Cigar Hustlers Podcast 263 JetSki Life

Episode Summary

Episode 263 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast finds Mike "the King" Szczepankiewicz, producer Mike "BDP" Palmer and cameraman Phil breaking in a brand-new studio table (and complaining about its height) before getting into industry news. The loose opening covers the post-holiday slog, weekend yard work, ashwagandha side effects, and a running gag about Palmer's self-declared status as an "excellent blender" and cigar mogul whose BDP cigar somehow hadn't reached the ears of the Burn Down Podcast crew.

The substantive industry talk starts with Alex Nowogrodzki (@benchworks_cigars), the new manufacturing consultant working with Skip Martin at RoMa Craft Tobac's Nica Sueño factory in Estelí, who reached out after last week's discussion of a Connecticut blend and confirmed the cigars were burning and tasting great. The news segment runs through a wave of price increases — Fratello, Oscar Valladares Tobacco Company, Bocock Brothers' World Traveler Collection, Rojas Cigars — plus General Cigar's Punch Spring Roll, the fifth entry in the Chinese New Year series themed on American-Chinese dishes, a 4 1/2 x 50 Petit Robusto with an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper at $5.99 in Chinese-takeout-style boxes.

The highlight is Cigar Coop's 2022 Cigar of the Year Countdown, where the Powstanie Votec 2020 Toro landed at number four, with notes of coffee, cocoa, cedar, red pepper and citrus — the highest-placing barber pole in Cigar Coop history and the best-ever showing for the Nica Sueño factory. The guys riff on Nicaragua's dominance of the countdown, snub-hunting across other outlets' lists, and what the hosts think really deserved top honors: the HVC Selección de Torcedor Broadleaf, RoMa Craft's Coronas (Reverence, Intemperance EC and BA), and Foundation's Olmec in Claro Corona Gorda rather than Maduro.

Mike also vents about cigar media asking brands for free samples ahead of appearances — a shipment to Matt Tye of How About That Cigar delayed by a blizzard is the setup for his first question on that show, where he'll appear alongside Jeff Moute. The episode closes with a Florida news story about Jacksonville rapper Nehemiah Hardin (Spotemgottem) arrested after fleeing Miami police on a Sea-Doo jet ski, plus Listener of the Week (Alex Nowogrodzki) and Shop of the Week shoutouts.

In This Episode

1. 01
   New Studio Table and Cold Open
   The crew breaks in a brand-new podcast table, argues about its height, coasters and ash, and reads the A Rack Above overhead garage storage spot.
2. 02
   Alex Nowogrodzki of Benchworks Cigars
   The new manufacturing consultant for RoMa Craft's Nica Sueño factory DMs the show about the Connecticut blend and gets named Listener of the Week.
3. 03
   Cigar Industry Price Increases
   Fratello, Oscar Valladares, Bocock Brothers' World Traveler Collection and Rojas all announce increases — and Powstanie has one coming too.
4. 04
   Punch Spring Roll and Chinese New Year Cigars
   General Cigar's fifth American-Chinese-themed release is a $5.99 Petit Robusto with Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper in takeout-style boxes, sold only in the U.S.
5. 05
   Powstanie Votec 2020 Hits #4 on Cigar Coop
   The Votec Toro becomes the highest-placing barber pole in Cigar Coop history and the Nica Sueño factory's best showing ever.
6. 06
   Snubs and the Hosts' Real Best Cigars of 2022
   Mike argues for the HVC Selección de Torcedor Broadleaf, RoMa Craft Coronas, and the Foundation Olmec Claro Corona Gorda over the Maduro.
7. 07
   Cigar Media Asking for Free Samples
   A blizzard-delayed shipment to How About That Cigar sparks a rant about podcasts requesting cigars as a condition of guest appearances.
8. 08
   Florida Story: Spotemgottem's Jet Ski Arrest
   Rapper Nehemiah Hardin is arrested in Miami after fleeing police on a Sea-Doo through anchored boats and swimmers.

Brands & Cigars Discussed

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Transcript

Hey, we're starting. This is all content. I can get right in here. What do you want?

Oh, there's nothing in there he wants. I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Once you're done.

Once Palmer's done. Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, Episode 263. With your host, Michael the King, Steponkevich, and his producer, Mike BDP Palmer. And me, I'm Phil, your cameraman, the list isn't from the mask, I have a terrible overbite.

It was last minute, what do you want? Help, help, help. The holidays are past, you need to put, do I sound funny to anybody else's head? Nope.

No, you sound louder than normal. Well, that's your volume control now. That's my volume control? Yes, I have.

I'm one, two, three, four. Okay. I know where everything is now. If you guys haven't known, oh, hi.

We have a new table that we just got today. Let's talk about the holidays. He called and said he wanted to start the show in a minute and a half. Let's go.

The holidays have just passed. You need to put your decorations away. Where will you put them? In the attic?

Why, attics are dirty. They get extremely hot and not good for your cherished holiday ornaments, and trips to the attic can be dangerous. Stop the traditional madness, Michael, and eliminate the trips to the attic and the emergency room by installing a rack above. A rack above is a huge freestanding overhead garage storage system that creates a four-foot mezzanine across the entire garage.

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An hour? An hour. Wow. Yes, with just one wrench?

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Dot com. The coaster, if you're not going to use the coaster for your drink, which that cup you don't have to, you got to put it underneath your rusty pan. Why? Because it'll rust on the table.

We can't seal the table because it'll glisten in the lighting. I think it's a beautiful table. It is a beautiful table. It's a beautiful table.

Just a matter of getting used to it, Michael. So listen, here's the problem with smoking a Segundo on the thing. Yes. Okay.

Brand recognition. Like, why would I smoke a cigar? Every time you put it in your mouth, say, Postana. Postana.

Postana. Postana. I'm going to move to the BDP. Give me a marker.

Postana. Give me camera three. BDP. Matthew Tobacco, BDP.

That's what he does. He, like, covers his face. With a cigar? Yeah.

Or with a BDP? Yeah. With a BDP. He's having a baby.

Yeah. That's how it goes. And you start pushing out the kiddos. Kind of quick.

Anybody do the math? No. I don't know where it's supposed to go with this. I don't care enough to do the math.

I don't think it really matters anymore. At this point in society, you think that they've had a monogamous relationship? Well, I hope monogamous. That means they don't have sex with other people.

A virginal relationship? A non-consensual, sexual relationship? What's it called when they, uh, when you don't have the sex? Non-sexual.

And not, that sounds boring. Non-sexual? Non-sexual. I feel like it sounds, it's something else.

Bootsy, already, already, already, already, already fell at the table, at the table already. I told you. You guys should have built in a dustpan or some shit. I'll just get you a bib.

A bib? Yeah, from Red Lobster. You know, one of those bibs. It's not a bib, he still gets it on the table.

What he needs is a big bowl. Listen, I'm going to tell you right now. So this is your warning. Sorry.

This is your warning. We're being warned. Because I'm going to tell you, if you want to fucking tee off on me, I'm going to make you walk out of this room crying. Why would you make me cry?

I didn't make you cry. Absolutely. It doesn't matter. Daddy's angry.

No, no, Daddy's not angry. But I appreciate you calling me Daddy. Daddy's passionate. I appreciate you calling me Daddy.

Yes, Daddy. Wow. I'm going to flat out say though, you know. This is weird.

Look. Phil's getting excited over there. No, I'm not. You're not lisping.

You ever see, um, what the fuck was, why can't I think today? What was the show? Swordfish. You ever see Swordfish?

You ever see Swordfish with Travolta? Oh, with Travolta, yeah. Yeah. They send a bomb, we send a nuclear bomb.

That's what's going on over here. So if you want to send a little boop. Wait. That's just an extreme version of the untouchables.

Is it? He brings a knife, you bring a gun. He brings a gun, you bring a rifle, whatever that Sean Connery speech. Well, this is more like a war terminology, I guess.

I guess. Well, someone said they were going to war. Listen, there's only like eight movies in the entire world. You beat up one of yours, we put one of theirs in a hospital.

There's eight types of movies in the entire world. They're just redone and different. Well, yeah. I mean, Fast and Furious is Point Break.

Right. Maverick is Star Wars. No, it's not. It is too.

Stop, listen. It's the exact same thing. You can't. No, don't bring this movie up.

Wait, wait, wait. One guy talks to another dead guy. So that's Obi-Wan and Luke. Maverick talks to Goose.

He's the Goose. Oh. He's the dead one. There's no force.

Sure there is. What is it? Willpower? No, no.

When they tell him to turn his computer off and just feel the target or whatever hell it is. Yeah, yeah. He's got to shoot in the center. He's got to shoot.

To kill the desktop. To blow it up, he's got to shoot his rocket into a little tiny hole in the middle of things. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

It is. It's the same movie. Palmer watched some YouTube thing on this. It's the same thing.

It's the same movie. And you know what? You know what? Fucking kudos to Tom Cruise for doing this shit.

Because you know what we that means in like another 10 years, we can do a similar movie and totally crush maybe with boats. Yeah. Ooh, you got to get in the hole, got to get it in the volcano, you got to get it. Yeah, if not, you know, and then the whole world's over.

Yeah, Jaws comes back. Jaws. No, no, he's been killed four times. Yes, I'm missing the list over there, Phil.

Since you're in the industry, please turn the AC down. It's at 70. It's actually pretty comfy right now. I had it cranked down when I was in here working.

The whole inside of this mask is drenched. Well, that's fine. It's rubber. It doesn't breathe.

I can't believe you brought it back for another day. He doesn't get to vote. You know what? I was thinking this.

Since Phil's in the industry, if we do a trade show, Phil has to go. Phil is only in the industry by deeming... He's blessed by Brett Frye. That's true, but he owns several tobacologies.

He does own several tobacologies. So Phil... I fucking hate the height of this table. I'm just kidding.

You'll get used to it. No, I'm not. We're gonna fix it. No, we're not lowering the table.

No, no. We're gonna raise my chair. And then you roll off your raised up thing. That's fine.

Just sit up straight, you'll be fine. What is wrong with it? He doesn't like the inch. I'm fucking sick.

The inch is bothering him. Oh my God. Just have to get used to it. Three, four more shows, you'll be fine.

I'm not... No, I'm not gonna get used to it. Yeah, I'll be with your back. We're almost the Knights of the Round Table now because we have...

Oh, we have half. We have half. We have half. We have half.

Oh, yeah. We're nights of the stop signs. Phil's big on nights. He really likes that.

Loves nights. Loves nights. Oh, my goodness gracious. So, it's Star Wars.

Okay. Okay. So, how was your guys' weekend? I didn't do anything.

I didn't do a damn thing. Worked in the yard all weekend. Of course you didn't. Just cleaned stuff up and worked in the yard.

That's it? Yeah. Nothing. Came up here Saturday, came up here Sunday.

I'm here seven days a week. Oh. Oh. Jack's had a scrimmage game, which is when it went pretty well.

" Why is his camera the only one on? Because he was about to start talking. Look at that. What?

D. King Palmer. She always wants to know what you guys are doing. She wants to check in.

Yeah, always wants to know what you guys are doing. We were really close to doing a universal poll. Oh. I've been wanting to go.

But every time we plan it, something happens or we're tired by four o'clock. Three o'clock. More ashwagandha, Mike. That's what you need.

More ashwagandha. Ashwagandha? Yeah. Are you still taking that?

Are you still doing the ashwagandha? You gave up? Yeah. Too many erections?

What happened? It was too many erections. Yeah? It was all the time.

Like, what am I going to do with this? I'm going to do it all the time, right? I'm poking my wife all the time. She's like, put some ice on that.

Yeah, put some ice on it. Put that away. Stop taking the pills for God's sake. I'm tired.

I have a headache. Right. Wow. Hmm.

So you gave up on the ashwagandha? I still have it if you want some. Okay. Man, this BDP is delicious.

It should be, I'm an excellent blender. You are an excellent blender. So Palmer has had correspondence with Alex. Alex?

I believe his name is Alex. The new manufacturer, what is he called? He's got a good, he's got an excellent description. Hold on, hold on.

He's got a good title. He's got a good title. Yeah. Say something, Michael.

He is the head, Kamehameha, he is the number two of Nikasueño. Yes, Alex, Alex, I can't pronounce his last name, Norgewinski? Alex, I can't pronounce his last name. Alex Norgewinski or something?

Of Nikasueño? Yes, yes, I didn't realize it was a new person either. Yeah, so. What do you say?

So he said, do you know, so Palmer asked me. I've been obsessively trying out the Connecticut since Skip told me about the possibility of it having an issue, but they're burning and tasting great. I cut off the wrapper to see, okay, wait, where'd he say who he was? He said somewhere, hold on, I gotta find that.

So Alex is, what is he? He says, Alex, by the way, I work with Skip now. No, but you never even says what his title was. No, it says it on his description.

Oh, on his page? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, that's where it is, hold on. Benchworks_cigars.

Everybody go follow Benchworks_cigars. This guy's the future of the industry. Every time I hit it, it goes somewhere else, two profiles, there we go. Manufacturing consultant for Roma Craft, Esteli, Nicaragua/Montreal, Canada.

Yes, yes, he is the consultant. I can't, there's not many pictures of his face. I like that, it's very, he's very mystique. Yes, I mean, there's pictures of people.

Oh, this is fantastic. But, inevitably, he listens to the show, so. This is real? This is fantastic.

Yes, can you put it back on two, please? Oh, I love this. I love this. I love this.

So yeah, so he is the manufacturing consultant. I don't know what that means, but I can tell you that Skip probably has a hard time with that description. I'm sure he'll be like, no, fuck that. It's not what he's called.

Whatever. See, there's just gentlemen. That's not him. That's not him.

Is that him? I don't know. That could be him. I've heard good things about this guy.

That's gotta be him on the left. Him? That's the way I'm thinking too. But this is the other guy, though, that was sniffing the tobacco.

Oh. So… Multiple Alex's. Or it could be the young lady. Anyway, because we talked about the Connecticut last week, he contacted me through Instagram.

Yes. Yes. Go on. And he loves the cigar.

He does. He does. He thinks it's a great blend. It's a great blend, yes.

And I'm doing excellent work. You do. Yeah, so keep it up. So keep it up.

I mean, you're an amazing… I'm an amazing blender. And I need to... Oh, over here now. Yeah.

" And you're like, "What'd you say? " Well, you are the constant, we all revolve. Yes, and then I simply replied with, "I might be the constant that you revolve around, but nobody Nobody thinks that I fucking own or run anything at this point. Or do.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's like, it's fucking, it's insane. It's insane. So. Super busy.

Which I actually prefer. And need to make way more money. Yeah, I don't actually mind it, to be perfectly honest. You have a successful podcast.

Yes. Boots is running a successful production company. Yes, Phil's an excellent cameraman sometimes. Oh, thank you.

When he's not drinking. Yeah, and you're doing great with your retail cigar store? Yes, yes. And, you know, you're making great cigars as well.

Yes, I'm an excellent blender. All of these things are fantastic. Yes. I mean, I'm surprised Burntown Podcast has not heard of you.

Well, they have now. I'm kind of shocked. They have now. How did they not know?

I mean, you're a fucking mogul. Well, it's not that they didn't heard of me, they hadn't heard of BDP. Yeah, but you are BDP. Well, yes.

And BDP has all these things. Oh, believe me, they're quite aware now. I believe you, they're quite aware now. They know.

Now they know? Now they know. " Oh, no. Oh, no.

I don't understand how they haven't heard of BDP. Well, we don't really know if they... I guess they didn't. It seems kind of recurring.

It does. We just said that. Is Phil doing his own show? No, no, I'm just trying to figure out...

Oh, I gotta figure out where to enter. He had a brain fart. Let me see if I can interject right here. No, no, no.

No, no, my question, here, let me rephrase it. What can I say? I don't, I don't know how they know. Let me rephrase it.

Yeah. How can you be in the cigar world and not know about the BDP? You know how much of an asshole you sound right now? Do you know who I am?

I didn't say anything! Do you know who I am? Yeah, this is my friend. I am a BDP.

BDP. Here, we'll put the camera on. Mr. Palmer.

Yes, yes. I will not be carrying my luggage. Which, someone chop up my sandwich and feed it to me. Take the crust off, please.

No triangles, I'm a triangle. Do you know, here's the reality, Phil. We're not a big deal. That's the thing.

Nobody really likes us. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Really? Except for Coop.

I love Coop. Coop is the best. Fuck the rest of you, though. And I mean that in the nicest and that was not me term of endearment.

Just remember that, you know, that's not Master Blender Palmer, the, the, the, the fucking, I'm like cigar empire here. Yeah. Ridiculous. Fuck.

You know, can I have my camera real quick for a minute? Here it comes. Postana. Go ahead.

Segundo. Postana Segundo. Michael would not smoke a Segundo. No, because no one would know what it was.

So I advised him, just say, Powstanie every time the camera comes on. Look at all that nice smoke coming off that beating thing. Isn't that lovely? That's great.

By the way, I just want to say before we get any further, thank you to all our Patreon supporters for continuing to support us. We greatly appreciate you. And if you want to support us. You got in trouble.

No. Oh, because normally you don't do this on this show. I figured maybe Brittany said something too. If you want to support us, please look up A Cigar Hustlers Podcast on Patreon.

Yes. Oh, other people, yes. I thought you were still talking to the patrons. Like, they know where we're at.

No. And what can they find on that, Michael? All kinds of stuff. All kinds.

Yeah. Oh, you know what I want you to do? I overheard you when we had the grand opening for the production company. You gave a nice little speech to some lady you were given the tour to.

Yeah. I need you to do that on camera. Not now. I'm pretty good.

The way you talked about how the sound quality is, what makes a difference, blah, blah, blah. I really like that. I need you to put that on camera so we can use it somewhere. I feel like you're using me right now.

No, no, no, no, I'm serious. You want me to do this? Well, yeah, because I don't remember exactly what it is you said. I don't know either.

But I used it later with the next guy. Oh, yeah? Yeah. And how'd that go?

About as well as yours did. But we sound like we know what we're doing. That makes all the difference. Yes.

We had Chet do the DJ thing thing. Yes, yes. That went well this week? Oh, at the Baldwin thing?

Yeah. He didn't do a whole lot. And we got no pictures of Chet. And no pictures of Chet spinning.

You know, that's really kind of funny because he was like, I'm going to take pictures and videos. Well, he did have Chris Baldwin. Yeah. Right.

But when you're the one doing it, you can't take your own, you can't, you know, selfie. And then say, hey, Chris can take a cup of clothes. Well, when he did it, Chris was somewhere else. Chris was going to the bathroom.

Chris was getting in a drink. Always excuses for that. Chris was interacting with someone else. Always got excuses, that Chet.

I don't know what to tell you, Matt. You could've went and took pictures. I guess I could've. But I didn't.

No. Was this in your neck of the woods? Uh, no. It was between the two of us, actually.

Oh, okay. Someone with Kaiva Springs. Yeah. Alright, well.

I got nothing else to report. Yeah, you do. This was a great football weekend. You didn't even talk about...

It's not... This is not the sports show. This isn't that sports stuff. You usually always talk about the Bucs.

Only if he goes. What does it matter? Okay. Nothing has changed.

The Cowboys are coming to Tampa. Are you going to the game? No. I'm going to sell them.

I'm not going to the game. Can we talk about Greg's upcoming bachelor party? Sure. He mentioned it today, too, so he must be terribly excited.

Well, I mean, I updated him, you know, because he... Monkey fucking. Here's the problem. Here's the problem.

Here's the problem: Yes. I've known my brother for 38 years. Okay. 38.

38. Long. Long years. Fucking years.

Right. Is that how old you are? Yeah. Okay.

Yes. I've seen all these things. I don't know what's going on with Phil if he took his dumb-dumb pills this morning or what. I don't know what his problem is.

Maybe the mask is too tight. It might be, restricting him. I was thinking though for the trade show, he wears a hockey mask. Oh.

You have to. Keep going, Phil's gotta be there. Yeah, you gotta, oh yeah, he can't have boots. He can't have boots, he's not in the industry.

No, it has to be a mystery, so we never let people know who Phil is. Oh, is that what it is? That's why you wear the hockey mask and wear a shirt that says I'm Phil. We're getting off subject here.

Yeah, sorry. So, I'm trying to smoke more this year. " Gotcha. Right?

So when you say, "Hey, let's do a bachelor party," I don't want to do that. Right. Huh. Okay.

Well, now, you know, now we took that to heart. Right. Which I shouldn't have taken that to heart. Right.

Nobody planned anything. You know what it is? It's just that I'm like, well, he said he didn't want to do anything. And I'm like, fuck.

Okay, cool. I thought we were going to do something without him. You know, we were going to. That was what actually, we parlayed into, hey, let's go hog hunting on the behalf of Greg's...

Right. We'll just all wear t-shirts. On the marriage of Greg. On the marriage of Greg.

On the marriage of Greg. We're going to kill a pig. So who's the groom? Oh, he's not here.

He couldn't make it. This is a picture of him. We didn't invite him. We didn't include him.

He's very busy. Chevelle has two hours. We should still do the hog hunting, and absolutely do it with Greg's groomsman shirts. Greg's bachelor party.

Just the three of us, fuck it. Right. " And then he doesn't want to do that. Right.

He thought about it and you know apparently I don't know killing animals is not his thing or whatever I don't know it's much better to buy them in the grocery store I don't know it makes no sense to me but whatever it's you know hey we're neither here nor there we're just moving forward so he opts in for this cabin he wants to go on the cabin in Georgia oh I heard about that I was not going to Georgia yeah I know and I figured you weren't gonna go so that means it's me boots and Greg just sitting in a cabin Well, you still have three-finger Fred. Yeah, Shindo's still going. And Scott. I don't know.

Scott's definitely not going. Scott would not go all the way. Well, he couldn't go on the animal killing thing until Greg cannot come to the animal. Why not?

He arrests people to kill animals for a living. These are varmints. Yeah, I know. But what if somebody sees something and they shoot an ostrich?

Well, first of all, if it was only me, Mikey, and Greg, I would have witnessed those two kill each other. Yeah, that would have been intense. And not to mention, it's very complicated to get an Airbnb, especially if you only want it for one night. They want to book you for four.

Yeah, sometimes there's a minimum. I'm like, fuck. Because they get freaked out when there's one that is just a party. Right.

Oh, I never thought of that. Yeah. Makes sense. Huh.

Right. You do a party, you trash the place, and you leave. So I'm going to have to fucking find, like I've seen a couple that I like. Yeah.

We're going to have to book it for three or four days. I'm only going for the one night. Yeah, me too. I'm only going for the one night as well.

I'll be there. Phil will be there all weekend. Maybe we take the kids' boots, Phil. Sure, after the first day.

Well, then somebody's got to go get them. Yeah, so what? No, no, no, it's not going to be in Georgia. I know.

Oh, yeah, so we're going to do it down here. Deltona? In Deltona? No, in Orlando.

We're going to Orlando, we're going to go to cigars, we smoke cigars. We never do that together. Maybe we go to cigars, that's all he wants to do. He wants to smoke, he wants to drink, he wants to eat.

Why don't we just do all that at the Airbnb? And there was a cool place, no, but you gotta have different places, come on, man. And I think it's called, the place is called like Halo, some, fuck, I wish I could remember, I'll look at it. The food place?

Yeah. Oh, no, he said it's Meatasaurus or something like that. Meatasaurus? World of Meat or something?

No, no. The most expensive meal he's ever had, he said. No, no, it's not Bazaar. Bazaar!

It's the guy who owns Bazaar. Oh. Skip took us all there. Skip took me and the fam.

No, not all of us. Skip took my family there. Just you. And family time together.

He took you. Family time. You and your wife and children. Family time.

If you had a child of the same age bracket as Fiorella, you too could have been included in family time. I could have brought my child. I could have brought my child. You don't have a child.

Why don't you just rent one for the day? I have four children. You don't have the same age bracket as Fiorella. I could have got his Ava.

That's not your child. Yeah, but he doesn't qualify. He doesn't want Boots to go. I could have taken a child.

I mean, listen to you. I'm right here. Phil. No, you're Phil.

Here's the problem with making comments. Boots is right outside the door. Here's the problem with continuing to make the comments on the driving, eventually all of it kind of dries up. There will be no more castle torrents, no more wines, no more laptops.

I don't mind that I didn't go. It's all shut down. Like I said, I don't have children. I'm just playing with you.

I didn't get bent because you didn't go. And actually, the wine and cigars were very nice, but I was just making content for the show. But it was very nice, but don't stop doing it. He's a good guy.

But do it again next year. And Phil's always here. Phil has to talk to his one friend, Brett Fry. Yeah.

I only have one friend now? That's it. You guys are my friends? Apparently.

No, you just work for us. Yeah, you just work for us. It's an employee, employer, or relationship. You're not qualified.

You're not in their sanctum weasel realm. I'm going to tell you that right now. That doesn't just, you don't wake up one day and it happens. There's a lot of hazing.

I've put up with a lot of hazing. Yeah, I mean, you know. From Mike and Skip. I'm over a decade in with the Roma Craft family.

You're like six months. Mm-hmm. You'll get there, though. I have faith in you.

Just stick it out. Mm-hmm. Just stick it out. I like him.

I like it when he shuts down. I'm just gonna be here. I think you guys are like 30 minutes. 30 minutes.

25 minutes. The wedding would be a good time for Phil to make an impression on him. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm not gonna be able to because he'll be fucking looking like Meatloaf.

The damn shirt. No, no, that's Boots. Bootswil, not you. Oh, yeah.

Sorry. I'm not wearing a ruffle shirt. I'm not wearing a ruffle shirt. Oh, is there a ruffle shirt down?

Yeah. He's like, oh yeah, you're all wearing these, and I'm like, oh, well, I'm not. Oh. Just wear white.

I'm not going, no shirt, no shirt, just a jacket. Look, I'm not going complete idiot, you know, like, he's got us all in all. I don't think this shirt changes much. It does, it does.

A ruffled fucking shirt puts you at a hundred percent clown. We look like children sitting at a grown-up table. And I'm going to tell you right now, I only want to be 80 percent clown. I can't go a hundred percent clown.

He wants me to wear a referee uniform. No, he doesn't. Yes. I haven't heard any of your uniforms yet.

This is a joke. No, I'm serious. This wedding is a mockery. Well, he said he's coming down to Back in Black or, oh no, Gangsta, a string quartet version of Gangster's Paradise.

That's what Greg is walking into the church where they play. And then when they leave, it's something like Welcome to the Jungle or Back in Black or something. Can we make a production of this? Apparently it is.

Guys, this has to be a comedy production. I gave him some options on outfits I could wear. I want a cloak. " Oh, with a whistle?

" I have a Halloween costume that's a referee shirt. I just wish he'd put this kind of thought and creativity into his everyday activities. That would be nice, man. You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah. That'd be nice. That would be lovely. Oh, boy.

You know? Yes, it would. So, anyways, well, let's go on with the news because, you know, we got a- People over there with, now it's white. Hold on, I gotta slide back over here so I can hit the buttons.

That's a nice drawer. Okay, then back over here. Too far away. It's because of the, it's because you needed the elbow thing.

I had this down another six inches. No, you didn't. It was four inches additional total. Yeah.

That's right. And it's perfect. For you? But it's two inches on each side.

Right. So you're talking two inches fuckin' on your left side. No, no, it was gonna be four inches. No, it wasn't just, you didn't grow four on one side.

Okay, you just took it off one side. No. From the four quarters of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report, with Mike Toon.

Fratello announces a price increase, Michael. No way. Oscar Valladares Tobacco Company announces a price increase on February 1st. Wow.

Bocock Brothers increases prices for World Traveler Collection only. Oh my. Who? Bocock.

I've never heard of them either. Bocock. Yeah, their logo is a rooster. Hmm.

Rojas Cigars to debut breakfast tacos at the TPE announces a price increase for street tacos. Rojas. R-O-J-O-A-S. Oh, street tacos, I've heard that cigar.

Yeah, wasn't that the one? No, no, that was a different taco one, we didn't get that. They sent after the fact, but that was somebody else. But they were somebody else.

Okay. Oh. Well, Sonia announces a price... No, they don't.

Don't you, don't you. Do that to me. We have to release, actually, a price increase. Punch Spring Roll is scheduled for February 1st.

FQ's got a price increase, too. And I flat out said to him, I was like... So... How does he know?

Because he said the price is higher. Oh. The batch came in and the prices were higher. And I said, "Hey, listen, are you going to build a press release?

Because I don't mind distributing it for you. Right. I'm not fucking whipping it together, though. You know?

Oh. Right? I will, but it involves spaghetti sauce. Oh, just charge him.

Just charge him for it. Just charge him for it. I'll let Palmer come up with it. Like an attorney.

Yes. $500. $500 for press release. $500.

Hey, we're going to do a press release for you. A press release for you, $500. Yeah. We'll run it through Mike and Mike Productions.

Right. I'm not talking. Where am I? Oh, two.

If you would like Mike Palmer to build a press release for you, it would be $500. Yes. It would be since A met J. Since A met J.

Since Po met Stanya. While the most cigar companies release the cigars of the Chinese New Year, lean heavily on the character of the Chinese Zodiac calendar. The upcoming year is the year of the rabbit and red and gold colors. General Cigar is taking it aside.

Oh, I wonder if it's like General Sao Chicken. I wonder if that's-- It's General Tsao. No, it's pronounced Tsao. Tsao.

Tsao. Who's been to China, Michael? Tsao. Who's been to China?

Tsao. Who's been to China? Tsao. Why do you keep turning my camera off?

Who's been? Tsao. And they don't eat that over there, by the way. There is really no General Tsao sauce.

So, it's not even in China. It's not even a thing in China. So, it's an American thing. Well, there's Spring Roll here that's in this news.

They don't make those evenings. Tsao. Tsao. Tsao.

Tsao. The four and a half by 50 Petit Robusto that uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper. Didn't they do the egg roll last year? Yeah, I think so.

Oh, this year? This one's vegan. Spring roll. And then next year, it's the dumpling.

The dumpling. The dumpling. A three and a half by 70. How fucking high are they getting in this fucking board meeting?

I don't know, call your buddy in general. Hey, he never answers. Justin? Justin.

He sent me pictures of him at the Atlanta game though. Oh, isn't that nice? Yeah, isn't that lovely? Should have called him right away.

Are you there now? Let me touch him. Uh, let's see. 99 per cigar.

Cigars will come in red colored boxes made to mimic the popular cardboard boxes used for Chinese takeout. There are 5,000 boxes of 25 cigars for this release. S. because that's the only market where it holds a trademark for punts.

Wait, wait a second. Yes, Michael, they're making a Chinese New Year cigar that they cannot sell in China. There are a lot of people that make Chinese New Year cigars? Sure.

Who else? Year of the Rat. The Rabbit? Drew Estate.

That's not Chinese New Year. The Year of the Rat? They did it for the Year of the Rat. This is the Year of the Rabbit.

And then every year thereafter, they make the Year of the Rat? They have made them again, yes. Every year? Well, you know how Drew is.

" Is that Chinese Drew? That's not like Chinese Drew. That was Chinese Drew. No, that wasn't even, that wasn't Standard New Year.

No, no, no, that was Chinese Drew. That wasn't New York Drew. He's making them for Chinese New Year. They have leftover stuff, they keep making it, what do you want?

It's called goulash. 3,000 boxes. It's called goulash. This is the fifth release in the series, each of which has leaned heavily on American Chinese dishes for both the names and the packaging.

So they're admitting it's not even Chinese food. Yeah. It's American Chinese food. Here, I'm sitting up now.

Poshik has a... Sitting up taller for you. I know, it's very hard. Looks nice.

I feel like we're sitting at the kid's table at the grown-up. I want more potatoes. I'm very excited. Poshik announces distribution in Nauru, Michael.

What happened? Poshik is announcing distribution in Nauru. In Nauru? Nauru.

In Nauru? Nauru is a small island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean in the region of Oceana. That's where we got the tobacco. Yes.

Yeah, yeah. 5 square miles and a population of about 11,000 people. That's where the BDP is. Yes, the country was known for its prosperous phosphate mining operation in the early 20th century, as well as its unique tobacco.

Unique. Yes. Nauru was formally called Pleasant Island and become independent from Austria in 1968. Jagadish Exports, whose home is in Nauru, a Mr.

Maliva Valdi on Gondel Road has partnered with Poshik to distribute the BDP cigar back to its country, its tobacco game. Wow. This is the first cigar disputed in Nauru, and we have high hopes and big expectations. No one in postage was available for a comment.

Yeah, I got nothing to say about that. Right. Because it's not real. Yes, it is.

No, no, no. Leave it alone. It didn't happen. 2022 Cigar of the Year Countdown, Goops list, number four.

Yes! Bostana Votectoro 2020. The Bostana Votectoro produced a flavor profile that consisted of coffee, cocoa, cedar, red pepper, and citrus. Along the way, the VOTEC 2020 delivered a medium to full strength, medium to full bodied cigar experience.

This cigar had a nice amount of boldness, yet it wasn't overpowering. The other two sizes of Pustania VOTEC were the Perfecto in 2019 and the Box Press Toro in 2021. Yep. But they rounded the Toro from 2020, the bell of the ball.

But they rounded out the three. Not they rounded the cigar. Right. Okay.

Sorry, I got confused. It's okay. The Postone Votek is the highest placed barber pole in history of Cigar Coupe. How about that?

It also marks the second year the Postone has placed a cigar in the Cigar Coupe Countdown. In addition, the cigar gives the Nikasuenya factory its highest placing ever on a Cigar Coupe Countdown. How do you like them apples? Meanwhile, if you're keeping score at home, Nicaragua continues to dominate the 2022 Countdown.

27 cigars have been unveiled thus far with 18 coming from that Central American country. huh here we are and this is why give me this one wait wait we only have one more story so talk a long time this is why coop is number one in the industry so he is the king of media a hundred percent some people think it's howard stern no no no he's not coop is the king is all king of cigar it's not how about that cigar no it's not eric gooderson even though he acknowledged us with Ardetti? Yeah, with his, you know, King of Media. Oh, yeah, the King of Media.

That was a very nice award to give. Yeah, back to me. Give me two, give me two. BDP is also on the Dojo-- It's not John McTavish.

The Dojo countdown. Oh, no. You know, at the TPE, or PCA, sorry. They were gonna review my cigar on John McTavish and Aaron Loomis' shirt.

Developing sphinctures. I gave them cigars to do it. Nothing. We sent them shirts.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, still no shirts. They never sent us fucking shirts. Never sent his shirts.

Never sent his shirts. That's Aaron Loomis. Yes. Yeah.

Well, we sent one for John McTavish, too, though. Yeah, I know. Okay. Well, I'm just saying that Aaron's, you know, he's the angry one.

He's quiet, so he's angry. He's very quiet. Yeah, yeah. Very, very quiet.

Who else? It's not Half Wheel. I don't know. Did Half Wheel say anything yet?

They haven't put their list out yet. It could be Half Wheel. Half Wheel could be... Did you say, how about that cigar?

Yeah, that's the first one I said. He did make that cigar. It's the first one I said. Not Burn Down Pocket.

It's a Burndown Podcast. I'll be on their show. It's not Burndown Podcast. It's not Burndown Podcast.

No. It wasn't Cigar Snob. Didn't make theirs. No.

But you know, Cigar Spirit Magazine didn't make theirs. I will say, for having the number one cigar, Cigar Snob was probably the closest to acknowledging the right cigar. What was that? Was that the Olmec?

Yeah. Okay. But they went Maduro. Maduro isn't the best one.

No. It's a Claro. And if you really want to get specific, it's the Corona Gordo. That's the best fucking cigar, obviously, that came out this year in my opinion, I think, I don't know, it's up there, you know, it's not the Maduro though, it's a great cigar, my Segundo is, but the problem is, here's the problem, hold on, so my, uh, Riggs just did an indoor cycle and I gotta acknowledge him.

What? I got people on my phone, my watch, when they- He trains people. When they exercise, they finish the exercise, I like to tell them, hey, good job. He trains people now.

Oh, hey, good job. Good job, Riggs. Indoor cycle. Can't even pedal outside?

No, man. It's a dangerous world. I was going to say the attack bike. I was so close.

No, what's good about the cycle is, you know, it's only one motion. Like, it's only the push, push, push. You know what I mean? You just go around one time?

I can't do this with you today. No, I'm serious. It sounds like what you say. I just can't.

You just mean it's just legs. There's no arms. Well, no. Well, it's not, you don't, there's no lift back up.

There's no, yeah, there's no additional, it's just the push, push. Like, you know, like, when you run. It's not a super intense workout, is what you're saying. Are you absolutely not lisping?

It absolutely is a super intense workout. If you're not going to wear other ass, you have to fake the list. I did a 30 second Wingate post after my workout and my blood pressure levels hit 178 or some shit. Yeah, but I mean like it's not hard on the rest of your body.

Correct. That would be the right terminology. Right. So what were we talking about?

It's not Burntown Podcast. People that have not acknowledged your greatness. No, no, no, we were talking about the Olmec. Oh, because...

Oh, but here's the problem with foundation. Yes. It's like, you know... Foundasia?

If they started all this fuckery of like, you know, you gotta do these specific things to buy this thing, and then, you know, it's like, oh, so it's like, you know... I felt close to Nick at one point. Oh, not anymore. Like, we used to be friends.

You know, write that down. Right. Write that down. But I don't feel like we're friends anymore.

I don't know. He's gone corporate, he's corporate, you know, you know, I don't know, he's gonna be putting out Chinese New Year's cigars next year. This feels a little weird. Let's see where the road takes us.

What would be your second best cigar? I had a list of all of these things. I don't remember them off the top of my head. I could tell you the HVC selection selection.

Listen, I'm gonna make a fucking mess. Yeah, but nobody else does. I don't fucking care. First of all, you hardly ever smoke.

I'm trying to smoke more this year. Okay, but you hardly ever smoke. On the show, yes. I'm already halfway through this fucking thing.

Right? Well, yeah, but most of it's on the table. It's delicious. It is delicious.

This delicious BDP cigar. From Daru. From Daru. Where we now distribute cigars.

We only distribute the one, though. They wanted it back. I think... Will there ever be a BDP, too?

You know... Probably not. I think the selection of Broadleaf, the HVC, is fucking amazing, and it was a great price point. Off the top of my head, I mean, all the Coronas that Roma made, especially the fucking EC and the BA, the Reverence and the Contempt, those are fucking money.

I don't know how those don't make the fucking, how those don't make the punch, you know what I mean? That also kind of frustrates me. I don't think anything from Roma Craft made anything. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck that's about.

Do you think maybe just a lot of people don't smoke it on that side? I think that it was just the way that it was introduced first, is in the Grand Corona package, for whatever reason. You know, we're going to ask Matt Tai tonight. We're going to say, hey, why, you know.

Why is there no Romograph, Madeline? Yeah, what the fuck? I'm coming in hot. Well, I'm just running the stuff, I'm not on the show with you.

So, I'm going to do How About That Cigar tonight, but it's actually going to be last night, because it's going to be released tomorrow. Yeah, the time this comes out, you've already done it. Yes. But I'm coming in hot.

I got questions. But Jeff Mouté's on with you tonight, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Is he over here or over there? I'm gonna tell you my first question I'm gonna ask. Oh. Oh, because it doesn't matter because it'll already have happened.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But is Jeff in the States or is he in the Georgia? Who fucking, I don't know. Oh.

Am I the keeper of Jeff Mouté? Well, I figured you would know. Where are you located, sir? Because it could be a harder connection if he's over there.

It's all right, I'm gonna have this glorious background. I'm gonna look sharp as fuck, so that's all that matters. And I'll just carry it. If I gotta carry the team, I'll carry the team, 'cause that's what I do.

Is it a Zoom? Do they do Zoom, or Squawk Box? I think it is. Yeah, they get on the thing with the DuckDuckGo, or whatever the fuck, who knows?

I don't know. Well, it's important that I know, Michael, so I can have it so it works. I don't know. We cross that bridge when we come to it, and we're not there yet.

We got seven hours. Yeah, but you're not gonna find out between that and then. I'll figure it out. Okay, so what's your first question?

They sent me an email. I have the information. I can look it up. Well, I have an email from them before.

Calm down, Jules. I'm on the motherfucker. okay so so matt ty yes first of all i just want to pull disclaimer i love you matt ty but i'm a fucking i'm coming i'm coming so mr matthew ty he sends an email to jeff and myself yes of saying hey if you could send us some cigars to smoke on the show we would greatly appreciate that now that was on december 29th okay so obviously you know new year's eve and shit everything's It's kind of really busy, whatever the case may be, but I was, I'm on the motherfucker, I'm on top of it, no problem, build the order, do do do, I think it goes out the next day, December 30th, right? Okay.

New Year's Eve, Eve. Yeah. Right. Now, um, New Year's Eve was Saturday, right?

Then New Year's Eve was Sunday, right? No, New Year's Day was Sunday, but it was observed on Monday. And then Monday is how, you know, New Year's Day, day, because apparently, you know, we have to have an addition to the We have to have the day off. Yeah, when did that start happening?

I don't fucking know. Apparently, it's a thing. Right. You know, it's so obnoxious.

There are even some stores not open. Well, it's kind of amazing to me because we fucking work throughout the whole thing. Right. Just Christmas Day is the only thing.

Yeah, yeah. We take your break on Christmas Day or whatever. Right. And then, you know, if I was off on New Year's Day and it was a weekday.

Right. But all the other days, we fucking worked. I could tell you how many people I spoke to was like, yeah, no, we're off this week. I'm like, this, all right, cool.

Well, I don't know what the fuck. The week between Christmas and New Year's? A lot of people do that. Yeah.

Yeah. What the fuck? They're not retail. Some of them were.

Oh, were they really? I mean, yeah, there's all types of shit. I'm like, I don't get it. So anyways, I'm like, okay, whatever, fuck.

So he reaches out to me. Let me tell you when he reaches out to me. I'm going to fact check this one. I don't want to fuck this up.

Okay. So that Tuesday, January 2nd, right? No, January 3rd, January 1st is Sunday. January 2nd.

Yeah, 2nd is Monday. So January 3rd, he says, hey, I haven't gotten the cigars. I'm like, okay. Well, I've sent them.

I said I sent them. Well, I sent them. What do you mean to do? What's going on, you know?

And he says to me. No, they are Steam Yard. What? They're Steam Yard.

Okay. It's a little harder to do. Alright, we'll figure it out. Camera three.

" Well, there you go. " You know that where your cigars... Did you get any other mail, Matthew? Like, dude, did you get any other fucking mail?

No, the cigars, they fly in the front of you. I mean, we've gotten no mail with me, Michael, can you check into that, hey, I just want to know, like, why the fuck, why are you asking me, like, I fucking did, I did my job, I did my thing, so why would you. Track it, Michael, see where it is, wouldn't you bring them, he actually received them yesterday. Oh, plenty of time.

He's like, hey, got them in yesterday or whatever, or Saturday. Are they frozen now? They're probably gonna explode. They've been in his mailbox for a week because he couldn't get into the mailbox.

I mean, if I had shipped them out. With a heater. On the 30th, yeah, right, you need to put a fucking thermal pack in there, and he just got them a week later. You put a Boveda pack, where have you put a thermal pack in there?

Thermal pack, keep it nice and warm, blows up when it gets there. You know, it's a great, it's a great way to upsell, right? We're gonna throw a little, like a thermal pack, five dollars. It's gonna be an extra six bucks, six, extra six bucks.

So, that's gonna be my first question. All right. What the fuck? Oh, why did he harass you when he wasn't getting in?

Yeah, why are you breaking my balls when you're fucking dealing with the blizzard? And then second question. But shows do that? If you can have somebody on, you hit them up for cigars beforehand?

I don't know, maybe, I know that we have a good relationship with Matt and Garrett. So, you know, I would want them to have those cigars. Well, yeah. Well, you're gonna be on their show, they're my friends.

They shouldn't send you cigars? You know what's really kind of funny, though, now that you say that? That's a good point. Now you see that.

Like, Bear just orders the cigars from me. He pays for them. Yeah. Right.

Like, no question. Coop never asked for cigars. So why are they out jogging bagging? I don't know.

Is that like a condition of being on the show? I don't know. If you said no, they went, well, we might have to reschedule. We're going to look into this.

We're going to have to get back to you. We're going to have to get back to you then on this whole show thing. Wow. No wonder they have a guest every week.

They're just floating in cigars up there. Swimming in them. Right. I'm wondering how Jeff's going to do this.

This is going to be interesting. Did you just send yours or did you send Mute's? No, it was Mute's. First of all, I wasn't going to be on.

Right. I was like, hey, Jeff's launching a cigar. Right. This would be a good opportunity for you guys to kind of get in touch and kind of talk to him and stuff like that.

Why can't we have him on here? We can have him on afterwards. Yeah, but now it's not the first time though. I don't want to be the first.

Is this just, is this his first interview? If, yeah. If Powstanie... Well, now, technically, he did our show three years ago-ish.

You know, look, Powstanie's all about building with other retailers and developing and protecting brands. Why wouldn't I do the same thing with media? I mean, you know, I want them to fucking continue to have... Because they just had them cigars.

So what? I mean, Burn Down Podcast, I bought those fuckers. You did buy them? I bought those.

Well, the show bought them. Well, then we're going to send them to you. But I was going to say we should send them BDPs. I just can't get their address.

Oh, you want their address? Yeah. I'll get their address. Palmer's feeling like he needs some cigars.

Palmer always gets free fucking cigars. I get it. If anybody wants to send Palmer cigars. You know what, but I got to bring for my wife's damn cigars.

Somebody like to send infused cigars, please. We'll have you on the show. Is that the way it works? Is that what you do?

No. No, that's exactly it. That's not how it works. That's exactly how it works.

That's not how it works. Not on the show. Want to be on the show? Send cigars.

No. Anybody. I don't care who you are. No, that's not how it works.

Bob that lives over in Sacramento. Want to be on the show? Send cigars. No.

They're not going to be on the show. I'm going to beat you to death with this fucking gorilla. I have a lot of shows. Which show you want to be on?

Which show you want to be on? You want to be on the Chet and Homer show. Ben said how many cigars you said. You want to be on That Sports Talk with Angry JJ.

Would you like to be on a show with two men with Corks, Ashes, and Hebers? Oh. What is that? What is that?

Holly and Savage, Corks, Hebers, and Ashes. Corks, Hebers, and Ashes. Corks, Hebers, and Ashes. Cigars now.

The show's tomorrow. And it's my turn. That's it, and it's his turn. I thought we had Brandon for that now.

This is his last training. Two training, and then we never show up again. Two training, and then we're done. Never done.

We are adding to the Mike and Mike production crew. He's very excited. He asked me twice. When am I back on again?

Tuesday night, Brandon, Tuesday night. The scary part about all that is like the coordination of scheduling employees and as well as payment and stuff that all ends on him. Well, I pay our employees, because he can't write checks. Oh, okay, that's good.

Yeah, I don't write checks. He's money in, I'm money out. But who schedules him to come into work? Oh, well, we have to check with our leads.

Well, no, no, I ask him, he tells me and I tell Brandon. You see how you did the point thing? They don't like me, so they like to talk to him. Hey, you're scary.

I'm a little confrontational. They kick them to the curb. You're like Whitey and me, myself, and Irene. Just the mean old man.

You know, they're very nice to me when I'm here, though. Because they don't want you to kill me. They have to be in front of you. They're very large men.

I don't think I could. And they have the gacks or whatever those things are. The gun is the ultimate leveler, man. The gun is the ultimate leveler.

It doesn't matter how tall or how big you are. It's like this guy. And you look like, you know. You look like you might carry a gun.

There's probably a shotgun in the bathroom. You know what I mean? Oh, that'd be nice. Yeah.

Hey, guys, hold this real quick. Oh, shit. Hey, I'll be right back. I got to pee.

All right, next news. We'll come on. We're running out of time. We've got five minutes.

All right, we've got one more story. A Florida story. A Florida rapper was arrested by police this weekend after a jet skied Jason Miami. Wow.

N-E-H-E-M-I-A. It's sort of like Jeremiah, but Nehemiah? Is that how you say his name? Nehemiah?

Nehemiah Hardin, also known as Spodum Gotem. I don't know. Spodum Gotem. Big fan of Spodum Gotem.

Was arrested after an officer spotted a black and orange Sea-Doo jet ski in a restricted zone with posted signs, according to Miami police. Arrested on the arrest affidavit obtained by Cigar Hustler Podcast Television. Wow. Wait, what was he doing?

Hold on. He was in a restricted zone. that had posted signs no jet skis in this area spodum got him in miami spodum got him a night the 19 year old allegedly started doing s type terms near anchored boats according to the arrest report an officer attempted to get the rapper's attention to conduct a traffic stop but spodum got him allegedly looked at the officer and sped off on the jet ski swerving through anchored boats and swimmers near the area the officer tried to stop spodum spodum has worked with uh the baby Using lights and sirens, but the entertainer refused to stop. As well as Push-Eisty.

Oh, Push-Eisty. Oh, Push-Eisty. And continued to ride away, per the report. And NLE Choppa.

Oh, I like him, I like him. Spodum Garton was eventually stopped and arrested by Miami police. The Jacksonville native was booked Sunday night on several charges, including eluding law enforcement and reckless operation of a boat, according to the booking information. I wish I was a rapper.

It just looks like such an awesome life. He couldn't use his celebrity status to get out of that? Did you not? Well, Spodum Garton, I really don't think he's that big a star.

Well, he didn't say, do you know who I am? I am Mike Palmer of all of it. BDP. I run everything.

I own Cigar Hustler and Postanya and Cigar Hustlers podcast. I'm an excellent lender. I'm a master blender. Miami police wrote the arrest report that Spodum had a willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others and property at a speed or in a manner as to endanger himself or others.

I mean, his Spotify picture, he's just holding a wad of cash. Spodum will appear in court before a judge Tuesday, a law enforcement officer said. The rapper is best known for his 2020 hit single called: "Beat Box". Oh, I know that song.

It's on my phone. Oh, don't play it! He's got it. I was gonna play it, but I thought...

He's got lovely jewelry. Yeah, what kind of necklace has he got? Oh, did you see? There's two of them, and they're thick.

Oh, nice. Yeah, and it looks like he's got a grill. Does he have a charm? Or really, really clean teeth.

I mean, it's hard to tell. His arrest photo looked like he had a big crow in his head with his hair. His hair is lovely. I don't know what's in that picture, but you remember the Lone Ranger where, what's his name played, Tonto?

Jack Sparrow? Yes. His head looks like that because, you know, he wore that bird, that bird on it. That's what the top of his head looks like.

That's amazing. That's what caught my attention to the story. Oh, Spodum got him. I have to read this.

Oh, my God, that's Spodum got him. That's right, Spodum got him. Spodum got him. Spodum got him.

Spodum got him. Spodum got him. Why are we saying Spodum? It's Spodum.

Spodum got him. Is it Spodum? It's not Spodum? It's definitely spot-em.

For sure. It's spot-em got-em. It's not spot-em got-em. Spot-em.

S-P-O-T-E-M. Spot. Spote? Spot.

Spot-em. Spot-em. Like pot-em. Like know-em.

Like totem. Like, no, no. Is it totem or is it... C-O-M-B-Comb, T-O-M-B-T-O-M?

S-P-O-T-E-M. T-O-M-B-T-O-M. Why are you saying to-em? C-O-M-B-Comb.

You're saying it's spot. W-O-M-B-W-O-M-B-W-O-M. Is a totem pole called a totem pole? It's called a spotem pole.

It's called a totem pole. No, it's called a spotem gotem. Right, spotem. Spotem gotem.

Spotem gotem. Spotem gotem. Spotem. Spotem.

Totem, spotem. Spotem, spotem. Totem, spotem. Gotem, comb.

This is going to be the clip, just so you know. Totem, spotem. Spotem. Gotem.

What is Phil doing over there? He's checked out. Are you texting? He's checked out.

He's checked out emotionally. He's texting Brett Fry. They're being mean to me, Mr. Frye.

Can you send me another nice card? Considering you guys say that's my only friend in the industry. Aww. It is.

It is. What do you want from us? What, am I not your guys' friend? We have been over this.

You're an employee of the production company. Phil is just an employee, but this is my friend. Right. But I feel like I spend a lot of time looking at you guys on this thing.

No, actually, you look over here, you should be looking at them. No, I'm looking at them. And you do a lot of text. No.

I don't, I don't have to look at it all the time, it's perfect. No, no, you should look at it, 'cause then you know when to switch. All right, well, hey, listen, thank you very much, everybody. Yes, appreciate it, this has been episode 263 of the Cigar Hustler.

Do we have a Listener of the Week? Yes. Yes. Alex?

Yes. Nice. Benchworks. What's his, what's his Insta?

Benchworks. The new Manufacturing Consult, can I have a camera, please? The new Manufacturing. The Manufacturing Consultant for Nick Eswinio and Romacraft Tobac.

Spot 'em, got 'em. Bong. Right. It is, let me see here.

Dude, you gotta hit the, he's telling you to hit the bong. Oh, bong. I didn't know, I thought he was pointing at the camera, like, yes, I see the camera's on. Bong, bong, bong.

Listener of the week, Spodum got 'em. Alex, No Wo Grodzka. Exactly. Now Wo Grodzka.

That's exactly how you say it. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. What, syllables? No, 11 letters.

Oh. That's good. Benchworks_cigars. Benchworks is a tool company.

No, it's obviously, you know, a cigar consulting company. Manufacturing Consultant. Manufacturing Cigar Consultant. Yes, for Nick Aswinyu.

Is Nick Aswinyu one word or two? Two. He made a one. Maybe, well, no, no, it'll be fair.

There's only allowed so many spaces in your bio. So he had to just kind of cram it in. Right, I do that all the time. Shop of the week.

Shop of the week! Maybe it's one. I don't know. Eh, one.

Oh, it's one now. Yeah. It's one. Or shop of the week.

Shop of the week! Shop of the week. Phil's only friend, bread-fried tobacco. Wow.

No. And you don't get the camera anymore. I'm gonna go with train car. Oh, if I only had a train whistle.

Train car. Boop, boop. That's a boat, sorry. Frank Strand's place in Texas.

That'd be a Chinese train. What shop is near Matt Frye where he could have bought his own damn cigars? Matt Frye? Is that like Brett and-- That's Brett's brother, Matt.

Oh, so it's out of Virginia? No, no, he lives in Minnesota. He's just making people up there. You know, it's very important that I pay attention to all the shit that you say.

Because, you know-- Who knows what could come out of people? Yeah. " No, fuck you guys. Palmer would definitely get shouted out on Facebook.

The rest of you, listen, the rest of you, no. Next year, I want better, I expect better from all of you. Maybe, oh, maybe you need to send cigars to everybody. No, I'm not sending you shit.

Oh. I'm not sending you anything. How's Matt Fry going to know what it is you put him out? I just, Matt Fry, I just want Matt Fry to know that, you know, he knows the link to the site, he buys his own shit.

Oh, okay, as long as Matt Frye knows. Yeah, he's got plenty of money, Matt Frye. He does. His brother is fucking crushing it in the retail industry.

Right, you could get a discount for one of his shops. But, you know, Matt Tye, he's got, you know, he plays, he's got plenty of ad space that he's clocking it in on. Right, you can buy, you can buy, you can buy, you can buy a Powstanie. You go ahead, you'll buy.

You'll buy now. And that's the way you review, you get higher review, and then you can even write on your description. They started the meeting upstairs, Greg's doing the meeting. That's not possible.

It's 2:02. Do you see the video for Greg when Greg starts a meeting? I think that went up just now. No, I didn't see that.

Greg started a meeting? Yes, on Facebook. Well, we have work to do. Well, you do.

I just have to clean the table. It's your business. He just owns it. He doesn't work it.

I don't work it. Come on. I'm above that now. All those years I put in.

Okay. All right. Well, thanks again. All right, guys.

Thanks. We got to go. We got a meeting. Bye.

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Hi, I'm doing I'm Husto-E-Raw. Yeah, we just don't have to do a single, uh, single podcast ever again. Perfect. I'm good, Mike and Mike.

How are you guys doing? The Hojo Deeb. Hojo! It's the Hojo.

Demandre. 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 it.

He's not even going to try. We're going to cover a lot of ground here, Mike. All right. Try to keep up.

That's a sign of a good podcast right now. It'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door. All right, end this.

Show Notes

A Famous Rapper Gets Pulled over on a Jetski! Mikey hates all the cigar media but one!  BDP sits on top of his Empire!