ACHP Episode 539 Kit Kats Everywhere

Episode Summary

Episode 539 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with the usual studio banter between host Mike Palmer, co-host Mikey Stepanovich and engineer Phil, covering listener comments, CH Pod swag, the BDP 4th of July pre-order shirt, and the running gag about Mikey's newly black (formerly ginger) hair. The crew also teases their Patreon episode, where they'll review the 601 La Bomba 20th Anniversary and dig into some industry inside baseball.

The news block is classic Hustler fare: a South Carolina woman killed when a patio umbrella blew loose during a storm at a lakeside restaurant, an 18-wheeler that dumped 11,000 pounds of Kit Kat bars across a Mississippi interstate, and a report of a possible serial killer targeting women in Puerto Vallarta. The travel tip segment covers airlines tightening rules on portable chargers and power banks — American Airlines limiting passengers to two units under 100 watt-hours, Southwest cutting it to one, both banning them from overhead bins — plus the FAA's count of roughly 700 lithium-battery incidents since 2006 and how to calculate watt-hours from milliamp hours.

On the cigar side, the guys break down Triumph Cigars' upcoming Legati Milk, a medium-to-full release named for Misfits Boxing competitor Leia Gotti. It uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper, an undisclosed-origin Habano binder and Dominican filler, is rolled at Tabacalera Cremo in Puerto Plata, and arrives in June as a 6x52 Toro at $13 per cigar / $260 per box of 20. They also cover a shop exclusive: Omerta Cigar Company in Oklahoma City is getting a 4x50 Short Robusto of ADV & McKay's Blue Eyed Jacks Revenge for the store's 11th anniversary — Mexican San Andrés Colorado wrapper, Dominican Olor binder, Dominican fillers, made at Tabacalera La Mina del Rey, $13 per cigar and $130 per 10-count bundle, releasing Saturday, June 6th.

The show closes with "What's the Score?", where the crew guesses the review score on the Viaje Chef's Cut Tall — a 6x52 Nicaraguan round with undisclosed factory and components. Notes of caramel sauce, cinnamon, toasted bread and creamy nuttiness impressed, but inconsistency between samples and repeated burn corrections dragged the final number down to an 85.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Studio banter, listener comments and CH Pod swag
   Palmer, Mikey and Phil trade jabs over mugs, knives, masks and the BDP 4th of July shirt pre-orders while reading listener comments.
2. 02
   Patreon preview: 601 La Bomba 20th Anniversary
   The crew teases their Patreon episode featuring a review of the 601 La Bomba 20th Anniversary plus industry inside baseball.
3. 03
   Patio umbrella fatality in South Carolina
   A woman dies after a wind-blown patio umbrella strikes her at a lakeside restaurant, prompting a discussion on securing umbrellas.
4. 04
   11,000 pounds of Kit Kats on the interstate
   A tractor-trailer hauling Kit Kat bars overturns on I-20 in Mississippi, and the guys debate whether they'd eat highway candy.
5. 05
   Puerto Vallarta serial killer report
   Three women found dead in the Mexican resort town spark a conversation about travel safety and the pattern police are investigating.
6. 06
   Travel tip: airline power bank restrictions
   American and Southwest tighten rules on portable chargers amid lithium-ion battery fires, with tips on calculating watt-hours.
7. 07
   Triumph Cigars Legati Milk
   Details on Triumph's June release for Misfits Boxing competitor Leia Gotti — blend, factory, size and $13 pricing.
8. 08
   Omerta shop exclusive: Blue Eyed Jacks Revenge Short Robusto
   ADV & McKay makes a 4x50 exclusive for Omerta Cigar Company's 11th anniversary in Oklahoma City.
9. 09
   What's the Score: Viaje Chef's Cut Tall
   The crew guesses the review score on Viaje's 6x52 Chef's Cut Tall, which lands at 85 due to construction inconsistency.

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Transcript

I had one at one time, but it broke. How about that? There you go. But you guys time it with action.

Are we recording? Did you turn it back on? Welcome to Cigar Hustler Podcast, episode 539, I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and over in engineering today, we have Phil, my new movie is called Self Pleasure, it's all about me. Duny, are you having me 30 minutes of 30 minutes of him in the pleasure room, in the filing office, how much money did it make me, I don't know, it hasn't come out yet, we don't have any piece of that business, yeah, this is just your extracurricular stuff you like today, it's been, you haven't had a blockbuster hit, I can tell you that much.

Yeah, I'm sorry, you're not making big money. Well, Blockbuster isn't around, so... No, they're not rentals. It's still the term.

Still the term. Hey, my co-host Mikey, I like to announce my arrival at the studio, Step on Kevich. With snoring. I like to announce my arrival?

Yeah, every one of you are like, "I'm on my way," or whatever it is you say. Yeah. En route. Headed in.

Headed in? Yeah. But that's not a time, though. I mean, it's nice to know that you're coming this way, but it's not like heading in means 15 minutes.

It usually means 30. You think that he stops? We can go with that, if that's the time you would like to assign to it? It's about 25 to 30.

Okay. Well, we'll go with 30. For now on, when you say that, it'll be 30. Yeah.

Alright. My co-host Mikey, I like to announce my arrival 30 minutes before I get to the studio to step on Kevin. Yeah, because he's always doing stuff. He's out and about.

I like to give him a heads up. Well, I mean, but before, two seconds ago, it was not assigned a time. Just heading in could be, sometimes it was an hour. Has it ever been an hour?

I don't know, but it sounds like there's a someone that's been really rubbing them wrong. I know. It's interesting. Look, I gotta come up with something every day.

Sometimes it's hard to find something. You could have commented about... You wanna do porn movies, too? I'll give you porn time.

No, you wanna know what you could have said? You could have said, and my co-host, Mikey, who had an amazing weekend... No, that's too nice. That's not funny.

It is, it's an inside joke between me and you. I don't even know what it was, you just told me you had one. Exactly. Tell me why.

I didn't, it was just an average weekend, but you're like, you know, you never call and say anything positive on the weekends. Because when you call on the weekends, that means something's happened. Yeah. That's what, you're right.

It means it's bad news. So then I started telling you. A lot of phones ringing. What happened now?

So then I started telling you positive things. Oh, so you made that up. You didn't really have one. No.

Oh. Here's just a guy. Or my co-host, Mikey, now my hair is permanently black. Yeah.

Right at you. You know? No, no. You're Ginger.

Will it fade away and come back? Is Ginger back working again? Can we have him sit in one day and I'll just dub in Mikey's voice? That would be great.

That would be hilarious. But he is working. I didn't have time to do my hair today. I bet you you could just AI replace me with a video of like an AI person.

Well, you were in the thumbnail as a child. I saw that. Yes. The terrible child of me.

Sorry. It was funny. I don't have any photos of you as a child. Yeah.

Neither does my mother. I used the youngest picture I could have, I could find, and said, make him a child. Well, we don't. Make him this chubby little bunny.

Well, we don't know that. We don't know that she doesn't have a picture. You kind of look like Jax in that photo. You think so?

Jax looks like you as a child. Oh. What? If we could have Ruckus, please send in the comments a picture of Mikey.

Ruckus. Yes, Ruckus. If you could email the show a picture of Mikey as a child. Well, you probably don't have any, but it's a picture of Greg as a child, maybe holding Mikey or something.

Yeah, we'll just AI it. We'll just change the head. On today's show, umbrellas can be bad luck. Remember the KitKat bar theft from Europe?

Yeah. Okay, serial killers like to take vacations too. Speaking of vacations, we have a travel tip, then in cigars we have another shop exclusive that's not us, A Shippie Notification, and then a What's the Score? A bing bong.

But before we get started, why do you, he says bing bong right after that. I love it. How do we get some of that CH Pod swag, Michael? And Phil, where's your cup?

Phil, where's your cup? Oh, it's actually on my desk upstairs. Like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to this show. com for all your CH Pod swag.

The pre-orders for the, uh-oh, where's my phone? Uh-oh. Oh, here it is. Over there in the chair.

Probably next to my cup. Where you were napping. The pre-orders for the BDP, 4th of July. BDP, 4th of July shirt.

Yeah, we got two more in. Oh, now we're up to 10. Mark, shout out to Mark Palmer. And our boy, Christopher Chadweiss.

Chris Chadweiss. This week, after, after I, Chris, I just want you to know, after I survived this week, I'm going to take I will then be ready, prepared to address the hat situation. - Then I can mail your hat and mask. - Yeah, so.

- Which I have both of, and I'm ready to go today. - Yeah, some of us are busier than others, I don't know. I don't know what his deal is today. Like, why is he, why he chose violence and he's attacking me.

I don't get it, but my tolerance level is going to be short, and then there's going to be a rebuttal, and then I'm the fucking asshole. I'm about to call the police because there's that old person in our studio. I don't get it. I don't get it.

With my douchiness, I don't get it. Okay. He's still mad about that. We didn't even bring that up.

That's just stuck in there, I guess. I thought it was funny. I find it comical. So, T-Money.

Yes. T-Money, comments from the last show. " Just like, 'cause you're in the pool and you're, yeah, exactly. You're right, I did miss out on that opportunity.

I could have capitalized, but I did not. I didn't, you know, I just like trying to keep people around me happy, man, you know? I'm happy. So...

Phil, I'll get you your own cup. Palmer, I will get you some Red Bulls of your liking. That was from @RooksCodings. Aww.

See, I've already talked to him, when he made that comment, he comments as he watches. Yeah. Right after he didn't have a cup, you gave him your cup. Right.

So now he's good with a cup. Okay. See, this is the problem. It's like, you guys guilt our listeners into giving you stuff.

Why are we gilding them? I've still been trying to guilt the 13-9s guy, but I haven't heard from him. He's gone. He just brought it up.

Here we are. That's blatant right there. Still trying to get me one of those 13-9s. Yeah, they're beautiful.

Well, he offered to make another one and I said it wasn't necessary. Wow. Really? Yeah, I got one from 14-9s.

We're all good. I gave him mine. I have two. What?

I gave him mine. You gave who yours? - I gave the 13 knives to Palmer. - Ugh.

- Now I have two. And I did that really nice post for them with it. - Whatever. - Yeah.

- I'd do nice posts. - You gave me a hard time. - I didn't give you a hard time. - Guys, I wear the same black shirt every freaking week.

I have six of these. - I like it. - Like, there's no accessories. There's zero.

- Is this like the Erik Espinosa thing? When you say you like it, he gives it to you? - Yeah. - I really like that black shirt.

That's nice. - Right. - You can have it. - I got five more.

- Those are nice jeans. - That one did you just, yeah, those are nice jeans. I really like that left shoe. - That's fine, the left one?

- Just the left one, I don't like the right one. - Okay. - It looks weird. - I just wanna win, man, I don't care about anything else.

- We are winning! - Well, you can win naked. - Anybody like his boxers? - I'll sign 'em.

- I'll sign 'em. - At PW Racing. - I already not washed 'em. - Oh.

At BW Racing, I love how the Pillsbury Doughboy, Phil, gets all butthurt when there is not three of things. That's gonna stick, Pillsbury Doughboy. If the King Master Chief was a ginger, I would hate to see the ginger snap. Yes.

Aha. Yeah, it's true. You know, I mean, like... I don't like this comment.

Next. You can vent at us. Move along. Where's mine?

Where's mine? Pillsbury Doughboy says move along. You can, whatever, dude. You got the cup.

Thanks. You know? And the knife. He got the knife.

I got the knife. CW6383 says, Palmer is now officially Palmer 2Gs. I'm going to get that one. Nicaragua.

That's clever. Yeah, it took me a minute to figure it out. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, yeah.

Palmer, you're pre-reading the comments? Well, they come up on my phone, too. Yeah, we share the same account for YouTube. Do you guys, do you pre-read the comments, Mikey?

Sometimes, because I reply to them. I try to reply to all of them. Yeah, I don't reply normally. I went back and replied to every single comment, ever, to make sure that there's a reply.

And then I learned that there's actually a button, there's an option here, and I have to click it real quick. It says, "New Replies to Your Response", so you can reply to your reply when they reply. And at that point, I was like, I'm not doing all that. Too much.

That's too much. There is a line. Yeah. " Wow.

The next party mask, I got news for you. I think you're gonna like it. They better have big enough eyelets and nothing around the mouth. I think it checks those boxes.

Are we going from the stock that we have currently? No. Oh. No.

Well, glad we bought all of those. We can always go back to those later. Okay. What'd they cost us, like six bucks?

I don't remember. You know, dude, we... I don't know what mask you're referring to, then. We have burned way more money on this show.

Um... Yeah, on masks. On tripods and, uh... Masks.

David Hoffman's sending one. Oh, Paywatch. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Please be David Hasselhoff. He's not doing well, so I'll picture him in a wheelchair. Oh, yeah? Oh, that's...

David Hasselhoff, not our Hasselhoff. Okay, 'cause then you had me worried. No, no, no, David, the Baywatch, they're coming out with a new Baywatch. Wheelchair edition?

I don't care. No, I don't think he's in it. Oh. I honestly don't care.

If you want to hear your comment, settle out on the show, comment below on this episode. What are we doing for the Patreon? I was about to ask you. I don't know.

Mike, what are we doing on the Patreon? We are doing the 601 La Bamba 20th Anniversary. Ready? Oh, oh, oh.

Die for it, die for it. Did anything go off? Is everything still on? It went a little right, you know, the disengage was kind of high, so he had to stretch out and then he missed it.

I also have this huge... Light in your eyes? Yeah, sun's over here. Hey, we all have them.

Don't complain. So what are you, Seedy Lamb? His bottle water fell, and that's gone now. But at least it wasn't in the cup.

Was there a lid on it? Yeah. I don't have my scale here, by the way. Oh, well, it's not a regular scale day.

Yeah. It feels like... It's like Wednesday or something. So, we have a good topic to discuss as well on the Patreon.

Oh, I printed that. Did it come out upstairs? I don't stare at the printer. Steve normally tells me.

You know, it feels a little... No, it's not. This definitely weighs in. So check out our Patreon, because we're going to review cigars.

We talked some inside baseball. There's a couple things going on in the industry that we find intriguing. We're going to talk about it. com, A Cigar Hustler's podcast.

What are you doing? He's checking the weight. Yeah. He's waving it around.

I see. You know, you can make a bend if you do it like this. No, you just make it look like a bend. That's a pencil.

There is no spoon. Okay, on with the show. Let's go. All right, a woman...

That's only at the beginning. You don't see the director doing that every time they cut to another shot. A woman died after being struck by a patio umbrella during a storm in a Lakeside, South Carolina restaurant over Memorial Day weekend. She was impaled?

Oh, impaled. Saturday evening at restaurant along Lake Marion in Somerton, authorities said the woman and her husband were dining on the restaurant's patio when a sudden strong wind, Phil, wind noise? Didn't sound very strong. There you go.

Blew an umbrella from a table striking the woman in the head and neck area. Did you say Lake Marion? - Yes. - Marion and Somerton.

- Oh. - He did say "Lake" first. - Yeah, yeah, like in "Lake Mary" here. - That's what I originally thought, and then when he said "Lake Mary".

- Lakeside, South Carolina restaurant over Memorial Day weekend. - You definitely didn't say any of that. - A woman died after being struck by a petty umbrella during strong winds at a Lakeside, South Carolina restaurant over Memorial Day weekend. I didn't say any of that?

- No. You said a Lake Mary. - Yeah. Saturday evening at a restaurant along Lake Marion in Somerton, South Carolina, head and neck area, the coroner's office said in a statement, first responders found the woman unresponsive with lacerations to her head and neck area, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the coroner's office.

The victim is a woman from Hooger, South Carolina, the coroner's office said an autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday at the Medical University. Why are they doing an autopsy? She died because she got struck by the umbrella. Well, you have to make sure, that's just allegedly.

I mean, yeah, you don't know, maybe she had a heart attack, you know? Did she die from the injuries or was there something else happened? It's for insurance purposes. Yeah.

She bled out. Because there's probably going to be a lawsuit. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Against the Umbrellas or the restaurant? The... Everybody. Everybody.

File for both. Well, the good news is the husband survived, so there's someone to do the lawsuit. Yeah. Well, you said that she was impaled, but then you said there was lacerations around the neck and where else?

I added impaled. It didn't actually say impaled, but she had lacerations on her neck and head. So it blew out and... How's that?

Is that better? That's interesting, so was it like the rope from the umbrella? No, the actual umbrella, so they didn't have it secured properly into the base, I'm guessing? Right.

Big wind comes up, it might not even have been the one at her table, but it was, you know, like three or four tables. Yeah. And then they picked it up and came right at her. And what kind of restaurant was this?

Lakeside Restaurant. They didn't give the brand name. No. Okay.

A thousand ways to die. If it's not a lake somewhere in South Carolina, it's probably not, you know, like a Chili's or something. It's probably a little prestigious. Maybe, or privately owned type thing.

Yeah. Chantel's. Yeah, Chantel's on the lake. Lake, yeah, Lakeside Grill.

Lakeside Grill, that'd be a good name. Outdoor Patio Umbrella at the Lakeside Grill. Jennifer Gardner's, you know, Farm to Fresh Lakeside Grill. Oh, you got it all correct.

Wow. I didn't know that was a thing. Okay. Yeah, she does food and dog food, I think.

Isn't it dog food? Yeah, she does all that farm to fresh stuff. Farm to fresh stuff. All right, I still don't care.

Is that the end of the story? The end of that story, I have one. Okay, so have you ever had an umbrella or anything fly away and it caused some type of disaster? I have had one come out of the base, but no disasters, no deaths, no...

Nothing destroyed? No. I have fetched several at the beach that other people didn't secure properly And then they come rolling by. Oh, you've chased others down.

Well, they come by, you sort of grab it, it wasn't a lot of chasing involved. Right, it was just there. Yeah. Okay, you're kind of protecting yourself.

Right, exactly. Yeah. Especially now that we know you can die from it. Yeah, it's dangerous.

What about you, Philly? Uh, nope. Nothing? You've had nothing blow away?

No. No? No. You didn't have a trampoline and a hurricane?

Uh, nope. Oh, my neighbor's trampoline one time ended up in my backyard. Kenny Bonnett's trampoline blew it over the fence into my backyard. Did you keep it?

No, I didn't want it. " You get to see it. It's a big trampoline. I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't even talk about Kenny. I haven't seen it. I don't know. What's that?

We bought one. It could be anywhere. I don't know where yours went. It's for the dogs.

For the dogs. Boxers love trampolines. For the dogs. It doesn't matter if it's upside down.

I'll fix that later. I put the directions as we're upside down. Truck hauling 11,000 pounds of Kit Kat bars, overturns on the Mississippi Interstate, an 18-wheel tractor trailer hauling approximately 11,000 pounds of Kit Kat bars, overturned on the Mississippi Interstate on Monday. Oh.

So they had the ones missing in Europe and now they're just dumping them all over the highway. Wow. S. 80, exit on Interstate 20.

Authorities said the tractor carrying the candy bars disconnected from the cab and rolled over the westbound lane of I-20 and WLBT reported, which is a local news station. The right shoulder on the highway by the entrance ramp was closed for several hours as crews cleaned up the cargo of the crunchy candy bars made of waffles and covered with chocolate. No injuries were reported. hmm it's uh another bad day for the Kit Kat might have been a win thing hmm okay uh well they were they big k-kats were they regular that regular size kick it are there big oh the big giant size they're regular ones according to the photo yeah hmm it's not good for the kick out world do you eat the kit kats I mean they're they're still packaged yeah I would eat them I'd eat them yeah - This is fun for me.

- Michael, would you eat 'em? - No. - Why not? You like Kit Katz?

- Nope. - No, you don't like Kit Katz? - Mm-mm. - Alright.

- Yeah, he does. I've seen it. - What? You've seen him?

- I've seen it. - I've seen him eat 'em, too, upstairs. - Maybe he doesn't like a highway Kit Katz. - Well, he likes the peanut M&M's more than he likes the Kit Katz.

- Yeah, but Greg does usually buy those 'cause he eats 'em too fast. Yeah. All right, a popular resort town for American tourists in Mexico have a serial killer on the loose. Oh, like eating cereal or serial?

Like killed people. Oh. Guess the town. I'm going to guess Lake Marion, North Carolina.

South Carolina. South Carolina. It's in Mexico. Oh.

Oh, of course it is. What? Mexico City? Mexico City?

Where all the serial killers go on vacation in Mexico? Right. Did they find the news lady's mom? It's in Puerto Vallarta.

Sorry, that was probably bad. Sorry. Ouch. Officials said as they probe connections between the murders of three women, Puerto Vallarta police are reviewing evidence, surveillance footage, and reports to determine whether the deaths are connected.

All the women who died were in their early to mid-30s, had tattoos. Of what? Frog? Nothing in particular.

They just had tattoos. Tramp stamps? It just says tattoos? Numbers.

The bodies were partially undressed and found in isolated areas, police said. It's not safe to go anywhere anymore. It's Mexico. I mean...

Puerto Vallarta, but that's a resort area. In Mexico? Right. Yes, in Mexico.

I mean, it's not safe to go anywhere. Right. It was just a couple of months ago where the cartels were fighting in Puerto Vallarta. Right.

On May 10th, the first female victim was found near a well-known viewpoint, Rancho Piruli. The second victim was found at a roadside stop along a highway nearly a week later. The most recent body was discovered at a dirt road in the Parque Las Palmas neighborhood. Hmm.

Park at the Palms. Have you ever unalived anybody, Palmer? Not yet. No?

No. Yeah? You got a list? No, I don't have a list.

There's no list? There'd be multiple people in the place. You never write anything down. That's how they catch you.

Oh. It's in your head? Maybe. Yeah?

Who's number one? I can't say. We're on the air. If something happens to them, I am the ideal person they're gonna come after.

It's obviously Phil. I don't think it's Phil. I think it's Phil. I'm in the same room.

He didn't want to say. Makes him nervous. His bing bong will not be as energetic. So I don't understand the story.

So there's a serial killer on loose in Mexico? In Puerto Vallarta, there's a serial killer killing Americans, women in their mid-30s with tattoos. Okay. Probably single?

And there's been no mention of their marital status. But they're there alone? Alone? There's no mention of that either.

I mean, there's got to be an additional pattern other than the fact that women with tattoos are being murdered. Well, they're American. Yeah. They're about the same age.

Mm-hmm. And it has been recently. It's not like there's months between them. Maybe he's religious.

Maybe. And then he's dumping them in... I don't understand that. It's a sin to have a tattoo, isn't it?

Well, it's only if you're Jewish, I think. He's killing tattooed women? Yes, he's killing mid-30 tattooed women. Yeah.

Isn't it a sin to kill people? Yeah, maybe he thinks he's... He's writing the original wrong. second coming.

Wasn't there a movie on this? The Second Coming? Wasn't there like a whole movie about a church where there was the one guy who was killing everybody? God, what was that movie?

I have no idea. It was like a young monk or something like that? Yeah. Nothing.

Nothing. I'm not getting anything. I'm not either, but it does sound like there would have been a movie about that, though. Yeah.

Oh, God. What was that guy's name? Bruce Lee. No.

He was like a weird monk. Like, he didn't talk. But he was white. He wasn't like an original monk.

He wasn't Asian? That type of monk? No. Are you talking about the monk that wears, like, the brown robe?

I think I'm, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think he was Catholic. I think I'm completely wrong in describing it. Oh, I'm trying to think of the movie, man.

Da Vinci Code? I think it was Da Vinci Code. Yeah. Because he was killing people, right?

I think so. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not quite sure either.

This show is falling way off the rails now. Sometimes I get a lot of movies mixed up in my mind, man. I watch a lot of movies. Didn't he sing around a sports car when he was in high school or something?

Is that Grease? Yeah, I'm just running over together for you. Oh. Okay.

No identities have been confirmed, but local reports suggest the third women could be missing a 22-year-old Elizabeth Martinez. That's under 30. Her last name is Martinez? Yes.

She's white. Did you say that? Apparently she's American. She's American.

Oh, American. Okay. Right. Okay.

Tattoos were located on the neck, hand, and arm, and consisted of a skull, a woman with horns, and a name. Her body showed signs of violence, Mexico News Daily reported. Neck tattoo. Apparently it's a woman that had a neck tattoo.

Women have neck tattoos. It's probably the name on there. Hand tattoo. The neck seems more unusual for a female tattoo.

I think they both sound a little unusual for... Miss Martinez? Hands are becoming more popular lately. You think so?

Yeah. The little tattoos are more popular now, they're super weird. Alright, let's place the tattoos real quick. He gave the description of three tattoos.

Where do you think they all go? The only problem is, I don't have the information. We're just speculating? Yeah, you said, yeah, you said, yeah, I know, that's what I'm saying, like, we don't have to be right.

Oh, the woman, what are the options? Okay, the tattoos are located on the neck, the hand, and somewhere on the arm. Okay. And consisted of a skull, a woman with horns.

Okay. And a name. Okay. Skull is on the neck.

Woman with horns is on the arm. And the name is on the hand. I agree with the horns one. Okay.

But I think the name is on the neck. Her last name is Martinez. Oh, good point. Yeah.

Skull's on the hand. Maybe she has Freddy on the neck. Freddy? Yeah, like the name Freddy.

Boyfriend? Fredita, whatever. Fredita? Pesos?

Fredita. Fredita? What is Fred in Spanish, Michael? Fredita.

Fredita? That's almost as bad as the French pesos. Okay. So, serial killer in Mexico.

They're trying to get you to not go to Mexico? Yes, trying to get women to be careful when they go to Mexico on vacation. They should be careful when you travel, period. Yeah.

Yes, but if you're a 22, 30-year-old female with a neck, hand, and arm tattoo, maybe be a little more cognizant of your surroundings. That could be me. That's not going to stop all the college girls from going to Mexico this summer. Maybe, maybe one or two.

It might pull some people back. You don't know? I don't know. I haven't been to Mexico like that.

My wife would probably still go. And she has tattoos, not on her neck. She's out of the age bracket. Yeah, but she doesn't look in her late 40s, early 50s.

You think she looks like she's in her late 20s, early 30s? She could pass for 30s. Okay. Not like he's checking IDs.

Maybe he is. Hey, let me see your driver's license. You think that's how he sounds? Except maybe with a Mexican accent, because it's in Mexico, I mean, what's the odds there's an American in Mexico killing Americans?

Hey, yo, let me see your driver license up. Maybe he travels there to do his murdering and then could be, and then goes back home. He goes to vacation there. Maybe he goes back to Canada.

He should look into that. That is possible. Right? Maybe he's Canadian.

, they're never going to catch me. Right. In Mexico, maybe it's not illegal. I bet you it wouldn't be difficult to say.

I think killing is definitely illegal in Mexico. Tell the cartel that. They seem to get away with it all the time. Allegedly, don't come after me.

It's still illegal. I'm very hard to find. What were you going to say, Michael? I don't know.

No? I have no idea. Oh. All right, we're coming into the travel season.

So we have the latest info. Travel to Mexico, where there's great deals. Yeah, discounts on travel to Mexico. Yeah.

Airlines are tightening restrictions on portable chargers after rise in onboard battery fires. Really? Do you guys use one of those portable chargers? All the time?

Yes. Where it hooks on the back? Yep. Mine gets hot.

Oh yeah? Yeah. I use the brick. I got like this big brick.

Yeah? Do you plug into it or does it snap out? You plug into it? Yeah.

I think they're talking about the ones that hook onto the back of your phones. That's the ones that get hot. Phoneses? Phoneses.

Okay. So here's what you need to know before you fly. Power banks have become a travel essential for many passengers, especially as travelers rely more heavily on phones, tablets, and laptops while flying. But airlines are increasingly concerned about the fire risks posed by lithium ion batteries.

As of May, we're in May, American Airlines says passengers can bring up to two power banks under 100 watt hours. Do you know what years it's rated at? 1000 mAh, or something like that? Oh, AMA, or something like that?

Okay, we have a math formula here in a minute where if you have that rating, you can tell what it is. Okay. A limit that generally covers most portable chargers designed for travel. Southwest Airlines recently went further limiting passengers to one.

You can only have one on Southwest. Why do you need two charging banks? So it doesn't have a plug in their phone. Well, maybe you're traveling as a pair.

Well, then one person for one. Well, that's what you'll have to do. You know what I mean? Like, this is kind of crazy that they have so many power banks?

I'm sure people have, like, three or four. Like, do you charge your phone at night? First of all, you're pretty responsible, I would assume. Yeah, I plug my phone in every night.

Okay, you charge your phone at night? Uh, yep. Does your kid charge his phone at night? Yes.

He does? And your kids are older, I'm sure they... Yeah, I don't know if they do or not. " No.

But by the end of the day, though, I mean, mine goes down a lot during the day, 'cause I'm on it all the time. Yeah. Jax's phone is always never charging. Oh, he doesn't put it on?

Never. Never. Never. Adrian forgets sometimes and I'll find it in another room or something as I'm going to bed and I'll bring it in.

Here's a nice paperweight. Right. And then we have the app that lets me know. It's like...

Oh, there's an app that tells you if it's charging it? Yeah. Wow. His phone is now at 10%.

Oh. And every day I get that notification. And like, I even saw it today. I saw it today.

Before we left. And it's just sitting there, close to his bed. Not plugged in to anything. The plug is like next to it?

Yeah, exactly. The phone's here, the plug's there? Yeah, exactly. Wow, that's almost dead.

Look at that. I'm like, what are we doing? This shit drives me nuts. Well, he does it on purpose.

No, he doesn't. Yeah, he likes you to be very sleepless and you're looking for his phone all the time because it's always done. It drives me up a wall. Yeah, if it's sitting right next to it.

Dude, when Justice gets his phone, that thing's never going to be charged. Forget it. I thought you were going to go the other way. Yeah, it's like, he's never going to unplug it from the wall.

No, no, it'll never be charged. Go the other way. Yeah, he's worse. Oh, jeez.

Yeah, at least Jacks keeps that 10%. A solid 10%, right? A solid 10%. Oh, my phone's not charging.

Like, have you considered plugging it in? What? There's a plug? Yeah.

Oh, is this because he asks you for the brick all the time? He steals the brick. Yeah, there it is. All the time.

And then the brick is dead. And then the brick's dead. Yeah. Or I can't find the brick.

I'm like, hey, where's the charging station? Oh, I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? What do you mean you don't know?

It died, I got rid of it. Adrian had started using my brick, let's just call it, too, to charge her phone at the end of the day, so I, after two days of that, I got her her own. Yeah. And now she doesn't charge the brick.

Right. Right. You gotta charge the brick. I gotta charge, I gotta find the brick and plug it in.

Yeah. Right. This is insanity. Right.

Like, honey, this isn't gonna work if you don't charge it. Oh. I thought I got more than one charge out of it. I go, I don't know, it depends on how low your phone was.

We had two bricks. There was a point where we had two. God only knows what happened in the other one. Teddy's got it, just in case she gets her phone.

Teddy has her own problems. All right, both airlines also say power banks should not be stored in overhead bins. Passengers using them during flights are expected to keep them visible and within reach, rather than tucked away inside a bag. The change has come amid a growing number of battery fires on planes.

Federal Aviation Administration data shows that there have been more than how many lithium battery incidents involving smoke, fire, extreme heat, gentlemen, since 2006? It's a long time. Yeah. 20 years.

I didn't even know batteries had been around for 20 years. I mean, I haven't seen a lot on the news. I would think we would see this on the news every time it happened. So pick the number.

Let's go 20. I'm going to say 500. Oh, very close, 700. Really?

Yes. S. every day? I have no clue.

I think after a while, unless the plane actually catches on fire, they just stop reporting it. Really? S. every day?

Yeah, you know, oh, do you want to use ChatGPT because we lied to you about AI? Yes, I do. Thank you, iPhone. There are approximately 44,360 flights daily encompassing commercial cargo and general aviation operations.

Well, so that's not a lot. This figuring... I'm talking about fires. Yeah.

So, you know, it doesn't make news until there's a restriction, right? And, like, what does a fire look like? Well, it has flames. It's kind of orange-ish.

What's the extent of this? I think, generally speaking, I think it's more smoke and heat. Yeah. Because they, you know, they catch it first and then you just unplug it.

Yeah, just detach it. If a fire occurs in a flight, do the mass drop down? I don't think automatically, no. Because that's a oxygen level thing.

How many lithium-ion fires have occurred by airliner since 2006? Tell me each airline. I want to know who the number one is. Spirit, that's why they went out of business.

Spirit, AirTran, Southwest. It didn't give me the right info. You kind of awkwardly asked. It was starts to process.

Yeah, it was like, oh, airliner. All right, so help me refine this so I can do this right. You jigged to the left at the left. What is the, what is the highest, or what is the airline that has the most lithium fires?

Okay. Tell me what airliner has reported the most battery fires in the United States? You want me to use ChatGPG for this? I do.

I'm unable to provide that data. Oh, he doesn't want a lawsuit. They're not publicly disclosed. However, okay, if I need anything else, feel free to add, okay, thanks, chat.

You are the team of AI. How is it not publicly disclosed that they have the 700 number? It's, so it's obviously reported. Yeah.

Are you looking this up, Bomber? Yeah, but my glasses are... Trying to spell airliner? No.

Your glasses are in right here. Oh, thank you. There isn't a reliable public ranking showing which individual airline has had the most battery-related fires. Most aviation safety data is tracked by regulators like the FAA as industry-wide incidents, not airline leaderboards.

Airlines also vary widely in how transparent their reporting events are. Oh, they're a little blurry. They might not tell. I'm going to tell you, I think that Frontier is probably number one.

Spirit was probably up there. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

I could see Southwest being in that argument. That's why they're like, well, you get one. You know? Yeah, they've had problems.

Could be Southwest because they are the first airline to regulate batteries. Right. So either they decide to get ahead of it and go, look, this is going to become a problem. We've got to bear the rule.

We're like, we're tired of these fires on these airplanes. Let's say they can't have them. So what can the airliner do differently to avoid these problems? put chargers on the in the seats wouldn't that be great that would be great i mean there's only two types of chargers everybody uses for the most part right the seaport and the maybe three lightning cable and the uh one for the samsung yeah southwest isn't doing that they're not putting wires you have like the little like it like retracts like how fast how fast all that breaks yeah i wouldn't put the cord in i just put the jack on and then and i would offer a cord Like a headphone.

Do you know how they used to give you headphones? Oh, yeah, yeah. Do you need a charger? I would love a charger.

Oh, it would be five dollars. No, just build it into the ticket. I would not love a charger. Just build it in.

Oh, so they give it out free? Yeah. I don't need one, I'd like a discount. No, that's not how that works.

You get two ginger ales. You can have the whole can. And a cookie. If you don't take the cord.

Yeah. We're just gonna give you the can. Just give you the can. All right, this fell off the rails too.

Okay, next one. There's international rules that are a little different. Okay. Sorry.

Oh, you want to know the, well, you don't want the math thing either then. Tell me the math, yeah, go ahead. All right, travelers can still calculate manually using formula based on milliamp hours. Is that what yours says?

Yeah. All right. 7, then divide that number by 1,000. 7 hours.

Multiply by 1,000, then divide by 1,000. 7 volts. Right, but I'm 1,000 milliamps or whatever, and then I've got to divide by 1,000, and they cancel out. 7 hours.

That's not what we're trying to find out. That is what we're trying to find out. Calculate the watt hours. Yeah.

So it's too much. Oh, yours is too high. Yeah. You good?

Yeah, I'm just trying to text them that I'm podcasting. As they're calling. Right, they just keep calling. Alright, you got a video today, Michael?

No. Oh, you said you had one yesterday. I lied. Alright, I lied.

And we're on the cigar news. Triumph Cigars releasing Legati Milk in June. Legati? Legati.

Milk? In June. Hmm. Triumph Cigars, which is best known for producing cigars for the UFC and combat sport athletes, has announced its new...

Newest Upcoming Release, Legati Milk. In June? It doesn't say June, no. Isn't this the company that they release their own cigars and then they sell them directly to consumers, but they don't?

Yeah, I think, yeah, Triumph. Yeah, I believe so. Okay. The cigar is named for Legati, who competes in Misfit Boxing.

Anybody know what that is? I have no idea any of that. Yes. The company says the name is a play on the famous "Got Milk" campaign, and because Milk is said to make you strong.

It's described as a medium to full-bodied blend using the Ecuadorian Connecticut seed wrapper, a habano binder of undisclosed origin, and a Dominican filler. The blend was designed with Gotti and the profile of cigars she likes in mind. Oh, she. She.

Lea, maybe it's Lea, then not Lee. The cigars are produced at Tabacalera Cremo in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Leia Gotti Milk is a regular production release slated to land on store shelves in June, it's offered in a 6x52 Toro and will come with an MSRP of? Phil?

Phil? To Toro? Because this lady likes milk. 18 bucks.

More money. $25. $13 per cigar and $260 for a box of 20. Tram Cigars launch December 2025 and it is currently in the Created about 15 cigars for UOC and Combat Sport athletes.

Well, I mean, it's kind of weird that they made it for Misfit Boxing, because June is the MMA event, right? UCF? Or... UOC?

UOC, sorry. At the White House. Right. They've started building that, the pictures, I mean, it's huge.

It's gotta be. Yeah, yeah. This is the biggest event ever. It's the greatest.

Yeah. It's the nicest. It's the best, the beautifulest. Yes.

It's the most beautiful. The most people. It's the biggest. Most fighters.

And still the biggest. It's orange. And big. Not orange.

Bigger. Yeah. And orange. And orange.

And orange. And orange. Omerta Cigar Company is getting a Blue Eyed Jack's Revenge Short Robusto. Oh.

Mmm. Omerta Cigar Company, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is getting a Blue Eyed Jack's Revenge Short Robusto. Oklahoma is getting a store-exclusive short Robusto size of the ADV & McKay Cigar Company's Blue-Eyed Jacks Revenge. Cigars were created in celebration of the store's 11th anniversary.

The cigar measures a 4x50 and uses the same blend as the larger cigar. Regular production size in the line, that means a Mexican San Andreas Colorado wrapper, a Dominican Orlo binder, and Dominican fillers. It's produced at Tabla Calera, Mina Del Rey, in the Dominican Republic, and comes priced at? How much is this little beautiful cigar?

Um, $12. It's probably $14. Ooh, you guys split it, $13 per cigar. Another $13.

Another $13. $130 for a bottle of $10, or a bundle of $10. A bottle? They come in a bottle.

One Eye Jack. Rumbo. That's a popular cigar. Yeah, I like it.

I've had it before. Yeah. I don't know about the size. It's just a little guy.

A little tiny guy. Did you ever carry it here? Maybe. No, I'm saying, did you?

No. Okay. No, I've gotten it from the rep before. Yeah.

The Blue-Eyed Jack's Revenge Short Robusto captures everything smokers love about the blend. m. m. It's a little strange that they've got a time.

Well, they're trying to do like a release party, I guess, probably online, you know, that brand has particular demand. Oh, and it's Central Time, so don't get excited at 3:00 Eastern Time. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense because people are asking, "When is it coming out? " I can see picking a time.

" Blahdi, blahdi, blahdi, blahdi, blahdi, blah. Alright, it's time for the industry's favorite game. What's the score? Oh, I thought you were throwing something at me.

No, you pissed me off, but I'm not going to throw something at you. Not on camera. Not on camera. Okay, first cigar, May 26, when have I thrown something at you to hurt you?

Well, you haven't, but doesn't, I mean, I saw you reach for something, and then I'm reading, and in the corner of my eye, I see you cocked back like you were going to throw it, but you were cocking back to aim the remote. This is the same thing that we talked about, right? We talked about this on the last episode. There's just a lot of tension right now.

We talked about this before. I need the three seconds so I can hit the button. You know what? I'm just going to launch something at Palmer.

Well, I didn't know what you had picked up off the table. It could be anything. I just saw it out of the corner of my eye. Well, we know it wasn't the scale.

Why don't you wiggle it in your fingers some more? Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. May 26, 2026, Brooks Wittiton's a reviewer, is the Viaje Chef's Cut Tall? This is new?

This is new. Oh man, 89. It's Viaje, is a hit or miss? Yeah.

And we haven't smoked this, because we haven't seen it. No, nope. Um, I'm going to go with 85 first. All right, Cigars, the Viaje Chef's Cut Tall.

It is from Nicaragua. Factory, undisclosed. Wrapper, undisclosed. Binder, undisclosed.

Filler, undisclosed. Length, 6x52. It's round, and they smoked 3. 80, 87?

I'll go to 86 since it's Nicaraguan. The cigar delivered some really enjoyable transitions with notes like caramel sauce, cinnamon, toasted bread, and creamy nuttiness that kept the profile interesting throughout. 89. 86.

Clue number two: Construction was consistently strong across all three samples, with excellent draw, dense smoke production, and only minor burn corrections needed. 89. Sounds like a good cigar. 87.

The experience felt inconsistent between cigars, with the third sample noticeably outperforming the first two in flavor, complexity, and overall enjoyment. 87 87 87 my number is that where you're at it's okay you're at 86 no was I 86 yeah yeah I think you did 86 oh now if you want yeah you know what let's keep it neck-and-neck 87. Alright, final thought: The Viaje Chef's Cut Tall is a tale of two profiles. The first and second cigars were enjoyable, but they lacked the complexity and cohesiveness of the third.

Unfortunately, the construction was as far from a high point as multiple burn corrections for each cigar definitely impacted the final score. At its best, the Chef's Cut Tall is an enjoyable blend that compares well with some of Yahe's better releases, but two of the three cigars lack the flavors and nuance that would place it in the upper tier of the company's portfolio. Hmm. Eighty-five.

Eighty-three. You went the wrong way, eighty-seven. Oh. Wow.

I win. One last. Whoop. Those sparks look a little dark today.

They did look rather thick, didn't they? Yeah. It was burning my head. Oh.

Oh, he's on fire. Stop, drop, and roll. He has a lithium battery on his head. Pour the drink on your hair.

Oh, then all the color will wash out of your red again. Yeah. Yeah. They'll be back to ginger.

Back to ginger. But I'll always have my douchiness. All right, that's it. That's all I got.

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American flag overalls. American flag. Shirtless. Naked.

Shirtless American flag. What's everybody be naked today? Yeah, he wants you to be naked. Well, they will know if you're wearing underwear or not.

But he'll know. I will wear underwear. Yeah, if he does, he'll probably chafe because they're, you know, like jean material. Yeah.

I don't know. We got five more. I have to go buy them. Well, thanks everybody for watching and listening to the show.

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Show Notes

On today’s Show Umbrellas can be bad luck, Remember The Kit Kat Bar theft from Europe? Serial Killers Like to take Vacations too!  Speaking of Vacations we have a travel tip, then in cigars we have another shop exclusive thats not us….a shipping notification and then a what’s The score.