Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 299 - Navigating Tobacco Headlines and Beyond

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Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where we bring you the latest-- I messed that up. Restart, restart, restart. No, let's keep going. Keep going.

Keep going. This is episode 299. Yay. Yay.

Where we bring you the latest news and insights from the world of premium cigars. In this episode, we dive into the The big stories of the week. The King, Mike Stepankiewicz, and Reverend BDP, Mike Palmer are two dynamic individuals who co-host and captivating Cigar Hustlers Podcast. And me, I'm Phil.

Dude Phil. So grab your favorite smoke, sit back, and join us for another exciting episode of Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Yay! What was that weird noise?

I don't know what that noise was when he was talking. I don't know what that was. Can I have one, please? Oh, there's a reading.

Well, I have to make it up. I didn't write it down again. You too can be part of this podcast? You too can be part of this podcast.

com for more pricing and something information or something. Perfect. I love that. That was amazing.

I'm compelled to invest with you. To email you? Yeah. I look forward to advertising with you.

Thank you. Nobody else will. What are we doing for the Patreons? I need a cigarette.

Patron today, we're doing the La Vareda. La Vareda. La Vareda from Crown Ed's. Yes.

What's it weigh? Oh. 2 grams. 2.

Phil. 2. That's dude. That's dude Phil.

Dude Phil. I need a cigar. Let me have a... This will be on the Patreon, and it will have a Patreon code.

Nice. Let me guess. Phil, you can't say it. I wasn't going to.

Okay. You got to leave him in suspense. I feel like you just had that brain fart moment. No.

Yeah, I think he was about to do it. I think you're right. Hey, no one has anybody new signed up for the Phil's cigars? What's Phil's cigars?

When they sign up for the Patreon, I'll send them some cigars. Oh, no. No, that hasn't happened. No.

Unbelievable. " Same person. Oh. Good people.

Good people, good people on that Patreon. Trying to give away cigars here, come on fellas. Good people. Can you stop crinkling already, just open that damn thing?

You're driving me nuts. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, come on. So what'd you do, Michael, this weekend?

Uh-oh. Went to the Bucks game. Oh, that's right, I saw that. That was fun.

With your messed up hair. With my messed up hair. I had a good time. Bears fans are nice.

Are they? Chicago people? I feel like they know what they're in for, and it's gonna be a long season. Are Bears not a good team?

No, they're not doing well. Can you do the camera too, since we're talking together? Oh, it was about his weekend. They're not doing well.

Oh. Maybe they're just happy to be down here. Is it still warm up north? I don't even know.

I think it's still warm up north. Yeah, it's still. We're about to get cold down here. No, really?

Are we? Yeah, so there's a cold front going. How exciting. Does that mean 70?

No, I think Wednesday is supposed to be like 62. Really? This fucking thing is so shot. Well, you know, it's a very expensive ladder.

Super expensive. So I didn't do anything over the weekend. I don't know what I can't remember what I did Saturday. We were still on medical leave at my house.

Due to concussion protocol? You're in concussion protocol? Due to concuss. There it is.

Concussness. Oh, fuck that up. Okay. Language.

Um, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. Saturday when the game, Sunday was a game? No, Friday we had football. We had our first games.

Oh, how'd you do? Fantastic. Yeah? I saw the videos.

I saw the videos. It looks like your kids did well. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, you can get that light, didn't worry. Everybody just watch it smoke. I'm lighting my live burrito. If you'd like to do a live version of the Cigars Podcast, just come down to the shop any day and we'll just sit there and smoke in front of you.

Oh my goodness, I'm so over this lighter. Yeah, you know, there's a button there you can push, people won't hear it click. There you go. What the hell did I do Saturday?

What the hell did I do Saturday? I don't know. Felt like I did something. Did something?

What happened Saturday? I mean, I did work out in the yard, but that was just so I can get out of the house. Saturday, that was haircut day? Oh yeah, by the way, I got a haircut too, Edka.

Didn't mention mine at all. Wow, she didn't even bring you up. No. That's messed up, man.

It is. What was it? My wife is now cutting my hair, so I get it cut whenever I want. Oh!

Oh, I can't know what I did Saturday. I had fun though. I had a good time. Why can't you say what you did?

Because I can't. It's the best I can. But I did get a haircut. Yes?

And the kids got haircuts. Oh. We all got haircuts. Oh.

And, um, I don't know what else happened after that. Somebody messaged me on Facebook, they cut Greg's hair. Oh yeah? Hey, I cut Greg's hair?

" Yeah. And then I said yes, and then he goes, "Oh, I cut his hair," or something like that. Oh, that's romantic. Yeah.

I cut that man's hair. Very weird, very weird. God, I feel like there's something else that happened on Saturday. I just can't remember.

I don't know. Getting old. Thank you. Oh, no, I just hung out.

You're welcome to sit in on my red light appointments if you went. I hung out at the house. You got a red light appointment? No, I hung out at the house.

I hung out at the house with the kiddos. The red light here. Oh, your wife went out? Yeah.

She had a date? She did. Oh, that's nice. Yeah.

It's nice when they get out. Yeah. Yeah. Takes a little pressure off of you.

Yeah. Don't do the sex and all that stuff. I still got to do the sex. Oh!

Yeah. I like the sex. Oh, do you? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, okay. I look forward to it. I enjoy the sex. Good for you.

Yeah. The sex is good. Is this going to be sex talk now, instead of a Cigar Hustle podcast? Better than, at least if there's sport, and sports they can contribute.

I know what sex is. I remember it fondly. By the way, kudos to Mr. Dolphin fan over there.

Oh, the dude, Phil? The dude. Dude, Phil. For the W.

The Patriots are a mess. Oh, they beat the Patriots? Fucking mess. Yeah, it's bad.

It's because Brady returned. It's bad. I think it's a little more than that. Brady can't do what he used to do anyways.

He's 45 years old, man. He can't hang. It's not going to happen. Did they let you talk that way in the fan club?

I can't say what the fuck I want. That Colorado game was fun, though. Now that he's retired, the fan club disbanded? Yeah, we've all kind of dispersed.

Yeah, but the ticket sales, they locked them in. We're riding that Baker Mayfield train, baby. Let's go. I could tell you, what else did I tell you?

Something. I was going to tell you something. Oh, the Colorado game. Colorado game.

Yeah, man. I'll tell you what. Crap. We're in.

We are in. We are following Dion Prime Time. We are watching the fucking Colorado games. Yeah, baby.

Did you see that bat? How did that guy get ejected from fucking, I mean, he legit laid him out. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about, right?

The whiteout? Yeah. What, he hit him illegally? What's his name?

Yeah, the pass was already done. He couldn't catch it. And this guy just came in and fucking leveled him. I'm thinking, how do you not eject him?

How do you eject him? Was he already in motion? Maybe somebody couldn't have stopped him? No.

No? You go look at the video, you're like, oh, man. There's been a lot of... Whistle was blown.

The play was dead. Yeah. There's been a lot of questionable calls this past couple weeks anyways, because, you know, in sports, they're professionals, but you still don't want them to get hurt. Right.

I mean, like, it's okay for her to get regular hurt, but not, like, life-changing. Intentionally hurt. Right. Like, maimed.

Right. Bleeding with her helmet. Spearing. What did you get?

What did you get? Oh, good. Can you rattle the ice in your cup again? I know.

That's nice. What did you get? Just add more. You guys know this is a clown drink?

Just add more noises over there to the show. That's nice. Oh, my God. Great.

So the Queen Quagenario's out, it's rolling, things are going low. Oh, you see, Skip found out we're the number one show. I did see that. He deleted the post, though.

Too controversial. He said accidentally. I just told him to. Clearly, that's what he'd tell you.

Oh, because he reposted it on my post from his post. Oh, did he? Because the graphic I took from him became unavailable. So he must have got a lot of comments.

Must have got a lot of flack. And then had to delete it. Yeah, that's what I'm believing. From those guys.

That's what I'm believing. From those two guys. All the other podcasts in the cigar industry, they were upset. They were upset.

" Hey, you can take it down. You know, we've been doing it a lot longer than them. Right. Can you take that down?

No, Wu-Tang. We ride together. That's bad. Well, stop carrying your Quasimodo cigar if you don't take that down.

Yeah, we're going to have to close the Quasimodo. Right. It's already sold. So what else you got going on?

So you just hung out of the house, concussion protocol. Yeah, we just watched a lot of TV. She weren't supposed to watch TV either, but she still did. I mean, come on, dude, what the fuck?

Well, I've been in the room for three days doing nothing, just... Yeah, she's got a... How bad is a concussion? Well, you're not supposed to get on your phone, computer, or TV because you can't see moving stuff that makes your brain, brain needs to rest.

Just stick her in the cold plunge, man. Let's get her to ice up. I don't know, she don't like cold. Then I'd bring her to your house.

Do you let other people in your... I don't. I didn't think so. No, it's fine.

Germs and stuff. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, it's weird for you, I would have still got in. Next time I babysit the kids, I'm getting in.

Yeah, because you don't change out the water, do you, or filter it? Yeah, no, you got to change out the water every month or two. Oh. So I'll get in right before water changing season.

Yeah. Slightly used water, you want to get in there? It's just water, it's cold water, there's no bacteria in it. That's why I've gotten in there.

He probably pees in it. No, he doesn't. He hasn't sit in there for a while. Yeah, but then he has to sit in his own pee.

We both know that ain't happening. That ain't happening. You don't think he sits in the pee-pee? No, he don't sit in, not even his own.

No. Not even his own pee. He doesn't even touch it when he pees. He just walks up, puts his hands up.

Wow, that's it. That's amazing. I'm not gonna lie. If you could do that, that's a great trick.

You haven't seen him at the airport? He does that at the airport. Yeah. You don't see him.

Walks up to the urinal. Do you see him at the airport? Did you hear what you just said? Yes.

Yeah. No, I don't. You've never been in the bathroom with him? He does.

No. How have you not been to the bathroom with him? Are you going shifts? Yeah.

Oh. You guys are weird. He goes in, I watch the bags for any talibans, and then he walks out. Talibans?

Talibans? Talibans. Well, you know, the rules of the airport, don't leave your luggage around. He'll take it with you.

That's why he had to learn, because he holds his bags, because you don't want to touch on the floor in the bathroom. There's a guy just laying around the corner, it slips on right in the back, I tell you what. He just hangs out, waits on guys to pee. Hello, I will buy drinks for everyone!

He peed, I would go put bomb in there. Either that, he gives you the Taco Bell burritos. Oh my goodness. For the pooping.

Yeah, a long time. Takes longer, that way he's got more time. That's a bigger bomb. That's the two bombs.

Wow. Stomach bomb and bag bomb. So we bought practice outfits for the whole squad. Oh.

We, as in you and your wife? Outfits. Or we, as in Cigar Hustler? I would say we and my wife.

Yeah. They're like sleeveless hoodies. Oh, so they're all like swag. Yeah.

They're all patrioted up and they're, you know, and Jack's squad is Tampa Bay. They got the Bucs shit. Oh, nice. Yeah.

They're a big hit. I bet. I'm really excited about all that. Yeah.

Yeah. Because you never know how that shit's going to land. Right. Right.

But actually, Levi, the kid I took to the game, he was wearing it for the Bucs game. Oh, I saw he had bug gear on. I assumed it was bug gear. Yeah.

They painted their faces. They painted their faces? Didn't they have war paint or something? I saw both your boys?

No, no, that was probably just the sun burning their faces. Oh. Yeah. Gotcha.

And they were probably just sweating. And melted your hair gel. And melted, yes. Yes.

Nice. But it was a fun game to watch, man. They had control of that game the whole time. Yeah?

Yeah. That's great. That was nice. Yeah.

Made me happy. New England had to go and fuck it all up. Oh. Sunday night.

And then I'm playing boots in fantasy football. Uh oh. And it says that he's got a 99% chance to win. Tonight?

Yeah. Oh. Yeah, I wasn't gonna bring that up. I'm gonna prove that number wrong, by the way.

You had no one else to play. Yes, I do. Phil doesn't care. I have two people left.

Who? Sanders, Miles Sanders, Carolina. Colonel Sanders' son. And Olave.

Olave? Olave. Oh, wow. I got two people left.

I like that song they wrote. If they both scored 25 points, you'd lose. Oh, love it. I just need to have good days.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. It could happen. If they both scored 25 points. That's not a lot.

All right, man. It could happen. It could happen. I've seen angels in the outfield.

That's baseball. Yeah, what does that have to do with anything? They have to do with football. Hey, it could happen.

You don't remember the little kid in there? No, I don't. " No, but his little brother. Oh, it's this way, they do it this way.

He watches a lot of kid shows. He does, he does watch a lot of kid shows. It's kind of creepy. It is weird.

What are you talking about? This guy watches PJ Masks every morning. What's PJ Masks? Don't act like you don't watch it while you eat your Cheerios and bananas.

You watch PJ Masks? I don't even know what it is. Yeah, you do. No, I don't.

You Cheerio guy, I know you eat your Cheerios and bananas. I do eat Cheerios, no bananas, no bananas. This podcast is falling off the rails. What's PJ Masks?

Well, like every other show, they do snack foods and... Tell me this bullshit about life. Well, we talk about it every one. Hey, you guys like Twizzlers?

You wanna be a cigar show? Talk about candy! Yeah, let's talk about candy. So, do you know, you're right, we say the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is actually a bar.

It's not a bar, so it's not candy. It's a bar, so it's not candy. So, a lot of downtime in the cigar industry. Yeah, nothing going on in anywhere.

You know what I did start watching, which I've enjoyed? Twisted Metal. Nope. You brought that up before, what channel is that on?

Yeah, it's on Peacock. Oh, I don't have Peacock. I think that's what you said. That's fine.

That's when they do the sculptures. I'm on like episode three or so. Oh, are they making things? Is it like one of those?

No, no, no, no, no. Oh. You don't know what Twisted Metal is? Is it about the video game?

Yeah. They made a movie, a TV show out of it. Oh, I didn't know that. And it is fucking hilarious.

Oh, wow. Is it supposed to be hilarious? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay.

Yeah, the video game was like a spoofy video game. Yeah, I mean, there's blood and guts and all types of other shit, but it's good. Oh. Hmm.

It's something that I can turn half my brain off and watch. Oh. Yeah. We've been watching "Greek", "Why She's Concussed".

Greek? It's a show about the kids in college. In college, it's an old show. Yeah.

But we've seen it before, we watch it, but there's like seven seasons and 22 episodes a season. Do they use a lot of stuff. Do they use like Windex to fix their... No, no, it's...

Like my Big Fat Greek Wedding? No, oh, no, Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 came out this weekend on Hulu. I think that was three, three just came out. Three's coming out in the theaters, two just came out on Hulu.

How many times did you get married? No, the second one, I forget what the second one is. This is like Father of the Bride. This is all Father of the Bride all over again.

Oh, we watched that all weekend, too. We did watch Father of the Bride and then Father of the Bride has a baby. Or whatever it's called. Oh my goodness.

What are you doing? Try to keep my wife happy with the concussion. Good luck. Just to date her at this point.

I mean, what's the fuck? No, we didn't that the first two days. Take this. Take this.

Good night, night. I'm running around the house naked. I do that anyway. What do you do with that, mate?

You bring peanut butter for the dogs? The Greek's a fraternity and sorority. What? In front of the dogs?

Yeah, peanut butter. They think I'm crazy too. No, no peanut butter. No peanut butter.

But Greek is about sorority and fraternities in a college setting. The setting. Oh, sounds exhilarating. It's fun to watch.

Is it like a real show? Like? No, no, it's not a reality show. No, it's not a reality show?

No, not a reality show. What is it? Scripted. Oh, it's scripted?

Scripted. Scripted. But it's scripted? Yes, it's scripted.

Scripta. Oh, I heard they're putting, yeah, we're talking about TV. This is the TV show. They're putting Yellowstone on CBS.

It started last night. Yeah, episode one. Well, yeah, they're running out of stuff to do because the strike's still on. Well, they, they will be ending it in November.

If it comes on. If the strike's over. That's not really the whole point of why they're not doing it. You know, here's what's really kind of fucked up about that whole strike thing.

Yeah. There's enough content on all of these things where I can go back and pick up a show. Well, I said I'm watching stuff either wasn't good enough to watch the first time it came out, or something that I've seen that I enjoyed, I will, I'm willing to rewatch. And that's what I think the big dogs are waiting on.

And there's a gamble of how long can you hold out and how long can we hold out? Because we have all of these live stream things. Right. We have all these shows where he doesn't think we're that good.

People will look for shows to watch. I mean, I bet you... Oh, I'm sure the programming guys going through now going through, where's the stuff we canceled on before? Well, if you guys haven't been noticing on Apple TV, a bunch of new shows all the time.

Really? I don't have Apple TV. They must have shows that they already... They banked them.

Either that or they like, they have like, Jennifer Love, or not Jennifer Love, Jennifer Aniston, they have, they have all those people making new shows for them. No, they have to already be filmed. And now Taylor Swift is coming out with a concert in, in the movie theater. Oh, well, that makes sense.

So that's gonna fuck that up, you know what I mean? So money is still gonna go in the movie theater. Drew Barrymore decided to start doing her show again. " Or talk show.

Oh, really? Yeah. What'd she say? She said, "I'm very sorry.

" Oh, she crossed the picket line. Yeah. So then she had to walk it back. Then she had to walk it back because she got too much flack.

Ah. Hmm. Just like that? Oh, like Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis?

Have you seen them? No. Okay, there's that guy from the 70s show who got convicted of rape. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, well, they wrote character letters for him and said what a great guy he was. Right. And now they're going, "I'm sorry. He's not a great guy.

" You know, but I mean, how do you blame them for that? I mean, how can you prove, you don't know what somebody else is up to. Oh yeah, you don't know. I mean, when they knew him back when he was, whatever age he was doing that 70s show, he probably was a great guy.

They loved him. They didn't know anything about him. But now they found out he was. The guy's rapey.

He rapey. Didn't see that coming. Didn't know that. You know what I mean?

I don't rape with him, so how would I know? Right. It's not like we were at the bar, and then all of a sudden- I held the girl for him. There's a girl next to him, and I see, you know what I mean?

And he walks out with her over your shoulder. Wow, what a nice guy taking her out if she passed out from that one drink. So thoughtful. I should write a letter.

Dear judge. Good guy. I watched him carry a woman out of the bar. He seemed very friendly.

He was so nice. He was so nice. I don't get it. I leave him alone with my wife all the time.

Back with weird bruises, but I don't understand. It's just so weird to me that people instantly gotta have an opinion about some shit you really don't know a lot about. Right. You're coming down on these two people because you knew him.

They did their apology video. It looks like they haven't slept in days, no makeup, no hair, nothing. They just look like homeless people. It was ridiculous.

Are we gonna go after Jared's friends of Subway? I mean, like, if there's somebody had to know. Don't eat the sandwiches. Somebody's gotta know.

Why is Subway still open? Right. There's good defenses. Stupid.

I was looking at the time thing on here, 'cause I can't remember what time we started. Holy. 19 minutes ago. Um, yeah, 'cause I'm at 22 on here.

Yeah, I'm at 19. Well, give me Phil's fun facts, let's go. Oh, yeah, let's do it, hold on. Is that what you want?

Yeah. Is that what the people want? That's definitely the wrong one. You know, for episode 299, we really don't have our shit together.

Wait 'til 300 comes. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers podcast feature, Phil's Fun Facts. The Dude! All right, fellas, peoples, you ready?

The music's off, start! I'm just asking, are you ready? For God's sakes! I'm not, wait, wait, I'm not ready.

Okay, I'm ready. A thousand tobacco seeds. One blow. You have to fuckin' suck the shit out of it.

Mmm. Delicious. I'm sorry. We're gonna have a lot of technical difficulties today with these cameras.

Let's go. Let's go. A thousand tobacco seeds can fit inside a thimble. Yes.

And yet. Yeah. A banana will not fit. It's not fit.

I'm not reading this. I hit it way in the middle of the sentence. Yeah, you did. Finish the line.

What's the line? Just read it. Will not fit in my ass easily. Oh, Phil.

Oh, yay, Phil's won fast. Yeah, he said it wouldn't have it easily, but it could still happen. It could still happen. Just like me winning tonight in fantasy football.

It could still happen. Unbelievable. Easily, as it easily. Did you know that the watermelons are 90% water, but you can't swim in them?

He's losing, we're losing. He's losing his hair. Yeah. I guess he's not coming back on the camera.

We'll start the news. Bro, now let's hear about the world. All the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Toon.

The Biden White House announces new anti-tobacco measures as part of Cancer Moonshot Program. What? Yesterday, the Biden administration announced a variety of new anti-tobacco initiatives as part of President Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot Program. While none of the announcements constitute new policy, they do reaffirm the Biden administration's stance on tobacco.

Broadly, they don't like it. We're against it, the dude. S. Food and Drug Administration's plans to ban the sales of flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes.

So this is only for flavored? No, anti-tobacco. We're going to ban menthols? Yes.

Again? Again. We've been banning them for 20 years. Yes.

It's going to happen. They're not doing a good job. Well, you said cigars, but then you just said flavored and menthol. Well, his whole, well, let's read on.

Let's read on. Let's read on. The Anti-Tobacco Initiative announced yesterday to include new investments to reduce the impact of menthol and other flavored commercial tobacco products in communities that experience health disparities. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is announcing awardees of a new five-year, $15 million program to help increase adoption, implementation, and enforcement of policies prohibiting the sale of menthol and other flavored tobacco products and increase awareness of services and coverage options among populations experiencing tobacco-related disparities in order to accelerate smoking cessation.

We should get a piece of that $15 million. Wait a second. How do we do that? We say we won't sell menthol cigars.

Wait a second. We're gonna need a program. 5 billion. It's only $15 million.

Oh. 5 million. All the money in their budgets, and they only dedicate $15 million? Yeah, but there's, you know, please.

It's not happening. Over five years. It's not happening. So it's $3 million a year.

It's not happening. Look. We need $1 million a year for our anti-menthol cigar program. We're testing the waters to see how people respond to it, yeah, because, you know, if people are upset, they're going to get behind it and support it, you know what I mean, like, that's what they're trying to do, they're trying to figure this out.

I think everybody's going to be out there with their poster boards? It's whatever, whatever's hot, you know, like, they, oh, I keep saying like, it makes me mad. Yes. If everybody was upset about the piss-poor call of Colorado getting, that kid getting leveled?

There would be money for that, too. Yeah, there would be a whole administration. Well, they would have lost, there would have been a lot of care. Yeah, exactly.

All right, part of the plan to decrease the impact of smoking on Americans' health by expanding efforts to prevent smoking and to support everyone who wants to quit. No matter we, you're not quitters in America. While the United States has made important progress, smoking remains the biggest single driver of cancer death in the country. I mean, if you want to pull my blood work any time, I'll guarantee you that I'm more healthy than anybody who drinks consistently.

What's the numbers on that? How about we ban alcohol? I don't know. I'm gonna look it up what you're doing.

Let's ban alcohol. Shh. Well, it's not. No, let's turn it off.

What are you doing? I wanna shut it down. Shut it down. We tried that.

Today. That's why there's a Volstead cigar. Today. Prohibition.

Let's bring it back. No. Yeah. You hush over there.

I want it done. You be quiet. Close 'em. New smoking cessation resources for undeserved, underserved, sorry, communities, including American Indian, Alaska.

Undeserved. Underserved. Native Americans, that's what you're saying. Okay, just checking.

Underserved. Yeah, he did say that. Alaskan Native and Black communities to reduce cancer health disparities. I told you you're racist.

gov initiative is extending a partnership with the Indian Health Service to collaborate with experts from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the American Indian Cancer Foundation. I didn't know they had their own cancer foundation. How about you just cure cancer and fucking be done with it? Well, there's a lot of money to be made in cancer, Michael.

It's true. A text message program to help American Indian and Alaskan Natives. Shouldn't they use smoke signals instead of text messages? You can't do that, that's tobacco friendly.

Oh. Smokes. A new pilot program to increase veteran engagement in tobacco use treatments. There you go, Phil.

There you go. For veterans. Give us more cigars. The Department of Veteran Affairs, in collaboration with NCI, will conduct a...

NCIS? No, just NCI. Not quite. No, just NCI.

Not him. Demonstrate a project to assess how more effectively engage veterans in tobacco use. Oh, I like those. That's probably a program to demonstrate how they could possibly do a program to help maybe possibly veterans possibly stop smoking.

Yeah, it's probably like naval census information. So there's a lot of nothing that's going on. Yes, yes. S.

Food and Drug Administration has said that it will announce finalized rules that would ban flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes as early as ... Ooh, this fall. Earlier this month, the agency clarified that ... Military No More Smokey, is what you're saying?

No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying?

No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying?

No more smokey, is what you're saying? No more smokey, is what you're saying? It's not smoky, is what you're saying? No more menthol or flavored.

No more menthols. Oh, no more menthols. Oh, that means dip too then, huh? Yeah, tobacco, all tobacco.

Well, they're going to be mad about the dip. Oh, the dip. Let me know when the- How about the chalk? So when people- Well, sometimes, so think about this.

Sometimes you can't smoke cigars in the military because maybe we're at your station. Really? Because of like the Charlies and stuff? Yeah, because when you- Because of the Charlies?

When you smoke the cigar, the big red light comes on. Oh, well, you don't do it when you're fighting. It smells like cigar. It's more of an after-fight relaxing thing.

I don't know, I saw Predator, they were smoking cigars. Oh, they were smoking cigars. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, Schwarzenegger was smoking the most, and he made it all the way to the end. Dylan! Yeah. I see you pushing pencils again.

FDA informed, camera back to one, please, as you're playing video games on your phone over there. You're on camera one again? Yeah, I'm talking again. But you guys go back and forth, that's why I was on camera.

Well, after I talk, then you go to two and he talks. See, you work the cameras. So when I talk, it's on me. He talks on him.

We talk on two. I got the numbers. I'm about to put it on me. You can't.

You took your hair off. I'll close my eyes. I still know who you are. Don't ruin the illusion.

FDA informs premium cigar companies. This show really sucks, just to be honest with everybody. Wow. If you guys want to go watch the one about the candy, feel free.

I have the candy. Oh. We have candy? No, we don't.

Dojo did a candy one last week. Oh. Who is Doja? I don't know who that is.

Brian Gerslom. What? Right, Michael? How do you say his last name?

Brian. No. Not Brian. Brian.

Now you don't remember. Yeah, I know. FDA informs premium cigar companies have updated user fees process following lawsuit. You don't pay user fees, do you, Michael?

For what? Oh, sorry. You're doing something else. I'm looking at patches.

I'm the only one on the show now. I'm looking at patches. He's doing video games. He's looking up emails.

The only number of cigar deaths is it says it was a 2014 study. This is the last time there was a study. Oh, a long time ago. 2014 study estimated that regular cigar smoking causes 9,000 premature deaths annually.

Premature. 9,000? That's not a big number. Right.

Are you okay with that number, Michael? Yeah, I love that number. Say he's not even paying attention. That's premature.

Let's talk about that for a second. Alright, so anybody want to hear about my wife's concussion? We can talk about that. This is the Palmer Show.

No, I guess these guys are doing other things. I'm here. FDA informs, I already did it. S.

Food and Drug Administration and agencies deeming regulations. The outcome of Cigar Association and the American versus United States Food and Drug Administration means that the deeming regulations do not apply to cigars that meet the definition of premium cigar. Largely, any cigar sold in a retail humidor with the exception of flavored cigars. As part of this decision, that means the agency's user fees will no longer be applied to premium cigars.

e. the regulator products pay for the regulation. So who started paying that because it wasn't a definite thing? I don't know.

Some people did though. Some people did pay it. There's a lot of money in it. The total amount of user fees The enemy Is one is 712 million Wow is set by Congress companies that import or manufacture one of six product categories cigarettes roll your own snuff chewing tobacco cigars and pipe tobacco are assessed user fees so maybe the other companies the cigars and all that that's redistribute cigars but cigarettes roll your own snuff and chewing tobacco maybe they they were already paying so they're gonna back it out no you have two choices take the red pill FDA has informed cigar companies We have no idea what we're doing.

For example, FDA does not know how many cigars your estate sold that meet the definition of premium compared to the number of infused cigars products that would not meet the definition. The FDA has no idea whether a cigar company is selling premium cigars, non-premium cigars, or a mixture of both. We have no idea what we're doing. For example, FDA does not know how many cigars your estate sold that meet the definition of "premium" compared to the number of infused cigars, products that would not meet the definition.

As such, the FDA companies who submit a disputed letter within 45 days of the assessment of user fees, It is allowing companies to either pay the full amount of assessed user fees, or with the intent of getting a refund, or, let's see, or, for any user fees assessed to premium cigars, or to pay what a company believes it will owe for the non-premium cigars. So it's A or B. Either you give us all the money, and we might give you some back, or you think you owe us less, you pay us less money, and we don't give you any back. Oh.

What'd you want to do? I'm not fucking paying. It should be on 2 now, but he's not paying attention, so he's still playing video games over there. I'm not fucking paying.

We didn't pay here. I don't know if that's incorporated with our TTB or whatever, the brokerage fees or whatever the case may be. I don't think it is, it's a separate fee. Look, if it's gotta come in and it requires us to pay it, it's paid.

Well, I'm sure it was, but I mean, you figured I would've heard Greg Alicia yell once about how much that was. I'm sure he has yelled about it. I would have heard. He likes to vent to me for some reason.

Oh, you're his Oprah? Yes, I'm his Oprah. Wow, that's nice. Yeah.

Well, that way I find things I like to tell you. Oh, you get back to me. Yes. You're my...

What's that? Mole. Yeah, mole. Yeah, there's another strange word for that.

Mole. Mole. Oh, if you stand closer, it's a different word. Mole.

Mole-y, mole-y, mole-y. Okay. Robert Wright promoted to CLE's National Sales Manager. Oh.

Oh. Robert Wright has been named the national sales manager for CLE Cigar Company. The industry veteran joined CLE in 2012 when the company was launching as a sales representative for the Northeast Territory. Congratulations.

Also started his own cigar brand, Purisol, which was once distributed by CLE. His resume includes time at the VP of sales for Camacho. You're my deep cover agent. Oh, yeah, that's nice.

I like that better than mole. Penetration agent. Are you looking up synonyms for this? I don't like penetration thing.

It sounds sexual. Congratulations, Robert. Later, it's a national sales manager for Davidoff. Everybody either worked for Drew Estate or Davidoff.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Because, you know, sometimes they don't want to pay, you know? We're in a different story now. We're doing like a new bus. I know.

Oh, okay. Camacho's where he met Christian Iroa, founder. That's what I'm talking about. And Tom Luzuka.

Excuse me, sir. Yes. That's what I'm talking about. Okay, good.

Okay. Your wife hasn't called yet in several shows. Yeah. I think she's mad at us.

Robert Wright has been part of our team since the beginning. I can't think of anyone better to fill his role for our company, said Iroa. In a press release, I have all the faith that Robert will help take Sealy Cigar Company to even greater heights. Did you see her mom's video?

I'm sorry, what? Her mom's video. Moms, yes, yes, I saw the mom's video. Did you see her mom's video?

Yeah, the flowers. I saw it on TikTok, I saw it on Instagram, I saw it on Facebook, and I saw when you shared it on Facebook. Oh, excellent. So, every year we have these pockets.

We do the mums too. She buys these fucking mums. And they die. She gets LinkedIn on Home Depot.

At Costco. She can't help it. She buys them. Yeah, my wife does too.

And I say every year. I say every fucking year. Listen, these things aren't going to make it a week. They are going to make it a fucking week.

Please. Please. Can we just buy a dead one? Save the time.

Just don't buy it. They just waste money. So she saw this TikTok or something video. It says, want those beautiful mums to last a long time?

Here's what you do. You dunk it in water for an hour or some shit. Soaking in a bucket of water for 30 minutes to an hour. I saw it five times.

I know what I said. Water them. No, then you never have to water them. Yeah, then they're beautiful.

Then they're beautiful all season. You know, they still die, they just die later. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you mean they survive September? 'Cause it'd be nice for them to survive September. Yeah, it would be, wouldn't it? Everything dies.

Wow. So, she did a video of her watering her mom. Yes. Wait, I didn't see her video.

I saw somebody else's video. Did you see what happened at the end of it? He didn't watch the whole video. I didn't watch the whole video, apparently.

I thought it was somebody else's video, she just shared it. Wow. It's fucking hilarious. I have to go back and watch it.

I'm very sorry, Brittany. I will go back and watch all five of them. When I asked you, I said, did you watch her mom video? You're like, yeah.

I saw it. I saw him dunking in the water, and then I go, okay, it's going to live forever. I'm thinking, wow, I thought it was really fucking funny, Palmer, and you didn't even react to it. I didn't watch it all the way to the end.

Yeah. Oh, would you like me to watch it right now? Yeah. Would you like me included as part of the show?

Pull it up. Yeah. Then you have to send me the video. You can't.

If she has the video. This saddens me a great deal. I'm very sorry. I'm no longer your penetrative support or whatever it was.

Wow. You're no longer my penetration agent. Wow. Crownheads, Mildias, Topes, en route to Cigar Shop.

Oh. Mildias means a thousand days, Michael. Does it? Yes.

I thought I meant 10. No. What did you say before? I think it's a 10.

What's mill? I think I said what mill is. The newest size of Crownheads, Mildias line, the 4 and 7, 8 by 56, Topes, Topes, Top, I'm sure. Tapas.

It's not tapas. It's not tapas. You don't eat them. Now, Skip will send me the phonetics, and I'll have it tonight, and I'll tell you tomorrow morning.

Hip-hop anonymous. Report back. " The first boxes left the warehouse on Friday. The Mildius line gets its name from a thousand days at the elapsed between the Tablical Era Pichardo factory, gave some samples of Crown Heads and when the blend was finalized.

That blend is, are they arguing about whether it was that many days since Pichardo? Just soak them in a bucket of water for 30 minutes to one hour. And your mums will last all season long. So go ahead and buy those beautiful mums.

You got this. Oh, now I see. She put a dead one in. Oh, it's very nice.

It's pretty. It's better now. Yeah, it's better now. Now it's funny.

You suck as a person. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. For all of you listening only, please turn on the video to make sure that wasn't anybody in the bathroom.

Oh, you're in trouble. He's ratting me out. Yeah, you're in trouble. Hello.

Hey, Brittany, how are you? It wasn't me. You're on the podcast. Bye.

You're the third caller. It wasn't me. Congratulations. So, I just wanna, I just wanna tell you.

" and i said oh okay weird didn't think he didn't laugh or anything i'm like okay so i just brought it up on the podcast and i said hey did you watch the mom's video and he said yeah i saw it three times five times and and i said well did you see the end did you watch it when she dunked the thing she goes he goes no i just thought it was just the instruction thing of how to save mom oh my god i'm so sorry fucking do that right when have you ever seen first of all there is nothing It's green around our house. Like, I killed everything. I thought you found out, oh, there's a secret, I dunked it in the bucket. I didn't know you actually dunked yours in the bucket.

It was very funny, he just showed it to me. Well, thank you, thank you. Mikey was rolling last night. You know, I was very...

I wondered why he shared it himself, but now it makes complete sense. Because it's funny. Yeah, it's funny, yes. Wow.

I thought, wow, they're really behind the mums in that thing. See how I told you to keep time short on that? Because, you know, they lose interest, these people. I mean, it wasn't even a minute.

Two seconds. He didn't even get into it. Two seconds. He didn't get into the joke.

He's on to the next one. I guess if you really know me, you know that that's never how my mom looked. Right. That's why I thought she was excited.

No. Yeah, no. In fact, I think I bought this one dead. That's how bad I am.

She bought it dead. Oh, at the same time. Yeah. Excuse me, I'm on the phone.

I'm on the podcast. Tell him. Oh, shh. Mommy's on the podcast.

Bubbles kill No she says Alright Just wanted to let you know that Palmer dropped the ball Wow This is going to change everything for you Can you get the knife Please She said get the knife Yes She's coming by She's going to stop by That's it. Oh, I'm done. Giddy and I, we have to go see Mr. Palmer.

He's downstairs. We have to go see Mr. Palmer. All right, I love Palmer.

Love you. All right, love you. Bye. You want to say something he did wrong?

Oh, yeah. Conversation over. Okay, there's a lot of Mildia cigars coming out of her. Yeah, Mildia.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. I see why people are doing shows on candy. Hey, you got his signature, though. Whose signature?

Oh, yeah, we got a lovely picture. We got a lovely signed letter from John Hoover upstairs. Yeah, we did. That's nice.

I had a good conversation with him at the show. Yeah, that's what you said. Yeah. He likes the hustler.

Yes, yes, he's very happy to have a hustler back on board. Yeah, so nice. El Septimo Empress of Sheba heads to stores. Oh!

I'm excited, are you guys excited? I'm excited, I'm excited. El Septimo's lone new cigar release of summer 2023 is now shipping. Last Friday, the company began shipping the El Septimo, the Emperor Collection, Empress of Sheba, and a 6x60 Gordo that uses tobacco from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, though the company isn't specifying what it's used for the- What was the last one?

Nicaragua? Nicaragua. Nicaragua. Isn't that a song?

Nicaragua? No, it's a country. No, no, no, no. The Sheba?

Smoke Sheba, Sheba, smoke Sheba, Sheba, what? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

How did they come up with the Sheba? How did they come up with the Sheba? I always wrap things here because they're doing the Emperor Collection, so they have to have an Empress. The Empress.

Why not, what's her name? The Egypt girl. Cleopatra? Yeah.

What's her name? Or Sacagawea. Those are the two most famous. Sacagawea?

She's not from Egypt, you big dummy. No, I know she's. She's an Indian. I know she's not from Egypt.

She's from the West Coast. She's from the West Coast? These are $20 cigars. They come in boxes of 20s.

She's repping Cali. She walked a long ways, man, all right? California love. Interestingly, it will be offered in three different color boxes, white, purple, and green.

What are we talking about again? Septimo. Empress of Sheba. You know what?

How original is them to do white, purple, and green? Oh, wait. He was asked by a dear friend to design a cigar that reflects of the rich history and culture of African Americans, said Zaya Yunnan, CEO of El Septimo. Why did you have to read that part?

I was just kidding about the Sheba joke. Now you're racist. Great, now you can join the Palmer racism camp. If you would have told me that first, I would have said it.

We're enjoying the show, I don't know about anybody else. Nicaraguan cigars are made with Hawaiian tobacco, Michael. No way. Yes!

We carried some Hawaiian tobacco cigars here years ago. Is it fire cured? I thought tobacco was illegal in Hawaii. it was illegal.

Nobody got that joke? Come on. Oh, no. Selling nut.

Selling nut. You're a funny guy. Selling nut. Hey, Brady, now they're being mean to me.

Remember how I told you how you didn't watch the mums video? Fucking call her back right now. Why? You may be famous for tropical vacations.

Teddy, go grab two knives from the back. Two knives. It was Jax that was getting the knives. Oh, whatever.

I trust the little one with the knife. She doesn't need a knife. She got the dog. Bubbles kill.

I've noticed at all the cigar shows those whole Hawaiian chocolates always make it around somehow. Dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got a, there's a connection.

Oh, yeah, Jack always has them. Jack and Saka. I think, I think Eric buys them. The chocolate covered macadamia nuts?

No. Is it the guy from Saka? No. God, I can't think of who brings them.

I can't think of who brings them. The guy from Hawaii. He works with Saka. Duque?

I don't think Duque brings them. I think it's somebody else. The name in this cigar, the Dakin. Oh, Lord.

The Dakin? D-A-K-I-N-E. is uh still are we still talking about yeah the hawaiian thing oh not some teemo no no no that was that was the racist cigar that he didn't like yeah yeah smoke shiba smoke shiba fucking yeah that's it's red man bro so bad uh i don't know it doesn't say it's making this wait wait is this i'll just read it myself the darky what is it d-a-k-i-n-e dekane d-a-k-i The name Dekayne is taken from Dekayne. Dekayne.

Well, I don't know how to say it. Taken from Dekayne, an expression so versatile in Hawaiian Creole that it is own wiki page. No, I tried to find it. I couldn't find it.

Dekayne. Dekayne. Dekayne? Dekayne.

Dekayne. Dekayne. Dekayne. There's no umlat over anything.

Umlaté. Umlaté? It's about exploring Hawaii a new kind of, I don't know. All right, this is a Hawaiian cigar.

They got a bunch of them. They got the Big Island. They got the Target Isle. Yeah.

The Valley Isle. Let me ask you both a question. Tell me. When was the last time you guys smoked a Hawaiian cigar?

We used to have them here. That's what I said. I liked them. How long ago was that?

Oh, it had to be three, four years. Yeah. More. I've never seen one.

We had one box, or two boxes of them here. I bought the last of them because I liked them. The Dakine. It wasn't the Dakine.

Chicago. Dakine. Oh, here we go. Dakine is owned and distributed by online cigar retailer Best Cigar Prices.

Oh. But this is not a catalog exclusive brand. It's available to all retailers through best business-to-business wholesale sites. " You like to buy my cigar I just came out with?

Why don't you check in here and buy this? It won't be available. I swear I won't sell it. I'm just trying to figure it out, man.

I won't discount it here, I promise. Give me a fucking break. It's so comical. I'm trying to figure out how that plug goes in.

You know what that reminds me of? Have you ever seen Mars Attacks? where they're like, yeah, wait, we come in peace. They're fucking just laying everybody out.

Yeah, that's exactly what's going on in that press release. All right, Florida, we got Florida stories. I'm sure there is. A man bitten in the face by a shark while serving off New Smyrna Beach.

Yeah. In the face. In the face. Oh, is this the one where they found the shark again later?

This happened the other day. Oh, I don't know. A man was bitten in the face by a shark while serving off New Smyrna Beach, according to Volusia County safety officials. m.

Tuesday near the jetty in North Newsomberna Beach. That's a fucking shark right there, boy. The victim, a 38-year-old South Carolina man, was jumping off a wave when he was bitten above his right cheek. At the jetties?

Right near the jetties, yes. What's wrong with this guy? He was from North Carolina, or South Carolina, he doesn't know. He doesn't know there's sharks in the ocean.

He didn't see airway with the fishing poles off of his place? I'm like, come on, man. The man suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. The incident marks the seventh shark bite of the year.

That's a year. That's it? That's not bad. That's low.

Yeah. New Smyrna's the shark bite capital of the world. That's because there's sharks nowhere else. They're all just hanging out on New Smyrna.

They're all hanging out on New Smyrna by the jetties. All right. Mysterious yellow line spanning 20 miles of I-95 confused Florida drivers. A mysterious line.

They had somebody added a yellow line on the highway. Get out of here. St. Augustine, Florida.

Mysterious yellow line running down the middle of interstate on Interstate 95 southbound from Jacksonville and all the way to St. Augustine is causing confusion and safety concerns. And Safety Concerns Among Drivers. The line has been there since Friday, starting at the Acosta Bridge, News 4 Sky Drone captured the line to extend over 20 miles, crosses lane several times, and changes in width, but always remains visible.

" The pain of black! I know, right? This could be fixed in fucking... Oh, wait.

It's hard to remove the pain, apparently. Just paint over it. Yeah, they should have just painted over it. Super expensive.

Driver Richard Albany is worried that the line may represent an accident hazard. It's a yellow line with a yellow line on the other side, said Albany. Most people like, especially if they're out of town, they don't really don't do it. First of all.

They're not really too much looking at it. They're not really too much looking at it. They wrote it phonetically as the guy said it. Okay.

Two things about this guy. First of all, he has one tooth. Yeah. I was just about to say, there's two things about this guy.

One, he fell asleep with the thing down. With the thing down. Two, he's a redneck. That guy's a total hillbilly.

Yeah. There are not too many a damn, damn yellow lines. The line ends at Acme Barricade near San Augustine, where it appears to be paint in the parking lot. Or it was right into the wall.

A road construction company is not answering requests to talk about the matter. We don't talk about this damn line. Hey, DeCain. DeCain.

DeCain, watch this. Watch what I'm about to do. Watch this. Check this out.

Did you see the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer painted extra lines on the highway? He's in front of the lines on the highway. No. More because he's in front of luxurious driving.

He's sponsored like a mile of the highway. Yeah. And he's putting it in his own lines. He wants large, luxurious lanes for people to drive it.

I don't believe anybody's taking responsibility for it yet, but we're going to work with whoever we can to make sure that it's identified. We're going to get to the bottom of this yellow line. FDOT Community Outreach Manager Hampton Racer. Soon's a bill.

We're going to figure it out. We're going to have an operation where we take a street sweeper with a wire brush and we will be going and doing our best to dislodge some of the yellow paint from the roadway. What? $9 million operation.

We do not expect this to be the end-all solution. It is still unclear how much it will cost to remove the paint. It's going to go on forever. And who's going to pay for it?

What's this painted? It's going to go on forever. Yeah, but it is painted black. This thing is so much easier.

Bro, I could fucking hang out my car with a can of spray paint. I could have this thing wrapped up by a car. Well, Raymond had a roller, and he just left his door open. There you go.

That's perfect. Isn't there a Habitat for Humanity somewhere around there? Probably. They're worried now that self-driving cars will have accidents.

So apparently, to take out the self-driving cars, you just paint extra lines. That's all you gotta do. That's fantastic. It was a test by terrorists to see what happened.

Here's what we're gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do. More yellow lines. We're gonna paint more lines.

It was crazy. They frunk them up, and they won't know what to do. They'll have no idea how to fix it. They don't even know how to get it off.

That's right. Stop watching people pee at the airport. Get out to the highway and start painting lines. You know, like, in downtown Winter Park, they have the brick roads and shit, where the bougie people live.

Yes. And one of the guys told me, he's got a Tesla. And he says, man, it's just not good on these brick roads. I'm like, oh, I'm just feeling so bad for you.

Aw, you split eyes, I'm sorry. I'm gonna go paint some yellow lines on those brick roads. It makes shit really interesting. They're gonna start showing up.

It's... You okay? Yeah, I'm good. You okay?

You wanna rattle your eyes some more? You need a drink? I came all the way back here. I feel like your soul just left after that sneeze.

Yeah. Holy moly. If you have COVID, we definitely now have COVID. It's okay.

We all have it now. We're friends. Are you trying to just shoo us off here? We're almost out of time, and that's all I got.

You're the one that almost killed my brother with COVID. That's right. Okay. You're not mad at me, though.

Well, he's mad because it's almost. I mean, if you're going to do it. You finished the job. The plan was to do it.

Hey, Mike, are you going to listen to the week? I do. Are you going to listen to the week? Dexter Pollard.

Wow. Listen to the week, Dexter. Well, thank you so much, Dex, for reaching out and receiving your product. He got it?

No, he didn't get it. He didn't get it. You just said thank you so much for reaching out. I know.

Next week, we should all smoke Frenchies on the show. Do you have three? I know I have one in that bag. Oh.

So... There are enough people that listen to this show that are friends with him that haven't said anything. Horrible friends. I saw him on Facebook over the weekend, but I didn't say where it's going.

Not only that, you sent him an order this week. Horrible friends. Oh, well. You sent him an order on Friday.

You should have wrote it on the back of the sticker. Call Mikey, you want a prize? Dude, they're, they're, they're, they're talking about you on the podcast now, two weeks in a row. What?

What? I should go listen! So, yeah. So, he didn't, he didn't enter on purpose, he just bought something that random entered.

Yeah, I told you, he didn't buy something, and he didn't buy anything big. Oh. So, it happened to work out. Just a run.

Listen, Dexter, if you don't, you know, come get your prize, me and Palmer are gonna smoke 'em all. You know, I'm gonna pick somebody else? Okay, we give him one more week. One more week?

If he doesn't reach out by next week, the next show. The next show. Which will be show 300, that'll be the big thing for the 300 show. Oh, yes.

Wow. Okay. We screw Dexter Pollan, and then we give it to somebody else. He's such a nice guy.

How do you feel about this? Let's take a census on it. He's such a nice guy. Me, I struggle with doing shit like that.

Because he didn't do anything wrong. So you struggle with what? Not giving it to him. Well, he's got one more week.

Well, we could reach out and tell him. I don't want to reach out. So you don't feel that bad. Hey, look, listen, give me his number, I'll call him.

Yeah. You're so thoughtful. I'll call him at A-Dex. Listen, I got three cigars here that they want to give you.

A five. He's keeping two. Yeah, it's a fee fee. It's a fee fee?

It's a tax fee. It's a fee fee. It's a fee fee. It's a call fee.

It's a call fee. It's a call fee. There's a call fee. You got a shop of the week?

Let's get this over before we talk about candy. I do. I do. What is it?

Lake Country Cigars. Nice. Phil, you're not going to believe this. Oh, I can't wait to hear about this.

But we're going to Lake Country Cigars. We're going there? Yeah, Thursday, September 28th, we're going to release the War Bear Corona Gorda. You mean Boots is going there?

Yeah. Yeah. No, Phil should go where he's going. No, Boots is going there.

Boots is going there. How was the Dude Phil? The Dude Phil. No, Boots.

Dude Phil likes to drive. So, apparently, Half Wheel just released a review on the Postano Broadleaf Corona Gorda, and it got hammered. Really? Yeah.

What? I'm going to look it up between shows. You better end the show because I'm starting to go off here in a second. No, it's funny.

I don't care. Save it for the Patreon. We got nothing to talk about. Yeah, I got some words to say.

So we all have time to read it. Oh, Patrick was my friend, too. Oh, Patrick did it? Yeah.

Never talk to him again. He's dead. He's dead to me. They had a lot of reviews on their page this week.

Patrick, you're dead. There's obviously a slow news week. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't, you had shark bite guys.

Well, that's not on Half Wheel though. We're fucking swimming next to fish. There's no comments yet. Because everybody's stunned.

Everybody is stunned. Stunned. They're speechless. They don't know what to do.

What is he smoking? Romeo and Juliet's? I don't know. I'm gonna...

Monte Cristo White's? Think they listen to the show? Obviously not. No.

I think everybody does. Did you see what we talked about? Because it would have been in there right up. How about that cigar last week?

They did a 9-11 show. I bet it was good. Oh, nice. Oh, pop.

Pop, that's not good. That was it. That's done. It's telling us we're done.

It could be electrical. Maybe the electrician hit something else. Oh, it's still good. You know, Garrett hasn't popped his head up anymore lately.

Yeah. I miss him. You used to hate him. I never hated Garrett.

Oh, I did. Oh, yeah, but we made nice, nice at the TPE. At the teepee. Yeah, because he did the joke.

He apologized for the joke, and I still don't know what it was. What the joke was? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. But he apologized. So, you know, I'm a big man. I can accept his apology for something I don't know what he's talking about.

The reality is, if people aren't talking shit about you, are you really doing anything? Well, I always say that on my Facebook. You're the worst pirate I've ever heard of. So you have heard of me.

Exactly. All right. All right, we gotta go. It's episode 299.

Next week, we're gonna have a cake. We're gonna have a fuckin' cake? You said you wanted a cake. Oh, yes.

Ice cream cake? Ice cream cake, yeah, ice cream cake. Nah, it'll melt all over the table. We got enough that's in here.

What? We eat it while we do the show. It's gonna be Reese's Peanut Butter Bars. Reese's Peanut Butter Bars.

Yeah, Peanut Butter Bars. Reese's Peanut Butter Bars. You know, they do make a bar. Yeah.

Podcast off. All right, shut it down. Bye. Bye.

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Show Notes

Description:

In this riveting episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, your hosts dive deep into the latest developments in the tobacco industry and beyond. Join us as we explore the following intriguing topics:

Biden White House's Anti-Tobacco Measures: We unravel the White House's latest announcement, unveiling new anti-tobacco measures as part of the ambitious Cancer Moonshot Program. How will these measures impact the cigar industry?

FDA's User Fee Process: Get the inside scoop on the FDA's updated user fee process, especially following a recent lawsuit that shook premium cigar companies. What changes can we expect?

Robert Wright's Promotion: We celebrate Robert Wright's well-deserved promotion to CLE's National Sales Manager. Discover how his new role will shape the future of this renowned cigar brand.

Crowned Heads' Mil Días Topes: We take a closer look at Crowned Heads' eagerly awaited Mil Días Topes cigars as they make their way to cigar shops. What makes this release special?

El Septimo's Empress of Sheba: Explore the arrival of El Septimo's Empress of Sheba cigars in stores. What makes these cigars stand out in the ever-evolving cigar landscape?

Nicaraguan Cigar with Hawaiian Tobacco: Uncover the unique blend of a Nicaraguan cigar featuring Hawaiian tobacco. Learn about the new Dakine brand and its eight distinctive blends.

Shark Encounter off New Smyrna Beach: In a shocking incident, a man was bitten in the face by a shark while surfing off New Smyrna Beach, Florida. We discuss the incident and its implications for beachgoers.

Mysterious Yellow Line on I-95: We unravel the mystery behind a perplexing 20-mile-long yellow line on I-95 that has left Florida drivers scratching their heads. What could be the reason behind this bizarre phenomenon?

Join us for a captivating discussion that delves into the world of cigars, tobacco regulations, and some unexpected news from the Sunshine State. Whether you're a seasoned cigar enthusiast or simply curious about the latest headlines, this episode has something for everyone. Tune in now!