Cigar Hustlers Podcast 241 I said Dance!!
Episode Summary
Episode 241 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast opens with a surprise call-in segment from Brittany Szczepankewicz, who phones the studio to "correct the record" on Mike's recent claims — namely that he is neither a professional dog groomer nor a doctor. The story of Chapo's disastrous home haircut (the infamous "Clydesdale with alopecia" line, which Brittany claims credit for) and his trip to the vet after eating poisonous berries turns into a running bit, and the hosts propose making her fact-check calls a recurring monthly segment.
The guys then recap the week: a Friday night of Fortnite and an ill-advised jumbo pizza order, a Miami Dolphins preseason game with Phil, a pool party, and Mike's son Jax ambushing Palmer about producing a new father-son podcast out of the shop's studio. There's also a lengthy detour into football allegiances — Mike defends his lifelong Patriots fandom while explaining how he ended up with Buccaneers season tickets long before Tom Brady arrived.
The news block is the meat of the episode. The Cigar Association of America's latest figures show U.S. premium cigar imports through May 2022 up 3.2% to roughly 176.9 million cigars, driven almost entirely by Nicaragua, with the Dominican Republic and Honduras down and Mexico way up — plus a riff on the vanishingly rare Bahamian, Costa Rican and Filipino imports. They cover La Flor Dominicana's first NFT selling for $85,000, which entitles the holder to buy 70 Golden Bull cigars (a Lonsdale version of the Andalusian Bull) per month plus a 50-count humidor; Parodi Holdings shutting its Dunmore, Pennsylvania factory after more than a century of U.S. cigar making, laying off 17 and shifting Avanti and Parodi production to the Dominican Republic; Crowned Heads' PCA 2022 exclusive Sfumato in C Major arriving at retailers; and Viaje's 15th anniversary trio of Black, Silver and Gold Nicaraguan puros.
The show closes with the weekly Florida story — a bizarre Immokalee kidnapping and robbery — the Listener of the Week, and details on Mike and Phil's upcoming appearance at Nickel City Cigars in Buffalo for the shop's three-year anniversary.
In This Episode
- 01Brittany Calls In to Fact-Check MikeBrittany Szczepankewicz phones the show to dispute Mike's dog-grooming and self-diagnosed 'doctor' credentials after Chapo's haircut and berry poisoning.
- 02Weekend Recap: Fortnite, Pizza and the DolphinsA jumbo pizza ordering disaster, a Dolphins preseason game with Phil, and Jax volunteering the shop's studio for his own podcast.
- 03Patriots vs. Bucs FandomMike sets the record straight on being a lifelong Patriots fan who bought Buccaneers season tickets years before Tom Brady came to Tampa.
- 04U.S. Premium Cigar Import Numbers Through May 2022CAA data shows imports up 3.2% to about 176.9 million cigars, with Nicaragua surging and the Dominican Republic and Honduras slipping.
- 05La Flor Dominicana's $85,000 NFTThe brand's first NFT sells for $85,000 and grants the holder monthly access to 70 Golden Bull cigars plus a 50-count humidor.
- 06Parodi Closing Its Pennsylvania FactoryParodi Holdings shuts its Dunmore, PA plant after a century of U.S. production, laying off 17 and moving Avanti and Parodi manufacturing to the Dominican Republic.
- 07Crowned Heads Sfumato in C Major and Viaje's 15thThe PCA 2022 exclusive Sfumato in C Major ships to retailers, and Viaje marks 15 years with Black, Silver and Gold Nicaraguan puros.
- 08Florida Story, Listener and Shop of the WeekA wild Immokalee robbery case, Listener of the Week John Smith, and Nickel City Cigars' three-year anniversary event with Mike and Phil.
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Transcript
Welcome to episode 241. When you say that I cringe, our Hustler Podcast, quite too many. I know it seems like a lot. Yes.
What do you mean seems like? It seems like a lot. It seems like a lot. Why's the camera on me?
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Hit the bell. Oh, yeah, like Chet. Hit the bell. You know, what we need to do, we're almost at a point here where we need to, like, groom ourselves before we get on it, because, like, there's a little, you got a little something, I got stuff all over you.
I got, like, one or two hairs here. I've been wearing the black shirt too because it looked good last week that we were dressed this in. Oh, a little uniform. Yeah.
I'm glad, you know, I almost switched it up on you. What color are we going to wear? It was also going to be a black shirt, but it was going to be my long sleeve, my new Powstanie shirt. As long as you're black, all I have to do is be black.
Oh, okay. We have a call that we have to take. We have a call? We have to take this call.
Okay, the Patreon is going to be Ossinger Cigars. We're going to do the new Ossinger Bosphorus. Slide that in. Okay, give me a minute here.
Give me a minute. Who are you calling? DeSantis? Yeah, it's the same.
DeSantis, Scott Pierce, uh, everybody's calling in today. Scott Pierce? Everybody's calling in today. Alright, hold on, give me a minute, give me a quick minute.
I almost forgot about this, I'm glad I added it into my notes. Whenever you're ready. I'm glad I put up my notes to make the phone call. I was watching the Bear Dojo thing yesterday.
Oh yeah, why'd he tag you in that? Oh, that was a story thing. Oh, is something we're gonna talk about? No.
Hello? Good afternoon, secret caller! Oh, jeez, damn it! You're on the air!
No! There was a few things she wanted to clarify, Michael. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't create my own jokes.
My wife creates my jokes. All right, love you. Have a good day. This is true.
This is the lovely Brittany Stepankevich from the Michael household. Yes. Oh, hello. There was a point she wanted to clarify, Michael.
Well, hello. Some inaccuracies in her past comments. Yes, yes, indeed. First of all, I was very, very against cutting Chapo's hair.
Like, Mike, he thinks he's all these things, you know, he's a doctor, he's a groomer, you know. The Clydesdale Alipatia. Yes, okay. The Clydesdale Alipatia, yes.
Like, this poor dog. Okay, first of all, you were more okay with it this time around because you didn't want the dog to go to the groomer in a condition that he currently was in. No, it's fucking embarrassing, that's why you always have to drop him off, because he's not brushed, and then they give you that eye, like, oh well you know you're supposed to brush him every day like well it's not my fault you know especially with teddy i found like spaghetti in his hair before like he's being popping you know whatever little syrup i told you that it was a very bad idea to start to cut his hair you're not a groomer i'm not you don't know what you're doing this is quite apparent i love what you call it i feel that way about life i don't know what i'm doing not only just the dog all over the place i'm trying to talk here don't interrupt michael No, I'm sorry. I'll just turn his microphone off, Brittany.
Okay, thank you. All right, you just go ahead. Hair is all over the place. All over the place, okay?
And now, it's just, with the allergies, even though he's hypoallergenic, there was so much stuff in his hair that, you know, it's just now infecting the house. So that's great for everyone's allergies. Well, he can't do it all in one night. So he comes out on the patio.
Yeah. He's like, I think, I think I'm done for the night. And I look over and I was like, the dog looks like a Clydesdale with fucking alopecia. Like, it's embarrassing.
Now, he looks a little better now that it's grown it. So he dropped that line on air. And, like, of course, he has no credit for that. So he took full credit for that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you have to clean up his cutting? Did you have to, like, recut the dog? I sat and I helped him a little bit.
She did. Because, like, he was, yeah. And then I could not breathe anymore, like, I have to go outside, like, I could do it. Allergies, she has allergies.
Yeah. So, and then, so that's Groomer Mike. Now, if you want to go to Dr. Streponkiewicz, obviously, Chapo was having some issues.
Oh, the eye problem, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, so, naturally, Mike is like concussion. I mean, that's what it has to be, you know, except that it's a light, yeah, except for, like, I'm like, I don't know. Like, I feel like if he hit his head that hard, we would have heard him cry.
You know what I mean? Like, nothing really stuck out. Right. You know, he's like, he just needs to rest.
Okay. He did. Rest. Yeah, just rest.
Yeah, yeah. That's everything. That's it. Drink some water.
All right. Walk it off, dog. It'll be fine. Get the Tylenol.
It'll be fine. He's like, yeah, perfect, right? So the next morning, I'm like, I don't know. Like, he walked by me and walked right into the counter.
I was like upset. I was like, Mikey, there's something wrong, right? And he's like, he'll be fine. He just needs to rest.
But there's no resting in our house. Nobody ever rests in our house. So I was like, you know, I think I'm going to take him to the vet. He fought me a little bit on it, and then he was like, all right, fine.
If you have what you want to do, then go ahead. Horrible, horrible man. I didn't fight you. Yeah.
So I drop him off at the vet. Well, turns out, no concussion, the fucking dog ate something poisonous and needed anti-toxin medicine for a company. Oh, you didn't know that you left that part out, Michael. He didn't need the medicine.
Yeah. It would have worked through the system. What if it would have killed him? It would have been down a dog.
So now, you know... Listen, you're like me, you're surrounded by so much death, it just doesn't matter, everything dies, you know? Oh, no. Terrible, terrible man.
Oh, my God. So, he obviously got into something in our side yard that Michael doesn't really keep up on clean and keeping... Funny how this all becomes his fault now. It's all your fault, Michael.
Yeah. I don't deal with the side yard. I take care of everything in the house. He does...
Oh, yes. She can't do everything, Michael. the weeds and all that. She can't do everything.
Can't do everything. He's very busy. Give us, our dog, a horrible haircut, and now we have to wait until he grows up to take him back to six. But then he almost killed him within seven days of it.
Did you find out what the poison was that he ate? It would have been easier to bury. Oh my God. I'll tell you what it was, because I'm a doctor.
Oh yes, yes, a doctor. But here we go, it was... So there are these vines, and they have like these little pumpkin-looking things, these little red berry things. Right.
Oh, he ate the berries. They were all gone. Now all of a sudden, he's a landscaper, whatever, who's the person that... Herbatologist.
Yeah, I'm a… Herbatologist. Herbatologist. Is that what it is? Yes.
Are you sure? Yes. All these things, I hope. Is this listed after his name on his email that he sends out to everybody?
If not, it should be. I'll start doing it. Absolutely. Yeah.
There's got to be a name. And there was one other thing I wanted to point out, but I honestly forgot about it. So, it was definitely in that podcast. You need to keep notes.
You got to write them down. I know. You got to write them down. The next month we'll have you call in and you can just go through and fix everything that he said wrong for the month.
Here's the, here's the fuckery. Here's the list. Yeah. On episode 241, he said this, on episode 242, he mentioned he was a doctor.
Yeah. He's not a doctor. Yeah. Well, he did come on one day and he's like, I think I'm going to get, order like a stethoscope.
I'm like, well, for what? Yes. You don't know what you're fucking listening to. All you got to do is just YouTube it.
You can figure that shit out. Oh, okay. That's all doctors do. You're going to tell me that you can't hear if there's something going on in the lungs.
You can hear a rasp, you would think, or a problem breathing. Yeah, like, oh, there's something wrong here. Unless you don't know what normal sounds like. Yeah.
Well, as soon as I had gotten the stethoscope, I would have plugged it into all the kids and tested it. Oh, oh. Plugged it in? Okay, first, they don't plug in, Michael.
They don't? No. Oh, my God. The whole thing goes in your ears.
Yes, yes. And you have to warm it up, because it's very cold. You have to warm it up. Yeah.
Yeah. Then you put it up. They don't do that. I don't know.
No. Not today's. Not today's. Oh, you gotta get a new.
Oh, yeah. No breathing on. That's right. COVID.
Yeah. Well, is there anything else, Brittany, that he did wrong or miss? No. It was something minor that was later on, but it's fine.
I'm sure I'll think about it. Okay. Oh, well, feel free to call back. Well, thank you very much for calling.
Just put it in the notes for next month. Yes. Oh, sounds good. I'll get that set up.
Yeah, he's good. You start writing that down. We'll start making it like a bit of an annual thing. Well, I'll give her intro music and a little graphic for the video and everything.
Oh my god, my little segment? Yes, your own little segment. Yeah, your own little segment. Oh, alright, cool.
If you want, we can arrange for you to be in here. We can even pre-record it and add it in. Yeah. Since your schedule has to revolve around the children.
That way you're uninterrupted. You just come in and say, hey, at episode 239, Yes. " And it was completely wrong. " 100%.
And then you stole it. " No, you just took it as your own. Look, man, I just, that's what I do. I just take everybody's stuff and I make it better.
He's not funny at all by himself. Yeah, I'm just, I'm very boring. I know. I live.
She lives with you, she knows. You know, I'm quite aware. I will tell you this. I find myself very funny.
Oh, you are your biggest fan. I laugh all the fucking time. Yeah. We haven't even got to the point where he flexed in my sunglasses on Sunday.
Yeah. Yeah. We haven't even reviewed our week. Wait.
Sometimes he can't even get what he's gonna say out of his mouth without hysterically laughing. It's so true. Yeah, I've seen that. It's so true.
What is so funny? What do you got? Hold on, I'll do it in a minute. It's okay.
Let me calm down a little bit. Let that go. This is really good. Glidesdale with alopecia.
That's great, right? That's great. She was watching at the gym. She fucking stormed right over to me.
Oh, did she? She's like, are you fucking kidding me? And I knew exactly what she was upset about. She's showing the screen going, look, right here.
You said Glidesdale with alopecia. No, I knew. I knew. Because she busted out whenever she's on the treadmill or stuff like that.
Right. She's doing a little cardio. She catches up. She's a big fan.
Good. So, I saw her watching and I was like, oh, she's going to come over here. She's going to come over here. Any minute now, here she comes.
Are you fucking kidding me? Did you stop working out and just sat there on the bench and just waited? No, no, no. Oh.
No. He tried to dodge me, but I caught him. Got to go to the sauna. Got to go to the sauna now, Brett.
I'll be back later. I'll be in the locker room. All right. I'll come right in there.
I dare you. You won't. You won't. Nah, the old men are all naked.
You won't. I double dare you. You'll see the old man likes to cold punch naked. Naked cold plungers.
Yeah, no thank you. I have to go get Teddy ready for dance. Oh, is this the ballet? Is this ballet night?
Yep, this is going to be ballet and then tap right afterward. Ooh, double. Double header. She'll be very tired.
She's never tired. She's in the pool all day. That bitch didn't go to bed like 11 o'clock last night. Yeah, and she didn't give a shit.
We haven't talked about it, but it was the other kids, they started leveling off with their activity. Yeah. Not her. Nope.
Not Teddy. Not Teddy. Nope, she kept going. No.
She kept going. And God forbid you should tell her what to do. She's like, pfff, who the fuck are you? Yeah.
All right. All right, gentlemen. Well, thank you. Well, thank you so much for calling.
I appreciate the castration, as always. A nice 10-minute segment. That's perfect. I love you.
Have a lovely day. Oh, did you hunt the horn? Enjoy the ballet. All right, thanks.
All right, bye bye. All right, bye. All right, bye. That was a lovely Britney Stepankevich.
Now that she's gone, I don't know what she's talking about, it was totally my idea. What, is she going to call in again? No, but she'll hear it. I know, but you can't call in again.
Um, yeah, hold on. Hey, he just said. He just said something else. All right, so we're going to review the Ossinger Yada Yadas, the Basosa for Christopherus.
Except from the PCA. Yes. Ah, yes. They just came out.
Yes. They're up on the site. We will review. Let's hope they do well.
We will take we smoke. Let's hope they do well. Yeah. So Saturday.
On the Patreon. Back to what you did Saturday. Can we talk about Friday first? Sure.
What happened Friday? See, I'm such a great husband. Yes. I let my wife go out.
So this is where Brittany's going to call in next week right here. Yeah, I figured I'd set this up right now. I let my wife go out. Yes.
Having a little girls night. And I stayed home with the kids. Is this like last time where she went like on a trip and you had 17 people over at the house to help you? No, no, no.
Wait, the man and the teacher are in a different state now? Yeah, it was just me. Anne-Marie was not in town? Anne-Marie was not in town.
Uh, your sister daughter? Just me. It was just me. Something's gonna come out.
Here's the catch, here's the catch. Okay, all right. Put Teddy to bed. Right.
And then I set up my screen, my Xbox. Yes. And Levi was over as well. Oh, that's your child.
Was it Levi's mom there? No. Do you have a father? No.
Does he have a father that comes over? I would love him to come over, but he doesn't come over. He's heard about you. He doesn't think you're funny.
He's threatened a couple times, but I can't get him. He doesn't want you to steal his jokes. I can't hook him in. Yeah, that's probably what it is.
He's heard. So, we did like quads on Fortnite, and we were fucking kicking some serious ass. Oh, because it was four of you. Oh, yeah.
It was amazing. Wait, did you feed the children this time? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wait, wait. Did you eat or did everybody eat? You know, everybody eats, Michael. Well, I know you say that, but sometimes at your house, the children don't eat.
So, I don't order the pizza normally. I'm not the pizza order. Yes, yes. Yeah, that was the problem last time.
Yeah. That was the problem again. So, I ordered pizza this time. Yes.
But, because I don't normally order the pizza, I fucked it up. You ordered the wrong pizza. I ordered the wrong pizza. Oh.
So, you know, we usually get like some kind of family fucking thing with the wings and the pizza and shit. Oh, the deal. Some type of deal. I'm like, yeah, let's not do that.
Let's keep it. We just need pizza. Just need pizza. Yeah, it's way too expensive.
It's too expensive. I don't want wings. Yeah, so I said... We're not ordering wings.
Yeah, so I said, what's the biggest pizza you have when I'm on the phone? Oh, look at you. And they're like, oh, the jumbo. I said, okay, give me one of those.
Give me a pepperoni and give me one cheese. Okay, perfect. Two jumbos? Yeah.
$60. I was like, how much pizza is on a jumbo? 60 fucking dollars. How many slices on a jumbo?
Oh, they're the same slices, but they're gigantic. Oh. So these things fucking come in and I'm like... Like the size of this table?
Oh, they're huge. " Oh, so it came even before she left? No, it's when she came back in. Oh, she came home.
" She came home and there's three larges in the amount of pizza that's left. Yeah, yeah, yeah. " This is why I cannot be trusted with these things. This is why the king does not order pizza, Brittany.
This is why the king does not order. It's quite obvious. Yes, obvious. Yes.
Brittany, next time you go out of town, just call me. Give me the order, I will order, and have sent to the house. So Friday, but Friday was a fun night. Wow, you played Fortnite.
Yeah, you know, it's a bit of a problem for me now. That you play too much? Yeah, I like to play with them, yeah. The little guy quits early.
Does he? He gets bored? Yeah, he starts, was he YouTubing then? Is he YouTubing people playing Fortnite?
Sometimes. " Yeah, it's much better to watch them. It's better. I don't have to concentrate this way.
Yeah, that's a focus on shit. Right. They fucking build shit so fast, though. Yeah, I used to play when Connor was younger, and I was like, I don't know.
I'm just dead. I don't even know who shot me. Yeah. I can shoot well.
Yeah. I'm not building. It's a war. I'm just shooting you out.
You can build. I'm going to keep shooting your shit down and whatever. Oh, you're fighting them. No, we go together.
Oh, okay. Yeah, we roll together. I don't like to go against them. They kick my ass.
That's stupid. That's true. That's very stupid. It's true.
And Jack and I have a competition about stealing each other's kills, so he gets so mad. Oh, do you want to talk about your new podcast you're going to be doing? No, you're going to do it. Well, no, I'm just running the board.
I'm not on the air. If you want to talk about it. I cannot possibly do a sports show. Yeah, and we're doing another sports show, Phil.
Yeah, fantasy football. He knows. Oh, does he? Yes, this is Phil.
Yeah, I watched the show. It's a great show. This is Phil. Phil is the one that actually said, because we were in the car going, so Saturday we went to the game.
Right. We went to the preseason game because Phil is an avid Dolphins fan. Yes. And we got to see, you know, Tua sit in a jersey.
Tua of what? Tua Tugavivila. What? Tua Tugavivila.
You saw Tua Tugavivila? The quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Oh, his name's Tua? Yeah.
Oh, I thought you said Tua of something. We got to see Tua. Oh. Yeah.
Is Tu the first name of the middle name? No, it's T-U-A. T-U-A. Oh, T-U-A.
Where's he from? His parents didn't like him. Where's he from? Probably Hawaii.
Okay, that sounds Hawaiian. Look, yes, confirmation from the sports talk people that are watching. So you got to see him sit on the sidelines, Tariq Hill sit on the sidelines, Jalen Waddle sit. Like, these are the big guys.
Oh, because it was preseason. Yeah, it's the first game of preseason. Nobody gets there. They don't even put on pads.
Everybody's sitting down. They just wear their jerseys. No pads either. Oh, they're playing flag football or something?
Nope. Two hand touch above the waist. No, they're just three cheerleaders at that point. " Yeah.
So, yeah, so we're driving and my son drops the bomb. " "Okay, great. " And I said, "No, I don't know how to run the fucking board. " Oh, well then, you know, you need to get Palmer to do it.
I go, I need to get fucking Palmer to do it? Are you out of your fucking mind? All my free time. Like, I get Palmer to do enough shit, now I'm gonna say, hey, oh, by the way...
By the way, my son would like... Yeah, oh. So then Boots chimes in and says, if you want Palmer to do this, you need to ask him. Cause he won't say no to you.
Oh. So we're... He kinda tricked me into it, too. Oh, of course.
Oh, yeah. He's a professional. Yeah. And he goes, so you set up the podcast studio there by the shop?
I go, oh, yeah. Yeah, I did. He goes, oh, so you can run my show? I'm like, what?
Okay. He's my son, Michael. Yes, I understand. He's my Padawan.
Yes, I know. We're working on, you know, we're fine-tuning things. Right. So, go ahead.
No, no, go ahead. So, we went and we had a good time in the game, right? We had no issues. Nobody was shitty, which is nice.
But sometimes I, you know, I hope that someone is shitty. Right. You know, I did listen to... You can flex on somebody.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw you wore the sleeveless. Of course. I have to go with the sleeveless.
Sleeveless with the hat. Without question. All right. Yeah, and then the goofy hat that I just acquired.
Yeah. It's very nice. I love the goofy hat. It protects the sun.
That's me. That's how you know I'm approaching 40. I'm like, you know... Oh, yeah, you're right.
If this could just eclipse... Yeah, you start buying bigger hats. Yeah, yeah. I really don't want the redneck look on my back and my neck.
Like, I need the coverage, you know? Just you want to cut the grass in. This is giant. Yeah, yeah, just give me something.
I want to look like fucking Raiden, just coming in with a lightning bolt. You know, yeah, exactly. Right, here in the stadium, right. So, yeah, no conflict.
We drove home. We had a good time. And then we were going, then Sunday we went to this pool party at the mailman's house. Yes, the mailman's house.
Beautiful home. And I'm going to tell you, when Jax knew that you were going to be there. Oh, holy shit. Oh, he was all ready, huh?
He, so we get in the car. Right. And he says, so who's going to be here? And I say, oh, Uncle Greg's going to be there, Alex's going to be there, and then...
She's not Aunt Alex again? No. Okay, just curious. D.
King Palmer will be there. And he goes, this is my chance! Like he erupts in the backseat, just goes nuts. And I'm like, okay, yes, this is your chance.
Don't fuck it up, make sure you better deliver. He came in, guns a-blazing. Yeah. Yeah.
He went there five minutes. Yeah. As soon as he got to the patio. Hey, we're, you know, we don't bullshit around.
Engage in a little small talk inside, soften me up, and then. How are things? Oh, by the way. Yeah.
Oh, by the way, did you set up the studio? Oh, so you're the guy? You're the guy, huh? Oh.
Well, guess what? My dad and I are doing a podcast. Surprise, motherfucker. What do you do on Sundays?
So. Well, we'll see how that plays out. You guys should do it on YouTube. Just a YouTube show.
He wants to do it on YouTube. Yeah, because he's that age where, yeah, everything's on YouTube. We'll see how this goes. Plus, YouTube's free.
I like free. Yeah. Free's nice. Yeah.
That's why you're running the board. You are also free. Oh, right. You caught your cigar.
You get him from upstairs. Then he's gonna have to pay for it. Oh, yeah, make him pay for it. I'm gonna make him out of pocket.
Yeah. You gotta pay the piper. You gotta pay. You guys can use Studio A.
So we can get him a logo and put it up on the screen behind him? Yeah. Ooh, we use Fiverr. Right, yeah, our new favorite, our new favorite place.
You should have seen Eric Gutterson's background on the Bear show. He had like Cigar Dojo. I saw the preview, or when it was coming on, it came up on my screen, and I watched him cough in front of a very nice... It is fun as he gets, like, as he continues to drink throughout the show, like, you see him just stop giving a fuck.
I love, I just, I dig that so much. Is that a fake background he used? I mean, I didn't watch it long enough. It might just be a real neon.
Might be a real neon. It looks really good. They have redone their studio in the last four to six months. Yeah.
The video shots and everything, they look great. It's so much to a point where you could see in detail of him getting more and more inebriated and no longer caring about what we're talking about. Oh, nice. So I can't wait to see him now.
Glad that that's out there. I'll have to go back and watch the entire show. Yeah. About around an hour and 15 or so.
Yeah. Hour and 15. Yeah. So why did he tag you?
I think he's doing some kind of smoke night thing with, I don't know, something with Coop? I got to figure it out. I'll ask Bear. Like, hey.
Some of the guys are doing his jukebox for him, filling in for a couple weeks. With Dave? What? No, the cigar surgeon and someone else is pairing up to do the next one, I believe.
Really? Yeah. I went on top of my body. I saw a thing about it.
Cigar jukebox. It's a great show. Yes. Yes, it is.
So, anything else to add for your week? No, it was a lovely party. It was nice to hang out there. Yeah, we had a good time.
Yeah, it was fun. Swim in the pool. You should not swim in the pool. I put my feet in the pool.
Why wouldn't you swim in the pool, Mike? I didn't bring a suit. We weren't even thinking. You don't fucking know it was a pool party.
Well, he told me about a spa, so I thought he just had a hot tub. " Oh, come on. That would be nice. Would have held hands.
I would love that. I could put your hand on my knee. Yeah. Just like in the meetings upstairs.
Like a normal day. Just like the meeting upstairs, right. You know, before we get into news, though, I do want to say that I did listen to the sports, that sports talk. Oh, yes.
Yeah. And Phil. Yes. He gave some inaccurate information about me.
Oh, did he? Yeah. He's like, oh, yeah, he was a Pats fan and now he's a Bucs fan because of Brady. You guys were arguing about that the other day.
And I'm like, you fuck, you don't even know what you're fucking talking about. It needs to be on this camera, Phil. You're blasting my name. He's talking not, oh, see, now he's not even putting you on.
Oh, I'm on camera one. Oh, you're not even on camera. Yeah, I don't get to see it. That's fine, that's fine.
I don't care, the audio it will say. The audio will let it all play out. I have been, and I will always be, a fucking Patriot fan. God damn it.
When my son was born. Yes, you always were. Right. When my son was born, and we could probably go back to like episode 12 where I could explain this again.
When my son was born, I got season tickets for the Bucs. So you could take your kids to the games. Right. I remember that.
This was well before Brady arrived. So I got to deal with Jameis Winston's blind fucking ass throwing to every other defender. I think both the kids were here when you got season tickets. Both the boys.
They were. Oh, but you decided back then. At that point, it was more for Jacks. Now Justice is finally coming around.
At the party, Adrian and Britton were trying to decide how long they knew each other. Trying to decide which baby she was pregnant with when we met her. Oh, it had to be Jax. No, we, we, they determined that she had just had Jax and was, well, not just, but she was pregnant with Justice, so Jax was a couple of years old, but I thought she was pregnant with Jax.
We've been friends for that long. Yeah. Oh, it's true. Maybe it's not them.
Yeah. Right. Because when we met her, it was here at the shop and she was pregnant. Right.
Yeah. That had to be Jax, man. You think so? Maybe.
I don't know. Who knows? Adrian seems to remember Jack's in a little thing or walking around the shop. Kids are expensive.
Oh, I know. They are. Yeah. So, I am a fucking Patriot fan.
God damn it. I am also a Bucs fan. God damn it. Not because of Brady, but it's nice to have him.
It's nice to have him. It did work out well that he went from one of your favorites to your own. It was one of your favorites, too. It was great.
It was a nice little. It's like he never left, were you? It's here for me the whole time. He probably did that for you.
He did. He actually called me. Hey, what other team do you like? I'm tired of the cold weather.
So, I'm thinking about leaving New England. Where should I go? Tampa would be nice. Tampa would be good.
Tampa would work well for me. How about Miami? No, no. Too far.
Can't go to Miami. Yeah, there's a lot of deception that goes on in Miami. You go meet with that guy, Mr. Ross, and see what he has to say.
Don't go unless he offers you half the team. Half. Half. Half.
I'll take half. After I retire. Be my retirement plan. Look, now he's texting.
Now he's texting. Probably texting Brady. Yeah. Michael's talking shit about you.
Hey, man. Just want to know this is fucked up. Alright, you ready? Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to light up my ozinger for the Patreon, too, and get this going. It's not that big. That's what she said. Probably.
From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly know. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Two. Oh, he was paying attention. Premium cigar imports remained strong through the first five months of 2022, Michael.
S. continued to outpace last year's record year of imports. Yeah. But May's import figures were actually lower than last year.
Yeah, this is where everybody was like, "Stop! S. 43 million more cigars. 43 million dollars.
Million dollars. S. 95 million compared to last year. Was that, so that's Q2?
Yes. No, January through May. Q1. Q1.
Q1. You going to say something else? I can't wait for Q2 numbers. I can't wait for Q3.
No one is importing anything. No one's importing anything. Let's see. The Bahamas has dropped off.
Oh, no. Actually, January of the May of last year, thousands, 15,000. No, January of last year, none. January of this year, or 22nd, 15th.
Yeah, January of last year. Bahamas sent no cigars. Yeah, because nobody was going on cruises. Right.
Well, he sent them here. Oh. S. consumption.
15,000, not a lot. 15,000? It's a small country. What is a...
a Bahama cigar has to taste like fucking complete. Well, there's only 15,000 of them. How good can they be? Super rare.
Super, super rare. This is very rare. Very expensive, very expensive. Costa Rica, ooh, up from 293 to 625.
Dominican Republic, they're down. They're down. 49 to 47. Honduras is down.
Mexico, oh, Mexico's way up. Mexican cigars are doing well. San Andreas, baby. From 3,000 to 9,000.
More rare than the Bahamas cigar. Bahamian cigars. We could do like a whole collection of super limited rare, from the rarest countries. Bahamas.
Bahamas in Mexico. Mexico. Oh, and the Philippines. Ooh, Filipino.
Filipino cigars. Nicaragua, way up 89 to 97, almost 10,000 more there. And the Philippines is down from 461 to 274. 274 total?
274,000. Yes, just 274 cigars. Just 274. We brought it down to 274.
Right. We sent five or six boxes. Right, that's all we had in the Philippines. But if we could do a Costa Rican-Mexican-Filipino sampler, super rare.
$10,000. Okay. It'd be great. Yeah.
We sell two of them. Let's see. First five months remain strong overall. 25% in May compared to May of last year.
Then all the Costa Rican numbers. S. S. Custom Services and information from cigar companies themselves.
Here come the deals baby Here come the deals Here they come Five and one Let's go Guess what We gotta produce numbers This is not a deal Michael This one's not a deal The first La Florida Dominicana NFT humidor Sold Do you know how much it sold for? No I saw that John Carney was Facebooking like a fucking beast though Oh he just bought He bought a drinking Ferrari probably He bought it yeah He might have A lot of money $85,000 American American Dollars The Dominican's first, the Florida Dominicanos first NFT sold for $85,000 yesterday. The NFT was sold via the, I don't know, Uruguay, yeah, Uruguay platform. Wait, U-R-E-E-Q-A.
Is that Uruguay? I don't know. That's not Uruguay. That's not Uruguay.
I can tell you that much. I must stand for something because it's all in capital letters. Yeah. And offered a book chain.
The NFT looks like the La Florida Dominicanos Andalusian Bull Torito, a six and a quarter of a 41 Lonsdale version of the Andalusian Bull, Which is now being referred to as the Golden Bull. We need to do NFTs. No shit. Yeah, just do one.
We got those wooden, those wooden Powstanie cigars that, uh, Sweet Pea made us. There you go. We can sell two of them. Yeah, NFTs.
Or maybe the bobblehead. We'll do your bobblehead. $85,000. Your naked bobblehead that shows the wiener.
Oh yeah, with the little wiener, yeah. Perfect. We call it the wiener. The wiener.
The NFT wiener. $85,000, Michael, for a model of your wiener. This is, it's one of one. Well, you have children, so.
Yeah, boys. That's true. One of three. It's still the same wiener.
Oh, all right. Well, Florida Minicana plans on releasing seven NFTs. All at 85. And no longer making cigars, because there will be no need.
The owner of the NFTs will be able to purchase 70 of the Golden Bull cigars per month. The Golden Bull. Actual cigars, not more NFTs. If the token is sold, the new owner will also be able to purchase the Golden Bull cigars Cigars for as long as they own the token.
Oh, so if you get the Magic Cigar, you can buy the Magic Cigars. For $85,000? $85,000, you get... We will permit you...
to purchase. to purchase. But the bigger one. Let's see.
I saw where they were. Medellin fillers that are grown in Palma, not sold in stores. Golden Bull Humidor 50. Oh, you also get a Humidor that holds 50 cigars.
Oh. First, Illusion Bull Golden NFT Auction, 26 bids, some of which came from cigar retailers. What was the first one? That wasn't the first one.
The first NFT? Yeah. That LFT did. Oh, I don't know.
The other one's not mentioned. No, no, that was the first one. The second auction is scheduled to close tomorrow, August 15th. It had a minimum bid of more than 25,000 ETH.
I don't know what that is. Ether. Ethereum. More than $48,000 as of Sunday afternoon.
This is not the first time I was created a membership program to distribute these specific cigars. Flora Dominicana has done a similar thing with its Flora Day or Club, a club created for people who purchased one of the company's high-end cutters, which started at $16,000. We just need to start selling accessories and NFTs. Yeah.
Limited numbers. You know what? Next year, PCA, $6 million lighter. Fuck outta here.
Oh, there you go. That's right. That's right. What do you think of that, buddy?
Yeah. Fucking eat meat. We'll just bedazzle it regularly. Yeah, I'm gonna fucking, we'll get like little rhinestones and shit on there.
Yeah, yeah. Have your wife a My wife glued little stones on it. You can't touch it. Can't touch this.
And it's not warrantied for life. No. I don't know if it breaks it. It breaks the shit on you.
And we're not letting what's-his-name light a cigar with it. Yeah, it's not my problem. No what's-his-name will be lighting the cigar. No, what's-his-name.
I know who you're talking about. Okay. Avante Cigar Company is shutting down the Pennsylvania factory, moving production to Dominican Republic where they're going to make NFTs. Where they're getting into the NFT business.
NFT business. Beginning next month, there will be one fewer cigar factories in America, Parody Holdings, Parody, P-A-R-O-D-I? Parody. Parody?
Parody? I don't know. How about that cigar, guys? Let me know how I'm supposed to say this.
I don't know. Parody. How do you spell it one more time? P-A-R-O-D-I.
Parody. No, no. That would be P-A-R-A-D-Y. Parody.
There's an actual word called parody. Parody? Parody. Parody.
Parody. Parogies. We're going with Parogies. pierogies is why we decided to go with pierogi holdings LLC the parent of the avante and pierogi brands of small cigars and uh what are those mark checking his heart rate has announced that it'll be shutting down it's done more pa factory at the end of the month marking an end to more than a century of making cigars in the usa just too expensive here just so much better to go to dr and make nfts right the last two years have been difficult due to the The COVID-19 pandemic, it was so much better pandemic in the Dominican Republic.
It's getting harder and harder to hire skilled people. Oh, rolling cigars in America is a dying skill. Apparently. Able to learn and manage production activities to guarantee business sustainability in medium or long-term, said the company in a statement.
Furthermore, all costs have risen. Those reasons have been crucial in the decision why we are making NFTs. Why we're making NFTs. Parody will source its cigars from a family of tobacco traders which is said to contract the manufacturing to Alorora in the Dominican Republic.
Parody says the cigars will came to be made with only American tobacco, also the farmers should keep their jobs. That's good. That's good. Yeah.
That's nice. Following the same process that's used since the company was founded according to the Morning Call, I don't know what that is, a total of 17 people will be laid off at the end of this month when the manufacturing operation closes. 17? Yeah, they have a big rolling.
They didn't have a big rolling. It's a huge impact. That's right. 15 of them are eligible for severance packages.
Will the economy be able to recover? That's the question. Two people are getting screwed though. Only 15 of them get severance packages.
The other two. You know what? You haven't been here long enough. They come in the office.
I just want you to know, you fucking always showed up late. You always left early. You took long breaks. You're consistently sick.
You're getting nothing. You throw up all the time. You're always vomiting. Always vomiting.
You're always vomiting. This is so much vomit. The company was founded as a Srirachi. Srirachi?
Sriracchi, Sriracchi, brothers, named after three Italian brothers who had to come to America and started the company. Eventually, the company changed hands and was renamed Parodi in 1930, following the stock market crash in 1929. It moved from New York City to Scranton, Pennsylvania, and remained in Scranton until 2013, when it moved its operation to the neighboring Dunmore, PA, which remained open as the company's distribution facility. Manufacturing, Siago, Toscana, SPA purchased Parodi in 2015.
Parodi. Parodi. Yeah. You think they move it over to Italy?
You would think. Well, the Italian guys don't own it anymore. Oh, they're gone? It's Perotti.
It's a Polish company now. You think so? I don't know. We're going with Polish.
I love pierogies. That's pierogi. That's the way we're going to call it, pierogi. What is the French thing?
The Perun or some shit? I don't know. I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, fucking.
Canadians now. I'll look it up. Crownheads. Crownheads.
How do you say that? Something else. Sufumato. S-Fumato in C-Major.
S-Fumato in C-Major begins arriving at stores. It's here. We have it. We have it here.
The Sufarato in C-Major. It is within our possession. Crown Heads, PCA 2022 exclusives, arrived at stores last week. Crown Heads began shipping the cigar, which is offered in a single, 6 3/4 by 48, Parejo size.
The S-Fumato. S-Fumato. For the love of God, man. The C-Major uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut hybrid wrapper, an Ecuadorian Sufato binder.
Poutine? Poutine? Poutine? What, you back to the other store again?
Poutine. Oh, that's the French. The French. Canadian thing.
Oh, okay. Poutine. Yeah. Let's see, it's being made at Tablacalera Pichardo, Nicaragua.
The cigar was offered to retailers who play stores at the 2022 PCA Convention Trade Show, which took place, yes, we all know, because you put it at the end of every story last month, Charlie. Did he? Yes. At the end of each story, it said, yes, Phil is nodding his head.
Crownhead said it would produce enough cigars to fulfill the order's place during the trade show, similar to how it offered its old last year's, the La Patissiere, which has since gone on to become a regular production line. Oh, so last year, if you're at the show, you could buy it. Right. Nah, you could buy it now, too, though.
Eh, that's okay. I don't disagree with that statement. No, you're okay with that? No, that's okay.
Yeah. Hey, here's a limited... So you just got it first, if you went to the show. Well, it's totally different now.
You know, now they've upgraded from the standard fucking ribbon on the bottom of the foot. Oh, and they've banded it. Oh! Yeah.
Nice. And it's different sizes. Oh. Yeah.
So, I think that that's a good approach. Look, man, I think that there's a lot of things that everybody's doing wrong, though, as far as PCA-exclusive cigars, with the exception of Padrón. Yes. Because they do it right.
Oh, but they're Padrón. They are Padrón. Yes. Mm-hmm.
We didn't go see him at the show. We did not. I saw him take pictures with... George?
Yeah, George. We did place an order, Padrón. No samples. Still no samples?
Still no samples from George. Did you see George? Did you place your order or did Greg? I did.
Did you see George? No. But I should have said, hey, you know, I was here last year. Hey, where's George?
George said he'd give me a sample and then he disappeared. And then he came back out with a full glass. Yeah, he got some bourbon and he just fucking said, alright, yeah, fuck these guys. Alright, they're gonna produce enough cigars to fill the orders, but they're making 2,500 boxes of the cigar.
What? So they're going to... Up here it says, Crown Heads said it would produce enough cigars to fulfill the orders placed during the trade show. Then later it says, Crown Heads produce 2,500 boxes of the C Major for 2022.
Is that to fill the orders, or is that the... I don't know, I don't know. Or is that the "Hey, fuck it"? It's a little confusing.
They said they were producing enough to fill the orders. And then this is how many we're making. So it sounds like they already had these made before they figured out how many orders. Maybe they did.
I see there's a bit of fuckery about it. Yes. Let's see. John Huber said it's somewhat of a departure for us.
Did you get my skip clips? My audio skip clips? No, I haven't done skip clips. I had to do Miss Dana McCool's show today.
Super busy. Super busy. And then I got another show tonight and tomorrow night. It's very busy.
Very busy. And now apparently I'm doing another sports show on Sunday afternoons. Yeah. Who knew that it was going to be such a time suck for you?
We just should have made NFTs. Right. Would have been a lot easier. Can we do podcast LF?
Of course. We'll make a little microphone. Scar Houses Podcast NFT. That's right.
We'll give it to John Carney. We'll have him pedal it. Oh, there you go. Hey, 50/50 split, John.
Let's see. The S Fumato comes from a painting technique developed by Leonardo da Vinci. The idea is to soften the area between colors to avoid creating sharp lines. In doing so, it creates an image that is more lifelike because a human eye doesn't focus on harsh transitions between two colors.
Why does it get C major? C major is a music thing. I would assume it was a music thing. You know what?
I try not to sweat the details. Alright. They made us a cigar. They made us a cigar.
Call it the same major. Call it whatever you want. You know? Viaje celebrating 15 years with three anniversary cigars.
So one for every five years. Oh, yeah, yeah. I didn't respond to that email. We talked about the Viaje emails on a previous episode.
Were you supposed to send them to me? It doesn't look exciting to me. Oh, well, let's read it. You know what?
Very short story. Might not be very exciting. Viaje is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, by doing so with a trio of new cigars that are scheduled to begin shipping to retailers on August 15th. Oh, that's today.
We missed it. We didn't get those. No, it's too late. That is today.
That is today. Each of the three Viaje 15th anniversary blends, called Black, Silver & Gold, are Nicaraguan Puros, and each is offered in a six and a quarter of 52 Torpedo Vitola. A representative from the company confirmed that Michael did not answer the emails and they will not be getting them at Cigar Hustler. That is correct.
Let's see, the company has not yet announced pricing because Michael did not buy any, so they're going to raise the prices. I am but one person. Production numbers or any specific details about the three blends and how they're different from each other, other than confirm that they're all different. These three, not the same.
Not the same? How many are you making? Enough? I would say somewhere between a lot and just the right amount.
Yes, a lot and some. Yeah. One more story, then we have a floor to start. All right, thank God.
Anastasia Yellow Label Cartel. When Charlie was a child, one of his favorite games was to play Find the Different... This could be not Charlie. When Charlie was a child?
Well, it was not me. Like Charlie Minato? It says when I was a child. When I was a child.
Could be Charlie, it could be... Could be Brooks. Could be Brooks. Could be Patrick.
Could be Patrick. One of them. Could be some of the other kids that I saw there. There's three of them, they are completely different.
They are not the same. No, there's more. There's Brian as well. Oh, there's four of them.
They're all different, not the same. I'm doing like the Viaje guys. What are you doing like the Viaje guys? I think there's more.
They're all different. They're all different. Prices may vary. Prices may vary.
When somebody was a child, a woman's favorite games was to play. Find the difference. Puzzles in newspapers. There'd be two similarity drawn images, but the time...
Okay, let's skip all this. I was bringing that up because I was wondering exactly why I was getting another Anastasian review, and it's a cigar I remember buying several times over the past couple years. So I stared at it, much like I did those puzzles trying to figure out just what was different. Oh, I don't like this story at all.
I'm going to tell you right now, if the story hasn't started off with something like, you know, fuck these people. I can't believe they're making this or whatever the case may be. You know, Charlie didn't write it. Charlie's the guy, you know.
We'll run to the Florida story. Okay. Anastasia's coming out. Right.
Anastasia's coming out. Very great things. There's different sizes and things. What are you doing, Phil?
Phil's like he's about to shoot me or something. He's got his finger right there. All right. In Immokalee, Florida, Michael, three suspects have been arrested after allegedly robbing a man of $3,000, They're beating him and forcing him to dance in a woman's dress while being filmed.
Who are these people? It's very slow in Immokalee, not a lot to do, apparently. Not only are we robbing people, we're filming them for YouTube. This is fantastic.
According to the Collier County show, this was sent to me by Amanda Morris. I give people credit for the stories they send. Put on this dress, goddammit. Put on this dress.
You're gonna fucking dance. I'm gonna beat you up and then you're gonna dance. Or you're gonna die. Yo, wow, what's a dance?
Yeah. Ooh, like, you go Sam and Sam? Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Let's see. , the victim was walking home on North 3rd Street near 2nd Avenue when he was kidnapped by two men and thrown into an SUV. While they were driving around, the victim said he was pistol-whipped, beaten, and even cut with a knife. What the fuck is he doing rolling on a 3K?
Let's read on and find out. Yeah. The man was taken to the home of a man who identified his 39-year-old Noah Navarro. They took him to one of their houses.
These are not smart crooks. No. At the home, the victim was beaten, stripped, and robbed. The woman identified as 37-year-old Betsy DeJuice.
Betsy. Beat the man while threatening to kill him. She forced the man to wear... Betsy doesn't have all her teeth.
I assume one of her dresses. You get over here right now. while filming the incident. At one point, the victim heard the trio mention they had to get rid of him before he died inside the home.
We gotta get rid of this guy. We gotta get rid of this guy. We gotta get rid of this guy. He's bleeding everywhere.
There's blood. According to a report, after the beating, the suspect forced the man back into the SUV and drove-- Look, we're gonna go to jail. We don't want to go to jail for murder. Right.
Mm-hmm. But there's blood everywhere. That's the right approach. Get him back in the car!
Yeah. Get him out of here. Where they threw him into the side of an unknown road, the suspects tried to continue beating the man, but he ran away to a nearby church where he called 911. In the dress?
I would assume he's still in the dress. That's fantastic. The suspect fled the scene after a vehicle was headed in their direction. Oh, here comes a car!
Get back in the car! Let's go, we gotta go! According to the arresting officer, the victim was flown to St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach with several facial swellings.
Oh, so that's down south. Yeah, Mockley's down south, so it's sort of in the middle swampy area. Oh, so that's like right on the coast. Some inbreds in there.
There you go, that's right. I get it, I see what you're saying. The suspect tried to continue beating the man. It was revealed the video of the robbery was being shown to the public at the public at the just planned the crime, allegedly paying $300 to have the crime committed.
It was revealed that the video of the robbery was being shown to the public. Oh, and that Betsy, that's Betsy, right? And Betsy paid them $300 to do it. So Betsy paid the two guys $300.
I need you to go find a guy, take his money, beat him up, put him in a dress and we're gonna film it. And this is going to be great. We're going to be TikTok fucking superstars. That's right.
We're going to be TikTok famous. On August 11th, the victim was given a photo lineup of the suspects and identified Betsy as the person that set him up. She made us do it. And Navarro, as he contributed to the beating, the man stated he knew Betsy prior to the incident.
Oh, I feel a lover's quarrel. I think the money was just a bonus that he had on. Oh, you got 3K on you. Yeah.
According to the police department, on August 12th, the witness identified 46-year-old Blanca, ooh, can't say that name at all, Mijadanina, as a contributor to the beating of the victim. Deputies arrested all three suspects on felony charges for kidnapping, robbery, and aggravated battery. All three suspects are still in custody, but very popular on TikTok. But very popular on TikTok.
They're blowing up. They're blowing up on TikTok. Excellent. All right, Mike, you got a listener of the week?
Oh, Michael and Phil will be in an event this weekend. Michael and Phil will be at Nickel City Cigars. Isn't that this weekend? It's this weekend.
Yeah, you didn't give me the Shop of the Week at Palski. Well, wasn't that going to be the Shop of the Week, too? I'm just trying to plug your event. It was going to be the Shop of the Week.
Oh, well, who's the Listener of the Week? I'll tell you who the Listener of the Week is. Oh, we actually have one. Yeah, hold on.
Alright, I'm ready. I got the button. I'm ready on the button. Hold on.
I'm ready on the button. Oh, sorry. I got excited. Where the hell is it?
What are you pointing over there for? Uh, maybe he reached out to me via Facebook. Oh, who is it? Uh, see, you're aggressively prepared, as always, for the show, Michael.
Good job. He didn't reach out to me. I didn't reach out to me. I didn't poop!
Oh, please! Just trying to fill time, Michael. Brittany, uh, what if Michael, uh, says he did something again? John Smith.
I fucking dare burn you with my smokes. What? Sorry? John Smith.
Is that a fake name? No! Is that the guy who married Pocahontas? Is his wife Pocahontas?
No. John Smith, look. That's not a man. That's a picture.
It's a picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's John Smith. Allegedly.
John Smith is the listener of the week, allegedly. He reached out to me and he had some Halloween Horror Night Universal questions. Oh. And I let him know.
Oh. He said he was a huge fan of the show. First sentence. Second sentence.
Now we need some information, John Smith. Oh, nice. What do you need to know? Now you need some information.
Phil wants to say something. Can I see the picture? I feel like I know the John Smith name. Yeah, he married Pocahontas.
He's in Jersey. Is this on Facebook? No, Instagram. Oh.
Yeah, why? You think you know this, Ben? No. No, he doesn't.
It says Jersey. Does he spell John with two N's? No. That's a different Smith.
Wow. I know what you're talking about now, it's a different Smith. Yeah. That's actually funny.
We'll explain later. All right. And shop of the week, Michael? Nickel City Cigars.
Oh, congratulations, Nickel City Cigars. And congratulations on your three year anniversary. And then you're having Phil and Michael there on Saturday. August 24th.
August 20th. August 20th. We'll be there. Flight's early, by the way.
m. What time will we be there on Saturday? Like noon? I don't know.
At Nickel City. You're there noon to 2, then you head back to the airport to get another flight and come back home. We'll be there like, I don't know. And they're taking their $7,000 each.
We ain't doing much in Buffalo, buddy. I don't know what's going on. No, no, I was just, you know, for the listeners. I'd better get there like 4 o'clock or so.
He would like to go by the stadium if possible so we can get a picture or something. Yeah? Fill with. Oh, just not Josh Allen.
Why not? I don't like him. He might be, he's definitely top five, maybe top, he's probably top, he's probably top three, he's probably top three quarterback. I mean, who's he?
Patrick Mahomes ain't better than him. That's not what I care about. He's in my division. Yeah.
Well, Tyreek Hill said Tua is the greatest quarterback in the league. Yeah, that's true. I mean, if you pay me $120 million, I'll fucking tell you whatever the hell you want to say about any quarterback too. But yeah, he's the greatest.
Love that guy. Let's see, three year anniversary celebrating, only five days away, please, please something, oh, what kind of thing did Tommy send? You can't open it. Yeah.
All right, well, hey, let's wrap it up. All right, everybody, this has been episode 241 of the Cigar Hustler Podcast. Thank you. The Cigar Hustlers Podcast, its owners and its sponsors take no responsibility for the opinions or statements made by the talk show host or their guests.
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Show Notes
Industry News, I guest Caller and if your in the swap you better know how to dance!!