Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 255 Boots had a Party?

Episode Summary

Episode 255 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is recorded "in front of a live studio audience" with Michael, producer Mike B.D. Palmer and cameraman Phil. The first half is pure banter: Boots' daughter Ava's birthday party (and who did and didn't get invited), a Bill Burr show at the Amway Center where phones got locked in pouches, babysitter turnover, Thanksgiving menu plans (ham, brined and smoked turkey legs, Tater bringing the sweet potato casserole) and an upcoming Bahamas cruise. Michael also spends a long stretch airing out a friendship grievance — Boots assumed Michael wouldn't cover a late Tuesday night show, which leads into a broader riff on being the guy who solves everyone's problems and the risk of becoming someone's permanent "fluff boy."

The news segment (the Cigar Hustler Podcast Report) covers the PCA promoting Ryan Parada to Senior Manager of Government Affairs and International Policy — complete with a prank call bit; Fratello Florida debuting at ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, a $8 Dominican puro 5x50 robusto with a Mano 2000 wrapper and Olor binder blended with Manuel Inoa of La Aurora, joining Fratello's state-exclusive series alongside Texas, Pennsylvania and DMV; and Foundation Cigar Company shipping Highclere Castle Egyptian, a $33 6¾x52 perfecto with a 7th-priming Ecuadorian Habano wrapper and Brazilian Mata Fina binder honoring the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, in an archaeologist-designed hieroglyphic box. Michael vents at length about being told he'd only get three of his six ordered boxes unless he also took on Highclere Castle Victorian facings that don't move in his shop.

Also in the news: Hong Kong weighing a generational tobacco ban on anyone born after 2008 (following New Zealand, with Denmark and the UK considering similar); Blackened Cigars M81 by Drew Estate — the James Hetfield/Metallica and Blackened Whiskey collaboration with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, Connecticut River Valley broadleaf binder and Nicaraguan maduro plus Pennsylvania Green River One Sucker filler — shipping to Drew Diplomat retailers; Tabacalera William Ventura breaking ground on a new, larger factory in the Zona Franca in Tamboril after last September's fire, with production resumed at the smaller El Maestro factory; and an Alec Bradley reclaimed cigar mold sampler ($80 for seven cigars in a genuine used wooden mold, limited to 800). The episode wraps with a Florida story out of Pensacola, Listener of the Week Mark Gordon, and shop announcements: a RoomCraft private event with Michael Rosales and a Howard G event the Friday after Thanksgiving featuring Leon Searcy and Ike Taylor.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Boots' Birthday Party and the Invite List
   Michael recaps Ava's birthday party, the bounce house, a competitive game of tag with Ethan, and who got rotated in or out of the guest list.
2. 02
   Bill Burr at the Amway Center
   Locked phone pouches, VIP parking chaos, a 45-minute entry line, and leaving the kids with a brand-new babysitter.
3. 03
   Friendship, Favors and Being the Fix-It Guy
   Michael airs out being underestimated when Boots needed a fill-in host, plus the city certificate-of-occupancy problem he solved himself.
4. 04
   PCA Promotes Ryan Parada
   News that Ryan Parada moved up to Senior Manager of Government Affairs and International Policy, with a prank phone-call bit.
5. 05
   Fratello Florida Debuts at ABC Fine Wine & Spirits
   The $8 Dominican puro robusto blended with Manuel Inoa, its Mano 2000 wrapper and Olor binder, and Fratello's growing state-exclusive series.
6. 06
   Foundation's Highclere Castle Egyptian — and an Allocation Gripe
   The $33 King Tut centennial perfecto with its hieroglyphic box, plus Michael's frustration at being pushed to buy Highclere Castle Victorian to get his full order.
7. 07
   Hong Kong's Generational Tobacco Ban
   Hong Kong considers banning tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008, following New Zealand's lead, with Denmark and the UK watching.
8. 08
   Blackened M81, William Ventura Rebuild and Alec Bradley Molds
   Drew Estate's Metallica collaboration ships, Tabacalera William Ventura breaks ground after its fire, and Alec Bradley releases a reclaimed cigar mold sampler.

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Transcript

Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, episode 255. D. Palmer. P.

P. Palmer. P. And me.

I'm Phil, your cameraman. I've been working from home lately and I find my motivation is a lot like masturbation. It comes and goes in spurts. Yay!

Amazing. Good for you. Thanks. Good job, Phil.

Phil, you do what you gotta do. I'm here. You gotta come and go in spurts, buddy. All right.

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Is that? They're demoing. Oh. First of all, I'm going to smoke this.

I'm going to smoke this phosphor in a second. It's Jeff Moutet's. Sounds like dramatic music. Dun dun.

Cigar. Match cigar. Is that what we're doing on the Patreon today, Michael? Yes, yes, yes.

I threw one to you. Here, take it alone. Don't worry. We're going to give one to Phil, the masturbatorium himself, the expert.

He's been working a lot from home lately. He's been here for home lately. So. Very motivated.

I went to… So you went to a birthday party? Yeah. Boots's daughter, Ava, had a birthday party. Oh.

Did you hear about it? No, not at all. You didn't? Not until the day of, actually.

Day of? The day of. Yeah. " Like, what party?

" I don't think you did, because I honestly didn't know where I was going until… Oh, you said everybody in the car? 7. And what size are these? These Robustos?

These are Corona. Coronas. This is Jeff's Corona. Never thought I'd say that.

That's funny. Yeah. Weird. Good deal.

So yeah, we did the birthday party. Yeah. Had a great time. Kids were going nuts.

He's got a... Bounce House? Yeah, Bounce House was fun. His son, Ethan, thought he could outrun me.

They were playing tag. He tagged me. Right. I fucking hunted that guy down like he was a gazelle and I was a lion, man.

It was crazy. Backle tag? I mean, it was borderline. Oh.

It was borderline. You gotta resist a little bit, you know? Yeah, well, you're such a large man. But you can't let a 15-year-old kid think that they're the shit, right?

Right. You gotta let them know. You're not, right? Right, Phil?

You were there, right, Phil? Yeah, I was there, Phil. Oh, Phil got invited, too. It's nice.

Yeah, so... Are these... Yeah, it looks a little dry there. Maybe, but they just came in.

Shattered all over my table. It's fine. Just brush it in the floor. that later.

That's fine. Yeah, I'll just get this out of the way. Yeah, there you go. You worry too much.

Perfect. You worry too much. There's a guy that cleans. That's me.

He's a great guy. Right. Maybe Pookie, the security guard, can start sweeping. Pookie?

Oh. Maybe we can get Pookie to sweep. Can we get Pookie Tang as the security guard? Pookie Tang?

Yeah. We can fire Pookie. We can fire Pookie and hire Pookie Tang. I'm curious as to who Pookie is.

You don't remember Pookie? Well, he was a Kraken in New Jack City. I can tell you that much. That was Chris Rock.

Maybe he's a PCA. He was at PCA. Remember? I don't remember.

Hector kept talking about getting them. That's right. Hector does like to get Pookie. Yeah.

Hector mentions Pookie all the time. Does he? Yeah. Yeah, when we were having the problem seeing- He'll turn around and start going, "Where's Pookie?

" Huh. Interesting. And then I went to Bill Burr. Oh, but that was good.

I like him. Was it funny? It was fucking hilarious. Bill Burr is fucking hilarious.

We had a great time. The whole process to getting in was a little kind of fucked, though. Did they do the phone thing again? They did the phone thing, but they did the phone thing in front of the security guard before you did the whole walk-in thing, like before the metal detector, so I couldn't smuggle.

Oh. Yeah. Fuckers. They got both of them this time.

And what was crazy, I think we, first of all, I couldn't get into the VIP parking area either. Like it was locked up, maybe it was closed already? Maybe. Yeah, maybe it's full.

We got there like, right at 7:00. Oh, yeah, it's definitely. It's full. So, it was packed.

The place was fucking packed, and it was kind of a process. It took us probably 45 minutes to get into the damn thing. Oh, wow. Yeah.

But he was, dude. Dude, did you miss an opening act or something? I don't think so. No?

The dude is fucking hilarious. They never start on time. No, they never start on time. And we found a new babysitter.

Oh. He's going through them like crazy. Well, the last one's having a baby or something, and she's moving away, and it sucks. Because we were established.

Well, you find one you like, and then something happens all the time. com, we had direct pay, like, things were easy, and we found this other one, and so far, so good, the kids really liked her, so, I hope they stick around, man. Because there's nothing more terrifying than going to a comedy show, locking your phone up so you don't have access to it, and leaving your kids with somebody you don't really fucking know. Right, because the first time she's babysat.

Yeah. Oh, yes, you just met her. Yep. But we talked with her a little bit afterwards, and, you know, I think she'll be a good fit.

You could still get a message on your watch, couldn't you? They'd take your watch off too, bro. Oh. No video cameras.

Brittany actually smuggled her watch out of the pouch. Oh. So, you know, that was helpful because she received a text. She received, well, what are they going to do now?

Fucking take me. Come back and tell you to forget everything you saw. Sir, you are no longer welcome at any Bill Burr concerts at the Amway Center. Or anything at the Amway.

Fuck you. I just Bill Burr, anything. You're banned. I'll never go in with my own ticket.

I'll just go in with Phil. Oh. Yeah, but you can't even watch him on Netflix. You'll have your picture up.

No, no, you're out. The large Baku man, you can't come in. Baku, man? Baku from Black Panther, the Giant Gorilla Man, the king of the Gorilla Guys, Baku.

So that was fun. He's been in the news a lot lately, there's something going on, I never read the stories, but the title is Baku is Mad or something every week. Oh, no. Yes, I don't know why Baku is Mad.

So, an incident did happen last week, and I wanted to bring it up. What? I thought you were going to lay heavier onto Phil, but you haven't yet. You just gave him a hard time and he didn't really engage with the whole birthday party.

He didn't engage, so he just let it go. They don't fight back. It's no fun. Yeah.

So we had a scenario here where you wound up being held late, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. For the Tuesday night show. And I called you and I said, "Hey, do you need me to come in?

" Right, what buttons. So that way you're not stuck here. Right. Because you like to be in bed at a specific time.

I'm very old, Michael. I have a bedtime. Yeah. So...

My phone tells me when it's time to go to bed. So... And he's in his reminders if I'm still up. Yeah, he's supposed to be in bed, young man.

Right. Right. So then, Phil was in a position, and we had no idea of this position, or at least I didn't, you probably did. Of what?

Where he had no, where Ginger was out of town. Oh, yeah, no, no, I didn't know. And he needed a fill-in. Right.

Ugh. " Right. " Yeah, you wouldn't come in. do that i wouldn't fucking do that phil has it i have a job no boots we're asking you to talk on boots's behalf oh okay yeah he's not here we talk all the time lone ranger he has a type yeah so i just i couldn't i that hasn't sat well with him hang out together all the time yeah they're very close oh yeah obviously because you're still talking about and he was at the birthday party yes because yeah no i wasn't yeah right because i'm not that like so what am i You asked several times if I wanted you to come in that night, you know, look, you were getting a little upset.

I wouldn't let you. Yeah. I'm like, I will come in. I will take care of it.

And, you know, what was funny is there was a situation sometime that week with the city. Oh, that's right. You know, there was all in the same week, some type. Yeah.

Some type of certificate of occupancy or some shit like that. You're a very helpful guy. And, and what was crazy was like, I'm watching boots and this whole thing. And, you know, he gets, when he gets up and he starts to pace and he's shouting.

He yells fidgety and raises his voice. And I'm like... He never shouted at me. Yells at...

Well, it's 'cause you and him are buddies. He's invited to a birthday party like I didn't, so... And we figure out who the guy is to talk to at the office. Oh, his friend.

Boots' friend. Well, yeah, at City. I'm like, okay, fuck it. Marvin or something like that.

So instead of watching this whole back and forth bullshit, I'm like, fuck this. I pick up the fucking phone. I'm like, hey, I need this. I need these things solved.

I need this solved. And the guy was all over it. He couldn't solve the problem. " I got it.

I have it. Right. Because, from my own personal experience... What happened?

I told you, that one's gonna shorten it now. From my own... Oh, now it's messed up. Okay.

It's better now. From my own personal experiences... It's getting old, it's starting to wear out. From my own personal experiences, I know that if you solve that person's problem, when they could've solved that problem, you wind up being their fucking fluff boy forever.

Like, oh, I need to do this. I need to do this. I need to do this. I don't pick up anything anymore.

Right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Right.

You need that moved? I'll get Michael, hold on. I'll be right back. Right.

Exactly. You pick, I will pick it up. You pick up heavy things now. I don't pick up heavy things anymore.

I'm brittle. I'm brittle. Brittle. Things break.

But if I see my friends in a situation where they need help, I'm going to, for one, ask if they need help. Right. So is what you do first. Right.

And two, if I see that, you know, I can solve the fucking problem. I'm not even going to ask if they need help. I'm just going to solve the fucking problem. Right.

Kind of surprised that. He didn't think you would help. Yeah. It's terrible.

Well, you know, I talked to Boots about this. Yeah. Okay. Put the camera on you.

There you go. So the situation was that it was very late. And you had to come into work the next day. You had to work out.

You have the kids. Oh, he's still talking about the scheduling late at night. Yes, yes, yes. Oh.

Well, you didn't even know he had offered until the next day. Yeah, I didn't even know that there was a problem. Oh, no, wait. He's talking about coming in for his show.

I'm all confused. I didn't even know that there was a problem that you needed to fill it. Right, right, right, right. That's what this whole thing's about.

Like, if I had known that there was a problem, I would have been here. I would have fucking been here. You call him on his show every week now anyway. And I answer.

I mean, no matter where I am, I answer. Right, right, right. Like, fuck, I'm walking into this. What do you got?

Let's go. But that's like 15, 20 minutes compared to an hour and a half. Oh, he would have enjoyed being on the show, because it's a sports thing. I still would have done it.

Okay, well now Boots knows. Does Boots know that I'm a reliable friend is the real question. Yes, what else do you want? What do you want from me?

You know, I just don't, I don't, I don't know, I don't fuck with a lot of people, right? My circle is very small. Right. It's pretty much everybody in this room.

Right? Right. For the most part. For the most part.

Other than, you know, like, my wife, my kids. Right. The obvious. Those are, right.

Those are. Maybe a couple other circumstantial people. But for the most part, it's in this room. Right?

Right. And I should. I would consider myself 100%. Like, there's no.

There's no. Oh, fuck. You know. No, then you get upset if something happens and it appears that you are not.

Thought that you could handle it. Yeah. Like, with Adrian's medicine that time. You got very upset because Chet ended up picking it up.

Because he was driving by. Yes, I was very upset. He was driving by. I'm like, what the fuck?

Right. Yes, that's true. Is this eating at you? What?

Is this eating at you? What? What? The situation.

The lack of appreciation from your friend. No, no, that's not what it was. Oh. No.

Stop. Sounds like it to me. Here's what it is. Here's what I need.

Underestimating your friendship. Here's what I'm looking for clarification on from Boots. Okay, McCall. The perception of who the fuck I am.

Like, I have a problem with that, if my friends don't think I'm going to deliver, then, meh, shit's a little, hmm, that doesn't make sense. I don't think that's what Boots thought. I think that's what, I believe Boots flat out said, upstairs, he wouldn't have come and covered for you, is exactly what he said in referencing you. And then that was like, er, what?

I'm just going to go to camera one for the whole show here. Oh, he's defending his friend Boots, Phyllis. Phyllis is letting it go. I think Boots is a great guy.

Boots is a great guy. We're not shortchanging Boots by anything whatsoever. Talking about Boots shortchanging Michael. The perception that Boots has of me was like, question mark.

I don't think that was that. You know? Hmm. I think Boots had a problem.

He's trying to take care of it himself. But that's what you do. You lean on your friends. You got to know.

I don't like to lean on them. But you got to. Boots doesn't like to lean on people like that. Well, you lean on somebody else for that.

I don't know. I saw you pacing up, but now we had to deal with the city. You definitely needed someone to give you a hand at that point. Now, you make it sound like Boots did not bring somebody in.

He brought somebody in. He did. Boots did. Who knew nothing about sports.

Nothing about sports. Correct. Nothing. It was definitely a real house resort.

Well, no, the last resort should have been Michael. Yes, I should have been there. He was never a last resort. You were not out of resorts.

I should have been the, hey, we're in a spot. I'm not going to say last resort for Boots, because that's going to get a completely different conversation. Boots should have called him up front. Yeah.

Right. I would have solved the problem. Right. Right?

Sure. Like, if there's a production thing that I can't fucking handle, you're the first person I call. Certainly. Right?

Right. I mean, even on a more... Is Boots... When's Boots doing his show this week?

Has he told you, Phil? Thursday's Thanksgiving, so I was going to do it on Thursday. No, he hasn't told me, man, it's really cold outside. Did you guys, did you guys come in?

I turned the air down a little bit in here today. I mean, anticipating the crowd. But like, honestly, though, even on a more intimate level, right? Like, let's say the babysitter didn't show up on Saturday.

Right. The only person I'm thinking about is calling you. Certainly. Right?

Hey, I'm in a fucking spot. We weren't at the birthday party, so we're obviously free. Right, right, right. Your mom's heater turned off?

Great. Right. Yeah, that was Saturday's ordeal. You're the first, I don't think anybody else.

They'll be like, I'm going to call Palmer because I know for one, even if you're doing something, you're still going to look at the situation and be like, all right, can I, can I do this? Like, yeah, can I swing this? Can I make this work? Right.

And if you're not doing anything, you're like, yeah, sure, me and Gigi will come by, we'll fucking hang out with the kids and whatever, we'll have a good time. Gigi will come by. Right. So, you know, I always think of, hey, alright, here's plan A.

Right, you have a plan B. If shit's gonna go sideways, who am I gonna call? I mean, it's gonna be one of these people in this room. Right.

I mean, I call Boots all the time, well, not Phil, but I call Boots all the time when shit has hit the fan with anything. You brought anything broken in current construction? I'm like, so do I. Yeah, I'm like, I don't, I don't know what the fuck.

The industry guys brought my mom's house four times the last three days. This is beyond my scope. Today she told him her ice maker was broken. Oh, geez.

Oh, is it like a below the fridge ice maker? No, no, no. The ice maker in the house has stopped working. But so we took the ice from the garage ice maker and put it in the house.

So now she thinks the garage ice maker is broken. Ah, damn it. It's all broken. It's been you the whole time.

It's broken. We told her we did it. It's like, look, now you have ice in the house. You don't have to go back out to the garage.

She doesn't remember that. No, that's what I told the air conditioner guy. I'm sorry. We moved the ice yesterday.

She doesn't remember it. And I'm taking this Christmas tree. Fuck you. I'm super interested in Palmer's week.

Do you remember sitting in what? I'm super interested in your week. Let's get off of this one. Let's go on to your week.

No, we spent Saturday helping mom. That was it. No birthday party. No birthday party.

No. And what about Sunday? Anything goes Sunday? We ran errands that we were going to do the day, well, we did run some errands Saturday before mom had her problem.

We finished the errands on Sunday, then we went out to dinner, and then home. We're leaving on a cruise tomorrow, so we're tying up loose ends, last minute errands and things. It's a good time to leave, I'm not going to lie, because shit gets crazy around this time of year. Oh, thanks?

Yeah. Shit gets fucking crazy. Just gone for a couple days, we come back on Thanksgiving. Where are you going?

Just the Bahamas, Freeport, I think it's Freeport. Somewhere in the Bahamas we have not been before. I mean, I talked to Brittany earlier, and she's fucking running around in circles already. " Yeah.

I mean, fuck. The Q4 is chaos. Did you start the thawing process of the turkey? What thawing process?

I ain't doing no fucking turkey. Did you get your ham? She got a ham. Okay.

I'm doing... 'Cause they're sold out. Yeah, we're doing a ham, too. Just 'cause there's no time to cook a turkey.

I bought turkey legs. Oh, I like those. Like a bunch of them? Yes.

Oh, what a cool idea. Yeah. And I'm going to rine them and smoke them. Oh, nice.

Yeah. Can you get a picture of Teddy eating the giant turkey leg? I don't know if she'll eat the turkey leg, but I'm going to try. Tell her to hold it and hit people with it.

I think we got a small turkey, like a standard kind of already done thing. Oh, that reminds me. Thank you very much. I have presents for you too.

Oh, that explains the bag. Oh. We were unprepared. See, once again.

I have nothing for you. Yeah, once again. I hope it's a turkey leg. What's your turkey like?

I can't wait to bring him. I actually do have some for both of you. Oh, oh. But this is not Christmas.

This is Thankful For You, Papa Palmer. Oh. And this is a Thankful For You, Phil. Oh.

Look at that. I give it to part of that. I give it out to the audience. A little popcorn especial.

Oh, thank you. Made it myself. Oh. You made this?

I'm just kidding. You know who made it. Yeah, that's a cutout of a turkey. I don't think you took the time.

No, I totally did that. If you did it at best, it would have been the hand. Yeah. Not a real.

What? Yeah, for the fundraiser, yes, the boys, their whole class won. Oh, perfect. Yeah, and they got everything, like you have to hit that $500 mark to get the $15 microphone or whatever the fuck it is.

It was not a microphone or a lighted thumb spinner. They got the thumb spinner, the microphone is on back order, but they got the microphone as well, which is a big deal for them. And you guys put them over the top, so thank you very much for that. I'd like to wait till the end and see what it is they need.

Yeah, it was funny too, because the way that their fundraiser was going, this is a very fucking competitive school. Right. So, the fourth grade class, they wanted to win, but we went to bed and they were down like 600 bucks. Like, I would have, I would have thrown 200 or 300 bucks at it, whatever, just so that they went over the top.

But there comes a number where I'm just like, you lost. Congratulations, I'm sorry. You worked hard. Look, we did everything we could.

Yeah, you did the best job you could, son. I'm sorry. sign. I'm sorry.

And then apparently one parent went a little fucking nuts and called everybody and they woke up with a W. Oh, great. So they got like extra time on the bounce house for like the whole party and stuff like that. What's that?

I get it. Oh, he knows. They get a report. Yeah, it shows that you guys were the number one donators for their cause for sure.

Without question. That's why I like to wait till the end to see what everybody else did. Yeah, he likes to be number one. Papa Palmer has to be number one.

There's no, you know. If there was a $100 donation, we'd be 101. Well, 110. 110.

Around 10%. Make it look reasonable. The one just looks like I'm being the petty. Ha-ha.

But I put in grandparents. I'm always concerned that the real grandparents might get a little upset, but I figured, nah. Who's that? Bob G?

Yeah, Bob G. She don't give a fuck. They don't look. Brian's father.

Oh, Carman. Carmen. Carmen, yes, Carmen. I don't think he gives a shit either.

No? Okay. No, I'll tell them. The other grandparents that beat you.

The fake ones beat you. I just don't know what I'm telling you. All right, so what do we got going on now? Ready to move on?

I think so. All right, we have... Bill, anything to add before we... Will we get into the news next?

Yes. Are we getting into anything that's happening here? Is there anything that's happening here at Hustler? You want me to tap that in now?

I usually tap it in at the end. That would be my only question. He's never seen it before. That would be my only...

First time film? Are you... So you're doing a ham? Yes.

What else? Yes, we're doing a ham. What other kind of stuff do you do for Thanksgiving other than ham? A regular thing.

I don't know. My wife took care of it because we're going out and cook for mom when we get back. Oh, okay. There you go.

Do you do anything else? We usually do Boston Market and just say fuck it. But I think Brittany's going all out and we're... Making everything.

So, Tater's bringing sweet potato casserole, Tater's mom's coming. Tater's bringing taters? Tater's bringing taters. Nice.

Our house is usually the house of gatherers. It's like the lost boys, you know what I mean? Like where everybody kind of gets in together and- Oh, I guess I'm for the paper. Are you Rufio?

I would definitely be- He would be Rufio. I would definitely be Rufio, yeah, without question. Or maybe the bowling ball kid, I don't know. You wanna be the guy that doesn't die.

The guy that doesn't die. That would be the bowling ball kid. No, no, no. You know, I did see in the news, which was very sad, that the Green Ranger has committed suicide.

Yeah, I saw that. Oh, I saw he died, I didn't see how it was in suicide. Yeah. There was only one thing about suicide, 'cause all the other ones weren't touching on that.

Yeah, I didn't see it anyway. TMZ covered it, so it's legit. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

You know. The two best Thanksgivings I've had recently was at Boots' house. Last year. Well, you know what?

Good thing we had plans. We probably wouldn't get invited. Oh, Boots is nice. He would invite you.

You got the invite to Thanksgiving well in advance from our house. We'll talk about that in the Patreon, because I can invite an associate of yours, too, and I want to find out what happened. Oh, interesting. Okay.

All right, you ready to go? Let's go. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Toon.

The PCA promote Ryan Parada to Senior Manager Government Affairs International Policy. We have a story about Ryan, but we also have Ryan waiting on the phone to call. Oh, do we? Yes.

Yes, we do. Okay. Let's get Ryan real quick here. Sorry to the audience, you can't hear this.

"No guys, stop it. I'm not getting a tattoo of Scott's face on my butt. Now leave me alone. I'm not getting waved.

I'm not new here. I was promoted. " Ryan, Ryan, hello. "Oh, let me alone.

I gotta take this phone call. Hello, guys. " "Hello, it's Ryan Parada. " Rhymes with "Provada".

Congratulations on your promotion, sir. Yes, yes. I mean, I had fun as a research analysis, or as I like to say, analyst. Oh my goodness, I'm killing myself here.

Yes, I was definitely promoted because I deserved it. Yes. So, do you have big, big plans? Are we bothering you, Michael?

No, you're good. Listen. Hello? Yeah, just a moment.

I'm very sorry, but this is Q4 and there is a lot of shit going on. Is this Michael? Yes, yes, this is me. Yes, Mr.

Parada, how are you, sir? I have no idea the amount of stuff going on here each day, oh my lord, it's so busy. Super busy. They're trying to like hell to get me to get Scott's face tattooed on my ass, but I refuse to.

That's where you draw the line? Where would you get his tattoo? That's right. I'm sorry?

Was there a location you would get his tattoo on your body? never no way as a research and analysis i contemplated tattoos but the the problem with them just doesn't sort out my fantasy you know what i mean oh wait a minute hold on hold on one second please i got another call okay oh sorry guys i gotta go i have to take this call luciano is on the phone sorry fellas gotta go gotta take this call All right, thank you Mr. Prada for taking the phone call. There you go.

Oh my goodness. Luciano was having the Crown Heads Wiki page changed. Oh, is he? He's getting it updated.

Oh, we're going straight to hell, Mike. We're going straight to hell. We won't be invited to that great show. Fratello, Florida, debuts at ABC Fine Wine and Spirits with the latest...

Who does what? Fratello. They're Florida. Oh, yeah.

Debuted at ABC5-1 in Spirits. That's a big W, man. We did a story on them a couple of months ago, but it's come out now. You were going to see if you could get us some.

Did I? Yeah. I said that? From our Fratello connection.

Oh, yeah. Brett. Brett. Can you go to camera three, please?

Brett. If you're hearing this, we would need, we need some of the, we need to try some of the... Fratello Florida? The Fratello Florida.

If you could send us a couple for us to review, that would be fantastic. Green box? Green label? Yeah, you know, we would much appreciate that.

A couple? You know, I sent three. When I say a couple, I mean, apparently, I mean three. Three, three now.

Do we need one for Pookie? Do you need four? No, I don't know who Pookie is. Pookie is a security guard.

A security guard. I don't know who that is. He's outside. Keep people from coming in.

That's great, no. He had to remove one of the members of the audience. There's none for Pookie. Oh, none for Pookie.

I also sent Brett some shirts, remember the mint shirts? Oh yeah, so the green shirts. I've heard nothing. Did you put something on them?

I feel like at this point he's donated them to charity or he's made smocks out of them, something for his kids. What did you put on them? Nothing. He's like, I got some ideas, I'm gonna use this mint green.

Oh, you know what? Maybe he's making Fratello Florida shirts. Oh. With the green.

He could do that. It is a mint green color, I believe, to be exact. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so go ahead, continue with you.

Alright, this cigar is a Dominican Puro that comes in a 5x50 Robusto, priced at $8 per cigar, and offered in a 20 count box. Specifically, the blend features a Mano 2000 Wrapper and Olor Binder. Fratello, Florida Cigar, I've worked out for years ago with Manuel Y-N-O-A. Any idea who that is?

Manuel Y-N-O-A. Y-N-O-A from La Aurora, using all Dominican tobacco, said Omar of Fratello Cigar. Oh, interesting. I finally found the wrapper that would fit the cigar to the consumers in Florida, finds a plethora of flavors, aromas, and balance, he said.

Fratello, Florida, joins three other releases in the company's state-exclusive series, and the company has released cigars for Texas, Pennsylvania, and Fratello DMV, we would like those too, Brett, please, if you can get those, all the Fratello states, all of the states, which is named for Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, our state series keeps expending, shouldn't it be expanding, no, there's definitely an E, expending, as more and more of our customers are seeing a great value in giving their clientele a customized experience through our blends and branding, says Omar. The new cigar is debuting at one of the largest cigar retailers in Florida, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, which has 125 stores throughout the state. I think it's funny that we lost our audience. They both quit.

Yes. Okay, we gotta go. Well, mine was here smoking a cigar. She finished things to do in Dana's phone ring.

Oh. She could be back. Yeah. Uh, we at ABC are always looking for ways to kind of, only if Pookie lets her back in.

Yeah, Pookie may not. He may not. I'll make sure. She only had the one pass.

Yeah. It only works once. Does it? Yes.

No re-entry. Nope, it's not on a lanyard. We don't do that yet. The customers are bringing their best experience with them when they come out of our store, said Christopher something, director of sales for ABC Fine Wine and Sparage, VR First.

Christopher something. I'm not even trying anymore with the last thing. All right, good, moving on. Moving on.

Foundation Cigar Ships, High Clear Castle, Sen-ten-gers, Sen-ten-ger-s, and then... Foundation. I even Googled the word to see how it pronounced it. Sen-es-ger-s.

But it does not exist. Sen-ger-s. It's like an old Egyptian word. They fucking held me hostage.

Foundation. Why? Fuckers. When?

Was he just here? Alfredo was. Yes. So I ordered six boxes of this fucking...

The Laurentia's upstairs. Seizurer. Which will be mine by the end of the day. I ordered six boxes.

Yes, six boxes. And people are asking me about the cigars. I'm like, fuck, I better make sure I get all six of these boxes, because I'm sure I'm going to sell all of them. Right.

And they're an expensive cigar. Oh my word, yes they are. And Alfredo comes in, I'll let you tell the story. Go ahead.

Okay, the latest cigar from Foundation Cigar Company. Foundation. The fastest way to stores is a company that has begun shipping the limited edition Highclere Castle Egyptian, we'll just call it, which honors the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutum. King Tutum Common.

The cigar is a 6 ¾ of 52 Perfecto that uses a 7th priming Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, not a 1 or 6, but a 7th priming, a Brazilian Modafina binder, and a filler of undisclosed origin. He loves his Brazilian Modafina, that Nicholas Malolo. The company notes it is three-year-old tobacco. The Highclere Castle, Egyptian, is priced at $33 per cigar, $396 for a box of 12.

Yeah. Though the boxes are anything but traditional. The boxes were designed in collaboration with an archaeologist. Mmm.

He just knows one, apparently. I'm sure that doesn't surprise me with Nicholas. Right. You know, they call him Indiana Jones.

You know, I texted him, he didn't respond either. We're definitely not friends with this. Yeah, we're not friends anymore. Well, good thing you're back friends with Matt Booth, though.

He got that all set last week. So there's that. Is he going to call now? No.

He's on his helicopter. Colleen and John Darnell, no, no, I meant Nick Melillo. Yeah, no, he won't call. Who created a box that replicates one found in the tomb, complete with Highclere Castle being translated in ancient hieroglyphics and inscribed on the face of the box.

The Egyptian line, you see, it's funny that they still put Highclere Castle on it in hieroglyphics. It has nothing to do with King Tut. Right. But it's got the shapes.

Right. The Egyptian line gets its name. I like the detail. The ancient Egyptian word for incense, not incest, incense, I double checked that, I want to make sure I said it right, yeah, that was close, which has been translated as "of the gods" and "that which makes holy", which could have been the other word still, so I think I checked.

The tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, I got that right, good job, thank you, as discovered by the famed archaeologist Howard Carter and funded by the great grandfather of Lord Carnivore, Carnivon, Carnivon, Carnivon, George Herbert. I've been in love with the culture and history of a gypsum since I was a little boy, said Nicholas Milley, the Financial Cigar Company, a press release. It is a great honor to work on this project with Lord Connervore and Indiana Jones and Adam Von Gutkin. This product is truly something...

Von Gutkin. Adam Von Gutkin. G-O-O-T-K-I-N. Yeah, that's...

Wasn't that the evil guy in the Indiana Jones movie? I think it was. I think it was, too. Yeah.

With the glasses. Right, the guy that melted. Yeah. Yeah.

The product is truly something unique and specially added. It looks so real. S. first.

, so that's not a... Which is smart. Right? Yeah.

Because it takes longer to get there? Yeah. Right. That's how it should be done.

But where is... Let's see where it should be from. Shipping or retailers? Miami.

Oh. Or Connecticut. I think it's Miami. I think it's Connecticut.

J. Fernandez. I think his warehouse is here. J.

Fernandez. so I ordered six boxes of this cigar and Alfredo's like hey just so you know we're gonna send you three but if you want to we can send you the whole six but we're gonna need you to buy hey we're doing a podcast I'll call you back she said okay okay bye it's not even connected why did it ring through interesting And that's because of your private call. Yeah, I know, but I disconnected it. It wasn't reconnected.

Go ahead, you were getting six, but you gotta buy three, you're getting three. But you gotta buy, you know, here are two facings that you don't carry, you need you to buy. I'm like, you motherfuckers. Two facings of what?

Which ones? High Claire Victorians. I think. Those don't sell here.

Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. It's good. They don't, I don't think they're good. I'm not a fan of them.

I don't like them. Oh. Is that the one I keep taking them? That's probably why they don't sell here.

I don't sell here because I don't smoke them. Yeah, you don't smoke them. Yeah, I think you're the only one that smokes a high click. So I was like, fine, fuck it.

Don't send them. No, that's not what I was. Oh, I'll buy them. Yeah, I said, I'll buy those.

But I'm not happy about this. Should have said, tell you what, no more candy. What do we got there? I can't wait to see them in a PCA, though.

Like, do you realize what you fucking just did? Because I'm going to remember this shit. Oh, that's right. And then you have to deal with me for the whole fucking time.

We should pick at the booth. Yeah, I'm going to say, hey, oh, I'm going to place my order, But am I going to get stuck with, oh, oh, did you want your whole order? Because you're going to need more shit. Unfair to retailer signs and walk around the outside of the booth.

Oh, yes. Or t-shirts, t-shirts. Exactly, taking advantage. Foundation, taking advantage of retailers since 2022.

Small retailers. It's not right. It's not right, Nicholas. You've picked a fight with the wrong group.

Yeah, man. Nobody really likes us. We've got nothing to lose. Nothing to lose over here.

We keep the pans and the pots here in the studio. I think it was Eduardo, though. Oh, I like him, though. Well, not anymore.

Not anymore, he's strong-armed us. You should stand around and flex a lot. " I'm just going to grab people's orders that they place and just rip them in front of them and fucking run away. Ha-ha!

What did you tell everybody? Is that what you're ordering? They're only going to send you half. I just wanted to know that if you order that today, when it comes in stock, they're going to call you to buy more shit.

Yep, or you can't get it. And I place orders with them on the regular. Right, yeah. It's not like...

Who's in now? M&M's. Yeah. Even when he's not in, I'll call and say, hey, I need this, this, this.

Right. Because Highclere does very well here. Yes. Hmm.

All that foundation stuff does well here. The Django. The Django. I'm always about upsetters.

I always promote upsetters. Right. The Django. You don't want to make an enemy of me.

I'm a pain in the ass. He never goes away. Just let things, just let things, I'm like fucking hemorrhoids, bro. I mean, this is not, don't, don't, yeah.

Yeah. And he'll just stand there the whole time. Yeah. There you go.

There you go. We wrote that down. Wrote it down. " No more.

No more. It's done. Something just vibrated. Anyways, continue.

Yeah, but what could it have been? Who cares? Well, it might have been a bomb. They both left kind of quickly.

Doesn't matter. If it's a bomb, we're dead and there's nothing we can do about it. Evacuate. Good point.

I'm going to get in front of Phil. Please continue. "Hong Kong is entering banning tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008. " "Last week, Lo Chung Mao," so ridiculous, go ahead.

"This last week, Lo Chung Mao, Secretary of Health for Hong Kong, confirmed that the government was considering the approach as a part of a report that expected to be announced in early 2023. Hong Kong's parliament voted on a first draft in July, though the language would not restrict the sale of vaping products. The South China Morning Post: You know what? Now I'm fucking rooting for China.

I hope they take them over. Fuck it. They already have. Oh.

They own Hong Kong. Never mind then. I hope that they become liberated and become a free country again. Oh.

Ooh. Quoting a liberal party legislator. Where do I gotta draw the line, Mike? Just tell me.

That he would support increasing the minimum age of purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old, but the complete, but that complete for those born after 2008 was too much. You'd take too much. You went crazy! Earlier this year, it emerged in Denmark and the United Kingdom.

We're considering birth year based on bands of tobacco sales. Always trying to keep us down. Enough. Enough is enough.

I'm sorry. You really can't touch it. Until JJ, you're going to get the fucked up window. Perfect.

Because he gets irate on that show. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he touches the mic all the time. And all of a sudden, it'll be like...

Right, you just come right up. I can't wait. That'll be fantastic. Drew Estates, oh, Blackened Cigars, M81 by Drew Estates, begins shipping.

Yep. Drew Estates, oh shit, it's already here. It's gone, it's already gone. Oh, it's already coming to the wind.

That's what I'm dealing with with Keanu, actually. Drew Estates Collaborative Cigar, he's going, it's not gone? No, he's-- I still found some. He's going through the orders.

Oh. Drew Estates Collaborative Cigar with Metallica, Frontman James Hetfield, and Blackened Whiskey is now shipping to stores that are part of the Drew Estates Diplomat Retail Program, yada yada shenanigans. The Black & Cigar M81 by Drew Estate is a new four-size line that uses a Mexican San Andreas wrapper over a Broadleaf Binder from the Connecticut River Valley. Yep, no idea what it tastes like.

The fillers included Maduro tobaccos from Nicaragua, as well as Pennsylvania Green River One Sucker. That's when it's in the... They use the Green... Interesting.

Isn't it? They use the Green River Sucker... Skip, don't have a longer have a slupper. Wow, look at that.

Mmm. They took a San Andreas... Yes. It feels like a "fuck you" is what it feels like to me.

Yeah. One of the strongest types of tobacco used in cigars in the world. Yep. MA1 is a reference to Metallica in 1981, the year the band was founded.

15. He did a video on Pedro's Instagram. The Metallica guy? James Hetfield.

Yeah. Look at old, man. I mean, my goodness. Well, he's gotta be old by now.

Well, the guy's gotta be crushing. So, I mean, but still. - I don't know, he's making cigars. - He made music.

- I guess that meant he had money to burn. - He put together music, and you get paid for the music. - Right, forever? - Yeah.

- So like every time I play the song in the morning to get up and go on it, he gets money? - If it's, what are you playing, Enter Sandman? - No, you're playing AC/DC. - I'm playing AC/DC.

- Yeah, that guy's getting paid. - That's the same one. - That guy's getting paid. - Oh, good.

- Yeah. - Amazon's now has opened up their thing, and you have all the songs now. - All of them. - It used to be when you would ask Alexa to play a song, We go, that is not available unless you would upgrade for 1995 for the next seven years.

We're going to need additional money. Would you like me to play the song and give us more money? I go, no. We go, then here is something like it.

It was nothing even close. Really? But now you get everything. So all I had to do was sign Garth Brooks and that was it.

Apparently. I canceled my Audible. Audible books? Yeah, because it got out of control.

I had 12 credits. They're like, just so you know, you're at 12 credits and now we're going to start removing your credits and then adding a new credit and charge you every month. I'm like, well, fuck that. I'll cancel.

And they're like, well, if you cancel, you're going to lose all your books or you're going to lose all your credits. Like, okay. So I went in, I bought 12 books. I said, now I'm going to, now I'm going to fucking cancel.

Cause I have a year's worth of books that I can listen to. We're now going to start deleting your books monthly until you get, I'm sure they'll mix. Hey, new rules. Hey, that didn't work.

This guy's fucking is over. Since you figured that out, we're going to step up our game here. And now you're going to fucking start losing your books. Oh, it's so terrible.

Yeah, they knocked on my door. Hey, there's audible. Knocking your door? Turn it back on.

I'm like, wait, whoa! I want my $12. Come and knock on my door. Yeah.

That's probably a show you guys aren't familiar with. I know, right? Oh, okay. Three's company.

Oh, very good. He's dead. Yeah, he's dead. He died a while ago.

Yeah, doing a different show, though. Very sad. Like, died on the show. Really?

Yeah. On the show? He had like an aneurysm or something. Do we have video footage of that?

No, it was during the taping. He did a show. He did a movie that I loved back in the day. Oh, I loved that movie where he was the guy that had to have sex all the time?

No, that wasn't it. Oh, that was good. He had like an addiction problem to sex. No, no, this was more like a little kid oriented.

It's called Stay Tuned. No, I didn't see that one. And he gets sucked into- Completely different movie. Yeah, it's way off.

And he got sucked into the TV and then he had to do specific things in the shows to survive or he would die. Oh, apparently he didn't do them. And I really liked the movie when I was like- What are we talking about? What's his name?

I don't know. I can see his face. Can't think of his name. Yeah.

Talking about Tony Danza? No. He was not on Three's Company. Oh my God.

He was in Taxi and the other show. Oh. Who's the boss? Don Knotts?

Don Knotts? No. Don Knotts. Don Knotts.

Don Knotts. Don Knotts. He was on the Andy Griffith show. I knew who he was.

Barney Fife. He had the one bullet for his gun. They made him keep it in his belt. He wasn't allowed to put it in the gun.

I'm going to solve this for you one second. As soon as you say it, I'm gonna, as soon as you say the first name, I'll get it. It's like the Honeymooner guy. No.

Not Jackie Gleason. Trees Company. IMDb. The other show he did, the guy we're talking about was with Kaylee Cuco, her first TV show.

Suzanne Somers. Yeah, Suzanne Somers was. It's going. Lachette or whatever the brunette was too.

John Ritter. John Ritter! Oh. You know, Kaylee Cuco's pregnant.

John Ritter died on, on, during the taping? On set? Yeah, on set. He, they stopped, he, I didn't feel well, I don't feel well, so they stopped, and on the way to the car, he died.

OMG. Hmm. I like John Ritter. And then they actually, the next episode, obviously they went on break for a while, and then they didn't do a show for a couple of weeks.

The next show they did, they killed the character. Oh. What else are you gonna do? I know, but I mean, they could have just let the show go away, but they tried, but.

So everybody, so everybody got upset, you know, we're really crying on the, during the taping. It was authentic. Right. There was a show, I think it was Married with Children or something, where somebody went upstairs.

No, it wasn't Married with Children. They all live. No, it was like Brady Bunch or some shit. I don't know.

It was a show where somebody went upstairs and they never came back. They just took them off the show. Oh. Last you saw them, they went up the stairs and that was it.

Sounds like a save by the bell. Tapical Air, William Ventura breaks ground a new factory. Yeah, no shit 'cause that one burned out. Rooms production, yeah.

Resumes production at El Mastero. Maestro. El Maestro. Oh, yeah.

Maestro. I guess that makes more sense. I love the fact that you can't read Spanish. Not read.

I can't pronounce things. After a devastating fire in last September that they destroyed the Tablet Clare William Vachero Primary Factory, the company has announced that it has broken ground on this new factory, as well as resumed production on the smaller El Maestro factory. Not owned by Luciano. Not.

Are you sure? Well, he claims, but no. It's his as well. Maybe after he updates the wiki page with Crownheads, we'll move to that next.

The new factory will be located approximately 200 yards from the previous factory. Do we say hi to him when we see him? I feel like he's going to hate us. Luciano?

Yeah, I'm not going to say. I'm not invited next time. We start being a small group of people walking around if we don't talk to him. We're going to get the glucks though.

That's them. That's how fuck those guys. The new factory, they're building it up where the old one burned down. Still within the Lozona, Palma Free Trade Zone in Tamboril, Dominican Republic, it will be bigger than the previous factory, with two full operating levels, and the capacity for almost 200 rollers, as well as an aging room that can hold up to 2 million gallons of water.

It's a lot of water. Well, they got to be able to put the fire on next time. Construction on the new factory expected to be completed by September. This one's going to have sprinklers.

There's sprinklers in this one. Firehoses, where it's going to have the only fire hydrant in the Dominican Republic. Yep. Upgraded to code.

That's right, it's built to code. On the Instagram post, we are here to stay, our dreams are bigger than our circumstances, our hearts are full, because this week we're breaking ground on new land. Well, technically it's not new land. It's the same land.

It's a new building. Thanks so much for being a part of keeping us motivated. Well, I mean, you know, I know we got jokes, but we're glad that they're... Oh, yes, they're rebuilding.

Yes, it's very nice. Be more careful. Be more careful. Congratulations.

No smoking inside the building. Normally some shit like that happens through fermentation processing or something. Oh yeah, the stuff starts aging and you're right, yeah. Some type of shit.

Somebody was not flipping the leaves. Question mark, or whatever, yeah. Is it their insurance in the Dominican Republic? I don't know.

Let's ask Luciano, he'll know. You like Goodfellas? And when you sucked every penny out of it, you light a match type of shit? Right.

Like the balloons with the... Right. You saw that show, right? Right.

I don't think that that's what went down. No? No. I'm not speculating, but anyways, I was just curious if they have insurance in- I mean, you don't want a Ventura calling you, right?

No, no, no, no, I know where your money is, though. It's in Pools in Tampa. It's in Pools in Tampa. Oh, my God!

Alec Bradley's Reclaimed Cigar Ball Simply. Only a couple people will get that one, but my goodness. Slide that in. Oh, Lordy.

That's such fun. All right, Alec Bradley's reclaimed cigar mold sampler heads the store. Now, I picked this story because you obviously have not seen the picture of the box, but it's a cigar mold. Yeah.

They have routed out a room for seven cigars, so the cigars go boom, boom, boom, boom, this way. Yeah. They've routed out room for seven cigars to go this way, and there's eight, 800, I believe it is? 800 of these, you get the cigars in the mold.

Oh. So you get a mold and a seven cigar sampler for 80 bucks. Wow. It's not bad.

Okay, if you say so. Well, it's a legitimate mold. They didn't build the mold. They've got these older molds.

It's wood molds. Yes. That's stuff that people throw away. I understand it, but I don't have one.

The wood ones get old. You have one. You did. Do I?

No, I gave it to Nika Swania. Our factory in... Yeah, it's in our factory. Right, right.

I have it in my room. The one we own. Right, it's in my room. There.

Let's see, Palo Florida story! There we go. A man settled into a rental home in Pensacola and proceeded to have a normal day. Nice.

The Escanaba County Sheriff's Office said 28-year-old Zachary Seth Murdoch smashed a glass porch door and entered an unoccupied rental home in Avenia. He sounds like a regular here. Murdoch used the bathtub, slept in the bedroom, made himself a nice cup of coffee and a mug. Deputies said that wasn't all.

Murdoch left the coffee on the back porch while he filled the kitchen trash with his trash, including his bus ticket. Later that evening, deputies responded to a burglary on Vandaluna Drive. The victim told Believe that a man wearing a dark colored shirt, dark colored pants, and a baseball cap walked up to her sliding glass door and started pulling on the handle. When he asked the suspect what he was doing, he said he was looking for Tony, and left.

So I mentioned cereal to go with the coffee, Tony the Tiger. Gotcha. I'm assuming. Deputy said Murdoch was quickly found near the property.

He was arrested for burglary and damage to his property. In a statement he told reporters the best part of his day was folders in his cup. Alright, Michael, do you have a Listener of the Week? Oh, no.

Alright, let's try again. Michael, do you have a Shop of the Week? Oh, no. I don't have anything today.

One job. I'm sorry. How about you, Phil? You got a Shop of the Week, Phil?

He only knows the one. He only shops here. Cigar Hustler. Oh, it's a good shop.

Oh, I've read a lot of things about them. You got a Listener of the Week? Oh, I know. Do you have a Listener of the Week?

Mark Gordon. Oh! Oh! He owes Mark Gordon a box of cigars.

He's sucking up. Wizard of the week, Mr. Mark Gordon! Congratulations, Mark.

Congratulations, Mark. You can trade that in for that box of cigars that he owes you. Yeah. That Boots owes you.

Not Phil. It's a nice W. Completely different person. We have the...

Oh, you have announcements. We have the Romacraft private event. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, he wants to give you a camera.

Thank you. We have the Romacraft private event this Wednesday. I think we have a few tickets left, but we're almost sold out, so if you want to come in and partake and hang out with Michael Rosales of Romacraft downstairs in the private lounge, please come in, get your tickets. I don't know if I'll have them day of, but it's a good way to kind of start off the crazy holiday season as we're all starting to experience as of this Monday.

We also have a Howard G. event. I like Howard G. this Friday.

I like Howard G2. What is that? November 27th? 27th.

Yes. Is it really? Yeah, I guess so. Something like that.

Friday after Thanksgiving. This is Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. We are going to have Leon Searcy here. Oh, I like him too.

He's a good guy. And Ike Taylor will also be in the building. Nice. Ike Taylor, you know, we're gonna get him on the podcast.

Don't pull it into the chair. Phil likes Ike. What if I'm not here? You're going to be back.

Yeah, I got to work all day upstairs. I got to work a double now? Yeah. Whatever it takes.

Remember Mike? Whatever it takes. We got to re-talk about this race I asked for. I mean, I can sit in.

You want me to sit in? No. Who wants Phil to sit in? You're not even allowed to be in here.

He loves sports. Because it'll drive you crazy. Phil's not allowed in because it'll drive him crazy to have to sit out in the other room. Yeah, it's true.

Keep him away. Right? I'm trying to bring my boys up here to meet them. Put a camera out there and just videotape Phil trying to listen at the door.

Hello. Hello. Welcome to me. There's Phil.

There's Phil outside. And yeah. We gotta get both of them on the same. We don't have three scenes.

I don't know. I don't know, Michael. I don't know these things. We figure the shit out as we go.

Build the planes, we go down. That's it. BDP and you and Phil will all be at all these events as well. Yeah.

No, I will not be at the Wednesday night event. Right. You'll be at it. Oh, you'll leave tomorrow morning.

Oh, you'll leave tomorrow. Yeah. I'm gonna try to FaceTime you guys from the island. Okay.

Sounds good. And that's it. That's what we got. Oh, and I'll be back on the ship because it's a six, right?

Yeah. I'll be back on the ship by four. If I call you and I'm still on the island, send help. Okay.

Right. I need a ride. I'll get a, I'll call Booth and he'll get his helicopter over there. Oh, that'd be so great.

Oh my God. I can't wait to see this. Come on, you and your dick get on. Thank you, Mr.

Booth. I don't think you should call your what? Your dick, but that's fine. No, no.

He's talking to her. Oh. Oh, okay. I'm the dick.

BDP. My joke was funnier. Yes, but mine, I don't get in trouble. That's true.

All right, you already got in trouble. All right, we gotta go. We gotta go do... Shh, it's a secret, gotta do a secret show.

Secret show, the Patreon. We have a winner for a special... Oh, that's right, yeah. For the thing.

We do little cool things on the Patreon. If you guys aren't part of it, you're missing out. All right, we gotta go. All right, thank you.

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Show Notes

Palmers gets excluded from Boots party...while everyone else got advanced notice....Mike has his friendship questioned....and Ryan Parada from the PCA calls in for a very special interview!