ACHP Episode 544 Weird Tensions, Weird Florida and Cigar News
Episode Summary
Episode 544 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with the usual housekeeping from Mike Palmer, Mike Szczepankewicz and Phil McGuffey — merch delays on the BDP shirts, the CHPod swag push at chpod.com, a new "Phil's Joke of the Day" segment, and the unveiling of Phil's 3D-printed June mask made by listener "David Hasselhoffman." The guys also read a big batch of listener comments, touching on Justin Andrews' move to Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the Caldwell/Lotus acquisition chatter, and a proposed pay-per-view drinking contest.
The news block is heavy on Weird Florida: Google's request for an EPA permit to release 32 million sterile "good bug" male mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia across Florida over two years to fight Zika, dengue and yellow fever; a Lake County driver clocked at 101 mph in a 55 zone who told deputies he was speeding home because his dog got loose (which spins into a long riff on the best excuses for triple-digit speeding); and the death of Dottie, a 39-year-old dolphin born at SeaWorld Orlando who spent her later years in San Diego. They also cover escalating Middle East tensions — U.S. self-defense strikes on Qasim Island in the Strait of Hormuz, intercepted Iranian missiles aimed at Kuwait and Bahrain, and a Hellfire missile fired into the engine room of a tanker running the naval blockade.
Cigar News covers two releases. Casdagli Cigars (a name the hosts cheerfully butcher all episode) is launching the Dominican Criollo Original Petit Exquisito, a 4 x 35 parejo made with 100% Corojo grown in Navarrete and rolled at the De Los Reyes factory in the Dominican Republic, packed in 10-count cartons with artwork featuring El Diablo Cojuelo of Dominican Carnival — founder Jeremy Casdagli says pricing is still being finalized. Then Canadian pipe maker and distributor Brigham Enterprises marks its 120th anniversary with the CXX Gratis, a 6 x 52 Toro Extra made at Tabacalera El Artista with Ram Rodriguez, using a Kentucky Fire Cured wrapper, Indonesian Sumatra binder and filler from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Pennsylvania, priced roughly $22–$25 CAD, plus a matching Cornell & Diehl pipe tobacco blend from Jeremy Reeves.
The show closes with "What's the Score?", guessing the Half Wheel score on Patrick Lagreid's review of the My Father La Lelidad Toro (6 x 54, Honduran puro-ish blend from My Father Cigars in Honduras) — creamy almond, mixed nuts and black pepper up front, combustion and heat issues in the back half. Phil nails the 87. Palmer also gets roasted at length for an accidentally thirst-trap Instagram reel of himself wiping grass off his neck with a handkerchief, and the trio plugs their Patreon review of the Fuente Fuente OpusX 25th Anniversary El Tributo.
In This Episode
- 01Merch, Masks and Listener CommentsBDP shirt shipping delays, the CHPod swag goal, a lighter/cutter giveaway, and Phil's new 3D-printed butterfly/Hawkman mask from a listener.
- 02Industry Chatter from the CommentsJustin Andrews taking a business development role at Scandinavian Tobacco Group and listener notes on Caldwell being acquired.
- 03Google's 32 Million Florida MosquitoesThe EPA permit request to release sterile Wolbachia-carrying male mosquitoes to curb Zika, dengue and yellow fever — and why the hosts are skeptical.
- 04101 in a 55: The Loose Dog ExcuseA Lake County, Florida driver arrested for dangerously excessive speeding after telling deputies his dog got out, plus the crew's own hypothetical excuses.
- 05Dottie the SeaWorld Dolphin Dies at 39A look back at the Orlando-born dolphin's long life, kidney treatment and move to San Diego.
- 06Strait of Hormuz EscalationU.S. strikes on Qasim Island, intercepted Iranian missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain, and a Hellfire hit on a blockade-running tanker.
- 07Cigar News: Casdagli Dominican Criollo OriginalA 4 x 35 all-Corojo Petit Exquisito from Navarrete tobacco made at De Los Reyes, with Dominican Carnival artwork and pricing still TBD.
- 08Cigar News: Brigham CXX GratisBrigham Enterprises' 120th anniversary Toro Extra made at El Artista with a Kentucky Fire Cured wrapper, plus a matching Cornell & Diehl pipe blend.
- 09What's the Score: My Father La Lelidad ToroGuessing Patrick Lagreid's Half Wheel score on the Honduran-made La Lelidad Toro and how it compares to My Father Blue.
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Transcript
- Action! - Welcome to a Cigar Hustler Podcast where cigars are just a starting point. Join me, Mike Palmer, along with Mike Szczepankewicz and Phil McGuffey as we dive into the cigar. Welcome to the latest cigar industry news, sports, current events, business, and whatever crazy stories are making headlines.
Whether you're a seasoned cigar smoker or just looking for entertaining conversation, expect honest opinions, plenty of laughs, and a few unexpected detours along the way. Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. On today's show -- no, we did the Harambe story last week. Oh, I was doing -- what's that old show?
Arsenio Hall. Oh, Arsenio Hall. Oh, he's in the dog pound. Yeah, in the dog pound.
On today's show, Florida may soon be overrun by millions of mosquitos. A driver-- No! Yes. A driver gives deputies one of the most creative excuses we've ever heard of getting caught at triple-digit speeding.
A beloved SeaWorld celebrity takes her final bow. Overseas tensions are heating up in a way that could impact the entire world. Straight of Hormuz. Plus, in Cigar News, we've got a couple of new releases we're talking about, and then it's time to test your palate with-- Test your palate and your instincts with another round of What's the Score?
Phil being the winner. We don't know that. Before we get started, we have a new feature today called Phil's Joke of the Day. Oh.
Oh, nice. He was trying them out on me while we were waiting. Yeah, we're, you know. Just pick the best one, you only get the one.
Pick the best one? Yes. Okay. So, fellas, how are you guys doing?
How is the weather out there? " All right, Mikey, how do you get some of that CHPod swag? Like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to this show. com for all our CHPod swag.
We are two away. Uh-oh. Oh. We are two away.
The overalls arrived yesterday. From the BDP purchasing for you to wear the overall. Is it only till the end of the week or is it till we run out of them? Because, I mean, otherwise I might as well go ahead and wear them.
Oh, well. I forget what we said. No, you're close. I mean, well, we just got to hit 15.
We didn't put a date on it. Oh, okay, all right. You know, but. So we sell two more in six months?
I dragged them out of the closet? No, no, it's got to happen before the 4th of July. Okay, fair enough. It's your 4th of July shirt, or overall.
Oh, I'll wear it for the 4th of July. Yeah. I'm gone for two days. We'll have to do that earlier.
All right, go ahead. Okay. I'm gone for two days. So yeah, listen, there's a little bit, I had an issue with the shirts, because I wanted to get those pre-orders out already.
It got looped in tracking, and so I had to reorder. So they're coming. So guys, just bear with me for one second. I have a, well, we have a handful of orders that are all, and it's like all kind of, People bought the travel mugs, and then they bought the BDP shirts, and they bought all these things.
Are these shirts turning into the beanies? No, no. The shirts aren't going to be a problem. The orders are kind of all over the place right now.
We have a lot of orders. A lot of back orders. Yeah, just be patient with me, and I'm going to have it all sorted out. As soon as these shirts come in, everything's going to go out all the same time.
And keep buying. Well, to be fair, the director of printing was rather busy last weekend. Yes, with the whole wedding thing, yeah. Yeah.
CH5 was in charge of a wedding for the weekend. - She's got all the orders laid out. She's just waiting for the shirts to come in. - Gotcha, she's just waiting on the shirts.
- Right, and it would go like, out for delivery, and then it would say back at FedEx facility, out for delivery, back at FedEx facility, and then I'm like, what's going on here? And they're like, oh, we're very sorry, but it hasn't been out long enough for us to credit. I'm like, I'm just gonna order more and then I'll deal with this credit later. - Oh.
- So, there's that. com, OzCigarHauser's podcast, today, as he went off of me, we are going to review the Opus X, what's it called? 25th Anniversary El something, Opus X, no, El Tributon, or Tribullo, or Tatatata. I mean, it would be beneficial for our listeners if we knew exactly what it was that we were smoking.
I knew earlier, I even sent you the graphic, it had the name on it, but apparently neither one of us remembered. It is El, something with a T. El Tributo. There you go, Tributo.
The Opus X, El Tributo. Oh, that's how we say tribute in Spanish, Tributo. Yes, that's how we say it, yes. Earlier it was them's people.
Oh. So, we'll be breaking this down on a review and talking about some other stuff inside the industry. Nice. com, Cigar Hustlers Podcast.
Wherever you pay for the full year, you get 10% off. Bye now. Bye now! We're, uh, what are we?
We get a deal. One day away from all of the comments and then... Yes. Yeah.
One more day. One more day. One more day away. And we'll be through.
- Your final day to enter to win. - And then we have to come up with another prize? - Yes. - Blah, blah, blah, blah, bing, bing, bong.
- Carbon fiber fiber lighter cutter combo set from some company we don't say the name of 'cause they didn't pay us. - Yeah, 'cause we're not, they're not a sponsor or something, we're just nice people. - If you would like to send in something and be mentioned. - No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Send it to Ken, send it to Kerov, Omar, and Phil. - No. - Yes. And then, I'll work it into the show.
It's in two. I said two. You guys are just dry bagging. That's lame.
That's lame. We don't get paid. Okay. Alright, now, some comments from our previous episode.
Yeah. " Oh! That doesn't even sound important. No, it doesn't.
It sounds old. He's old. Yeah. I'm the new...
So he's in sales. That's like brand ambassador. Right. You know what I mean?
Yeah. That could be Law's job. Exactly. Oh, Law is Justin Andrews.
Law doesn't get paid as much money as Justin Andrews. No, not even. Yeah. " Oh?
What drinking contest? Don't you remember? You said you could out drink me. oh yeah okay i mean it'd be a long show only 199 show all right so they must pay by the minute oh that's about they pay by the minute and then when one of us passes out or stops that's where they stop paying yeah they could bet on the round data cash 2004 says you can put whoever you want on the 250 bill as i will never see one yeah maybe you both buddy david hasselhoffman says Yes.
Palmer, the orange one is the Echo Hail Shop Exclusive with Cigars Daily. Yes. I contacted Espinosa Cigars yesterday to find out. Ah.
We have the new mask in the room. I just didn't make it right there so he didn't see it at first, if you'd like me to get it. Let me read the comments and then let's... I glanced over the name by seeing him with the peach.
Ah, it dawned on you. Yes. David Hasselhoffman also said: Justin must have been in charge of the Sheriff's Department that raided Afro Man's house for that pound cake. I don't get that.
There was a large man that went in when they were raiding Afro Man's house and he did like a double take on the pound cake. I'm just gonna do a couple more here because there's a lot today. There's one from your mother. Yeah, you want me to get you?
Mikey's mom. Yeah, do Mikey's mom. Okay. Mark Palmer 570 says, "I vote for only dead presidents on our money, although I guess a Trump dollar be collectible along with his steak knives, his vodka, his school.
" And his cell phones. Yeah, don't forget the cell phones. Don't forget the cell phones. Any day now.
Any day. Let's see. Bruce Cox says, "Daphne, Joy, and Diggler" sounds like the law firm in charge of the case. That's pretty good.
Diddy is being represented by Daphne, Joy, and Diggler. Mm-hmm. And I'm gonna end it here with @RuckusUnchained. Yes.
Yay, Mommy! Hello, Sharon. Caldwell was bought by Lotus Eye. Oh, I didn't understand.
It's like a pipe company. Oh, she's so smart. She's very informed with the industry. She knows so much.
She does. That's how you learned. If you want to hear your comment, potentially riddle out on the show, just comment below. You're also going to be entered to win this Cutter Lighter set that we're giving away this week.
Ooh, carbon fiber. Today is the final day? No, tomorrow's the final day. Tomorrow's the final day.
Tomorrow's the final day for that. And then Monday we'll have your winner. There will be a winner. Yes.
And I'll say Boots, pick a number between one and... Phil! Phil, pick a number between 1 and 700, and he'll be like... Two.
He'll be like 400... No, it'll be in the middle. It'll be 487. That way I can't get to it either way.
Can't get to it for me. Well, I didn't know what the game was. You just said pick these numbers. If you would have said these are the comments, pick a number between...
Okay, going forward, if he ever asks you to pick a number, it's for a contest. So always go low. So if you guys are listening out there, make sure you're the first to comment. No, I don't want you to always go low.
Make sure you comment in the beginning of the card. One. One. Always pick one.
Okay, number one through 7,584. One. Okay, number one is... Okay, I think that's everything.
On with the show. If I start the news, I can't go get it. You need to... we need to get it.
Then talk about something else and put the camera... No, no, I'm leaving. So, Phil, we have an updated mask for you. For June.
Your June mask has arrived, and it's every bit of amazing. It was made by David Hasselhoffman. Oh, Baywatch. Yeah.
And he also included some cigars as well. For me. No, not for you. No, not for you.
Why would he include them for you? Yeah. Because he said the whole thing. All right, switch to your camera.
You want me to switch to my camera? So we get him when he sees it. Okay. Oh.
All right, here it is. Ohhhhhh! Ohhh, that's nice! Isn't that lovely?
Okay, now put the camera back on, Mikey, while you put it on. Wow. You don't like it? It's beautiful!
It's beautiful. He doesn't look thrilled. No, I thought he'd be more excited about that. All right, did you get rid of the Princess Peach?
How's that? How is that? That is so nice. Oh, yeah.
Oh, back to your camera. I knew that was gonna happen. What happened? Something on the forehead.
I broke it! The little antennas. It was like pressing on my forehead. You can adjust it because I had it on yesterday.
The antennas? You can adjust the mass so you can still see, but it doesn't quite poke you. No, it's just because I have a big forehead, I think. Dude, that.
All right, to your camera. We can all see. That is an amazing mask. Oh, nice.
Look at that. Oh, you're like a superhero. Don't burn that one. Don't burn that one.
We have more. Yeah. All right. Incredible.
I love it. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. You can't even see it, really.
You look like a Hawkman. Yeah, you can only see the bottom. Hawkwoman. Hawkwoman.
Well, it's 'cause the camera needs adjusted. Lower your chair. Can you lower your chair anymore? Nope.
You didn't even try. No. You still didn't try. You still didn't try.
You still didn't try. All right, on with the show. Thanks, Hoffman. Hazel Hoffman.
Mm-hmm. All right, on with the news. Tech giant Google is seeking government approval to release 32 million mosquitoes into Florida. No.
Yeah. What? According to CBS News, the outlet reported this week that Google is pushing to do so as part of a A debug program. More specifically, the program is aimed at releasing sterile male mosquitoes.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Dubbed the good bugs.
The good bugs. To bring down population of mosquitoes that actually spread diseases like Zika, yellow fever, and dengue fever. Have we ever had Zika in Florida? Yes.
I get it several times a year. Really? Yes. No, they had like, yeah, there was like an outbreak, remember?
Uh, yeah, where you get the small-headed babies. I don't know. That's what happens. Like the Beetlejuice people?
Yes, it's not quite that small. He's not wrong. For officials with the program, this method can prevent the spread of such diseases without relying on unsustainable pesticides are trying to clear out all of the standing water in an area. You can't clear out the standing water in Florida.
Have we ever had Zika in Florida? Our good bugs are male mosquitoes that have a naturally occurring bacteria called Wolbachia. Wolbachia. Wolbachia.
Which makes them unable to have offspring with wild female mosquitoes. " What if the bad bugs kill all the good bugs? This sounds like a terrible idea. Oh, no, they're gonna, it's gonna happen.
They're gonna release 20 billion mosquitoes. Yeah, but he's saying this sounds like a terrible idea. Well, if there's more good bugs than bad bugs, then the bad bugs can't mate. I understand the logic here.
You understand the process? I just think that messing with Mother Nature is not... Yeah? You don't think so?
Yeah, not a good idea. Well, no, the mosquito's been around forever. I was thinking about love bugs. Yeah, mosquitoes have been around forever.
Wasn't the love, wasn't the rumor that the love bugs were created from like the Florida Gators or something? No, yeah, University of Florida they did. No, that's just a myth. Is it?
Or it's an urban legend. Yeah. To eat the mosquitoes. Yeah.
Yeah, right. No. That's not true. Where was it created?
They came over in a basket of fruit on a boat or something. Like everything else I would get to. They came over in a basket of fruit on a boat? Yeah.
Well, send them back. Immigration. That's right. Where was immigration when we needed them back then?
Why isn't ICE tackling the love bugs? Exactly. A federal register last month shows that if approved for a permit, Google plans to release the 32 million mosquitoes into Florida over the course of two years. So it's not all at once, just a couple here, a couple over there.
Throw some over here. A little dash will do ya. The EPA is seeking comment until June 5th before making the decision on whether to issue the permits. Just a couple more days.
Do you think this is a good idea? I don't know. I mean, there's like the only place in the world that didn't have mosquitoes was Iceland, I think. OK.
And now they're there, too. How can they survive? Well, Iceland is actually green and Greenland is full of ice. Yeah.
Oh, is there mosquitoes in Alaska? I would guess. Maybe they get killed off every year. I mean, it's not snow all year long until you go really high up, I guess.
Sure, why not? I mean, if it doesn't, I mean, the male ones don't bite. Okay. So, what's the downside?
More mosquitoes on your car? So, they don't bite, but you're hoping that they're going to mate with... They will mate with the females. And then not make babies.
Right. Because they've all been fixed. Yeah. By the vasectomy guy.
Yeah, by the mosquito vasectomy guy. Yeah, the guy on the billboard? He's got the billboard on the highway. Yeah, that guy.
Yeah. Phil, do you think this is a good idea? No, because, you know, to fix a problem, you have to create a problem. So we don't know what that problem is yet.
Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes is the problem. Yeah, but it sounds like they're probably going to create something different. Yeah.
Some kind of weird... Like a super mosquito. Super mosquito? Yeah.
Didn't see that one coming. Phil's got money in this. Oh, yeah? He bet?
No, he had to separate the male mosquitoes from the female mosquitoes, so he had to look for the little mosquito wieners, and then he had to, oh, this one's male, it goes over there. Like a Lego set. It's a side hustle for Phil. There's no money makers bet on this?
I don't know. Is there money? Is this a prop bet? I'm sure you could probably bet on something like this, but...
How many mosquitoes does it take to kill off a wild mosquito? Yeah, there's this betting app called Kashi. Oh, I've seen that. Yeah, you can bet on stuff like that.
Yeah, like it's gonna rain. How about you go on you? Why is it on me when you two are talking? You thought you were gonna say something.
No, it wasn't. I was nice and yawning. You want it on me? Here it is.
there it is is that what you want yes i want my princess on butterfly man the angel butterfly man this is gonna probably be a hot mask because of the plastics up there no no it's well ventilated it'll be fine you'll be fine i used to i would sweat with the princess beach one on well it's princess beach is gone now that was cloth you are now butterfly man yeah and it's a hell of a mask it's nice he went to a lot of work mr hassel he did I'm a little nervous on where he got it. He made it. It's been 3D printed. He made this?
Yeah. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool.
Oh, now he's okay. He made it just for you. Yeah. Big fan of Phil.
I'm a big fan of him. There you go. You love the Baywatch. He's a great guy.
I honestly don't think this happens. I don't think it passes. The permit? Yeah.
Why? Because it just sounds like complete bullshit to me. I don't think that anybody would be okay with just releasing this. When did Google get into scientific stuff?
Yeah, I was gonna say, when is Google in the bug business? Why is it Google? And not like University of Florida or, you know, something. And why is Google invested in doing it?
Right, exactly. That's what we're saying. What's the upside here for Google? To remove, like, are the mosquitoes a problem for the data centers for AI?
That's what I mean. I mean, yeah, they have like an office here that's near a lake and they're just really tired of the, as they walk to their cars? Yeah. I suppose so.
Makes no sense at all. Hmm. It really doesn't. Okay, moving on.
What is today's actual date? The second? Third. Third.
Third. So two more days. So hopefully they release information like they're going to release the bugs, whether it happens or not. Well, I guess it would be the fourth.
Alright, a driver was arrested in Lake County after deputies said he was clocked going 101 miles per hour And a 55 mile an hour zone. Oh, he's going to jail. Seijun Jack Rye, who didn't, he wasn't doing double the speed limit, he was closed. Not anything over a hundred, you go to jail in Florida, no?
No, you don't have, you don't mandatory go to jail, they may, they have the right to arrest you. The officers call. Anyway, he was arrested June 1st in a charge of dangerous excessive speeding according to a Lake County arrest affidavit. The arrest happened near State Road 19, near County Road 455 in Groveland.
In the middle of nowhere. In the middle of nowhere. Yeah, I mean, who's he hurting? In his Audi.
He's just wide open. Well, it had to be some kind of traffic, the cop was just sitting there waiting. Yeah. According to the affidavit, Lake County deputy was conducting stationary traffic enforcement when he heard a vehicle approaching at a very high rate of speed.
The deputy said he saw the vehicle traveling northbound and could hear it rapidly slowing down as it approached the patrol vehicle. Well, his radar detector went on. Mm-hmm. According to the affidavit, the deputy activated his radar and recorded the vehicle going 101 miles per hour in a 55-mile-an-hour zone.
The deputy said the vehicle had been traveling much faster before the radar was activated. Mm, uh-uh. What? Uh-uh.
The deputy said the vehicle was a silver Audi. According to the affidavit, the driver eventually pulled over and told the deputy he was in a hurry to get home because... He wanted to catch up on his latest show of Rip and... Dutton Ranch?
Phil? He just ate a chili dog from 7-Eleven. Oh. No, his dog had gotten loose.
A lot of people like their animals, man. Hoochins was arrested on charge of dangerously excessive speeding and taken to the Lake County Jail. The vehicle was towed according to the affidavit. Bye-bye.
Okay. He was sent at a pokey. So, they arrested him. Right.
I mean, what type of dog are we talking about here? Well, the picture they showed on the story was a Chihuahua. Okay. I'm not sure if that's actually the dog.
So, not necessarily a threat to anybody around it? How do you find out that your Chihuahua got loose? Maybe somebody called the dog tag. Yeah.
Well, then it's safe because somebody has it. " - Oh, hey, I see you, hey, your little Chihuahua Pepe is running the neighborhood. - Bark, bark! - What, what's the excuse that you would use if you got pulled over doing 100 miles an hour in a 55?
- Uh, medical emergency. - What, what is it? - My wife's at home, she's choking. - That's what you would use?
- They're gonna go to your house. - You think that would work? - That's all right, I mean, I have to go to my house too. " You're choking when we get there.
Or say you were just, problem is she's not a good liar, she wouldn't go, she wouldn't, it wouldn't work. Right. I'd have to about face and head to your house and text you and go, you're choking, I'll be there a minute with a cop. I'd be blue on the floor.
I would, I would shove something in my throat too. You would choke. I would legitimately choke. Shove a big hot dog in the bun in your throat.
The cops are here. What about you, Phil? What would your reasoning be? The counts are off on my mosquitoes.
I got to start over again. So many penises. So many little mosquitoes. I don't know, man.
I mean, I have to go to the bathroom a lot, and sometimes I do speed for that, so it'd probably be that. Like, hey, man, this is going to be a huge mess here soon. But what you would have to do is actually shit yourself in the car at that point. Yeah, and you're still probably getting another ticket.
I'm probably okay with that. Yeah, not going to jail. I think I would make it probably... Oh, he's still hauling you to jail.
No, he don't want to put you into squad cars, you smell it. Yeah, yeah, because they have to clean their own squad cars. They got to clean their own cars. So I'm just going to poop all over myself.
Same thing with like if there's like alligator near you or anything, shark. Oh, sharks and alligators don't like poop? Yeah, just poop yourself, they'll deter. Really?
Really? Yeah. I don't know if I could get it up that fast, though, with a shark biting the leg and I gotta shit myself right away. Oh, really?
You see a shark, you don't think you're gonna be able to shit yourself? No, I don't think so. It hasn't grabbed ahold of me yet. Oh, there's a shark.
Suddenly, I feel the urge. Suddenly, I had a taco earlier. Is that a strategy you use when, you know, when it's life or death and you want to make sure that someone else dies instead of you? You shit yourself?
You make sure Tia shits herself and then he runs. I mean, it would probably be a good tactic. I've never done it, but... No?
I think Otisias had to. Yeah. I don't know what I would do in that scenario, guys. Thanks so much for asking.
Oh, Mikey, what would you do? You just pass out in the car? Maybe do a chase. I mean, you know...
Make him chase. Yeah, at that point, if I know that I'm going to jail, and I don't think I can logically get out of it, let's cook, baby, let's go. Just go for broke, I mean, if I'm going, I'm going big. It's me versus the Hellcat, the Hellcat versus you, right?
And all I gotta do is get out of the Hellcat at a point where the vehicle's kind of abandoned, and you don't know if I was a driver. Oh, and then you quickly report it stolen. Yeah. While you're running through the woods.
Right. What? My car was stolen. I've ran one time.
Did you? Yeah. Does that have anything to do with what we're talking about, or you just let us know you ran one time? Did you get away with it?
Yeah, yeah, so what I did is, it was like, this is when I was younger, super late at night, I had like a Mazda 3, brand new Mazda 3. Oh, God. Yeah, it was a long time ago. And you escaped?
Yeah, so I was coming back from Knight's Library. Was it were you up against a police officer on a bicycle? I mean, like a Mazda 3? No, like I saw him like he was in the middle of the median and I passed and I was like, oh man, he's gonna light me up.
Yeah. So then all of a sudden I saw him turn. I was like, oh, there he comes. Sure enough, he lights up, lights him up, but he's far away, right?
So I pulled down the street. This is in Deltona. I pulled down the street. I pulled into a driveway and turned my car off.
And then he drove he drove past. Wow, just sat there for a little bit, you know, that's extremely lucky. Yeah, super. I think that if I turned a corner and he didn't see me, what I would do is I'd throw myself in the trunk of the car.
That way, when they search when they search the vehicle, I was just there banging on the trunk. Yeah, they stole my car. Oh, man, thank you. Yeah.
Oh, you're really rolling the dice on that one. Like, I I don't know. It's a great idea. What are you talking about?
They can't prove that I was behind the wheel. I was carjacked at the light. Who was he? It was a tall, white, black, purple.
I don't know. I didn't see a thing. I panicked. He had a ski mask.
I saw the gun. All he saw was a gun. Yeah, he had a gun in my face. Why is it showing my dash cam here that there's a big Sasquatch with a cigar hanging out of his mouth?
You smell like a cigar. Well, I mean, he blew smoke into the trunk. I don't know what you're saying. The ash dummy, right here.
Wait a second, you're telling me you smoked my stuff as well? Oh, man. Can't believe you smoked my Opus X. Yeah, that was an Opus X El Tribu Nunu.
Yeah, you just, you know, you pop the trunk, you leave the driver door open, you close the trunk. Right. You wait 10 minutes, we're going to pull up. That's a good story.
What are you doing? The only problem is I couldn't get in my trunk because it's loaded with football stuff and sports stuff. Well, you just squish between it. Yep.
Pull that door down really tight. Yeah. That's a great idea. We're not saying anybody should do that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is just all hypothetical. Yeah, this is just us having fun. Making a movie or something.
Yeah, exactly. He went that way. I heard him run left. Yeah, he had a big black Hummer.
What? Your brother. Yeah, Greg's house. He just made your brother the guilty person.
A lot of jewelry on one hand. I think he said his name was Greg? Yeah. Greg.
Two G's. Three G's. Oh, three G's. Here's his address.
A lot of jewelry on the one hand. A lot of, maximum accessories. A little ponchi with a tight t-shirt. And he loves to be searched, so make sure when you get there you pat him down.
For God's sake, don't take his food. I believe he said he had a detonator in his rectum. - - Kept saying he wished he had more time. - He wished he had more time.
Okay, next. - All right, you knew doesn't like it when you poop in the water. - Who's that? - 39-year-old dolphin died Sunday at SeaWorld.
- No! - A dolphin named Dottie was born in SeaWorld, Orlando, so she was a local girl. - Oh my goodness. - Before being relocated to San Diego, which became her long-term home, according to the park officials.
Dottie had four babies, but it was unknown if they lived alongside her in San Diego. Dottie shared an exceptionally close bond with her care team. These relationships supported the trust needed for voluntary diagnostic behaviors when she had kidney problems a few years ago in 2010. That's a long time, 13 years ago, 16 years ago.
Officials announced on Facebook, after her diagnosis and treatment provided by the SeaWorld veterinary team, Dottie lived another 15 years. She will be deeply missed by the team who cared for her and by the countless guests who were able to connect with her over the remarkable life of her. That's very sad. That's the first time I've ever heard of someone moving out of Florida and going to California.
Right. Yeah, it's usually the other way around. Dolphins always look so happy the way their faces are. They never look like they're mad or evil or mean or anything.
" Yeah, they're like the jokers of the ocean. Okay, I don't really have anything off of that one, I can't really say. She's 39 years old. Yeah.
Yeah, she lived a good life. 39 is a good age for a dolphin. That's a long life for a dolphin in captivity. Have you ever swam with dolphins?
No, I haven't, but I have thought about doing the thing in the Aquatica thing over here. Discovery Cove? Discovery Cove, yeah. Yeah, that's cool.
But it's expensive over here. Have you ever swam with dolphins, Phil? Not at like SeaWorld. Just in real life?
Just out in the water? Yeah, like, uh, uh, I used to take boats and jet skis all the time in the, uh, inlet side of, uh, New Smyrna over there. Mosquito Lagoon. That's where you got the idea to count the people.
There's always dolphins over there. You know, with that mask on, they might, uh, you know, take you for one of them. It's true. Kind of look like the, uh, the water people from the movie.
This is kind of like the, uh, the alphabet archer. What? I have no idea. I have no idea.
It's not a I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You guys don't know the Marvel guy, Archer? The Marvel guy? Isn't Archer the… You mean Hawkman?
I thought Archer was…maybe he's DC. Is he DC? There is somebody named Archer. Hawkman.
Hawkman has a mask like that. Hawkeye? Hawkeye. Hawkeye.
I thought Archer had this type of mask. Hawkeye does not wear a mask. Archer does too, but I think you're talking about DC. Yeah, I think I'm talking about DC.
Oh, Archer's the DC guy with a bow and arrow? And he wears a mask? He wears a mask? Yeah, he's like red, white, and blue.
He has a mask like this. Don't know. Kind of like this. This is more butterfly-ish.
His is more wingish, like an eagle. Speaking of red, white, and blue. Well, DC is called Green Arrow, so there's that. No, that's not that.
Green Arrow wears like a robin mash, or Lone Ranger. Correct. No, you're talking about Hawkeye. Hawkeye.
Maybe it's Hawkeye. Yeah. One of the Avengers. Yeah, got ran over by a snow machine a couple of years ago.
He did, Jeremy Renner? Uh, that sounds right. I was gonna say Piven, but that's not right. Yeah, I was thinking of P.
Right, completely different guy. He was awesome in the town. Yeah. Yeah.
And then he does well in the mayor of Kingstown as well. Yes. Uh-huh. Okay.
S. military said it launched self-defense strikes on Iran overnight Overnight, and shot down ballistic missiles and drones fired at ships and Gulf countries. A bang bang. So apparently the peace talks are not going well.
No. S. Central Command said. CENCOM said Iran had fired two missiles at Kuwait and three at Bahran, all of which broke apart or were intercepted.
But we have been, our show has been heard in both those countries. Really? Yes. When we used to track it.
Yes. S. bases and helicopters in a regional country using missiles and drones in retaliation. One person was killed in Kuwait and more than 60 injured when drones hit buildings, including its international airport officials said.
Kuwait defense minister, spokesman, Brigadier General Saud Abouzizi Alatuhabi. Sad al-Abazizi, Abu Dhabi? Yes, I'm not going to be able to say that again. I hope they don't mention his name further now.
Was it hyphenated? No. No. General Sad, Abu Dhabi, and then another word, Al-Obatabi.
I thought the guy in charge didn't want to be in charge anymore. That's Iran. This is the guy in charge of Kuwait. This is another place.
Kuwait's a different country. It's next door. Kuwait's one of the good guys. Let's just glass the place.
I don't understand what the problem is. We should just glass Iran. I mean, you know, like, what are we doing? Oh, man, someone's going to be so angry at that statement.
Yeah. They called the attack criminal Iranian aggression. It's criminal Iranian aggression. While the Kuwaiti foreign minister said later, infrastructure, including diplomatic missions, had been damaged.
Imagine being in charge of Kuwait. Kuwait's a very small country, run by a prince. " You get him. You kick his ass.
You kick his ass for us. You kick his ass for us. Hold me back. Yeah, hold me.
No, really, hold me. Don't make me get my elephant. Sir. Don't make me get my elephant.
CENTCOM said the strike on Qasim Island had targeted an Iranian military ground control station. S. also shot down three attack drones that had been launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were tightly transitioning regional waters. S.
naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. There it is. Hold on, this is cool. S.
aircraft fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of the ship after they ignored repeated warnings. So we didn't want to blow up the ship, but they cannot move now. Now they're just floating. Now they're just, now they're, yeah, now they're a barge.
Can you imagine, we have a, just, just put it in over that window over there. Well, you can control those ones. Hellfire. Right, I understand that, but still, it's amazing, you know, they just, just blow up the engine.
With like an Xbox remote? No, I don't think it's an Xbox remote. I've heard, I heard there, there are like Xbox remotes. Yeah.
S. military. There will be a heavy price. There will be a price.
99, come on down. Two goats. Did you see? They just put a missile in the window.
Hide the goats. Oh, hide the goats. A foreign minister's statement said the leaders of Kuwait and Bahrain said direct and unmistakably responses for last night's acts of aggression. That's the two guys.
" They're very bad Iranian people, stand next to me, stand right here. Stand next to me. Right here where they can see you. S.
for the strikes. Iran has repeatedly attacked targets. Who condemned it? AFP news agency has it condemned, yeah, according, oh wait, so who did?
Oh, these, the two guys. Oh. The guy in charge of the little Bahrain, and the guy over here, There's a guy over here in charge of the little Kuwait. - This is not okay.
- This is not okay now. Before, we had to take it. Now we don't have to. Ah, the US military base, man, the attacks happened, ceasefire negotiations have fallen apart.
- Perfect, all right, all right, all right. - You have a video? - I do. - Is it another, is it Justin Andrews again?
- No, it's someone else. - Someone else who says they work harder than Justin Andrews? I can't wait, it's probably going to be... Well, I wish it was like Matt Booth dressed up as Justin Andrews.
That would be great. Oh, you have to cut his hair. No, just put on a wig. Here it comes.
This is a good one. Here comes the song. Oh, we're going to do it. It's got music, so don't play it.
Don't play the music. Turn down for what? You put up my video. Wow.
I thought I took that down. What were you thinking on this one? I don't know. You were like...
It wasn't the first... I couldn't get the first part cut off and I couldn't get the end cut off. I think you see me with the camera too. So it was gonna be a joke against Law's videos that he puts out with the slow motion smoking.
Yeah. And instead it turned into you like... Instead it turned into some type of thirst trap. So I thought I took it down.
Did you get it before I took it down? I must have saved it in time. " I even had two, uh, uh, two very friendly men tell me where they lived. Did they?
Wow. Nice. " Apparently you can't edit once you put it into a reel. That's nice.
Oh, man. Ugh, I can't stop watching. I'm sure you're very involved. It's so, it's so erotic.
It's, uh, yeah, it's a little awkward. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you got a little problem with counting peepees over there. So, was this legit AI?
No, no, I did that after I cut the grass. Oh, so you did the wiping. Yeah, I made the video, but I was getting ready for the video, and so I was cleaning the grass off my neck. That makes it even better.
Yeah. That makes it even better. You were cleaning the grass off your neck. Yeah, I just finished cutting the grass.
I thought AI did this. Now that I know that you actually did it, my goodness. Oh, yeah, I made it, yeah. And then...
And then I took it down. And then you said, you know what? you know what this you want to know why you took it down is because some some dude slid into the dm well yeah that was when you realized you were in trouble yeah i was like oh okay and somebody did call it a thirst trap too so i was like this just didn't work out well oh hey man you know you miss 100 of the shots you don't take right atta boy you get them if you're interested in dating Mike Palmer. Mike Palmer: You want me to cut your grass?
Mike Palmer: Yeah. Mike Palmer: Amongst other things. Mike Palmer: With his manscaping that he has. Mike Palmer: His manscaped, what's it called?
Mike Palmer: The trimmer? Mike Palmer: I can't remember now. Mike Palmer: He's on... Mike Palmer: Manscaped.
Mike Palmer: Manscaped. Mike Palmer: Yeah, it's called Manscaped. com. Mike Palmer: He's rattled.
Mike Palmer: QTipMingles. Mike Palmer: He's rattled. Mike Palmer: He's rattled. Mike Palmer: He's rattled.
Mike Palmer: He's rattled. Mike Palmer: Best video of the year. I'm 2026, right there. That's so hot.
Oh my goodness. At first I thought it was like tobacco. I thought I was wiping tobacco on it. It's a handkerchief.
A handkerchief that I use to wipe sweat off of me when I'm cutting the grass. Oh, let me get this sweat off of me. I had grass all in my neck. Let me get this grass off of me.
All right, on to Cigar News. Let's stay on this video a little longer. We can stay on the video longer. Do you mow the grass in your Mike and Mike Productions t-shirt at all the time?
Uh, no, whichever one rotates up. I have two of those, and one's extremely faded. Oh, good. A faded Mike and Mike production.
From overuse. And then, uh, he had one, he never wore it, so I took it back. Yeah. And you wear his?
Uh, I don't know, well, I imagine mine's faded, not his. That's why he started to stimulate his neck and stuff with it. Right. I got a little excited from wearing Mikey's t-shirt.
Oh, dude. I love it that people are like, "What's up? What's up? What's up?
" Two guys, hey. Hey, just checking in. " You have options. I can leave right now.
I can leave right now. There's two guys over in South Florida. I'm in high demand. They're looking for somebody to come in.
Hey, South Florida, are they Jewish? What? I think one of them was in Tampa. Maybe they got a lot of money, Palmer.
Are they Jewish? If they're Jewish in South Florida, they probably got a lot of money. You know, I didn't inquire on his religious, ethnic... If you could send bank account information, I mean, what, just ask him if he's a lawyer.
Wow. He was smoking a cigar in the photos. Oh, you know, what's your last name? Oh, it's Rubenstein.
I like Opus X Tributo Boos. Oh, oh, great. That's expensive. I hear they're expensive.
If you could send me three of those, I could replenish the ones we had to pay for. I'll send you another video. Next week I cut the grass again. You know what, I'm super sweaty over here.
Super dirty. I'm a dirty, dirty boy. Oh, wow. I have some overalls coming.
You know what, it makes me so much happier that when I saw it, I instantly recorded it and that you took it down. That was awesome. Yep, I took it down. my god okay go ahead all right cigar news I can't pronounce this word either yeah it's your son's playing basketball oh C A S D A G L I cast the good the C-A-S-D-A-G-L-I.
Ca? Ca. Castigl? Castigl?
Galai. Galai. Castiglalai. Yeah.
It's releasing a Dominito Corojo original next month. Dominita. I don't want to hear shit about Powstanie, just for the record. I don't want to hear a single word from any of you about Powstanie.
That's it. Next month, Ka Sigliay will release a new regular production line that was created to honor the Dominican Republic, the Dominican Criollo Original Petit Exquisito, is a 4x35 Parejo made with 100% Corojo tobacco grown in the Navarrete region of the, this is a completely hard to say. It's not in, is it in Mandarin? It sounds like it's in Mandarin.
It sounds like it's in Mandarin. I mean, something. It's been made at the De Los Reyes factory in the Dominican Republic. Is it a bunch of cymbals?
And this is only the second time, well, it's because nobody can't pronounce their name, that KaSagaGali has had a cigar made there. Smile emoji. In an email, Jeremy KaSagaGali, founder of KaSagaGali, told Halfwell that pricing is still being finalized, because we can't get anybody to say our name and call us back. But the MSRP for each cigar will land between, oh, we have two prices.
Mmm, because he doesn't know. Yeah, I didn't know that there was a window. Phil? Well, this is the feminine version, right?
A, yeah, the A on the name. Yeah, so let's go $12. Okay, we're looking for a window here. Oh, $12 to $15.
I'm going $18 to $24. It's a small cigar, gentlemen. I'm going $6 to $8. Let's go $7 to $10.
50 to $5. I win. I win. Very narrow window.
Very small. Very small. We're actually not charging anything. We're just going to make them and give them away.
Yeah, the regular production cigars we packed in a 10 count cartons. They're in cartons. Oh, they're in cartons. Oh, they're in cartons.
Oh, they're cigarettes. The man features El Diablo Cujulo, the legendary character of Dominican Carnival. He reads a post on this guy's Instagram page introduced by Spanish colonizers centuries ago. The figure was transformed by local community into a symbol of satire, resilience, and cultural identity.
In stereo. In stereo. He's got another cigar, we're not talking about that. Alright, Brigham Enterprises.
Who? Brigham? Brigham? Brigham.
Brigham Enterprises. Celebrating the 120 years with the Artista made CXX gratis. Okay. Brigham Enterprises, the Canadian pipe maker and tobacco distributor celebrating its 120th anniversary this year with a...
Wait, Canadian Pipemaker and Tobacco Super is making an Anniversary Cigar? Okay. Limited Production Cigar may be Artista Cigars and Limited Edition Pipe Tobacco Blend from Cornell and Deal. Deal?
The two products share the name CXX Gratis, which combines the Roman numeral 4120 with the Latin word for gratitude. Oh. Okay. 100, thankful for the 100.
120 Gratis Cigar is a 6x52 Toro Extra with a blend that features a Kentucky Fire Cured wrapper. Ooh. An Indonesian Sumatra binder and fillers from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and-- The mask is bothering his forehead. --Nicaragua and Pennsylvania, so basically tobacco from everywhere they could find.
Yeah, yeah. Wherever they could find. Wherever they could get tobacco. The blend was developed in conjunction with Radhan's Ram Rodriguez and the team at Tabula Calera El Artista.
Oh, Rodriguez. What makes the blend particularly meaningful to us is that it was designed to evolve throughout the smoking experience. The company said in the press release, it begins bright and fruity before transitioning into darker, richer profile of espresso, earth, chocolate, and spice. Ooh.
The progression was intentional and meant to symbolize Brigham's own evolution from a pipe company that sold cigars into a cigar company that sells pipes. Okay. Oh, because of the difference in provincial tax rates, the cigars will be priced between $22 and $25 in whatever money CAD is. Canadian?
Is it Canadian dollars? It's got to be Canadian something. 1588 to 1805 each. As for the packaging, the cigars come double-banded with the banding shown here covered by bands.
To complement the cigar, the company worked with Jeremy Reeves and Corn Allen Deli to create a pipe tobacco into the same name. It's also got Kentucky stuff in it. All right, let's move on. I'm trying to as fast as possible.
Well, what do you do? There's only so many cigar stories around. Yeah. That one's rough.
Now it's time for industry's favorite game. What's the score? Players hear clues from a Half Wheel Cigar review and try to predict the score before it's revealed. As more details are shared, the challenge gets easier, or does it?
The closest guess to the actual score wins the round. Can you read between the lines and predict the score? Let's find out. Here is today's cigar.
Let's find out. That was a little creepy. It was a little creepy. That was a little creepy.
That too. June 2nd, 2026, Patrick LaGreed, it's a Honduras Cigar, My Father Cigars, Inc. It is the My Father, La Little Todd, Toro. 85.
84. The My Father, La Little Ted Toro, Country of Origin, Honduras, Factory My Father Cigars, Honduras, Sinecadoran Habano Oscuro Rosado Wrapper, Binders Honduran and Nicaraguan, Filler Honduras and Nicaraguan, Length 6x54, They Smoked 3, 85, 85, 86. Clue number 1. Oh, he looked it up.
The My Father, La Delidad Toro, delivers a well-balanced and evolving flavor profile, combining creamy, almond-like notes, clean, earthy flavors, mixed nuts, black pepper. The contrast between the lighter palate flavors are more robust. Retro Hells keeps the experience engaging from start to finish. 87.
86. Clue number two, construction is consistently impressive throughout the cigar, smoke production is splentiful, and the burn line remains even, and the draw stays comfortably firm without becoming restrictive, allowing the blend's flavors to shine without major performance issues. Excuse me. 88.
86. Ooh. He looked it up. Third clue: These cigars are terrible!
The cigar becomes somewhat finicky in the second half, with combustion issues, causing it to go out more easily when left resting. Additionally, the final third develops a sharper, hotter profile that can distract from the otherwise enjoyable flavor experience. 8-7. Oh, is that like 6-7s?
That's the new one? The 8-7. Everybody down! 8-7, 8-7, 8-7, 8-7!
Yep. I'll make that my next video. Yeah, with the tobacco you rubbed under your neck. She was a handkerchief.
86. Oh, that's a sweaty. That's a sweaty. It was grass on my neck.
It was itchy. All right, final thought. I'm sure that's why you rubbed your neck. Yeah, why would I?
What a reason? Let me set this camera up in slow motion. Let me just rub my neck because I need to get the grass out. There was a lot of stuff before, but when you do a reel, it has to be so big.
Any lonely dudes out there? Only dudes out there. Let me click the timer when I post, see how long it takes. I think what happened is maybe you made that video for your wife and you accidentally posted it on Instagram.
No, no, I did it on Instagram on purpose. Because my chat GPT said I need more reels. I was evaluating my page. Maybe you should make one with you wiping your neck.
I'll do one in the shower for you, Phil. Instead, it'll be soap. as the people who often write the articles about the cigars we end up reviewing it's tough to avoid going into a review without having at least some sort of idea about what might offer for me it was a comment made to me at the p for me it was a comment made to me at the pca convention a trade show about la little todd offering a bit more flavor than my father blue of course what that What that actually means is subject to both experience and interpretation. In my experience, the first half of the cigar is where it shines brightest, making several minor tweaks and adjustments to the profile seemingly in search of its ideal expression, which then arrives right around the midway point, at least for my palate and my preference for me.
If you're looking for a more textured, earthy, and peppery profile, it waits just after the midpoint. From there, the profile carries itself out with the possibility of adding in nicotine strength, which for me, isn't a plus, but I know some people enjoy it, as for which I'd take between La Little Tad and My Father Blue, I'm not sure which one I'd lean to, as both have really solid points. I do think La Little Tad does offer a bit more flavor intensity, so when the moment calls for that, you know which one to reach for. You're putting us to bed over here with this final thought.
I didn't write it. I just read it. If you'd like to see my video again, was that waking you up? Gets me going.
87. I don't even think I listened to that whole final thought. Your eyes have been shedding while I was reading. I'm gonna go...
Very disrespectful. 85. It's 87! I nailed it?
Oh, yeah, you nailed it. Jax, look at this. Wow. Who looked it up now?
I Reign Supreme. I don't have to look it up. It's not that hard for me to just fucking dunk on you all goddamn day. Language, language, now I gotta check the box.
Wow. Vroom. That's Ja over Wemby. That's what that was.
That's what that was. I haven't been gave off heat today. I feel the heat over here. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe you should wipe your neck. Now I can rest here. I'm bringing that handkerchief tomorrow.
I'm going to wipe my neck all through the show. Sorry, Matt. It's so hot. Sign it.
Make that the next giveaway. Autograph. Autograph sweat rags from BVP Palmer. Hey, we need to wrap up the show over there.
Yeah, what are we doing? Oh, is that the final? Oh, I thought we were doing two. That was it!
No, we only have the one. You won! That's right. That's right.
That's right. I was waiting for the next game. Oh, so you weren't going to pay attention. Is there two?
Yeah, I wasn't that concerned. No, we only do two on Tuesdays. Yeah, you're right. Oh.
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I'll even do a black and white video. I'll up the ante. Ooh, and then you do this? I will do that.
Oh, dude, in the overalls? Yeah, in the overalls. Oh yeah, now we're talking. Now we're talking.
com, Cigar Houses Podcast, where we're going to be reviewing today the Opus X, El Tributo, because we got it like that. Because we got it like that. We just, you know, we're smoking high-end stuff over here. Smoking all high-end stuff.
Burning through those Patriots. Listen, if you want to know if it's worth it or not, check out our Patreon. Only spend 10 bucks, 15 bucks, whatever it is, instead of dropping 75 for a cigar, and you're going to know. How are they going to know?
They're going to know. Three guys, different opinions. Yeah. Oh, that's right.
I never thought about that. And that's it. So thank you, everybody, for your time, and we hope we provided great edutainment for you today, even with that really long final thought. All right, guys, we're going to go.
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Show Notes
On Today’s Show... Florida may soon be overrun by millions of mosquitoes—A driver gives deputies one of the most creative excuses we’ve heard after getting caught at triple-digit speeds, and a beloved SeaWorld celebrity takes her final bow. Overseas, tensions are heating up in a way that could impact the entire world. Plus, in cigar news, we’ve got a couple of new releases worth talking about, and then it’s time to test your palate and your instincts with another round of What’s The Score? Can you figure out the rating before we reveal it? Stay tuned.