely. 68.

Oh man, that's pretty low. 67 What did you say? 68 He went the right way Yes 45 Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom wow 45 that's low that's low holy moly i couldn't pass up on that when i stumbled across the number i feel like segovia is i tried to go as low as i could where he wouldn't go lower yeah i was a little well i was nervous that's why i went 67 i was like there's no way i'd go lower than that. Damn.

I'm a little nervous doing that. So it's over to like 65. Is this the lowest one we've come across now? I think 50 was the one before that.

No, I think you said like 21 or something on one one time. No. It was something super low. I thought 50 was the bat.

Yeah, the bat I think was the worst one. The bat was the worst one? Yeah. Till now, the Mayorga.

Is that... From Sigourvia, where they have the Accords. I don't know. I'm not saying it.

That's probably for the best. Yeah, I don't want to get no more backlash. All right. All right, that's it.

That's all I got. All right. Hey, like and subscribe if you're ever reviewing or listening to this show. com where we just dropped the BDP, 4th of July, 2026 edition pre-order.

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com, a cigar hustler's podcast. It's a podcast. Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. Oh, no, Michael, thank you.

No, no. And for adding the new feature to our show. Yes. That you will be doing.

If you don't like it. I thank you for it. Calm down. You're being sarcastic.

I was not. If you don't want it, then we'll get... I was not. Comment below if you want to hear more of those.

Comment below. Or we'll build a pole. I'll build a pole. Okay.

Well, I'll build a pole when I put it up. No, no, you'll build a pole. Right, I'll build a pole. No, you build it.

That's right, I will. We're getting a pole, yes. Oh, by the way, I saw your Instagram video of you in the pool. Oh yeah, I saw that too.

And he does this... Yeah. Jealous? Yeah, jealous.

Jealous, right. It's like, no, not jealous at all. Did you not like it? Jealousy?

No, did you not like the... Come on, man. I like your stuff, you like my stuff. I liked it.

A comment I wrote "nah" at the bottom of it. Oh, wow. Oh, I don't think I did anything. Of course I liked it.

It's supposed to be DJ stuff, I thought. That's my regular page. It's called DJ Boots. No, that wasn't on DJ.

No, yeah. So I have to have two pages now because I can't do... I could probably go back to the original name because the lady that I'm doing marketing with, she said I have to have a second page. It has to be separated.

It all has to be separated. He's got a marketing lady now. They have the same name? Yeah, one's DJ Boots, one's DJ Boots ENT.

Entertainment. I understood. Ear, nose, throat. Ear, Nose, Throat.

Ear, Nose, Throat? Yeah. Ear, Nose, Throat. But don't people get confused?

" Pretty much. Well, yeah, but if you look at my new one, DJ Boots ENT, like, I just basically started that. So, I'm trying to, I have to separate it all and then I could probably change the name back. DJ Boots.

Change the name back of your original one? Ear, Nose, Throat. Yeah. With the family stuff?

The family stuff when you take the DJ Boots off. If I search DJ Boots, that pops up, and I'm looking, going, oh, there's never really no DJing going on. Yeah, wow. He goes to weightlifting competition with his daughter.

That's nice. He swims around in the pool, makes funny faces, and eats hamburgers. There you go. Well, I'll probably change it back to, like, ACHP boots or whatever.

No, no, not ACHP. Don't put that in. You're fine. You're fine.

Let's not do that. Wow. We don't want people looking for us and finding you floating in the pool and making faces. Yeah, you're not...

They love that. No, they don't. Not as part of the show. And you always have to have a mask on in every photo.

Yeah, we hide your face. No, that's boots. We hide your face. All right.

It's the same guy. Thank you. Bye-bye, guys. Bye-bye.

Boop.

Show Notes

On today’s show New Mexico may be toxic,  Spain is so relaxing,  Fire Fire isn’t the normal chant at concerts! How much coffee is to much? We have a story that hits close to home….  Then in cigars we have some new stuff and finally a what’s the score