Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 273 The Great Smoke

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*Music* It's way done you over there. Are you recording? He's recording. Oh, he's recording everything?

Yeah. Oh, look at that. Oh, look at that. welcome to the cigar hustlers podcast episode 273 so many with your host michael the king step on couch and his producer mike ddp palmer and me i'm phil your cameraman you know the guy left out in The Heat of the Grey Smoke, I'm the Human Equivalent of a Typo.

Oh, he is. He is. He is. He is.

He is. He is. You gotta jump that one. Did you, did you, uh, Phil, did you see that, uh, Abe apologized or leaving Chet outside?

I did see that. It's on camera three. Yeah, I know. I know, he's on camera three.

Oh. Oh, now he's gonna sit there in the middle of the show. I don't know, I don't know why Phil's upset. He wasn't even there.

Yeah, you weren't even there, Phil. His boots just left outside. Yeah, I'm, I'm talking for boots today. - Oh, okay, interesting.

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It's still clean. It's still clean because of A Rack Above. That's crazy. Oh.

It's amazing. What if you get more boxes because, as you said, it was full? What do you mean if I get more boxes? Well, what if she purchases more?

Like, my wife rotates the house for decorations, which your wife does too. So, you know, like, the Christmas go out, and then the Easter come on. Mm-hmm. So what if she adds to the Easter?

We now have a strict policy in the house. Oh, no additional decorations? It's the Chet standard of when Ava gets a toy, toy comes in, toy goes out, same scenario. Same scenario.

If we're gonna bring in the new, we gotta go out with the old. Yes. We're cutting back. That's a great idea.

Yeah, I'm very excited about the cutbacks. So you're at a status of here. Yeah, we are existing in this realm. And you have to go here to go back to here.

Correct. Oh, that's a great idea. If something comes in, I'll say, okay, well, let's look around. What if it happens during the day when you're not home?

I'll know. Because sometimes I see stuff and I'm like, we didn't have that before. That's new. Well, since the rack is full, he'll know, because it'll be on the rack.

Oh, that's right. It'll have to be, oh, because it'll end up in the floor. I'm like, wait a second. This is on the ground.

There's a box on the floor. What the hell is this? It goes above, on the rack. On a rack above.

Why is it not? You don't need a ladder, so you could have put it away. So if it's full, I don't know. Did your wife do the thing where she opens the back door and puts the garbage right outside the door?

In the garage? Yeah, she just throws it in the garage if she does... Amazon boxes, garbage, anything. I try to intercept.

" Right, yeah, I try to do that too. Let's stop. Because you know what? I just get mad when she does it.

" We have, like you, an extra refrigerator in the garage. Sometimes I'll go out there and not turn the lights on. And then I trip. " Garbage.

The boxes usually accumulate, she usually stacks them nicely and compiles them. Oh, no, my wife doesn't like heated with the paper. But they don't make it quite to the garage. Oh, they're just at the back of the room?

They're right before the laundry room. Oh, they don't even get that far. It's like a little area. She is out of sight, out of mind.

Yeah, yeah, that's, I mean, you know, for everything else, it's usually the garage. But the boxes, she likes to... I mean, I hate to be wife-mashing. It's like a pre-Costco run.

Does your wife shut, every time she leaves, she shuts the utility room door that goes from the utility room to the house? No. My wife does drive me crazy. You don't like it shut?

No, I don't mind the one shut from the utility room to the garage, but I don't want, I don't want to have... The utility room. Oh, wait, we call it laundry and utility room, what do we call it? I don't like to have to go through two doors to get into the house, like it's a de-lousing station or something, you know?

Oh, yeah, yeah. I, you know what, I gotta be honest. Yeah. I kinda wish she did do that.

Oh. And it's security? No, because we got this one fucking dog, El Chapo. I think she does it for the dogs, too, but when I, but they don't, I mean, ours are crated when we're not home.

The water's in that room. Oh, we have gone to water strictly outside. You didn't even let me finish my story. Sorry.

Chapo is a runner. Oh, that's right. And what'll happen is Teddy will open the door. Oh.

Oh, yeah, because you have the small one, right. Yeah. " "Go! " She starts doing this move.

She's hurry to the wall. " I mean, just fucking, she's nuts. She came to the room last night, she was a fucking tornado. Teddy tornado last night.

Oh. Oh my God. I felt her spinning. Oh, goodness.

I was like, her basis for the spin. Right. Her foot, I've tried to move. " Oh, you got, she would scoot over.

You got consumed into the tornado. I need to spin on him. Oh. Are we literally spinning?

What the fuck, man? I'm like, Teddy, please, please just let me sleep. Water. What do you mean, water?

I want water. Well, there's no water here but mine, so it's now yours. Congratulations. There you go.

Enjoy this water. Pillow. You have your pillow. I want your pillow.

I need all the pillows. All the pillows. No, all the pillows. All the pillows.

They're all mine. " Bubbles. Bubbles, come take pillows. She'll load him on the dog like he's a pack mule, and then the two of them leave.

Yeah, it's like Oregon Trail. Straps him down on him. There we go, there you go. We're out, we're leaving, we have the pillows and the water, we're all set.

Yes. All right, so we went to Great Smoke this past weekend. Yes. As I'm wearing the Great Smoke hat.

Before we get into that. I stole. Before we get into that. Can we talk about the fucking...

Something serious? Can we talk about the website? Oh, certainly. I would like to talk about the website.

Sure. Should I go, should we do like, should I Facebook Live at the same time, get it all done? Oh, you know what? That'd be a great idea.

All right, then we're going to do this. I have to take off the hat. This is not working for me. I'm not a hat guy, really.

How do I Facebook Live? Live. I would love to help, but my phone is working the thing. Go live.

Three, two, one. Bam! Facebook Live! Why'd you take the headphones off?

They can't hear you. Well, I want to... I don't know. Hi.

Well, now, oh no, see, what you have to do now. I'm Troy McClure. I've learned this from other people. You have to sit there for a few minutes and wait on the numbers to a mass.

Let it bubble? bubble 30 seems to be the number 30 seconds no 30 people i don't want it to so you said they go i'll just make it live and then they can come see you later but then it's not adam akry's on that's all i care about adam's on always on that's all that matters let's keep going hey okay so listen we're doing the podcast right now is mike on no he's not on can i say hello you want to say hello hello uh a little more a little more a little more oh there we are hello oh welcome to cigar This is your Housewives Podcast, episode 273. And then there's... No, he's in another room.

You can't show him. He's in another room. He's in another room. Oh, there goes the magic.

You've just given away the magic. Okay, so listen, Adam, since you're the only person listening right now. Oh, you know, it's fairly important that he understands this. It is.

It actually is very important that Adam understands. I'm afraid he's getting his own phone call. So, and do I sound good on this? All right, I want to make sure I'm covering all bases, because this is going to be on.

Well, you sound good here, but I don't know about that. I don't know about that. So listen. Last week was probably one of the most stressful weeks of my entire life.

The website, get it off the table, it's bad luck. It was a decoration. How many times do I have to tell you it's bad luck on the table? It's a decoration.

Stop it. Hang it there. This is like a Dear Diary. Look.

Dear Diary. It was an extremely stressful week for me. I had a bad week. The website went ahead and crashed.

And I had called and worked every single day with my hosting account. Oh, no. Can I talk? I'm adding content.

Stop. Stop. I don't want you to talk. Shut up.

Shut up? Shut the fuck up. Love of God. Very rude.

Anyways, I had reached the point where I could either, please don't turn me down. I could either A, I could either A, try and restore it, or B, just press forward with this new site that I've been working on for about six months. Now, when I reached the restore portion, they weren't getting back to me. It took what they said was going to be 24 to 48, we were already approaching 72, and I decided to go ahead and green light the new website.

So the new website is officially up. It is not a hundred percent done. There are still some things we got to move and, you know, there's some Latin on there, there's a couple that, you know, there's, there's some, there's some people that are in circles that we, they're definitely not part of us. But it works, and the products are up, so go ahead and jump on, if you're struggling to get on directly, just go on to Google and type in Cigar Hustler and then click on that link and it'll take you to it, I'm still working on that, I don't know why it's shut down on certain Apple things, oh, I'm watching me, this is fantastic, but it's up, it's up.

So thank you, everybody, for your patience and for dealing with what I had to deal with, and if you guys want to give me some feedback as we're kind of going on the news site, please let me know, because I always like feedback. So there it is. Thank you. Have a lovely- Steven Hippelhouser is now watching.

Have a lovely day, and goodbye. Oh, I requested to join. All right, well, the show's still going on, so somebody talk. Post for 30 days.

So how about I drive on in here? How do I, do I, can I call it something? I don't know. Edit post.

The big announcement. Website update. com announcement. Please buy, please buy something.

Please buy, please buy something so we can see if it works. The great announcement. All right, so yes. So wait, so look.

So we charge Greg $25 for the ad? Is that what we're doing? Is that what we're doing? It's officially up.

Dex placed an order. Nice. Nice. Some guy sent a message that he just received his cigars.

" Were we shipping last week? Yeah. How? How?

With phone orders? There were some, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, I told him he was very welcome.

Oh, really? That's very, yeah, not very nice of him. So, yeah, I mean, holy shit, dude, what a fucking week. That on top of other things.

I was pretty slow in the shop. The shop wasn't that bad. I mean, because there's no online orders. Yeah, there's some downtime, a little bit of downtime.

Very clean upstairs. Yeah, a lot of cleaning. A lot of cleaning. What are we doing on the Patreon?

We're doing the full something. The just-- The simple full. The Justin Andrews-- The Justin Andrews-- - Diesel Especial. - Oh, it's over there.

- Diesel Especial. - Diesel Especial. - Fools Aaron. - Is this Fools Aaron?

It says SimpleFool. - Fools Simple, Diesel Fools Aaron Simple. - SimpleFool. This is the one where you smoke it.

- I think they're all called Simple Fools. - Oh, because we bought one? Fools Aaron Simple? - I don't know.

- But it comes with a QR code that you scan, and then you get into a video game or something, and then you can try to win valuable cash-in prizes. Yeah, a pair of steak knives, no cash either. But Justin will come to your house. Yeah, he will.

And help build a deck. Just don't call him on Monday. Right now. Yeah.

Because he's in his meeting. He's in a meeting. And a meeting. All right, what do you want to do now?

So the Great Smoke. I feel better about that. Yeah, let's talk about Abe's Great Smoke. Abe?

Oh, you saw the video too? I did watch it. Because you were tagged in it. Yes, I know.

You're a big deal. Kind of. You were tagged. I was tagged.

And I just wanted to make sure that we didn't fucking piss anybody off. I didn't watch it live if I was doing something, but I watched it this morning on the way in, for the same reason. Yeah, it said, oh, Mike Palmer, like, oh, fuck. What did he do now?

Yeah, I'm like, I don't know, what did we do? What did we do? We're very sorry, Abe. Very sorry, Abe.

It's not like a nickname you would call your grandfather. Like Abuelo? Abebe. Abe.

Abe. Abe, hey. 7. 7 grams on the weight, just for the record.

Oh, I have to look up the size. For the Patreon. And there'll be a discount code on this. I don't know how to work that out yet on the news site, but don't worry, I'll figure it out.

I'll fill this out later. Worst comes to worst, I'll refund you. Look, man, I'm just trying my best here. We're just trying to live our best lives and review people.

We literally jumped off the cliff, and we're building the plan on the way down. I just couldn't go back. I couldn't go back. There had no sense in it.

Because like you said, this forced you now to jump into the new website, which really, you've been working on for like a year or something? It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. And I said, "You know what?

" You might as well force you to do it. I don't need a watch, the time is now or never. So anyway, back to The Great Smoke. Yes.

The Great Smoke. So, not that it was not a good day there, but I thoroughly enjoyed the ride there and back. That is, with our group, that is always the highlight of the thing. Yeah, next time we just drive around.

Yeah. The four of us. Because nobody records, within reason, so there's things said that we wouldn't normally say in a crowd of other people. That's true.

Well, yeah. And we have, the four of us have a shorthand, if you would, and a sense of humor, well, you can start with something that somebody can pick right up from it. Yeah, we finished it, we finished it. I like the fact that Chet was panicked, he, I've got the, you know, I finally got the in-depth glimpse on how he felt about the drive down, driving a bullet train on the way down.

You guys were worried? Oh, you were going, we put seatbelt down. Look, man, I was falling asleep and I had to get it together. Oh great!

So the only way to get it together is to just pick up the speed. Oh, I thought you said the only way to get it together was to start doing life-threatening maneuvers. Yeah, you get the heart rate going on. Here comes a big car, turn!

Here comes a little car, turn! I looked at him, he looked at me, and we put our seatbelts on. And the truck did not go 100 miles an hour. No, you think it would?

Well, a lot of weight in the car with the four of us in there. It said 99... 99... Maybe since he was asleep, he put the governor on, so you couldn't...

Maybe. Couldn't go, 'cause you know how Boots is with his toys. Yeah. Yeah.

Of course, he fell asleep in front of your house. He was tired. He was out partying the night before. The guy went out.

Right. The guy partied the night before. Partied. Went to Celery City to see Jimmy.

But you also, you pressed the issue of the time. Like, I said, "Hey, let's give us another hour," and apparently we had more time than that. Uh, yeah, apparently. Mm-hmm.

So, this poor guy, this poor sap, he's like... Well, he's always wanting, Boots is always wanting to do breakfast on these things. He goes, "Oh, we should have went to Waffle House for it. Next time, we'll add time.

" So you were just thinking about boots? Yeah. You're just looking out for your friend. I could have eaten at home.

You're just looking out for your friend. I'd be perfectly happy with my bowl of Cheerios. They didn't want to have Waffle House. They were scared.

16 minutes. Oh, sorry. It's time. It's time for the...

It's not 16 minutes. 14:27. No, I started late. I started late.

Can we take a break, or? Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, Phil.

Go, Phil Specs. Turn your camera on. All right. Turn your camera on.

Phil's Facts. It's 16 after everybody. It's time for Phil's Facts. We got to make sure we do this because people, you know.

Well, one person asked one. Who is it? Uh, it was Mitch. All right.

I like Mitch. All right. So, uh, it was Mitch. Did you guys know?

Well, tobacco seeds are very tight, but did you guys know? It only takes one request. One person. Just one.

He has, he has two fans now. A thimble. Bet fry and Mitch. Bet fry and Mitch.

A thimble can hold More than 1,000. That's all it says. That's crazy. More than 1,000 seeds.

Is that what we're talking about? I didn't hear what we were talking about. Just one flower can hold around 3,000 seeds. One flower?

A tobacco plant? Yep. Oh, yeah. They're really small.

They're really small. Have you never seen them before? No. Oh.

Yeah, you don't get that much. What was it? Drew Estate gave them away a couple years in a row at the Barn Burner. I grew my own at my house at one time.

Yeah, you can order them online. You grew a tobacco plant? I grew seven. - Did you?

- Yeah. - Is that how you formed the island of Naruto? - No, no, that's where I made the first test plan for the BDP. - Naruto is Dragon Ball Z.

- You know, who was the guy talking, back to the Great Smoke, who was the guy talking to us there at the table for a long time? - Saran? - Saran. I don't think he knew I was BDP, 'cause he was talking about the cigar.

- I think he knew. - Oh, you think he did? - Yeah. " - Oh, he knew.

- I had one in my pocket, I almost gave it to him. I only had the one. I only had the one. I know it would have been the time to do it.

I know I would have been, but I, I was planning on smoking it later, but then I never did. He would have been so happy. Oh, he almost got people happy. He almost got thrown out too.

That would have been fun. You gotta make people happy. Make people happy? Yeah.

So, so we get there. We arrive at a, at a respectable time. Uh, 11:30, was it? Around 11:00.

Yeah, by the time we got up front, it was 11:30. We always get lost when we go. The directions are not actually for Abe's event, they're for that dead end road that doesn't really go to the thing. Which is interesting.

Why does that happen? Every time. Because he never updates the paperwork? No, it's not him, it's Google or whoever app we're using.

But on the ticket that boot showed me, it had that address. Right, which is that dirt road, you dead end into the car dealership. Oh. That must be like the offices or something.

I don't know, but we're two for two on that. I'm actually four for four. Well, it's been going on for 75 years, by the way. Well, yeah, but I've only been five times.

I've only been five times. Used to be in his parking lot. We're like the Hustler Hoopla this fall here at Scott Hustler. Was it at Smoke Inn?

Yeah, it was one of the Smoke Inn parking lots originally. The Hustler Hoopla. Oh, no, no, there's a couple. The original one had a big parking lot.

It's a big parking lot. Oh, so that one that... The one where the office is? Yeah.

That's not the original big one. That's an old one. That's not the original one. Or that's a new smoke-in.

Yeah, I mean, it looked newish. Newer. Yeah, so we got there at 11. Yes.

And what we didn't realize was that we had exhibitor passes. Yes. So we could slide in before it opened. Well, yeah, time we got everything, got to the door, it was 11:30.

Yeah, which is nice for us because, you know, we're out everybody's way, we get to talk with everybody. Right. Yeah, before it gets started. Yeah.

Some show information, get some stories out of the way, some shaking hands, kissing babies and stuff, right. We didn't, but we didn't put this together. No, we did not know that the general admission was at one. One at one o'clock, so Boots and Chet had general admission tickets.

And they were stuck outside. They were stuck outside for an hour and a half. Right? Right, Boots?

I mean, Phil? Yeah, they were stuck, yeah. Yeah. And they were very upset.

They were very upset. They were very upset. He was, Boots was testy all weekend. He was very shitty.

He was. Like, we purposely did it. Yeah, we did. I mean, we bought Boots' ticket, for God's sakes.

I mean, we did everything we could, but get him in early. Yeah, I mean, what was the big deal? We even bought his lunch. And I even asked Abe, and he just kind of ignored me.

Well, he was very, when we walked in, I think he was getting ready to do his big, here they come. The guy's got a lot going on. He's very busy. " And he didn't answer, he was talking about something else.

" And then we start walking away, and we're walking with him, and he's talking about something else. " I mean, can we just, can you just tell me what? If you're doing okay. Yeah.

Aabe? Yeah. Yeah, Aabe. Fuck.

" Then you said, "Well, good thing your wife didn't crash your car," which I thought was... Which is positive. Well, it's positive she didn't, but... Yeah.

I wouldn't bring that up. It's like a curse. Why not? It's like a curse.

Why? No. Because I heard she had a little problem yesterday. Nuh-uh.

No, she didn't. Don't say that, that's fine. Well, you said it. No, I said I was glad that she didn't.

Yes, and he joked. Yeah, I told you you're not allowed to leave the house. Right. Exactly.

Why are you jingling keys into the microphone over there? I don't want to tell you guys. I forgot my cutter. Oh, man.

Brett. You fucked up. You know, if you watched Chet and Palmer's Middle-Aged Man Tip of the Week shows, He says he had to do it with his fingernail today, just so you know. But it was a lovely event, I mean, I didn't see any- We had a good time.

We had a good time. Poor Pete Hernandez, hurt his knee, I hope he's feeling better with his knee injury. Oh yeah, he had to leave early, it was terrible, hurt his knee. Poor Pete.

Hope that worked out for him. I got to spend more time with his brother than I ever have before. Steve, Steve's good. Steve's a great guy.

Well, I have met him several times, but we actually chatted and he wanted me to help him pronounce your name and some other things. Matt Booth was in full Matt Booth. Yes, yes, he was. I got to talk with Justin Andrews a little bit, too, which is nice.

Yeah. Got to see everybody. Right. You know, you get to hang out with the people.

That's the only time I get to see Robert Holt anymore. Got to meet Quentin Thor Nation. Oh, I didn't know. Was that Thor?

Yeah. Oh, you know, he brought Erica Spinoza a gift. Did he? Yeah.

He put him on Facebook. How can you not see the legend and not bring him a gift? What did he bring him? I couldn't tell what it was.

Oh. But I said, I ate lunch with you. I got no gift. Oh.

He thought it was funny. A lot of people, a lot of people laughed, they thought it was wrong. Abe, Casey, AJ, all the guys. It's cool to meet people in person.

But what's funny is you don't realize who they are at first. It's like, I recognize you, you are a circle. He said he was Thor, I didn't know it was Quentin Thor nation. I know that name.

He's Thor, I don't know what Thor is. Quentin Thor nation. A lot of people came up and told me they're fans of the show, they love the show. Yeah.

Something about a shirt or something the other day, I did something to you last episode about your shirt or something. Did you? I don't remember. I feel terrible.

Good job. No, we can't. I do four shows a week, and then I do two other people sometimes. You get mad about shirts.

The shirts always got to match and all some of the shit. Well, you wear black ones, so now I just wear black ones. I have super pee. I don't have the super pee shirt.

I'm working on them. I'm working on them. I'm working on them. We met Bradley of Alec and Bradley?

Is that the one we met? I think they were both there. Yeah, but we only met the one. I met both.

Oh, I only met the one with the mustache. I'm an Alec umbrella. " Why did they show up? I wouldn't have showed up.

5 million. I think there's 72 million reasons why I'm not showing up. That's all I'm saying. Who was the guy in the booth with him?

Kevin Casey. I don't know him. He's actually a rep. Well, I assumed it.

Yeah. At first I thought it might have been the dad. His nickname was like the hitman. He was like a golfer hitman or whatever.

Oh. Yeah. Super nice guy. Yeah, yeah, he was very nice.

" I'm like, I got three now. Yeah, he did. Well, he knew the name of the one, though. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you know, I guess after a while, if you realize that, you know, you probably kind of fell off and we're not really caring anymore. I mean, how many times are you going to keep checking? Oh, was he always the Alec and Bradley rep?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Justin said he's probably not going to be around much longer. Justin did not say that. Do not say that.

I was watching Justin for the whole day. I was watching him see who he talks to, trying to figure out where the next acquisition is going. And at the end of the day, I told him to go, okay, here's who I've seen you talk to. Beverly Hills Cop.

He goes, you know, you're not the first person to bring that up to me today. Wow. I mean, yeah, he vetted me thoroughly. This is what I'm saying.

Oh, he told you something? No, he had questions about my operation. Oh. Maybe he wants to buy the first cigar podcast.

Yeah, he could obtain it all. Imagine, he obtains it all, we go on with salary. Take on salary. Oh, that'd be so nice to get paid in a full-time job.

But then you gotta go to the meetings. I'll tell you what. I'll go to the meetings. I'll handle the press release, too.

I'll send it out. STG acquires Poshik and Cigar Hustler, and I'll write 250 million. Just to fucking piss everybody off, you know. Oh, you dropped your hat.

Uh-oh. Aabe. 265. Aabe didn't want to talk about him anymore.

No more. No more hat fall. Phush. Like a voodoo doll.

A voodoo doll. So yeah, we had a good time. It was a good day. You know, I wasn't...

We probably should have called him today. Should have set that up. He's probably terribly busy, but... I wouldn't...

Dude. Yeah? I wouldn't want to talk to fucking anybody. Well, that's why I didn't mention it, but it would be a good time to have him on as an exclusive.

You gotta give him a break, man. The first one. To see how he thought it went. They released next year's theme.

Oh, yeah? Chinese New Year. Will there be a dragon? There was a dragon in the video.

And a lot of the red paper lanterns everywhere. And then I imagine all the food will be Chinese food. Oh, you know, he's probably because he heard our gong on the podcast. He's like, that's what I'm gonna do.

You're welcome. Do you think he watches his show? No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

I know he's asked questions. He has no idea who the fuck Boots is or Phil is. He doesn't know either of those are. But he knew Chet, which is weird.

I think he knows Chet from social media. Well, he probably thought that Chet... Yeah. He might think Chet's a Boots.

Could be. You never know. I'm gonna have to let him know next time. Chet's a Phil.

Oh, Chet's Phil, yeah, Chet's Phil, that's why I meant Phil, my boots, Phil. What was your guys' favorite cigar from the Great Smoke? I wanna see you go up to- The blueberry donut I got from Espinosa, that was my favorite thing. I wanna see you- Oh, the donut.

The blueberry cake donut, there was delicious. " And last year, and this year, I did not get in. " He's going to yell for his guy, Tyler. Okay, great to meet you.

Get rid of this guy. His name's Tyler? The guy that took us there. I think his name's Tyler.

Thank you so much. All right, next year. Tyler's stiff arm chatted the door. I know.

Yeah, I saw that. I was like, you know, but what's funny is, as a retailer, I don't want to upset the other retailer. Right. You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah, I don't want to rock the boat. So I'm walking in and I'm telling Phil Boots or whoever the fuck, look, man, your past doesn't say it. Just don't even go to the door. Just don't do it to me because it's going to put me in an awkward position.

Right, right, right. You know, and I don't want this guy to be upset with me. I always try and carry myself with the utmost respect. Right, exactly.

We're invited guests. Like, I'm not going in wearing my fucking gang colors as a cigar hustler. Yeah, I don't wear anything as a cigar. I mean, I did the podcast logo.

But I'm not, and even when Jerome gave me the camera, I was like, you know, talk a little bit. Oh, Jerome, what the hell, Jerome? I waited, he didn't give me the camera. You know, all I talked about was the podcast.

com for the discount code. You know, I'm just not that guy. Well, my website's now, so come back next week. Hey, it's Mike.

I don't really have a website. No, but I'm like, hey, and I, you know, I say, hey, you got to come out. It's a great smoke. It's a great time.

Right. You know what I mean? Oh, I completely understand. So when I saw that you were tagged in a live video, I was like, oh, God, what the fuck did we do?

Oh, man. That was a good run. It was a good run. Never get invited back again.

Well, at least we'll talk about it on Monday. Right. At least we need a little show content. Yeah.

Are you blowing smoke at the camera? And then Sunday, what did you do Sunday? Anything? I did absolutely nothing.

I did a little bit of laundry, but other than that, no. Adrian went and visited with a student she used to have who has since graduated and had a baby, and it was like one of her problem children back in the thing. That's all she deals with. Right.

" Oh. Want to touch it? Right. Yeah.

So, very nice. So, no, I mean, I watched TV and had a cigar. Beautiful. Doing laundry, the machine does all the work.

So you put it in, push a button, sit down, watch a movie, get up, move it to the dryer, push another button. I do like to fold clothes. Do you? Yeah.

Dude, you used to come by. Something therapeutic for me. Come on by, buddy. Separating of everything and everything's in little piles.

I'll beat that right out of you in my house. Family of five, six with towels. You know, my second wife used to just take the clean out of the dryer and throw it on the couch. And then she would-- You can't do that.

I would get my stuff out. It gets wrinkly. Right. I hate to iron.

Yeah. I don't iron. I don't iron. Yeah, steamer.

When the dryer's done, they come right out and then they get put away. Right. I hang, my t-shirt hang. If you're not taking them right away, you got to do the tumble dry thing.

Right, then you got to do it again. You got to do it again. No, the tumble dry, we have a thing where it'll tumble it. It keeps it going.

Oh. We have an anti... Oh. Oh, that sounds like a waste.

It kicks on every five minutes. It's a wrinkle release. I have wrinkle release. I have wrinkle release.

He's a wrinkle release. Wrinkle release. We had to hook a water hose. What could we do, everybody?

To the dryer. This is still shutting down. No. You have something to say about Sunday?

Go back to, yeah, what'd you do Sunday? What happened Sunday? It was cold and rainy and wet. Oh, I went to, no, it wasn't cold and rainy, when I went to Universal, it was beautiful.

I took the squad. It rained in the morning. I took the squad, we went to. Oh, did you?

Yeah. Oh. Dr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat.

Oh, the carousel. Uh Transformers, what is the, that's going away? I don't, what's the Transformers? Transformers is going away?

I think that one's going away. No way. I don't think I've been on it, what is the Transformers? It's like Spider-Man, only Transformers.

Oh, then I haven't on it, yeah. It's the same thing, you fall from the sky, the whole thing. Yeah, it's just a different guy. Yeah, they just threw in, I mean, you even get wet.

I would say, I would, I would wager that if you actually broke down the steps that were in the Spider-Man ride. Yeah. Like every single step by step by step, it would probably, They literally match Transformers. It's exactly the same.

Same thing. I still haven't done The Mummy. I'm dying to do The Mummy. They just restored it.

You gotta get on it. I tried to convince Brandon to do it. She's like, let's just go home. I'm like, okay.

She didn't want to do The Mummy? She does want to do The Mummy, but she wanted to get home. Did they redo it in a sense, like, they changed it? No, they just restored it.

Oh. Like, after X amount of years, roller coasters need a revamp. And, like, some of that shit... A little upkeep.

Some of that shit was getting sideways. Like, not all the Mummy guys would pop up. Some of the flames weren't going. And the bugs that would always crawl out, it turned down to like six bugs instead of a plethora of them.

They made some cutbacks. They needed new bugs. Yeah, they needed some new bugs. They went on strike.

It's a good ride. You've never been on the ride, Palmer? No, I've never done The Mummy. It's fun.

It's just dark. It's in a weird place too, isn't it, as far as location? Yeah. I thought it was in the front over by the, it's like on the left-hand side as you go in.

To the right of Jimmy Fallon. Yeah. Right, yeah, it's back over there. Yeah.

I love that. It's a good ride. It's just dark. I keep trying to push Jax onto getting on a roller coaster.

Oh, he's not done any of them? He's done The Mummy, but he won't do anything else. It's not a good roller coaster to go on if you're afraid of roller coasters. The Mummy?

Yeah, because it's in the dark. He doesn't like... Is it a very jerky ride like a regular roller coaster? From what I can remember, I mean, I haven't been on in a while.

It's a little jerky. Oh, it gives me headaches. Can't see it. Can't see The Mummy.

The first time I ever went on it was after the guy got his head taken off at Disney. Oh, it's a whole different park. It's a different park. Yeah, but what was that ride?

Space Mountain. Space Mountain. Yeah, never stand up. Stood up?

Yeah, so then I go on the mummy. Yeah, and he lost his head. Oh, yeah. That might be an urban legend.

Well, the mummy's in the dark, so like, when you go in the dark- Well, you don't stand up. I know, but I tuck my head down. You're not that tall. I just get a little nervous.

Phil, Phil, you're not that tall, Phil. Oh, I don't want to get my head cut up. No, it's like Lil' Giant style. Oh, I just turn on the thing.

Adam Acri has an iMessage. Oh, he got the website. I can't get on. Oh, he sent a nasty text.

I'm not stating what he texted me. No, read it. No, I'm not. You have to read it.

I will not. Read the text. No, no, no. Oh, this isn't lying.

Dear fellas. I was going to say, send it to me. He said, I just went ahead and ordered from somewhere else. Their website worked.

You're dead to us, just so you know. I'm going to write, I will send you. I'm not liking any more of your TikToks. Only your wife's.

I will send you glitter bombs. Oh yes, Glitter Bomb. Oh, Glitter Bomb. Oh, I saw a new one yesterday.

Greg doesn't watch the show. There is a TikTok that just shows pranks. Oh, yeah? Like you could buy them or do them?

You have to buy the prop. So I was thinking of Phil and Boots because they like prop jokes. But it was a bubble wrap package that says Dollar Dildo Club on it. Oh, yes.

And then we put your address, we put their address right here in the middle and it says $1 dildo. You know, Greg might get a little confused about that one. Honey, did you bicep it? It came in the mail.

So you want to cover some quick news and then because we got a special thing thing. Oh, we're getting the show short short? Yeah. Oh, well, yeah, after the show, I forget which one we're doing.

Which one were we doing? We were doing the Justin Andrews and Matt Booth interview. That was so close. Oh, Matt and I texted all weekend.

Oh yeah? Close. Oh yeah, we bonded, you know, 'cause I had to take him to the bathroom the one time. Oh.

Okay. Did he talk on the banana again? How'd that play out? Well, I was, okay, I'll tell this real quick.

" and i'm like no i've waited too long i need to go he goes okay i go then he follows me and then he gets distracted by one person and he's holding my arm so then second person and then i got free like i'm just i'm going i'm just gonna go left i left so when i come out he's going in he's like oh i was like sorry i will wait for you to come out he's in there forever then he comes out and the rabbit's standing there bunny the bunny guy yeah so he starts talking to the rabbit i'm I'm like, "You know what? I'm gonna go, Matt. This did not work out well at all, apparently. " Yeah, you can't.

You can't be beholden to that, man. You have to go. No, he cannot walk from one side or the other without somebody grabbing him and going, "Hey, let me tell you, what do you-" Poor Johnny. Johnny's out there, don't know the cigars all day.

Yeah, we told him. We warned him. Yes, dude, just don't go. And by the end of the day, it was just him and your friend was in there.

Jeremy Fondy. Jeremy Fondy. " Well, I mean, technically, Jeremy works for SDG, so... Oh, does he?

Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. What's he do down there now? He used to run a shop.

We've been there. I don't know, he does something. How should I know? What do I know?

He's your friend. He does stuff. Next time you gotta let Matt Booth know, BDP has to go to the bathroom. When BDP has to go.

When the BDP goes, the BDP goes. That's right. All right. A lot of pee-pee in the big BDP.

So let's go. From the four quarters of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need, the Cigar Hustler Podcast Report, with Mike Tu. Luciano Cigars rebrands Pichardo Cigars as the Tiago Cigars. Luciano Cigars has announced that he's rebranding the Pichardo Cigars line as Tiago Cigars, with the name coming from the company's co-founder and vice president, Tiago Splitter.

Was he running out of press releases? Yes, you know what? Look how long this thing is. It's one whole page and a half of another page.

Oh, my God. Just because they changed the name of the cigar. Does it talk about anything interesting in it? No, no, nothing.

Oh, wow. Oh, no, no, no. They just got to talk about the Pachardo. So Tiago Splitter was a big deal?

So, yeah. I mean, he was an NBA player. I was going to say, I saw a photo, a very tall man. Played on the Spurs when they were good, you know, with Tim Duncan.

Oh, he wasn't that good because all I know is Tim Duncan and the other guy. Well, he was a bench player. Beyond his role, Luciano Cigars. He came on the bench.

Splitter is known for his career in the NBA. It spanned 2010, 2017, and included five seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, from whom he won a championship in 2014. He also played for the Atlanta Hogs. Look, Chad Henney got a ring, too, this year.

I don't know what to tell you. He played the one time. He played the one game. He showed up, played like a quarter.

Hey, I'll stay on the bench for a ring, too. Me, too. I just kept it on one the whole time. Cigar Kings adds distribution in Kuwait, Fratello announces distribution for Iceland, and Quality Importers names Longfiller Company for Dutch distribution.

In Kuwait? Go ahead. Go ahead. No, you.

Okay. No, you. Now, I didn't pull the stories, but I did read the stories. Apparently, to Cigar King add distribution in Kuwait, all they did was a cigar shop in Kuwait carries their cigars now.

Yeah, that's all it really takes. That's all it really means. That's what it means. It makes it sound like this company now is going all over Kuwait selling their cigars.

This guy owns four shops, and they're going to be in all four. That's okay. Well, he's tapped into a new thing. Same with Fratello, they're going into a guy that owns 12 shops in Iceland.

Look, here's what's happening. Cuban cigar prices, three. Cuban cigar prices are through the fucking roof. Right, yeah.

They're now based off of Hong Kong pricing. Right. And that's what we're gonna charge, right? There's no rhyme or reason for it.

It's just like, the Cuban market, whoever's in charge, they got a case of the fuck-its, and they just started going nuts on their pricing. And you know what? It's kind of like Disney. They charge whatever they want to charge, and they're getting away with it.

Right, they'll stop when people stop buying. So what's happening? What's happening is, all of these other countries are looking for alternatives that could come in at less. Exactly.

And guess what? Even with all the taxation, they're starting to come in a little less. S. market can start chipping away at the Cuban market across the entire world, that's huge.

And I'm looking forward to seeing that happen. I really want to see it where, you know, where these brands that we know and love are actually carried throughout the world. The world. So when it chips all the way away from the Cuban pricing, what happens then?

What do you mean? The Cubans go away? No, the Cubans... The Cubans are never gonna go away.

The Cubans are always gonna sell. The reality is the biggest market for Cuba is China. Right? Okay.

So, opening up these other markets for American-made, or I don't know, what do you call them? Nicaraguan cigars and American brands. Yeah, American brands across the world. I think that that's fantastic.

So. Good competition. Surprise for you, Michael. It's actually natural capitalism.

We got Postana into the one cigar shop in the island of Nauru. Oh, so we now, ooh. Yeah, so we would like to announce. Press release.

Yeah, press release. Postana cigars adds distribution to Nauru. Yes. We could do one every week.

There's only one shop there. Charlie would eventually catch on. He'd be like, wait a second. Oh, yeah.

Can't wait till he releases on his. What's Dr. Doom's... Latveria.

Yes, we would like to also announce distribution in Latveria. Because I had one in my pocket when I rode the Dr. Doom ride over at the, you know, covering Latveria. You talk to the guy that comes out in the suit?

I talk to the guy, yes. He doesn't say much. No, he doesn't. Dr.

Doom doesn't really have a voice. He doesn't, you know, he talks. The Big Poppy Firecracker returns to celebrate baseball's opening day. United Cigars getting ready to kick off the baseball season with a bang!

It's bringing back the Big Poppy Firecrackers. Oh, the Big Poppy. 5x50 short Robuso, originally released in March. Have you been watching any of the baseball?

I don't watch baseball. Me neither, but I've been watching the World thing? The World Cup? No, it's soccer.

Yeah, whatever it is. It's like the Olympics for the baseball. Oh, is there a baseball? I didn't even know there was a thing.

It's amazing. Oh, it's nice. It's a lot of fun. Two would be nice since we're both talking now.

Thank you. Thank you. I watched USA and Venezuela. Yeah?

And that was a tight game. Oh. Yeah. It was amazing.

And USA prevailed. And then I was like, oh, that was so exciting. I'm going to watch the next game. Did we dominate baseball like we dominate basketball?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So beating Venezuela was a big deal because it was close. It's really dry. And then we kind of rolled into Cuba.

Oh, they beat us. No, man. We whooped the fuck out of Cuba. Oh, I thought they were big into baseball.

Yeah, but when you start playing, people like the Dominican Republic and stuff. What are you talking about? We're already in the semifinal or something. The gold medal round or something?

Okay, who are we playing? I don't know. Nicaragua. Oh, we'll probably lose.

No, no, they can't run much. They all smoke cigars. Most of our players are from the DR. Okay, can I finish the Big Papi story?

Who does USA play next baseball? I will tell you. All right, each box has a QR code that, once you scan that, it takes you to a video of David Ortiz, who is known as Big Papi, and introduced to the baseball hall of the film. And he does, it's a video thanking you for buying the cigars.

Oh wow. And then there is... Hello, I am Big Puppy. Hello, Big Puppy.

Let's see, there was one other thing. Team USA doesn't know his opponent just yet, as Japan and Mexico will battle in the second semifinal matchup on Monday. So it's either going to be Japan or Mexico. We used to have a sports show on his network on Thursday.

I feel like we can beat Japan or Mexico. They should probably save the story for that. No. That show's gone.

Remember? You can quit. Ten boxes have been signed randomly. Ten.

Nice. So you could get an autographed box by Big Papi. Look, man. It's worth some money.

You missed the whole thing where each box has a QR code, and you scan a video, and it goes to video, and it goes, my name is Big Papi. Thank you for buying the cigar. Hey, bro. I got to be honest.

Yeah. Ten signed boxes really sounds kind of half-assed. How many signed boxes does Guy Fieri do? All of them.

Right. I'm just saying. Oh, two releases, ten boxes. I'm only selling, I'm only signing 10.

Well, that makes it worth more money. Are you really behind the, fuck that, they're not worth a ton of money anyways. Does it, you know, maybe you didn't really sign them either, man, who's gonna know? Right, who's in charge of the United?

I just don't think that, look, for whatever reason, whatever the price is for his signature, whatever, he's trying to build a brand. If you're trying to build a brand, doing only 10 is fucking weak. Who's number one? David Ortiz.

Cigar Hustler. I had him sign the boxes. Oh, nice. I don't know, man.

It's his cigar. Oh, David Garofalo has united. Oh, no. Press that.

Press that. Keep going. Just keep talking. Press that.

I don't want your friends. Intro, outro. So the big poppy, it's a big deal. Well, you could get a signed box.

It's a big deal. So, Michael, when the Connecticut's come out, I would like you to sign three boxes because, you know, you're not David Ortiz, for God's sakes. Right. Sign the inside of three boxes.

Are you just randomly playing noises? Are you on the sports talk? Yeah, she's on the sports talk. Oh, Lord.

Alright, Eroa Dark is making an 11/18 slated for a TAA release. The Eroa Dark line is getting a new size old exclusive retailers that are members of the tobacconist. To me, my bestie, I want to be up their ass. You don't want to play those ones.

Those are from other shows. Be careful. Oh, man. Be careful.

Be careful! Yeah, some of those shows, don't play anything with Daniel's name on it, it's not appropriate for this show. Yeah, be careful. Oh my goodness.

Look, I had jokes set up in this whole story. Okay. So who, you said a roar? All that, I could have hit oh no for you before.

I want it. No, don't touch it. It was on the same board that you started it, David. Oh no.

Who's number one? It's on the same panel as that one. The podcast. Jeez.

All right, it's a, let's see, they've done for the last. So you had a bunch of jokes. There's a TA, the CLX, which uses 1118 Vitolas, a unique six and a quarter by 52 by 60, perfecto size, the Eroa family made famous, which it owned CLE slash Camacho. The Eroa Dark Line is made entirely of Honduran Crow tobaccos, the company calls it dark slash black due to the darker, I just put the slash in there all over and over.

So that's Camacho? No, CLE. But the TAA is a membership group, which also includes probably 40 manufacturers that gather annually. - Oh, they're coming out with 39 new cigars for TAA.

- Yes. Yeah, I have it here where they make them do that and all sorts of things. - How exciting is that? - Hookers and cocaine.

- TB released like two cigars. - Hookers and cocaine. - Coop is gonna be very busy. He's got a lot to cover.

- Does he go to the TAA? Did they let him go to that? - Yeah, of course. - He was gonna meet up with us on Sunday.

- For what? - He wanted to come by. - Here? - Yeah.

- Oh, we don't work Sundays, Coop, sorry. - I had to do the church thing. - Yeah, we don't work Sundays. - I had to do the church thing.

Well, yeah, Sunday. Sunday. We were at the all white party. Right, we're at the all white party.

My khakis. They're also making them donate 50 cents per cigar back to the TAA. Oh, wow. Who is?

The TAA. You have to donate back to the TAA? 50 cents, yeah. Manufacturers agree to give a portion of the proceeds back to the organization, a minimum of 50 cents per cigar.

At some point, do you think the brand owners and manufacturers of TAA say, "Fuck this. " Right, so TAA is retailers, right? That's how you, that's how you, that's the The Club? Oh, yeah, that's the good old boy.

Okay. Never getting invited to that one. No, no, we're not getting invited. I mean, I'd love to be a part of it, but I'm never going to be invited to that one.

No, we've already worked it out. How many people have to die before we get invited to that? Yeah. But how do they, are there only certain TA manufacturers?

Or could you all of a sudden say, I'm making a cigar for the TAA? No, I have to be. You have to be. I guess I could slide in as a Powstanie.

That's what I mean. So it's not, it's not exclusive to manufacturers. Anybody who wants to make a TAA cigar can make a TAA cigar. I guess, yeah.

Maybe. I'm curious how that went. I don't know how that goes. Has there ever been like a lockout with cigar owners?

You know what I'm talking about? No. " No, they don't do that. No?

They'd have to be organized. The TAA. Are you kidding me? There's two events at the TAA.

They all get together in a room and they agree that I'm buying 10, you're buying 10, you're buying 10, and we're gonna pay this for it. " And then there's a regular expo, as I understand it, like the PCA or the-- It's a dream machine. Yeah, that's the first, that's the first-- The dream machine. That's where they force you to sell them cigars at a really-- That sounds like, yeah, that's a strong arm.

Right, yeah, well, right. And then the second one is just a regular trade show, which probably nobody goes to. Hmm. The dream machine.

Why would you want to go to the trade show? You just forced me, you know, I just ripped you off, now I'm gonna go and pay a full price? That's not gonna happen. You legally robbed me.

All right, we have a Florida story. Okay, hurry up. Cocoa Beach, Florida, a woman who's arrested Cocoa accused of branding to drive through and pointing at an employee to do an argument over a non-existent menu item, according to the Cocoa Police Department. Oh, please God tell us.

An affidavit described what, the lady looks scared, there's a picture. The affidavit describes what responding officers were told by witnesses after arriving to find Quava Young, 26, of Cocoa Beach, behind the wheel with a gun in her passenger seat. The weapon was identified as an MP Shield 9mm with a drum magazine capable of holding a drum mag. Yes, capable of holding up to 50 rounds.

Oh my God, so I was going to die. She was not fucking around. Just because she couldn't get the secret Big Mac. News 6 called McDonald's.

Oh, the Airline and Seaburger or whatever? Well, hold on, let's read. Please tell us you have it. The News 6 called McDonald's on Saturday, located at an address.

That's what the fuss was about. They were spraying this whole place down. They were informed that. sort of combo similar to what can be done for McDonald's or for McDoubles or McChickens, and refused an employee's offer to sell her a cheeseburger and an a la carte order of fries.

I would like the cheeseburger bundle. They had that in Sanford. Cheeseburger bundle? She must be from Sanford.

They had that at McDonald's in Sanford. What is a cheeseburger bundle? So it's a cheeseburger, a fry and a Coke for like five bucks. Nice.

Isn't that just a combo? Oh, they don't have the cheeseburger, they always do two cheeseburgers. You gotta do a double cheeseburger. Well, no, they have two singles.

Yeah, two double, yeah. Oh. She's from Sanford. Gotcha.

Let's see, has occurred during the woman's, oh, hold on, I have to sell the cheeseburger in order for small fries, Dad. She came out like, chitty, chitty, bang, bang, motherfucker, you gonna get me my cheeseburger bundle. It was her second appearance in the drive-thru that day. Oh, God.

According to an employee on the phone in the affidavit, the employee described how things were a little busy in the drive-thru during the first encounter with Young. The second time the victim told police that Young pulled to the first drive-thru window after being told she couldn't be served a meal that wasn't on the menu. Once there, the victim asked Young what her problem was, to which Young brandished the pistol. This is how it turns out.

Yo, you lied to me. You know what? What's your problem? You know what?

Bang, bang. But look, listen, how hard would it have been for just the person to say, "Yeah, you got it," and then just rang it up for five bucks, the little fries and the burger. It's like the fries and the burger. This is McDonald's.

Yeah. Why do we always have to deal with... Is it the price or what? They wouldn't...

Because they offered her a cheeseburger and... Just tell her... I feel like this is a Keanu thing. Keanu would be like, no, no, I can't do that.

No, whatever. I guess it must be the price. Because I'm sure it was going to be a little bit more than whatever she wanted. Man, you can go up to that window and say, hey, you forgot my whole order.

I want it to be... And they would give it. Yeah, they don't give a fuck. I'll just take a single cheeseburger.

It's McDonald's, for God's sakes. Oh, for God's sakes. I'll just take one cheeseburger, and then you pull up and say, where the fuck are my fries? Like, you didn't order them.

Well, I wanted them. They'd be like, whatever, dude. Here, get the fuck out of here. Here's your fries.

Apparently not down in Cocoa Beach. Very hardcore McDonald's employees there. I was hoping. Whatever you do, don't give away the fries.

Just hit the house charge button. I don't know, something. I was hoping. This shit ain't worth it.

Everybody almost died over a fucking cheeseburger bundle. Like, everybody. She got a gun that had 50 bullets in it. Yeah, but the problem is, is you got somebody working there with no common sense.

Like, okay, let's think about this for a second. Should I get rid of the food or get shot? Yeah, there's no button for bundle, lady. I can't do this.

No, no, no. That's out of my parameters. No bundle. And that's not just a McDonald's thing.

That's, listen, after a week of dealing with Bluehost and fucking server customer relations. I'm very sorry. We cannot do that today. We will have someone call you later.

What is your number? And I'm like having conversations with them. I don't understand. You took it down.

You have the restores, just turn it back on, and then they would just dead air me, and then they would say, no, you're gonna have to contact somebody else, I'm like, no, they wouldn't let me talk to anybody, I'm like, somebody else, I've worked with you for 11 years, I've given you money for 11 years, like, well, it'd be great if they hit a button and they put you on phone with Greg. Thank you, come again. I stuck on the phone. " I stuck on the phone with one person.

I was like, "I'mma wait. " He will not hang up to your phone at all. Eventually, he hung up on me. " I'm out.

And what was his name? Jim? One guy told me his name was Chris. " Motherfucker, your name is not Chris.

I was not happy about that. Tell me your real name. " I like when they ask you the weather. Oh, how is the weather there?

" Just kidding. Got him. All right, she faces charges, open carry of a weapon, knowingly driving with a suspended license, and aggravated assault. Of course she didn't have a license.

Of course she didn't have a fucking license. Maybe you should have walked in, not the drive-thru, man. What a country. I can't drive my car back.

I'm packing heat, baby. Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Oh, without intent to kill. I just meant to shoot him a little bit.

I'm just gonna wing him. I'm just gonna wing him. The last charge being a felony. She was booked early Friday morning, and she was given a $7,500 bond amount and bonded out Saturday morning.

$7,500? Can you imagine being in jail? $7,500. She only came up $750.

Wait, wait, wait. It stops us up. Can you imagine being in jail? " They wouldn't give me my goddamn cheeseburger.

I wanted the cheeseburger bundle. I wanted the bundle. It exists. That's right.

I love that bundle. Where were you? Which one were you at? Which one are you at?

Oh, yeah, no, they don't have that one. You know, you go to that one in Sanford, they got the bundle on that one, you should come on there. If you're in jail, you got to get Samuel L. Jackson on them.

" Yeah, it's Sanford, that's perfect. If you go to Sanford, you'll get the cheeseburger. Imagine my name, they'll give it to you every time. If you say, "Hey, I know Phil," and you're good to go.

All right, we got a listener of the week. Uh-oh. Oh, God. You have a listener of the week?

Yes, listener of the week is Garrett Robinson from How 'Bout That Cigar. Today is Garrett's birthday. Like, oh, no. Yes, and oh, no, it is his birthday.

Oh, no. So, he is the Listener of the Week. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Garrett.

If the time this comes out, your birthday will have passed. I hope it was a wonderful day. He's a Dondor tale. Yes, he is now, but he still does.

How about that Dondor tale? You know who they're having on tonight? Who? Smat Tobacco?

Yeah. Yeah, I saw that. And they're gonna talk about his show. Hey, you know, that's nice.

We would like to come on and talk about our show. Anybody who wants to have us. - They have me on all the time. - Yeah, but you don't talk about, but you're not on just to talk about the show.

- Oh. - Well, Developing Pals talked about our Patreon and all those others now. - Well, yes, but that wasn't the only reason you were on. You were on for your cigar.

- I'm otherworldly. - I know, but I carry, you know, I'm very, I'm a lot of hats. - Yeah, in the real. - Very many hats.

- A lot of hats, like the one you threw on the ground. - You gotta, it fell. You got a shop of the week? I can't put it on the damn table.

- Oh, shop of the week. I don't have a Shop of the Week this week. Like, oh no. Come on, come on.

No, Shop of the Week. Come on. The one time he's put Camera 3 on today now. I don't have a Shop of the Week.

We're going to put him back out there. He did so much better out there. Shop of the Week, Celery City. Camera's been moving the whole time.

Celery City Cigars! No, it hasn't because you've been looking this way. Gong. Gong.

Jimmy D's and Celery City Cigars, Shop of the Week. Make sure when you're in Sanford you have to get your cheeseburger bundle. You go by and see Jimmy at Celery City, and get two because Jimmy likes a cheeseburger. That way Jimmy can get one too.

He loves a good cheeseburger. Yeah, he make you a nice, what are the cocktails called? Craft cocktail to go with your cheeseburger. Craft cocktail.

Summer's come up, he's going to have that cucumber then. Oh. I don't like cucumbers. Very fresh.

Best part of a cucumber tastes like the worst part of a watermelon. Oh, God. That and carrots, bottom of the list. So angry.

I don't like carrots or cucumbers. I like carrots or cucumbers. So angry. They're disgusting.

All right. Anybody got anything else? No, so much for not being an hour. Yeah, it's definitely an hour.

We can't help it, Michael. I am programmed to do an hour show. I can only do hours. Well, it's 57 minutes.

You're good. Well, we got all these interviews coming up. So, hey, don't forget to check out and support the Patreon. Well, yeah, we're going to do the Patreon.

Make sure you stay tuned after this to see an exclusive interview with Justin Andrews and Matt Booth. It was good. From STG. It was good.

A lot of talking over each other. A lot of talking over each other. We're having our own conversation here. You guys are talking something out there.

A bunch of alphas just trying to run this bullshit. You and him talk. Me and him talk. But Justin says who's to buy it next, so stay tuned.

All right. All right, thank you, everybody. For the love of Christ. Vagina.

Yes, yes, yes, thank you for clarifying. Jesus Christ. We've been recording this whole time. I know.

We get what we pay for. Are we recording now? Why are we not recording that? We don't have anything to drink.

Okay, we're going? Yeah. You're recording now? Yeah.

Is this live? This is live. Look. Fucking live.

We waited an hour and a half for you. I can't believe you did. He's worth the wait. He's worth the wait.

Definitely not. The vice president of STG. He had a meeting? The prince.

The prince of STDs. Whatever the fuck. He had a meeting to go to. The process analysis of lead optimization meeting.

I should have never shared that. You should have never. Never. It becomes weaponized against you.

I knew better. But then it also becomes fodder for a nice conversation. It's good podcast material. I mean, can we also talk about the fact that, ah, fuck, I just lost my train of thought.

Oh dear. I'll work on this. Oh, that I received a text message of almost your complete number from one of our listeners? No.

Yes, we did. He's, he's two digits out. He's two digits out. Oh, so we have Justin Andrews.

That's interesting. The, uh, the CEO, the head, the head poobah of STG in the house. And, um, and then Matt. I'm his butler.

So how long have you guys been dating now? How long has, what's been a minute? I know the only reason I was invited here is because he's here. So you can, you can save the flat.

I felt like I was invited. As a matter of fact, I think this is how this is pitched to me. It was, He's like, Matt will be here. Matt will be doing an interview.

Matt will be having an event. If you want to show up, that's fine, but just know this isn't about you. Look, pretty almost word for word. Hey, I saw the promo material.

I don't want to tell you that you're wrong, but you know. Matt said if we didn't invite you, he gets in trouble. I would say, yeah, he's like, oh, it's like, please, please include Justin. Please kiss Justin's ass a lot because I'm going to get in trouble.

We need to get more diesel in the shop. Can you please? Actually, it'd be the other way around. I feel like Chris would be like, really?

Both of you had to be there? Like one of you couldn't have done this? But I feel like you guys have been dating long enough because when he called you at TPE, you didn't answer. I did not.

You did not answer. You know, where it was just, I mean, if you just went back just a year prior, you were like, the photo. Chase him around with the camera. Yeah.

Have you guys seen Matt? Where's Matt? I can't find Matt. You give him too much.

That's the problem. Yeah, that's it. Now he's like, I've gotten too close. We're past the 100 days.

Now you're like, now you're his side piece or some shit. Unbelievable. It's Alec and Bradley. Who was he talking to that was fucking way more important than you?

It was Alec and Bradley. Alec and Bradley? It was Alec and Bradley. It was Alec and Bradley.

Yeah, so both of them. Because they were both there. They were both there, right. That's right.

Do they have your credit card now, or do they have someone else's? How'd that work, you know? I'm sure they have their own. Did they move in with you at all?

Not yet. Are they part of the deed of your home? Not yet. I'll be working for...

They're just doing weekends. You'll be working for... Oh, absolutely. Is that how that works?

I'm already prepared. Oh, yeah? Oh yeah? Yeah.

Is there a meeting for that? It's coming up. The Justin works for Alex Radley meeting? There will be 17 meetings.

My name is always on the chopping block whenever there's an acquisition. Always. Really? We can acquire a machine-rolled cigarette company from Europe and it's like, well, if we've got to cut the, you know, trim the fat, we've got to come back a little Justin.

It's called fuel the growth, sir. That's true. If we have to fuel the growth. There's always Justin we can get rid of.

There's always Justin. Somehow I don't buy that. You know, what's really kind of- I think he's a critical member of their organization. I think, you know, I think so, too.

I feel like he's a He's moved up the ladder relatively quickly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So much to a point where he's just kind of like, I don't really fucking have time for you guys. Right.

I'm not taking your calls. Whereas before, it was, you know. Like, please get my bars into your shop. Yeah, he's like, come on, let's go, I'm very excited.

Which was the last time you guys had me. Yeah. Because I showed up with a bar. Yeah.

The only time you've had me prior to today. You want to know why? Because you don't answer my calls. It's a two-way street, Justin.

Jesus. It's not, listen, you should have a meeting about the meetings. You know, and re-revise when the meetings actually occur, instead of it being Monday through Friday, maybe just the one day, like Wednesday. I would say Monday is the worst day to call me, but that'd be a lie.

It's really Tuesdays, Wednesdays, I mean, yeah, it's uh... Yeah, I get it. I understand. It's a lot of fun.

It's a lot of fun. But you know, it's very restrictive. Success has its prices, I guess, right? Let's not get carried away with success.

Success? The word success. But he gets a check. He's like salary.

That's true. You know what I mean? I like how you say that like it's a bad thing. You're like, no, that's a great thing.

Like he sold out. No, as a business owner, I'm jealous. I'm going to tell you right now. Because, you know.

Somebody else gets a salary around me too. I know, but I really like him. Damn. He has a helicopter.

He has the helicopter too. Gaddafi Gold helicopter. You know the one. Helicopter.

Yeah. It's the only way I travel. Are you going to get a helicopter? No.

And not the... Should Alec and Bradley get two helicopters, or do they have to share? I think... Yeah, is it one helicopter, or is it just a two-seater?

I've done a lot of these. Two-seater. Matt, I feel like this would be the one show that they use as an example. Like, see, this is...

On this show... This is why they can't be... This is why you shouldn't have said that. Oh, it's definitely our show.

And we've never had that thought before. Yeah. Okay, well, I trust your Spidey senses, Matt. I'm glad that you're in the chair, and you're realizing it now.

You know what I mean? This is the example. This is the type of shit that we can't do. This is when you go to HR, this is the video they show.

How tight would that be if this was the video? This video? Oh my God. So we have a clip here, are you talking about the helicopter that you don't have?

When we have some questions. This is an aspirational moment. Yeah. So you're upset that there's no drink, let's talk about that.

I'm a little thirsty. Like what type of thirst do you have, sir? Something of the adult variety. You did.

Of the adult variety? I felt like it was too close to the front. Did you fly in today? I did.

From where? Where are you from? What difference is that? Were you in the Carolinas today?

North Carolina. Okay, okay. I flew in today. That's like a two-hour flight.

Shit. Two hours. Yeah. I had to take two flights to get here.

So I just fly from my shitty little regional airport, which took an hour and a half. I feel really bad for you. That's what happens when you fly Delta. You know what, you need to call STG and they need to fuel up the plane for you.

We used to have a plane. And now it's gone. No more. It fueled the growth.

We bought Room 101. And then Alec and Bradley, they had to sell the airplane. " Right. Hmm.

Hmm. It's hard out there. We can't have it all. We can't have Room 101.

Bradley, and Alec. Right. And a plane. Do you think you're going to get Alec and Bradley?

I mean... I feel like you're only getting one. Dun, dun, dun. I don't know.

I thought they were like a package. It's a twofer? They're brothers. It's a twofer.

But I thought one brother liked it and the other brother... The company's called Alec Bradley Cigars. But I thought only one brother was like in, and the other brother was like not so much cigar. I would have no idea.

They both seem pretty in to me. Seems like something he would have checked into before they bought them. You think so? Thank you.

Do you think he would've checked in? Oh, he probably, a meeting. I like, you know what, I like the fact that Justin feels like he's nervous. I could see it, you know what I mean?

Like, Jesus. I'm just a little jet lag, I think. You think so? Yeah, me too.

If I had something to drink, I might loosen up a little bit. Oh, no. Jeez. Man.

Get him a beer out of the fridge. I like you, Ty. Please. There's all these beer signs everywhere in the parking lot.

Yeah, they're just taunting you with that, it's not, actually. That's the Natty Ice at the gas station. I mean, you got your protein shake. This is coffee.

Diet Coke. coffee nothing for you either i had a little hospitality is this is fly here we come all the way to florida i've never even heard of deltona florida before me neither here he's telling me does he not know we're the number one cigar podcast you know what was really kind of funny is justin text me on the way as he was coming over here saying what's the store address oh what's the store address that's nice so then i wrote you don't have ways google maps you can't put it in fucking anything the internet why what's what's going on here i was trying to go look I was trying to be very thinning, very thinning, I was texting you while I was waiting in line at the rental car company. Yeah? Yeah, so I was like, that way if you text it to me, I just plug it in and go.

Alright, well now... And also, I didn't remember the name of your cigar store either. I appreciate that. I have more questions, I have more questions.

I googled Deltona Cigar Store. Yeah, and then like three other ones came up. I get it, it didn't work. You're telling me, pal.

So, why are you waiting in line at a car rental? You don't just walk in and just take the car and go? Typically, no, I always wait in line. Why?

Yeah, they got that whole premier membership, right? Who do you use? You use Avis? Yeah, what the fuck?

Who do you use? I did use Avis. Oh my god. It's the only one without the A-s?

How do I know? Everything I say somehow gets used against me. Okay. So, if I were to say that I typically rent from Hertz, which is where I can skip the line.

Yeah. But our wonderful travel agency now has some issue with Hertz. Hertz, so they're not on the list. So I had to go to Avis.

National, bro. Politics. Yeah. Politics.

I've been loyal, committed to Hertz for all these years. Yeah. Avis, never been in front of him. So I had to go stand in line with everybody else.

It was depressing. It's kind of like when I had to walk past you in the airplane. Oh, because he was in first class. He was in the bougies.

I was like, trade seats with me. And he wouldn't. I thought, I think he, I felt like he thought about it. If anyone from SCG is listening, that was a joke.

I was in coach. So, I mean. I only ever fly coach. I'm not going to lie.

Flying the plane is pretty impressive, Justin. I mean, they just let you in there? Was that additional? The third seat, it's always his.

Yeah. Uh oh, good times. Good times. We waited for you.

I'm not regretting this at all. No, not even yet. You have no idea. Yeah, we're just getting warmed up.

It's only 30 minutes. Don't worry, it'll be fine. We'll be quick. We'll be in and out, get a towel.

Oh my God, is there a light effect? Yes. Man, I love what you've done with this place. We have up lights.

This is the shit. Matt's just trying to save you this whole time. No, no, no. - No, no, no.

- Yeah, strike up a little bit. - Jason's over here, let's talk about the lights. - He's like, ooh, lights, lights. - No, I just know that they, like, flared up a little bit.

- So what'd you get for the rental? Focus? - Convertible? - Actually, Dodge Ram 1500.

- Oh, a truck, okay. - I think I was supposed to get a Corolla, and the Ram was all they had left. - Oh, that worked out well. - They're like, this dude's way too fat for a Corolla.

- Oh, well, you just, you had like your southern twang, like, oh, ooh, truck. Yes, get him in the truck. I know a truck man when I see him. All right, buddy.

You're a truck man. Sir, you come with us. That's it. There you go.

Howdy. Okay. We have my esteemed colleague in the room. We do.

Do you want to shout him out? Good. Please. Johnny Nomad.

I call him Uncle Johnny. I thought you called him Uncle Johnny as well. No, no, I don't. I call him Uncle Johnny.

I have turned him into Uncle Johnny. He's a regular upstairs. Yeah. Yeah.

He brought me Coquito for Christmas. He's wondering what the fuck is actually going on in here. That's what's going on. It is valuable cigar information.

That's what, that's what's going on, John. We're reporting, so Coop does not get all buttered. It's high, it's, it's, you know, highly intellectual property that's going down. Well, why, well you like, you're mad, you're not mad at Coop?

You like Coop? I love Coop. Yeah, you better say that shit. I love Coop.

You have a fucking 60 review. I've known Coop, Coop was like the first person I met in the business. He's the godfather of the cigar. I met him very early on, too, man.

I met him at the first, my first show. We're two North Carolina boys. Oh, there you go. Now, I don't think Coop likes me as much as I like him sometimes, but...

Coop is... Well, you'd probably say that about most people. Yeah. Coop doesn't have time for a lot of us, you know.

Coop is hot. He's a little sensitive. He's a big deal. Oh, he's very sensitive.

He is. Very sensitive. You don't want to hurt his feelings. No.

No. He needs, you know, it's good to give Coop a hug when you see him. You know? Yeah.

Like an extended one. He's going to be... Yeah. He's going to be at the Great's Book.

Like, go in. Oh, really? Yeah. Coverage.

Oh, shit. There we go. Are you going to be at the Great Smoke? I will be.

Peddling the diesel goods? No diesel. Sancho. Sancho Ponzo.

Sancho Ponzo. Why not diesel? I don't think diesel. I don't think he carries diesel.

The fuck, Abe? Yeah, what the fuck is that? What's going on with that? What the fuck is that about?

We should apply some pressure. He's got Fred Rui sitting with him now. He doesn't carry diesel. It's hard to apply pressure during the Great Smoke.

First of all, apparently he busted his knee somehow, so he's hopping on. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, there was a picture yesterday or today. Yesterday with ice on it.

Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. It's better than last year when his wife got into a car accident. That's correct.

Oh, that's right. It's the curse of the great smoke. It's the curse of the great smoke. Yeah.

It's like the Madden cover, you know. Or the Kardashian curse. You haven't heard of that one? If you're a black male, don't marry them.

Because you turn out fucking crazy. Something's gonna happen. Any type of athlete, your career just takes. It hits the shitter.

Lamar Odom. Well, I mean, you know, heroin probably had something to do with that. That's true. But, hey.

I mean, not to be technical. I feel like they probably introduced him to heroin. But I don't want to be technical. Yeah, we don't fact check on the show.

They are different. What else? What else you got? Kanye?

Kanye. He lost to Billy. Damn. Who was the other kid?

He played for the Sixers. He dated one of the girls. But he wasn't good enough anyways. What was his name?

Tristan? Was there? Oh, no. Tristan.

Tristan played for the Cavs. He wasn't qualified. No, but one of the kids dated. And there was a white guy that was married to- Play for the Clippers.

That was a moment of weakness for one of the Kardashians. Come on. Yes. Yeah, but he was an athlete too, though.

Yeah. You don't hear anything about him anymore. He was a double-double machine. Was he an athlete?

And then he was out of the league. Boom. Yeah, that's it. What was his name?

I can't remember. I can picture his face. Insignificant is what his name is. It's a curse.

Do you root for the Mets? Because speaking of curses- I do not root for the Mets. God, no. I don't know anything about baseball, but my Instagram was fucking filled with everybody losing their shit He did.

He did. He was, he was, uh, cheering the, uh, Dominican, I think it was, Dominican was playing Puerto Rico. Okay. And they won.

And he tore his patella tendon celebrating. And I think Hector Alfonso. That's heavy celebration. Mm-hmm.

Punched a hole in the wall when that happened. The Mets are definitely cursed, which I, I love. But you used to be a baseball guy, right? I did, but not a Mets fan.

Sports are tight. Who do you root for? Braves. The Atlanta Braves.

Yeah. Okay. Phil is over there giving you tomahawks. Very excited.

The Mets could lose every game. We live in Florida, bro. Chris Humphreys. Marlins.

Chris Humphreys. Yes. That's the guy. Is Boots fact checking right now?

That's Phil. That's Phil. That's Phil. That's Phil.

Boots is dead. Boots is dead. He's resurrected during the Patreon show. Sorry, Phil.

It's okay. Okay. I redact. So what were you saying?

Sorry about baseball? I lost my train of thought. No idea. Don't mind me.

Phil. Hey, I'm just enjoying mine. Take another swig of that low-carb, low-carb, deliciousness. 5-carb, 62 calories.

That's a regular-sized can. You're just a very large one. Yeah, that's actually a 32-ounce. That's why I'm drinking light beer.

Now I feel bad. I'm drinking by myself. No, no, no. Really?

You should feel bad. No, no, no. How can we make him happy? He demanded a drink, we got him a drink, and now he's complaining he's drinking.

That's why he's, you know, the prince of STG. Fair point. See how that works? Fair point.

Meetings involved and everything. Right. He demands meetings, and he's on the meeting, and he demands a meeting. Mike, tell me, what's going on in Cigarlandia?

Like, what's the scuttlebutt? Like, what do we hear about these days? In Cigarlandia? Yeah.

I mean, for me personally, the website's been down for a week, and I've been losing my fucking mind. Yeah, fuck that. That's a... I feel that for you.

Brutal. Yeah. Brutal. No good, man, I'm sorry.

" I'm starting to get the messages. Hey, well, you're the owner, you should know. So make sure to call in and inform the staff. Yeah.

Yeah, please. Call the shop. Call the shop, though. Call, don't email, call.

What's crazy, though, is everybody's trained. People have their ways. They're going to order a specific way. If it's online, or if they call in, or if they text, or Facebook message, everybody does it differently, right?

" I'm like, "Yeah, what do you need? " No, we'll wait. Fuck, you're going to wait for what? Don't wait!

The bills are still due, god damn it! Unacceptable. You know, and then we just took on new cigars, and now they're sitting in a box, and that drives me nuts. So, that's what's going on in Cigarlandia.

Okay. And then Abe is, you know, he's going to have his leg severed, and he's going to get a peg. It's going to be peg-leg Abe. Other than that, you know, we have Simple Fool, The Fool's Fool, The Fool Loves the D Fool.

I mean, there's like seven, there's several fools at this point. Fool loves the D, is that one of them? Yeah, that's the next, you didn't hear about that? Fool loves the D?

Yeah, that was the halfway release. That's the end of the trilogy. Yeah, that's the, that's the Corona Gorda. Third and final one.

Oh, the big one. No, no, it's small, it's five and a half by 46. Oh, Corona Gorda. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Five and a half by 46. Right? Yep. Whatever you say.

Six by 46. I, I actually. It's nice to watch them. I fucked up.

It's nice. Watch them go at each other over there? Look at them. That's probably the first diesel you've brought in in what, five years?

No, no, we always get the mother's soup thing, or whatever that is. Yeah, we got the mother's soup. Is it the mother's soup? Every month?

The Sunday gravy? Oh, yeah, yeah. That's it. It came with the pot.

Nice. Yeah, we still have the pot upstairs. Did they come with a pot? Free pot.

You get the pot for free. Only half a pot, you can't cook it. What's it made? Is it toxic, you can't cook it?

Oh, it's a plastic pot. No, it's not a real pot. Like Halloween candy? But you know what was weird?

Like one of them didn't fit. No. I told you about that. Yeah.

It's impossible. I'm telling you. The box was too wide or something. Yeah.

It was weird. Get out of here. I swear to God. Scouts on her.

We got the defective pot. Maybe. Right, yeah. We got the irregular pot.

You don't order enough diesel. When the order came through, I was like, this has got to be a mistake. Where's that fucked up? Send that to the next.

You know what, at least you didn't complain about it. No, I think you just complained about it. No, we didn't tell him anyway. Well, I mean, now it's fine, but I had a retailer complain to me about the quality of the pot.

And so I was like, you know, the free pot that came along with the order of the 10 cigars you get for $50. Yeah, it really doesn't make sense. This pot is cheap. No, you know, I'm not the type of guy, to be honest, that will fucking complain.

I will tell you when something is wrong, just so that you know, right? If, let's say, you painted something, I'm like, dude, this cigar is coming off on my lips. or if um you know or if packaging didn't fit i'd be like hey the packaging doesn't fit but it's not like the end of the fucking world here you know what i mean if if the entire batch of cigars were plugged to be like dude i don't know what happened there you know and i still wouldn't be hey i need i need free shit for this or whatever the case may be i'd probably just fucking eat it but i would say hey just a heads up whatever the fucking pairs are you got on this set you need to fucking Somebody is banging somebody else, or somebody is mad because they're just jamming shit in just to get by, you know? But other than that, unless you try and deliberately fuck me, then I'll be like, hmm, okay, now we have a problem, you know?

I want a room like this in my house. You have threatened several times to do a podcast? I would like to do one. Yeah.

But I want to somehow, like, do it. That's why I just come here and do it. This is a year later. So what's a year?

Yeah, well, it's nice. We have a nice conversation when I come. Oh, sure. Yeah.

You can come on any time if you want to just call in. Just call in and say you have something. I will. If you have something.

Yeah, I don't think you will, though. I always have some shit to say. I know. Obviously.

We have some great conversations. We do. Yeah. They should just be recorded.

I think. Mm-hmm. That's not my permission in advance to record me every time we speak. It's not?

No. It felt like it. It felt like it. Phil marked that?

I was saying hypothetically. I would just love for you to call in every Monday at three o'clock so they'll stop calling. That would be just perfect. Is that EST?

Yes. Oh, okay. I can schedule that. Yeah, that's way early.

It'd be nice. Yeah, it's way early. You wake up, you have some breakfast, take the kid. A little midday chat.

Yeah. You could do that. It'd be fucking fantastic. Stroll around my home office.

Yeah. Pace. Yeah, I do. I pace.

Back and forth. So what do you have newest coming out? I think it's fun and exciting? What are you doing?

What are you doing? Nothing really. Nothing? No.

Oh, shit, no. We got Daruma coming out, right? Yeah. The new Daruma.

Daruma will live again. Yeah. And later this year, we're gonna have some more very exciting releases that are gonna be tantalizing. Simple Fool?

The Fool likes the D? The Fool likes the D? Is that the... Oh, that'd be nice.

Yeah. That's gonna be the Room 101 collab. That's nice. You know, I fucked up the name of the Fool on the site.

Because one is, what is it? Stubborn Fool, one's Fool's Aaron or something? So the, Jesus Christ. F.

Fool's Aaron. It's Mama's Soup or whatever. Mama's Soup. Mama's Soup.

Mom's Soup. Mom's Soup. The brand is Fool's Aaron. Mom's Spaghetti.

Okay. Last year was Stubborn Fool. Gotcha. This year is Simple Fool.

Uh-huh. And they're like a video game thing? There is, there is a game connected place. You scan the code, you go to the website, you play the game, and if you complete the game, You enter to win some pretty cool prizes.

Like a Jeep or something? A G-Wagon. Ooh, I like this. That's slightly better than Placentia.

It's better than the Porsche. It's Matt's used G-Wagon. Oh, Matt's G-Wagon. Like a power wheel?

It's my power wheel. What was he going to do with it at this point? You know what I mean? He's got the helicopter.

He's got three of them. Mike, this isn't even gold anymore. What am I supposed to do? I can't ride on this.

This isn't even gold anymore. You know? Are you going to come out with another fool? I am.

Yeah? Is it also gonna be integrated with the video game? More than likely. Listen, I'm gonna break your balls off.

They're just going with it all the day. I have a thing, and they're just gonna go with it, like the pot. I'm trying to see if I can connect him to this fool thing at some point. You don't think that I...

The king's fool. Beefy fool. You don't think that I don't take fucking the level of... Tell me the name of my brand.

I guarantee you'll get it wrong. Well, I've always mispronounced it. There you go. It's Powstani.

No. No. See, so here... That's Jack Taranya's fault, 'cause he used to say Powstani.

Is it Powstanie? It is Powstanie. Oh, shit, I think that's the first time I've ever said that. My Chinese exchange student saw it yesterday, and she read it correctly, the first time.

Po-Stania, Po-Stania. You've never heard it before. It's the second time I've said it. Of course, somebody with the last name, how do they tell me?

Reading Rainbow. Step on Cabbage comes out with a brand that you can't pronounce. I mean, I put the phonetic spelling on the fucking box. What is with all these gringos launching brands that you can't pronounce?

I don't know. It's the key to success. Namakubi. It took people seven years to be able to pronounce that.

I mean, I adjust it as I move. Oh, I thought it was slightly going up because if I stand up I can aim it. It moves with him. It shadows his motions.

I mean, he's always wanted the helmet with the thing. Oh, I like that. The helmet's nice. Like the Helo Pilot helmet?

Right, right, right. Oh, that's nice. We need that. I want that.

Tatuaji's very successful. Yeah, I've heard good things about that one. Very good. Not too bad.

Ain't too bad. The Freude Gape. Those are good too. Yeah, the Freude Gape is very good.

Those are very good. Yeah. The gape. A gape.

A gape. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. That's amazing. That was good.

I saw it, I was like, get out, man. Yeah. I mean, endless fun. $35 or something like that, right?

Yeah, it gapes you. Yeah. Right. Price gaping.

Yeah. Plenty of room. Kind of like the September or whatever the way. Right, right, right.

L September. L September. Oh, you can only smoke that one month out of the year. I heard.

Well, it's my birthday month, so that's the best time to do it. Oh, perfect. So what's the next fool? Speaking of gaping.

Yeah. Speaking of gaping, let Justin say something. What's the next? I haven't got that far yet.

You couldn't slide that in on the process analysis for lead optimization meeting? That's next week's meeting. Hey, I mean, dude, at this point, I'm reasonable. You know, I see the checks that are coming out of SDG.

I'm fucking blue light special. Apparently we'll buy anybody. Yeah. Hey, you know what I mean?

Whoa. I, you know that, I felt like that was kind of a jab. You know, it's That's okay. That's okay.

Well, maybe it's because they already have you, so now everything else is just fun. Yeah, well, now you're a client. There we go. There we go.

Thanks, BDT. Yeah, where do you go from Matt? You know, everything's always a step down. Thank you.

Thank you. Well, it needs somebody now with three names. He has Alec and Bradley, and now he needs a company with three names. He's like trying to fill this little card he has.

You know what's kind of funny, though? Cigar bingo. Honestly, I'm not fucking around. I know I get a lot of fucking around.

You know, what is the endgame for a company like that? like that it has to be a buyout you know what i mean for any type of brand owner or you know someone that doesn't have a factory oh yeah you have to have a buyout at some point otherwise you just kind of ride along the entire fucking time well i mean you don't have to do anything but at a certain point i mean if you have to pull the levers every day into eternity right at some point you don't pull them you have to have an end game that's my point right if you have no end game And then eventually the brand just dies and fucking fades away. I believe that's correct. I mean, I personally don't want to leave this for my kids.

It's like, well, guess what? You're in the fucking cigar industry, you know, like, you know what I mean? God, who the hell would want to do that generation after generation? I love my kids, you know?

Yeah, well, I mean, I get it. Look, if it's a generational thing and, you know, own the farm, own the factory, they grew up. That is a whole, that's a completely different scenario. And, and, and that I understand completely.

But not on the other side of it, man. No. You gotta have an endgame. Yeah.

Agreed. Well, look, man, I mean, look, Davidoff was founded by Zeno Davidoff, right? They bought that from him and they carried on into perpetuity. Right.

They bought it. They bought it. Mm-hmm. So now Room 101 could continue for all of eternity.

Like the most beautiful shanker sore. Just never ending. Never heals. No, no.

But so beautiful. I mean, you like to look at it. Right. Like you would put a little hat on it.

Oh, nice. Dress it up. Give it Halloween costumes. Oh.

So you just have the two events here? Yeah. They didn't want to talk about that. Did you see the poster ad that I did for you?

We still could if you want. I very much fancy that idea. I could turn their mics off. We can do whatever we want.

That would be nice. The one that we posted on Instagram? No. Then I haven't.

Oh, I made one worse. Really? Yeah. Worse than me making the face that I was making on the fuzzadelic.

Bro, it fits the character, man. It's perfect! This was orchestrated. And you planned this a long time ago.

It was like, you made me take that picture last year. I didn't. I harvested that picture from Matt Wilson's efforts. That needs to be a sticker.

I think it does. It is already a shirt. Like the Abe Roman sticker. Yeah.

Yeah, it needs to be a, it does need to be a sticker. Did Matt name you? I'll make you some stickers. I've never looked better.

Did he name you Fuzzy, Fuzzy Wuzzy? Fuzzy Delic? Fuzzy Delic? Well, it's Fuzzy Delic.

The name's evolved. It's evolved quite a bit. Yeah, it evolves. Yeah.

This was, this was my image. I put, I put Justin Andrews, really small under Matt Booth. Beautiful. And he would like commented on it at first was very aggressive towards me.

It's like, you need to look closer at the poster so you can get the joke. Oh, that's great. Matt Booth and I love it. Very small.

I love it. But I put Matt Booth and guest. That would be plus one. But then everybody would be greeting Johnny at this point.

Yeah. Oh, it's very nice to meet you. Matt was in his chauffeur. Yeah.

All right. Well, I'm just, I'm just happy to be included. We're happy to have you. We wanted to include you.

I can tell you were planning on it. I don't have an ashtray. I don't have a coaster. We waited for two beers.

We did wait. But he's a right-handed. I still can't believe you waited for me. I feel honored.

Of course, man. I really do. Of course. You're a big deal.

He said we had to. He's a big deal. Yeah, he's a big deal. He's a big deal.

Very important, man. Why are you telling people like that every day? Yeah, he drove me home from Esteli to the airport. Well, that's right.

Yeah, when they just kept putting oil in the car. Yeah, pulled over by somebody. We broke down. Yeah, that's right.

Kind of nerve-wracking, not gonna lie, I'm like, this could be the end. Was Hector with us? Hector was with us. I think Hector actually kind of got under the car and assessed the whole situation.

I remember, holy shit, I forgot about that. Yeah, I wasn't, I'm not qualified for any of that. I think you and me just sat there smoking. smoking yeah yeah i'm like is there an uber in like everything everything will be fine that's usually when they get you though yeah the cartel they swoop in there comes the cartel triple a that's nice the shotgun starts showing up yeah they have triple a they would have taken my dirty laundry would have been terrible terrible i'd have taken you then that photo when you actually do podcast would be correct because it would be you as a hostage when was that Two years?

It had to be pre-COVID. Oh, long before COVID. It was like 2017? We've known each other for a long time.

Jesus Christ. Did he answer the phone calls then? Yeah, he was a little bit lower on the totem pole at that point. He hadn't fired Jack Taranio yet.

For the first time. Oh, first time. For the first time. Yeah, first or second time.

So, you know, that's why Hector was still in the car. Nice. jack did come up to me at tp and he's like um if by chance you ever buy espinosa or whatever company that i'm working for right i'm gonna get fired again i was like absolutely yeah it's totally can we record the last one we need video footage of the third when he said that eric was like you may not last that long damn i could see eric saying that and then i think jack got punched I've been enjoying, you know what I've been doing? Like a little cheddar fairy, like I'll go around it, like I went to one of Robert Calvo's business partners and I said, they congratulated me and I said, you know what, you're next.

And they said, really? I said, no. No, you're not. You guys had Jack and Hector on recently.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cause I called them and he's like, yeah, we're on the way.

You know, what's funny is we're kind of a big deal in the cigar media industry. We've had a lot of people on. Yeah. Yeah.

Since the ratings came out, we're number one. " And who's been coming here? Consistently? Yeah.

Justin. Damn. Facts. I've been several times.

It's you, Matt. You have. You have. Even before I knew this was worth a fuck.

You invested. Yeah. I was just here for the good conversation. Yeah.

We got a couple of day ones. You definitely qualify. I support. Uh-huh.

100%. It's kind of an overt ask, I think. Feeling needy to be validated in this conversation. I don't know.

Hey, you matter. Thank you. You matter. Thank you.

Okay, good. Okay, better. Do you guys like Justin and I to leave for a few minutes? No, no, no, no, no.

Okay. No, you can watch. You can watch. Oh, I can watch.

Oh, nice. You always need a cuck, bro, you know? Oh, what kind of fun is it? If nobody knows.

Yeah, exactly. Somebody's got to take pictures. I mean, we could set the record button, but that's just not enough. We need, you know.

Yeah, you need, I mean, the angles change, you know? Angles change. Yeah, dude. Someone's gonna work the microphone.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. We need to correct the boom mic. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. Cigar cuck. It's funny that you bring up Jack, because Jack actually drove up to see you at your event, the one event that you did here. He did.

Yeah. That was really nice of him. All right, Jack, come on in. And I feel like he's never let, I like to, we've been on camera one, and I feel like that he has always brought that up to you.

He has. He has. Jack was doing events in Charlotte, North Carolina last year. And he was like, hey, I'll be in Charlotte.

Yeah, I think it was. He's like, I'll be in Charlotte Friday, Saturday. And I'm like, okay, cool. Have fun.

And he's like, you're not coming? I was like, dude, that's five hours away from here. Four hours, whatever it is, four and a half hours. And he's like, oh, I'm sorry.

I only drove all the way to Deltona from Miami for your event. And I was like, shit. Dude, he's really good at the whole guilt thing. That real life.

He's a fucking pro. He makes you feel bad. He is good at that. Yeah, he knows how to play that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, and it's a super kind of passive aggressiveness. It's a skill set. Yeah.

You know, that's cool. You know, I'd do it for you, but it's fine. Did you do it? I did not.

Oh, okay. I'm immune to guilt, apparently. Oh. I do work for Estee, never mind.

See, I didn't do that one. So, when that's the highlight clip. That was probably gonna come up. I had nothing to do with that one.

All right, well, we can wrap this up. How long have we been going over there, Phil? There are two. Oh, man.

That's quick. They know what we're doing. It fades back. And that's the game.

It's just incredible. You just go for 30? That's what it is? Yeah.

I don't like the time suck that happens on these things. Oh, my God. Where they become, you know, and God bless all of you for doing what you do. I love all of you.

You know I do. But when they bleed into two hours, three hours, try breaking four. Yeah. But I've imposed some limits.

" Right, and that's where you're at. And an hour is too long. I mean, people lose interest, man. Like they've already lost, I mean, 10 minutes, they were done with us.

Yeah, so like, oh, well, we've just been doing inside jokes and stuff between the four of us, so. I mean, this is good shit, you know. So, you don't think so? Well, I've had fun.

Yeah. I mean, do we want to say one thing? Is there anything that you want to put in? Yeah, what do you want to put in?

I've got nothing to report, nothing. What about Phil? You want to throw Phil in? Phil, you want to say something, Phil?

Did you say something, Phil? You got a question? When are you ever going to have these two guys together again in the same room? I mean, don't believe it.

I mean, the megalodons of the cigar industry. When was the first time you guys met? How about that? The first time you met?

And did Justin get a picture? You know, I don't know if we got a picture. I wasn't really into the pics yet. It wasn't as necessary.

This was before Instagram and all that. I want to say, did we meet at the Seattle Cigar Festival? Is that where we met? Or did we meet in the South?

Shit. What were you doing then? I think I was with Lou Rodriguez Cigars. Oh.

Never heard of him. No. Well, there you go. I have not.

It was either. It sounds like the Roberto Duran. I think that was the first time we hung out. 20 years ago.

Very, very similar. Damn. I think it was Seattle. And was that the only year they did the Seattle Cigar Festival?

Yeah, that was the first and only. Seattle and Honduras. One and done for Cigar Festival. It had to be a fucking disaster then, right?

I mean, I don't think it was a disaster, it's just a very anti-tobacco atmosphere. Right, but the turnout was insane, though. Yeah, it was killer. Everybody was there, too.

So then why would you not do it again? That's not up to us. That's up to the cigar festival gods. They're different than the cigar gods.

Are the people still in the industry? They're in the same office building. That ran that? No, they were, you know what, I think it was a girl that used to put on like the tattoo conventions.

Yeah, yeah. And she was branching out into the-- That venue was pretty nice, too. Right by the Space Needle, man. It was cool.

That was a cool weekend. It was cool. You guys had dinner or something? We did.

We had dinner. Went out a couple nights. Did you go to the dinner with Glenn Lupe? I did.

Oh, shit. Oh, man. Bill Paley was there. He was.

Who paid? I want to know who paid. I don't recall. Did you guys split the dip?

How the fuck is that? You and I didn't pay. No. Somebody else did.

I don't remember. If Glenn Lupe did. I don't remember a lot. That would have been drinking, Matt, back then.

Oh yeah, definitely, I was off the hook. Justin misses drinking that. I'm sure. I could bring him back.

I do. For a limited engagement? I could do a limited engagement, but I need like a mobile IV, you know, I need the whole- Oh, you need some prep. Yeah, yeah, I need, you know, I need care.

You have no idea. I mean, I was fully activated. I never thought me and Matt would be at Big Smoke together, working for the same company, PCA together, We were at the DCA together, working for the same company. Right.

" That's right. " The check changes things, bro. I'm in bed. You know what I mean?

All right, I gotta get some rest. That's right. I mean, it looks good. It's all good flying your helicopter around.

Right, right. Yeah. No, I don't fly that. I'm going to fly that.

He's got a pilot. Come on. He's got a guy. He's got a guy.

Yeah, man. Come on. Solid gold. I wouldn't know.

I do trade out with a door gunner, though, because, you know, it's part of my vernacular. Right. Yeah. Back in the old days.

Yeah. Back in the day. Flashbacks. I always wanted to be a door gunner.

You know, the air wing guys get to do the door gunning. Like, they don't put machine gunners in there. No shit. Yeah, the air wing guys do.

Why is that? I don't know. They don't want us to have any fun, obviously. That's fucked up.

Well, you know, it's a missed opportunity, I guess. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Hmm. I'd go back, I'd do it again.

Right now? Not the whole thing, but I'd-- Just the gunning. And the helicopter. Yeah.

I am an air wingman, so, hmm, where is the minigun? Exactly. Yeah. All right, well, hey, we got an event to do.

We do? I suppose. One more question, one more, one more. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, Phil, go ahead. Go ahead, Phil. Justin, have you ever smoked a Postanya? I have.

Nice. TPE last year, you guys gave me like a little Rothschild? Maybe. And I think I told you that was the best cigar I smoked that week.

That's not saying much, but thanks. It was good. No, it was, and yeah, I remember. Am I correct in saying that there's a Connecticut version?

It's coming. Oh, yeah, they went to Connecticut. Very exciting, man. I don't have any.

Oh, I didn't have any. I don't, I might have one. Over, under, how many of these shows are you smoking a wrong craft? Like every show?

90%? No. I usually don't smoke during the show. We've recently moved to the engineer over there.

Does that bother you, Justin? A little bit. I would be doing stuff over here. Just seeing that band just makes me nauseous.

Oh, really? It's a little better. I don't have to see it. Don't burn your grip, bro.

I'm going to use that. They've got the best cigars in town. The good hand's a left hand. Sorry to tell you.

Oh, you're a lefty. No, no, I'm a right-handed. Okay. Oh, that's the more caring.

Yeah, yeah. The softer one that doesn't get used. Understood. It depends upon what time of the day, because, you know, I usually start with the EC, the temperance, so, and then I gravitate into, usually a post-time.

I mean, you can smoke through the whole portfolio, that's what's… It's usually what happens. That's great. Then I usually have a couple of Neanderthals at the end of the day. What do they have, like, three lines, four lines?

Three lines, no, they got the Intemperance EC, the BA, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Aquitaine, the Cro-Magnon, the Neanderthal, you want to get into Wanderlust, I mean, you know, you tell me, buddy. I just want to smoke your Connecticut, bro. Me too. Yeah.

Me too. I bet it's good. You know what? I have original bands.

I created this cigar eight years ago. Okay. For the birth of my second kid. Okay.

Yeah. So I actually have those still. So I'll give you those. I mean, the band is going to make it taste different though.

You know that. It does. And we all know that. It's actually kind of like Miami Vice-y.

Oh, tight. Yeah. Because it was, you know, boy or girl. Didn't know.

And I wanted to name him Apollo. Okay. Which got shut down. And Danny was for the girl.

It was a girl. So the rule was, and my wife will argue otherwise, but the rule was that if it, I said, you know, everybody told her it was going to be a girl. So she thought this was a solid lock bet. Right.

I said, okay, fine. If it's a girl, you can pick the name. If it's a boy, I pick the name. So then I made the cigar.

It said Apollo Danny. And then it wound up being a boy, and I had to go back to the drawing board. Understood. And then we named him Justice.

Almost Justin. I love that name, bro. That's a good name. Justo.

It's fantastic. It's a lot better. It's one of the best names. Justice Titan is his middle name.

That's dope. That's dope. One of the security guys in Honduras was Justo. Really?

He was a Contra. Well, before. He was rad. He converted.

I really enjoyed him. So, yeah, he's, and actually the Corona Gorda that's coming out will say justice. Now, when you wish your kids happy birthday on Facebook, do you cut them out of the picture like you do your wife? I don't wish them happy birthday.

Nah. But, but, um, if I did, yes, I would. That's still one of the funniest things I see. Yeah, I stole that from, uh, Ryan Reynolds or some shit.

Well, you know, like that is fantastic. And I love the people that correct me on it. " I'm like, "Oh, fuck, I did? " Those are the same people that call you and tell your websites down.

Those are the, those are the ones. Nice. Same people. And they won't order.

Those are the same people that complain about my Gravy Pot. Yeah, yeah. Gravy Pot. It was a great Gravy Pot.

Mother's Soup. Mother's Soup. What if you made it Mother's Soup next year? Oh, yes.

For him. I mean, I can be bought cheaper than him. Why did you terminate? Well, to be honest, it was way more successful than I thought.

It was extremely successful. I mean, a redneck from North Carolina trying to create an Italian-themed cigar brand. Dude. Just the name.

So customers liked it, you guys liked it, factory hated it, sales reps hated it, because all the packs, and so we're just taking a year off, we're fine-tuning it, and then we're gonna come back with a whole new series based off of a different ethnicity, I'm just saying, who knows I can offend. Monday tomatoes or some shit? Mother soup, that's what you use. Mother soup.

I like that one. And a crock pot. Yeah, and a crock pot. Yeah, change the pot, it looks like a crock pot.

I feel like I need to be in the process analysis of lead optimization meeting because the 10 pack is the reason why they sold so well. Correct, correct. And the value. I mean, you know, inflation, cost of tobacco, labor.

You could optimize the shit out of some sort. There's no cost of tobacco raising on that fucking cigar, without question. There's no fucking Lajero, Connecticut, Broadleaf wrapper on that fucking cigar. That's just not happening.

If you talk to AJ. Thanks. My friend. My friend.

Yeah. This is. It's expensive. Yeah.

But he's got like the three big gold chains, right? He does. Yeah, I saw those. And I flicked those every time he tells me.

AJ's got three chains? Oh, yeah. He's got three chains now? AJ's got three chains.

He's got a big. Damn, man. Yeah. Like it's one helicopter.

AJ, why you didn't call me? What the fuck? Yeah, that's kind of hurtful. You know, I've got a bone to pick with you.

Pick it. Oh, here we go. Pick it. I was with AJ, what, three weeks ago.

Okay. I miss AJ. And as we walked into the factory, I'm looking at all these cigars he's making for everybody. You know, the list is long.

Yeah. Long. Super busy. Long, but distinguished.

I said, "Abdel, I've been making cigars with you longer than anyone. " And then, I said, so out of everybody who makes cigars for, that you make cigars for, Matt Booth, Robert Caldwell, Nick Manilo, me, who's your favorite? And he goes, uh-huh, you know, my broken Spanish, his broken English, things aren't good. I was like, Matt Booth, me, Matt Booth, Robert Caldwell, you know.

- Nick Manilo. - Nick, uh, listen, he goes, I like Matt. - My man. Didn't say yes or no, didn't play with the orders.

" I'm fucking delightful, man. I feel like you have a better marketing department than Justin does. We need to make this painting happen of you and AJ. I would love that.

And send it as a gift. Only on Velvet. Yeah. We execute that like a motherfucker.

He'd put it up, apparently. Amazing. Amazing. I was like, "Really?

" You like the red-headed stepchild of the screen? I do. Absolutely. As long as he hangs in the camera.

No respect. You take a lot of abuse. I do. And you don't even answer my calls, you son of a bitch.

He does take a bit. He takes a thrashing. He does. Oh, Matt's seen it firsthand.

I've seen it. I've seen it, man. Very durable. I love you, Justin.

If you think it's bad outside the office, you should see what it's like. I'm going to Goodwill hunting the fuck out of you, dude. It's not your fault, Justin. I feel the load.

It's not your fault. I feel the load. It's not your fault. It's not your fault.

So. This is now 40 minutes of your listeners' lives. They'll never get back. Hey, we only have one hour, because that's when Matt gets up and walks out.

That's right, and he's done. I dragged his one hour. Drop the mic. Let you know.

All right, well, hey, let's go. We go sell cigars. We go go. It's nice.

Yeah. What do you think? I mean, you feel good? You're happy?

Happy birthday. Oh, thank you, Matt. Is it really your birthday? No.

No, but he missed it. No, no, he missed it. He missed it. And I'm like, and it wasn't a big deal, but I figured I'd fuck with him.

I said, you missed my birthday. That's fucked up. So now he says this to me all the time. And then he did a Guy Fieri private jet picture with him and Guy on Guy's birthday.

It's happy birthday, she dies here, massage your balls, the whole fucking thing, and so I take it and I'm like, oh, oh, okay, all right, good to know where I stand, you know, no private jet, no picture, apparently. Have you ever been invited to his house? No, no, not a single time. Ironically, meaning?

Damn. 15 years I've known the guy. You're both welcome at any time. " I was like, you know, that's a good question, Matt.

I feel like we're unpacking a lot here with Justin. Keep going. Keep going Justin. How else do you feel?

Here's what we do. We fly to Washington. You're both very welcome. Okay.

We Airbnb the closest house to Matt. Yes. And we just kind of hang out in like bathrobes or some shit just so he can see us, but we don't have time for him. We're busy.

We'll do it. Yeah. We'll bring diesel pots. Sunday gravy.

Okay. We'll bust out a bar. So you can have your drinks. I know you need to have your drinks.

I want to make sure he needs his medicine. You know? It's like Tropic Thunder. Oh no, my vitamin!

Alright, this is the third time. Let's wrap this up. Okay, we gotta go. Thank you so much for everybody for listening and watching.

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Show Notes

Recap of the weekend at Abes Great Smoke...some industry news...a Facebook live website update and a special segment with Matt Both and an executive from STG.