ACHP -Episode Title: "Cigars, Scandals, and Shifting Politics – Episode 369"
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Welcome to ACHP episode 369,
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That one.
Maybe I can fix that music
manually instead of having him
to have to automatically.
I mean instead of him having
them pull it down.
OK, X buttons are complicated.
Yes, buttons are complicated.
Knobs, knobs and dials and
things.
Hey.
How can hear your lovely
introduction because the music
is so loud?
Yeah.
I turned it down a little.
Done.
Done.
Yeah, but it was halfway
through.
Oh.
He but he hurt us.
Yeah, he hurt us.
He hurt us.
Shit.
Turn that down a little loud.
All right.
First show of the new year?
Yeah, tonight's.
Show is going to be bananas
right here A.
Very slow Newsweek in the
industry.
Yeah, very, very slow.
That's kind of that's.
OK.
Seems like that's trending.
Well, the year wrapped up and
the new year started so.
We can talk about that.
OK, trending topics we're
talking about.
See, we got hair stylist now
Shin fair agies.
I phonetically spelled the name
so it's right now Shin fair
agies.
OK, says Skip Bayless offered
her 1.5 million for sex in a
blockbuster lawsuit.
OK Oh.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
is set to resign as party
leaders polls plummet, report
said.
Some international news OK Lions
beat the Vikings to become the
number one seat.
Uh huh.
Big, huge, huge.
Huge Golden Globes was saved by
Nikki Glaser.
Really, Glaser?
It's how you say you're
listening, right?
It's not a Glass or Glaser.
Yeah.
You want to start with Nikki.
Sure.
I don't care, No.
So you know.
Whatever you want to do.
Yeah, I don't.
Want you to mess them up all.
Right, controversial sports
pundit Skip Bayless, who?
I'm not familiar.
With Ohio, OK.
He's on a show.
He is on a show.
He used to be on the show.
Now the show has been cancelled.
Oh, it's been cancelled.
Done.
Well, it was cancelled before,
yeah, but Bogan at that has been
accused of offering a
hairstylist $1.5 million for sex
in a blockbuster workplace
misconduct lawsuit.
Big name.
Big name relating to the
plaintiffs tenure working at the
Fox Sports studios in Los
Angeles, CA.
Now, Shin Ferrige's lawsuit was
filed in the Superior Court of
California on Friday and also
alleges that Charlie Dixon, the
executive vice president of
content for Fox Sports, groped
her at a party in West Hollywood
in January 2017 and that Sports
One host Jay Taylor, contributed
to a hostile work environment.
Yanks.
OK, so but you know Skip is the
guy who used to do Stephen A
Smith with, right?
Right.
Yeah, with Stephen.
A OK, so Stephen A Smith, right?
Do you know Stephen A Smith is,
I have no idea, OK.
He's he's an icon as far as like
sports are concerned.
Is he a player or an announcer?
Or he's player, he's a.
Analyst.
Like a analyst.
Yeah, OK.
And he's very angry all the
time, OK.
And it makes you pay attention.
Not that shirtless guy isn't,
no, the sleeveless guy.
He's a black guy with a big
forehead.
He's a black hair lines all the
way back forehead.
Wow.
And I'm called Race.
Wow, here we well, you know.
OK, maybe.
If that would help, I've never
watched the show before.
OK, so no, no, OK, So listen,
Stephen A Smith, he's he's an
icon.
He's a, he's a big analyst in
the industry.
He's a commentator and he's
always gassed up.
Like he's very, he's very
passionate.
OK.
All right.
From 1 passionate individual to
another, he's very passionate.
And he keeps his hands to
himself, though.
I would.
I would believe that Stephen A
Smith keeps his hands to
himself.
He's also on soap operas.
He does.
He's everywhere.
Everywhere.
Is he angry on the soap opera or
passionate?
He's he's actually I actually
know this sadly, but he he comes
in on General Hospital from time
to time, right.
And he's like this.
He does like The Dirty work for
the mob guy.
Oh yeah.
Of course he does.
Of course he does.
He's very passionate, yeah.
Very passionate about his mob
work too.
This is like, you know from what
I can tell, right?
Because actually you see in the
when you walk through the room
when your wife.
Oh, you know it one when when
it's patio night.
You know when we hang out with
Patio.
She likes to catch up on her
General Hospital.
This is like the shows.
My wife does Days of our lives,
but that's when I put a
headphone in and I do stuff on
my phone.
So I'm doing stuff normally, but
I will still pay attention.
Yeah, I'll look up and go.
Holy crap, that lady's old.
I remember when I was a kid.
And I'll ask questions.
Right.
Oh yeah, yeah, they hate that
I'm.
Like, wait a second.
Yeah.
You know, it's like, it's a soap
opera is usually what I get.
Like, OK, so Steven A Smith did
this.
There was this whole thing with
Skip where no matter, it's like
no matter what Steven A Smith
said, right, Skip would always
disagree with him, OK?
And there were times when when
Skip would talk and you're like,
yeah, OK, he's got some points.
And then it eventually got to a
point where you just thought,
OK, Skip's just disagreeing with
Stephen A Smith just to fucking
disagree with him.
Part of the show.
And you no longer believe it it
it lost validity in my.
Opinion I got you.
So I don't, I didn't know what
happened to him.
I don't know.
He dissipated, but apparently
he's been out groping
individuals.
Well, Miss I say her last name
again, Farergies brings forth
the action.
Because of over a decade at Fox,
she was forced to endure a
misogynistic racist and I'll,
I'll be.
I'll be it.
No, it's not the word ABLEIST
ablest, OK ablest workplace
where executives and talent were
allowed to physically, verbally
abused workers with impunity,
the lawsuit alleges.
Right, the Fox spokesman said in
a statement.
We take these allegations
seriously and have no further
comment at this time given the
pending allegations.
Apparently this went on from
2016 to 2024 until the show was
cancelled.
OK, so the show's gone.
Because yeah, the show was
cancelled over once it's over,
and then she's like, OK, now I
have this thing I have to tell
everybody.
Maybe that was the protect, like
Stephen A Smith and Shannon
Sharpe and all them.
So she waited it out.
I don't know.
Right till after the show was
cancelled.
I mean, it's terrible.
If it happened, that's fine.
It's terrible.
Everybody agrees it was
terrible.
But to wait that long, I mean,
that's 2016 to 2024.
Well, maybe she, yeah, maybe in
the beginning she was OK with
the group.
And then she's like really
thinking about it.
She's like, wait a second, how
much?
Well, really thinking about it
when she's out of.
Work.
I don't think so.
No, I I think that I don't think
that it's to protect anybody
because we saw it.
We saw the whole Matt Lauer
thing with the Today show.
It didn't affect anybody else.
No, yeah, just Matt Lauer.
Yeah, boom.
Yeah, right.
Well, she she can no longer do
hair.
I had to look her up.
I didn't know who she was.
Yeah, I don't know who she is
either, right?
She's not that cute, not that
that matters.
But and and not not for nothing.
I don't know if this matters,
but Skip Bail is 73 years old.
Yeah, he's an old one guy.
The picture is an older
redheaded.
Yeah, what does that have to do
with anything?
He has a big he has a big
forehead and.
And yeah, it's all over the.
Back and hair's back.
But OK, so do you think that she
should have blew it up prior to?
I think she should have said as
soon as it happened.
Yeah, I think when it happens
you should say it.
Yeah, you got to blow it.
Up, it sounds like, you know,
verbally abused workers with
impunity, the lawsuit alleged.
So maybe she did bring it up at
the time, but she could have
brought the lawsuit.
Is it a class action suit or
just a regular?
Just regular.
Oh, OK, she Well, class action
means you have to have a bunch.
Oh yeah, you have to a bunch of
people.
Apparently she's the only
hairdresser for this one show.
Must make a lot of money.
I don't know.
I don't know what hairdressers.
Yeah, but the groping thing, I
mean, just, it's so fucking
tacky.
At a party, it's not like it was
at a party or something.
What type of?
I don't think it doesn't sound
like this is a one time thing.
Groped her at a party in West
Hollywood in January 2017.
I don't know if she specifically
lists a year.
Remember that one time in 2017
you touched my butt during the
Christmas party?
It was define the girl.
Yeah.
Was it like a hard yeah or was
it like he walked by and went
oh, I'm sorry.
Handed her a drink and caressed
her fingers as he get rid of the
drink.
OK, well the sad part is this is
kind of this.
I guess this could go either
way.
Don't go anymore APS Christmas
party, yeah.
I get groped all the.
Time he doesn't drink.
Grabs me all the time.
He makes it more awkward.
Here's your drink.
Don't drink.
Won't know until the show's
over.
He.
Gives me a little pat.
I'm like, who do I report that
to?
Hey, nobody yet.
You got to wait till the show's
cancelled.
Boots groped me.
Back in 2025 at the annual
Christmas party.
At the APS Christmas at the APS
Christmas party.
It's crazy.
All right, well, we'll have to
keep track of this one and see
how it.
Develops.
Yeah, we'll see.
What if it's ever mentioned
again in the news?
I'm sure it will.
You think so?
Yeah, he skips a big enough
name.
Skips a big deal.
I would say he's a big deal
Boots.
What do you think?
I mean, he he was the pioneer
for the talk shows.
I mean, pretty much.
Yeah, but he's Mr. Randy's
usefulness because he cancelled
the show.
Well, here's what's happening.
This whole media thing is dying.
Yeah, yeah, because all you got
left is Pat McCaffrey.
Why is that?
I mean I understand Prince dying
but why is video dying?
Well your ESP NS, your all these
show like no one's watching this
shit anymore because.
It's watered down too.
Yeah, because it's been, yeah,
you know, like you, they've been
put in this box and been told to
only say X, Right, Right.
And that's why the guys that
thrive are the guys that are the
more open and honest.
So I think Stephen A Smith, you
don't have to agree with what
Stephen A Smith says.
What is Thrive?
Like, like thrive, like doing
well.
Oh oh, I thought it was another
network or something where you
said the guys thrive.
I thought you meant like at
Thrive.
No, the individuals that.
Do that are thriving OK.
Yeah, that are doing very well
are the ones.
Name for a sports show.
Sorry, the ones that are doing
very well are the ones that
speak how they believe, right,
right.
And it you don't have to
necessarily believe in what
they're saying, they believe in
what they're.
Saying sure, it's your opinion,
yeah.
And they've parlayed that into
podcasts and all these other
platforms.
So their brand continues to
grow.
And because of that, your ESPNS,
your Foxes, your AB CS, your
CNNS, your MSNBCS, where they
where you're boxed in and you
can only say specific things,
those shows aren't doing well
anymore.
So they're finding other places
to go?
Yeah, the audience and the
person on the show.
Correct.
Not to mention that look, ad
revenue I think is down in those
things.
So because less money is coming
in, contracts are less.
If contracts are less, people
are like well fuck you I'm out
of here.
Yeah, I go do a podcast, make
more money.
Yeah, or whatever you know.
Whatever I want to say.
Yeah, exactly.
They're just, so you're seeing
this, this, this whole thing
kind of developed where people
are just kind of done with being
told what to do and now they're
getting paid less and, you know,
or being fired.
Right.
Does ESPN have a series of
podcasts that they put out?
I think that they, I think that
they've been making some smart
moves where they acquired Pat
McAfee, right, Right.
Is that correct Boots and you
know he's got a pretty big
following as far as sport talk,
but again, same scenario.
He's your guy that sometimes is
in a black tank top.
You know, he's just.
He's the sleeveless guy.
Yeah, he's always kind of open
and honest and just kind of
speaks how he feels.
And I think that that disclaimer
was made when he came on to that
show, so.
Do you think the sports networks
will go away?
I don't think that they'll go
away in their entirety, but I
think they're going to lose
significant value.
Maybe the talk show parts of it
or the the endless parts go
smaller or less or.
You have to, you have to acquire
good talent, right?
And then you have to let that
talent say what they want to
say.
Sure, they're afraid of
offending advertisers.
Well, that's, well, that's
what's going to happen is
you're, you know, like the
pendulum swung so hard in One
Direction, Now the pendulum's
going to start swinging back,
right?
Sure.
And then what happened?
What happens?
It goes too far in that
direction, right?
Where now all of a sudden you're
out of control and then it
starts coming back so that we're
at the we're finally at that
focal point where this is my
honestly my opinion is where
we're starting to see that swing
back.
And you're starting to see
people be open and honest in
these platforms where they, you
know, beliefs are being said.
And if those broadcast networks
don't grasp hold of that, yeah,
they're done.
But I don't, I don't think, I
think that there's enough money
there where they someone will
come back.
ESPN has what, like 9 or 10
channels or something?
Ridiculous like that.
I mean, that'll probably be
shaved down.
Right.
I think that that's realistic.
You don't need 9 or 10 ESPN
channels, and I think that
you're going to see a lot of
talent being a lot of hosts
being cut back.
I have to have a place to watch
bowling in darts and.
I got to watch.
Well dude, darts is big
overseas.
Right.
Well.
Huge.
It really is.
But here it's not.
So, you know, and those other
plat by the those other
platforms are really what's kind
of taking off.
Podcasts have taken off the
good.
Ones right?
Continue to grow so.
All right, moving on, Kate.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
said to resign as party leader
Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau is expecting to announce
he will step down as leader of
the ruling Liberal Party in the
coming days.
Canadian media has reported
ahead of a general election to
be held later this year that he
is widely expected to lose.
Trudeau will likely announce his
resignation before a key
national caucus.
They have caucuses right meeting
on Wednesday, sources told the
Global, Globe and Mail and
Reuters.
However, the source stressed
Trudeau has not made a final
decision.
Trudeau, leader of the Liberal
Party for 11 years and Prime
Minister for 9, is facing a
mounting set of crisis, from
Donald Trump's tariff threats to
the resignation of key allies
and disastrous opinion polls.
His resignation would be seen as
a Prime Minister choosing to
jump before he's pushed.
Yeah, yeah.
Nobody likes him up there
anymore.
No.
My friends in Canada do not
speak nicely of him.
At all.
That's confirmed.
Yeah, I believe that.
You know, unless John checks in
in three weeks and tells me
that.
He's not the only one, you know.
I have other Canadian friends
other than John.
Right.
Like John?
Well, there's John.
There's Becky.
There's Mitchell from Smoking
Tobacco Show.
OK, those.
Are my 3 Canadian friends
There's only.
Three.
That's the three.
There's only two guys.
Perfect.
That's enough.
And all people I all people I
know through podcasting so.
Three's a company.
So that's it, huh?
Well, the move would leave the
Liberal Party without a
permanent leader before the
general election where polls
where polls show it is set to
badly lose to the opposite
Conservative party led by the
firebrand Pierre Bolivar.
Election would be held on or
before October 20th but could be
brought forward.
So Canada's falling apart.
Well, supposedly Trudeau came
down to Merlago and spoke to
Trump about the tariffs, right?
And he said, you know, like, he
went in stating that he was
going to handle this, and
apparently he left.
And Trump flat out said, you
know, if you want Canada become
the 51st state of the US like
that.
Now he's calling Trudeau the
governor.
Yeah, just kind of sent him back
packing.
And you know who wants that for
a leader, right?
Yeah, Who wants that?
Oh, the American guy kicked your
ass.
That's nice.
So.
It's all going to work out.
What do you mean it's going to
work out?
I mean, it's going to be fine.
We're going to pay our tariffs
and it's going to be fine.
You know, like there's no, I
don't know.
Well, technically, like with the
Chinese, if he puts tariff on
goods from Canada coming into
here, we pay it, not the
Canadians.
But it makes them less appealing
for Americans companies to buy,
right?
Sure.
Yeah, but you know how much
power we get from them.
I was told how much power the
entire eastern seaboard gets
power from Canada.
You know what?
That's kind of a problem.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think that that's
a.
Is that the going green thing?
What power?
Yeah.
Is that why we get our power
from them?
So that way it's not.
Because we don't make it here.
We don't make electricity enough
or something like apparently so.
I mean, they have a lot of open
land up there, yeah.
I feel like we got a lot of
water on the East Coast.
I mean, I think you could.
I feel like it would make a lot
of power.
I think it would make more sense
if we took care of.
Them yeah, I didn't realize we
got power I mean in the Midwest
gets power from Canada I.
Just thought we got Maple syrup
this whole time that.
Was we get a lot of vegetables
in Florida?
Yeah, from Canada, Canadian
Vegetables and vegetables.
That's so far to get them.
I know, could they not find
anything closer?
Right.
What kind of veggies do you
know?
No, I don't know specifics.
Who's look up the tell me what
the top veggies are that are?
Important vegetables Important.
For look it up, but I'm glad
because I don't like vegetables.
Yeah, he's not a veggie guy.
Yeah.
I mean, we only have oranges and
beef here in Christmas trees.
You know what?
Do we need Anything else?
I'm feel good.
No scurvy, a lot of protein and
we have trees at Christmas.
What else?
We.
Yeah, I mean, I.
Feel like we're covered, You
know what I mean?
You know what?
Dome, Florida.
We don't need anything else.
Right.
We put a fence up at the top
there.
We have the cows, we have the
oranges.
Here are some.
OK, tell me.
Dry onions, carrots, tomatoes,
cabbage, lettuce and Peppers.
That's a lot.
Those are the top 6 or whatever.
Yep.
That's a lot of vegetables.
We also get bananas, apples,
strawberries and potatoes.
We grow, we grow strawberries
here.
Yeah, we have old festival.
We have a strawberry festival.
Right.
There's a whole there's a high
school called the Fighting
Strawberries right over in Plant
City.
What's?
What's crazy is those all come
from Canada, yeah.
Right.
How did Canada slide and get
their peace?
I don't understand.
You know we're doomed.
We're we need that 50.
Well, if we need any, we just
call John.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's a great
way to solve the tariff problem.
Jess, you called John?
No, make it the 51st date.
Right.
Yeah, it's not a problem we're.
That worried about.
It come on, we protect you
anyway.
We all go there and visit.
We love Niagara Falls.
Well, that's there's some of
those in America.
Yeah, that sounds pretty.
Oh, isn't it?
It's just like one side or the
other, isn't it?
No, on our side it's concrete,
on their side there's grass.
Speaking of Niagara Falls, the
Bills are playing the Bucks next
season at in Buffalo.
Next week.
In Niagara Falls, slowly I turn.
Oh.
Next season.
Next season.
Oh yeah.
Sorry, we're not doing that
story hitting OK, right, but we
are doing that.
The Lions beat the Vikings to
become the number one seat the.
Lions didn't just beat the
Vikings.
They stomped them in a 31 to 9
win.
And yeah, Detroit Lions head
coach Dan Campbell shared the
immortal words of Tommy
Callahan, Chris Farley and Tommy
Boy in his locker room speech
Sunday night after the division
clinching 31 to 9 win over the
Minnesota Vikings.
You know what he's saying?
No, that was awesome.
Yeah, that was awesome.
It was.
Awesome.
Campbell wearing a ready to roll
NFC North champion T-shirt in
Honolulu blue.
I like Honolulu blue.
It's my favorite color.
Couldn't contain excitement
about the victory and what lies
ahead.
The Lions locked up the first
round.
Bye.
And the number one seed in the
NF.
Oh, seed.
Not see, Tom, I got that wrong.
Yeah.
NFC ensuring the path to the
Super Bowl goes through Ford
Field in Detroit.
It's a hell of a win, guys,
Gamble said that this has been
three years in the making.
Some of it for like that just
doesn't happen.
That was unbelievable, man.
Division winners, back-to-back
seasons and the number one seed.
That was a total team effort.
Yeah.
Is it a good game?
I didn't.
Mind, it was one sided.
They just decimated, but I will
tell you this, it was fun to
watch yeah, I enjoyed the
beating of I'm not, you know, I
don't have any against the
Vikings, sure, but at this point
I'm rooting for Detroit.
You know what I mean?
Like.
Did that make it better for your
team that the that the Vikings
lost?
No, not one of those didn't
care.
The one.
No, you know, because it only
only happens in football is
right one day.
All solely happens in football.
Right, right, one dash.
What is cool about, you know, I
don't know how you don't root
for this guy.
Dan Campbell's just a fucking
beast.
He's amazing.
The guy's got, he's drinking 2
massive jugs of black coffee.
Yeah, he's just.
And he's his mentality, his
mindset, the way that he has
spoken at the beginning when as
soon as he became coach and, you
know, the belief that this team
has behind this guy is just all
inspiring, man.
I'm just I'm like any.
Quotes movies in his speeches.
I like that he's doing push ups
with his team.
Oh is he doing push ups with the
Dave I've?
Seen it.
Yeah.
It's incredible.
The guy's incredible.
The guy is absolutely
incredible.
The team is absolutely
incredible.
I would love to see them just
decimate the Chiefs.
I'm hoping that that happens.
He's the best.
It's just fun.
They're just fun to watch.
They are.
And yeah, I, I'm, you know, I'm
not quietly rooting for them.
I'm rooting for them to some
degree.
Now, you know, obviously they
run into the Bucks.
I'd like to see the Bucks win.
But he's such a great guy.
Dan Campbell.
Yeah, he is.
What if he does pushes before
push ups before the game but
the.
You know Todd Bowles does not do
push ups with this.
Guy.
No, he doesn't.
He's lazy, you know.
You know what's really funny?
What?
Do you know where Dan Campbell
was originally?
Can't believe a Buccaneers.
No, I know.
Boots.
Where was he before they get
shit?
Canned him.
Come on.
Miami.
Miami.
Tell us.
Yeah, tell me.
He was in Miami.
He was a tight end coach.
Yeah, that's because your
organization is complete shit.
That's why they're terrible.
The Miami Dolphins.
I'm done with football.
Tyree kill just.
The Dolphins are out of it,
apparently.
Yeah, they are out of it.
They are out of it.
I'm.
On the basketball.
And the cheetah has flat out.
Well, they lost to the Utah Jazz
yesterday.
I was there.
Yeah, they did so.
But Tyree kills flat out said
I'm done, I'm out.
He's like one of the best
receivers in the league and this
is the first season where he's
not going to the playoffs.
Oh, he plays from Miami.
So he said.
I'm very.
Used to.
He's quit.
Yeah, wide receivers are prima
donnas.
I don't disagree with him,
though.
You know what?
He should have never went to
Miami to begin with.
He just took the money.
That's the problem.
He took the money, no heart.
You got to do one or the other,
right?
You know what I mean?
You either got to take the money
and I don't.
I don't.
Begrudge him for taking the
money?
Nah, how much money are we
talking?
I don't know millions.
Oh yeah, of course. 10s of
millions, Yeah I would take the
money too.
Who cares if?
OK, so then at that point then
shut your mouth and.
Right.
Don't complain.
You took the money.
Yeah, right.
And.
That's really my feeling about
Tyree kill.
It's like OK.
Send him a picture of the check.
You left the Chiefs, You went to
Miami.
Who also got beat yesterday.
Yeah, but they didn't.
They didn't.
Jerks.
They didn't start anybody.
Nobody played.
No, they played all their third
stringers and practice squads.
What the hell are they out of it
now?
They clinched.
They don't care about any of
those games.
Yeah, the refs make sure that
they win every game.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, All right.
Well, we can talk about that at
another point.
But they can't be like Brady
because they went 15 and two.
Sorry.
That's right.
But can you share the air down
please?
It is a little hot in.
Here it is hot.
I didn't turn it down at all.
All right, Campbell gave away
three-game balls after the game.
OK, he gave 1 to Jameer Gibbs.
Yeah, 'cause guy had 4
touchdowns.
Second year running back then
did 170 yards from scrimmage and
scored all four of the Lions
touchdowns right.
He gave 1 to Ameek Robertson.
The cornerback tailed All Pro
Vikings receiver Justin
Jefferson, who had his worst
game against Detroit since
September 22.
He did, and I think Ameek
Robertson is not.
I think he's second or third
string.
Oh yeah, Amek, Amek and Alex and
and Zalone close and Zalone.
OK.
The linebacker returned from
injury to a welcoming crowd and,
according to Sean Windsor,
stitched together the middle of
the defense, directed traffic
and ran down runners on the
boundary.
There you go.
Oh, there you go.
Minnesota was running for their
life.
I mean it.
It was amazing to watch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
It was a good game, alright.
Golden Globes is saved by Nikki
Glaser.
Uh huh.
Did you see her?
She looked completely different
from when she did the Brady
thing.
I like, like I wouldn't have
recognized her.
No, I just caught a clip when
she said that trend, so I looked
it up.
I started listening to some shit
that she was saying.
It was pretty funny.
She.
Probably dressed up for Brady
so.
I thought she looked better yet,
well, well, she had a fancy
dress on everything.
But anyway, it looked like the
end of the line for the
drunkest, messiest, tackiest,
ditchiest and bitchiest of award
shows.
No network would even air it
anymore.
But everybody loves a comeback
story, right?
And lo and behold, the Globes
are back officially kick off
awards season this season.
Give it up to the new host,
Nikki Glazier, who made the
night a blast.
She set the tone right from the
start, calling the the event
Olympics biggest night.
Golden Globes have risen from
the dead before.
The whole franchise was down for
the count before Ricky Gervais
single handedly rescued it in
2010 by rebranding it as a
Savage Bitch Fest.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took
over for their peerless four
year running, but last year's
host Joy Koi was a disaster,
setting the bar so low the
devil's using it as a toilet
brush.
The stars were depressed, were
presently polite, trying to make
it a classy, respectable gala it
should have never aspired to be.
Nobody even made any drunk
gaffes except Kieran Culkin
trash talk Pedro Pascal on stage
yelling suck at Pedro.
Apparently he gets drunk at
every award show and and is is a
big everybody loves him when he
gets drunk.
Oh, he's drunk.
Again.
Oh, he's drunk.
He's going to yell at somebody.
Macaulay Culkin's little
brother.
Oh.
Karen Culkin.
Nice.
Fuller.
What did he do?
Fuller, He's been in a bunch of
movies.
He actually won a Golden Globe
last night.
Oh yeah.
For what?
We will get to that in just a
moment.
I've never heard.
Before Fuller, what's the bed?
Yeah, Fuller, what's the bed?
And Home alone.
Oh, that, He said.
If Fuller drinks anything, he's
going to wet the bed.
Then they show him drinking a
Coke.
Oh, so he was in home alone with
him.
Right.
His brother.
Right he was.
He was in one shot in the
beginning and then something at
the end.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, OK.
Here's a full list of winners
and nominees.
Oh, I didn't do the nominee,
sorry.
It was just a waste.
So just too many of them for
each one.
And that's it.
So we had we have the winners
and what they were in and I I
don't know any of these like
that other award show.
OK, right.
Best performing, best
performance by an actress in a
supporting role in any motion
picture.
Zoe Zaldana.
OK, I know who that is.
It's a girl from Linus.
Oh OK, and the green girl from
that other.
What was she?
What did she win for?
Amelia Perez.
Best performance, he said.
Yeah, but well, that was the
movie.
Amelia Perez.
Oh, that was the name of the
movie.
OK, never heard.
Before, I don't know if I want
you to read all these off.
Well, there's only 5 or 6 is.
There any movies we do know?
Yeah, best performance by an
actor in a television series.
Jeremy Allen White for the Bear.
OK.
Oh, best performance by an actor
in a supporting role.
Shogun.
Shogun was great.
There was 2 winners from Shogun.
Also best performance by an
actor in television series.
Two different people, but same
show.
Yeah.
Baby reindeer.
All right.
You're conclave single lady.
You're trying to slide that in.
That's the names of the movies,
all right.
I just don't like that these
award shows are supposed to be,
you know, the movies everybody
has seen and stuff, but nobody's
seen.
Any well, it's just it's kind of
like Cigar Aficionado Top 20.
Well, at least we've heard of
most of those cigars.
No.
Well, look, you know, again,
here's what's here's what you
started.
I don't think.
Do you think Nikki saved the
Golden Globes?
No, I didn't.
Watch it.
Well, I did.
I I saw it was on, but it's
because I looked up trends
yesterday.
But no, I didn't watch it.
Yeah.
OK, so you didn't even watch the
Golden Globes?
No I'm not a big fan of hers but
I did see the her stuff after
the show and I thought it was
good.
OK, so you do you think that she
saved the Golden Globes 'cause
you didn't watch the Golden
Globes, you just got the
highlights?
No, but because she was going to
be the host or host is whatever
it's called.
Because she did so well on Brady
Show.
Yeah, a network picked it up it
it wasn't scheduled.
After last year's flop by Jo
Koy, nobody had picked it up.
OK, so nobody picked up Golden
Globes, nobody watched, so it
wasn't on anything.
No, they did, because she was
the host.
OK, Boots, do me a favor.
Can you tell me what the ratings
were for the past three years of
the Golden Globes?
OK.
I don't think that she saved.
Here's what I'm here's my point.
I don't think that she saved the
Golden Globes and the reason why
I don't think that she saved the
Golden Globes as it cause of
what you just said.
Listen, no one gives a shit
about what critics say and for
anything.
I don't know who picks what.
Do critics pick the winners for
the Golden Globes?
I don't I.
Have no idea.
But the fact of the matter is
that they're a bunch of shows,
for the most part that nobody's
watching, right?
You know what I mean?
Sure.
Was Yellowstone on that mark?
No, they were not one of the.
Go throw a rock and ask me if,
hey, has anybody seen
Yellowstone, Right, That's my
point, right?
Sure, you know, throw a rock.
Find somebody who saw a real
pain.
Did you give right?
Did you give any award to Taylor
Sheridan just for just
absolutely kicking ass in
everything that he's done?
I don't know, these are just
actors.
Well, I guess he was an actor,
but he's such a small.
No, but my point is OK, so let's
go on.
Lioness Yellowstone, right?
Land man just hit right?
What else is the guy done?
Mayor of Kingstown, You know
what I mean?
Like those are like not even one
mention.
I don't.
Like I said, I they weren't in
the list now so.
So that's my point.
Sure.
So, you know, how are these
shows that everybody's watching,
that everybody enjoys not
getting a nod at all?
He said.
I don't know how they how they
picked.
There is a People's Choice
Awards.
They will probably be in that I
would imagine.
So my point is that you're not
saving the Golden Globes, no
matter who the fuck's hosting
it.
Well, like I said, I don't know.
It wasn't supposed.
It wasn't going to be on TV till
she was the things.
That's why they're saying she
was the host.
That's why they're saying she
saved it.
She at least got it on TV.
Right.
Well, yeah.
Well, because in 2023 was on
Peacock.
OK.
Right.
Well, it was also on Paramount
last night, so there's got CBS
on so.
What do you got for ratings
boots?
OK, so it skips 2022 but 2021.
It wasn't when that was the
COVID.
Oh good the 2222.
Why would there?
Because maybe there were no
movies a year before.
Oh, yeah, no, it says NBC
refused to broadcast the 22
ceremony due to the scandal.
There must have been some Oh
there.
Must have been some scandal.
So 2110% decrease from 2019, OK,
23 since it was 9/22, it was a
26% decrease from 2021 to only
6.3 million viewers.
OK, that was terrible.
And 24 was a 50% increase from
23, with 9.4 million viewers.
OK.
So you're up 20 points from
2019.
Got it.
That's it.
That was the last one.
That so but so this was 2020
fives or that's.
No, this was this.
Is 20 fours.
This is 20 fours show.
Got it.
So this show was up 20% then
2019?
Right.
It's not a big swing.
I don't feel like anything's
been saved.
Maybe in TV that's a big swing,
I don't know.
I don't feel like anything's
been saved.
I don't think anybody.
Well, I didn't write the
article.
I liked it.
You're getting a defensive.
I'm not getting defensive.
What I'm just simply saying,
well, I'm not going to show
you're right.
And then what are we going to
talk about?
See what it means?
Here you're getting.
I'm not getting defensive.
You are.
You're getting angry.
No, I'm not.
Yes, No I'm not.
They didn't say she saved it
because of the ratings.
They just saying she saved it
because she did a good job
because last year's guy did such
a terrible.
Job.
Well, maybe.
Well, yeah, well, comparing, you
know, you like apples, you hate
broccoli.
So if you put a apple on there,
you know you like it better.
Right then, the Apple safety.
Look, here's the thing, you need
to put somebody real on the
show.
Man, Kevin Hart is hot.
Why wasn't Kevin Hart the host?
No, I don't think, Kevin.
Hart's not hot right now.
OK, here's my point.
My point is, I don't care who's
hosting this Golden Globes until
the Golden Globes understands.
You wouldn't, The Rock was
doing.
He doesn't like the show because
of the movies they pick.
He thinks they're not relevant.
They already.
Likes them?
Yeah, that's like cigar fishing
out.
Sure it's it's not the idea of
this award show apparently to
pick relevant movies.
I don't.
I don't know who picks.
Great, and that's my point.
Whoever pays the most money.
Nobody.
The general masses will not care
because they're not watching
these shows.
Well, 9 million people watched
it. 9 million people watch.
I don't know what's a good
number, Michael, Right.
Look and see how many people
watch the the Lions and Vikings
game.
How many people?
Watch the Lions and Vikings
game.
Just to compare it.
Sure.
It's just it's football.
It's one game Sunday night
shouldn't be more than 9
million.
I have no idea.
You would assume.
Don't know.
I don't know what what decent
numbers are for.
That's a lot.
Say the number. 43 million. 43
million people playoff game.
It's not a playoff game.
It was regular season.
But it got a team into the
playoffs.
No, it was a battle for the
number one seed.
Both of them are in the
playoffs.
Oh, then what's the number one
season?
You're talking 4X1 game.
OK, calm down.
Nothing is saved.
Calm down.
It's a stupid movie award show.
No, you're not.
You're getting all worked up.
Because you're getting angry.
I'm not angry.
I'm just matching your energy.
But I'm not angry, dude.
You bring it down.
Good, you bring it down.
Bring one down.
I got quaaludes, I got acid and
I got cocaine.
We need him on right now.
That's that's why they cancelled
it.
That was.
He's probably watched all those.
22.
Yeah, so Golden Globes.
No, I don't think I just.
Can't.
OK, so wait, which award show
then do you do you think is
worth watching?
I don't think any of them,
Nickelodeon.
Kids Choice Awards.
Yeah, Nickelodeon.
Yeah, I'd watch that.
Rob Wilkowski was on it.
He got slimed.
See what I mean?
That sounds.
Good.
I like the MTV Movie Awards they
give surfboards.
Right, here's my all I'm saying
is that you're seeing a a change
in the time.
That's all I'm trying to bring
to your attention, Sir, and to
our viewers and listeners.
Attention.
Change at the time this this
things been the same show every
year.
It's just different people.
But no, people watch it because
movie stars get drunk and then
the drunk people give stupid
speeches or they say things that
are stupid, right?
That's why people watch.
Well, only 9 million.
Well, only 9. 43 million of us
were watching the Minnesota
Vikings get powered by the
Detroit.
And I was watching the movie.
I was watching either one,
right?
And what movie were you
watching?
Was it one of the Golden Globes?
No, no, they probably aren't
even on any of the streaming
services.
It's nice.
It's nice to see that you know
no one really cares because hey,
you can't continue to cram
bullshit down our throats, is my
point.
Well, you can't.
How long have they been?
How long have they been doing
this award show?
This was the 81st.
So they've been doing it for 80
years.
Yeah.
And they'll be another one next
year.
And there's only 9 million
people watching, and that's an
uptick.
Well, it used to be a, you know,
it used to be a lot.
I used to sit down and watch
shows like that.
The Golden Globes.
There used to be less choices.
Right.
And you only had three or four
choices to pick from.
I mean, football's always been
on since I've been alive, so.
Well, that's the time I've been
alive.
What's going on?
How's it you've been alive?
Yeah.
Sorry, it's me.
Football hasn't been on since.
No, they, they wore those
leather things on their heads.
They had the leather things.
They didn't have TV.
That was the TV that.
Was still football.
Yeah, but it wasn't on TV.
They had to listen to it on the
radio.
So as we listen to the radio.
Everybody huddled around the
radio there.
He comes around the corner.
Here we go.
He's got the ball, he's running.
He's running touchdown.
I'm Viking.
That's what.
That's what.
This is where Abraham Lincoln's
about to hand out all the
awards, that's what.
Exactly.
That's when.
Forest Gordon Seven years ago we
made this movie.
That's when the words like moxie
were big and stuff.
Yes, yeah, yeah, that one's got
some moxie on him there.
Like, let's see that one.
We need this one.
All right, Hit the news button.
Oh, wait, no, no, you, you go
next time you go.
That was our those are our
trending topics.
Yeah, that.
Was the one.
Yeah, we got one for you there.
We go.
That's not your trending.
It's not your button.
Jeez.
It's a.
Secret Oh sorry, first first
Bank of sounds.
That's not it.
Either boots new IT says, or
boots trending something.
Boots in the lab trending.
He can't get these buttons
right, but he can be in the lab.
This.
One, it's a little loud.
A little loud.
It should be.
What did you did You hit the
button?
I turned it down and it stopped.
Oh well, just go then.
No, I want to hear it.
I need to hear.
It it's not long.
It's still too loud.
Is that like a poker?
No, you're supposed to start
talking like you always do all.
Right boots trend.
All right.
I thought it was going to say
something.
Here we go, fellas.
He can tell you.
He can say.
Something.
There we go.
I thought he had.
His own intro.
Right.
How the?
Says hello peoples or whatever
it says.
Hello people.
Right.
Hello people.
There you go.
Oh my God.
All right, OK, how the Vivian
became a breakout star of
British drag.
Known to the world as the
Vivian, James Lee Williams was
one of the biggest breakout
stars of the British drag at the
Golden Globes.
And it all started with an
impression of Donald Trump in
2019 on the first season of
RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
I don't even want to know how
you find these things.
This is.
Actually trending this.
Was a trending topic on Google.
It was #4.
Like many of the drag Queens on
the show, the Vivian was
unapologetically unique and
hilariously straight talking.
But she also had something more
pizzazz.
Pizzazz.
Pizzazz described by Judge
Michelle Visage.
Visage, I don't help him.
I don't help him say that.
As the best.
I imagine it's visage knowing
the industry.
Wow.
As the best Snatch Game
character in the history of the
show, it was the Vivian's
President Trump impression,
complete with pouted lips,
orange makeup, and a floppy
blonde wig in the Snatch Game
that won her the show.
The Win Game show The Wind
consolidated the Vivians
influence in the drag community,
and her career in the world of
TV and musical theater
flourished.
James Lee Williams, better known
as the drag queen the Vivian,
has died aged 32.
Publicist Simon Jones said the
performer, who died over the
weekend, was an incredibly
loved, warm hearted and amazing
person. 32.
The Vivian starred in the
musical theatre and TV
productions and won the first
series for RuPaul's Drag Race UK
in 2019.
The show paid tribute to the
drag star on social media,
saying they were deeply saddened
by the news of performer's
death.
Cheshire Police say there are no
suspicious circumstances
surrounding the performer's
death.
How'd What's the acronym?
How'd she die?
Apparently natural causes of
some sort 32 there was no there
no foul play.
So it's either going to be a
he's going to they're not sane,
but I'm thinking drug overdose,
heart attack, suicide.
I guess it could be.
Impaling SO.
Impaling.
Impaling or the sword fighter
too.
So which?
So was.
She was the number one drag star
in England.
Gotcha.
But she died.
He was.
So she wasn't on the Golden
Globes then, No.
No, no, she went on the Golden
Globes.
'Cause he said something about
Golden Globes, didn't he?
I I I love that.
Oh, you guys don't like that I
live now.
I didn't even.
Catch it.
So didn't even catch it.
So it was complete horseshit.
The Golden Globe part was.
Oh, didn't even hear it.
So he said that I go see, that's
why you watch.
I was going to say, that's why
you watch Golden Globes.
Because he died on the show?
No, I found him in his
apartment.
Because he did.
He did the drags.
Yeah, that's the Yeah.
Wow.
OK, Thirty way.
Too we 32.
Damn that's so young, that
sucks.
That doesn't.
Hey, hit the news.
Button.
This is new.
No, this is new too though.
OK, welcome to ACHB News, your
source for the latest updates in
the cigar world and beyond.
Here is our anchor, trusted
cigar media personality Mike
Palmer, bringing you the stories
that matter.
I think it's just a angry cigar
media.
I don't think so, yeah.
'Cause you're getting upset
about the Golden Coopers not
having any views.
It's a slow Newsweek.
There are only three stories.
You got three stories from the
news.
Three stories and more.
A lot of reviews again this
week.
Yeah, 'cause you're getting
towards like some of these guys,
they're doing their top 20 fives
and stuff still.
Right.
Did Cooper releases today?
I haven't seen today's.
No, I saw.
Yesterday with Espinoza.
Was it yesterday?
Yeah, the warhead.
No, no, the six.
Las Provincia.
Yeah, Las Provincia this year.
Well, that's two for him on
Coop, right, 'cause then you
have the warhead.
Warhead was on somebody else, I
think.
Two other Yeah, that was #9
right, yeah.
He hadn't done #8 yet.
He hasn't done #8 yet.
I like the I like Roma showing
down to herfs.
Yeah #15.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Roma hit on
down to Herf.
Yeah, the Mastranza, the early 1
number. 15 That's it.
Yeah, the pre release.
Was it 15 or 5?
15.
It better.
That's too low. 15 Pelican
Roselle.
They gave us a 91.
Catastrophic failure, yeah, but
we have yet to.
We better be number.
See their number?
No, their last one they
released.
They're also slow dragging it.
Everybody's slow dragging it
just put the damn things out.
Number six is EP Carrillo,
Encore, Black, Zeno.
I don't know what's going on.
You know, Buffalo they got.
Yeah.
That's some interesting taste.
Oh, number 14, Rocky Patel, Year
of the Dragon.
Oh, I saw that.
Can't wait to smoke that, sorry.
It's in a lovely box.
It's on the box.
Yeah, it is a nice box.
Lovely box, hey?
So what do you think of the
cigar?
It's a lovely, it's a lovely.
Box the sandwich.
Beautiful.
So let's make it #16 or
whatever, Let's do that.
Love the box so well.
Rained it in 90. 7 Did you smoke
it?
No, I would never smoke.
That no, I would never smoke.
It's rocky.
I like the box.
It's a great box soft.
Jason Newman releases the Jose
Gaspar 2025 cigar.
Jose.
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It's not Jose Jos with AE umlaut
on the E Yeah, No, it's Josie
now.
I mean, now Jose transitioned.
I don't think so.
Yeah.
No, it's Jose Pirate.
Yeah.
Can't transition.
He's dead.
RuPaul's Rat Queen, you can't
race.
He tweeted.
He tweeted Yeah, you don't tweet
UX now.
Is it still tweeting?
Do you still tweet?
I think they still call it
tweeting.
Oh.
No, it's X.
For the 4th consecutive year.
It's weird to say that you axed.
I axed it.
What do you mean you axed it?
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You know you should go check my
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If you axed it, that means you
axed it.
It's gone.
Yeah, you know.
What I mean you should go see my
XI have a lot of good X up
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You got to tweet it.
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For his it's his anniversary
today.
Happy anniversary, Luciano.
You're a big fan of the show,
I'm sure.
Anniversary of what?
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Oh. 12/12.
Years.
I'm not going to mess around
with that.
One, she probably doesn't know
his real name.
It's not really.
He probably doesn't know his
real name.
It's Lucy.
For the first time, the rapper
option is made at the company's
JC Newman Pensa factory in Esta
Lee, like previous releases, eat
cigars and MSRP of $8 and is
sold in packs of five.
They will only be sold at 17
locations around Tampa, not
here.
Not here, too far away.
Well, that makes sense.
JC Newman's.
The other guy together when he
was over the bridge.
Oh yeah.
So the bridge is the cut off.
Josie already has it.
The shy has it, no.
No, they the one, the one whose
name we do not.
See The Evil Empire.
Cigar Castle got it.
Yeah, fine purveyor of post
Nania cigars.
Yeah.
Can you hit that?
Can you hit your news button?
I need to hear that song one
more time please.
Boots the news or his butt, oh
his his give.
Me the Boots song.
I can make it longer.
No, it's perfect.
It's perfect.
I need to fade.
I need to.
Fade, yeah.
All right, the name Jose Gaspar
is a reference to the legendary
pirate who inspired the
Gasparilla Pirate Festival,
which is celebrated each year in
late January.
Josie.
Well, he might be one of the
most famous pirates in history,
and his own Wikipedia page.
There's little to no evidence
that he transitioned into a
field.
Golden Globes.
Each year at Tampa Place host to
a festival that begins each
January and lasts into March,
during which three major parades
and other smaller events take
place.
The Cao Amazon Basin gets a 2025
release.
Oh, so that's the end of the
that was the end of the Josie.
One you want to hear about.
He's the most feared pirate.
No, I don't believe that though.
That's the most feared pirate.
No, Yeah, no.
There, there.
There's no actual.
Just because it's on Wikipedia
doesn't mean it's true.
That's what my teachers always
told me.
There's little to no evidence
that there was actually a pirate
named Jose Gaspar.
So not only is he not the most
feared person, he probably
doesn't even exist.
Probably did not.
Exist.
No.
This is incredible.
It may have been created by JC
Newman, allegedly.
To make the cigar.
Well, for the whole festival.
JC Newman's behind the
conspiracy of the entire Cigar
Pirate thing could.
You imagine have you made-up a
well, I'm not going to teach you
guys this we.
We should make up a pirate for
Deltona.
Yeah, we should.
Not a pirate.
Let's see something else.
Can they?
Yeah, yeah, he'll.
Fight on the Pirates.
Let's do a moonshiner or
something.
Moonshiner.
Or gangster.
What?
What is Deltona famous for?
Anything.
Holmes, Spanish.
What over there Spanish people?
It is looking up.
They call it Del Rico.
He's got to have a Spanish name.
What?
He's got to have a Spanish name.
Then.
Oh, Jose Del Rico.
No, Jose's already been taken.
That's why we're going to copy
it.
We'll get the name recognition
when they go search it.
They search it on the Google
though it'll go to.
Josie.
Three names.
You put Josie?
Yeah, Josie Del Rico, a
transgender.
Yes, pirate.
No.
No, not pirate Moonshiner.
Josie Del Rico.
Drug dealer?
Yeah.
Drug dealer.
Drug dealer.
No, we need like some type of
revolutionary that happened in
Deltona that no one speaks
about.
Oh.
He's a drag.
He's a drag.
Gin maker.
Something something potent, you
know, like something where he
had to barricade off troops or
something.
Yeah.
Barricade off troops.
Yeah, it just saved.
Espionage.
He could be a.
Spy.
Yeah, yeah, CIA operative.
Escape from the the castle up in
Saint Augustine Fort.
Yeah, swam, swam from there.
Ended up in Deltona.
And we could start a parade.
Right.
And have a parade I.
Wouldn't take much.
We'd just go, you know what I
mean?
I just get in my car, right?
Couple of cars and wave a little
bit, right?
And then what is this for?
This is for Jorge.
No Josie.
No, Josie del Rico.
Josie del Rico This is for the
the.
Deltona Moonshiner, CIA
operative.
CIA operative back in the 1920s.
That saved Deltona.
So you got to go back further
than that. 1700s there's no CIA
and 1700s.
No, you just don't want people
to look it up 'cause you'd be
like, oh, of course it's not on
there, it's in the 7th.
What are you talking about?
You can make a Wikipedia page
we.
Could build a Wikipedia
overnight for this.
Sure not.
Free.
Not only not only could we build
a Wikipedia for overnight for
this, we could ChatGPT it and
have such a great story and and
put zero effort into it.
And then?
Then I could grok an image.
Right.
For Josie, there you go, the
transgender CIA.
Just put in the old timey.
Yeah, old timey photo.
Make it old.
Make it old looking.
I need AI need a a.
Perfect.
I need a transgender CIA
operative from the 1920s.
That's Spanish 1900s. 19 Early
early 1900s.
When did they first make
cameras?
I don't know when did when did
the CI what?
CIA was not found in 1920s.
No, just say spy.
Spanish spy.
Spanish spy OK?
Yeah, he spied on Juan Ponce de
Leon.
He.
I don't think they were cameras
when Juan Ponce de Leon.
You don't know you weren't
there, Juan.
Ponce de Leon.
That's his name.
That's his cousin you.
Don't know, Juan.
We've gone entirely off the
rails because of JC Newman's
first ever broadly fictitious,
broadly pirate cigar.
Yeah, Yeah.
We don't believe it.
I got to call JC.
Newman or just JC?
Just JC.
You call him JC and Newman,
right?
I call him JC and Newman.
Yeah, J for short.
Right, just J.
You want to know what his real
name is?
Jose Casparilla.
We have now gone full circle.
See that?
See that?
All right, the Cao Amazon Basin
gets a 220.
Get a 225.
A 2025 release.
For the second consecutive year,
there will be a shipment of
original Cao Amazon Basin thing,
apparently.
Found more of you mean to tell
me they found more that they
went back into the Amazon, Yes.
And they found this tobacco
again, more roped, and they
traded some more goats for this
very rare tobacco.
Since 2014.
They've been doing this, yes.
They must have Wi-Fi down there
by now.
Or a good relationship.
This is incredible.
Well, they probably have Elon
Musk's.
Starlink.
They have the Starlink going.
Starlink.
Amazon, based in debuted in
2014, is a limited edition
cigar, but it's popularity has
meant that general cigar
companies brought it cigar back
for subsequent shipments over
the years.
So limited.
So limited that we've been doing
it now for 8:00.
Years we can continue to get.
It 10 years. 11 years, dude.
02025 yeah, now it's 11, yeah.
We've done it again.
We've found it 6 by 52 Toro
incorporated in Ecuador and
Sumatra seed wrapper, Nicaraguan
binder and fillers grown in the
deepest of Brazil, Colombia and
the Dominican Republic.
Boots.
Hit the boots button again for.
Me, please.
However, the highlight of the
blame is a Brazilian fiddler.
Very rare.
Which includes a tobacco called.
La ropa de.
Braganca, Braganca, oh What
General says can only be
harvested every three years.
And yet here we are producing it
every year.
Every year for the last 11.
Years.
It's incredible.
The tobacco plants are spaced
out further apart from one
another than normal, the company
says.
A full yard, lot of room.
Full yard.
Full yard.
You think anybody's branca pre
reading these things after they
make them up?
What do we are talking about?
The Branca.
And once harvested, the leaves
are rolled into tubes called
karate.
Tuba.
For six months of aging, General
says the tobacco was in shipped
out of the rainforest via
canoes.
OK, so why does it take three
years if the tobacco grows?
Have you ever?
Seen a canoe, Michael?
They're very slow.
Oh, is that why?
Yes, that's why it takes three
years.
They're shipped in canoes.
They don't.
Even have paddles they use their
hands.
They use the tubes.
Do you have a canoe?
I just so happened to bring
several canoes with me in order
to.
Facilitate well, they get the
villagers.
Thank God, villagers.
They have a group that just
makes canoes.
Just the canoe makers.
Just the canoe makers, yeah, for
the, they have the plant
growers, the spacer.
They have guys that are three
feet tall that lay down between
the plants.
Oh, this is a yard.
This is a yard 3 feet lay down
here and then they have guys, we
need more canoes the it's
backing up over here in the
tubes.
So instead of the measurement of
a yard, it's like the
measurements Danny DeVito.
'S it's a midge.
Yeah, it's a midge.
They are exactly 1 Danny DeVito
apart.
One midge, yes.
Of note, when the cigar was
first released in 2014, the
blend was described as having
Brazilian and Nicaraguan tobacco
in the filler.
General has released a number of
Amazon lines extensions,
including the Amazon Fumo
Encorda.
Yeah, that's the burning rope.
The limited Yeah.
The Cao Amazon Anaconda, The big
one.
That's the big one.
Don't want none unless you got
buns Hon right?
And the Cao Orleana?
What's Orleana?
That is Jose Gasparilla's great,
great, great, great grandson.
Yeah, 16. 100 Orleana sounds
like a big girl.
Yeah, you know, he went well
originally.
Oh, yeah.
And then later.
Oh, he transitioned too.
All family, yeah.
It's a thing.
It's a thing.
The MSRP for the news release of
the Amazon basin is set at 1449
per cigar, an increase of $0.20
price of canoes.
You got to go up a little canoes
what you're saying.
Compared to last year's release
when they you know, the canoes
were cheaper.
When the limited when the
limited edition that only comes
out every three years that came
out last year.
Comes out every year, prices
change.
It was a little bit less
general.
It's not say exactly how many
cigars are shipping, but they
are being made of the STG Esta
Lee and Nicaragua, and the
packaging for the line remains
unchanged.
Coiled tobacco in lieu of a
standard paper band, and the
boxes are intentionally designed
to look rustic.
That's just like the last ones.
When we launched the Amazon
basin over a decade ago, we had
no idea how much it would
resonate with the fans.
Tell me it's Justin Andrews.
Said Justin Andrews, brand
managers of Diesel.
In a press release.
Sourcing rare tobacco from the
rainforest, transporting it by
canoe and growing it on
unspoiled land was a logistic
nightmare, it said Justin
Andrews.
But we knew the end result was a
cigar worth the effort that
Justin Andrews we're thrilled to
bring back the special blend for
2025 because we have so many and
the answer the calls for the
more Amazon basin.
The shipment for the Amazon
Basin expect to arrive on
shelves this month.
When the canoes arrive in the
past, any indication that there
will only be released of Amazon
Basin for OH in the past is in
the past is any indication this
will be the only release of the
Amazon Basin 2025 until next
year when we release the Amazon
basin 2020.
Six in January.
In January of next year, yeah.
Because it's a three-year
process.
When the canoes always arrive in
January.
The only reason why we can get
away with the one every year
release leave.
It's three years because of
osmosis.
Yes, yeah, sure.
It makes sense, right?
Stork Club name returns for
Cigar concept.
Who?
What Stork Club?
Stork Club.
Stork the bird?
Yeah, the one that brings the
babies.
Yeah, there's a club of them.
They're they've gotten together.
And started a club they've
assembled and they're making
their their cigar like, Oh no, I
know, here we go.
OK, OK, so this is how I'm
getting this right before you
even go further.
Birds.
Yes, storks.
Yes, bring babies.
Bring.
Babies.
Yes.
Got together, yes.
Cigar, Yes.
OK.
Stork Club.
It's a boy cigar.
I'll be it, not the Stork Club.
It's not even the Stork Club.
But it's back.
OK, that makes sense.
Landmark Hospitality, which
operates bars, restaurants and
hotels in New Jersey, New York,
PA, has brought back the Stork
Club.
Not the Stork Club.
That's not name, just the name.
Just the name.
The club's not back, just the
name of the club as part of the
company's cigar program.
The Store Club, the actual Club
right, was an iconic Manhattan
nightclub that operated from
1929 to 1965.
OK.
When Jose Del Rico was working.
When he was a operating spy.
Due to its prime Midtown
location and Sherman
Billingsley's reputation for
showering celebrities with
gifts, Who's Sherman
Billingsley?
I don't know.
Sherman Billingsley.
Is that Missus Billingsley?
Sounds, guys, sound swanky.
Does and he like to give gifts?
It was a celebrity for oh, he
was a celebrity for movie stars,
monarchs and more.
Today, the club's location is
Paley Park, a private park named
after Samuel Paley, the founder
of La Polina 0.
Yeah.
Landmark has brought back the
name for a variety of different
uses.
First, the company's four cigar
lounges are called the Stork
Club, but not the Stork Club.
OK, 1/5 Lounge is scheduled open
soon.
Second, there's a Stork Club
cigar club.
Again, not the same.
Not the same or the lounge.
This is different, A membership
program.
Third, there are Stork Club
branded cigars.
Again, not part of the original
Columbia.
It's still not the same, yeah.
The company.
It's a totally different set of
storks is what you're saying
correct?
Yeah, the company is partnered
with Kingsmaker Cigars to launch
the Stork club #53 a 6 by 52
Toro with a Mexican San Andreas
wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder
and Nicaraguan fillers.
It has an MSRP $15 per cigar.
Will only be sold at Landmark
Stork Club lounges.
Again, got it.
Just a lounge, Not the club got
it.
And kingmakers website.
So basically you can get
anywhere you want.
So it's only exclusively at this
store unless you have Internet.
Correct.
OK.
All right.
Just making sure kingmakers and.
Apparently there are 52 failures
of it, that's why they went with
the 53.
Yeah, the 53 was the good one.
Because even if they wanted, I
mean they could have made it the
52 and then at least would have
matched the ring gauge of the
cigar.
But why would correct do that?
It wasn't any good, yeah, but I
mean, they could have not have
told somebody.
Yeah, Boots, hit your song
again, yes.
This guy was a bootlegger.
I love that Del Rico.
Jose Del.
Rico, Jose del Rico, the
Billingsley.
You looked him up.
The company has its own brand,
but also partnered with WNBAWNBA
star Kelsey Plume and Midland, a
Country Brand, a country band
for private label Sugar.
You got to respect the
bootlegger.
A bootlegger is like the drug
dealer back in the 20s.
Right my my great uncle was a
bootlegger.
Yeah, and you got to respect the
drug dealer that gives out
turkeys for Christmas and stuff.
Sure.
I saw, I saw that, but it wasn't
a Turkey, it was a irky.
Billings Billingsley.
That's what this Billingsley guy
did.
He gave out gifts.
He didn't give out turkeys.
He gave out baby gifts.
I bet you he gave out.
That's what it's called the
store club.
If he gave you Baby a gift, you
were in the club.
He gave you a baby gift?
Yes.
No, Turkey.
No.
Maybe a stork?
Oh, slightly.
You could eat stork.
Is that a real animal?
I think it was popular by IS.
Stork, a real animal.
Yes.
Thank you.
Thank.
You so much play the music.
Thank you so much that music One
more is.
It a real 1.
Have you ever seen the Stork?
Yeah.
Didn't they bring your kids?
They brought my kids.
Wow.
Wow, that look are storms real
birds?
He will be a household name, he
continues.
Down this this path it's going
to happen it.
Will you will?
Oh, he was married to Leave It
to Beaver actress.
Barbara Billingsley.
That's where I knew the name.
Makes.
Sense now it does not.
That was your favorite show when
you were a child?
How did Ward feel about this?
Who's that?
Her husband on the show?
I.
Don't know.
He's probably not happy about
it.
But you know what?
He actually got hooked up with
booze because he hooked up with
the drug dealer of the 20s.
That's right.
Yeah.
Love that.
All right, it's all I got.
I got.
No, that's it.
Yes.
All right.
You just gave up on La Polina's
52 Historic yadda, the end of
the story.
Who's your shop of the week,
buddy?
I have a listener of the week.
You have a listener of the week.
But not a shop of the.
Week you don't have a shop of
the week because they're all
busy not buying stuff in
December.
End of December.
Where'd it go?
I just saw it.
James Garcia.
Yeah, he's Listening of the
Week.
He's listening of the week.
Yes, we already made his shop.
Shop of the Week?
We did, yes.
So you got a Shop of the week?
Let's do No, no, I'm sorry.
Listen to the week is Jack
Terano.
I'm sorry.
We have a double.
We have a double.
There was a tie.
There was a tie.
There was a tie.
Jack Terano's Listen to the
week.
Espinosa Cigars is the brand of
the week also.
So many guns.
Yeah, so many guns, So many
guns.
Are we covering the one story?
What's the one story?
The one you were going to check
on, I don't.
Know what you're talking about?
It's Monday, it's at the end of
the show.
If we don't want to do it, just.
Cut it out.
John Carney?
Oh no, we haven't talked to him
yet.
I knew I should have reached out
to him myself.
What do you want from me?
Very busy.
No, you're not.
You're sending me emails, you're
giving me busy things to do.
Oh, you're getting mad about
that?
I was just sending it to you.
Oh, listen.
Start being taken care of.
Fucking hey then also.
Take care of it this morning.
Look at you.
Oh, we got to talk about the
other thing, but we'll talk
about after the show, all right,
This is an episode 369.
The lights in front of the
number now of ACHP.
Yeah, it's the Cigar Hustler's
podcast.
We don't see the name.
Anymore we can say the name
still.
No, we're calling it ACHP.
Yeah, rebranding.
ACHP.
ACHP that way.
Thank you so much.
I was going to ask for it.
Oh God, that's so amazing.
It just makes me feel so much
better.
I'm going to have to loop that.
I'm just going to, you know,
keep.
It make it your ring tone.
Yeah, I just want it all the
time.
Sounds like the beginning of a
poker song.
I just need it in my life.
I forget the name was it is
approved YouTube Music.
Nice.
We're only doing approved
YouTube Music for now.
Strictly approved YouTube.
Strictly approved YouTube.
I like that.
Are we still recording?
Yes, we are.
Oh yeah.
Turn off.
We're done.
Thanks.
Bye.
Bye bye.
Show Notes
Episode Description: In Episode 369, we bring you the latest from the cigar world, featuring major releases and industry news. J.C. Newman drops the highly anticipated José Gaspar 2025 cigar, CAO reintroduces the Amazon Basin for 2025, and the Stork Club brand makes a bold return in a new cigar concept. We also dive into the headlines, from hairstylist Now-shen Fair-a-geez's explosive $1.5 million lawsuit against Skip Bayless, to the shocking reports that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau may soon resign amid plummeting poll numbers. Plus, we recap the Detroit Lions’ thrilling victory over the Minnesota Vikings, propelling them to the #1 seed, and take a look at the buzz around the upcoming Golden Globes. Get ready for a packed episode full of hot topics!