Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 298 The Wheel

Episode Summary

Episode 298 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is a news-and-banter round table with Mike Szczepankiewicz, Mike Gavitsch, Reverend VDP Mike Palmer and Phil (off camera this week). The show opens with the long-awaited announcement of the Quincuagenario giveaway winner — Dex Pollard — after roughly a thousand entries tied to RoMa Craft purchases, plus a running gag about nobody on the show being able to pronounce "Quincuagenario." The crew also catches up on weekend life: an anniversary post, the King family's Harry Potter–themed baby shower, dinner with Ben and Sarah Roland at the Ravenous Pig, a stop at Cigars on the Ave, and the new Hefe's cigar lounge opening in New Smyrna with a 20-foot smoking cigar on the deck.

The news block covers the week's real industry stories: Gurkha Cigar Group discontinuing its San Miguel and Treinta lines to free up shelf space; German Engineered Cigars adding a No. 21 Panatela Pigtail corona size to three of its lines (made at Inter-Cigar in Santiago, Dominican Republic) with blend and pricing details; and the headline release — RoMa Craft Tobac finally shipping the Quincuagenario, the long-delayed collaboration between Skip Martin and Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. celebrating Skip's 50th birthday. The hosts note what makes it unusual: a 5x50 with an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper and Dominican binder and filler, made at Tabacalera La Alianza rather than Nica Sueño — the first RoMa Craft cigar not produced at Skip's own factory — at $15 MSRP with production capped around 50,000 cigars. That leads to a useful tangent on how cigar bands are actually sourced and whether factories make them in-house. Also covered: Bocock Brothers' new shipping-container display boxes for the World Traveler Connecticut and Habano lines, Joe Gros leaving Quality Importers for Casa de Montecristo, and Tony Gomez of La Flor Dominicana being appointed to the Cigar Rights of America board — which sparks a frank debate about who actually sits on CRA's board and whether a consumer-funded group should be run by industry families.

Lighter segments include the Florida Man story of Reza Baluchi's fourth attempt to cross the Atlantic in a floating hamster wheel, Mike's cold plunge tub routine, the story behind his permanently broken toe, UFC (Sean Strickland upsetting Israel Adesanya), NFL week one and Deion Sanders at Colorado. The episode wraps with the shop of the week and event schedule: Cigars on the Ave's Leaf and Barrel pairing on September 18, Latin Night at Executive Cigars in Sanford on September 23, and the Powstanie War Bear Habano Corona Gorda box-press release at Lake Country Cigars in Wisconsin on September 28.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Quincuagenario Giveaway Winner
   After roughly a thousand entries from RoMa Craft purchases, the hosts reveal Dex Pollard as the winner — and he has to be listening to find out.
2. 02
   Weekend Recap and Local Shop News
   Anniversary posts, a baby shower, dinner with Ben and Sarah Roland, and the opening of Hefe's in New Smyrna with a 20-foot smoking cigar outside.
3. 03
   Gurkha Discontinues San Miguel and Treinta
   Gurkha Cigar Group cuts two lines from its portfolio, citing shelf space and room for future releases.
4. 04
   German Engineered Cigars No. 21 Panatela Pigtail
   Corona sizes added to three lines with full wrapper, binder and filler details, made at Inter-Cigar in Santiago.
5. 05
   RoMa Craft Quincuagenario Ships
   Skip Martin's 50th-birthday collaboration with Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. finally arrives — 5x50, $15, Ecuadorian Sumatra, and the first RoMa Craft cigar not made at Nica Sueño.
6. 06
   Bocock Brothers Container Packaging and Joe Gros to Casa de Montecristo
   New cargo-container display boxes for the World Traveler line, plus an industry personnel move.
7. 07
   Tony Gomez Joins the CRA Board
   La Flor Dominicana's Tony Gomez is voted onto Cigar Rights of America, prompting a debate about board composition and what the board actually does.
8. 08
   Events and Upcoming Appearances
   Leaf and Barrel at Cigars on the Ave (9/18), Latin Night at Executive Cigars (9/23), and the Powstanie War Bear Corona Gorda release at Lake Country Cigars (9/28).

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Transcript

Cigar Hustlers Podcast, Episode 298, where we bring you the latest news and insights from the world of premium cigars. In this episode, we dive into the big stories of the week. The King, Mike Szczepak, Mike Gavitsch and Reverend VDP Mike Palmer are two dynamic individuals who co-host the Captivating Cigar Hustlers Podcast. And me, I'm Phil with no camera.

So grab your favorite smoke, sit back, and join us for another exciting episode of Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Yes, we decided the camera problem we had last week was because Phil was on camera. Yeah, he broke it. He broke it.

It's probably best we just keep him on. You know what I mean? You can't even see him over there in a little room. It's nice.

It's a little dark and everything. I stopped recording. The lights are very bright, too. He stopped recording.

He's behind all the bright lights. You can't see a thing. Unbelievable. Do you have any...

No, I got no live reads. You, too, can be part of this podcast. You, too. Oh, you want me to start doing that one again?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, we'll start doing that one. Do you have it on memory? No.

Oh. Call Mike and email Mike. You, too, can be part of your podcast. Put your product in front of thousands of listeners every week on 17 different podcast providers all around the world.

All around the world. com, And thank you for more pricing and information. Perfect. I love that.

That was great. Dude. Thank you. Thank you very much.

I mean, come on. Like, off the rip? I'm impressed. Off the rip.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Congratulations. Thank you very much. I have the winner of the Quinquaginario. Oh!

The Aroma Craft set. And it's not even November. Yeah, there you go. Oh, wow.

We're going to announce it. I'm not announcing it right now. Look at you. What?

We're going to announce it sometime. I haven't, but I'm not going to tell anybody. We're going to announce it sometime in this podcast. Do you really have it?

I do. Oh, okay. I do. All right.

I do have the winner. You're just like, they gave me shit last week, so I'm gonna say I have it. I gotta tell you, and the way that it went, kind of, like after I put everything together and did the random yada yada. First of all, it was a pain, yes.

I bet. It took a long ass time. There were a lot of entries. Thank you everybody for entering.

Yes. And the winners are Boots and Palmer. But you know what's really kind of funny. Thanks, Phil.

" Like, the universe put it together and gave it to this person. Oh, somebody who needed it? Cigars? I wouldn't say that he needed it.

I would say that, you know, this particular person, after when I saw his name get pulled, I'm like, you know, he's had some shit through the course of the last year. Some health issues and stuff, and he's getting some things right. Oh, Skip win. I'm like...

Did Skip win? No, Skip didn't win. Congratulations. Who's your money on?

Who's your money on? I have no idea. I don't know. Because I don't know who I'll enter.

You know what's funny, though? How many names were there? Oh my God, dude. Well, you had to have seen it.

Just ballparked. Millions. It was close to a thousand entries. Wow.

Yeah. So a thousand, like, because if you spent 200, you could almost have money. Yeah. But just single names.

I don't know the single names. I'd have to go back and look. But, you know, there was a lot of single names. A lot of single names.

But some of those names also, I didn't have their names. When they subscribed, they were just an email. " Oh, so you obviously know the winner. Yeah, this one I knew.

This one I knew. Was there an uptick in Roma sales because of the contest? Of course. Of course, and subscribers.

So thank you very much for everybody for contributing. Now you can all unsubscribe from the list. Hey, hey, don't do that. I have to.

I get it like two or three times a week. We want you. com. com.

So, what do we got for the Patreon? The Quin Guancanero! You know the word I kept getting wrong last week in Skip's story about the new No-No cigar? Yeah.

Yeah, he likes to send me fanatics after the show breaks, the next morning I wake up to a text message with the fanatic how to say the word. Let me explain this to you. Let me play how to say this. Now, he's already told me how to say this word once, so Quintan Canero is pretty damn close.

So, the good news and the bad news about this cigar is that there won't be a Patreon discount. Oh. Well, yeah, well, there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, I'm not, this is not a cigar that's going to be discounted on the Patreon, just so.

Well, this is a one-time run. Yeah. So, I'm sorry. Until he's 50 again.

I heart you all very much. much. So he's a hundred. However, I will not be discounting this cigar at all.

What part of it means 50? The Quin? But limited quantities. Yeah.

The Quasimodo upstairs. So it is Quin Quanginero. Quin Quanginero. Qui-Gon Gin.

You were calling it Qui-Gon Gin, right? Who was calling it? Someone called it. Me.

I can't say that word either. Qui-Gon Gin. The Ginny. So your anniversary over the weekend?

I did have an anniversary. You didn't do the traditional That was the whole half-wife's face photo. I did not. I mixed it up a little bit because we had this 90s photo when we went out for a 90s, so she had this glitter stuff on her.

Glitter and the big hoop earrings. Yeah, so I didn't want to. Oh, we need to get him a button, apparently. I didn't want to discount the opportunity of the photos.

So, you know, what's really funny, though, is I don't think that, there was like a, we, so we went to the Kings, Andrew and Kelly had a baby shower. Oh, okay. So, we didn't really get to do anything for our anniversary, but when we drove, when we got home and we kind of settled in, I looked at it and I'm like, holy shit, there's like 150 comments on this. But a lot of people just said like, happy anniversary, happy anniversary.

Right, the standard. And I'm thinking that a lot of people didn't actually read what I posted. Right. You know.

I said happy anniversary, I read what you posted. You did? Well, I knew about the glitter in the hoop earrings. Yeah.

Did you want comments on that? I don't know, I just felt like... You can't attack, listen, first of all. Listen, first of all, you cannot attack the wife.

Yeah, I'm not going to go, ah, she looked ridiculous! No, it wasn't, it isn't an attack on the wife, but maybe more ha-has, I guess, I don't know, I don't know. Oh, I didn't think it was funny, I just figured that's what she was wearing. Oh, so that's what it is, I'm just not a funny guy.

No, I mean, I, you're, you're, you're, you're funny. Adjust comment. Wow, I can't believe she went to house wearing her. So anyways, Andrew and Kelly King, they had a baby shower, it was like Harry Potter.

Oh, they're having a baby. They are having a baby. And they've been trying. You heard it here first.

They have been trying forever to have a baby. So we are very excited. Oh, congratulations. Yeah.

So we're really looking forward to, we don't know gender. Oh, they're not finding out before? No. Oh.

We're gonna do the little cannon thing? Nope. Nope. Baseball?

They're going old school. When a baby gets here, that's what we got. Oh, Lord. Oh, the doctor tells?

Yeah. Somebody will slip. They're gonna go. Somebody always slips.

It's a boy. It's two months away from the birth. Yeah, it's in November, it's near Adrian's birthday. I don't think I could do that.

I hate surprises, I couldn't do it. You hate surprises? He does hate surprises. I'd like to know what's going on.

Cancel a birthday party. Yeah, cancel a birthday party, no birthday party. I won't be here. Where are you going to be?

I'll be driving back from Tanner's wedding. We'll FaceTime you. Oh, thank you, that'd be nice. For your birthday.

That'd be nice, thank you very much. Yeah. Hey, happy for having a great time. Happy birthday.

Yeah, I'm driving back from Missouri. We'll light a cake and we'll sing to you. Oh, that'd be nice. You can sing to Boots.

It's his birthday. No, we don't want to fuck that up. Okay. Two separate occasions.

Okay. Oh, nice. And I went out and I had dinner with Ben and Sarah Roland. Oh, is that this weekend?

Yeah. Yeah. Where'd you guys go? Ravenous Pig.

Of course. Did he bring the tractor? Did he bring the big tractor? He didn't bring the tractor.

Oh. And then we went to Cigars on the Ave afterwards. Oh. Hung out for a little bit.

The new one in New Smyrna opened this weekend. Joe's? Oh, Hefe's. Hefe's.

Oh, it did? And they had like a 20-foot cigar hooked to the deck outside that smoked. Oh, very nice. We're in the pictures.

I saw the pictures. Was it the one that we saw? Is it that building right across from Traders? Yeah.

Yeah, pretty close. Oh, wow. Interesting. A lot of interesting things going on in the cigar industry.

A lot of things going on in the cigar industry. But yeah, well, anyways, we had a good time. You know, we don't really get out. Right.

Mike has a couple without children. So it was cool to do a couple's thing. And then, you know, we hung out probably too late because I think that Ben had to go to Fort Lauderdale like the next morning or something. Oh, they were driving through, one of those.

No, he was going back and then he was going, yeah. Oh, he was going to go from your house back to his house and then back to Fort Lauderdale? Correct. Whole.

Correct. The next morning. It's like, wow. Was it eight hours?

Yeah, something like that. Well, from his house, it's probably eight hours to Lauderdale, but it's like two and a half back to his house, so four hours, five hours just to hang out with you for the evening. But what a great guy Ben is, huh? Yeah, he's such a nice guy.

And Sarah, too. Sarah's a great guy, too, yes, Sarah's a great guy, she's a great guy, too, yes, yes, very informed, she knows a little bit about everything. Don't attack the wife. I'll tell you what, you know what is kind of cool?

Oh, barely, it's open season there. Is that Ben has been friends with Skip longer than I have been friends with Skip. Oh, really? He worked at his retail shop.

Oh, yeah, that's right, I had heard that. Yeah, so, you know, we get to share war stories, you know, comparables, which is fun. So we had a good time. Did you ever see Skip in his footie pajamas?

He's got footie pajamas. He's got footie pajamas? That's what I'm assuming you guys were talking about. Rumor alert.

Because you've stayed at his house, I doubt Ben has stayed at his house. I go to bed before Skip does. Everybody goes to bed before Skip does. I sometimes have to fake it like I'm still up on the patio.

Maybe I need to posture myself so that he can't see him wake up in the afternoon. He can't see if I'm asleep, you know. Sit with your back to him, yeah. Hopefully that you snore, yes.

Well, no, it's a good, you know, what's great is, like, I think, I mean, it's been a long time since I've been down there, but, but last time I was down there. Right. He was watching Sopranos episodes, and I'd use my old tactic from when I was in school, I would sleep during school, and I would wake up and answer a question and then go back to sleep. Oh.

So it's like, hey, he's paying attention. Right. So I was sleeping and I opened my eyes real quick and I knew the episode and I knew, oh, this is where, where, um, Pauly takes Tony Soprano's painting and then paints himself on it. I closed my eyes.

I opened my eyes a little later. He's like, how the hell did you remember that shit? Cause it was like from 10 years ago. Oh, so nice.

That's a tactic. You sleep talk. You gotta, you know, you gotta, I gotta get in when I get it in, you know? So, yeah.

So there's all that. All that and a bag of chips. What'd you do this weekend? Cut the grass and drink?

Nothing. I didn't drink. I didn't cut the grass. Oh, no, we went to- You always drink.

We like going to Swamp House on Saturday afternoon. So you did drink? Live music. I had one beer.

So you drank? Yeah, I had one beer. Okay. Yeah.

I like how you do it. It was very, I got very, it was very hot. He's not a cop, man. You can just tell him you drank.

Yeah. Well, I was thinking I didn't because I had water, but we did have the one drink when we sat down, waiting on the food. Had the beer? Yeah.

Blue Moon? No, no. I prefer Landshark. Oh, Landshark.

Yeah, Blue Moon's the runner-up. Yeah, that's a- Ah. Because normally almost everybody has that if they don't have Lancer. Gotcha.

I like the fruit in the beer. What about you, Phil? What the fuck did you do? He invited everybody...

Oh no, that was Boots, sorry. What did Boots do? He invited everybody over for the fights and nobody answered his text message. Nah, I had some people come.

Yeah, I saw later you posted there were people with you. Izzy... I kind of felt bad, like nobody's saying anything. Izzy's out.

Bro, that was a crazy... I didn't see the fight. He, I think, you know, Anderson, whatever you want. Quentin Quangunero.

Yeah, he's like the Quentin Quangunero guy. Adesanya? Yeah, Adesanya. Okay.

You weren't even close. He didn't come in like he wanted to fight, bro. You know, I follow him on Instagram and shit, and it sounds like he's kinda, he's had it. He's tired.

Well, yeah, I'm sure, but he completely underestimated this guy. Yeah. Takes a lot out of you to get beat up. beat up yeah this guy well he i mean it's not that he like really beat him up i mean he did land a lot of punches but he didn't like you know ground and pound him too much right you know none of that really happened what happened was is he completely took him out of the the whole game did it go to the cards yeah it went to the and he lost and he lost wow yeah wow strickland strickland completely They literally just took him out of his game.

Yes, incredible. Huh. It was. It was a good fight.

I'll have to go watch it. And then we have NFL back. Yeah. Yeah.

Football. Football again, football again. Yeah. Oh, nice.

Dolphins did great. They did. I saw they won by point or something, wasn't it? Tua went nuts through 400 some odd yards.

450 through the air, baby. Fucking crazy. That's fantastic. Is his contract up?

I heard something on the news. I have no idea. See, waiting for a new contract or something? Yeah, after this year.

Well, if he survives, right? Yeah. A lot of injuries already this year. Yeah.

So is this regular season that it started? Yeah. People are already hurt, they're out? Oh my God.

If you drafted a tight end in Fantasy League in the first round or second round, none of them played. Oh! None of them played. Kelsey, Andrews, who else?

Just the good ones. Yeah, all the best tight ends, none of them played. They're all hurt. K.

Dobbins is out again. K. Dobbins, he's the running back for Baltimore. I know he goes out all the time.

He's only played like three games his whole career. They guaranteed money though. Pretty much. They guaranteed money.

They need money. That's where the FSU coach is. Yeah. Tending to his wounds?

The one that nobody likes. Willie. Talking about Willie? No.

Willie Herrera? No, not him. The other Willie. Oh.

Willie Lopez? He was the FSU coach, and then he went to FAU, and now I think he's a running back coach. Now he's at SCC. In Baltimore.

I don't know. I'm sorry. I can wait on. Okay.

Did you watch any college? No. You're not a college guy? No, I'm actually a little...

I'll tell you right now, I'm going to stop and watch every Colorado game at this point, if I know it's on, I want to watch Dion beat the shit out of people, because I've caught some glimpses of these games so far, the past two weeks, and I'm just like, holy shit, this guy is just... It's amazing. It is, I know, and I'm glad that you're excited and engaged. I'm very excited.

Yeah. Primetime, baby. Yeah. I mean, his mentality, you know, if you're not, listen, if you're not rooting for Dion Sanders and the Colorado college team, you're just a fucking hater.

Well, what a lot of people see, this goes for everything in life. What Deion does not accept is failure. So that's what makes him so great. So he's going to put together a good team, a good plan, and he's going to go out there with the best plan and people possible to win the game.

And the way the guy carries himself and the way that he speaks, I'm just like, I'm in. I'm in. I know that Mike is in as well. I'm huge.

I'm huge. Deion Sanders. All three of us. Right.

And the Bucs upset Minnesota, which I love. That was a crazy game. I'm going to tell you. They didn't show up?

They upset him? Yep. They upset him. That's terrible.

And unfortunately, the Pats lost to Philly. Oh. That was a tough game. Did you see the Giants just lay down?

Oh, dude. They were very tired. I got to tell you, man. Dallas defense.

No, no. Holy shit. Not Dallas defense, Micah Parsons. No, man, all the way around.

All the way around. You know, I was kind of impressed even with Stephon Gilmore. I thought for sure that he would be a dud. Yeah, he did do a little bit for him.

He got an interception. Yeah. So, you know, he's a nice add-on with Diggs. Yep.

And, bro, I mean... What? Sorry, I'm just looking, I'm just finding things to keep me busy over here. Alright, well, we're moving on.

It was just a quick few minutes. The sound was all the way down. Hey, they hit a button, you haven't heard it. Did you see Viso Horny hung out with Nick Malello?

I did see that. Was that a recent thing? He was in Connecticut, yeah. Oh, yeah.

They went to a concert, or Viso Horny was going to a concert, and then Nick had dinner with him. Oh. They bought pizza. Yeah, it was dinner.

Drove an electric car or something, and rented an electric car at a car rental? See, that's the difference between Foundation and Roma, you know what I mean? Like, Foundation, you're going to get a slice of pizza. You know, Roma, we're eating that bizarre.

I don't know. Maybe there's no bizarre in Connecticut. Wagyu for everybody. Maybe there's no bizarre in Connecticut.

How many eggs come with the deviled eggs? Just one? Just two? I get two.

Bring all the onions. What else has onions in it? Yeah, bring all the onions. I want as many onions as possible.

Whatever dish has onions, bring that. So the winner of the Quinquan Gennaro is Dext Pollard. Oh, you just released it like that? Boom, slid it away.

I didn't even get it, wait, do it again. No, no, it was slid it away, slid it away, slid it away, slid it away. Dexter Pollard. So we actually ran into him on the plane going back to one of the Weasel Fests.

" So, yeah, and he's an awesome dude, he's a good guy. Awesome dude. Nice. Well, congratulations, Dex.

Yes, congratulations. Congratulations, Dex. I'm not gonna reach out to you and call you though, the only way you're gonna know is if you're So now he has to call you for? You mail the prize?

Yeah. Oh, nobody tell him. He's got to be a listener. So if he doesn't, if he doesn't, are you picking a new one?

No, no, no. We smoke it. We smoke it. We smoke it.

We smoke it. We smoke it. I think eventually I would just sell them to someone else. Suddenly another French fry sampler shows up on the website.

Yeah. Why are you looking at the title? I don't know. It's Mike's got a nasty text from Ronnie, yes.

Oh. The rip. Yeah. I think he figured something out.

You should call him. No! God's sakes, no. We don't have that much time.

Poor Paul. We have a meeting to get to. Oh. Yeah, we do.

We do have a meeting to get to. It's already one o'clock. If we get Ronnie on the phone, it's going to be 3:30 before we get out here. Where are you going next week?

Is it next week? It's a week after. That's two weeks. Two weeks.

We're going to Lake Country. You're always hell-bent on breaking that up. I'm going to mention it every single podcast. A single podcast.

I'm making sure. Two weeks, you're going over there. Well, we're doing the thing at Executive as well. No, but that same week, we're going to Lake Country.

They are the retailer. It's all the same week? Listen, listen. Do me a favor.

Listen, I don't go to your job. Give me camera three. Give me camera three. Unbelievable.

I don't go to your job, knock the dicks out of your mouth, okay? Don't tell me how to do my job. Why do you want camera three if you're still looking at me? Don't tell me how to do my job, okay?

It's not the same week. They are the retailer of the month. Nice. And we are going to announce them every single episode until we go.

I'm just giving them extra plugs. We're going to release the War Bear with them. Yeah. It's exciting.

The thing in the executive is on a Saturday. Correct. What day is that? The 23rd.

So it's the weekend before. Yeah. And that's the weekend before. And that won't have the War Bear.

No, no, no. You're just a regular cutting light. That is a Latin night. Yeah, Latin night.

And there's another one at Cigars on the app, too, on a Monday. I think it's the 18th or something. Oh, is it really? Next month?

Yeah, next week. I haven't heard about that one. I'm a busy man. How are we supposed to know?

I'm just out spreading the Powstanie. I'll just put you on my cozy calendar with my wife. I was supposed to have been months ago. Yeah, how are we going to put on our shirts and then go?

Didn't you see the one thing with the bad boys when Chet boots in Palmer? I'll find out there's another event. Yes, I did see that. Yeah.

So, I mean, a very busy month for you. The end of the year is always crazy. Right. And then you want to go to Joe's, we got to go to Joe's, apparently.

Yeah, Joe. Yeah. Tomorrow. Tomorrow.

Hopefully tomorrow. We'll see. Joe's, the new Smyrna Joe's? Yeah.

I'll try. Maybe LFA. I'm going to try. LFA.

You want to go to LFA, too? See the giant smoking cigar. Alright. So what else you got?

I have some news. You ready for some news? Do you have no tea? Come on, man, I know some stuff happened on- I got some good tea on the, but I'm gonna save it for the Patreon.

Oh, okay. Yeah, all the tea goes on the Patreon. I got some, well, not all of it, not all of it. Oh, we lost a couple of subscribers.

We did? Yeah. For the Patreon? Should we just shame them?

Yeah. I couldn't tell you who they are off the top of my head. Wait a second. Well, one of them I know who it is, but we don't want to say anything.

Come on, guys, subscribe. This is ridiculous. Well, one makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I understand why one did. Yeah. I think we lost two. Him and another one.

Alright, well we need four now, we lose two, we need four more Patreons, yeah, gotta keep growing. Come on, you become a Patron, Phil will give you a Qui-Gon-Ginn, how about that? Oh, Quin-Quangannaro. Quin-Quangannaro, the Jenny.

The Jenny. Alright, well let's get into some news. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need, the Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Toon. Gurkha Discontinues the San Miguel and Torrentia Lines.

Uh-oh. What? Gurkha's discontinued two lines. Aww.

Gurkha Cigar Group International discontinued its San Miguel and T-R-E-I-N-T-A, Torrentia, Torrentia Lines? Torrenti. Saying that space was needed in the company's portfolio to make room for future growth and bigger steak knives. We fully recognize that the shelf space is real estate in our industry, says Juan Lopez, VP of Sales for...

Sales at Gurkha Cigars, via press release, in order to coordinate and to continue to offer new and improved production, we have made tough decisions to discontinue a couple of the old ones. Nobody really cares though, so we just find out. German Engineered Cigars adds number 21, Panatella Pigtail for three lines. Oh my goodness.

German Engineered Cigars is adding Corona sizes, they heard that's a popular thing, though, to three of its existing lines, the RVGN, the Remsit, and the Watshetu. Is there a quote? I really hope there is. Because I'm looking forward to you.

The quote? Thank you. The trio is being released under the 21 Panatella Pigtail name, though all three cigars are not the same size. The RVGN Ratchvaganugan.

Oh, Lord. It's a long German word. The Rasputin? No, no.

The... Ratchvaganugan. Ratchvaganugan. Number 21 Panatella Pigtail is a 5x38 Corona that uses an Ecuadorian hybrid wrapper.

Red wrapper over a... you want to tape that down or something? Just make it easy. I'm doing...

wait a second. So I'm successfully using the button the past three times and you're going to call me out on it? You're just doing it often. I had a couple little coughs.

I had a little sniffle. A little... oh, oh, what did you... oh.

Just once. I only did it once. You've used that button more than I have in this show. It is made at InterCigar.

It is made at InterCigar in San Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. It's the whole point of the button. The other two cigars measured. It's the whole point of the button.

Okay. Can you push it when you say that's the whole point of the button? No, I can't, I want to rudely interrupt you about the German cigars. Rudely.

Rudely. Rudely. The Rudely 21 Panatella Pigtail uses a Connecticut Seed wrapper grown in Nicaragua over an Indonesian Sumatra binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Jalapa, Nicaragua. As for the Weltsmitz 21 Panatella Pigtail is used in Ecuador and a Mano Oscuro wrapper over a binder from Jalapa and fillers from Esteli and Jalapa.

S. dollars, German-engineered cigars says it used the 21 name because the volume of each cigar is a 21 cubic centimeters, a soft launch event took place in an industrial cigar in Frisco, Texas, but the cigars are not yet ready to begin shipping to other stores, Roma Craft Tobac began shipping the Quincan Gennaro! Quincan Gennaro! Now, the two years after the project was first announced, the collaboration between Roma Craft Tobac and Ernesto Perez Carilio Jr.

P. Carilio is shipping to stores. They have arrived here. What a long time.

They have arrived here. Yes. They have, they're exclusively, no. They're exclusively here.

They're exclusively, non-exclusively. Possibly, maybe, sort of. Not exclusively, exclusively here at Cigar House. Maybe.

Possibly. Romalcraft Tobac is beginning shipping and arriving, Quentin Quangunaro, a new 5x50 for a boost. What? You just said that.

I'm just reading the story. Red light. I don't write these. Red light.

Yeah, he needs a red light. What? Yeah. We gotta get the red light therapy.

Yeah, we gotta work. Oh, yeah, we're good. But I'm celebrating his 50th birthday, Skip Martin. Is it, now he's 52, if they've been doing this for three years?

I think so. I think so. Just start a little earlier, maybe next time. Quentin Quancanero, probably because he couldn't figure out the name.

Probably started working at 46 for that. Yeah, start working when you're 46, maybe for that would have been a better idea, maybe. Uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over Dominican binder and Dominican fillers. A.

in Dominican Republic. And not at Nicasueño, the Nicaraguan factory that has made every Roma Craft Tobacco cigar up until this point. You know, that'd make a good... So this cigar was not made...

Not made by Skip. In Nicasueño. Correct. That's Crazy.

First time ever. That would be a good trivia question. What one cigar that's sold by Skip? The great.

Yeah, but the great, Skip Martin, who is now 52. Right. Each cigar is an MSRP of $15. Production is limited to around 50,000 cigars, which will be split between 2,000.

Thank you. Each cigar is an MSRP. I read that. Martin traveled to the Dominican Republic multiple times to work with Perez Corilio Jr.

On the blend, he credits those visits with giving him a better understanding of Sumatra Seed Wrappers from Ecuador, which helped Martin in developing Intemperance Volstead VO 1920, Romacraft Tobac's latest regular production line. Oh, so the cigar was not made at the factory, so let me ask about the bands. Oh, God. Do they put the bands on the factory, or is that like separated?

Yes, they put the bands onto the factory. Okay, so he had to send bands to him. Not necessarily. Cigar rings is located in the Dominican Republic and in Nicaragua, so.

So completely different company, not the cigar company itself. The band company is the band. The band company makes the band. The cigar company.

Now, there are some factories that will do everything in-house. They'll make their own boxes, they'll make their own bands, all that stuff, but that's few and far between. All right. Does AJ do that?

I don't think so. I figured it'd be one of the bigger factories. Yeah, I don't think so. Just curious.

Bocock Brothers Releases New Container Box Packaging for World Travel. I like those. You want the shipping container? I want one of the boxes, yeah.

So you're going to buy the cigars just for the box? I don't know, it depends on what they cost. Let's read further and see. Packaging, well, I mean, the business I'm in, it would be a neat little thing to have.

It's true. And it says Bocock on the side of it. Well, I can fix that. You're going to have it say Palmer?

Sure. Palmercock. Palmercock. BDP.

BDP. The next time you see some sizes of Bocock Brothers, World Travel, Connecticut, and Habano lines on the store shelves, it might just be the packaging that pays tribute to how it got to those shelves, as the company has released new cargo container display boxes for the line. Cargo containers are symbolic of the entrepreneurial spirit as well as long travels, said the Bocock Brothers are no stranger to either. " The company is releasing the new packaging for the Robusto and Toros...

What are you doing? Nothing. What are you doing? You're on your phone during the show.

I am on my phone. The camera's only on mute. Oh, alright. I am well aware of where the camera is.

You're still rude. You're not paying attention. I'm listening to Bocock. Very excited about the freight train.

Who gives a shit? You want it. The Bococks do. The Bococks, yeah.

What kind of cigars are they carrying? What kind of cards are they carrying? Okay, tell me more. Yeah, I already said what kind they were.

Oh, yeah? Yeah. I wasn't listening. Obviously.

Is it carrying the BDP? How much are they? We'll just move on. No, I want to know how much they have.

No, too late, it's over. Joe Gros joins Cassidy Monte Cristo. Oh, Monte Cristo. Joe Gros leaving Quality Importers Trading Company to- Oh, I thought you picked a refund again.

Is that okay? Can I put my lighter in my case? It would be nice to pay attention to the stories I read. I'm listening to you.

So that you can comment. I'm very, okay. Who is he? Joe Gros?

And he's a really, really tall guy that I don't identify when he's sitting down at the show. He doesn't identify? He doesn't identify. No, he's very tall.

Oh. And what pronouns is he identify? He's talking, go to two. It's three or two.

Like the guy from LFD? So I saw him, wait, like Tony Gomez? Yeah. Or is he Argonosa?

I mean, he's more, he's kind of like a Terrence Riley height. Oh, really? Slightly bulkier. Oh.

Not Giraffe. But like, I saw him at the Espinosa private pizza hearing of everybody holding court. Yes. The candy bar.

And I was like, hey man, how are you? Oh, was he there telling stories? No, I was like, hey man, what's up? And I saw him for a second, but I didn't realize who he was until he stood up.

Oh, because he was so tall. And I'm like, oh shit. Oh shit, you're Joe. That's Joe Groh.

Oh. When he stands up, he grows. I only identify you as the tall guy. I don't know your face.

I don't know your clothes. Just your height. Listen, listen, the convention is a fucking lot. It is.

Yeah, but they're characters, you remember them. " And then you're like, "Oh, shit. Yes, we are friends. I know you.

" Well, he's not that good a friend, apparently. But hey, listen, Fred Rui has walked past me like he was looking for- Well, Fred's a little bit of an elitist anyway. He's an elitist. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Do you know who I am? You can't identify the tall guy by face, but you can see Alonzo Mourning across the hall. Dude, you can't miss Alonzo Mourning.

They're not friends, though. Yeah, we're not friends. The friends don't register. Famous people register.

Famous people, yeah. I mean, Ocho Cinco. I've wanted to meet Ocho Cinco for a hundred years now at this point. Yeah, but you just go to the...

And then he said he's going to come to the store. I've held my breath. Oh, he was up since earlier. He has no idea what this story is.

He was at that meeting with Greg at the table. You should have, uh, we should send an email. Hi, remember me? com.

Great meeting you at the show. Hot mail, maybe. Would love for you to come by. What team is he on?

Remember? What team was he on? Oh, he's done playing on a team anymore. He was on the Bengals, he was on the Pats, and he finished up on the Dolphins, but didn't really get a season with the Dolphins.

com, maybe it's an old email he still uses or something. Yeah, probably. com. You can't miss a guy.

You just look for the guy with all the gold on him. Well, but that doesn't help when you want his email, though. I'm open. com.

Maybe it's the guy with all the gold. com. No, that's AJ Fernandez. Oh, probably.

Get it right. Tony Gomez of La Flor Dominicana appointed to Cigar Rights of America Board of Directors. Oh, that's cool. I looked up the board of directors.

Tell us. Okay. Jay Davis, Blue Smoke Dallas. No, I'm a little concerned.

This is Cigar Rights of America, so it is a... Oh, that's BCA. It's a consumer-funded... Cigar rights, yeah.

A consumer-funded group. Yeah. So these people on the board make it so that we can all keep smoking cigars and they can get richer. Okay.

Do they get richer? Well, they sell the cigars. Are you telling me that politics is slightly skewed? Is that what you're telling me?

I think cigar politics is slightly skewed. Oh, just, just, everything else is perfect. Well, this is the only one we're concerned with at the moment, Michael. I'm sure all of them are.

We're probably concerned with everything. But it's not, well, do... Well, I imagine that's with all the specialty groups. They're also specialty groups.

Who would you like to be on it? The NRA is probably all gun people. Well, Michael, when CRA was originally created, there were retailers on there. Which also, it is to their advantage to have the right to keep going, too.

Well, a retailer built it. Right. Yeah. So they all got pushed out?

Is that what you're saying? I don't know the details. I don't really like the person, so I couldn't tell you. CRA has a lot of children of famous cigar people on their board.

Oh, as we don't speak of? Is that what we're talking about? Possibly. I think there's three Fuentes on there.

Wow. Well, somebody's got to do it, I guess. Well, he owns like 75% of the land, so he gets three spots. How much work do you think?

Do the directors get a salary from being on the board of Drenner, do you think? I don't know. How much money do they make? Is it a nonprofit organization?

You can look it up. If it's nonprofit, they have to disclose. Yeah, you can look it up. If it's a for-profit.

I think PCA is non-profit, but I don't know about CRA. Yeah. It would tell you one way or another. Well, sure, if you looked it up.

Yeah. Where do I find how much money you guys make? Yeah, how much money do you guys make to do this? Because he was, Tony Gomez was unanimously voted on the board.

It's because he owns 25% of the land. Well, his dad does. Listen, here's the reality. The more money you have, the more money you're going to make.

Well, I know. Yeah. Right? It's just that simple.

They're stressing it's consumer-based. You ever watched the show Billions? I mean, it's a consumer-based group. Yes.

There's no consumers on the, anywhere, controlling any of these. Yeah, but a lot of consumers are idiots. Well, yeah. How are they going to run it?

Perfectly. I don't know, there's got to be somebody that's smart as fuck as a guy. Just like the White House. Just like the White House.

Perfect. Right, just like the White House. You know, Biden doesn't get any money from any of the stuff he does. No, yeah.

I mean, listen, there's every politician. They're all good. They all, they're all, they're all doing it. Say that right into the camera so we don't get audited.

They're all doing it for the greater bit of the people. Cancel. Cameras go off. Uh oh, there we go.

Oh boy. Well, he's thrilled to join the CRA and contribute to their efforts to protect the premium cigar industry. Oh, listen, Tony Gomez is a good dude. I like the guy.

Oh. Lito's is dead. Lito Gomez. I was thinking if you said Lito.

No, Tony's cool. Tony's cool. Tony was the original rep in Florida. He had to do.

Was he John's boss? I mean, I don't. Now he's in the Dominican Republic. So what's really cool.

Tony is? So yeah. So Lito made Tony kind of run through the gamut. And he wasn't originally going to be in the cigar industry.

He went to school. He was going to go do his own thing or whatever. And as he worked through the company. Right.

Eventually he's like, yeah, I'm going to. Why would I go somewhere else? Like, yeah, no shit. He was VP of Florida.

That's pretty cool, though, that his dad made him go through the whole thing. He handled Florida and Colorado. He did. Okay.

I like Tony. That's pretty cool that his dad made him do that, not just like, here, here's a company. So to hear that he's part of the CRA, I'm like, okay. Yeah.

He's qualified as far as I'm concerned. But what do they actually do? I don't know. If you ask them, they all stop the FDA from...

Well, the organization did, but what does the board... What do you think the board does on a day-to-day basis? A lot of dominoes. Domino's?

You think so? Yeah. Probably what we'd do. That's what I'm thinking.

You know? Something like that. They're just another guy like us. They have a meeting and they sit at the table and they all vote on things.

Possibly a dance off. Oh! Challenge. That'd be nice.

The Gomez's are big on those hoverboards. Maybe he just challenged me with hoverboards. I haven't seen the hoverboards lately. No, I think it went out of...

It's not popular anymore. It's probably just charging on the wall somewhere. Under his desk. They step over it.

It's under Lito's desk. Yeah. He kicks it when he's talking to people. Yeah.

Oh, sorry. That tall guy rides a hoverboard? His dad, his dad, one Christmas his dad did through the factory where everybody was singing Christmas girls. It was pretty funny.

It was pretty funny. All the rollers and everybody singing as he's riding through dancing on his hoverboard. I got bought a hoverboard, we didn't even make that much money. Jesus.

Quickly, pave the entire factory, I don't want to snag it on a rock. I don't want to snag it on a rock. Florida Man Rescued Again While Attempting to Cross Atlantic in a Floating Hamster Wheel. A what?

Floating Hamster Wheel. So wait a second. And this is not the first time. He's done it again and he failed again.

No, no. Well, they make him stop every time. Oh, okay. The peace activist faces felony charges after allegedly refusing the Coast Guard's plea for him to disembark and threatening to harm himself with a knife and a fake bomb.

Could you imagine being the Coast Guard in this situation? Well, this is the third time they've had to stop this guy. Wait a second, he said he had a bomb? We know, you're not going to blow yourself up, bro.

He's in an inflatable hamster wheel, so it's like a big round bubble. Just let him fucking drown. What is the problem? I mean...

Wait, they had to rescue him one time. Well, it's very expensive to be rescued. That's what I'm saying. You gotta do it anyways.

A Florida ultramarathoner and Pete, facing felony charges after allegedly attempting to run across the Atlantic in a homemade hamster wheel and what authorities said was at least his fourth attempt. The guy is hell-bent on two of us. Ray Bellucci, intercoastal stunt, ended approximately 60 miles off the coast of South Carolina last week. 60 miles?

What was he trying to cross? If he's crossing the cube, he's going the wrong way. 60 miles off the coast of South Carolina last week. S.

Coast Guard said they spotted him floating in the circular cage, initially near Savannah, Georgia. During the routine preparation ahead of Hurricane Adalia, the 51-year-old said he was heading for London, England. Yeah, he's legit going across. He actually wasn't going across.

If he started in Carolina and made it to Georgia... No, he started in Georgia and made it to Carolina. Well, you got to remember that there's like a channel, a current that goes up and around. Wow.

He doesn't really have to put in that much effort. I mean, he's going to die somewhere along the way. Yeah, probably right after 60 miles. So, you know, this is a problem that could solve itself.

I don't understand why we're intervening. He was repeatedly told that his vessel was unsafe and should not be used. It was described as staying afloat, the wiring and buoys, according to a copy of the criminal report. That's what everybody told the submarine people, and look what happened.

Bellucci allegedly refused to leave his vessel when authorities described as a hydropod, and he threatened to stab himself if anyone tried to stop him. Oh my God. It wouldn't even get in the water if he stabbed himself. He would be strapped inside the bubble.

He didn't even stab himself. Someone stopped him. He threatened. The officer stayed with him for three days as he continued to make his way up the coast, during which he also allegedly threatened to blow himself up with a device.

up with a device that later found to be a phony not a fake the ultimate hey hold on according to the court documents this was belucci's fourth attempt to traverse the high seas and the floating craft which had previously stopped by the coast guard in 2014 2016 and 2021 wow but just wait till you finish that is exciting the first attempt cost taxpayers more than $140,000, the Coast Guard said in his statement after that failed attempt to reach the Bermuda Triangle in 2014. The law enforcement agency said it provided Bellucci with an outlined series of requirements he wanted to safely and legally travel in such a vessel again. So he can do it, he just has to... There are things that he has to do.

There's things he has to do. Like food. And a blanket. A blanket, probably.

Not a knife, apparently. Not a knife and a fake bomb. Yes, these requirements were ignored, authorities said, and he was rescued in another homemade vessel in 2016 while attempting to travel from Florida to Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba, and then back again. Just let him go.

What is the problem? He publicized... Here's what's wrong with our society. We save stupid people.

They're saving the idiots. We save stupid people. Let him go. I don't get it.

I don't understand it. If he sinks, we're not even gonna know it anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

No one's going to see him between here and London. He's going to wash up on some shore somewhere. Oh, maybe the plastic will get up in a turtle's nose or something. Oh, and you know what's going to happen?

Someone's going to YouTube it and now no more hamster boats for anybody. Anybody ruined it. Because I was really going to get my hamster boat going. Your hamster floating wheel.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, how's the bathtub thing? The bathtub freezer?

The cold blend? Yeah. It's fantastic. Is it?

Yeah. I use it on every... And on a day that I don't train. So twice a week?

Three. Three times. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday on average. Oh, I would just say.

Sunday I do whatever I want. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, it's fantastic.

Dude, I love it. You know, it's, as far as, it's tough to get into. Right? Yeah.

You're just like, fuck. Why are there no videos? I'm not, because I'm not recording it. Brittany, if you could do a video, please.

Of me in the tub? Getting in the tub. Just so we could see it one time. And I'll sit in there for eight minutes.

Yeah. And like the first... Up to your neck? Oh yeah.

Hands underwater? Yeah. Hands underwater, up to my neck. I've seen a bunch of different videos.

Some people keep their hands up, some people don't. Those people are fucking pussies. I... Look, you know, I got some injuries, so the ice helps.

Right? When you get out, I'm just like, oh man, you feel good. You're cold. Oh thanks.

But you feel good. So... Yeah, I love it. I think it's fantastic.

And I do use it all the time. Does Brittany? No, I encourage her to use it. She says she's going to, and I'm not gonna be like, yo, you know what I mean?

It's there. It's there. She wants to get it. Use it as a punishment.

That's it. You in. That's it. That food was not good.

In. Get in there. Five minutes. It's five minutes, you cold.

Five minutes, you in there. Let's go. So. Children?

Have they tried it? No, I wouldn't put them in it. I don't think, I don't, that can't be safe for them. I don't know what the age limit is, I would imagine the little one, Teddy, no, no, but I thought maybe Jags.

I bet you if Teddy saw it, she'd probably try and get in it. Oh, sure she would. Woo, she loves swimming. Woo, there's a pool, there's a pool.

Because kids normally, like if you have a regular pool outside your house, and those are the first ones in it every season anyway. Right. To where they get out and things are numb. Right.

Yeah, my kids are definitely, fucking, they're all savages, let's be honest. Right, right. Complete savages. Right.

I had a hell of a conversation with my son before he went to bed last night, which was interesting. Which one? The big one. Yeah?

We discussed my broken toe. Oh, you told him how you broke it? Yeah. He's like, well, why?

And I said, well... Daddy has anger issues. I said, yeah, well... No, no, let him finish.

We want to hear the story he told his son. I broke it down for him. I said, listen, you know, I was upset about it with a certain individual. Oh, you didn't say the name?

Oh, I did. Oh, okay. And that individual didn't show gratitude for the entire team that was working when he was out of commission. So I showed the fucking...

So I took it... Showed the file cabinet. So I took it out on myself instead of taking it out on him, and that was stupid. Why you took it out on the file cabinet?

Yeah, well, I paid the full price. Question. Still that dent in the file cabinet. Did he show gratitude after that?

I don't know. Thank you, Daddy, for everything. Everything you do, thank you, Daddy. For my kid?

You know. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. I mean.

Oh, the individual in question. I don't know. I think he laughed. I don't remember.

I think he laughed when he limped out. I don't think he laughed. I didn't limp out. Oh.

I didn't limp out. I didn't feel the pain until hours later. I was so enraged. Oh.

Yes. Very angry. Yes. Yeah.

I didn't realize the damage I had done. It's permanently broken. Well, now it's a story. Is it permanently broken or did it set funny?

It's permanently broken. So, it won't heal? It will not heal. Wow.

I have to have surgery if I want it fixed. Well, they put a pin, a little pin down there? And they'd screw it in. They'd attach the broken piece into the remainder of the bone.

Is there pain? Sometimes. If you put your foot out, does it totally... Not after the ice bath.

It... You're right. After the ice bath, there isn't. Right.

Well, it's 'cause the bones are frozen. Yeah. There is some pain from time to time. I can't bend it.

Oh, you think it would bend in here? What? I think it would bend easier 'cause there are no bones gonna bend. No, it doesn't bend.

When you break something, you can't bend it. Yeah, it doesn't bend. It'll bend like that, but I can't bend like that. Right.

Let's see if I can do that to my foot and my toe. That's not broken. Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

So, there's that. So, how did that come up in conversation? Uh, well, cause they all, so, so, my buddy Eric, he has a Taekwondo studio, and they had a sleepover there for his son's birthday. And like, Jax has three close friends, I would say, and he's one of them.

Okay. But they were all playing football and all this stuff all over the dojo mats or whatever, and I think three kids rolled their toes, so they were jammed. He goes, I said, yeah, it's jammed, dude, you know, you did a good job, we just have to ice it up and take care of it, but I'm sure it'll be fine if, you know, if come a few weeks it can't bend, it's probably broken, we'll have to get it looked at, but the reality is there isn't anything you can do about this toe. And he goes, how do you know all this stuff?

I said, because my toe is broken. Because I broke my toe. Because I am a seasoned veteran at doing stupid things with my big toe. I too rolled my toe.

And then he said, well, what did you do? Well, having a sleepover. No. And we all played football.

No, and I explained to him that an individual had upset me and then I took it out on myself because I was stupid. And he said, well, what did he do? I said, he didn't show gratitude. Oh, much better than you striking the individual.

Much better than me striking. Well, maybe. You might have broke something on him. Would that have been so bad?

Maybe then he would have shown gratitude. What if we had to bury the body? You know what's funny is... So there's like...

Because he's very brittle. I've seen documentaries of bull sharks, and there's like bull sharks that are... have no damage on them, and they're super calm and cool or whatever. Right.

And then there's bull sharks that are covered in scars and ripped up and all... yeah, I'm the latter of the two. Right. And the other one.

Yeah. I got all types of stuff going on. Whatever. Is what it is.

Hmm. All right, you got a shop of the week? I... you know what?

Maybe? I do have a shop of the week. Phil? Phil.

What's the Shop of the Week, Phil? What's the Shop of the Week, Phil? Lake Country. Lake Country Cigars!

We are going to be releasing the Powstanie Warbear Corona Gorda, I believe it is September 28th. I'm going to confirm that right now. Yes, it is. That's the date you said before.

Yeah, definitely. September 28th. This is the day before the event here. We're flying in.

Yes. We're flying into Chicago, and then we're flying out the next morning. Driving to Wisconsin. Yep.

Are we still doing the ... No, we're not doing the ... Adam Acree is unfortunately not able to attend, he said. But we're going to be in Chicago.

I wonder, you know, it would be cool. Eric Bay's in Chicago. Eric Bay. Eric Bay is in Chicago.

You should tell him he can ride with us. You should tell him he can ride with us. You should. Yes.

I like that. That's a good idea. And I love, and I love Connie at Blue Havana. Okay.

I never see him. So I, it depends. You know, I don't want to commit to that because that's not really what I mean. He can ride with us too.

Time's pretty tight. Yeah. I don't like to do the whole-- For the drive. You tell them to drive to the airport, they ride with us, we bring them back.

I don't like the whole dabbling with other retailer thing. Right. You don't have to be in and out. But, I love Connie.

Because you can't be there that long. Yeah. No, yeah, I'm like, hey, good to see you, bye. No, no, no, no, no.

If you get Eric Bay, you get, uh, what's his name? What's his, what's his bud's name? Oh, God, Cliff. I know his name.

Cliff, damn it, why would you give it to him? Give it to him. Sorry, he looked at me next. Cliff.

You're lucky I never remember anybody's name. I don't know why I knew that one. All I could see was a big red dog. Cliff is amazing.

That's all I could see at that point. And Brett-a-tet. Brett-a-tet. You have to get a bigger car.

Yeah. Well, hey, you know, like three more rentals and I'm executive. Oh, nice. We're getting close.

We're almost there. I almost rented a car yesterday. Just to get close. Just to get the points, yeah.

Just so I could. Excuse me, I will take the executive vehicle. I just need it for about 15 minutes, and I'll bring it right back. I'll drive it around.

All right, you got to listen to the week? I do. Dex Pollard. You don't know if he's listening, really.

We'll find out this week, won't we? So, wait, I do have a, I mean, it's too late now, the contest is over, but did they have to say anything in the comments to get enrolled in the contest? No. So it's just, they buy it, so he might not even know he's in the contest.

It was any Roma purchase. True, it's true. He might not even know. He might not even know.

He might not even know. He might not even listen to the show. Man, what a great lottery to win, huh? Right.

You're one of the cigars. How did I win? You were in the contest. I didn't enter.

Well, you kinda did. Yeah. Right. I mean, it was announced, it was on my email blast as well and everything else.

Right. It wasn't just solely for the show. Well, maybe he didn't read the email blast. Because he wouldn't have got it if he hadn't signed up.

Did he recently sign up or was it from a purchase? His was a purchase, but it was a very small purchase. Oh, $50. I think so.

That's just the fact. See? See what happens, people? See?

You know, it doesn't take a lot. It doesn't take a lot. It doesn't take a lot. So if you don't like to refund the stuff that didn't win.

Oh, wow. Too bad. All sales are final. All right.

Anybody got anything else? Anything else to add? Oh, I have a cigar fact. Oh, yeah, we didn't do Phil's Fun Facts.

Let me read it. Let's see Palmer spend some time on this one. All right. Well, I've carried it for two weeks, because we didn't do it last week.

And then I'll tell you exactly where we're going to be for the upcoming weeks, because I know that we kind of dabbled on that, but... Okay, here it comes, fellas. People have been smoking... Oh, wait, do you want to cue the music?

Oh, sorry, yes. There's no camera for this. There's no camera. Just so you know, I'm moving left to right, left to right, left to right.

Because of your video intro, they don't see that. Oh, it's a video intro? You have a video intro. Oh, I didn't know that.

He doesn't even watch a show. I don't watch a show. He lives it. All right, peoples.

Hello. People have been smoking cigars for over a thousand years. Wow. A Mayan pot that archaeologists date back for the 10th.

I thought we'd heard this one before. For the 10th century. You have not heard this one. I'm sorry.

Get it together. It's very funny, apparently. To the 10th century, shows a Mayan man smoking a cigar while looking at TikTok on his iPhone. That's incredible.

It is. It's amazing. That's incredible. Just so that everybody's aware.

Camera three. Camera three. Monday, September 18th, we're going to be at Cigars on the Ave. We're going to do the Leaf and Barrel.

I think that starts at five o'clock. Nice. What is that, Leaf and Barrel? He pairs it.

He pairs a cigar with them. Yeah. And then Saturday, September 23rd, we're going to be executive cigars in Sanford for Latin Night. I won't be there.

Why not? It's Tanner's wedding. Where are you going to be? I'll be at Tanner's wedding.

That's not important. I have to go. I'm in and waiting. I didn't get invited.

Out of town. I'm going to message him. I'll go. I'll feel free.

Sick invite, bro. Yeah. It's fucked up. And then, obviously, September 28th, we're going to be Lake Country Cigars in Wisconsin for the Powstanie, Habano, Corona Gorda, Box Press release.

Delicious. Mmm, delicious. Mmm, delicious. Yeah, it does have a hoodie.

Why is it attached to that one? You have to fucking suck the shit out of it. I hit them both together, separate buttons. Yeah, it's not attached.

Jesus. It's a separate button. It's a follow-up. And that's, uh, that's what we got going on.

Perfect. Anything else, Michael? Uh, we are two episodes from 300 episodes. Ooh, what are we doing?

I don't even know, I don't know, I haven't decided yet. Oh. But I saw that, uh, uh, uh, Mr. Um, hold on, where did he go?

Like, uh, oh. Who's number one? Cigar Hustler, the podcast. They're doing 700, they're just celebrating their 700th episode this weekend.

Of the number twos. Of the number two show. Yeah. Yeah, the number two show.

What's the number one doing for the three? It's gotta be sad, you know. They had a cake because the photo they use is from 300 episodes. It's gotta be sad to be doing double the amount of work that we've done at this point and we have more followers.

More followers. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. It's terrible.

Terrible. Half the time. Half the time. You know what I say?

I say we bring food in here and we eat. We bring food? Yeah. We bring food?

You want a cake? Yeah, sure. Why not? All right.

This has been episode 209. Can we have a different camera? Camera two? What do you say?

Camera two? Jesus. Jesus. He watches the show instead of watching the camera.

Camera two? Yeah. I was excited about the food. You were excited about the cake?

I'm super hungry. Goodbye. Goodbye. Alright.

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Show Notes

Description:

In this exciting episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, we bring you the latest updates and news from the cigar industry. Join us as we dive into the world of premium cigars and discuss some significant developments that have been making waves in the cigar world.

Topics Covered:

1. Gurkha Discontinues San Miguel and Treinta Lines: We'll explore the decision by Gurkha Cigars to discontinue their San Miguel and Treinta lines, discussing the possible reasons behind this move and its impact on the cigar market.

2. German Engineered Cigars Add #21 Panatela Pigtail: Discover the innovation in German Engineered Cigars as they introduce the #21 Panatela Pigtail to three of their cigar lines. We'll discuss how this unique feature enhances the smoking experience.

3. Roma Craft Tobac Begins Shipping Quinquagenario: Get the inside scoop on Roma Craft Tobac's latest release, the Quinquagenario, and learn about its flavor profile and availability.

4. Bocock Brothers' New Container Box Packaging: Find out about the stylish new container box packaging that Bocock Brothers has unveiled for their World Traveler Connecticut and Habano lines. We'll discuss how this packaging reflects the spirit of adventure.

5. Joe Gro Joins Casa de Montecristo: We have a special guest in this episode as we interview Joe Gro, who has recently joined Casa de Montecristo. Learn more about his journey in the cigar industry and his plans with the iconic brand.

6. Tony Gomez of La Flor Dominicana Joins Cigar Rights of America's Board of Directors: We'll discuss the significance of Tony Gomez's appointment to the Cigar Rights of America's Board of Directors and its implications for the cigar community.

7. Florida Man's Epic Adventure: In a bizarre and unrelated twist, we'll share the incredible story of a Florida man's repeated attempts to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a floating hamster wheel. You won't want to miss this captivating tale of determination and adventure.

Join us for all this and more in Episode 298 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Whether you're a seasoned aficionado or just beginning your journey into the world of cigars, this episode has something for everyone. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the finest cigar podcast on the airwaves.