ACHP Episode 548 The House Always Wins
Episode Summary
Episode 548 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is a loose, three-man roundtable with Mike Palmer, Mike Stavrakiewicz (Mikey) and recurring guest "Triple G" (Greg). The first half is pure off-the-rails banter: listener comments from the previous show, CHPod merch and Patreon plugs, a Florida woman arrested for secretly sneaking into her ex-boyfriend's apartment and moving the furniture an inch at a time, the 6.1 magnitude earthquake off western Cuba (Pinar del Río) that was felt in South Florida, and Tropical Storm Christina churning off Nicaragua — which leads to an actual industry discussion of how heavy rain and washed-out mountain roads between Jalapa, Estelí and Managua can delay tobacco and cigar shipments far more than the storm itself.
The crew also digs into a Royal Caribbean lawsuit in which a passenger is seeking $75,000 after tripping over a parked mobility scooter in the ship's casino, and uses it as a springboard into a cautionary in-house story: a Cigar Hustler employee who first flooded the wholesale area by leaving a humidification float off — destroying shelves of irreplaceable cigars — and then, weeks later, drove a cigar reamer clean through his own finger while trying to clear a punch cutter, earning a three-hour hospital trip and the shop's first workers' comp claim in 18 years.
Cigar news covers Lampert Cigars' new limited edition Baba Yaga, a 6x52 Toro with an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, undisclosed blend, made at Tabacalera de Costa Rica, priced at $17 with pre-orders open and production numbers unannounced. Prometheus' Angelos Toro and Gran Toro shipment (25-count boxes, roughly $14.85) gets mentioned only so the hosts can explain why they refuse to cover the brand after a bad personal interaction at PCA in Vegas — with the caveat that a review of an actual cigar would never be biased.
The show closes with "What's the Score?", the half-wheel review guessing game. The cigar is Brooks Whittington's January 2010 review of the Fuente Fuente Opus X Love Affair 2009 — a 4.5 x 55 Perfecto, all Dominican Chateau de la Fuente tobacco with a sun grown rosado wrapper, $10.25 at release. Clues describe oak and chocolate moving into creamy sweetness and a surprising sweet cherry finish, outstanding construction and a perfect draw, but an overwhelming blast of opening spice. The final score of 91 leaves Palmer (90) and Mikey (92) tied.
In This Episode
- 01Cold Open, Merch and Listener CommentsThe hosts derail the intro, plug CHPod.com swag and Patreon, and read comments from the previous episode.
- 02Florida Woman Rearranges the FurnitureA Sarasota woman allegedly snuck into her ex's apartment weekly to move furniture an inch at a time — sparking a debate about whether anyone actually notices things moving at home.
- 036.1 Earthquake Off Western CubaA quake centered near Mantua in Pinar del Río rattled South Florida, shut down Miami-Dade's Clark Center and halted Metrorail, with almost no data coming out of Cuba itself.
- 04Tropical Storm Christina and Tobacco LogisticsHeavy rain across Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala prompts a real discussion of washed-out roads between Jalapa, Estelí and Managua delaying cigar shipments.
- 05Royal Caribbean Mobility Scooter LawsuitA Florida passenger is suing for $75,000 after tripping over a parked scooter in the Jewel of the Seas casino; the cruise line blames her own negligence.
- 06Shop Story: Flooded Humidor and a Reamer Through a FingerThe crew recounts an employee flooding the wholesale room and later impaling his finger on a cigar reamer while clearing a punch cutter.
- 07Cigar News: Lampert Baba Yaga and Prometheus AngelosLampert's $17 limited edition 6x52 Baba Yaga made at Tabacalera de Costa Rica, plus why the hosts refuse to cover Prometheus.
- 08What's the Score: Opus X Love Affair 2009Clues from Brooks Whittington's half-wheel review of the Fuente Fuente Opus X Love Affair lead to a 91 and a tie between the hosts.
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Transcript
- You ready? - Yes, sir. - Action! Welcome to a Cigar Hustler Podcast, where cigars are just the start of it.
Everything's fine. Everything's fine? Yes. Continue.
Join me, Mike Palmer, Mike Stavakiewicz, and today we have Triple G. As we dive into 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. On today's show, wait!
Was that there before? Earthquake! It's hurricane season, and here they come. For $50,000, it's a bite from an alligator, but for $75,000, you've got to see what you've got.
Spit it out already. Well, there was a pause. There was a dramatic pause for the 25 grand. Your whole speech is a dramatic pause.
Well, apparently, it's not me with the problem. You're right. He said this thing's gonna be bad. It's gonna be bad.
It's because he's angry. He's very angry. Welcome to Cigar Hostile podcast where we sell cigar news. No, we don't.
Now, I gotta cut that out. We don't sell. We talk cigar and news. Why don't we just start over?
It could be who knows where we go, the detour. Okay. Why don't we just start over there? No, no, this is it.
I've got to trim it already in the beginning. You don't have to trim it. You said the S-E-L-L word. And then the C-I-G-A-R word.
Welcome to I Podcast Palmer. Hello. Are you done? No, I am not.
I have still. I read words struggle today. You guys thought it was hard on me the other day. Having stroke on podcast right now.
How do we get some of that CHPod swag, Mikey? Let's just move on. Greg, how do we get some of that CHPod swag? Tell them, tell them, tell them.
You give $20 to Palmer, you give $20 to Mikey, and they give you a cup. That works, that works. Hey, I gave you my 20 back, pal. Yeah, so I had to give him my 20 back, too.
Did you? Yes. Oh, you surrendered your 20? Well, you gave him yours.
I wasn't, I wasn't making... That looked bad. Well, that has nothing to do with me. Well, it would be if I kept the 20.
I'm not going to take his 20 bucks. Come on. That's ridiculous. He wanted to pay.
We set up the bit so that he could pay on the air so everybody would see. We set up the bit? It was a bit? Yeah, you think I always keep cups down here by my leg?
Yeah, and I don't have $40 on me. Okay, that's not true. Greg, I just want you to know you're elevated in that chair because of the wad of cash that's in your back pile. I think he means he doesn't carry bills as small as 20.
Yeah, I don't carry 20s. That's ridiculous. What would I do with those? Can you imagine what my pocket would look like if I had to put 20s in here?
I like my cigars with 50s. Yeah, I just burned them. It's crazy. So, other than giving 20 in 20, what do we do, Greg?
Tell us. I don't know. I have no idea how to do it. He doesn't know how this works.
He doesn't know. I don't know how it works. He doesn't know. He doesn't know.
Well, I can tell you that you want to like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to this show. com for all your chpod swag. We ran a bit of a hiatus for the BDP 4th of July shirts, still need to sell those last two, buddy. Look at that disappointment on his face.
See, look. I already have the... I already have the... Well, lucky for you, fortunately enough for you, Amazon will...
Oh, I'll wear them for 4th of July. No, no, refunds. Return them. Return them.
Yep. Yes. I paid for them. I don't care.
This episode is going to be so sideways. It's going to be a very short, very short show. All right, that's the end of the show. com for all your CHPod swag.
com, us Cigar Hustlers podcast. It would be great for you to check that out. If you buy for the whole year, you get 10% off. It's amazing.
You can save 10%. And then you get to hear all the industry junk that we talk about. All the good, the bad, the ugly. All of it.
Plus the reviews. Plus we tell you if the cigar is worth the shit or not. And if you should buy it. I mean, I don't know where else you'd save more money.
It's just a, it's an investment on yourself. Take care of you first before you can take care of others. Right, Palmer? Yes, right.
Right. Take care of you before you take care of others. Kind of like the red light. He needs the red light?
Do you have your red light? Oh, you know, no. I mean, I told you to stop working. Yeah.
But I tried it one more time before I threw it out and it came back on. Yeah. So I put it back. I went to plug it in again to use it.
Won't come on. Maybe it's the plug. No, well, then it's because I've tried it in three places in the house. It doesn't work.
It only works in one. So I'll try that again. Maybe it's maybe there's a short or something in it. Yeah.
Or there's a fuse that's popped somewhere, you know, well, there's other things plugged in the outlets that are working and those are working. Yes, that's very maybe, but maybe that one outlet isn't working, but the lamp that's in the outlet now does work. The regular lamp. So you unplug the lamp to plug in the red light.
Correct. Got it. Got it. Hmm.
What do you think about that? Triple G, what do you think that, what do you think the problem is? You want to evaluate my light and see if there's a short in it? Yeah.
It's broken. That's that technical... Broken. knowledge.
Broken. Okay, alright. You could make me one out of glass that glows with red LEDs, that'd be nice. Sure.
Okay, so I want to get into some comments from our previous show. We should do another giveaway too, what do you think, maybe next week? Let's do it next week. Okay, we'll do it next week.
That's right. Because, I mean, I just shipped it today. Okay. All right.
Nobody else reached out. The correct person has already reached out. Yeah. I have his address, and it has been packaged up.
He's got... I feel like I know the guy. Like, I feel like we know who he is, but we... Did you get his name, his info?
Jason. And his address. He doesn't live anywhere local. Williams?
What's his last name? Okay. Well, don't tell me on air. It's fine.
Okay. A couple comments from the previous show. Let's see, y'all. Community, View All, La La La, Newest, Responded and Unresponded.
T-Money, big shocker there. T-Money says, "I had a guy pull his gun on me on the highway. " Oh, what happened then? What happened?
Oh yeah, I want to know the rest of that story. Yeah, you showed him your badge. I want to know what else went down. I didn't know that Team Money was an officer, a law enforcement officer.
Yeah, sort of. Yeah, sort of. What do you mean sort of? What do you mean sort of?
He's not a police officer. Isn't he in the Department of Homeland Border Patrol thing or something? Something like that, yeah. That's like bigger.
Well, I understand. Yeah, yeah. But it implied he was a police officer is the way I thought most people took it. He totally just downplayed.
He's like, oh, he doesn't really do anything. It was like citizens patrol, then there's police officer, then there's like state-y. He's Citizen Patrol. Then there's like National Guard, Army.
Yeah. Like it keeps going all the way up. Yeah. And where did you get to Border Patrol?
He's just a volunteer. He's like above police, I would say. Right. He doesn't really do anything.
He just hangs out. Right. Right? Sure.
Sends us nice gifts. He's a big deal. Can we get him on the phone? I want to know the rest of the story.
You say, you don't. Well, go ahead. Don't you dare discredit T-Money and his occupation. his occupation.
You're like, oh, I have it here on film. I did not discredit. I was just clarifying he was not police, he was a porter. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Okay, okay. So yes, we can call him. No, we can't call him. I want to know how the story ends.
We can't call him, but we're not calling him. We'll never get him off the phone. He's so mean. He's very chatty.
He's a good guy. He texted me all through the show yesterday. He likes to talk about stuff. He's a good dude.
He was explaining to me Tell me how you're cheating it. What's the score? Oh, he broke it down? No, he wasn't right.
Because everything he said, we had already yelled at you about it. We've debunked. It doesn't make any sense. I'm just that smart.
I know, it's hard to believe. Handsome and smart. He threw yesterday's because we were... He threw it intentionally?
Yeah, I threw it. You guys sniffing? Sniffing close? We were getting too close.
I still won yesterday. I don't know what you're talking about. Well, because you got the redux score, too. But technically you split the dice.
So, did I win? I don't know. It's a yes or no question. Did I win?
Not both games. I won the score for the game. Calm down. Fine, you won.
Thank you. He is kind of badgering you a little today. He is, isn't he? He's a little.
He's like talking over you, not allowing you to speak. I don't like when he's back there. Here's what I noticed. Here's what I do.
Is it because we videotaped you sleeping so much yesterday? No, that was on the Patreon. I was tired. At one point, he took a nap on the Patreon backwards, his head fell back, and he was just out, while Phil was explaining something.
Dude, that was so cooked. That is amazing. That's why I kept going. Yeah.
Oh, look. This way. This way. That camera.
That camera. No, man. You know what? Here's the thing.
When you do podcasts, and especially when you do it every day, you start to kind of get a feel for how everybody's going and what the tempo is, and then you figure out what you need to say in order to bring people up. When my friend here, right here, when he read the monologue to open it sounded like he was killing a dead ant, a horse or something, you know, it's just like, well, and you gotta, you gotta revamp that. You gotta, it was poking me. Yeah, exactly.
So let me, let me repeat back to you what I just heard. You understand the tempo of these things. And when is the appropriate time to both speak over someone and take a nap? That's correct.
All right. That's correct. Things are going well, he doesn't have to exclude himself any further. Let me grab a quick 10-15 seconds here.
This is under control, I need to, you know, so. Okay, getting back to this. I just got your eyes closed on that one. Lightning 1993, wait a minute, Mikey asked Palmer if he wanted the new Awakening cigar.
" Wait, isn't he national sales manager? Seems like that would be his responsibility. I also cannot read today. You didn't make that any easier though.
Just for the record. No, he shouldn't know that because he's not national sales manager for Awakening Avowed Cigars. He's the national sales manager for Postanya. And I think in order of people that know stuff about cigars, I'm gonna put them in order here as far as photo, video wise.
Number one, number two, far number three, like really far, like no idea, no idea what's going on in the industry outside of his bubble. That's, that's it. That's it. Right.
Right. Tell me I'm wrong. Nope. You're right.
I stay within my lane. I know what it is that I do. Yeah. No napping on the show for you.
I don't take naps. We need you. We need you. No naps.
I do enjoy when you ask a question and it's just, it's just, it's like, he's like, who's that? Like, wait a second. Wait, that's Eric Espinosa. You don't.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, but I know who Eric is. You never use it as an example. You've never heard of Jonathan Drew?
I mean, like, what's going on? Another horrible example. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Carlito Fuente? No? Another horrible example. Yeah.
A person who runs Padrón? Yeah. I got it. Oh, who likes Belki, apparently.
Oh. Hmm. Okay. Anyways.
Awkward. " Yeah, you're right. Hey, listen. I'm glad that I fixed that for you.
So, uh, and @CWC, CW63A3, excellent show as always. but isn't San Vincente pronounced Vincente? Well, that would make, I mean, that's how I just pronounced it. So I guess that would make sense.
I don't know how this guy pronounced it on the last show, but. I think that's why he broke it into three parts. Right. San Vincente.
Yeah, exactly. I don't have the word in front of me. I'm just guessing. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Lightning also said, I cringe every time Mikey throws a cigar, but that's, how else do you want me to get it to him? You want me to hand it to him? I got to get up?
I don't have that kind of time. Cuts into his naps. Ah, yeah, you don't want to cut into my siestas. And, let's see, um, it says that also, @Jays1911, judging by Palmer's previous shenanigans, no pics of me.
That's the winner. Yeah, but what does that mean? No pics of him? I think I asked for pics, but he doesn't want me to use him in the AI thumbnail.
Ah, got it. Got it. Okay. If you want to hear a comment read aloud on the show, just comment below and there's potential for it to be written said aloud.
Sometimes. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. I just skipped a couple there.
So, I mean, I can't guarantee it, but it could happen. So, on with the show? Oh, I'm sorry. Did you get something in your eye?
Let me go here. Let me go here. Now the news? Now the news.
You done over there? All right. A Florida woman was arrested after police say she repeatedly snuck into her ex-boyfriend's apartment, and what did she do? You guys got to guess.
Sniffed his underwear. A Florida woman in Sarasota repeatedly snuck into her ex-boyfriend's apartment. Okay. Why did she do it?
Um, let's see, she probably tried to sandbag him with like, uh, stuff that would make it look like he was cheating or something, like fake underwear and stuff like that. Did something to his food? Ooh, yeah, ooh, a little food corruption? Like eating something nasty?
She slowly rearranges furniture as part of what investigators describe it as an unusual patient psychological operation. She's gaslighting them. I like this. According to authorities, 34-year-old Emily Hartwell allegedly entered the apartment once a week using a spare key.
Okay. He swore he'd been put in a different place. This lady's my hero. As the confusion grew, he reportedly scheduled an eye exam, a neurological consultation, and even home inspection in an attempt to determine why his apartment no longer felt quite right.
I have so many things to say about this, but I'll wait till you finish. The scheme allegedly unraveled when the man installed hidden cameras inside the apartment. Investigators say the footage captured Hartwell entering the residence with a tape measure and carefully documenting the dimensions of the living room. This guy's a psychopath.
The lady. No, I said it right. Yeah. Go ahead.
No, don't wait. Continue. According to the report, she was recorded adjusting furniture positions before stepping back to evaluate her work. " Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
When questioned by officers, Hartwell reportedly explained her motive in a single sentence. I just wanted him to feel the confusion he left me with. Wow. Love that.
He's been arrested on charges of, uh, related to unlawful entry. Moving shit around. No injuries or property damage were reported. Okay.
This is, this is a good topic to discuss. All right. They're going to prosecute her? Trespassing and illegally.
That's no big deal. Okay. Yeah. She'll be fine.
She'll be fine. Okay, so I have a question. Yes. I'm going to start with you, Mr.
Palmer. Yes. Does your wife ever move stuff around in the house? Constantly.
Okay. And for you, Greg, does your wife ever move stuff around in your house? I don't know where anything is in the house. That wasn't the question.
Answer the question. Well, I would need to have a point of reference. Does she move stuff around in the house? Yes.
He's saying he doesn't know because he doesn't know where it is. Okay, I haven't gotten there yet. Thank you. I told you this was going to be a hell of a fucking episode.
Oh, my God. you guys just stop stop just let me just just let me do this all right i will lead you i will take you to the path of victory and then i will take a nap can't wait until he takes his nap and then i'm gonna take a little siesta okay so listen all right so we've agreed so my wife also moves stuff around all the time and sometimes new stuff gets added right so now now here's my question yes do you notice when the stuff gets moved around uh she likes to rearrange the pantry then i do We got to go to look for something and it's not there. At that point. Right.
And I have to find out where the new place is that we're keeping like the peanut butter. Okay. What about like a new picture frame or like a piece of furniture or something? Do you notice these things?
Yes. You notice them? Yes. Okay.
Okay. All right. And for you, do you notice these things that are acquired or not acquired in the house? I suppose certain things I would, but most of it I wouldn't.
Yeah. I don't see anything that happens in my house to a point where it's like months later, And I'm like, oh shit, check out that new chair. And she's like... A whole chair?
Yeah, and she's like, that was here four months ago. So thanks so much for noticing. I'm like, oh, okay. So, you know...
I could see a picture frame or a... So are you saying because you're oblivious to furniture, this guy is a psychopath? Yeah, I don't understand how a dude understands like a 27-inch variable movement of a couch. It wasn't all at one time.
She would go in and move it like an inch to the left. Yeah. Come back a week later, moving another inch to the left. Right.
Yeah, that's what I'm... So, I mean, how would you notice it was moved this far? I gotta be noticed. I gotta be honest.
I think that, well, for one, right, but he did notice eventually. Well, he was running into the furniture. Right. So, like, you know where everything is in your house.
" I gotta be honest, I think the couch could be gone and I wouldn't know that it disappeared. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, so there's like this famous interior car designer, right, that said, designing the interior of a car is a matter of half an inch, right? Right.
And people would ask, well, what does that mean? Yeah. Well, if somebody sat in your car, and they adjusted your seat half an inch, would you know it? Oh, yeah.
In a heartbeat. Right. In a heartbeat. Right?
Okay, yeah. Would you not experience that? Oh, I mean, yeah, I could one-up, but my sister-in-law, she drives, like, she likes to, I think she likes to have the steering wheel I don't know how it is that you managed to do that, to be perfectly honest. Yeah, I don't either.
A whole couch. I mean, you're talking big furniture. Like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green?
Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green?
Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue and now it's green?
Or like the chair was blue and now it's green? Or like the chair was blue? I can't do that, to be perfectly honest with you. Yeah, I don't either.
A whole couch. I mean, you're talking big furniture. Like the chair was blue and now it's green, or like the chair was blue made out of wood and now it's paisley made out of wick. Let's just say both.
Let's just say both. Yeah, I don't know how you could notice that. I don't know. Do you notice when she does things to herself, like if she changes her eye makeup or cuts her hair?
She always looks beautiful to me, I don't know. So that's a no. Sometimes. Sometimes I notice, sometimes I don't.
Alright. Do you notice? Do you notice? All the time.
See, now you're just arguing my fact of the fact that you're also a psychopath. What? Okay, wait. This guy's a psychopath because he didn't notice.
No, because he paid too much attention to all these things. How does he not, like, go and mess with her? Like, how does he, once he discovers that it's her, how does he not, like, inside the period where she's not there, change out all the furniture, put in photos of a different family, like she just broke into some stranger's house? A broke into the wrong house?
Like, how does he not do that to her? That's easy. I think he just called the police. Well, that's easy because the guy has no sack because he noticed that his couch moved three inches.
It's just that simple. I don't know what else to tell you. " You know? And then, you know, he put like a big pentagram up on the wall or something.
I would so level it up. Yeah, I agree. Have the furniture be on a remote control so that it can move after she moves it. Like, she moves it two and a half inches to the left, and all of a sudden, now you push a button, it goes back to where it was.
Like, right in front of her. Yeah. We make a TV show out of something. You YouTube it, it's got the most content views.
You know what I mean? So-and-so's ex has been intruding into his home. Well, she's in for a surprise today. All of a sudden, like, you know, the door bangs open and three people enter with ski masks and grab her or something, throw her in a van.
Oh, that'd be funny. Yeah, that'd be great. Or they just break in, where's Carlos? We know you know where he is.
Where are the drugs? Sit down on the couch. Where are the drugs? Yeah, that's the way to do it.
That's the way to do it. How do you not do that to that woman? I'm just going to call the police because my couch has been moved three inches. Like, what are we doing?
My brother really does not like this guy. It's ridiculous. It's just ridiculous is all I'm saying. It's ridiculous.
You know? Dude's probably still single. You know? Maybe.
Couldn't even get another one. Just not capable. Just not capable. Yeah, the perfect one lost her, apparently.
I mean, this woman's special. Very creative. Yeah, she's very special. Very creative.
They're all crazy, right? S. S. Government and the agency, the epicenter was located at C-73 miles west-northwest of Mantu, one of Cuba's westernmost municipalities in the province of Pino del Rio.
My name is Horoche Horobano. I am from Pino del Rio. He said that on our show. 4.
m. South Florida National Weather Service said it has received several reports of minor shaking across southwestern Florida. Do you guys feel it? No, but like, it was all over my Instagram feed this morning, just people capitalizing on it.
Like, did you feel that? Did you feel that? I'm like, what are you talking about? Fred Rui said it yesterday, right after it happened, he said he felt it.
Where was he located? Well, he lives out towards Claremont, but, I mean, I don't know, he could have been somewhere else, I don't know. It could have just been a bowel movement. Well, Fred, you can't tell.
He eats a lot of meat, so maybe well. A lot of bacon. The agency said there was no tsunami danger linked to the earthquake, it felt like a jolt, Emily Zegler, 38, of West Palm Beach, said, adding that she initially thought she had too much coffee. And pooped herself.
But looked up the day's earthquakes and confirmed the suspicion. The earthquake shuttered the seat of Miami-Dade County government and briefly paralyzed the county's rail system after employees reported shaking in downtown Miami's Stephen P. Clark Government Center and Transit Hub. Yeah, because we're not prepared for earthquakes in Florida.
No, no, we're prepared for hurricanes. Hurricanes, but not earthquakes. We're not built for earthquakes. Yeah.
m. due to reports of the building shaking, According to a county email on social media, at roughly the same time, the county's transfer station public works department announced Metro Rail and Metro Mover, two elevated rail systems and stations inside the Clark Center, for temporary halted service due to service disruptions at government center station. Okay, so I was watching the NBA finals last night. Did you guys see the basketball?
Basketball? Oh, yeah. Basketball? Yep.
Greg and I were watching together at a sports bar. I'm allergic to sports. Okay. All right.
Okay. So afterwards when the news came on and it covered the earthquake that had hit and like it showed some video, some fat dude sitting who's got his camera rolling inside of his house and oh, it was an earthquake, you know, or whatever, his ring camera. So like, I guess he wants to watch himself watching TV. I don't know.
So, but then it kind of covered people that received that gave an alert or a notification that it had hit, that they had hit. I had felt something, and it kind of covered all over the state of Florida, and then there's this one little dot in Cuba, like Havana says, boop, like one little thing. So, it's kind of comical to me that there was, you know, we had, the news station had no intel of where, like, it really hit close to Cuba, and, like, no one felt it there because we just don't have the access to the information that's going on there? Yeah, there's one person there with a cell phone, just the one.
You think so? The one guy? Yeah, the one guy. Yeah?
The one guy. And he didn't have it on there that day. It was shut off because it did power issues. Yeah, because they have no power.
All of their cell phones are diesel powered. Oh, well, they have no diesel fuel. They don't have the fuel. They're all out of diesel, yeah.
I don't know, I just thought that was funny. Here's where all the people notified. Meanwhile, the earthquake dot is right here next to this gigantic island, and there's no notifications from there. Are they still without power down there?
It's cycled off the news now. Oh, we've moved on. Right, we don't care anymore. We don't care anymore.
We need to close out Iran, then we can focus on Cuba. We thought Iran was over, but no. It's not done yet. We hear every week that it's done and then it's not done.
Somebody shoots a missile, they fire a drone up in the air or something. How do you feel about the Strait of Hormuz, Greg? Don't hold back. He's going there on vacation next week.
Yeah, he's definitely not going to do that. He heard there was a good restaurant there that he could get. Get a deal? Yeah.
A falafel? Everything's on discount. What was the type of food that you ate in Peru? The chemically enhanced or something?
Molecular? What's it called? The big meal that we had? Yeah, the big meal.
It's like deconstructed and then reconstructed. Deconstructed, reconstructed, deconstructed. Somebody ate it first? No, so they took like five different types of seaweed and they break it down and then they make a donut out of it.
Yeah, it's called baby bird feeding seaweed food to you. No, no, no. It was a donut. It tasted texture like a donut.
It was a donut. But it was a seaweed donut. But it was seaweed. I mean, I think that's probably easy to do.
You just dump some sugar on that bitch and you're good to go. You know what I'm saying? How do you get seaweed to be the texture of a donut? You grind it up until it's into a powder.
And then what? Then you make a donut. Then you throw some dough in that bitch and you throw some sugar and you say seaweed. There was no dough.
Cover it nice and squirt some jelly in it and you're good to go. There was no dough. Was it green? It was black.
Oh. It was a black donut? Oh, it was a burnt donut that they passed off as this weird seaweed thing. Palmer.
Yes. Imagine having so much money where you could go to a place and you could say, I would like to try the donut that is made of seaweed that tastes like a donut. Well, you don't actually say that. The 12 courses are already prepared.
You don't pick what you eat. You don't get to pick. You don't get to pick. 12 courses?
12 course meal. Imagine having so much money, you can have a 12 course meal. Palmer. It was three hours long.
It's so much money where you can go and sit in a place for over three hours and they can just tell you what they're going to feed you. It doesn't seem, three hours? It was three hours. Do you like stop and poop somewhere in the middle?
I mean, you can if you want. What did the bathroom look like? What did it look like? Was it a good bathroom?
It was a very nice bathroom. It was a good bathroom? Well, that's how I judge a lot of places. And when you get up out of the chair, somehow this person just appears out of nowhere beside you, what do you need?
And carries you to the bathroom? No, no, where's the restroom? Do they carry you to the bathroom? They don't carry you, but they escort you.
Are they worried? Did you tell them you could do it by yourself? No, no, I didn't, I didn't. I've been doing this by myself for a long time, buddy, I think.
But when you step away from the table, they fold your napkin in a very particular way with, like, chopsticks that they use as tongs. And it gets placed always in the same way, so I watched them do it. Then I got up and I saw that the napkin was the same way. The next time I got up, I took the napkin and I folded it exactly the way that they would with chopsticks.
And I left it on the table, so that when they come up, they're like, oh. They fired somebody. Probably. Yeah, they actually.
I cannot fold. They fold for me. What they did was actually took the guy in the back, unalived him, and then decomposed him into a donut. That was a black donut.
That's why it was black. Was it a black man? Because maybe that's why the donut was, you know. Yeah.
No. It's Peru. What does that mean? I don't know.
You don't think there's black people in Peru? Maybe. I would assume. I know that there's no black guy on the show right now.
Great. Now we're going to get letters. We've never had. Oh, yeah, we have.
Yes, we have. What are you talking about, dude? Ridiculous. See, this is how I know you're racist.
Racist? Because I'm racist, right. All right, Tropical Storm Christina. He's actually like, moving on, moving on, moving on.
Moving on, moving on. Tropical Storm Christina is creating growing concerns across Central America as it churns just off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
This must be all the flooding and the surf photos that Skip's been posting. With the high tides and the waves. While the storm has not officially made landfall, forecasters say its slow movement means the biggest threat may not be wind. It's a tremendous amount of rain expected to fall over the coming days.
There have been flooding in Key West, too. I guess that's from this as well. As of the latest advisory, Christina is packing sustained winds around 45 miles per hour This town is located just over 100 miles west-northwest of Managua, Nicaragua. Tropical storm warnings remain in effect for portions of the region as residents prepare for the possibility of flash flooding and dangerous mudslides.
How does this affect the cigars, guys? This has to be bad for the tobacco. Yeah, Greg, how does this affect the decomposition of the cigar industry? I don't think it will affect it at all.
No? No. You don't think there might be problems with tobacco in six months? What about shipment and allocations, anything like that?
So what, maybe it gets held up for a week? Maybe. I mean, we've experienced bigger problems than that, for sure. You were expecting it in July, and you get it in 2020, 2018.
Like losing an E on a box when you weren't supposed to have the E. You're right. Or a D. Or, yeah, removing the D that it wasn't even supposed to be there, but we're upset that the D's gone, but even though it's not supposed to be there at all.
Right. Correct. Correct. Okay.
Meteorologists are forecasting widespread rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches across Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. However, isolated areas, particularly those in mountainous terrain, could receive up to 12 inches of rain before the system moves away. Oh, the tobacco on the top of the mountain. Well, yeah, actually, it could wash out roads and stuff like that, which would create a problem, not necessarily from Managua to the US, but like from, you know, Jalapa and Esteli down to Managua.
Yeah, I agree. Sure. Okay. He's very knowledgeable.
He is, you know, I gotta be honest, I feel like when he's on the show, I feel smarter than when Phil's on the show. Phil's on the show. When Phil's on the show, I feel like a brain cell dies every time I have a conversation with him. You know?
Why? I don't know. It's just really dumb sometimes. It's a more intelligent show when he's not here.
Yeah, it really is. Higher level. Well, nobody says anything stupid. I mean, you know, we have decompressed donuts and stuff.
Like, that doesn't happen. Deconstructed. Yeah, he talks about, you know, well, I got my pizza at the racetrack. Oh, they got the cauliflower pizza today.
I eat healthy, I went and I had the cauliflower pizza. I was like, what are you talking about, dude? So then there is something to be said for a 12-course meal that it's elevated conversation. Is that what you're saying?
No, I'm just saying, I was just trying to talk you up and say that you're, you know, I appreciate you being on the show and that you're a very intelligent person. He wants to talk about, again, how much money you have. Yeah, exactly. You have a lot of money.
You have a lot of money. You're very successful. You're very successful. You have a lot of money.
very handsome and you're good looking your mom's favorite that's your good looking mom loves you more i mean like what else do you want to hear i was just trying to compliment you like you know what tell me more okay he's got all that but his wife still takes his food off his plate yeah yeah it's too bad you can't eat your meal by yourself in peace out of that 12 courses how many did she let you yeah so so it was a four course meal for you is what you're saying so we we both received the same plate so there was no necessity to try what your partner oh so to try not just she likes She likes to eat more. No, she just likes to try. This is not bulking season is what you're saying? No, I got you.
No? Okay. All right. So then there's no need to steal from you in that scenario.
No, because we both received the same exact plate at the same exact time. What if her portion wasn't big enough? Yeah. They're identical portions.
Well, that still doesn't mean it's big enough. What if she felt that yours looked cooked better? Yeah, maybe your... Again, for what this place was, the plates are identical.
Maybe your seaweed was a little more well done than yours. No. Maybe it looked better because it was in front of you. Yeah, maybe that's just her thing.
She likes to eat Greg's food. I have the same thing, but his looks better. Yeah, the plate in front of me sucks. I'm going to take yours.
It's the same thing. No, it's not. No, it's not. Huh.
Okay. All right, those rainfall amounts can quickly... All right, come on. Who gives a shit?
Okay, next. Well, because there's a hurricane in Nicaragua. Yeah, no one cares. They do if you live in Nicaragua.
Very aggressive, this show, I tell you. There's flooded roadways. They're doing evacuations. Yeah, I'll wait until I see the videos on Instagram.
Then it'll be a big deal. Right now it's just news. Alright, let's fast forward through the rest of the stuff about Central America and the people dying. You know what?
Just read the first word and the last word of every sentence moving forward. Colleen... Next. Bumped.
That's a terrible story. Moving on. Colleen Parsons is seeking $75,000 in damages after she did what? What was the last one?
Was it bit by an alligator? Yeah, it was a guy bit by an alligator. Do we know what state this is in? Do we have any clues of context?
What difference does that make? Well, it could be huge. If it happened in Alaska, we would, you know? Yeah, right.
It's very state specific. Like, it could be anything in the state of Florida, right? Except a polar bear. Right.
Let's assume this is Florida. Okay. Okay. She's suing for $75,000 for...
Is she suing a restaurant? No. Okay. Is she suing a zoo?
She only got 11 courses in her meal. No, she's not suing a zoo. No donut for you. No donut.
Because his wife took it. Because his wife took it. Man, let's see. I have no idea.
That's 75 G's for, you know, I don't know. She's suing Royal Caribbean for damages after she bumped into and tripped over another traveler's stationary scooter. Is it because somebody moved it unintentionally when she wasn't looking and it was three inches off? No.
No, it wasn't that lady. But that's funny. I see what you did there. Yeah, it was a callback.
Royal Caribbean passenger allegedly tripped over a parked mobility scooter on a cruise last year. Now she says the cruise line is at fault. What, you need to put a sign up for the wheelchairs? Hey, hey, do not walk into?
I mean, what are we doing? Florida resident Colleen Parson filed a civil complaint against Royal Caribbean Cruises accusing the company of negligence. The lawsuit stems from an incident that allegedly occurred during a sailing on board the Jewel of the Seas on June 22, 2025. One day during the voyage, Parson claimed she was walking through the casino, which was crowded with passengers.
According to the May 19th amended complaint obtained by People, People Magazine, a fellow cruiser operating an electric mobile scooter allegedly parked in the walkway where Parson was walking, another passenger in the crowded casino bumped into Parson's as she walked by, causing her to trip over the large, they keep saying large, large mobility scooter which was parked near the crowded gaming tables. Mmm, $75,000? $1,000. American dollars?
Yes. The complaint alleges the incident reportedly caused Parsons serious personal injury. Mental anxiety. She claims she suffered a, I don't even know what these things are, a C-O-M-M-I-N-U-T-E-D.
Son Vincente. Commuted. Vincente. Enterarticular fracture.
Vincente. Distal radius of the left wrist. The distal radius of the left wrist. She broke her wrist.
She broke, yeah, well, I guess she broke her wrist. But it required an open reduction internal fixation surgery. I fell down some stairs. She says the injuries are permanent and or continuing in nature, so her wrist is always going to be broke.
It just sort of flaps around. What do you think this lady's weight is? The lady that broke the wrist? Yeah, how much do you think she weighs?
No idea. Above 250? Royal Caribbean. Okay, let's piece some of this together.
We're speculating here, obviously. It is very, very possible. If the lines draw on a two and a half, I take the over. Yeah, I take the over.
She's definitely north of two, I would assume, and she's probably in her late fifties, Colleen, Colleen Parsons? Yeah, she's an older, well, yeah, Rogue Ribbons, it's an older woman. It's not Carnival, though, we're not poor. No, no, no.
Yeah. Who said that? That was ridiculous. You said poor.
Wow. Totally said that. The more I hear about cruises, the further away I get to getting on them. They just sound obnoxious.
You know, I can't bring my kid to Disney anymore because the whole yada yada that happened there. Right. And, you know, Carnival's definitely out. That's not happening.
I've seen those videos. Oh, yeah. No, don't take kids on Carnival. You know, and then now Royal Caribbean, you got to deal with the Senior Citizen Day of people who don't know how to walk across their wheelchair and they fall over.
It's ridiculous. She is demanding a trial by jury. Demanding. She thinks she'll be better off with other people.
Of course. Right. With my peers. Yes.
With my peers. Well, the judge went to school. He knows the law. He knows the law.
I don't want him deciding. I don't want him to decide. I want the people who will feel sorry for me for my girth and tripping over the lark that was out in the aisle. I was at the buffet and it went sideways.
I had my third plate of lobster tail. The Royal Caribbean's answer to the amended complaint submitted on June 3rd, the company largely denied Parsons' allegations, instead saying that the traveler was at fault. Yeah. That makes sense.
Parsons' own negligence was the sole proximate cause of her injuries and damages, and as such, any damages are barred as a matter of law, an attorney representing the cruise line wrote. " Jerry. Mm-hmm. The allegedly dangerous condition was open and obvious and should have been observed by Parsons.
Dangerous. The ordinary use of her senses. Right. Use your brain.
Use your senses. What? It's like when you stick the metal redeemer for a cigar through the tip of your finger. Yeah, you have an extra chromosome.
Yes, this is true. And you and your cohort panic and they can't figure out how to get it out. Yeah. What do we do?
Who do we go? You didn't see the video, did you? I saw the video you sent Steve. And Steve.
Okay, so there's another one of When It Happened. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I want to see that one.
I forget what movie it was. Dumb and Dumber? No, dude. Step Brothers.
It's Step Brothers is what it is. Dude shoots himself in the neck with the trank gun, right? And the facial expression. Oh, that's old school.
Is it old school? I think it is, yeah. Jake is like, oh! It's amazing.
Okay, so listen, we have to give a little bit of context to this on the podcast. So, we have an employee here. We love him to death. However, this employee, he cost us a lot of money.
- That's an understatement. - He cost us a lot of money. As of recent, he decided to flood the wholesale area, that was a few weeks ago, by not turning on the floater into the sonic system. - The humidifier.
- Yeah, and he, and you know, listen, I'm gonna take some accountability here, And the fact of the matter is, I should not have left the precious, unreplaceable cigars on the shelves two stories down from the filter, but they're destroyed regardless, and now, this same employee, a few weeks later, decided to take a reamer, like a redeemer, it's called a reamer, it's like a spike that you can use to clear out a cigar that's plugged, and he was using this to clear a punch, the little cylinder that you would punch in. He took a punch into the edge of a cigar to make a circle because it had like tobacco in it. He thought that the thought process was I'm going to take this sharp object and clear this tobacco out of this punch and he rammed it through his finger so that it went into one side here and then out the other side. And as this occurred, he had to go to the hospital, right, Greg?
Yes, I took him to the hospital. And you arrived before his mother. I did, yes. And so, it's clear that you love him more than his own mom, and you took him to the hospital, where apparently it was a complete shit show there as well.
Yes. And yeah, so, needless to say, he decided to pierce his finger. How long were you there? How long were you at the hospital?
He was at the hospital for about three hours. " I'm like, "Okay, no problem. " Were you there? Maybe 30 minutes until morning.
Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, it wasn't bad. And now Workman's Comp is surging here at Cigar Hustler. Yes, yes.
Got to file that claim. It's going to be great. I believe he's related to a Colleen Parsons. Have you heard of her?
Oh, really? Yeah. Also feels like something about negligence on the behalf of the store. However, you're just a special person.
Is this the first injury here that involved the hospital? Correct. Uh, yeah, that I can recall. Yes.
Yeah. Yeah, for sure. 18 years. So you're back there with the workers' comp papers going, blowing the dust off.
How do we fill this out? Yeah. So that, that has definitely occurred here. Hmm.
Uh, we still love this guy. We'll still continue to tolerate him for as long as possible. Uh, but man, I'm just like, and he almost had a pest control job. He was so close.
It was so close. He almost had a solar energy job, too. Oh, he did have that. Oh, did he?
Yeah, yeah. Well, there was also the time that he did get hired to inspect the welds of, like, major equipment. Yeah. Right?
Inside of giant tanks and things. Tanks and roller coasters and things where people's lives are important. Yeah. And they stopped calling him.
Yeah, because, apparently, he was too good at his job. He kept on pointing out all the flaws. He's like, "This is wrong. " They're like, "You know what?
" We don't need you here. We've got a budget we have to keep with. Yeah, we've got a budget. Yeah.
Yeah. Ridiculous. Go flood somebody's cigars or something. So that's the latest story here at Cigar Hustler, just so you know.
Um. Do I have to edit that? No. I'm not sure what the line is anymore.
No. Right. No, that's the name of the store. Can we show the image?
Is that something we can do? Is that allowed? He asked me not to. I don't know.
Oh, if he asked you not to, then I won't. Okay. Yeah, respect him. " Yeah, I'm just curious.
Alright, so you kept your word, there were no photos, but we discussed it. We didn't even say his name, though. Yeah, he didn't say we couldn't talk about it. I don't think we said his name.
No, we didn't say his name. No, we did not, actually. Would you like to and show his picture? No, no, no.
However, this is his LinkedIn below. If you want to become his friend. It's very dangerous. Be careful.
So, yeah. I don't even know how he got on that conversation. Because I wanted to talk about it yesterday. I was like, no, I'll let it go.
But you know what? Because the lady fell down. Yeah. Well, Triple G brought it up.
Well, responsibility for one's own actions. Which, what might I say, he owned it. How could that be somebody else's fault? He totally owned it.
Yeah, no. Well, to be fair, people totally will say, well, you know, you set this up for me. I should have never been in this position, and that's how I got hurt. People will do that all the time.
So at least he has the accountability. I mean, how would... I can't figure out how he did it. I mean, he must have, like, had it, had the thing up against his finger when he went to push the back.
Correct. Yeah, just not, yeah. I mean, so what do you think was gonna happen? Just the tobacco was just gonna go boop and the sharp, spiky metal piece was not gonna surge to his fingers?
But getting back to the fact that when these two are together, it is exactly like Stepbrothers. I think that we've come to that conclusion. Yeah, yeah. Right, Greg?
Oh, yeah. Oh, Jake's face was amazing. Oh, you said the name. Yeah, but that's not the person who we're talking about.
Could be a customer, could be a customer. Could be somebody who came by. Could be the paramedic. Yeah, it could be the fire department or something.
Or, you know, somebody that, you know, is beneath a police officer as a department of Border Patrol. I'm surprised he didn't call 911. " Yeah, thankfully you didn't do that. Right, that'd be more expensive.
All right, round of cigar news. All right, well, we just kind of covered something. Yeah, I was gonna say, local shop employee stabs finger. Lampert announces the Baby Yaga.
It's the Baba Yaga, bro. What are you doing? What are you doing? Baba Yaga.
I like Baby Yaga. It's the Baba Yaga. Do you know what Baba Yaga is? No idea.
The Boogeyman? man, bro. Come on. John Wick?
I thought it was a little cigar. John Wick, the Bubba Yeager. Well, you gotta say it if you said it with a Russian accent, I would have... Okay, hold on.
It's the Bubba Yeager. Oh, from John Wick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the one you call to get the Boogeyman.
He's the one you call to kill the Boogeyman. Lambert Cigars has announced a new limited edition release, The Boogeyman. It's a great name for anything. The cigar is a 6x52 Toro that uses an Ecuador and Habano wrapper.
The rest of the blend is undisclosed. And if you If you buy a box, it comes with a Benelli M4. No? You would like that.
I would love that. That's a joke. That's a joke. It doesn't come with a Benelli.
No, no. Though the cigar-- Do you know what that is? I know what it is. It's a shotgun.
What is it? It's a shotgun. Yeah? That's all I know.
That's all you know? Well, it's a semi-automatic shotgun. Oh, shoot. It's a semi-automatic.
It's different. It's both for dessert. John Wick 2, you know? No?
God. Though the company says the cigars were made at Tabaco de Costa Rica, each cigar is an MSRP of? - Not including the Benelli. - Benelli not included?
How much, Greg? - $16. - I don't think it's that much. I'm gonna say $12.
- $17, Greg. - Holy Toledo. - Currently, retailers are taking pre-orders for the release. - Apparently, Keanu Reeves wanted his cut.
- They really should've made the Vitola the size and shape of a pencil. - Oh, 'cause he once killed a man with a pencil. - Right, yeah. - Now, that's some next-level shit, dude.
Absolutely. Like the little, remember the Necromonger or Nymphadel or whatever the thing that Crux had back in the day, do you remember that cigar? Yeah, the Nymph. The Nymphomaniac.
The Nymphomaniac. Yeah, that was like a little pencil. Right. They still make that?
I don't think so. I honestly don't know. Me neither. There's a lot of clicking over there.
Yeah, but you want to know why? Because here's why. I record these clips and I do the short clips and here's what the short clip looks like. This.
It's just you. It's just you talking. When they put it up, all the pictures are you when you look on the page. No.
I mean, it changes by episode. But a lot of the clips, what it will consist of is you speaking, and you're talking about a particular thing, and it's just you talking. So what Phil does is he goes like this, and then he grabs his donut or whatever, and he He eats his sandwich, and he just leaves it at that until somebody else says something. So he's like, "Okay, good.
This is covered. " And like, that's boring as shit to me. So I like to mix it up. Right, to get facial reviews and stuff.
Yeah, like, as you're talking, I want to look over here and see what he's doing. Like, he's looking at you side. So Phil's not good at the board is what he's saying. Right.
I try to cut to him a lot during Preston's show and Preston's talking because he's always smiling and his eyes are sparkling. Exactly. Exactly. And it's good to have that on there.
You know? There's gotta be a lot of two shots, because you guys talk over each other like crazy. No we don't. Yeah, you don't realize you're doing it, but you do.
Because one of you starts laughing, and the other one starts laughing, and then you're both talking, so I gotta put up the two. It's a great show. Is it doing well? I don't know.
I don't really look. Oh. I don't do that. I live it, and then I re-edit it, and I don't have to- I mean, the clips come up because we have subscribed to him, apparently.
Yeah, we got to subscribe, yeah, we got to support, support your boy, you know? We do support him, we help him do his show every week. We do, and it's a great show. All right, Prometheus ships Angelos Toro and Grand Toro, oh, they didn't use a D either.
$17 for Baba Yaga? Yeah, for Baba Yaga. What's the box count? 20?
Scroll back. Yeah, scroll back. I feel like we're not charging enough. $17.
I don't think they said. Production numbers have not been announced, so they're not saying. That's the production numbers, they're not the box now. Right, but they're not saying what's in the box either.
What's in the box? Okay. All right, Prometheus, Shibs, Angelos Toro, and Gran Toro, no D, also there's no D on that one. Gran Toro is a thing.
Gran Toro 54, adding five pack sampler. Yeah, we're not covering this guy. Oh, we're not covering this one? No, screw this guy.
This guy was mean to me three or four years ago at BCA. DCA. I refuse to cover anything Prometheus. The guy's an ass.
Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah. All he had to do was be nice to me.
I'm not covering him. You want to guess how much his cigar is? $37. Tell me I'm wrong.
You're wrong. 85. It's less than Baba Yaga. And there are 25-count boxes.
Yeah. This is the guy that forces you to buy all the other crap to get the forbidden whatever, the God of Fires and stuff. Oh. Yeah, I know.
He's an ass. Sample is a little pricey, but that's okay. Yeah. If he wants to call and apologize to me, then I'll walk it back.
Till that time, screw you, pal. We're not covering you. Probably a big fan. Probably wasn't even the guy.
It was probably just somebody that was there for the show, only hired and put in place. No, it was 100% the guy. Cause like, I was asking, dude, it was the weirdest thing. We were at, we were in Vegas, PCA.
And we had a good conversation before, and we were going to carry the product. And we actually wrote an order. Order never came in, by the way. I don't know if you knew about that, but...
He didn't like it. So, we were at the Fuente Place. Oh, I remember this conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And I said, "So, hey man, tell me, how does it work? " Yeah. I don't, I don't remember the story because I remember that I was standing beside my brother when it happened.
I'm like, I don't think I'm I don't think he was just asking questions. Yeah. And he got pissed off that I was asking questions. So then, you know, so like he kind of stormed away and I looked at there.
There are two random people sitting next to us. I got a table and I looked down at them and I said, and I don't remember who they were, but I was like, was I was I was I wrong? " We're afraid of you. Yeah, I'm like, "Okay, so, yeah, I'm not covering that guy on our show.
You can, see, see, that's how you do it, Coop. That's how you do it. I'm not covering it. " Not covering it.
Yeah, we're still doing it. Wow, okay. Hey, I choose not to cover that person. Carrying on.
Just admit it. And that's called bias news. It is. It is what it is.
It is what it is. Guy was an ass to me, so whatever. We have biased news. There's stories I don't cover all the time.
Now, when it comes to reviewing a cigar, it won't be biased. Because if that guy makes a great cigar, I'll say this guy is an ass, but the damn, the cigar is really good. You know? Right.
It's just that simple. Oh, I have some of the orange bats coming. Oh, nice. The orange bat cigars?
Very nice. Only two. Perfect. I can only get two.
I love that. It's going to infuriate Phil. Yes, yes. All right, it's time for the 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?
All right, first cigar. Oh, actually, the only cigar. How was that? That was good.
That was perfect. Thank you. January 18, 2010, Brooks Whittington, the Arturo Fuente Cigars, it is the Opus X Love Affair, 2009. Mikey?
You want me to go first? I have no problem going first. He has to read you and see where he goes with the score. I'm going to go 90, 90.
92. The Arturo Fuente... See, this is how I know you don't know shit about this industry. Because Brooks is not...
Go ahead. No, no. No, no, no. I don't want to keep reading.
You keep interrupting. So go ahead with your time. No, no, it's fine. No, no, please.
No, go ahead. Belittle your brother. I'm done. Belittle your brother.
I'm sorry. You know what? That was a little... I didn't mean to belittle you there.
Your mother will comment on the show tomorrow. I'm very sorry. That wasn't me. I wasn't trying to belittle you.
You're very smart. And successful. And successful and handsome. And rich.
And very rich. Not rich. Not rich. Very rich.
You're eating 12 whatever cigar meals. Yeah, the amount of meals you ate in that three-hour sitting I had in two weeks. That's not true. I'm just barely getting by over here.
He just barely afforded a cracker now. Yeah, it's hard in these streets. That's why he eats so many candy bars when he's here. Have you seen gas prices?
Yeah, I try my best to milk it off the company as possible. Gas is starting to come down. It is. But it's gone back up again.
No, it's not. Oh, I usually gauge off what happens next door. No, it's just, it's tanking today. It's just, it's tanking today.
I mean, they're like taking the pumps out over there, so maybe gas has always been like, we're not selling it. They're replacing it with plugs, recharging stations. All right, the Fuente Fuente Opus X Love Affair, Country of Origin, Dominican Republic, Factory Tabla Calera, A Fuente, Wrapper, Dominican Chateau de la Fuente, Sun Grown Rosado, Binder, Dominican Chateau de la Fuente, Filler, Dominican Chateau de la Fuente. 25 when it was made back in 2009, we don't know how many they smoked, it's an overview.
I hope it's a 92 and I eat my own words, just for the record. I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna go 90 here again. It's gotta be a 92 no matter what. I'm gonna stay with 92, just because that would be magical.
I could walk around the rest of the day, you know nothing about the industry. You know nothing about the industry. You know nothing about the industry. Your palate is shit.
Your palate is shit. This is how I know you don't know shit about the industry. All right, first clue. The Love Affair delivered an exceptional progression of flavors, evolving from initial notes of oak and chocolate into unique creamy sweetness, before finishing with a surprisingly enjoyable sweet cherry note that set it apart from a typical Opus X experience.
Plot twist. '92. Now what? Now what?
I mean, I'm staying my course '92. Oh boy. Oh boy. 292s, Palmer.
What are you going to... Oh, you said 92? I said 92, yeah, yeah, yeah. Clue number two.
Construction was outstanding throughout the entire smoking experience. The cigar featured a beautifully crafted wrapper with minimal veins, a perfect draw, and burn. Even though the Perfecto shape offered an ideal 55-minute smoking time. Extremely positive.
Very positive. 93. I'm sticking with 92. Third clue.
The opening of the cigar was dominated by an almost overwhelming blast of spice that lasted throughout the first several puffs, potentially overshadowing the more nuanced flavors that emerged later in the smoke. Ninety-two. Ninety-two. Final thought.
While the beginning of the love affair was almost overwhelmingly spicy, it calmed down into an excellent cigar that surprised me with the quality and finish. Well, it's a pretty good cigar right now, this is a prime candidate for aging and I will be buying a box of these to put to rest for a while, the flavors, while wonderful, were still a bit young and I think they can get nothing but better by resting for a few years, having said that this was truly one of the best tasting young Opus X's I have smoked, 90, 92, you guys split it to 91. it's a tie you want to know oh look now they're working does that count no he didn't I don't know I was waiting to see if the paper wall caught on fire when it gets down to when it's a split whoever didn't overbid wins that's the rule whoever didn't overbid no no he just made that up yeah no that's part of the terms he just made that up You want to know how I know that he doesn't know shit about this industry? Tell me.
He started with 90. Right. And then he went to my number, 92. To mess with you.
To mess with you. Brooks is more Nicaraguan than he is Dominican. That's why I didn't think it would. But then he started talking it up.
I thought he was. This is amazing. Is that the one who, is that who didn't know? That was Patrick that did yesterday's, which was the worst cigar he's ever had.
Right. Yeah. Okay. Greg's looking at his watch.
He's got to go. I have things to do. I've got a 12 course lunch coming. I've got to go out of here.
There's something arriving here. There's a purple donut made out of cement that I have to eat. Black donut, deconstructed. It's a different color.
Reconstructed. There you go, deconstructed. We're in America. It's a different color.
12 courses. There's a turquoise. 12 different elevations. There's a 75 course.
12 different ecosystems. Nobody knows about my eating room on the roof. There's a 75-course meal on the way here with a manservant to take care of me when I have to use the bathroom. It's so ridiculous.
Okay, Palmer, do you have anything else to add to that? No, that's all I got, buddy. I'm out of here. Thank you so much.
Greg, what about you? No, thank you so much for being on the show today. It is a different show when he's here. It has a totally different feel.
It really does. And we love it when you're here. And I love that I just guilt you right into it. I'm like, come on, we're going to a podcast.
Are you serious? I'm like, yeah, we're going to podcast right now. Right in the middle of something. We're all in the middle of something.
Yeah, we're all in the middle of something. We all fit this in. Yeah, the only person who's not in the middle of something is Phil. Who can't come on a regular basis.
Who's now on maternity leave, apparently. And that's going to be the ongoing joke throughout the month. No, the baby's not here yet. No, no, no.
I had it marked on my calendar. No, no, he's prepping me. Well, you also had the shower marked on your calendar, and you completely missed that. Yeah, no, something happened that weekend, I forgot.
We were all sick, technically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were all sick. And I did have it marked on my calendar, you're right. Like, a week later, I saw Tia, and I'm like, oh, by the way, when's the show?
She's like, ah, Greg, that was like two weeks ago. I'm like, oh, I'll have to get you a card or something. Well, how was it? Was it fun?
It wasn't a good time. How did everything go? So, okay. Why is Phil missing so many?
He says the closer they get to the date, the more work he has to do because she does less. Makes sense. Well, he was hauling the trailers around yesterday. Is that something Tia normally does?
No, no, no, no. " Dude, she's gonna come back into this business, they're gonna be so in debt up to their eyeballs, it's gonna be ridiculous. We lost all our accounts, and we owe $110,000 to so-and-so. But look at this Xbox I got for the office.
But check this out. It's crazy. Hot dog maker. Hot dog maker.
It's like a 7-Eleven in here now. Oh, it's amazing. Look, Ed, cauliflower crusted pizza. In the pizza outfit I put in.
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On todays show wait was that there before? Earthquake!!! It’s Hurricane Season and here they come! For 50,000 it’s bit by an alligator guess what you get for $75,000! In cigars baby Yaga is coming, Some others have shipped and then a Christmas what’s the score!