ACHP New Cigars, Reviews & Industry News | CHPOD 635

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Oh shoot, that's right. That's me. That's still not you. I got him rattled.

I got him rattled. I came in hot. I got Keanu. What's wrong?

He's like, you're not mad at me though. Are you on fire? You're not mad at me, oh my god, oh my god. You're not mad at me, oh, you want to get that?

You want to get that? The McGuffey ring. Oh my goodness. This is...

Oh my gosh. Is it the cat? It's the cat. Yeah, it's the cat.

I'm not dead, I'm like Christina Pai. We're here. Meow, meow. One.

Two. Yeah, you better speed that up. You're at three. Okay, perfect.

Uh, go. You gotta put the camera on me. You gotta put the camera on me. You gotta put the camera on me.

Oh my god. It's a terrible start and it's not even my fault. Can you guys stop messing with the font size? No, I don't have to read in one letter at a time.

Then put it back where you found it. No. Yes. Fine.

I will actually respect that for you. Thank you. Welcome to a Cigar Hustler Podcast. Premium cigars, unfiltered opinions and conversations that can go anywhere.

I'm your host, Mike BDP Palmer, and as today's co-host, there we go. Today's co-host, the busiest man in cigars, Mike the King, Szczepan Kiewicz. Am I? I'm the busiest man in cigars?

Yeah, he is the busiest man, period. I don't feel that way. Is that not the accurate? " What's the name of the lion?

Let's not say it's a slum attacking pencil. Is it going to blow up when it arrives? Is that what you're saying? We're starting off strong, guys.

No, he's got a new movie that says, I blew more than a hurricane. I blew more than Isaiah's? Well, I wasn't using the name. Yeah.

Just a hurricane in general. So, back with us, his younger, more attractive brother, Mr. Tim McGuffey. That's what they say.

That's what they say. That's what Mama says. Mama McGuffey. Better buttons.

That's right. Better buttons. From cigars, sports, and business to pop culture in the wildest headlines, if it's worth discussing, we're going to talk about it. No safe space, it's just real perspectives, big laughs, and chaos at any moment.

Settle in and welcome to a Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Dun, dun, dun, dun. You know the funny part is about Phil, though, is Phil is going to blame us for him. Like, oh, they pushed me out.

Right. They replaced me. They replaced me. That's exactly how this plays out.

Yeah, they brought in somebody else. They brought in my brother Tim. You know, what choice did I have? They just kind of split the burger.

Right. I mean, he was just telling somebody last week that it was his podcast. He runs a podcast. Today on the Cigar Hustlers podcast, is Ozempic putting the Publix Bakery on a diet?

Ozempic? Yeah. Ozempic. We've got a death row update that raises more questions than answers.

Okay. And a cat theft story that'll have you checking the pet door. Okay. Plus, Nub Heads to Mexico, Pledge goes purple, and Viva La Vida lets fans pick its next factory.

Okay. Let's light up and stick around, we're just getting started. Let's, okay, I can't wait to get to that one. But Michael, what, what?

People are gonna love me after that. People. What's going on with what? You tell me.

With the people? With the people? With the peoples, what are the people saying? Well, first of all, first of all, did you watch yesterday's episode?

I just edited it. So no. Is it a yes or a no? No, I didn't.

I only watched the shorts. There are no shorts. My version of the shorts, I watched the beginning, and then I watched the end, and I took your problem out in the middle, so I watched part of the middle. So it's at 45 minutes.

Yeah, but you have to find it. It's not really 45 minutes. So, no. No, I did not watch the show.

You didn't watch it? No, no. I did get a recap from Tim in the afternoon. Alright, I can't fix the font if you can't watch the show.

Deal. Okay. Because yours is minutes, mine's at least an hour. Yours is not an hour.

It's not an hour. If I watch the show, it's an hour. No, it's not. Why not?

It's an hour-long show. It's 2X. It's 30 minutes. I don't watch it fast.

It gives me a headache. You don't have to watch it. You just gotta listen to it. Same thing.

Listen to your boy, Jason. Jason tells you. Jason who? Jason Samuelson?

Did you hear that? Which Jason? Did you hear that? Which Jason?

I know more than one Jason. Which Jason? Which Jason watches it at 2X? Oh, yeah, yeah.

That Jason watches it at 2X. - I talked to him yesterday. - Was that a 2X? My God.

- Is he doing alright? - Yeah, he had nasal surgery. - Is he breathing okay now? - Yeah, but he still sounds a little nasally.

- He sounds a little nasally. - Well, he looks like Richard. - Yeah. - Over at Cigars on the Ave.

- Okay. - So, I showed Richard a picture of him yesterday. I go, "Look, this isn't weird. " - He looks like you could be brothers.

- Right. - Yeah. - So, I took the picture. He was very nice, posed with me.

And then I made a side-by-side thing, and I sent it, and Richard thought they looked similar, and Jason said, no, no, he's got better hair, and he doesn't look like me. He's like, he's very handsome, wait a second, wait a second, um, yeah, so, you need to watch the show. Okay, I will watch, I will turn it on and listen to it today down here. Well, it's better because then you can carry on, like, the conversations and stuff.

- Oh, the stuff you guys referenced from the previous show. - Yeah, exactly. - We don't do a lot of that, though. - It happens all the time.

- I kind of barely forgot. I barely remember what we talked about yesterday. - But that's fair, 'cause you lived it. You get a pass.

- Okay, thank goodness. - You know what I mean? - How did you get a pass? 'Cause he lived it.

- He lived it. - But he doesn't remember it. - That's okay. He's a teenager.

You know how these teenagers are. - That's in the McGuffey clan. It's a curse. - In the meantime, like and subscribe wherever you want to listen to this show.

Oh, damn it. I forgot the skull, it's upstairs. Oh, I don't know what to tell you. Need to run upstairs?

I can text Jake. He's in the middle of a photo shoot. Is it not done yet? Jake caught a brief amount of me too.

" It's just fucking fodder. Can we do the skull tomorrow? And then I curse at six minutes. I'll text them, see what, you know.

Okay, so, if it, it may happen, if it may happen, but look, there's a skull, okay, here's a skull, and it's got a P on it. I can add a photo. It's got the Postanya logo, okay, and, alright, that's fine, and here's what's happening. We are personally going to give away one on our Patreon.

There may be something inside of it, but I'm not going to say what it is because, you know, you know what I mean. We're not sure. I can't say it. There may be, though.

It's possible that something is inside. We're going to give a couple of these away to some other media guys, maybe a couple of retailers. I don't know, a couple of retailers that are listening. If you're listening, if you're paying attention, and you say, "Hey, I'd like one," maybe you'll get one.

" And I'm like, "Well, did you listen to the podcast? " So, hey! Ha! So I know that Creekside's going to get one.

I know that Epicure & Smoke's going to get one. I know that my boy Michael Z is going to get one, they can give him away for giveaways. There's something inside. So, yes.

So if you want to partake in hours, you've got to be a Patreon member, okay? Oh, nice. Yes. But I forgot, in a fit of rage upstairs.

In a fit of, there's rage upstairs. I did text Jake. I was like, if you have a second, bring it down, please. " Do you need to talk again?

He didn't, uh, he didn't even do anything wrong. I'm sure he did somewhere. I like it when, uh, when everybody gets nervous around us, when we fight. Current bids, we have no idea, Mask is holding fast at $81, and the Melted Bear, by the time this thing airs, it would have ended, and right now it's at $61 hairs.

I was gonna say, it's gotta be close. Yeah, so, um, there's no additional comments on that one. And there's -- da-da-da-da-da-da. Lance says let's play.

He's dominant. He's winning. He's in the space right now. Let's see what happens there.

Could be interesting. Could come to a fine finish, but we've got some time on that guy. It's got like 23 days out. So, some comments from the lounge, from our previous episode.

" Do you know what we're talking about? Yeah, he doesn't mind the $5. See my point? So what's the $5?

I was talking about, like, our sticker run. Right. At this point, we're net negative. Ah.

So, what we can do moving forward is we can raise the price to $5 with the average of what we're selling, And he said he doesn't mind paying $5 for a sticker. What if we found a place that did just as good, but we don't have to buy as many? I mean, that's possibly... Because I think that's most of the problem.

Yeah. The quantity that we had to purchase. I mean, it would still be nice to kind of finish in the black. Well, right.

But if we didn't buy so much, maybe it would have been... He's banging on the door. Oh. There he is.

There he is. Hi, Jake. Hi, Jake. Thanks, Jake.

Have a good day. Thanks, Chucky. Chucky, have a good day. Bye, guys.

Yeah. So, I don't want to abandon the stickers. We just got to figure out how to do better at it. Right.

Well, that's what I was saying. Yeah. @CW683 also says, "I've really enjoyed the text messages I've had with Steve. " Ah, that's good.

He is. Well, also, what you don't know is that we had a pretty in-depth conversation about all the different He's talking about all the different things that are going on and been updated and the text messaging platform that's officially live on the site, it's no longer just manual punching. Steve showed me the day before yesterday. It's wild.

Or yesterday afternoon. It had to be yesterday afternoon because I turned it on. Yeah, when I came in to pick up the hard drive. It's so cool.

It did look like it. It's so cool. Actually, it's truly exciting. Like from what Keanu's told me, he's really excited about it.

Yeah, and I got to ask Keanu if he wants it on his phone or not. Because it can be on his phone, we'll build a login, and then what's even cooler is you can build parameters for when the notifications turn on and off for you. So if you didn't want a late night notification or whatever, like the rest of a Psycho Pass, that's perfectly acceptable, right? And you can just put it on from like 10 to 10 or whatever.

This is awesome. Yeah, it's awesome. It's pretty cool. That way, it never gets missed while you're working.

While Keanu's working. Right, right, right. The other guy. @Rookscoding says, "I have a free ad blocker for YouTube on my laptop, so for anything I watch, no ads, but was shocked when I was watching something on Netflix and I got an ad.

" You know, Adrian and I were just talking about that the other day, because our Netflix also gets ads. Just about every streaming service we do has ads, we were talking like, we're paying for this, but yet we still have to have an ad. Yeah. It doesn't seem...

It's insane. Yeah. I mean, I guess there's higher tiers where you don't get, but then you're just paying more. Right.

A big annoyance for me is when I use Hulu, I think, did I say this yesterday? I can't remember. I don't know. So a big annoyance for me is like, it'll say like, oh, well, this is not a part of your household, which, okay, sure, if I'm at, like, my girlfriend's house, right?

Right. Okay. That makes sense. Right.

Right. But the thing is, it says it in my own bedroom on my own TV. Like, this is a new TV. And I'm like, no, it's not.

No, it's not. This is the same TV I've been using. We used to get that for Netflix when we had somebody else's account. Right.

This is my own. That's the thing. We just got rid of Hulu because we weren't using it. Yeah.

What I hate about Hulu, the commercial volume is 10X. It's louder. Yeah, it is. Whatever you're watching.

It's like, we want to make sure you hear this because, you know, you stepped out of the room. Yeah, you got to crank those movies and stuff or whatever. And then once it gets the, yeah, yeah, it really is. Which is not okay.

So now I can't even keep up with the Kardashians anymore. That's right. That's the biggest downfall. They're also on Peacock, aren't they?

I don't know. I was just kidding. Ooh, what about a spin-off called Keeping Up with the Step on Kevages? Sounds amazing.

Sounds like a nightmare. A lot of sports. A lot of sports. A lot of sports.

Random yelling at the children for no apparent reason. " Maybe because I wasn't on the show yesterday? I have no idea. I don't either.

Or maybe because I, I, never mind. Uh, Lance from the CH Pod Lounge says, "I would still purchase the stickers for five dollars. Great show. The updates to the website have been amazing.

" Thanks, bud. I appreciate that. Yeah, keep, we keep plugging away, you know, it's so funny now because like as this, as this one's progressing and it's becoming like more and more polished, now you look back at the wholesale and you're like, oh, we should, we need to redo this. Right.

Like this can be better too now. Like we need, we'll go back this way. I'm like, wait, wait, hold on. Oh, that's why it sounds weird.

It's fallen off in the Goomer. It's erect. Oh, just like yesterday. What is with all this penis reference today?

Are you okay? What other penis? Well, you complimented mine on the screen, and now you're over there making erect comments about you. It's lovely.

BDP, there it is. How do you not acknowledge BDP? It's an attitude, not a measure. Oh, wait, are you telling us something about your size?

Are you saying that it's... Average. Minuscule? Just average.

Small? Average. That's right, downright average, that's right. Average, not small.

P, P-D-P? P-D-P? Petite? No, it's not Petite.

It's not Petite. Okay, this next cigar is going to be a little Cortito. Oh, that'll be adorable. A little like a Wiesolito type thing.

I think it should be like one inch, 54 gauge. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Right.

Yeah. That'll be good. It's called a P-D-P-O-L-E-T-O. There's a hyphen.

Lance also says, "Where is the king of the CH-Pod mask? Bidding against him is 85% of the fun. I'm calling him out to bid. Let's have some fun.

Uh-oh. Don't wake him up. That is a C-dub call out. That is a C-dub call out.

If you don't want the mask, you know. But there's plenty of time on that mask, just for the record. Might come in and snipe it at the end. If there's a buy now button, it'd already be sold.

Oh, yeah. 100%. At $700. $700.

Oh, shipping. How are you going to get it to you? We're going to have to hire somebody to drive that somewhere. Exactly.

At David Hasselhoffman says, "That mask may be too masculine for tomorrow. " Completely not, actually. It fits perfectly fine. It's completely fine.

Can we, I, this is, this reoccurring thing is just upsetting. But I did it to myself, too. It's a thing now. It's a thing.

Yeah, it's a thing. It'll fade out, but it'll be happening for a little bit. You know, I was told that something else will eventually fade out, so, you know, girlfriend was like, yeah, once in a while I like this type of food for just a couple months, and that's, I just get obsessed with that, I need it all the time. I'm like, okay, cool, we're going on two years now that she needs this food pretty consistently.

What's the food? Chinese food. Hot pot and/or Korean barbecue, which is normally, I dig it, I could dig it, but when you have it, like, three times a week, four times a week, and it's not exactly the cheapest thing? The cheapest thing?

Yeah, now I know why you're poor. I didn't say, it's kind of expensive. That's what I'm saying. Now we have an agreement where I'm like, okay, here's the agreement.

If we're gonna go, I'm not paying anymore, 'cause this is ridiculous. I'm shutting down. Yeah. Start forgetting your wallet.

'Cause the worst part is, at the Hot Pot, she just eats the corn and broccoli in the broth. She doesn't even get the meat, doesn't get the noodles. Oh, would they charge you for it? That's what I'm saying.

It's like, you could do this at home, and it's not the same, she says, anyway. It's not the same. So does she opt in for grill, or for the soup? I, because she knows that I do not like the soup, well, you know, it's just, I don't know, I prefer.

So you make it worse. Because I'm like, can I just do the Korean barbecue, please? Because, yeah, because you have to, because it's, then it's for both. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.

Can't get it for one. Oh, because you'd share the food. Well, that's if we go to, uh, if it's K-Pod, and there's Bulgogi House, which I highly recommend, really, really good food. Their AC is not the best, I will say, and you will smell really bad after leaving.

But it's just Korean barbecue, and that place is very, very good. Are you saying that Korean food smells bad? I think he's saying you smell like Korean food when you leave. Yeah, just like you smell like pure Korean barbecue.

We went to Cape Hot. I think I figured out the hack to it. There's a particular meat, like a really thin meat that I'll just cook the hell out of that and I'll just eat that and it's perfect. But like the floor was so slick.

It is. It really is. Like what is going on here? Yeah.

They spill the oil. I guess. Whatever. Etch the floor.

I don't know, something. Yeah. They wax that thing nightly, I guess. I don't know.

I just think it's just the grease and steam in the air or whatever. Yeah. Now they have those things that come down that take out the smoke, but even then. Vents?

Yeah, the vents. The things that take out the smoke? Yeah. I mean, I guess the vent, yeah.

You mean the fans and vents? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all right. Yeah, but yeah.

Anyway. Take the little rubber duckies from the bathtub that you put on the bottom of the bathtub when you go, You just toss 'em on the floor the way you like to walk? So, what you doing? It's slippery, I'm trying, I'm stepping on the ducks.

Oh, we know I like you. Michael Z says, "I'm all for a $5 sticker, you are killing it with the updates. " Thank you very much, bro, I appreciate that. Dude, if you ever have any questions or anything I can do to help you, just let me know.

You know, once you start going down the rabbit hole, though, dude, it's... It's forever consuming at Chris Weiss says, at Lance, I had to take a step back mainly because my wife said it's her or the masks no I'm not putting another one on Christopher say your name, call your name, say Phil say this is Phil say this is Phil say this is Phil he's got one of those little clappers wave the thing around. Oh, that's awesome. Please say your Tamara, please.

Chris Weiss says, also says, oh, from the CH Pod Lounge, by the way, and Michael Z was also from the CH Pod Lounge. I have to say, the King did a damn fine job running the show, and of course, Triple G brings a different kind of swagger to the podcast. And yes, little Phil is also killing it on the boards. Little Phil.

Another thing, I would do Powstanie Proud with the tattoo, no rinky-dink ink for me, to be continued. Ooh. Hey, just be careful with that image because there's some extra claws on that one paw. Yeah, he's got like nine fingers.

Yeah. I didn't notice it. I didn't either. Front left foot.

Yeah, front left foot. Keanu mentioned something about it. He told me about it too, yeah. Yeah.

Well, you're in the group chat, so. Well, Tim isn't in the group chat. I thought Tim was in the group chat. Tim's in the group chat?

I thought he was. Somebody's in it. Is it time to put Phil out of the group chat? Not yet.

Not yet. Couple consecutive weeks of him not showing up. Right. And then, yeah.

" Wow. Triple G, Triple G, Triple G, Triple G, the show is better with Tim. Oh, you guys. Look at that.

So sweet. Look at that. Look at that. T-Money from the CH Pod Lounge says, "Sticker Mule produces really high-end stickers.

" They don't fade or crack like other brands. I love stickers. I mean, that'd be awesome if that works. Yeah?

I felt like we looked at that and it... Their mass quantities are more expensive, but if you wait on the specials, you know, like we could do a sticker only when they send something out. And they're always something different. Sometimes they're cut, sometimes they're reflective, sometimes they're 3D.

Well, I don't mind buying them and paying the premium. I think that I just need the ability to make less than a hundred, for starters, you know, even if they're still five bucks at that point, you know, and, you know, you got two, three dollars into it, you're, I just don't want to be stuck holding stickers. Right, right, we're gonna have ghost stickers, no matter what we charge them, we're gonna have ghost stickers. Yeah, yeah, so we should sell them to Cigar Hustler and they can put them in the, uh, I can assure you they're eventually gonna find their way I just don't get into that swag vault, you know what I mean?

Ah, gotcha. Yeah. H. Pod Lounge.

H. Pod Lounge also says: T-Money, 100% agree with Sticker Mule. Another company uses them in the industry, and I'm surprised they didn't ask them about it. Hmm.

I don't know what that means. I'm guessing maybe Aroma Crab? Maybe Aroma uses Sticker Mule? Maybe.

Hmm. That would make sense. They have good stickers. I just don't, you know.

What would you say the, like, how many would you prefer to order? Like, I don't know, 30 to 50? I think that's, yeah, I think that's fair. 30 to 50?

I'd rather run out. Yeah. Yeah, than have some left? Than have surplus.

Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? And then, like, at that point, like, let's say we consistently made 30 and they all sold, they all sold, they all sold, then you'd raise it to 40. Right.

You know? But something like the ghost is a seasonal thing. Mm-hmm. So, you know, when Halloween's done, they're not gonna move like they would before or during Halloween.

Yeah, but, again, same scenario. You know, like, when it's new, I want that average to be whatever it is, and then I want it to go away. I like to sunset things. I like to, you know, I don't want them, I don't want to say, hey, we sold 10 stickers, you know, the BDP stickers this month, so, you know, no, no, I want to make them, then I want them gone.

Right. Because then that opens the door for more creative. Sure. Right?

" Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good job on that one, Tim. I heard, you told me about that yesterday. Yeah.

Mistakenly put him on the wrong chair. It happens. Well, they shouldn't be on any chair at that point. Well, they should have, oh yeah, yesterday, because you were, you were over here.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Just on complete setup mode, you know.

Yeah. You also gotta tell me when I'm ashy, when I got ash all over me. Uh, okay. Better now.

Yep. If you want to hear comment riddle out on this show, comment below on this YouTube page or on the CH Pod Lounge. I thought, I thought there was, I thought there was one more comment that wasn't on YouTube. I thought, I saw Keanu maybe comment to something on YouTube.

Did you? I didn't comment. Yeah, I hear you always miss that one. Yeah, I saw it too.

I didn't comment. I just saw that Keanu comment. I saw Keanu's comment too. Right.

Okay, let me go check again. Weird. He keeps on sneaking by the other. Yeah, I guess I missed it.

@KeanuRespo5674 says, "Tim, Phil's with me until I get payment. " Oh no. Tim's, he's got Phil? He's got Phil.

He's got Philly? He has Phil in his possession apparently. Oh my God. Oh.

So he's not doing a porno in the hurricane? Well, he's upset about the whole fluffing thing and not receiving payment. Yeah. Shoot.

Okay. Oh, gosh. Don't pay. I know.

I don't want to pay. Don't pay. Let him have him. Yeah.

You might. Yeah. Listen. I think that you might be at that point.

You know what I mean? Should I just tell him to keep Phil? I just say, maybe just tell him like, look, I don't have the money. Do what you got to do.

Do what you want with him? He's going to come out with him? Yeah. Yeah.

You've got to do what you've got to do. He's got to get his payment one way or another, this guy, I guess, you know? Oh, take it out of Phil. Yeah.

Yeah. He's either going to get the check or he's going to use Phil in whatever way he needs. Yeah. Wow.

Okay. Is he the one filming the video in Pensacola? Maybe it's a forced video now. I don't know.

Yeah. I don't know. It could be, you know. Wow.

This is how Keanu's getting paid. He's making Phil do a movie. Yeah. I got to consult the McGuffey clan and see what they say.

Yeah. Mom and Dad, McGuffey? It's complicated. It's not quite Mom and Dad.

It's an established McGuffey hierarchy, if that makes sense. Right. Yeah. Are you writing this stuff down?

No, no. It seems a little involved. Why would I write any of this down? This is just, this is my...

Well, it's your life, but in case something happens to you and we have to, you know, explain what's going on. This is 634 or whatever it is. 635? This is 635.

Yeah, keep that in mind. There you go. Right that time. Yeah, the machine keeps track now.

There we go. Okay, well, you're at 25 minutes, buddy. Oh, uh. So pick like one or two news articles.

Do you wanna? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah, do that. I can't really.

Don't throw it. I'll come to you. Don't worry. Get off me now.

Alright, then just very quickly, we'll skip through this one. Publix is shutting down a couple of stores because people eat less because everybody's taking Ozempic. Oh. I mean, there's Publix on every street corner.

They are closing some. Yeah, at some point, you had to realize that this didn't make sense. 7 billion, they were only up 1%. Yeah, I mean, look, I stopped going to the one Publix because the other Publix was a block closer.

You know what I mean? Right, from where we live, we have a choice of three. Yeah, me as well. I can do this one, this one, or this one.

Or we can do two Aldi's and a Walmart grocery store. It's like the Shrek movie, where the guy smashes the Starbucks, and they run across the street into the next Starbucks. Like, that's what happened with Publix. Yeah, and I have a favorite, and Adrian has a favorite, and they're not the same.

Oh, really? Yeah, it's like, we're going to the store, you want to go to my Publix or your Publix? Yeah, well, we used to name one, we had one called The Good Publix. Ah, yes.

But that one has been superseded by the new Publix. Ah, when we lived over in Deltona, that was it. We had The Good Publix up on Saxon, that corner there. We had that corner there.

And then we had the old Publix, which was actually closer. Right. Who wants to go to that one? Yeah, who wants to go to that one?

Well, they knew us there. We'd shopped there for five years. So when you walk in, they're like, "Hey, guys. How you doing?

" Like, "Yeah, this is dirty. " Yeah. Just so you know. There it is.

Turn it. There you go. And it may open up. Don't show what it's done.

It may open up. Oh, there's nothing now. I can't show you. Oh, oh.

There is something inside. Oh. I can't show you what it is, though. It may or may not be something.

And it's got these little thingies, so you can hang it up when you're done. Right. I hate the two-hole thingies, though. You hate the two-hole?

Because you've got to get the screws exactly right. If you put some, like, tape on the back, like blue pinner's tape, and mark it with a marker. Yeah, I still try that. Still, though, I mean, if you're just slightly off, then it'd be going...

Yeah, that's right. It is true. He's old. He can't see.

I hate hanging pictures on the wall. It's the thing I hate the most. Hmm. All right.

We have a Christina Pike, the young lady who they tried to put to death. Mm-hmm. She has woke back up. Okay.

Oh, wow. She has regained consciousness and is talking. Her attorney says she woke up October 6th after surviving Tennessee's September 30th lethal injection attempt. So, supposedly, they thought she was brain dead, and they were getting ready to unplug her, and then she woke up.

Oh, my God. Oh my gosh, this lady just keeps on going. She will not go, right? So she woke up and she said, "Where am I?

" She can't swallow. Both her hands and her arms are severely swollen. I mean, I don't understand what they're doing, but they say she's got a long road of recovery. Why are we recovering?

Yeah, I know exactly. Are they gonna make her healthy and then try to kill her again? Where's the nurse that just puts the pillow over the face? I mean, what are we doing?

Right. She didn't make it. I mean, like, if you gotta do it, you gotta just do it. " You're back.

You're alive. Okay. Your next death date is six months from now. Once we get you healthy.

This is so dumb. Yeah. So now she's got pneumonia. She's got the swollen arms and hands and she can't swallow.

This is, this is so. I mean, just the pillow. So how is she talking? I guess you don't have to swallow to talk.

Just slowly go in with the pillow. You know what I mean? Right. And just look at her.

And there's gotta be a nurse. You know what I mean? There's gotta be somebody that's slightly, hmm? Somebody's a little off?

They call her the nurse of death? Yeah. Or the angel of death? Yeah, like, she got a track record of this one didn't make it, this one didn't make it, this one didn't make it.

Right. Well, they were all gonna die anyway. Yeah, but, no, she never claims that she did it. No, no, she doesn't admit it.

Yeah, you know, remember Bill? Yeah. He came in with an ankle injury. Yeah, didn't make it.

An ankle injury. An ankle injury. So odd. See, her attorney wants the sentence commuted to life in prison.

But, I mean, what kind of life she got now? She can't, she can't swallow. They're going to have to, what, put a feeding tube in. And what are we doing?

Supposedly, the warden has resigned and he had problems killing people at a different prison. What the heck? Oh, he's not good at killing people. Yeah, apparently he's not good at that.

Wow. How are you not good at that? Right. How does he control it?

I mean, he doesn't give the syringe or hit the button on the wall, whatever they do with the liquids. Here's what happened. He pissed somebody up, pissed somebody off that's higher up. He's like, they're like, you know, you're never, it's going to be miserable for you.

And he made sure that whenever there was a death sentence that the meds came in and it would be screwed up and it would be botched. Her lawyer is also arguing that another execution attempt would violate constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Pillow. You know what I mean?

It's nice and soft. Yeah. Right, nice and soft. Let's hold it tight.

You can imagine that? I mean, you're laying there, you're going to sleep, you're going, oh, this is it, this is where I die. And then you wake up in a hospital room. Gosh, that's, man, that's, that sucks.

The guy on the radio was saying, they should've went, you're in the future, we saved you, you didn't really die. That's, that's even more messed up. Or, you're in the past, you haven't killed the girl yet, and see if she still wants to kill the girl. Oh, or it's like, that was the two options he would've went with.

Go either way. It's like the first episode from Futurama, they're like, welcome to the future! Your death rose in six months. There's a guy with a squid head, there's a guy with a squid head sitting there talking to her.

Yeah. Wow. I mean, we could've done some cool stuff. So, yeah, they haven't decided what they're doing.

They could've dressed everybody in, like, alien heads and stuff. Right. Or angel suits or devils. Yeah, you can't do angel suits.

They could've had fun with it. They really could've had fun with it. You're in hell. You're in hell.

Turn the heat up in a room. Yeah. Make it hot. It's really hot in here.

Yep, wait 'til you get outside. We know that your biggest fear is being stuck to this bed. Paint the whole room, like, red and black and stuff. Yeah.

There's a lot of opportunities here. Yeah. They could've went a lot of different ways with this. They really counted shortchances.

And all they did was went, you didn't die. You know what, I'm glad the warden's gone, because he could have capitalized here. Right. You know, Steve and I were joking around about, well, Steve, yeah, Steve and I, let's just say.

We were joking around about, like, difference, like, if there was different executions based on the state, you know? So, like, for example, Florida could be, like, death by alligators. Right. You know, you can get, like, sponsored by, like, you know, Gatorland.

I mean, I'll just name drop, I'm sorry. Or, like, you know, it depends on the state, though. California death by homeless people? Death by homeless people, yeah.

Yeah, that's a fun one. Or an earthquake. Yeah, and then it could be like a wheel. They put you in a box and they just shake the shit out of you until you're dead.

Ooh. Like shaking baby syndrome? Right. Wow.

Or you can, and it could be like a wheel of fortune sort of thing, you know, where you spin it to see how you're going to die. Oh, what state you're going in? Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow.

They shift you to a different place? What happens? They could bid maybe. What happens in Nebraska?

Like they just shove corn huskers up your ass? Yeah, that's what it is. They boil you to that. Yeah, Idaho, I'm assuming it would be like death by potatoes.

Oh, they throw potatoes at you. They'd be potato-ing, like stoning. They'd be potato-ing. Yeah, exactly.

They'd bury you in the ground up to here, and then they'd throw potatoes at you. Boston, they'd throw lobsters in you or something. Ooh, lobster tank. Oh, wow.

Dang. Or tea. Ooh. Drowned you in tea.

Hot tea. Yeah, a lot of opportunities here. Yeah. Crisco can sponsor like a turkey-frying sort of thing.

Crisco can sponsor, oh, wow. You know, there's a lot of opportunities. Corporate sponsorship. Yeah.

Wow. This is all allegedly and all a joke. This death sentence broughts you by Crisco. Want to get crispy?

Crisco gets the job done. Back to you, Ed. Thank you. All right, today we have Christina Pike.

Attempted twice already. Refuses to quit. Right. So now we're slathering her with Crisco and dumping her in hot oil.

Let's find out what happens next after today's commercial break. After this word from Crisco. With really high volume. That would be phenomenal if in the video we actually got like a YouTube ad break just then.

Mm-hmm. That would've been nice. Yeah. They're all over the place when you watch it.

Yeah, exactly. All right, 12 men were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City accused of running a ring that stole and sold approximately 2,700 cats. Oh, wow. It's still legal in Vietnam to eat dogs and cats.

Okay. These guys would go out at night on scooters. - Okay. - Throw piles of fish, like in the road and stuff, and go back and check, and they would scoop up all the cats they could find.

- Were the cats outside? - Yeah, the cats were outside. - Okay, how is it stealing? - Well, they're still pet cats.

- No, they're not. - Yes, they are. - No, they're not. That's an outside cat.

- Not in Vietnam. - I don't care. - Well, they do in Vietnam. - It's an outside cat.

It's not your cat. - Sure, it can be your cat. - No. - It was in the road?

- Is it because you keep your cat in the house? - No, no. - Well, they drive scooters around, so I'm assuming they're, you know, they're looking around the houses. I'm gonna take my 100-pound German Shepherd and let him just run through the neighborhood because he's an outside dog.

Well, they don't do outside dogs. Oh, that's not okay? No, it's outside cats. That's unreasonable.

That's not a thing. Do you see that? Right, it's not a thing. Nor should an outside cat be a thing.

Well, I'm not saying it should be, I'm just saying they do do that. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. A lady next door to me has like seven outdoor cats.

Outside cats. Right. No, we're not doing this. You don't just let them outside.

Well, you know, in Vietnam you can eat them, so it's fine. It's not a farm animal and you're not on a farm. You live in a house. If you have a farm cat, then you live in a farm.

So, wait, there's indoor cats and farm cats, but not outdoor cats? Correct. What if I live on a ranch? Is there a ranch cat?

How big is a ranch? It all depends on what you have on the ranch. Ranch is more cows and horses, where a farm is more you grow crops and things. If you possess all of this land...

What's the limit? What number do I have to get to? What's the line? Yeah, what's the line?

What's the lie? What if I have three acres? Nope. Not enough.

Five. Three acres is not enough? I used to have five acres. I didn't have an outdoor cat, though.

If you had five acres and you had an outdoor cat, I'd be okay with that. So the number's five? Yeah, I think so. Because the cat's not going to the neighbor's house.

At five? Yeah. Eh, maybe. What if, like, the cat's in their, like, a backyard or something?

Right? A fenced in the backyard. But then the fish trope them out. They're like, what the heck?

Is that my meal? What's that? I smell fish. Would that then be considered stealing?

No. Because he jumped the fence? No. No.

Because I know dogs can jump the fence sometimes. Yeah. No, listen. Listen.

It's a backyard cat. Is there such thing as a backyard cat? No. There's no backyard cat.

So, it's house cat, ranch cat, farm cat, minimum of five acres. Correct. Or dead cat and eaten in Vietnam. Or community cat and someone could take.

You know what I mean? I guess somebody stole the cat. Okay. Oh, and now there's a community cat.

Which is not okay. What if these were community cats? Then they didn't do anything wrong. Well, once they took them, they skinned them because they found skinning equipment, and then they turned them into a hamburger and they sold them to restaurants.

And then they ate the cats. Well, they didn't eat them. They sold them to restaurants. I respect the hustle.

In my neighborhood, there are a couple people who just let their dog just go around the whole neighborhood. Yeah, not okay. Because we have a dog, and he stays in our back fenced-in area, but when he sees other dogs, he'll bark, he gets pretty pissed about it, and I'm always worried the dog's gonna run over and start a whole thing, but this is his land, this is my dog's land, this is his domain. Yeah, I mean, as long as they don't come in his yard.

That's what I'm saying, I always worry that's gonna happen though, because he's, well, we're in an area, but you know, dogs can jump and stuff. - You can't let the dog, no. - Well, my dogs could clear my fence. - You can't just let the dog roam.

- No, we have a fenced in back here. - Can't let, right. - But I mean, it's a five-foot fence. I mean, if they figured it out, they could easily jump that fence.

Well, the old one couldn't easily. - And then you'd have to either raise the fence or not let them outside. - Yeah, but they haven't figured it out. Either that or they don't want to.

- Every once in a while, we have a dog that roams our neighborhood, and the dog is habitual for breaking out of its area. I'm like, look, at some point, - This dog is gonna go. - Oh yeah, he's gonna hit by a car or something. - Yeah, or gonna be taken away.

- Or be taken for food in a Vietnamese restaurant. - It's true, yeah. - Do you have guys in scooters in your neighborhood with the smell of fish? 'Cause apparently that's what they do.

- No. - No, you're okay there. - Mike, your camera's focused on the back. - 'Cause I sprawled out a little bit.

- He moved, 'cause he moved, he moved. - Thank you. - Yep. - Police identified 39-year-old Lou Thanh Bin as the alleged leader.

- We can talk about this. Button, stolen cats that have been a facility resulting in her slaughter every year. I got 38 minutes of the bike. 38 minutes.

We covered it. We covered it. This was a good story. Yeah, and we talked about it.

Was there any sort of thing that happens crazy at the end? No. They did a raid. They raided his place.

And they took the cats. They found 50 live cats, 55 traps, and two scales. Also, they seized equipment used to remove fur. You know, the ironic thing is, I bet it was probably more humane than like a lot of these people who have that many cats, too, though.

Like just like that take care of them. I bet he actually had like 50 cat litter boxes, was taking care of them and stuff. I doubt that. You don't think so?

I doubt that. He picked them up, he killed them, he skinned them and then sold them. It's not like he's stockpiling them. Yeah, but like, you know, when somebody raises a cow, you kind of want to, you usually raise it pretty well.

No, it's not like I like this one. No. Yeah? Yeah, no, no.

I mean, if you steal a cow, you're not, you know, now he's my pet. Yeah. I call him Moo Moo. Yeah, this is Moo Moo.

Yeah. Moo Moo the cat. Moo Moo the cow. Yeah.

Or the cat. Alright, on to Cigar News. Yes! Here we go.

Nub Mexico's arriving at stores. Oh, Mexico. The new Nub Mexico line, which was previewed at the 2026 entered tobacco trade fair in Dortmund, Germany last month, has begun arriving in stores in the US. The line puts a Mexican-grown wrapper front and center, while the binder and fillers are both Nicaraguan.

Oh, this is that company we don't like. It's true, we don't like. I couldn't remember why we didn't like them, but now I just saw the name, now I remember. Because they're...

That one people. Horrible people. Yeah. They're direct to consumer, discounting, trying to ruin the industry as a whole.

Right. Yeah. And now they're selling cigars with little sombreros. And they have those little colorful things on them.

The little colorful things. Yeah, the scarfs or whatever things are called. It doesn't really make sense either to release a cigar that's like a heavy-weighted cigar in Europe. No, it doesn't.

They like lighter, fluffy stuff. Europeans are... Let's release this fat, heavy cigar. Yeah.

Weird. Straight from Mexico. Maybe the timing was just right. Yeah.

Well, might as well just release it here. We missed PCA because we weren't ready, so we'll just release it over in Europe, and then we'll still ship America. Ole! It'll be fine.

Goal! Right, exactly. European exclusive? They had a mariachi band there.

Yeah, they did? Oh, that's good. They had tacos, they had tacos. Tacos?

Tacos, mariachi band, anything else? Tequila. Tequila. Dwayne Johnson tequila?

And the ladies in the white flowery skirts, they had those dancing around too. around to oh wow mexican hat dance oh but it was a little hatch from the cigars so it's just a little dance done over just went around four times done all right perez carrillo pledge purple robusto coming next week are we getting these no no we never get we never get Dude, we got, we had Monsters this week, we had Viaje this week. Oh, we had the, didn't we have the new, um, bull? Uh, that's not out yet, but yeah, we got the new bull coming.

So, I don't know what you're talking about. I was gonna tell the story, but we probably shouldn't, because we just got out of trouble, we don't need any trouble again. Okay. Casa Carrillo is adding a Robusto size to its Perez Carrillo Pledge Purple line and expected to begin shipping to stores next week.

25x52 box-pressed Fetola and uses the same blend as the other sizes in the line, meaning a Connecticut-grown Havana Seed wrapper from Dunn & Fosser that comes from the same crop used for the cigars in the original Pledge line that debuted in 2020. Underneath the wrapper is again a Mexican binder and fillers from Nicaragua's Esteli, Condega, and Omotepe regions. Ooh, Omotepe. Oh, I saw oma tempeh when we were over there.

There's no oman, it's oma, oma tepeh, there's no N. Oma tepeh. Did I say N? You say oman tepeh.

Oma tempeh. It does sound like you have an N in there. Oh, does it? Or an umlaut.

Don't make fun of my speech impediment. I'm going, I just want you to know, we're friends, I'm gonna make fun of your speech impediment. Not in front of people. If anything, he wasn't, he said you had an umlaut.

That sounds fancy. Not in front of, not in front of Tim? Not allowed to have a, no, all the peoples! Tim's not a real person.

Yes, he is. I'm sorry, Tim. He's at McGuffey. How much are they asking for these things with the Condega and the Oma Tempe?

See, he said it again. Oma? Oma Tempe. Oma Tempe.

Oma Tempe. Tempe? Oma Tempe. Oh, now you've moved it into the, Oma Tepe.

Oma Tepe. Oma Tepe. There's an M in there. How much did I get for this?

Look, you know, I just started saying Carrillo the right way because Jack said I was saying Carrillo. Carrillo. Carrillo. Carrillo.

It's the Carrillo. Anyway, I saw the volcano. Sixteen dollars. 1875.

1650. Dang, nice. You're in trouble today. This is the second size for Pledge Purple, joining the 6x54 Toro that was released in March.

Both sizes are described as limited production, with the cigars made at Casa Carrillo Factory in the Dominican Republic, and box released throughout the year. All right, here's a story you've been waiting on, Michael. This is it. Yeah?

This is the story. This is the one? We're going to skip it. Okay.

Artesno Del Tobacco asks fans where the next cigar should be made. Who? I'm just kidding. We're doing a show.

Yeah, yeah. I got it. It's about cigars. The problem with having the text is it's horribly addicting.

A year ago, oh, you're doing the fancy text. Yeah, I'm seeing the fancy text coming. A year ago, Artesno Del Tobacco, the parent of the Viva La Vida brand, asked its fans, I remember when we covered this story. Right.

The top two vote-getters were a Churchill and a Lancero. Okay. Aren't those similar? One's a little thinner.

A little bit, but like, what were, how many votes did you get? You know what I'm saying? Well, it's, yeah. It could have just been two.

I feel like it might be set up here. Yeah. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying.

I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying.

Yeah. I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. They might be set up at the top.

Oh, these are the ones we're making. Make sure they win. In July, the new Viva La Vida Connecticut Churchill shipped to stores, while the new Lancero is expected to ride before the end of the year. Right.

This week, the company has upped the ante. Yeah. In an email to its Club 500 members. We should join that.

Yeah. So we can vote on the three sizes. These are the Pupo people, right? Yeah.

The Octopus Cigar Holder that they're been showing. I didn't see it. It's a three finger, so it's a three cigar pocket thing that's got a little coin in the middle and it's got an octopus that's holding the coin. Oh, I thought it was like an eight placement cigar thing or something like that.

Yeah, I thought it was like some intertwined. Yeah, that sounded, your thing, it kind of underwhelmed me, I'm sorry. Yeah, you broke it down that it was. Well, you take a day off or do the work and you're paying the price.

Yeah, here you are. The company says that for the first time ever, they will be a Viva La Vida line outside of Nicaragua. Oh. Oh.

J. Fernandes. Mm-hmm. J.

J. J. Fernandes' blessing. It is fine, you may leave.

And support, we're exploring the possibility of creating a second line of Viva La Vida. I didn't know that it worked that way. That you had to ask? Yeah.

I don't know. Yeah, why did you need to ask? Did we ask when we had other factories make our Lista? No.

No, we didn't ask? No, I don't think you're blessed. Was there any pushback? No.

" I bless you. Don't put a P on anything. No, that was my own decision. And I said, "Hey, you know what?

Postana is made at this factory, and we're not gonna make something else postana at another factory," because I feel like that is deceiving your consumer. You would have to have the blessing at that point, from the consumer. No. No.

I don't. Nope. " You know, that's the funny part to me. Like, it's very easy to do morally right decisions.

Sure. I don't need a blessing from anybody to do that. Oh, well, they got a blessing. JJ, you know.

So, they're keeping the same... Yes, I grant you the ability to go and run your business accordingly at a different factory, but before you go, kiss this thing. You know what I mean? " You're right.

I'm sorry, who are you guys in? Who, what? Do you know how much I do, like... Are these the Pupo guys?

I like the Pupo thing. Did we make that one? Oh, it's Pupo? I like that word.

I like that. Get them in here, yeah. Get him in, let him in, Adam, come on in. - So here's the real question, here's the real question.

Is it gonna be Dominican Republic or is it gonna be Honduras? - Well, there's no tariff in Honduras. - There's no tariff in Honduras. - They signed the paper.

- Right. - Oh. - You know, because initially I'm like, okay, well, they'll go work with Ventura or something, Henderson, Ventura, or some, you know, somebody in the Dominican. Then I'm like, well, wait a second.

Maybe, because of tariffs, they hook up with Honduras. - That would make sense. They have, uh, it's not like you can name anybody, there's a list you have to choose from. - Ah.

- Yes, yes. So, there's our friends at Casa Carrillo. Carrillo. Fabrica de Puros.

- Okay. - Puros. Aladino at Las Lomas. - Oh, Aladinos.

- That's Honduras. Fabrica de Tobacco, Reis Cubanas. - Honduras. - Honduras.

And IGM Cigars, the dullest name in the factories, uh, from Costa Rica. Costa Rica. Hmm. I'd throw that one in.

That's kind of a weird. Yeah. Round left field. I think they're going Honduras, buddy.

Yeah. There's one Dominican, a three Honduras, and a Costa Rican. Oh, wait. There's more.

Sorry. I didn't hit the button. Tablicalera, La Isla. Tablicalera, Palma.

Tablicalera, Costa Rica, Oriente. There you go. Tablicalera, Oriente. Oh, so there's at least two in Costa Rica.

Two Costa Rican, two Dominican, and four or five Honduras. Hmm. Jack in the deck. I wonder where, I feel like the decision's already been made.

Yeah. I think so too. But if they do Tablacolera La Isla, isn't that where the Crocadilio is? Is that the Crocadilio Chetilio?

No, no, no, no, just the Crocadilio. It's just the standard Crocadilio. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's not the rare one.

The Crocadilla Chetilla tobacco? Right, no. That's not where they have it. That's not there?

No. J. Fernandez. J.

J. Right, right. He doesn't have the, they don't have the full blessing from him. I grant you access to make cigars somewhere else.

However, steal a cigar here. Steal a cigar here. We make their cigar, right? Yeah, steal a cigar here.

Do you understand me? Right. I know like the kiss you give me. I know like.

It's very wet. Ugh. Napkin. Wipe it.

Napkin. Right. Napkin boy. Napkin.

He got my ring wet. Yes. I will not explain myself. You just wipe the hand.

We're not getting an AJ Cigars anymore. What do you mean? We don't get them now anyways. Oh, there you go.

We have somebody we can make fun of. We have a diesel. We make, first of all, we make fun of everybody. Yeah, yeah, I know.

We do a really, and we do a really good job of that. Oh, yeah, excellent job. Sometimes a little, a little too well. We should try to get the lady from, the new, the new lady from Espinosa on the show.

Oh, uh. I'm good. What was her name again? What was my name again?

That's the only lady that's staying on the show. Laura, Lauren. It's great to finally meet you. Oh, I'm sorry.

Go ahead, Tamara. I just wanted to say it was great to finally meet her. You know, me, her, and Eric, we were all hanging out, smoking things, you know, Espinosa Cigars specifically. Yeah, what's your favorite one?

Like I said before, yesterday, it's the Murciélago. Oh, that's right. Yeah, specifically the Urabito. Not the Toro, not the Toro.

Gosh, I did this to myself. Yeah, if you start doing a voice, you can already get stuck with it on the shelf. Just wake up, look in the mirror every morning like this. Yeah.

With the mask? Is that mask hard to sleep in? Yeah, we're, yeah. It's dedication to the craft.

Yeah. It's not, it's my face, like I keep saying. It's not a mask. Well, it can't be your face because next month you'll have a different face.

It changes. My face changes. It's a McGuffey curse. Alright, it's time for the cigar industry's favorite game.

What's the score? I kept going as we were yelling. It's highly professional. Sorry, I got excited.

Two positives, one negative, and one number. Can you call it before we reveal it? Light up, lock in, let's play, what's the score? Yeah, there's a shorter intro now.

Okay, the Cigar Today is from October 7, 2026. The reviewer is Brooks Whittington. 50. Tim can go first today.

I'm going to go $84. Ouch. So you still have not beat Tim because you didn't play him yesterday. Correct, $87.

It's a 6x54 Toro, it's $20 per cigar. $20. $20. $260 per box of 13.

Cigar smoke for review is $3. It's got a Nicaraguan wrapper, Pennsylvania binder, Dominican filler, Republic in Pennsylvania. Factory is Hoya De Nicaragua. Go.

What's that sound? Um, yeah, this doesn't, this doesn't sound that, no offense to Fratello. I mean, it doesn't sound like my forte. I would say 84.

I'm going to stick at 84. 87. Clue number one, the better samples delivered balanced oak and earth with raisin sweetness and pepper. One developed an especially enjoyable peanut butter and cocoa combination.

You put your peanut butter in my chocolate. I put my chocolate in your peanut butter. Thank you. Yeah.

I guess I'll stick at 84. Sith Lord Tim. 87. Wrong show.

Clue number two. It's all the same. All three drew well and produced plenty of smoke. That's it?

That's it. Wow, that's great. 84. 88.

Clue number three, the third sample needed repeated burn corrections and delivered less balance and enjoyment. 84. 88. Final thought, this anniversary release showed promise, but consistency held it back.

Two samples offered enjoyable flavors, the third brought construction, trouble, and a less satisfying finish. Brooks considered that sample a possible outlier, but felt Fratello has stronger blends elsewhere in the line-up. 85. 87.

You went the wrong... Oh wait, he said 85, you split it, it's 86. Oh, what happens now? To the death.

You have to wrestle. Yeah. Well, I lost. I don't know.

Hit him with that helmet. I guess, yeah. This will shatter. See, I like to progressively get into my winning streak.

Right. Now, what did you say? If he got it to 10, something happened? Uh, wait, what happens when you get...

You said I get a seat. I thought this was like an established rule of the podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. When he gets, if he beats you for 10 in a row, he sits there, you sit there.

But he still has to wear the helmet. So now he officially doesn't get to sit here. Well, it's a tie. I don't know if it's a tie.

It's a tie, so... So your term, if he didn't lose, your term was, if he beats you, did he beat me? He did say 10 in a row. That's right.

Yeah, you're right. All right. Well, I mean, if you win again next week, you start over. However, I think we should supersede that and continue with it.

Oh, you're so sweet. Let's keep it going. Thank you, sir. All right.

So we'll give you five at this point. Well, I can stay. How about this? I'll stay at four.

I still have to earn the rest. okay that's fair i think that's fair he doesn't get a dub doesn't get a win but he still keeps the streak yes yeah okay fair enough everybody's happy everyone's happy it's a mulligan all right yeah i'm always happy i knew it was like right in that range right in that mid 80s right there yeah good job yeah you too thanks all right anything else to add uh yes oh if we if somebody places a portal order you have to get us donuts and we eat them on the show i don't know why That came up yesterday, but it did, and I cut a deal, so we'll see what happens. If someone places a portal order. Now, has this person placed a portal order before?

I don't believe this particular person has. They said they would do that next week, and I go, "Oh, good," because when we get portal orders, the king buys us all donuts. I will purchase donuts, and we will eat them on the show if a portal order occurs, as long as it was not a person who placed a portal order before. Okay.

Yeah. No, I don't think he had. No. Yeah.

He has not before. All right. Okay. And tonight I am on, like, you never remember the name.

Oh, I'm on Smokin' Texas podcast show podcast. Oh, but it's taped. So it'll be released later. It'll release tomorrow.

The day the show airs. Oh, okay. So it'll be aired this Saturday. It'll be, no, it'll be airing today, Friday, Friday.

It'll come out early Friday morning. Got it. Okay. The day the show, our show's released.

The show that I did with him and I'm going to go to a And then we'll also be released. Do you think they'll ask how to get in this carnage? I don't know. He's got a super, super deep voice.

Here's what I want you to do. I want to start making up different stories. If people keep asking the same question, you need to start elaborating. Like, well, I was in something crazy.

You know, like, I was active military and we were working on child trafficking. Right. And I took a bullet. Right.

You know what I mean? I can't show you the wound, but... Maybe we shouldn't say military. Yeah, maybe not.

You know what I mean? It's kind of stolen back. I was acting. I'll come up with something.

So you want me to change it? Yeah, I want you to mix it up. Every time it's a different story. Kind of like the Joker in the Dark Knight.

Like, you want to know how I got these scars? Like, I want a different story every time. Oh, not a problem. And then eventually, like, somebody's going to have to pick up on it.

Wait a second. Well, we just gave it all away. Nobody listens to this show. Right, nobody listens to this show.

I was a mercenary in Russia. It was a long thing. I used to paddle one of the canoes down the Amazon. And one of the funnest things I ever did, and I need to bring this back, is like I went on, and you should do it in the Powstanie Mafia on the Facebook page, like hey I'm gonna be on this show, give me five words that I need to incorporate.

Oh, I remember when you did that. Yeah, that was fun, you know. Do you want to give him five right now? Uh, no, no, I like interaction, you know what I mean?

Right. You should do that. I'll do it. Do that tonight.

Yeah, I'll do it for tonight. When do you hang out here? Well, after you deal with the Ramon video because, you know. Yeah, I don't even know what cigar I'm doing.

He may have left. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know what cigar I'm doing.

All right. All right. All right. All right.

Well, hey. Oh, wait, one more thing. Oh, he's got more. He's got more.

Here we go. One more thing. I don't know how to say his name, but his first name is G-R-A-E-M-E. Graham.

Oh, is that Graham? Graham Davies is still saying his rumble is messed up. He sent me pictures of his rumble last night, so I sent him pictures of my rumble back. I don't know why he can't see the episodes, but they're there, Graham, and I have views on them, so it's not like I'm the only one who sees them.

So I don't know what that issue is. Maybe he's been blocked. He's from New Zealand. Oh yeah, maybe he has a hard time getting it there.

Maybe that's what it is. I have no idea. He's great. He helps me with a lot of the snags on the site.

Yeah? Mm-hmm. Okay. I wish I could help you, but, I mean, I have no idea.

Just come back to YouTube. Yeah. Well, maybe Rumble's easier to get in New Zealand. Come back to the dark side.

It's like the Wild West over there. You can do anything you want. Is it? Yeah.

Really? Hmm. Okay, well. Short of porn.

I don't know if you can do porn. I've never looked. In the meantime, just never looked? Never looked.

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Show Notes

On this episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, the crew reviews and discusses the latest from Pledge, E.P. Carrillo, and Espinosa.

A full cigar-industry news discussion — reviews, interviews, and commentary, plus the week's wildest headlines.

In episode 635 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, host Mike BDP runs from the news desk to the humidor — reacting to the week's headlines before digging into cigar news and reviews featuring Pledge, E.P. Carrillo, and Espinosa. Honest conversation and industry commentary, new episodes every weekday.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open & welcome

21:33 Show merch & where to find CHPOD

39:39 Cigar News

51:31 "What's the Score?" game

59:36 Wrap-up & thanks