Cigar Hustlers Podcast 252 Who’s Your Caddy?
Episode Summary
Episode 252 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast opens with the usual shop-life banter between Mike and Mike — a new sponsor read for A Rack Above garage storage, staffing and shift-swapping headaches at the shop, and a long recap of the hosts' Halloween weekend, including working a haunted attraction in zombie makeup and dealing with drunk guests at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights. Phil, as always, contributes nothing but has a fourth camera anyway.
The news block (The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report) digs into the week's industry headlines. The biggest item is Cigars International's plan to build a ground-up superstore in Jacksonville, Florida for 2023 — roughly 6,400 square feet of retail plus 2,000+ square feet of patio, a walk-in humidor and full bar — with the hosts reacting to the reported $4–7 million build cost per store and Scandinavian Tobacco Group's broader superstore expansion across Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. They also cover Drew Estate's seasonal Liga Privada returns: the Unico Series UF4 for Casa de Montecristo in Countryside, Illinois (a 6x52 with Connecticut Habano wrapper, Brazilian binder and Nicaraguan filler, released annually since 2010 and a spinoff of the T52 blend), and the Liga Privada Pancetta, a 4¾x50 short belicoso exclusive to Barrister Cigars in Union, NJ and the Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop in Havertown, PA.
Other stories include Fratello's new La Floridian — an Ecuadorian Cameroon–wrapped Toro at $9.99 made at La Aurora, exclusive to all 123 ABC Fine Wine & Spirits stores in Florida, with Omar de Frias reviving a dormant 1909 Tampa trademark (prompting a tangent on pre-predicate-date brand loopholes) — plus the return of the Quesada Holiday Keg for 2022 and a passing note that Dunbarton's Sobremesa earned a 91 at halfwheel. Gurkha's Italian distribution and Lambert Cigars' Hungarian deal get quick mentions.
The back half is pure entertainment: an international news oddity about a German doctor jailed over a cocaine-related oral sex death, and a new "Florida News" segment covering a Titusville woman arrested driving a golf cart drunk on I-95 and a Miami-Dade armed robbery over chicken nuggets outside a Wendy's. The show closes with Listener of the Week Andrew McCreary, Shop of the Week Cigar Experience in Monroe, Louisiana, and an upcoming appearance at Smoke on the Water.
In This Episode
- 01Sponsor read and shop banterA Rack Above garage storage sponsor spot, plus shift-coverage drama and staffing talk at the shop.
- 02Halloween weekend recapThe hosts recount working a haunted attraction in zombie makeup and dealing with drunk guests at Halloween Horror Nights.
- 03Cigars International Jacksonville superstoreCI plans a 6,400-square-foot ground-up superstore in Jacksonville for 2023 as STG's retail footprint grows to ten locations.
- 04Drew Estate UF4 and Pancetta returnThe annual Liga Privada Unico Series UF4 comes back for Casa de Montecristo while the Pancetta returns to Barrister Cigars and Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop.
- 05Fratello La Floridian at ABC Fine Wine & SpiritsOmar de Frias revives a dormant 1909 Tampa brand for a Florida-exclusive Cameroon-wrapped Toro, sparking a talk on trademark and predicate-date loopholes.
- 06Quesada Holiday Keg 2022The keg-packaged holiday Toro returns after a five-year hiatus, with jokes about barrel-versus-keg packaging rivalries.
- 07International news oddityA German plastic surgeon jailed over a cocaine-and-oral-sex death is ordered to pay the victim's medical bills.
- 08Florida News segmentA drunk golf cart driver on I-95 in Titusville and a Miami-Dade gunpoint robbery over chicken nuggets headline the new segment.
- 09Listener and Shop of the WeekAndrew McCreary is Listener of the Week and Cigar Experience in Monroe, Louisiana takes Shop of the Week.
Brands & Cigars Discussed
Linked items are in our shop. Mentions without a link aren’t currently stocked or couldn’t be matched with confidence.
Transcript
You're really enjoying that coffee, aren't you? Mmm, mmm, making cutbacks. I didn't get my Starbucks. Oh.
I hope that's the right number. 252, I think it is. Whatever. Welcome to the Cigar Hustler Podcast, episode 250.
200. Yeah. The holidays are upon us, Michael, where are your declarations? decorations.
Are they in your attic? I don't have an attic. Oh, why? Because attics are dirty.
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Rock above. So, how was the event for it? I didn't come back. Oh, damn.
There's no fuel in this lighter. I'm so unprepared. I'm so unprepared. The event was all right, man.
It was pretty good. I miss my people, though. I miss my people, though. I miss my people.
I work the day shift. It's hard to do a double, Michael, at my age. You need some shots on the peepee. I don't think I need shots on the peepee.
We're gonna get you a CPAP machine. We're gonna get you... It's mostly the feet with the orthopedic insoles that are in the shoes. By the end of the day, the feet have had it.
But you sit down when you're here at event night. No, I don't. You can, though. No, I can't.
You choose not to. I can't. I just can't. I physically can't.
There's things that have to be done. There's slack that have to be picked up. I'm picked up. There's things that don't happen that if I don't know.
So, how do I fix this? What do I get you? Like a type of an electronic? Oh, the little, like a mark card, like they have a target in me.
Yeah, something. But I need something that's kind of smaller, a little more mobile. You know what I mean? I don't know.
Something... It's only once a month. I was just tired that day. It'd be worth it for me, though.
To have you here with me would be worth it. So, I would like that very much. I went back out and helped Chet again Saturday. I saw.
For the final night of the haunt. Yeah, you know, I just want you to know, I invited you out Saturday to Universal. Yes. Hey, come on out during the day.
Right. Now, who went? Was it just you? Just me and the kids.
Oh, because the text message had typos, and I wasn't exactly sure. Oh, yeah, well, you know, you could figure it out. Well, yeah, I knew where you were and that you were going, but... Yeah, just me and the kiddos.
I told the wife we would spend the day together since I was not going to be available in the evening. And then I covered for Keanu last night. Oh, I saw that. Why did you?
Yeah. And I invited you to that, too. Come hang out. I was cooking dinner, me and the wife.
We usually have, make sure we have, with her schedule and my schedule, we don't have a whole lot of meals together. I understand. So, we usually try to make sure we have Sunday night dinner, and then we like brief each other on what's going on for the week, what we have to do, who's going to be where when. I get it.
Right. I get it. But why did he have to leave? I don't know.
He went to Halloween Horror Nights, actually. Oh. Sunday night. But here's the thing.
So as of right now, Greg and I are picking up Monday evenings. Yes. Right. Yeah, I guess Greg does this evening.
No. So here's what happened. Oh. This was my evening.
Right. And it's Halloween. Right. It's Halloween.
He has no children. So I called Keanu and I said, hey, can you cover my shift for me? Oh. Because it's Halloween.
" Because he called me at 10:05 Saturday morning. I overslept, I'm running late, can you maybe go open up the shop? Saturday morning? Saturday morning.
He opens on Saturday. I said, I'm in my pajamas, I'm in the middle of cooking breakfast, shop already should have opened five minutes ago, you just need to hurry. Right. So, he said he was gonna call Greg, I don't know what time that, that'll work.
He obviously didn't call Greg. Oh, he didn't tell Greg either? I would assume that he didn't, because if he did, well, I usually get an irate message, text message or phone call from Greg. I figured he'd just tell Greg and then you didn't know, because I don't think Greg drove out here to cover for 10 minutes.
No, no, no, he wouldn't do that, but he would be upset. Oh, gotcha. He would express his discontent to me. " Well, you can't...
Well, he could send a text message to Brittany and not tell anybody. "Oh, hey, I forgot to clock in. I forgot to clock in. " Greg called me today.
I clocked in at 3:00 on Friday. Right. Well, so, you know, here, listen. Here's the thing.
Keanu's a great, great guy. Oh, he's a good guy. Great employee. And the reality is that he's out of his house right now because of the storm.
He might have been home because his reason for not hearing the alarm was the dehumidifiers were so loud. He's at somewhere else with dehumidifiers. Oh, somewhere else that have less flooding, less flooding than his house. Yeah, I don't know, some other shit.
Sleeping in the boat? So it's like, it's not, even though, listen, at the end of the day, he's still responsible to be here on time. Right. I'm a little more forgiven right now, you know what I mean?
It's like, all right, bro, you know, you could see, like, you could see the way things are getting done, The way that he normally does things and how he's doing things lately and like his thought process, you could tell that he's mentally fatigued. Oh, there's a lot on him right now. Right. And he's, and we have him, he has less hours now than ever before because, you know, we're trying to give him.
Right. Time to, excuse me, about choked. Yeah. Time to sort through.
Yeah. The whole thing. And just, yeah, just life. I mean, you know, I don't want to bear this kid down and have him, you know, all right, I understand.
Open to close. Right. See you later. You know what I mean?
Like, that's just not right. You have Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. How do you feel about Sunday to Saturday? Open or close?
Salary. Salary based. What do you think, Phil? We should get Phil's input on this.
Oh, yeah, Phil. Phil's finally got a camera. Oh, wait, I don't think... No, his mic is on.
Hello, Phil. Phil, you got anything to say, Phil? Phil, anything to say? Oh, apparently Phil's a little closed mouth today.
It must be the camera. He must be nervous. Yeah, first time. First time without the camera.
Hmm. Very strange. Well, we'll check back with Phil shortly. I'm sure he's got something to say later.
But you saw my zombie makeup Saturday. I did. You kind of went all out on that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I went all out on zombie makeup. So what I told Chet was, I don't want to be behind the barrel. I didn't like behind the barrel. Because you got to crouch?
It's got to be uncomfortable. Well, there's a metal scaffold thing there, and you sit for a minute until the people come, and you stand up. You put, oh, look out, push it over, and you got to pull it back up if there's like 10 people. It's a whole thing.
Oh, yeah, it's a lot of work. So I sent him a picture, go, look, I'm a zombie. I went to meander. I went to...
I went to Rome. I went to Rome. Let me Rome. Right.
So he put me in the campground. Okay. In the campground. But then I felt stupid, hiding behind somebody going, boo, whatever.
And so one time I just meandered. And I was like, oh, look, there's a zombie. But then I had an idea. So that last big tent, before you get to the second cabin, I got in the tent.
And people come by, I yelled, hey, my tent! They said this is my tent, get away from my tent! So I was a crazy old man in the tent. That seemed to work really well.
People really liked that. " So I did that all night. That was actually fun, I enjoyed it. And then you could take a little nap every once in a while and no one would know.
Yeah, you lay down with three people, right. A little siesta. I'm going to close my eyes, I'm going to miss this crowd of people. They're not even going to know.
Drunk people like to fight with you, apparently. Oh really? Oh yeah, two ladies got right down in my face and told me it was their tent. Oh, no.
Argued with me that it was their tent. Uh, one kid was dressed as Mario. He was probably about as old, somewhere between your two boys. Yeah.
Not old, but not young. Okay. He was dressed as Mario, so I yelled at Mario, and his father told him to go kick me. Nice.
" Mario, I will kick your ass. " Yeah. What a douchebag. Yeah.
One drunk guy, um, was-- You know what, son? Go kick him. He was halfway between the first cabin and the third cabin, and now there's rope that sort of directs you, like rope rails. The guy had a hold of one of them, and he's...
His people took off and left him. And people are just done with this shit. Yeah, so I had to break character, I go, "Sir, come on, sir, I'll help you. " So two more drunk people came back to get him.
Oh, so it was three drunk people. Yeah, three drunk people. Take a TikTok thing. One, a drunk asshole, meet another drunk asshole.
Can't they check this on the tractor when they're bringing people out? We're gonna need the breathalyzer on you. Not breathalyzer, but, you know, if the guy can't walk... You know, this is the problem with these things, right?
You have to deal with people, you know, and... There's no way for them to do that, they're not gonna... You know, it's just like, you know, I'm sure Universal has it all geared up. Oh, I'm sure.
You know, you touch, you fucking touch anybody, you're gonna be prosecuted. And they're no bullshit. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're not fucking around.
Right. And I guess you have to be in that scenario because... Yeah. And I will tell you, to be honest, the only, like, I'm on probably my highest alert when I'm at fucking Halloween Horror Nights every year.
Right. You know, universal, normal hours, I mean, yeah, some people are fucking curmudgeony and pricks or whatever, you know, just because whatever, it's hot or... Right, but they're not mean normally. Yeah, you know, every once in a while you'll come across some douchebag, right?
it's not as likely as you know in normal universal times then like Halloween Horror Nights you come across drunk invincible assholes you know what I mean yeah they're trying to get their nerve up for lack of a better word so they're drinking you know what I mean like give me a fucking break dude just have a good time don't let me embarrass you in front of your girlfriend A couple of customers from upstairs came through. Oh yeah? Yeah. I don't think they recognize me, thank goodness.
I'm calling around on my hands and knees. How'd you know? I recognize faces. Oh.
But you don't know who they were? No, faces, not names. Gotcha. No.
" But yeah, I saw him when he came through. Very nice. My son Connor went with us. Okay.
Yeah. He was doing anything? Yeah, he was scaring too. He took the barrel job.
Oh. Oh, yeah, he put a big lab coat on and had this mask like Chet wore that looks like the breathing mask thing. Right. Yeah.
Respirator? Respirator thing, yeah. I got you, don't worry. Thank you, a good thing in the word.
Gas mask, we'll get a gas mask. Okay, perfect. Yeah. Yeah.
Right. Right. So. Did Phil go?
No, no, Phil didn't go. Do you want to ask him? Oh, sure, we'll say, hey, Phil, Phil, what'd you do Saturday night? Hmm.
Oh. Still nothing. Still nothing from Phil. He's got nothing, he's got nothing to say.
Nothing at all. Interesting. Lovely, I mean, we bought a fourth camera and everything for Phil. Yeah, so quiet today.
So quiet over there. It's not like him. No, no, I mean, he can see fine, he's still got his glasses on. He fucking weaseled his way onto the show.
Right, now he's just not talking at all. And now he's not saying anything. So strange. Weird.
All right, Phil, we'll check back again later. See if he shows up. Oh, OCO to all our Indian listeners, American Indian, today starts American Indian Heritage Month. OCO?
is hello in Cherokee. OCO, sorry, OCO is hello in Cherokee. What about all the other Native Americans? We're going to do one a week.
Oh. You got Seminole? I mean, we're from Florida. You don't have Seminole?
There's Cherokees here. They are, I feel, without insulting the other Indian nations, one of the more famous. You think so? I think.
Maybe not in the state of Florida because we had the Seminoles. Well, they were the Code Talkers in World War I and World War II. Oh, really? They were the Code Talkers?
Code. You don't know that story? No. Oh, one of the few codes that could not be broken by the bad guys.
I don't know, we were the Allied. What were the other group called? I don't know. Oh, they used Cherokee...
Axis? We'll go with Axis. Yeah. They used Cherokee Indians as code talkers.
World War II? World War I and World War II. Both. Okay.
It was 40 of them. Oh. I really need to switch this on with one of the other arms in storage. Yeah.
Phil complained on his show. He thinks it's a cord. You can't get the cord out. Look, it's in the arm.
But anyway, they would, you know, talk in Cherokee, back and forth to the different groups, and they couldn't break the code. Gotcha. They tried to capture them. I gotta tell you, I am more of a, this is gonna be interesting, I'll have to deal with this in a second.
Moaner? Comanche. Comanches. Oh, Comanches.
Yeah. They were the mean ones. That's right, that's right. They were the, steal your white women and scalp the golden hair off of them type people.
Ruthless. They were the best one. They were the best, they were the best hunter killers, right? Um, I'm going with mean.
I don't know. Oh, killers, maybe. Yeah, maybe. No, they were the best warriors.
The best warriors. Comanches. I feel that's, you know, every group's got their good ones and their bad ones. I feel like there's data that I'll tell you.
Can you name a famous, uh, Comanche chief? No, I couldn't tell you. Can you name a Cherokee fancy chief? No.
Sitting Bull. I'm sure you've heard of him. It sounds like he didn't do much. Well, he sat on bulls.
Yeah. I don't know what to tell you. Maybe he was a very wise man. Didn't sound like a great warrior.
Very wise man. He sits on bulls. Yeah. I know the Comanche general, kill 'em all.
Kill 'em all? Oh! Sounds very mean. Sounds mean.
He was a great warrior. They would just send him out and he would just wipe out armies by himself. Where was Brittany when you went Saturday to the Universals? She had to do like a funeral thing.
Oh. Mm-hmm. Very sad. The assistant principal of the school.
Oh, yeah, she told me about that. They're still doing funeral? Well, they just did the funeral on Saturday. So what was the thing they did at school she told me about?
That was the thing at school. The service? Oh, like during school hours. That was for like the kids.
Oh, but that wasn't the funeral. Correct. That was more like a celebration of life for the man. I don't think Catholics do.
No, for the woman. Oh, it was a woman? Mm-hmm. A Catholic priestess?
A Catholic priestess? No, she works at the school. She's assistant principal of the school. Well, didn't a man just die recently, too?
A man just died? I don't know. I thought she swore she told me about a man that died. No, I mean, who knows?
What do I know? You don't keep up with those things. It's not that I don't keep up with these things. The day-to-day activities.
I don't think that that's the case either. It's been a little absent-minded lately. Oh. Oh, welcome to my world.
If I can't find my keys, I look in the refrigerator, first place I checked. That's good. The refrigerator is a safe place. Just getting ready.
For the days when I can't find things. Yeah, and then she went out with her friends for a little bit, and they kind of... Oh, girls' night. It was kind of like girls' afternoon.
Oh. Yeah. Is it like, what you said, my wife does on the girls' drink? Like wild and crazy and...
Looking for strange dick? Looking for strange dick. Right. Just for the afternoon?
I don't think so. I don't think, you know... Oh, it's just my wife. Who knows?
I don't think so. You'd have to ask her. You'd have to ask Brittany. Oh, we're on the show next week.
Are you going to have me emasculated again? Sure, we'll have a slow week next week. Great. Getting into the holidays.
A lot of emasculation has to go on. Yeah. So, we have a new segment towards the end of the show tonight? Do we?
Today, tonight, whatever it is? Yes. Oh, you'll like it. You'll be very happy.
And I think that was it. There was something that happened. Oh, I saw that the SoccerCon got a 91 on Half Wheel, which is pretty interesting to me. That's interesting to me.
Yeah, I thought that was where the, the, the, the, yeah, the Saka gun. Yeah. We can talk about more about that on the Patreon. Yeah.
I, I saw that too. I almost pulled the story. I'm like, oh no, we're not done. It's just a review.
It's just a review. There was something else that happened. So I understood she was like, oh, hmm. Uh, well, we have, we have, uh, wasn't a lot that happened this week.
No? No, no, not a tremendous amount. Things start to kind of fizzle at this point. I think towards the end of the year.
Yeah. Right. Uh, but we have a international story, which is fascinating. Yeah.
We're going to have some, you know, regular stuff we always do. Okay. You ready? Shall we go ahead and start?
Let's get into it. We're 20 minutes in. Yeah. It's been camera two this whole time.
You're not as good as Phil. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Toon. Gorka announces Italian distribution agreement, Michael.
Oh. We don't really care. Lambert Cigars adds Hungarian distribution, Michael. Okay.
Have you ever heard of Lambert Cigars? No. And I didn't know there was a big cigar market in Hungary. Mm-mm.
Anyway. Moving on. Cigars International plans... They usually want food.
Yeah, because they're always hungry. So funny. Cigars International plans Jacksonville store for 2023. Yep.
Cigars International, the world's largest retailer of cigars, is planning on opening up a new store in Jacksonville, Florida next year. The company has plans to build a new ground-up storefront at 4906 Town Center Parkway in Jacksonville. It will be like the company's other superstore locations and will include a 6,400 square foot of retail space inside more than a 2,000 square feet of patio space. Cigars at international superstores included large walk-in humidor and a full bar.
Previously, the company had said that these new stores will cost between, do you want to guess? Uh, let me see, two and three million dollars? Four to seven million dollars! Really?
Yes, so I should do that. Four to seven million dollars! What a million dollars. Sarah Santos, president of Cigars International.
Four to seven million. Yeah, told Cigar House, a podcast, that the company hopes to open the store in the second half of 2023. Interestingly, this is the only store the company has planned for the market at this time. In recent years, Cigars International has typically entered a new market with a pair of stores.
Like the two they put in ten. Why is it four to seven million? I mean, what, is it gold floors or? I don't know.
Maybe the Jacksonville is high retail. I don't think so. Garage? You see the store.
Concrete. That's where I got the name BDP. It's nice. Oh, they're nice.
It's got a garage door open up things for the air. The other wraps around. And then a little bar. Yeah, it's a big bar.
It's got a medium bar. Yeah. With indoor seating away from the garage door. And then usually a clean his and her bathroom.
Does that include the inventory? $47 million? Maybe. I don't know.
The company has previously. And staff for life? Previously, the company has said the storage costs between $4,000 and $7,000. Previously.
Maybe it's different now. I think it would be higher, not lower. I don't think it would be $4,000. What do I know?
But that sounds like a lot. I don't know. Earlier... A 6,000 square foot piece of space.
6,400. It's the $400,000 that's expensive. $6,500. There's nothing really to it.
I don't know. Okay. This cigar is worth $7 million, by the way. Just so you know.
This is a $7 million cigar. It was very expensive. Just throwing that out there. And the retail space upstairs costs an easy 10 mil.
It's $35 million. Without question. I could just say that on any press release. We still have not sent out a press release.
We were going to start sending those out once. We were going to start harassing people. Earlier this year, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the parent company of Cigars International, announced that it planned to add six to eight new stores by 2025. At that time, Cigars International had six superstores open, two each in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and a seventh in San Antonio had been announced.
Since then, the company has announced the two new superstores in the greater Houston area and Conroy, which could open in December, and Katy, which will open in 2023. and now the Jacksonville location. That would bring the total superstore locations to 10 Cigars International. Also operates an additional retail location in Hamburg, PA, which is not a superstore.
It's just a regular store. It's a regular Walmart. Regular store. This is a regular Walmart.
You can't buy food there. Or maybe you can, but it's limited. Yes. Yeah.
Smaller selections. Yeah. Less booze. Baby fish.
Yes, baby fish. Baby fish. Not whole hamburgers. No.
The company has also filed for plans They could eventually, at a retail store, to be completed in Bethlehem, PA, headquarters building. Oh. And then what Thompson did in Tampa, and a couple years later, they closed? They sold out.
Right. But they had a small retail location in the bottom of the building. Did they? I think that's smart.
I mean, you got everything there anyway. Yeah. It's already here. Come on down.
That would bring the total superstore locations to 10 Cigars International, where it's a digital relocation. Oh, we read that. The company, if I planned, blah, blah, blah. Cigars are the world's largest retailer of cigars and is part of a massive omni-channel retail operation.
Omni-channel. Omni-channel. I don't know what that means. I don't know either, but it sounds like...
Sounds impressive. Sounds like Inner Sanctum Cigar Illuminati fucking cryptic. Maybe that was the... Did you see the big...
The single, yeah, that Carlito made? Yeah. Yeah. The lizard head people or something?
Lizard people? Yeah, something. Mm-hmm. Previously, SCG said that North American online and retail sales accounted for 32% of the company's revenue.
You're still on me. I know. Okay. Oh, I thought it was on us.
Sorry, I'm having to do everything again, Michael. Phil, you're not really helping much, Phil. You haven't really done much today, buddy. You're not doing much.
We're very disappointed in your... You know, your review's up next week, so this is not going to bode well. Yeah, we're gonna analyze Q3 here, and we're gonna make some decisions. We may make some cuts, some significant cuts.
What's that noise? It's your dehumidifier, kicked up a notch. Oh, wow, it must be really wet in here. Not your dehumidifier, your rabbit.
It was on silent, it kicked itself off of silent? Yeah, it doesn't feel like being on silent, now it's on high. Oh, it was on silent. Huh, interesting.
Maybe it's haunted. Maybe it's the channel changing of the cameras. Oh, that could be. Because in the front studio, if you don't stand really close to the TV, when you put the image up, it changes the lights on the ground.
That's amazing. But because you forget week to week, you're like, now the lights are off again. You got to get the other remote. Damn it, man.
All right, Phil. Not for these shenanigans. Previously, STG said that North American online retail sales account over 32%. Said its online sales were, St.
Brett online sales were responsible for. How much do you think their online sales were responsible for? Cigars International? Yes.
Hold on. Carry the one. Add the seven. I can tell you this.
I can tell you this. I'm going to guess this. You're going to Google? What are you doing?
No, no. No, I'm just gonna, I need a little abacus here. Try the one. Just bear with me one second while I look, while I look up my, get my calculator.
All right, I'm just gonna drink. $20 million. No, percent of the retail sales we're looking for. Percent of the sales?
Total revenue. 80%. 94. Okay, I was close.
Drew's State, Liga Privada, UF4, Pancetta returns for 2022. Oh my goodness. Mike, it's saying we're at the end of 2022. You'd think it's a weird time to announce it's going to make it out for the end of the year.
They usually release it in October, and it's for one store, I believe, right? I don't know. I didn't pre-read the story. I mean, you would know this.
I mean, this is a Drew Estate thing that's been going on for a decade. I recognize the panchetta name. Yeah. Go ahead.
A pair of seasonal league of provider releases from Drew Estate returning to select stores in the next few days. Cassidy Monte Cristo of Countryside Illinois will release the 2022 version of the Unico Series UF4 on October 27. So that's already happened, the UF-4 hit, now it got quiet again. Yeah, it was done, now it's on a low.
Oh, it cycles? Yeah, it's just doing what it can, it felt that there was actually, you know what it is, you probably have it on auto. Oh. And like the air is, the light now is now blue, see that?
Oh yeah. This is amazing, this rabbit air is amazing. And then when it turns to like red. You know, I cleaned the filters yesterday too, so maybe that's making a difference.
It ramps up, it's like, alright, we gotta get out here, we gotta get this smoke. You know? Right. Okay, come on, let's go paint shadow.
The UF4 has been an annual release to stores since 2010. It measures 6x52 and uses a Connecticut Habano wrapper, Brazilian binder, Nicaraguan under filler tobaccos. The blend is actually a spinoff of the Liga Bravada T52 and was released under previous like MF4 and JD4 prior to the release. UF4 was conducted to be a full Fuente expression of Liga Bravada became a house favorite at La Grande Fabrica in Nicaragua, said Jonathan Drew, co-founder and president of Drew Estate.
During one of my Chicago trips in 2010, Sam and Mike were bananas for the shtick and compelled me to make it exclusively for them to be released at Halloween. UF4 is a high-octane powerhouse that all the ghosts and gangsters haunting Casa de Monte Cristo need every fall, so dust off your costumes, grab a ticket to the Halloween bash, and do ye olde snagger bucks, you know the routine. This year's release comes in updated packaging that features a cedar sleeve and a foot band that designated as a 2022 release. D.
was in this room. It was incredible. The cigar will be released during the Cassidy Monte Cristo's annual Halloween costume party, which takes place last week. And also returning to shelves this week is the Liga Privada Pancetta, a 4 3/4 by 50 short bellicoso that is exclusive to the Bear Sirs Cigars in Union, New Jersey, and the Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop in Havertown, PA.
Which is the same as the UF4. It just has a different label. I'm just kidding. I have no idea.
That cigar uses the same Connecticut stock cut haban, a wrapper found in Liga Privada T52 over a Brazilian monophena binder and fillers from Honduras and Nicaragua. It has been released annually to the two stores since the cigar debut in 2019. I had to see who the quote was from before. I want a special cigar.
You want a special cigar. This is the fourth year we've offered the rare and exclusive pancetta in our store, said David Mayer, owner of Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop. The Indian Tobacco Shop in the press release, "Every year they seem to sell out faster as more of our customers discover these smoky gems. We're truly grateful for all the support and love we received from Drew Estate and its cigar smokers.
46 per cigar and sold in boxes of $24. " Pre-sages. P-R-E-S-A-G-E-S. Where'd you get this from, Halfwell?
No, it was from Cigar Hustler Podcast Press Releases. Oh, okay. "Liga Privada has been among Barrister's best-selling cigars for more than a decade," said David Malau, owner of Barrister Cigars, and a press release. Barrister has become the owner of Liga Fans for our deep Liga Privada selection and the availability of hard-to-find and limited edition classics, the annual Pinchetta.
I'm filling time. We get it. Fratello launches a La Floridian at ABC Fine Wine & Spirits. Oh.
Fratello Cigars. I'm going to make an exclusive cigar for ABC. Newest cigar, La Floridian, is making its debut at one of the largest spirit and cigar retailers in Florida, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits. Cigar used in Ecuadorian growing.
You know what ABC stands for? All the booze you can find. No. What?
Always Be Celebrating. Oh, I like that too. Yeah. ABC Liquor.
ABC Liquor. Always Be Celebrating. Car uses Ecuador, Cameroon wrapper, Dominican binder fills from Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, La Floridian is a full flavored cigar with a medium body profile that is layered and complex, said Omar De Frias. I don't know if that's exactly what it sounds like.
I don't think so. Yeah, but go ahead. I'm going with it. 99 per cigar and be offered in 20 count boxes.
Production is handled by the La Aurora Cigar Factory in the Dominican Republic with its first run limited to 12,000 cigars. De Frias said a La Floridian will be available in all 123 of ABC stores throughout the state, as well as two stores selected to open this year. De Frias also told Cigars of the Podcast that he intends to make La Floridian an ongoing, continuing production line in the Fratella portfolio, as well as expanding the cigars distribution through the final decision as to where these Floridian might be available, and when it will occur, it's not yet been made. It's slowly going to be taking over the Southeast, it's going to make the La Georgian, the La Louisianian.
The brand dates back to 1909, originally manufactured in Tampa, with the Frius deciding to register the brand after trademark had gone dormant. Have you heard about this trick? Ah. This is a...
If you don't renew, it goes dormant. Right. And if you don't acknowledge it, if you don't try to buy it, then somebody else can take it. Right, but by him buying that from 1909...
Yeah. It's pre-whatever, if they change... Oh, pre... Pre-embargo.
Pre-monacta. Pre-monacta? Pre-monacta. It's pre-monacta.
Cigars may come in, and during the wedding. But that's the thing, you can go and search for cigar brands that have been defunct, and if you buy one, then it's pre-existing. That's it. It's pre-existing.
Yeah, predicate date. Predicate date. We got there, don't worry. Right, you get in the loophole that you don't have to have all that other stuff.
But that thing, it's not even a thing anymore. Right, but who knows when he actually bought it. He might have bought it before, thinking, "I'm gonna use it. " Well, I mean, he is a fucking rocket scientist.
So if anybody's going to figure out the way to do it, I would probably guess that Omar's going to do it. I would say so, too. You know what I mean? It's like, how do I circumvent spending hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Let's see. Well, if I find a doorman trademark, and then I go and register it, and then take it, I'm good to go. I'm good to go. I made cigars before the predicate date, so I'm good.
Yeah. That man that I worked for, who we don't talk about, told me about this. He was doing it, too. That man, clever girl.
We don't like to say his name. We, or you? I don't. I saw my TikTok the other day.
It was funny. Was it funny? It wasn't supposed to be. Ah, okay.
It was supposed to be... I'm on TikTok now, I'm cool. It's kind of a struggle. Like all the other kids, I'm cool.
It's so, you know what I mean? Like, I see some of this shit on TikTok with some of these cigar people. I'm like, okay, now let's review. Should you cut a cigar?
I'm like, holy fuck, where are we? Where are we? Oh, he was just reading a press release, basically. I would like to announce, today, we are releasing the cigar.
Right? Something like that? Something like that. Or they're rolling.
There's a lot of rolling videos. Yeah. Oh, I like the classic quintessential me standing in a field thing. What everybody does.
Oh, everybody does. Check out these leaves. You know, we have a green screen in the other room. Me and these leaves.
All we need, a couple of plastic plants, and then the green screen in the other room. He's got a green screen in the other room. We can put you in any field. This is me and these leaves.
And you know, I have successfully grown these leaves. I have successfully grown these leaves. He's like doing, what was that, Gladiator where he's walking through the wheat. Oh, or me like smelling a green one.
Oh, yeah. Really close to. Oh, that's all we need. We don't need the plants.
That one just needs a leaf. It's one big leaf. One big leaf. Master Blender.
Master Blender. Who runs Cigar Town? Who runs Cigar Town? Master Blender.
Who runs Cigar Town? I find historical cigar brands fascinating. Tried to put myself in the shoes of the mainstream behind this 100-year-old brand. I don't think he's gonna be able to wear somebody else's shoes.
The man's got large feet. He's a giant. And now he sounds different, which is interesting. Voice change.
Yeah. I forgot what I did before. Yeah. Fratella will join ABC efforts and donate a portion of the proceeds to support United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida.
Oh, that's nice. Oh, very nice. I'll try to get some of these and we can try it on the Patreon. The Floridian?
Yeah. Just curious. Shouldn't, I mean, Tobacology should come through with that, no? Oh, he's like the guy.
He doesn't own ABC. No, no. Oh, that's true. But doesn't he handle, like, distro or something for Omar?
Tobacology? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I think he does something with Fratello.
These are only... Because he sent us Fratellos. Oh, he sent us the lighter. Yeah, and the cigars.
Well, if Brett can get some. I haven't heard from Brett in, like, two weeks. I don't know. Maybe he's still working on his show.
He may not be watching. He's still working on his show. Oh, yeah, he's still working. The whole reason why we built the podcast network, you mean?
Yes, yes, for him and for the other... To incorporate him. He doesn't come up either. Oh, and the other guy who's, yeah.
Yeah. Who's swimming in money and still doesn't have time to fucking do it. He's flying around in his helicopter. I'm gonna do it eventually.
Eventually I'm gonna do it and it'll be fine. You know, there are those of us in this world that we just fucking grab the reins and go. All right. Jump off the cliff, build a plane on the way.
Build the plane on the way down. Yeah, not fucking around. We built the plane. And then there's everybody else.
Nobody here. There's everybody else that fucks around. That's right. I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna get there eventually. I'm just super busy. I have all these excuses. Right.
Weak. It's fucking weak. Okay, quesada, holiday keg returning for 2022. Quesada?
I said quesada. You said quesada. Oh, I meant quesada. Quesada?
Like, quesant. Would you like a quesant with your quesada? Would you like some quesada on your quesant? After a five-year hiatus, the quesada holiday keg is back.
Who did the keg in the last two years? Somebody else did a keg. Diesel did a barrel. Diesel.
Oh, barrel. Barrel's not a keg. What's the difference? It's totally different.
In the photo, they looked the same. It's an entirely different type of flying altogether. They looked the same in the photo. It's an entirely different type of flying.
Next week, Quesada. Quesada. Will begin shipping the second version of the holiday keg. The Quesada holiday keg 2022 is a 6x50 Toro they use in Ecuador.
Fuck it. Justin Andrews is going to hit him with a cease and desist. Oh, please. You can't use barrels.
You can't use barrels, I copied, well, they made them before he did. It doesn't matter, it actually does matter, but whatever, who cares, you can't use barrels. Should we call them and see if we can order some of the diesel quesatas? These are my barrels.
That come in the barrels? Do not use the barrels, I possessed the chamber of barrels for cigars. I make barrels before you. This is a specific shape, and I will not release the specific shape to anyone else.
Nope. So he's just gonna take the barrels, they're gonna cut the side off and make it flat on one side. Yeah, that's it, yeah, what you do is you just flatten one side, and then you lay it down, and it's a totally different thing. I was gonna lay my cup down with the stuff that's going on.
You don't have the flat barrel side. 90 per cigar, and we packed in boxes that are designed to look like barrels. Oh, those are not actual barrels. They're cardboard.
They're not even real barrels. Not even real barrels. I'm very disappointed. That's how croissants got away with it.
That's how croissants got away with it. Maybe they're shaped like croissants. Possibly. Maybe.
S. market. You know, I'm not going to lie. I'm surprised no one has kind of approached us at IPCPR or anything and said, you know what, you guys are complete assholes.
Like, you know, I don't appreciate what the fuck you said about us. Like, not a single one. Not a single person. Nobody.
Nobody says a word to us. Maybe nobody would. Maybe they're afraid because we'll talk about it on the show. Well, maybe nobody listens.
Oh, that could be. No, people listen, apparently. Yeah, that's true. I get messages.
I yearn for that day. Somebody walks up. " Are you kidding me? No, really, you do.
Well, first of all, he doesn't go to IPCPR. Instead, they do crafty sales outside of the building in IPCPR. Oh, yeah, that's right. Secret meeting.
Yeah, but you'll see him, I've seen him at TPE. Yeah, yeah. " and that's it he won't what's up man he don't want to talk to me that's fine hang on yeah yeah all right oh Corsada created the Craig as a keg sorry not the Craig the Craig not the Craig the Corsada Craig the Corsada Craig it's the guy who made the Corsadas I love this you know maybe one day we get fortunate enough to give a stroke on the podcast I mean that would just be fucking oh ratings would go out the roof and okay everybody get that on film maybe I'll just stick with these pens in my ear was he in camera you know what we're just gonna do a lobotomy on oh Oh, perfect. Seems messy.
I'm not cleaning that up. Seems messy. It's a St. Patrick's Day themed cigar that was packed in barrels and used packaging.
Not barrels, they were kegs. Can't say the barrels. That was reminiscent of the Irish beer. In late 2016, it launched the holiday keg as a release for the holiday season as we had extra kegs that didn't sell on St.
Patrick's Day. While the original holiday keg was also a 6x50 Toro, the blends are different as a cigar used. It's very easy to turn a shamrock into a Christmas tree. That's all I'm saying.
It's already green. It's green. Put a longer stem on it. That could be the star on top of the tree.
That kind of looks like a shamrock. No, no, no, no. It's a star on the tree. Come on.
Switch your eyes a little bit. Look harder. Yeah, it's yellow. All right, Michael.
We have an international story. Okay. You were excited about this beforehand. I'm excited about this story.
This is a great story. I found it Monday. Did you? Monday of last week.
Oh, wow. And you've held on to it. Well, Wednesday, right after the show. German doctor Andres Niederbietcher ordered to pay medical, that's what his name is, ordered to pay medical bills in an oral sex overdose case.
Oh my, what has happened here? I have pictures of the doctor. Right here. A German doctor in prison for giving his lover an overdose by slathering his penis with cocaine.
Oh my. Before oral sex has been ordered to pay the medical bills from the failed attempts to revive her. And then the survivor, plastic surgeon, Dr. , picture right here, very attractive blonde woman, who suffered shortness of breath and collapsed after the drug-fueled romp in 2018.
Oh, so this is even pre-COVID. Yes. Well, he's just been sentenced and sent to jail. Okay.
The doctor has also been accused of ... Oh, crap, I had that word. Before he did something else. This is this joke.
Let me see. That's this word right there. Serendipitous? I can't even see it.
Serepetitously? Serepetitously? Serep ... It's not like he did it before.
Serepetitously. He's done it before. Involving the drug and sex with other women told German newspaper last month that he never used ... Cocaine on the dick, it's a power move, is what it is, you know what I mean?
Never used drugs during sex without the knowledge of his partner, so she knew he did not have a pale white penis and it was slathered in cocaine. Do you care? No, do you care? Do you care that I put cocaine on my penis?
I will place the cocaine on my penis? Yes, there were drugs, but I didn't drug any of the women without her knowing. He said, I was looking for a special kick and she took part. It was consensual.
He described the woman who died as she was an experienced cocaine user. She was very experienced. So, he has gone to jail, I must have lost part of the story, because I didn't want to print the pictures. He is in jail for murder and he has to pay her medical bills in the reviving.
She was married and her husband and little boy are very upset, as they would be. She was married? She was having an affair with the doctor. Ah.
Maybe it's how she's paying for her boob job or something. And the husband was upset. And the son that the mommy died. Hmm.
This feels like karma to me. I don't know. I mean, you know what I mean? If you're gonna, you know, suck on a penis, slather and cocaine, you get what you get.
That's the way it works. You know, I just hope you had a good policy on her. I mean, you know. Right.
She took this into her own hands. Yeah. Or mouth. Or all of it.
Right. Yeah. What new segment we have, Michael? Oh, a new segment.
Oh, what music. , inhabited by the weirdest people ever. And no wonder as the local Floridians have to deal with alligators, venomous snakes, seasonal climate, mosquitoes, and such high humidity that leaves you all wet in a second on a hot day. Bonafide Florida state inhabitants have an old tradition of living for today, no matter the direct consequence.
So now we bring you the Florida news. Oh, but we've already had that. Yes, but I added a thing at the beginning. A little thing.
A little thing. A little nice, nice. Titusville, Florida. Woman with an open bottle of Jag...
I'll try to get this without laughing because I've heard her. Titusville's local. What kind of? Titusville.
It's about an hour away. A woman with an open bottle of Jag Daniels whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida's busiest interstate while drunk, according to an arrest report. The 58-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night on the shoulder of Interstate 95. She is now facing misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication.
She was on the shoulder. No, no, that's where they found her. Intoxicating in a public place and resisting an officer without violence. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, a semi-truck driver spotted the woman driving in the golf cart in the center lane of NF895 in Bavard County, which is the heart of Florida's Space Coast.
The truck driver advised she observed the driver of the golf cart passing out while driving. The truck driver used her semi to steer the golf cart to the shoulder of the interstate. Troopers said, once the shoulder of the truck driver grabbed the keys of the golf cart as the woman tried to drive away. Nice.
Once troopers arrived at the scene, the woman started arguing with them and insisted she needed her bag. Of course she did. That's why she was out. Inside the bag, Troubert's found an open bottle of Jack Daniels, Tennessee Firewish.
Jack Daniels, if you please. You know, in this day and age, I find these news releases of people drinking and driving to go and pick up booze just absolutely obnoxious. No, no, she already had the bag, so she probably went and got it. Yeah, she got it.
She was on her way home. The logical point from her was saying, "I'm a little fucked up. " Right, it's not a car. On a car.
Was there not a liquor store without going on the highway? Dude, no, fuck that. You can just door dash booze to your house at this point. Oh, I did.
There is a fucking app for this in this great state of Florida. I saw a photo for this woman. I don't. She might not even have a cell phone.
But she had a golf cart. She totally has a cell phone. Everybody has a cell phone. You can get a government phone if you want one.
Oh, that's true. Yeah, exactly. There's no reason. There's absolutely no reason for this.
However, she's not going to kill anybody in the golf cart. If somebody hits her, though, she's going to get blasted. It's just done. At what, the 30, 35 miles an hour tops and those things?
Yeah. If she's got the speed chip. I think some of them will go faster, but at the end of the day, somebody's going 65 and they don't see the golf cart, you're just gonna blast right through it. That's true.
Yeah. Alright, a man robs a victim at gunpoint outside of Wendy's after he refused to buy him chicken nuggets. Yeah, well. John Earl Taylor, 34, took off with the victim's gold chain and vehicle, authorities said.
" South Florida. Yeah, there's a lot in South Florida. At gunpoint last week outside a Wendy's fast food restaurant in Northeast Miami-Dade authorities said. The armed robber was reported last Thursday outside the Wendy's at 8295 Northwest 27th Avenue.
According to the suspect's arrest report, the victim was getting out of his car when he approached by John Earl Taylor, who asked him if he could buy him chicken nuggets. Hey, can you buy me chicken nuggets? Right. And then you said, um, victim told Taylor that he had only had enough money for himself and proceeded to enter the Wendy's.
Gotcha. I only have enough money for me? I'm sorry, sir, I cannot buy you chicken nuggets. Right.
So, as I'm coming out, Taylor approached him again, this time pointing a semi-automatic gun with an extended magazine at him. Semi-automatic? Doesn't have money for nuggets, but he's got a really nice gun. I'll tell you what, you give me the gun, I'll go get you the nuggets.
Right. Then demanded the victim hand over his gold chain, car keys, and Wendy's food. In that scenario, you hand him the fucking chain and the car keys. I mean, like...
According to the reports, the victim was in fear for his life and complied with Taylor's... Exactly, right here. You're lucky he didn't shoot you after he gave you this shit. Police said Taylor then got in the victim's car and took off.
m. Friday in the area of Northwest 7th Avenue, 7 9th Street, parked in a parking space. Police said Taylor was seen entering the vehicle and fleeing as more police officers arrived. So he must have parked it at home.
Smartest movement, it's really good. Eventually crashed the car in the area of Northwest 10th Avenue. A lot of directions on here. Taylor was transported to Jackson North Medical Center to be treated for minor injuries before being booked into the Metro West Detention Center that does not serve Wendy's.
Metro West. He faces charges of armed robbery, carjacking, fleeing and eluding police, and driving with a suspended license. All that and he doesn't have a license either. And he didn't get any nuggets.
Right. Yeah. The guy, odds are the guy didn't buy nuggets. You can buy nuggets.
Yeah. Or do you go in and you go... Do you take a sandwich? Well, that's it.
You're going to get a Baconator. Give me a Baconator. But because you've been telling me, you know, their nuggets are good. Maybe I'll just get the nuggets.
I'll tell you right now, whatever it was, he had to give it up if he took it to go. Yeah. Give me the gold chain and the nuggets. That's right.
Tell you what, now you got the food. I want the food and the gold chain. It's like falling down. Like Michael Douglas falling down.
Right. See the sorry, I want fucking breakfast. Yeah, I changed my mind. After he shoots out the place, I'll take lunch.
and he gets a sandwich. He's like, do you see the sorry excuse for your sandwich? Look at that picture. So true.
So true. Okay, and finally, Michael. Oh, that was it for that one? Yeah.
Wait, I want to tell you a quick story. About being robbed at a Wendy's? Something similar. I know a guy.
Robbed at Burger King. I know a guy. That robs people at Wendy's. No, no, no.
That went to go. Are you friends with James Taylor? John Earl Taylor? No.
He's not like a football player. No. I know a guy. Okay, go ahead.
That was going into a fast food restaurant. I'm not going to say his name. " The guy took out a knife and went and attacked him. And he was stabbed.
On the way in? So, on the way in? I think so. Okay.
I think so. You know, I don't remember the story exactly. It's been a little while. So, this guy, my buddy, he fucking punched this guy so hard, broke his fucking jaw, and left him plopped down out cold in front of the McDonald's.
He's the only ones who go to what he likes to call as a Papa Doc. I know who it is. I know you know who it is. He went and took himself to, he likes to say, a Papa Doc.
Yeah. And yeah, he's a large man. Like he's not a person that I would say, that's the guy I'm going to run. Yeah, exactly.
I'm going to let him in. Right. I'm going to like, I'm going to wait for the next guy. Right.
You know what I mean? Right. Give him a pass. Yeah.
Yeah. Cause when that guy hits you. I only have a knife. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's still going to hurt me. Right.
Yeah, and it's still hurt me. Right, exactly. So, you know, you never know. You never know.
You don't want to rob somebody for a sandwich. It's not a great idea. Or the lesson is give up the food. Well.
If somebody says buy me nuggets, buy them nuggets. Why? Well, you're either going to get shot, stolen, or stabbed. That's like, no, you don't give in.
That's fucking ridiculous. That's why you do the drive-thru. That's why you do the drive-thru. Always stay in the drive-thru.
You're going to get the wrong order, but at least not get shot. It's always best to just pack heat. Just pack heat. Oh, that's true.
McDonald's, Heat. Yeah. Now I have to go out for a big mag attack. Can I get some nuggets?
No. No, you cannot get some nuggets. As you're walking out, you fucking put your hand on your piece. Oh, you just pull it out and walk to the car.
No, you can't do that. Oh, you can't do it? No. No.
No. Put it in my bag. There you go. Exactly.
That's concealed. In the bag, right. Perfect. Sure, they're right here in the bag.
Bam, bam, bam! You want some fries with that? Bam! Need extra sauce?
Bam! Right, exactly. A woman performing oral sex on a driver caused his vehicle to crash into a FedEx truck in Fort Lauderdale. Wow.
Two people inside an SUV were discovered naked after a crash between the vehicle and a FedEx truck Thursday evening as it was what's going on inside that may have caused a collision, you think? Maybe? We've had a story like this before. Completely naked?
Both parties completely naked. Makes no sense. Yeah, why is she naked? Yeah, for oral sex, you know.
Right, in a car? Yeah. What's it doing? Yeah.
What's it trying to reach? Put a finger in the butt or something? Just reaching around? Yeah.
No. You keep both hands on the wheel. Yeah, exactly. Be reasonable.
Be reasonable. At the time of the crash, the woman inside the SUV was performing oral sex on the male driver, according to the Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, who responded to the scene. The crash happened at North Ocean Boulevard at night. I like how they get the exact address where it happened in all these things.
Exactly. In front of the Wendy's. At 6:49 PM. Oh, early.
Must have been on the way to the party. There were two people inside the FedEx truck. An early evening of oral. Who were not in Amnesty, obviously.
It's a FedEx truck. Well, that's not true because I've seen that happen as well on Amazon. That's Amazon, though. This is FedEx.
Hardly anybody uses FedEx anymore. Yeah, I can't believe this. But their injuries were minor. The driver of the SUV sustained injuries to his peepee due to what was going on at the time of the crash, so she must have drenched up.
Oh, God. It's unclear whether anyone will be charged in the crash. I feel like there's going to be somebody charged in the crash. I feel somebody's going to be charged in some Monday.
All right, you got to listen to the week, Michael? Psst, damn it. You had one last week. I did.
Shop of the Week, Michael? Andrew McCreary. Andrew McCreary! Listener of the Week, Mr.
McCreary. He works at a shop, you want to give him a double? He does work at a shop now? I think he's working part-time for somebody.
He was. You're right. Don't remember which shop. I don't know either.
Whatever shop, Andrew McCurry, where is it? No, I got one. Oh. I don't know if I mentioned...
I haven't mentioned this one. Cigar Experience? No, I don't think I remember. Where's that?
Monroe, Louisiana. Monroe, Louisiana Cigar Experience, where you can experience all the cigars. Did we say where we're going this week? Did we say where we're going this week?
We will be at Smoke on the Water on Wednesday. Oh. Sometime in the afternoon. Road trip!
Yeah. Yeah, we can do it there and back. Oh, good. A fast road trip.
Fast road trip. Phil, are you going to go with us? Phil is very excited, you can tell. He's very excited to go.
Look at him. Look at Phil. He's all excited over there. He loves Miami.
He loves South Florida, West. He does. He does. We might be able to see his friend.
You never know. You never know. We could see his friend. Phil cannot commit, so we don't know.
Yeah. You sure, Phil? You got anything else to add, Phil? I really love you guys.
You guys are the best. I don't pass. Oh, Phil, you're such a sweet man. I'm very excited about my trip.
It was your turn to buy lunch today, Phil. You didn't buy lunch, though. Oh, you just go ahead. I'll just pay you back.
Okay. You can get it next time. Send cash app. Send cash app.
Venmo. You can Venmo. Oh, Venmo. You're the money.
Oh. All right. This has been episode 250. I'm not sure if I changed the board, so it's either 52 or 53.
I don't know exactly. Could be 54 at this point. No, no, no. I've only had not one week.
There's three boards that changed now. Now they've added stuff to the sports talk. I just want you to know, I didn't do the other things, you are directly- No, no, the third party, his Patreon. But the fact of the matter is that the other shows here that have gone into existence are because you- Oh, I know, I understand.
Have- Well, one of the shows. And that's all it took. You opened that door, right? Right.
Once you open that door, you can't close it. I want to do another show where they can do different topics. It's like Pandora's fucking box. Oh.
Now you got that sports talk. Now, Phil is actually on all six shows at this point. I mean, it's insane. He is.
He's very busy. Right, Phil? Okay. I'm very busy.
No wonder he can't find time to be on this show anymore. Super busy. Super, super busy. I'm so busy.
How do you spell property? How do you spell property? All right, this is it. We gotta go.
All right, thank you. Thank you guys for listening. All right, bye. Hit the bell.
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You didn't even let him fuck it up all the way. I couldn't get past Hojo! I don't even have to try anything. They're not even gonna try.
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Show Notes
Phil is on fire this week as he finally gets his one camera! Always use the fast food drive thru! Fedex isn't the only that delivers in South Florida and Industry News that should certainly get us finally in trouble!