Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 283 The Flu
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You can put, yeah, it's nice.
Yeah, you can do a single garage
or a double thingy.
It's nice.
How?
How's your rack above doing?
Single or a double?
It's fantastic.
Nice.
Got everything stored away?
Are you still using it?
Well, it's kind of always there.
Yeah, well, yeah, but I mean
like, have you taken shit down
and not put it back up or?
Said.
I'm not gonna put stuff up there
anymore.
Like, no, he's saying, have you
taken stuff off the rack and
just left it in the floor,
didn't put it back up?
No, no, I haven't.
Nice.
So you utilize it.
Yep.
Nice.
Yep.
Is it full?
Yeah, yeah, it needs a shoe
above, shoe rack above.
Yeah.
I mean, there's a whole
marketing thing he can do.
I mean a sex ring above.
Six weeks below a.
Sex ring below.
Right.
Yeah.
Hang it from the rack above with
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There you go.
That'd be perfect.
Yeah.
Nice.
So Mikey's under the weather
today.
I am under the.
We're a day late.
We apologize cuz of the holiday
and we almost didn't do today
cuz Mikey is ill but.
Pretty sure I have the flu.
But he oh good, now we all have
the flu, he rallied.
And.
Here, I cloroxed your mouthpiece
thing there for you.
Well, yeah, but I'll hit it
again after Did.
Did anybody message you BDP?
About what?
About us being the daylight.
No, no.
Well, it's still within the
window.
I mean, it's not that late in
the day now so.
Yeah, it's still memorial.
It was memorial.
It was Memorial Day, so there's
probably expecting.
If you get any.
They probably expecting late.
No, not yet.
Hate mail?
Skip is not called specifically.
But he's got a new.
Puppy getting a dog.
I told you was getting a pup.
What do you mean You told me we
talked.
About it, A couple of weeks ago
I said I saw something where
he's getting a puppy.
You go, no, he doesn't.
He has the monkeys.
I don't know if that's how that
went down, I think.
That's how it went.
I don't think so.
I think that we.
We're in the tapes.
I'll go back and.
Find We've been rallying for a
dog here for a minute.
Yes.
Yeah, I expected a different
type of dog though.
I mean, it's a pretty dog, I
thought.
It was gonna be something more
protection wise.
Protection.
Either they how.
Yeah, but we're not gonna like
we're they gonna bite you Angle
who's gonna what does he need to
be protected from He's in the
middle of the jungle like.
That's why he's the middle of
the Sandinistan rebels.
That's what the guns are for.
Does he have those?
Are they allowed to happen?
Sure, I bet he does.
I never think about that.
Maybe a security guard?
Does he have a Security Act?
I don't know.
That would be great.
Because I'm gonna be a security
guard for the summer.
Wow.
You walk around the shotgun.
Sure.
We gotta speak Spanish.
No, I don't.
Yeah.
No Alto.
Alto Alto.
That's it.
Yeah, gun.
I think gun is universal.
If I pointed yo Alto, I think
they'll get the idea.
Oh, OK.
Celencia.
Quadau.
What's Quadau?
Watch out like caution, you
know.
You ever see that slipper balls
on?
Diet Day.
Did you see that the down to her
guys are trying to get Caleb to
eat like this?
Really.
I saw a spicy chip or whatever.
Yes, I voted today.
Did you?
I didn't know where the vote
was.
I voted against it.
Oh, you voted that he will not
do it.
Yes.
Oh, I voted.
He will do it.
It was he will do it.
He won't do it, or he will
really do it.
Or something like that.
I said he won't do it.
I said no, it's not fair.
It's not fair to him.
Oh, I thought he wanted to.
I thought he volunteered or
something.
I don't.
I don't understand the vote.
I don't know.
I don't.
Understand what the vote is.
I'd like to start over.
I understand the vote.
Fill Your mask looks very
uncomfortable.
It looks like it just rides up
on you.
Yeah, it's super uncomfortable.
That should be the one we use
all the time, yeah?
This is the permanent.
One this is the permanent one.
For now on, you guys should vote
Fill no Mask or Fill mask.
They can vote fill what kind of
mask?
Ooh yeah, we could put like a
display of like 3 different.
Sure, we could do.
Yeah.
I had them pick.
And then have them.
We'll do that.
We'll do like, the chip thing.
Yeah, sure.
Like the chip thing?
What is your favorite Ninja
Turtle color mask?
How about that?
I didn't.
It's like a Lone Ranger mask.
Yeah, I like those.
But it's fabric.
I'm cool with that.
Because I looks like it's
fucking.
I know you can't even see this
one eye, and I think it's.
Like, what hurts?
It hurts so.
Bad.
I got sick.
So what'd you do over the
weekend?
Mike even says get.
That just Sunday, or did it
progress through the weekend?
No, it really kind of hit me
yesterday.
Anybody else sick at the house?
Yeah, they everybody was a
little under the.
Weather you're not normally the
1st.
And it finally caught me.
Brittany still going strong, I
was going to have.
Everybody over.
I invited everybody for Memorial
Day, so I had like 75,000
burgers I got, you know.
All these hot dogs.
I got a potato salad, no pie.
Britney is very upset about the
coleslaw.
She's like, what are we going to
do with this gigantic tray of
coleslaw?
You know, I was like, I'm not
bringing to the shop, I.
Was gonna say bringing air.
That'll eat it.
No, they won't.
Kiana will.
No, they fucking won't.
Ali Coleslaw.
You'll eat the coleslaw.
I like coleslaw.
I heard there was an event
tonight.
It's delicious coleslaw.
Yeah, but this will post in time
for your thing too.
Yeah.
So what's the event, Phil?
We love coleslaw.
What else happened this weekend?
I mean, we had a great event at
the shop on, Yeah.
I went really well it.
Was a good event, Corona Gordo's
The Post Anya's do you think?
It was fantastic question for
you, yeah.
Could there have been anything
different?
No, So it was perfect.
I think it went great.
I think it was fantastic.
It was great to see the support
and the love from all of our
customers.
A lot of people say, alright,
I'll take this, You know, there
was no, nobody was messing
around.
You know, there's a lot of
people you guys haven't seen a
little bit.
Some people, yeah.
It was nice to see some old
faces, yeah.
Yeah, that was very nice.
Smoked a lot of a lot of Corona
gornas.
Yeah, and what happened
Saturday?
Didn't you come?
You swing by the house on
Saturday.
I did.
Well, boots did.
Yeah, Boots did.
And then I don't know what
happened Sunday.
What happened Sunday you were?
I didn't die yet.
Sunday's my party oh.
You said Sunday's when you
started to get sick.
The party was Monday, No.
It was supposed to be.
I wasn't, you know, I don't know
what we did on Sunday.
I don't fucking know.
Who knows?
Nobody's gonna know.
I think that we just kind of
stayed home this whole weekend,
to be honest, because all the
kids were sick and stuff and we
wanted to get them to all and
get better, right?
That whole thing.
I saw the Ant Man movie, then
the Ant Man movie.
Quantum tell my mom home, Yeah.
How's that?
I'm not familiar with Ant Man,
so I don't know how this fit
into the storyline thing.
Kane was somebody from the
comics, I guess.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I heard this one
wasn't like as good.
You know, the reviewers or
whatever you wanna call them.
There's a lot of moving critics,
apparently.
Well, his big superpowers say he
can get big.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's really about it.
He didn't control any ants.
No, no, you thought it could be,
you know, You think that Ant man
need you know.
Well, the the.
The Ant grandfather was there.
Yes.
Send the ants.
All the answers.
Did it right well.
In the quantum realm.
They had to suck the ants in
with him.
Oh really?
Yeah, they got sucked in.
So they were ants.
There were ants, but the old man
controlled the ants.
Oh, there was.
So there was a guy, and he would
I.
Had.
And he wasn't Ant Man, was he?
No, the the guy who invented the
Ant, the guy who invented the
pin particles.
Oh yeah, I don't know what the
fuck you're talking about, bro.
I've never.
You never seen any of the Amen
movies?
No, not really.
Oh, he did the particles.
Pin particles and things that
shrink them and make them big.
So the famous actor.
Crap, I can't think of his name.
The pin particles.
I don't know.
He's married to Catherine Zeta
Jones.
Well.
Antonio Meders No, no, it's.
George Clooney.
Nope.
Yeah, that's it, Michael Douglas
is.
Nope.
Not the other one loves.
It's not important.
But that good, Michael.
Yeah.
I know it was it was a Douglas,
but I was thinking Robert
Redford and I'm like, that is
not the right name.
It's Robert Redford.
You see, the Heat whooped that
ass.
That's right, baby.
I saw it all over her Facebook.
I didn't watch it.
I have no idea.
I just thought it was hot
somewhere.
It was not.
He will skip.
Everybody like, oh, it's hot.
No, it's the heat.
What are you doing?
What?
Are you doing Phil, Phil.
His name is Hank.
In the movie.
Yes, hang, but they call him Pop
and Grandpa.
So yeah, right.
And he controls the ants.
Right.
He brought all the ants at the
end and say to everybody.
Nice.
I was trying to help out.
Help out BDP over there.
So yeah, I mean, that's all in.
The movie too, but I don't
remember what.
I was, yeah.
I saw some shit.
You know, I watched you people
on Netflix.
Wow.
So that's a horrible.
I finally, you know, I couldn't
turn on Robby Doyle's Netflix
anymore.
Like it got mad at me.
It's like hey.
Oh, did it ask you for the
location?
See, I have my sons and it did
too, so I just skipped it.
But then it came back later, it
worked.
Oh, really?
I'm not.
He didn't want to turn it.
On anymore.
There's too much.
Porn.
I was like, I was like, you know
what?
Porn.
Whatever.
I'll just.
I'll just go get my.
I'm gonna make my son pay the
799 for me to keep it's.
Just gonna come out.
And you know, you kind of owe
me, you know, all those trips
back.
And forth, this guy.
This guy on you?
This is this is for dad now, so
799.
So get.
So, yeah.
So I watched the show, called
You People.
And it had Eddie Murphy in it.
Oh, nice.
And I don't know this guy.
I can't think of that.
He's in super bad.
The guy with the curly hair.
Yeah, Galifianakis.
No.
No, the guy.
Not Wall Street, but the the
crap.
I can't think.
Of it.
You know what?
Here's here's the fucking Here's
this.
Just Jonah Hill.
Jonah Hill.
Jonah Hill, where he dates the
black girl.
Yeah.
Oh, I started watching that and
that guy.
Could, yeah, let me just surmise
that at this point.
I think that every type of
fucking Netflix movie or show
that I've really watched that's
really kind of devoted solely
towards Netflix, yeah, has been
fucking disappointing.
I can't think of 1 Mother.
Yeah, I mean, it was
disappointing though, but it
was, I was like.
Yeah, right.
It was.
It was a Netflix.
Movie The Gray Man.
That was pretty good.
I don't watch that.
I watched.
What's the one with the the Thor
guy?
Chris Hemsworth It's called like
the extraction or something like
that.
Oh, the the is a new one.
Is that on Netflix?
That's two.
But Netflix was was Extraction
1.
Right.
And they're gonna come out with
two, right?
Yeah, that was a good one on
that.
I feel like it's kind of, you
know, my A.
Lot of them show up on minor
movies from India.
Really.
What's going on in your house?
I don't know.
Wrong location.
I think I've watched all the
Movies Now.
They're going well.
Send him some other stuff
because there's something.
I watched it when you talked
about where the people were all
captured.
They had to decide who died.
Were you talking about that
couple months ago?
Yeah, but I can't remember the
name of it now.
But it's dubbed in.
It's in Spanish.
The house, it's it was
definitely me.
Well, the people are speaking
English, but their mouths are
moving Spanish and every time
they show a word or something,
it's in Spanish.
Oh, maybe.
Because normally I can't watch
dub movies, but since you had
talked about it, I sort of got
sucked in and I watched it and
then I'm like, I'm a bitch.
You can live with watches for
two hours.
I watched.
I watched the covenant.
Covenant.
Covenant.
That was great movie.
Was that built solely for
Netflix?
No, it wasn't.
That's my point.
It was on prime.
Yeah, you sort of leery when you
see a little in in the corner,
you're like, yeah, I don't know
it.
Was in the fan.
Of 6050 Chance.
What about the murder mystery?
You're just like such a fucking
out of Stanley fanboy, bro.
Huge.
Those murder mystery wasn't
stupid, what with Jennifer
Aniston.
Yeah, but great stupid does.
So that's my point, man.
I'll be Halloween.
You know, at least HBO.
Max they have.
They released now.
Max, it's now Max.
Yeah, there's some new show on
there called.
Was it Succession?
That's an old one.
That's been on.
For a while.
Season five or something?
This final series season is this
one.
I heard good things.
I watched the first episode.
It wasn't.
It was like.
Kind of dry.
I got three seasons in and I'm
like, it's the same thing over
and over again.
He pisses off his kids, His kids
hate him and he takes all the
money.
It's like a male Kardashian
store.
Yeah, kinda.
That's back on Hulu.
Terrible show.
My wife watches.
It's the only thing I won't
watch with her.
It's not like a bunch of
curmudgeonial fucks today.
OK, great.
I hate the Indian.
People, I'm beckon, beckon,
beckon get.
Me, where I look.
Alright, well let's get.
We went dress shopping on
Saturday.
Oh, did you?
Adrian got her mother's dress
for Tanner's wedding.
Nice.
Yeah, that was an exciting day.
I probably need to get a suit.
What do I go for?
A suit, I told the Warehouse.
Yeah, Men's Wearhouse.
Yeah, what?
Do you need a suit for Thing?
Oh yeah, yeah.
So yeah, just go to Men's
Wearhouse.
Ask him for the Michael Strahan
edition.
We'll drop 200 on a fucking
suit.
I'm trying.
To tell you probably more names
of Michael Strahan.
I'm going in for my casual
chick.
Yeah, casual chick.
Casual chick?
That's right.
If you say that, they know me.
Michael Straight.
And we went, we went to a party.
Our party didn't get cancelled
on Monday.
Nobody died in no wait.
I was sick, nobody sick, nobody
died.
I was like, oh God.
Smoked a bunch of cigars, drank
a bunch of beer, ate some food,
and this.
Is day two No.
Scenario?
Oh, I think it's just gonna
quit.
All right, That's, you know, I
don't fucking need it anymore.
Oh, so we never really eat?
Something more samples on his
desk.
I haven't really eaten.
I think gonna give up food as
well.
I'm just giving us.
Every The whole new me.
Oh yeah, for you.
It's crazy.
Very excited.
New dog too or?
New dog.
I get another dog.
I like my dogs.
Do your dogs like jump up in the
bed?
No, my dogs are not allowed on
the bed.
Lay around with.
Fuck that.
Yeah, my dogs are not allowed on
the bed either.
The dog.
So my dog, Sleepless.
I don't understand, like people
that put the the dogs in cages
and then they put like fucking
blankets and shit down.
That doesn't make sense to me.
There's a.
Blanket my dogs the.
Fucking dog.
Dog goes in the cage.
Doesn't need the fucking
blanket.
It needs a blanket.
Ridiculous.
It lays on the blanket.
No it doesn't.
Adrian Owens Well, buy a
cushion.
I'm like well that's stupid.
That's gonna destroy.
The cushion.
Yeah, first time in there.
I'm like, we'll come back and
clean this up, I guess.
No, no, it'll be fine.
Nope.
Come back.
It explodes everywhere.
One of them was pulled.
Part of the other.
One through the other gate,
they're over through.
This one.
We don't even know who's cushion
is who's at this point.
That little Roddy he he pushes
his in the back and sits
underground anyway.
I was like I don't know why you
put this in here put this.
In here just takes up room.
I'm gonna poop on it later.
I'm old, I can't hold it.
Fantastic.
What's that green thing you're
drinking?
This is prime.
So what's his name?
Drink.
That the new sports drink of
choice.
It's like a hydration drink or
whatever.
The kids are all about it cuz
like Logan, Paul talks it, talks
it up or whatever.
I like it.
It's pretty good, yeah.
It's a big bottle.
Yeah, they're not bad.
Yeah, they're like Gatorade, but
more potent.
Less tasting.
Less calories.
Yeah, less calories.
It's only got 20.
There's no sugar, right?
Yeah, 0 sugar.
No sugar.
What?
Are the calories from I?
Don't know the Bca's.
The BCA.
'S.
Oh.
This shows, this shows, just
terribly exciting today.
Hey, listen, we're fucking here,
OK?
This is like, this is Michael
Jordan's flu game, all right?
We showed up, OK?
We didn't call out.
Let's give me, give me Phil's
fun fact.
Get some news.
And we're not hitting page the
time today.
I promise you all.
Right ladies.
Gentleman's Diver Phil's Fun
Fact.
Hello Peoples, the first legal
slave.
Owner Hello Hello.
I already don't like where this
is going.
Yeah, me either.
No.
No, no.
The first legal slave owner in
American history was a black
tobacco farmer named Anthony
Johnson.
That's a little legit fact.
It is.
It's true.
It was just short and sweet.
I thought it was interesting
that the original slave owner
was a black man.
It's interesting.
And he owned a tobacco farm, so
it was connected to cigars.
And apparently he was.
He was mean to his slaves too.
Really.
Yep.
Was your name Anthony Johnson
Mr. Bracking the Beginning
Thing?
Nope.
Nope.
All right.
The news, I guess, though.
Oh.
Rifle along.
Oh.
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Too Cohiba Siglo de Oro Pricing
tops $300.00 per cigar in Hong
Kong 300.
This is The News is all over
Facebook all weekend.
Late last month, the new Cohiba
Siglo de Oro began shipping to
stores in Asia.
In Hong Kong, each cigar will
cost you more than $300.00 per
cigar.
Nice The Kahibo Kahibo Kahiba
Siglo de Oro celebrates the
Chinese New Year and symbol
associated with the Zodiac
calendar, which is a rabbit.
As for the cigar, it measures a
4 1/2 by 54, a new size known as
What size is it?
Ex.
IT Exitos.
Exquisitos.
No, there's no Q Exitos.
But then Cuban naming system
when does cigar?
Yeah, give me the letters.
EXI T0S 0S.
There's two I Os's.
Yes.
That's the dumbest shit I've
heard of my life Exidos.
Exidos OS.
It means 0 zos.
That's a real word.
Yeah, it means successful.
Known as he successful which?
Yeah, human name $300.00 a
stick.
Sounds pretty fucking
successful.
Let's see what it sounds like.
Exitosos.
Exitososos something.
Flashed up on the screen with
the cameras.
I don't.
It just says limited system
resources.
What that means?
Oh, it's gone.
Oh, good.
We're good.
When the cigar was announced in
January, pricing was not
announced, Pacific Cigar
Company, the Cuban cigar
distributor for most of Asia,
told us Cigar Hustler podcast at
the price in Hong Kong is set at
Hong Kong 2388, or 3/04/85 per
cigar in U.S. dollars.
The price in Hong Kong is more
important than it might seem.
Last year, Hermanos implemented
a global pricing standard, a
system which pricing for Cuban
cigars around the world supposed
to be based on the prices in
Hong Kong.
The new price policy isn't
exact, but the 300 price point
is likely a decent guide for
what consumers should expect to
pay on the other markets where
there are very few cigars that
cost $300.00.
This is the second new Cohiba in
12 months to winter through the
pricing stratosphere.
Around that time last year, the
Cohiba 55 Adversario debuted at
Lebanon with a price tag of
$300.00 per cigar. $300 Selling
the cigar for $300.00 is the
most gangster shit I've ever
seen in my life.
It'll sell in Hong Kong.
I know.
Somebody I'll buy.
Symbols get more than one more
than one person.
More than one person, Yes.
And they'll always sit there.
Right now you have $300.
Do you know who?
I am don't know who I am.
Look at this.
Is a 300.
Don't.
Touch it, don't light it.
I only have the 1:00 and.
It's plugged.
And it's plugged.
Oh my God, that'd be.
That'd be horrible.
Or it unravels or something.
To be honest, bro, most cigar
consumers, they have no fucking
idea.
They don't fucking know.
They don't know if it's plugging
or not anyways.
No, it's true.
This one is so good.
It's got a heavy draw.
It's.
Delicious.
They can hardly suck on this
thing.
Makes it, you know.
Must be a lot of tobacco.
Yeah, it does have a woody.
That was one blow.
You have to fucking suck the
shit.
Out of it.
It's $300.
Why does he look like the little
fucking kid from home alone when
he fucking hits the volume?
Big Sky releases Blackfoot at
PCA 2023, a new release from Big
Sky Cigar Companies named after
a famous ribbon trout stream in
Montana.
Blackfoot is a 6 by 54 Toro
Grande made of a Mexican San
Andreas rapper covered a binder
and filler blend grown in the
Dominican Republic to cigars.
We'll have an MSRP of $15 and
won't be packaged in a 20 pound
bucks.
Casa Magna Anniversario debuted
with the PCA is debuting at the
PCA 2023.
Celebrate the 15th anniversary
of Casa Magna.
One of his most notable cigars
of Quisada is releasing a new
limited edition aptly called
Casa Magna 15 Anniversario.
The Casa Magna 15 Anniversario
we offered in a single six way
video or Toro exercise with a
Ecuadorian Habano 2000 rapper
over Nicaragua binder and
fillers from Nicaragua.
Like the original Casa Magna
Blend which is made in Placencia
Family, Nicaragua, this limited
edition will be made.
At Quisada Tobacco de
Exportation factory in the
Dominican Republic, MSRP said at
$15 per cigar and Productions
limited 3500 boxes of 15 cigars,
500 boxes will head to Europe.
Well, that's exciting.
I'm doing all the PCA
announcements together.
I see that.
Yes, Stallone Mustang did if you
use the PCA 2023.
Stallone Mustang.
Yes, it's not Sylvester Stall.
Oh yeah, it's about horses.
Yeah, there's horses on it.
Stolen Cigars has announced a
new line called Mustang.
They'll make its debut at the
2023 Premium Cigar Association
Convention, a trade show in
July, or PCA, as you heard in
the other stories.
I don't know why they chose to
write all on this one.
The Salon Mustang comes in two
sizes, each size getting its own
rapper.
The Mustang Rothschild which
measured the 4 1/2 by 50 maybe
uses Ecuador and Sumatra, a
squirrel rapper, while the short
Torah which measures 5 1/2 by 50
just an inch different.
Uses a natural equator and
cimata wrapper.
Both cigars use two binder
leaves, one coming from
Nicaragua, the other from
Brazil, where the filler uses
tobacco from Nicaragua, Condega,
Esta Lee, and Halapa regions.
Cigars are made at the Las
Villas cigar factory in
Nicaragua.
Tony Barrios, owner and blender
still own cigars.
Calls both blends medium
strength, though the noted there
are some nuanced differences
between the two.
He said the short Toro offers
flavors of nutmeg, brown sugar,
hints of cinnamon, and
underlying combinations of cream
and baking spices.
It's like a brownie the rotch
out.
Meanwhile, baking spices, cocoa
and light pepper on top of other
flavors due to the Escura
wrapper.
Price is 545 for each cigar or
549 for the Rothschild.
I'm sorry 5:45 for the
Rothschild, 599 for the $0.50,
more for the inch.
Both sides are sold in bundles
25.
Not $300.
No.
Both retailers will have the
option of getting a wooden
display tray that holds fifty in
size.
Same tobacco.
Not the same price.
Different tobacco.
Have a question?
Yes.
Do either one of.
You get excited when you start
hearing something tasting like a
brownie, like, man, I really
need to smoke.
But no, I don't get that stuff.
I don't.
Yeah.
Sorry, Skip, Martin says.
It tastes like tobacco.
Right.
Yeah, And now that I've quit
smoking.
Now that he's quit.
I'm not even excited.
New things ahead of you.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, I'm gonna quit upstairs
too.
Oh.
Wow, what?
Are you gonna do with you?
Like what?
The fuck are we gonna hang out?
I don't know.
I'm excited.
I guess I'll be in this little
room.
Can still come and do the
podcast on Monday.
OK, you're quite the guy.
EP Carrillo announces Pledge of
Allegiance.
Oh, that's a new cigar than I
actually do in the Pledge of.
For its newest limited edition
EP Carrillo is leaning on a
patriotic theme that gets its
names from two of its company's
existing lines.
The cigar is called the EP
Carrillio Pledge of Allegiance,
2023.
It's a 6 by 54 Toro that uses a
Connecticut broadleaf rapper and
Ecuadorian grown Connecticut
seed binder and fillers from the
Dominican Republic, Nicaragua
and the United States.
This is the first time the
company is using two American
grown Tobaccoes as part of the
filler in a man.
Jesus.
It's.
A Pledge of Allegiance.
I had to put American Tobacco in
it.
Yeah, but they did.
Pricing said at $20 per cigar
and production limited to 1776
boxes.
Ah, interesting to get that.
7710 cigars.
According to Liberty Lissette
Perez, Carrillo, cigars expected
to be released ahead of July 4th
holiday.
Beyond the patriotic tie in the
cigar combination names to
existing lines of cigars, the
Pledge and the Allegiance, yeah.
Oh.
Salim Hanoi, the one of our
Chief Operating Officer
Piccirlo, is credited with the
idea for the name.
When he originally said the
name, we thought it was stupid
and fired him immediately.
After consideration, we decided
it was a good idea.
So now our Nurse Air Nurse Toe.
Air Nurse Toe.
I can't say the name Ernesto.
Thank you.
Ernesto is taking credit for the
cigar.
So the guy got fired.
Yes, he made the day they said
formally with, so I assume he
got fired.
Wow.
Know we should call it the
president?
Religions.
That's stupid.
You're fired.
And then they went with it.
That's a good idea as my as just
say it was me.
After removing.
Him after removing him we.
Had a deal with that guy was
who's the fucking honor?
I think it's a terrible.
It doesn't sound like a good
name and you can't have it.
Red, white and blue band and
stuff. 1776 boxes.
Yeah, that's gotta stay face
it'd.
Be crazy It'd be.
Super.
My Dick.
It'd be crazy if it wasn't red,
white and blue.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, I had like.
A Russian flag on it.
Hey, we're gonna call this a
Pledge of Allegiance.
We're making 1776 boxes and it
has American Tobacco, but we're
gonna make that shit fucking
purple.
Black.
The fucking Green.
And it'll just snap.
It'll just put pop right in
front of.
Everybody right.
Rob Granger leaves Bovita.
Oh.
Saw that?
I saw that.
I saw that.
Rob Granger The Face of Where?
He's going.
Let's read the story.
OK, let's read.
Let's read further.
Bob Granger, the face of Those
Box Press podcast, is leaving
the company.
Today, May 24th, marks Granger's
last day, So last day the
company after more than seven
years, Granger told Cigars the
podcast that he has informed.
He was informed that his
position that Bovitas, marketing
content manager for tobacco, was
eliminated.
Oh, they shit can't.
Be fueling the growth.
Wow.
They fueled the growth.
Seven years of dedicated service
to Bovita Ain't guy, see?
That's what I'm saying.
It's just best I cutting around
at this point.
I'm fucking.
Done.
You know what I mean, I'm
fucking walking away.
You're leaving?
Yep.
Who's gonna fire you?
No, I'm your brother.
I'm just gonna quit.
Oh.
Yeah.
You can't quit.
Well, you can't upstairs I.
Can fucking quit what?
Are you gonna do?
OK, if I'm gonna vote on Mikey
quitting.
He started his customer service
department before transition to
sales and later to marketing
when he became the head of
Boveta's Box Press podcast.
They still have several episodes
in the can, so they're gonna
release those and then he'll
disappear.
Where's he going?
They're not sure what's gonna
happen to the.
He doesn't say.
So he was the face.
Yes, yeah, he's that slender,
dark haired fellow with the
beard.
I'm pretty sure I have his
number.
He won't call.
Him.
Yes, please.
He doesn't.
He won't remember.
Me though, that's OK.
Tell him you just quit too and
you wanna talk to him.
Need to understand something.
Were the changes in my career by
unwavering loyalty above over
and confidence in their humidity
control systems?
That's fat.
It remains steadfast at
Grainger, my first name Grainger
GAGNER.
But it remains this the sale
joy, the sales sole choice,
assuring that the perfect
conditions for my Cherish
cigars.
That's great so.
Nobody they haven't announced
anybody replacing.
They don't even know if they're
gonna keep doing the podcast.
Wow, he's gone.
Bovada says it still has some
previously filmed but unreleased
episodes of Box Press that will
be released in the future,
meaning that for now, the
podcast will continue.
They just had that really nice
setup at the trade show.
Yeah, he did good.
Cameras way better cameras.
Yeah, way better cameras and I
just have more people, better
contents where got the idea for
all the cameras cuz they they
were the first ones I saw that
did the multiple cameras, yeah.
And here we are.
And here we are still here.
Yeah, we.
And he's gone.
Yeah, so now we say we invented
multiple.
We are #1 and.
We were the first one that
started.
Make multiple cameras, make them
switch, make them switch.
All multiple cameras same.
Multiple cameras, Multiple
cameras.
And back to the three multiple
cameras that was us I had.
To put my head down.
I tripped in a battle.
We have a Florida story.
OK.
This was sent to me by Steve
from us there.
But I've seen it all over social
media.
V2 or V2OK.
Yeah, No, not the other one.
Not the other.
One Oh yeah, trip to the
bathroom with the Florida man
without an arm.
What do you call him, V2?
Because we had the other Steve
before.
The second was the first one.
Hang 10 was the first one.
Oh, I like the name Hang 10:00.
Nice.
I.
Tripped in the bathroom with the
Florida man without an arm on
Saturday night.
Jordan Riviera, 23, was at the
Bendido's Bar in Port Charlotte,
FL, late Saturday night.
Deterred by the long line to the
bathroom, Riviera told Cigars
Was podcast that he decided to
venture to a nearby pond
instead.
I just saw the lake just going
over there and take a little pee
or whatever, he said.
Something happened where I
either tripped and ended up in
the water.
It was literally the last thing
I remember.
Unfortunately, the pond near
where we ever fell was also
inhabited, inhabited by a 10
foot alligator, according to
Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission.
Riviera does not recall the next
series of events that brought
him to a local hospital, but he
was missing his right arm when
he woke up FWG officials as the
first responders from Charlotte
County Sheriff's Office and EMS
responded to a report early
Sunday morning of a man
suffering significant injuries
after being bitten by an
alligator, according to the FWC.
Those gay, those Gators, I
didn't truly understand them
until I woke up in the hospital
and said, oh, Gator got your
arm, Riviera said.
Gator, don't play.
Riviera's mother credited
bystanders for saving his son's
life, noting his body near the
pond and rushing to assist.
I call them angels.
They were there to save his
life, Teresa Rivera told WZVN.
The chances of someone being
there with a tourniquet to me is
a miracle.
That he's here.
How old is this guy?
23 I've seen the video interview
too.
The guy's an idiot, yeah.
He woke up and his arm from the
elbow down is gone.
OK.
So he fell in the water, Yeah.
Alligator grabbed his arm.
Fish did the roll, snapped it
off and and.
Swam out.
He's gone and a guy was passed
out drunk.
Yeah, because he didn't want to
wait in line at the bathroom.
Lucky his arm snapped off.
Well, it's an elbow.
It's a socket this.
Guy's an idiot, but I'm just
saying I.
Saw the interview.
The guy's an idiot.
He's amazing.
Cuz he would have been dragged
in the water.
Right.
But yeah, that's the way I'll
get his work.
Then I'll just grab you and pull
you in when they bite it, then
they twist, right?
And it just went.
And just with snap, right?
Off from Florida?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I'll just go.
By to the nearest pond.
Yeah, I'm really drunk.
Pond behind the bar.
I just pee over there.
Whoop.
Splash.
WOW Shark County Sheriff's
always declined to comment on
the incident, instead referring
questions about the attack to
the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Commission, which is continuing
to investigate the incident.
We're gonna really, you're gonna
have to you're gonna have to
kill the alligator.
Oh yeah, they're gonna kill the
other, yeah.
Asked about online speculation
that he might have tried to feed
the alligator, prompting the
attack, River firmly denied the
possibility.
Adding there's no way.
No way.
I was too drunk to feed the
alligator, adding that the
nearby bar does not offer food
that he could have if at the
Gator Riviera still recovered in
the hospital.
His arm amputated, but he is
looking back on the incident
optimistically.
I didn't lose my life, just lost
my arm, he said.
It's not the end of the.
World and a friend.
Let's be right hand.
Oh, he always says.
Right arm too.
So maybe he's left-handed.
No, at least he is now.
Wow, Ted's all I got, Michael.
That's it.
You got a Shop of the week?
It's.
Not my job.
Havana House.
Oh.
I've had a house since nobody's
saying it.
Well, I was waiting on you to
turn the camera on me.
I did.
I put it on Mikey because I told
you in the beginning.
You're not getting the camera.
I've had a house, Michael.
But you got a listener of the
week.
I'm at a house.
I got to listen to the week, you
know, listen to me.
That's your job.
I don't have a job.
I'm gonna quit this one event.
I'll fucking leave it.
I'll leave everything.
Ding.
Maddie Cupcakes.
Maddie Cupcakes, Listener of the
Week.
Apparently he's down 130 pounds.
Yeah, I've seen the photos.
I've seen the photos.
You've seen the photos.
And I follow him on Instagram.
Do you?
Yeah, 130 pounds.
I know.
That's fucking impressive.
Wow.
It's a lot of.
All right, well, hey, listen,
you get a short one this week.
Memorial Day plus flu equals
short.
Very sorry, but that's all I
got.
So thank you.
Very much Episode 283, The short
One.
Cigar has the pocket.
Oh, I got exosito.
Esosito.
Successful.
I was gonna call Victor.
We're still on the air.
No.
You wanna try Victor?
He's not gonna answer.
One more time.
Yeah, we're on.
Is today Candle's birthday?
It is.
He's not coming in.
He's not.
Do we have cake for the meeting?
He's gonna wear a shirt.
And you're gonna do it.
But no he.
Doesn't have a cake.
That's no cake.
Somebody should get cake.
Well, the odds are the answers.
Slim to none.
No, hello.
He answered he.
Answered the phone.
He answered the phone.
Yo, what's up?
What are you doing?
Well, I'm actually having lunch
here in Malaretta, about to
visit a tobacco supplier.
I'm in Santiago today.
Very.
Nice.
Yeah, I told you I was supposed
to come on Friday, but it was
raining a lot, so OK, waited the
weather out.
OK, so this is Vic.
Yeah, I'm going to go check up
on some tobacco, OK?
Well, we got some questions
asked you.
Do you want us to we can call
you next week?
Do you want to call next week
and do a whole interview?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
OK, we're going to hold you too.
I have.
Some no, I have some stories for
you now because I'll be here
fresh out of the tobacco
supplier.
So let's see what I can find.
All right.
Sounds good, brother.
Well, have fun.
Enjoy your lunch.
All right.
Tell him what you said hello.
Thank you all.
Right brother.
Take it easy.
All right.
Bye, bye.
Victor, Nicholas.
Shall We Cigars?
At least, he answered.
He sounded very nervous.
He was nervous.
He was very nervous.
We had the answer.
No, no, I had to go.
I'm here.
I'm here.
I'm here.
I'm here.
Yeah, next week.
Next week would be much better.
Next week.
Block this call right now.
Deal was, I answered.
That's it.
Goodbye.
OK.
Bye.
So glad you stayed to hear the
Victor interview.
Goodbye peoples.
Goodbye Peoples.
Show Notes
Title : The Flue
Episode Description:
Join your hosts, on this exciting episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast as they dive into the world of premium cigars and bring you the latest industry updates. In this episode, they have a special guest, Victor Nicholas, founder of Chogui Cigars, sharing his insights and experiences in the cigar business.