Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 308 Guilty
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Welcome to The Cigar Hunters
Podcast Episode 308, The number
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into the world of premium
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In this episode we dive into the
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The King Andy Stefan Cabbage and
Director of Social Media for
cigar hustler Mike Woody Palmer
are two dynamic individuals who
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Do you want me?
To explain the intro.
Sure.
You were up here with your
friend on Friday, right?
You introduced him to everybody
in the room but me and Boots.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
Yes, I had.
Yes, I did.
Oh, you didn't.
I was standing there and you
completely buzzed past me.
And then when he came in, you
didn't introduce him either.
Oh, so that is your passive
aggressiveness?
Passive.
Well, I told him you were my
best friend.
Oh, I didn't hear that part.
Yeah, oh.
Wow.
Yeah.
And then there was Boots.
Oh.
Wow, I didn't introduce you to
him.
He did not, no.
He introduced himself, but I I
didn't at all.
But I understood 'cause you
actually when I came in, I think
you were in mid conversation.
Oh yeah, but the old toys never,
you know.
Never get, you know, always
getting my friend like, like at
the PCA.
You guys are too much you.
Run off and leave as we yell.
Andy Andy Come back.
Yeah, I don't want to live in
pizza land or world or wherever
that.
Pizza Planet.
Pizza Planet.
OK, I know One please, Buzz.
Maybe, like, put your product in
front of hundreds, if not
thousands of somewhere.
You wouldn't do this each week.
Still, all right, the joke's
over by now.
Kiss her ass and move on.
What are we smoking this weekend
of Patreon?
I don't know.
I don't know either.
I don't know either.
The box is there.
I don't know which one everybody
decided on did it.
Explode.
No, I didn't.
I mean he he had his his Phil's
wife videotape it, just in case.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's what he's on me.
Two please.
Thank you.
So Mr. Brett Fry has delivered
Cinco de Cinco's and some
Halligans.
We're going.
To move right to the Halligans
because there's there was a
little bit of fuck green cigar
hustler land this.
Oh, that's right.
Previous weekend, at least.
Now I got an opportunity to
elaborate.
The good news is I've cooled off
since then, so I'm not AS, not
as.
Bruises have have healed nicely
also.
Yes.
Oh, here's yours.
Take.
Yeah, take.
You take that.
You take that.
Take.
That take, that take.
That OK, so let's kind of get
into this all.
Right.
Go ahead.
I'm gonna.
Tell you the weight 15.4g so I
got a text.
Early in the morning from Mr.
One, said Steve Saka, and he
said, hey, did you sell my
cutter on eBay?
Wait.
You're, you're Dunbarton.
Cutter.
Yes, my Dunbarton Cutter.
The one you don't let anybody
use.
The one that sits on my desk.
Yeah, so I said.
Hey, no Why?
And he said, well, somebody just
told me that they they received
it from you and the return
address, said Cigar Hustler.
I said OK oh wow, they put they
they the return address.
Yeah, I said OK.
I said OK, go to camera 2 so we
can have a conversation about
it.
So it's not like some fucking
soliloquy.
So, so I said OK, well.
Greg has a tendency to go on
these eBay swoop thing.
He probably grabbed a bunch of
stuff.
You said too long, he'll put you
on eBay.
Yeah, yeah, you know and I I
will find out if it was him.
So the kind of fast forwards to
make this not a huge 30 minute
ordeal.
Yeah, long end.
Yeah, he was guilty as charged.
We we came to the conclusion
probably figured.
It's sitting there in the box.
It's been there for 3-4 months.
Here's the thing he doesn't
want.
Here's the thing.
I love my brother to death,
right?
He is who he is, you know, And
he's not.
He has no idea what's going on.
He doesn't know anything about
the industry.
Nothing.
Nothing about the industry.
Someone's jumping.
Why'd we get this?
He's.
Like this is what it's.
The new cigar from Dunbar.
Yeah, it's like, oh, OK.
When did it come out?
Who's Dunbar?
Yeah, who's Dunbar?
Yeah.
Who's Dunbar?
So, but he does, he does have,
he does keep us in line here.
He keeps things running.
He's the back end of the house,
right?
So it was an honest mistake.
But what we did, or actually
what Steve did, was he went
ahead and said, OK, here's what
we're going to do.
For one, I'm going to send you a
new cutter.
Great.
Oh, you get it.
You got a whole of the guy.
No, no, I got a new cutter.
Oh, oh, Steve Saka, I thought
you made Steve upstairs.
No.
So Saka sent me a new cutter, He
said.
OK, and here's what we're going
to do.
We're going to do a giveaway and
we're we're going to every,
every time somebody makes a
purchase.
Of Dumbarton box on the site.
They're gonna be entered to win
one of these cutters.
So with that being said, I have
all of this information
collected.
It was a lot it.
Was a decent number, yeah, for
sure.
Greg had to sign.
Greg had to sign each box with
an apology.
That was the other punishment.
Yes, this was done for so Steve
can be entertained as well.
Mr. Saka and Greg did sign every
single box, but some of his
Greg's let.
He's always adamant about two GS
at the end, right?
But when he signs.
It doesn't.
I think he got tired of.
Singing he just.
Said 'cause there was there was
10 on Friday alone.
Yes, So.
Well, I don't know.
Except the only bad part is now.
Now he thinks he's famous.
He's a big deal, yeah.
Now he's in the worst, but he's
famous in the worst kind of way.
Right, right.
Exactly.
Famous for doing bad stuff.
So I don't know if there's a way
to go live inside of CIGAR.
Hustler.
Oh, there is a way to go live
inside of the soccer squatch
group.
Oh yeah, I guess I'm not in it.
Let's see this here papam.
Papam Hello people.
Let's see.
We're going to keep it.
We're going to keep it simple.
Hello, everyone.
Hi.
Hello.
I am Mike from Cigar Hustler and
Cigar Hustlers Podcast and this
is Mike.
Hi, I am Mike also from Cigar
Hustlers podcast.
And I can't show you.
I can't show you Phil because he
took his mask off.
But look, I don't know what I'm
doing here.
I'm going to try this real
quick.
I have 28 total entries for the
Dunbarton tobacco.
Half of them went Friday then.
Yeah, Sack of Squatch.
Well, there was only 48 hours to
really do it.
I think that's the end of the
day, Friday for the cutter.
And we're going to go ahead and
I'm just going to randomly
announce the winner.
I'm going to pick him on
random.org.
Greg, you won the cutter, Greg.
Congratulations.
Oh, you.
You could tell another.
So like I said, there's 28
entries.
I know.
I keep talking to the mic.
I'm sorry, that's just my
natural.
Yeah, I can't sit in this room
and not talk to somebody without
the microphone.
Even if nobody else has
headphones on, I still talk into
the microphone.
So I'm jumping onto random.org
right now.
Michael, that's porn.
Oh yeah, Don't.
Don't.
You spelled it wrong.
And it's going to be random
randomized from one through 28.
Oh.
God, the The tension is is just
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
I don't even know these people.
Yeah.
I don't even well bought it.
Is there one person watching?
21 Now we're down to 1.
Oh, somebody saw you like, how's
that?
Soccer.
I got it.
Steve Saka.
Should have called zaka.
The number the answer, yes, is
#3. #2 Congratulations #3 you
are the winner J5 alive.
Hold on, I lost my excel sheet.
#3 congratulations, we will send
this out to you. #3 is Gregory.
Step on Kovich.
Dietrich.
Oh, so close.
So close.
Dietrich.
Yeah, do we need to check the
identity That could be actually.
Totally different, Gregory.
So congratulations, Gregory.
We are going.
I'm gonna when I go back
upstairs, we will send that.
Brett Brett Fry is watching.
We are about to smoke the
Halligan.
Delicious.
Brett Fry.
Can't tell you took the thing
off.
Brett J, Brett J.
Delicious.
Oh, I thought it was an ink
smear on the thing.
That's actually a Halligan on
it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Steve
Socker for doing that for us.
Yeah.
It's very nice.
Man miss, it was a great little
pop up kind of event and thanks
so much for being so forgiving
as far as how that situation
kind of played out.
Very appreciative of all of
that.
So and congratulations.
This is Greg.
And congratulations to Gregory
Dietrich.
Dietrich Dietrich.
Sorry Joshua, you did not win.
Sorry.
Oh, very, very sorry.
So stay tuned next week.
See what Greg fucks up this
week.
So yeah, so hey, there's there's
always another week.
Greg can always screw something
else up.
You never know and.
Anybody wanna wait?
A fan?
The ceiling fan.
We're going to get back to going
on our podcast, so.
Thank you very much everybody
for for supporting the the
store, for for contributing to
the giveaway and thanks again
Steve for being so cool about it
and giving the the goodies away
so we could turn a negative into
a positive.
So all right, thanks guys.
Call me if you need me.
You know where to find me.
Ring, ring.
Ring.
Ring.
Ring.
Ring.
All right.
Is that the show we're done now
for?
30 days Your live stream will be
watchable for 30 days and I.
Still need the the the photo of
Greg with the finger crossing?
Yes, for the poster for the this
episode, the Simpson looking
thing, No.
No, no, the other one.
Oh, guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty.
Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
I'll send that, Well, it's
pretty cool 'cause that cutter,
you can't.
Buy It's not for sale.
They're just all of the
prototypes.
And this is how you know that I
didn't do it, because I know
that and I know and I've had
conversations with Steve about
how much it's worth.
And I would never put it on TV.
For one. 50 Fuck It.
That's all he got.
Yeah, wow.
That's what he sold it for.
So Greg needs more Scotch.
Yeah.
Is that the price of a bottle of
Scotch that he drinks?
Then so hey.
It's over.
It's a case I need to.
It's over Johnny.
I need to reorder my Dunbarton
tobacco products.
Oh yeah, we don't have them.
Yeah, we're a lot of magazines.
It was pretty remarkable.
So now that's done.
Just so everybody else knows, I
haven't forgotten about the
other the fundraiser for my
kids.
We will announce the winner for
that next week. #3 Thank you.
Very well.
We got a few things to we got a,
we got a few things to give away
on that.
We got the ashtrays and some
other stuff.
Strippers and cooking and I saw
somebody asked about the Roma
giveaway the other day on.
Is there going?
No.
Like, is there going to be a
Roma giveaway?
And there actually is.
There is a Roma giveaway.
I haven't talked about it, but
that was just somebody
speculating.
Oh, OK.
So yeah, there's going to be a
thing for that.
Soon.
Soon.
Very soon.
So there, I'm glad.
I'm so glad that's over with
with the, the hold the battery.
Now I'm going to light up this
hole again.
We're going to get down to that.
And it was cool that Saka
flipped it, though.
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, it worked out well.
Marketing genius of the tobacco
world.
Is that something that he
learned from being inside of the
industry, working for other
people in the beginning, or is
that just him?
You'd have to ask Steve.
I don't have any.
Why don't you ask him at the
PCA?
Yeah, why don't you ask?
I'm gonna call him, he may
answer.
Steve, I have the question I
have for you is.
I'm not calling him.
I'm embarrassed enough as is.
I'm not fucking.
I'm.
Gonna.
Fucking do with that.
He's still trying to get over
those Ronnie weekend.
Yeah, that's true.
That was an intense Ronnie
weekend, I'm sure.
Well, you wear the eggplant
suit, apparently the entire
weekend.
So I got my Christmas lights up.
Yes.
And I bought used that little
fucking three M hooky things.
There's the indoor outdoor
special ones.
They made these really big ones.
I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do that,
OK.
Yeah, they all came down.
Oh, they all fucking did.
You sided tape on them.
Did you?
Did you clean the area with
alcohol before?
Well, that would make I would
understand that logic.
However, that wasn't the part
that broke off.
The plastic side just blew off
the grip.
Yeah, maybe have really heavy
lights.
Yeah, super heavy, super heavy.
They're really were.
You trying to like hang from
them and do pull ups?
Yes, I was with one finger, One
finger.
And remarkably, it didn't work.
Do you have gutters?
In certain areas, yeah, yeah,
like some, you could use gutter
clips.
Too.
I did that.
You did that?
Yeah, but the other things as
far as.
Didn't that work?
Stay, huh?
Yeah.
So I went and I had to go back
up, drilled everything up.
Oh that we had rain for like 5
days.
Oh, it rained was horrible.
Horrible.
Blew up two inflatables.
They're dead.
Filled with water.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, they just.
Oh, did you see the water stains
down in the front of the room?
There's a roof leak.
Your brother has decided who the
building gets a new roof.
And it goes all the way through
the floor above us, into our
roof in the other room.
Remarkable.
Yes.
We have a stained tile in the
other room, which he says is not
his responsibility.
Stained tile?
Yeah, probably not triple net
lease or whatever.
We should have read that least
better.
I gotta.
I gotta end.
Don't worry.
I told him you're gonna have to
talk to my partner Greg.
I'm not handling.
This.
So yeah, got the lights up.
And then I got them up again,
which is fantastic.
Spent the weekend putting lights
up.
Put my lights up.
And then I put my lights up
again.
Oh nice.
Did you duel the floating
candlesticks in the house into
Christmas?
No, we've removed.
We have Elimination Hall you.
Could have left the floating
candles for Christmas.
As of right now, I could tell
you that there is a serious
overhaul going on in the house
as far as Christmas decorations,
it is going down.
That's what my wife is doing
today, on her first day of
break.
Finishing the trees and but she
was saying, suddenly she goes,
well, I can't put these out
because they still have
Thanksgiving pumpkins or
something out and it'll just
clash and like, well, isn't it
like traditional for
Thanksgiving to be the first
day?
Like, that's official and then
you start putting up the
Christmas stuff.
Some places, yeah 'cause I saw a
lot of articles about HOA is
having issues with people
putting lights up early.
Look, man, I don't give a fuck.
I like putting my lights up
early, right?
N1, the lights go up, right?
I like to put them up.
ASAP.
Now they may come down
apparently, but at first I want
them up right away.
It makes the kids happy.
They're excited about it.
You know the elves have have
already returned.
Oh, Oh yeah, the shelf are.
You running 3 elves?
No, just we got dual elves.
Just the two You have Snoop on
the stoop.
No, but I'm down with Snoop on.
I want Snoop on the stoop.
That's pretty dope.
Do I?
Have Kringle with the Jingle.
Oh, there's a Kringle.
I don't think so.
I'm copywriting that right?
And then Pringle with the Jingle
only shows up under his bells.
Then I don't know what else
happened this weekend.
Drawing a bit of a blank.
We had basketball Friday.
That went well.
We won.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
That's all I got right now, but
nice.
Lights are up.
Did you get that?
That one thing from home.
Depot Oh, we had the birthday
party at your house.
That's what we did.
No, they don't have it.
Oh, birthday party and boots us,
huh?
Yeah, for Ava.
Oh yeah.
Were you invited?
Nope.
Why didn't you invite him?
Never invites me.
Why didn't you invite him?
Must have.
He must have met capacity for
the room.
Why?
Why didn't you invite him?
Well, truthfully, I didn't
invite a couple people because
everybody's busy, so I just
thought he would be busy.
So that was Pat.
Oh, so this is Pat.
Steve, Steve cuts the grass for
me.
What am I doing so?
Now he's being passive
aggressive.
What night was it?
It was Saturday.
No, it was daytime.
Oh, I know.
Food free in the daytime.
You got to pick up on these
things.
I heard him talking about it
weeks ago, but then it just
slipped my mind.
We went and saw Dylan Scott
Friday night at the House of
Blues or Saturday night at the
House of Blues.
No, that was Friday night.
That wasn't even Saturday.
It was Friday.
The oh, the country thing.
I saw you post that.
The country thing.
Even it was sold out.
But even sold out, that place is
so small or intimate, whatever
you want to call it, it's not
bad.
No, it wasn't bad at all.
To be got a stand, I don't know.
I'm a big fan of that.
Yeah, you don't like standing?
Well, not for 4 1/2.
Yeah.
House of Blues is kind of hard
sometimes.
I like Hard Rock.
The same, the same concept.
Yeah, yeah.
And then next to us were were a
group of drunk kids.
Oh yeah.
So the girls got drunk and the
girl, the poor girl, kept asking
I need water.
The boyfriend bringing back a
shot.
So about 3 songs in the Dylan,
Scott she fell down and they had
to leave.
He obviously wanted to get the
fuck out of there.
He knew what he was doing.
We're going to get to the hotel.
Hurry up.
But but all seven of them had to
leave, so it was perfect seven
of them.
Why would they all be?
Total, because one girl fell
down, they all left.
I'd be no way I would look.
At it, the sober girl was
chasing the drunk girl's hand,
trying to get her drink before
she dropped it on me.
I like as water hurdle.
Dude, if I showed up with my
with seven of my friends, right?
And one of them got drunk and
passed out and like, oh, we
ought to go.
I'm like, all right.
Well, unless they all came in
the same.
Car that's There's a thing
called fucking Uber.
I mean what?
The kids, they were barely They
couldn't have been 22.
So they have the app.
Oh yeah, they probably are very
familiar with the.
Uber.
All right.
I'll see you.
Oh, my God.
OK.
They all sort of cleared out
right after she fell.
Out we gotta go and.
What happened to the kids?
They go, well, the one fell and
then they all left.
One fell and they all left.
Do you guys, do you guys do
anything for Christmas time with
cigars like you guys do anything
special for yourselves?
Or is there any tradition that
you do with cigars?
I smoke them.
Is there a certain cigar you
like to buy around Christmas
time that you like to smoke just
because it's Christmas?
No.
No, the SBC 'cause it comes out
or yes.
Oh 'cause it comes out, does it
come out every year?
No, no, this I think is the
first time.
Yeah, that is true.
It does come out.
SBC.
December 9th, 2 weeks, 2 weeks.
Yep, smoke on the water should
be interesting, yes.
Dying to see the show?
You guys shoot Daniel Song?
Should be a train wreck.
We we already talked about the
fall of the house usher, right?
Figured that out.
No, we talked about a couple of
times.
I think the last time we talked
about it, you had just finished
it, but I was halfway through,
but I have now finished it also.
OK, it was good.
I didn't get to the last episode
that the flashback of the young
couple with the baby was the
main guy.
You didn't understand.
That I didn't.
I didn't pick that up.
I think they sort of tried to
hide it, 'cause they never said
his name till the till the last
episode.
Yeah, I didn't.
I didn't get.
So then the kids that climbed
the fence was him too.
Yeah.
I didn't catch all that till
till near the end.
Oh, you weren't paying
attention, That was.
I don't know, but they they
didn't say his name.
Until the last episode.
He started, he said, Like, well,
it all starts with my mother.
Well, oh, maybe I missed the
part.
The first episode.
I was sort of still feeling it
out and I wasn't really paying
attention when it was on, so I
guess I missed that.
But hey, whatever happened to
Yellowstone?
Wasn't it supposed to?
Resume in November.
It's coming back, I think.
Next year?
Oh.
There's all sorts of stuff about
who's going to be in it, and you
can't even tell at this point.
I thought they were going to
resume in November and kill.
Jamie, Kevin Costner's
character?
Oh.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
He's doing another TV cowboy
show, a different one.
Obviously there's a difference
of opinions there.
Well, the whole reason why he
stopped was because of the
divorce.
Right.
Oh, did he?
Yeah.
Is that why?
Yeah, he was getting too much
time away.
No, no, no, no, no, no, because
she was going for the money.
Oh, so technically, what he was
trying to do was quit?
Right.
So that way that money didn't
come into play.
Oh, our man.
I'm trying to remember what else
I did on Sunday.
Just drawing a blank football.
Oh, I did actually cut the cut
the yard this weekend.
Steve did make it last week
because of the rain and so I did
that Sunday.
Nice.
Did you do any Christmas
decorations yourself?
No, just my wife putting the
stuff in the house.
We don't.
We'll put up the laser lights
eventually outside, but that's
really all we do.
Oh, you do the one little
thingy.
Oh no, we have 3 or 4.
Oh.
Man, so there's they're
everywhere.
Every year she buys another one.
It's like a Orlando nightclub.
Yeah, that's what it looks like
when you drive by.
Yeah, there is a house in my
neighborhood that does that with
the music.
They start at 6:00 every night,
they go till 10 and they have
music that plays super loud and
the entire house flashes to
whatever the song is.
You know what I've been thinking
about doing?
And I don't know if it's
possible or not, but maybe
buying a cheap little projector?
Yeah, And then just looping.
It's a wonderful Life on on the
wall in my house, like on the
outside.
I thought that'd be dope.
It would be wonderful Life.
Yeah.
I saw a projector at Halloween.
My neighbor crossed St., had it
where it made different things
show up in his window from the
inside.
Yeah, we've had that.
I've had that before.
Well, this was like really high
techie, techie, clear.
Makes it look like ghosts and
all types of other things.
Yeah.
Couldn't you loop?
It's a Wonderful Life on the
window.
That'd be cool.
I'm sure you could, but I'm not,
but the problem is the tree's in
the window, so I just.
Want to Do you have a big blank
wall?
Yeah.
Oh, the side one on the as you
walk to the front door on the
left.
Yeah, that would work you.
Wouldn't really see it though I.
Was going to do the I I found
other walls.
Oh, we'll see, We'll see.
Who knows?
I think he's getting ready.
To do Damn it, man, I know I did
something else yesterday and I
cannot fucking remember what it
is in the life of me.
We had basketball practice and
then we came home and we went
somewhere else and we had a
small window of time in order to
get there.
And then we got there.
And now I don't remember what
the hell I did.
I didn't talk to you, so I
don't.
I couldn't help you here.
Yeah, I.
Don't know.
You talked to us where you
talked about Phil being the OR
Boots being the hype band for
Howard GI.
Didn't red light today.
Oh, I didn't.
I'm doing longer ones now, like
20 minutes.
That's probably what the problem
is, yeah.
Could be.
Should have red light.
Are you supposed to go longer
than 10 minutes?
I don't know.
Oh, figure longer is better.
I know what I did.
What you do for one note on your
phone.
For one, no, no.
But I touched my phone and it
reminded me, wow, we took our
Christmas photo.
Oh, for the card, Yes, yes, it's
just an online card this year.
No, OK.
No, it's.
And it's very good.
Oh, it's very good this year.
This is going to be fantastic.
And then we had Mika's birthday
the suspicious thing.
Yes, at at Kyoto's or whatever.
It was at Kyoto's.
At Kobe.
Kobe.
Kobe.
I said hey, listen, I go, you
know, everybody said, hey, we'll
go wherever you want to go.
And she said, oh, Kobe I I said,
OK, listen, this year we'll go
to Kobe.
But Kobe is like, this is that's
like Kitty Foo Foo shit.
That's something that you go to
when you're in your teens and
it's like, oh, I'm going to have
something elegant.
Don't pull on your wings.
It's.
Going to be hibachi.
You tear that you're in trouble.
Gobble, gobble, gobble.
It rests on my face too much.
So I said next year you got to
step up your game.
There's.
Guys.
Oh yeah, she said.
She wants to go to Ruth.
Chris.
That's fine.
That's what she said.
She said that on the Facebook.
Post perfect.
Did you really?
Yeah, you know what?
So did you.
Take your mother.
Didn't your mother pick Kobe's
one time?
No, she hates Kobe.
She hates a bunch, I.
Went there.
I went there with you one.
Year now we will bring her.
I think he picked it one year.
Before I went to Kobe's with all
of you, me and Adrian one year
and your mother was there.
Yeah, she and she hates it.
Yeah, so.
There's a Tiktok video where
this little girl's watching the
guy.
I mean little girl, like maybe
your daughter's age, maybe that
little and she go and the guy
did something and she goes,
that's fucking awesome.
Oh yeah, and everybody starts
laughing in the whole restaurant
because she said it loud.
Nice where she got that from.
I don't know, Mommy and Daddy
say.
Well, let's get rolling, buddy.
Let's get on to some news.
We.
Got a new Phil's Fun fact?
Well.
Oh, you got it.
Welcome the Cigar Hustlers
podcast feature Phil's Fun Fact.
Hello, peoples.
All right, fellas, did you know
that Winston Churchill, famous
for his love of cigars, once
received a letter from a
concerned woman who urged him to
stop smoking cigars because they
were bad for him?
Churchill reportedly brought My
dear lady, you are ugly.
Wow.
That's.
What?
He said.
And what's more, you are boring.
But my cigars, well, they are
delicious and always faithful
and they don't talk.
He never wrote me again after
that.
They're subtle 1 liners.
Nice, subtle 1 liners.
All right, well, let's see
what's going on in the industry.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
From the four corners of the
world, all the cigar industry
news you could possibly need.
The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report
with Mike too.
Luciano Cigars names Mark Reddy,
CEO and Ed Trevino VP of Sales.
Luciano Cigars has announced
that Mark Reddy will be the
company's new CEO, while Ed
Trevino has been promoted to VP
of Sales.
Mark has been a crucial
collaborator since our initial
launch, said Luis Said, Luciano,
President and Co founder of
Luciano Cigars.
Via press release, his
insightful advice and unwavering
loyalty has been fundamental to
our growth as a brilliant
leader.
His strategic approach is
already proving beneficial to
our team.
We're thrilled to have him back
with us.
Back with.
Apparently he had left.
I didn't know.
Oh, they worked on that.
According to a press release
from the company, Reddy brings
over 2 decades of experience in
business expansion and brand
building to the position.
And he did a quote which it's
very long, Two years.
Did you say 2 years?
No, 02 years.
Also announced, Ed Trevino has
been promoted to the post of
vice President of Sales after
previously serving as the
company's director of sales.
Looks like a college intern
position.
The The change elevates him to a
corporate leadership role and he
becomes a member of the
company's board.
In this new role, he will
concentrate on the company's
growth objective while working
with the executive leadership
team.
As Director of Sales, his
previous job, he concentrated on
the company's growth objective
while working with the executive
leadership team.
Trevino, who joined Luciano
Cigars as Director of Sales last
year, has over 3 decades of
experience with the company,
saying he has been instrumental
growing the Luciano Cigar client
base.
So what's?
The difference between Director
of Sales and Vice President?
The only thing I can figure is
that he's on the board now.
Like you think he got chairs of
something?
I don't know why.
Who's all on his board when his
board is there, shares in Lucio
I.
Don't know but.
It can't be worth much.
I mean, you know, whatever he
says, they're worth again.
It's like you get shares, you
get shares, everybody get
shares.
So would you move somebody onto
shares and say, hey, listen,
maybe?
He gets paid less now.
Yeah, I'll give now he's getting
paid to shares.
I'll.
Give you a portion of the
company.
Could be, I guess.
Man, that's why he came back.
Where'd he Where'd he go to?
Where'd you go?
It's over 3 days of experience
with the company saying that he
has been instrumental in growing
blah blah blah cigars climb base
with the sales leadership, she
goes.
Captaining.
Is that a word?
Captaining.
Captaining.
Captaining.
Captivating.
Captaining No.
He's the captain of captaining
6IN House Reps and no.
You're right.
It's Cap.
You say what?
Ready.
Ready.
Yeah, Cap.
Captain Tain Inga inga there.
You go. 6IN house reps and three
brokers throughout the nation.
Wow.
Javier Estedes reelected a Cigar
Association of American
Chairman.
He, too, is back.
The CAA, They're all coming.
Everybody's coming back, hey.
So it's not you.
We're sorry we fucked that up.
Javier, the CEO of Dabble Calera
USA, has been reelected as the
Chairman of the Cigar
Association of America for
another one year term.
But you're we're sorry, but
we're only one year sorry.
Yeah, just one.
Year we're not, we're not five
year committed, sorry.
Well, he was first elected
chairman of the CAA in November
2015, leading the Cigar
Association trade association.
That's the CAA.
CAA.
Instead, A's earned extensions
to his service in 2018 and 2019.
He continued to serve in the
role through 2020.
He succeeded by John Miller,
president of Swiss
International.
And I say the other thing he was
re elected the position
following news that Miller was
not the CEO.
Miller said.
Fuck this.
I don't want.
This is ridiculous.
So far he's had four one year
terms, not only proud of all the
big wins that the organization
is chief for the cigar industry,
but also acknowledge that there
is more to be done.
We still have challenges ahead,
but CAA is ready to continue
fighting against improper
overreaching efforts by the FDA
and state the local governments.
I'll say in his role as CEO of
Taba, Clara, USA as today's
overseas, a number of premium
cigar entities including
Altadis, bump it up, but up.
But also responsible Jr. cigar,
one of the largest on time
online realtor retailers for
premium cigars, cigar
accessories, Schumer, etcetera.
And the Cassaday Monte Cristo
collection of cigars.
Bump, bump, bump.
There's a lot of stuff here.
All right, the FDA is increasing
penalties for Tobacco company by
7.7%.
For what?
The FDA.
Yes, FDA increases penalties for
tobacco companies by 7.7%.
Is it across the board or is
that a certain one?
Across the board, the US Food
and Drug Administration has
announced it has increased the
penalties start and penalties
that tobacco companies and
retailers pay if they are found
in violation of various federal
laws regarding tobacco products.
OK, these changes are part of
the Federal Civil Penalties
Inflation Adjustment Act of
2015.
Which regulates how agencies can
increase penalties in response
to inflation.
So somebody decided we can get
more money out of these people.
Well, it's about normal, right,
8%.
I guess, but if the thing
happened 2015, were they doing
it eight years later so 2015
they could have increased it?
So now they finally never
increased.
No, now they just finally
decided we're going to up it.
Yeah, there's that one guy who's
like, where can we find the
money?
Yeah, we're not getting money
from that other stuff anymore
that they said we can't do.
So we got to do this.
Oh, no one's touched this for
fucking Acres, right?
We haven't increased this in how
long?
How long?
Yeah, raise it.
Due to the cigar industry
Victory and Cigar Association of
America versus United States
Food and Drug Administration,
companies that only produce or
sell premium cigars are unlikely
to receive these penalties.
As they're subject to the few
rules that would result in a
penalty like Saldo, underage
minor and that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Mildeus Bellicoso Finos 2023
Shipping.
Yeah, they just came in.
Well, yeah, it came in on
Friday.
Yeah, during all but one of the
previous five years, Ground
Heads has released a La Crema
and a limited edition Bellicoso
size this year.
It's switching things up and
using the size for limited
edition release of the Mildeus
line.
The Mildeus Bellicoso Finos is a
5 1/2 by 52 Bellicoso, the same
size as the Bolivier Bellicoso
Fino, a popular Cuban cigar
blend, Wise Mildeus using
Ecuador and Havana rapper over
Nicaraguan's binder and fillers
from Costa Rica.
Each cigar will have an MSRP of
1295 per cigar and productions
limited to 1500 boxes of 12
cigars.
You know what I missed on the
soundboard?
What?
Your wife is in me, DMS. Is that
gone?
Your wife is in my DMS. I think
you got rid of it.
Yeah, I think so.
Because it was on this.
It was on the screen here.
Yeah, that.
Was good, That was fantastic.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
If you say my wife is in my DMS,
I will.
If you say your wife is in the
DMS, I'll put them back in.
Nah, that's OK.
All right.
Well, it was with.
I know, but we do what we can.
We do what we can with what we
got.
Your wife has hit my DMS. There
you go at 32 minutes.
He did it.
He just did.
That yeah, Bovada increases
prices.
What I'm gonna.
Probably dollar 10 for the pack
now.
Son of a bitch.
Only one, Bovada, has informed
retailers that it has increased
the price for the 60 gram pack,
the standard Movita size and the
320g Humidification pack, the
largest pack the company makes.
We have not increased prices on
these items since 2005, yet cost
of manufacturing has been
steadily on the rise.
In an e-mail, we have absorbed
these costs as much as possible
and we have reached a point
where we must pass on some of
the increase to our partners in
order to maintain the quality.
In order to make more money,
these guys must have all been
hiring the same consultants.
Everybody's looking back going
you haven't increased your
prices either.
Wait, what?
Everybody else has increased
their prices 7 times by now.
You haven't done it once,
alright?
And we have a couple Florida
stories.
Oh.
Couple.
Wow, that was it, huh?
Light news.
Light news.
Where are you going for
Thanksgiving?
Let's ask that since we got.
Maybe down in Orlando we have
friends in from out of town.
Jeff and Becky are here with
their family.
So you're gonna go there?
We're gonna go there, OK?
Yeah, and what about you there,
Philly?
I've got a couple of
Thanksgivings.
He's having a party.
He's not inviting me to.
Yeah, yeah, probably.
Like you didn't even pick up on
how he threw shade at you, which
is awesome.
Well, I wasn't even paying
attention, Yeah.
'Cause you told he did, he
totally threw shade at.
You, he said.
I'm usually busy, so he doesn't
ask me.
Yeah.
Oh 'cause you every time you're
you're invited to go play.
Seats, you always say.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, we got a gift for it,
but we just took it back 'cause
we didn't.
Get it?
You returned it?
Yeah, we returned.
It yeah, that's what we did
Sunday.
Where'd you get her?
It was some toys or something.
I don't know why I picked it up.
I'm not good at picking girl
girl toys.
Yeah, I have all boys.
I'll tell you what, she crushed
it, man.
She got like, everything.
Barbie.
She's got the Barbie Jet.
She's got the Barbie boat, She's
got the Barbie spaceship.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
Barbie theme.
Yeah, it was.
It was Hella Barbie.
And then she got like, this
little triage thing.
Yeah, yeah, like a doctor's
screening.
Oh, OK.
I call it Triage I.
Understand.
Yeah, it's nice.
I'll check it.
Rub a.
Cake.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was beautiful.
The cake was fantastic.
You know, delicious.
You missed the The cake was
amazing.
I'm.
Sure.
It was good.
Yeah, it was.
Good cake was fantastic.
And then there were cupcakes,
too.
I had both.
I had both.
There were so many of them,
right?
And there wasn't a lot of.
People there, right?
Yeah, I got.
It So I had.
I had.
That was Greg there.
No, Greg was working at Ryan's
house building something I
don't.
Know.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, so you could have, you could
have slotted into that, right.
Yeah, Yeah, right.
Could have slotted in for that
I.
Guess so.
Great white sharks are heading
to Florida.
Yes.
Guys, they get invited to a
party at.
Boots.
They get invited to a party at.
Boots houses.
Oh yeah, for Ava's birthday.
Yeah, they come to town.
What's that?
They're coming to town.
Daytona Beach, FL People across
the country love Florida and
turns out sharks do too.
Ocean Research richly spotted a
10 foot, 460 LB great white
shark swimming along the
Daytona.
It followed that one guy just
like it did in Jaws, right?
The one guy?
Yeah.
The guy he followed.
Yeah, that's what he was.
Trying to do for the following
Bob Heuter.
He is the Senior Advisor for
Science and academic.
That's the guy.
Yeah, Bob, Yeah, the Shark likes
Bob.
It's.
Kind of like winter snowbirds,
the sharks start heading South
in the fall, the temperatures
drop up north.
We have probably, we have
probably about a dozen species
that are on the move right now.
The one that is most prominent
is the one we work on at Ocean
Research, the white shark,
otherwise known as the great
white shark.
Of course, it's the most famous
one because it jaws.
That's the one that you would
study?
Yeah.
And you get all the money that
way.
Which?
One, do you want to study?
I'll take the big one.
The biggest one, yeah, that'd be
the that'd be the whale shark.
That's but but that falls into
whale category.
Yeah, it doesn't.
It doesn't.
It's not.
Shark.
Never eaten people before.
Does the Does the Meg one have a
name or is it just Meg?
The Megalodon.
Yeah.
That's what it's called, the
Megalodon.
That's not real.
That's not a real thing.
Megalodons are real.
No, it's not.
Well, not not live ones.
No, it's not.
Yeah, it's not a real.
Thing.
But they were dinosaur type
shit.
We don't know.
That they're not in existence
right now.
Yeah, they're supposed to be
down at the bottom.
You.
Do something, OK?
Give me a fucking break, you
Flat Earth motherfuckers.
Give me yourself full of shit
you haven't explored 80% of the
water you don't know.
Oh my God.
Well, he's right about that.
OK, all right.
Yeah, you're right.
Megalodons exist.
It could.
Well, there's two less because
Stratham's killed duo.
Yeah, right.
Jason Statham.
Yes, right.
Straight to him, whatever his
name is.
The bold guy.
Listen, if you haven't figured
out now he has a pronunciation
issue, OK?
Pronunciation pronounce.
I have the problem.
You have a pronunciation.
Pronunciation.
What is his?
What?
How you say it.
Pronunciation.
Yeah, that.
Yeah, that, that right.
Whatever.
You know what?
I'm gonna talk with Jason
Stratham at the next party at
Boots's house, just so you know.
So, oh, good, good.
I'm sure, he goes.
I'll FaceTime.
Oh, that'd be.
Nice.
That'd be nice.
So anyway, the migration starts
mid-october and runs through
November to early December.
By early December, all the
Sharks are here by then off the
Florida East Coast.
And then great numbers of them
go all the way around the Keys
and in the Gulf of Mexico.
The eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Fantastic.
All right.
The world's tallest teen plays
high school basketball in
Florida.
Oh yeah, 76 IMG.
Gainesville, FL.
I've been to Gainesville.
He lives in Gainesville.
But IMG is not he plays for IMG
of.
Course he does.
That's.
Still in high school.
That it is a high school, It's a
high school.
It's got a dorm gym.
It's solely based on sports.
And you got to be.
Either Scholard or Boozy
motherfucker into getting that
or genetically.
That's what it said, Scholard. 7
feet 6 inches tall?
Yeah.
The world's tallest teenager
pledged to join the University
of Florida Gators basketball
team earlier this week.
At around 7 feet, 6 inches tall,
he was confirmed 2021 The
tallest teen in the world,
according to the Guinness Book
of World Records.
His dad is 6 feet 8 inches tall,
his mom is 6 feet two inches,
and his brother's 6 feet 9.
Wow.
His brother He has a brother is
6/9.
Brother is 6/9.
Well, normally there's not, you
know, two of them.
That's.
If he's younger, he'll be
better, 'cause he'll probably be
more angry, Yeah.
Is that what happens?
Yeah.
IMG Academy right here.
The Venus.
And Serena Williams.
He played basketball at IMG
Academy in Bradenton, FL.
He announced his decision to
join the Gators on Wednesday
night, yet he is still has not
signed a commitment letter.
What do you, what do you do when
you're like?
How do you think that guy feels?
He's a fucking boss. 1617 years
old.
This guy can't fit into any
fucking clothes.
He's doing great.
Special made clothes.
Yeah, he gets some cake and he
tailored to him.
The big and tall store.
Yeah, the guys.
All that awkward stuff, like the
guy from the one movie War, have
you seen him play?
No, it's the most awkward
looking thing.
Is it because he literally just
like catches it turns there's no
other kid that's close to him?
Oh, he just stands down by the
by the hoop.
Yeah, I'll wait here, you guys
bring it back.
Let's.
Go get it.
Go get it and bring it to me.
When he runs he it looks like
slow motion, but he's really
covering a lot of ground.
Right, the big step.
Man, I gotta tell you, I don't
have the tallest kid on the
planet, but Jack's playing
basketball.
Holy shit, man.
That kid is.
He is all over the place.
Super aggressive defense, making
shots.
It's pretty impressive.
Well, he's an athlete.
Yeah, and and and it's not even
what he loves to do.
He doesn't even, he doesn't love
basketball.
He loves football.
But he likes to compete.
Oh.
Yeah, he likes to crush his
enemies and.
See if you need to be careful
that he doesn't get hurt in one
or the other so we can focus on
football if.
He like football, The bench.
No.
I mean, he's kind of like you
got to play.
It's kind of like Michael Jordan
when he picked up baseball.
He didn't like, really, really
love baseball like he did
basketball.
But he loved to compete.
Right.
I ice him up when he gets hurt.
He'll be fine.
You.
Let him get the cold plunge.
I do.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Changes of water.
I do let him get in the cold.
Plunge.
Freaking cold.
It's good for him.
All right.
Well, that's all I got.
That's all you got?
Well, hey, listen.
Know what you want to talk.
About it's OK that we're going
to run this a little short, and
I'm going to tell you why.
We were a little short last week
too, at 55 minutes, so now we're
going to do 45 minutes.
This is 3-4 weeks from now.
It'll be 10 minute.
Show this.
Is a.
This is a Thanksgiving week.
Oh yeah, it's a shorter work
week for most people anyway, so.
At least we're still here.
We used to do a show every week.
I'm sure there's a lot of
podcasts that aren't doing it.
Even during COVID, we just had a
bigger table.
So.
That was so ridiculous during
COVID, where we sat at the end
of the We sat at the opposite
ends of that giant table we had
upstairs.
Did we?
Yeah, we sat 6 feet.
Apart.
Listen, I'm not proud of all the
dumb shit we did, but we still
did it.
We still did it.
Spilled my drink.
I don't have all the answers,
but we're going to try and
figure it out, you know, we're
just not going to sit and do
nothing.
One or two more weeks for your
thing.
So OK, we don't have to plug it
hard yet.
Your event down on the SBC?
The SBC event.
Oh yeah.
It's well, we keep mentioning
it's December.
I understand.
But I was gonna talk about it
more if it was like coming up
soon.
Do you have a listener of the
week?
No, that's your job.
I have I have a.
Listener I brought 40 good
minutes of content.
To the show, That's what you
did.
Yes.
All right, I'll.
You gotta bring 20 minutes.
All you gotta do, just 20
minutes.
That's it.
That's it.
Now I gotta do 18 minutes
almost, so I'm gonna tell you.
Hold on, hold on.
Why are we just we can't just.
Wait on the 18 minute.
All right, 18 minutes now. 18
minutes. 18 minutes.
All right, so my listener of the
week, yes is it's the wrong
button.
You change the screen.
That's the wrong button Dong.
It's my new best friend, Gregory
Dietrich.
Oh.
Yeah, how do we know you listen
to the show?
He's gonna oh, he's yeah.
He's gonna have to to win.
He's gonna no, he's already
messaged me.
He's gonna relive.
He wants to relive this moment
and see how he won on.
Both of those, yeah.
Well, he can go to the.
Facebook page, Yeah, but no,
that that's just the live he
wants.
He wants to see the whole show.
He wants, he told me.
I'll make that the clip.
Yeah, he wants to see the whole
show.
Alright, so there's that.
I got nice message from John
Mctavish over the weekend.
Oh, watching an older show.
Oh, I was talking to him.
Oh, I messaged him too this
weekend.
Oh, he.
Messaged me, He messaged me.
I don't know either way.
I'm just thinking about you.
Guys, he enjoys the show.
Yeah, nice guy.
Did he message you on Saturday
when he had downtime?
Yeah, I believe it was during
the party.
During the party time, I think
I.
Went oh, then that worked out
great.
Yeah, it worked out great.
You had time.
Perfect.
A lot of free time, perfect
answering fan mail.
We sat there with the wrap
presents and we Any minute,
honey, he's gonna call him by
any minute.
No.
Never ran nothing.
Never did.
No.
You got a shop of the week?
Not your job, too.
Oh, I have a shop of the week.
Oh, do you?
What is it I do?
Smoke all the water in.
Weston.
I knew.
I knew it.
Weston.
Oh, he spelled it wrong on
Facebook.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I yeah, I
Weston.
And the funny part was, Edgar
corrected him.
You got to love that.
She can't even say it but but
she knows how to spell it
though.
It was amazing upstairs during
the meeting, but she couldn't
say iron.
Yes, it was.
I like when those little words
pop up.
Karen She's breaking Keanu's
balls about his wrinkly shirt
and says you don't have an iron.
I thought you said Aaron.
Aaron.
Aaron like Iron Man?
Hi, Ron.
Oh, I saw the Blue Beetle
Saturday morning.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it was terrible.
It was terrible, The Blue
Beetle.
It's a Marvel superhero, yeah,
but it's a Mexican kid.
Is it?
I think it was DC.
Oh, DC Yeah, it is DC.
It's a Mexican kid who gets
powers from an Egyptian scarab
in Mexico.
Yeah, don't go there.
Well, listen, you got 2 minutes
out of me.
So there's 16 minutes in limbo
here.
And that is what it is.
We're going to cut this off.
We're going to give Brett Fry a
call on the Patreon and we're
going to talk about the halogen,
the exclusive.
DTT Cigar.
We would cut it with your fancy
cutter, but.
It's upstairs.
I got a new one.
Well, yeah, but no.
That's Greg Dietrich's cutter.
No, I got 2.
Oh, oh, what a nice man.
He sent me a replacement.
For the one, for the thought
he'd send you one for Greg.
No, he sent me one for the.
Then Greg, step on cabbage.
Do not touch that.
Oh, it's going to have a sign on
it.
Don't worry, they're friends.
Greg, do not touch.
Do not touch my bug and gut it
all right.
All right, guys.
We got to go.
Thank you.
Happy.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Show Notes
Welcome to Episode 308 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast! This week, we've got a packed agenda, diving into the latest happenings in the cigar industry and beyond.
First up, we'll address Gregg's latest mishap—what could he have possibly done this time?
In industry news, Luciano Cigars has made some significant moves, appointing Mark Reddy as CEO and Ed Treviño as VP of Sales. We'll discuss what this means for the company's future.
Also, Javier Estades's re-election as Chairman of the Cigar Association of America is making waves. What impact might his leadership have on the industry?
The FDA's decision to increase penalties for tobacco companies by 7.7 percent is a hot topic—how will this affect the landscape moving forward?
Shifting gears, we'll update you on the highly anticipated release of the Mil Días Belicosos Finos LE 2023. Find out when they're shipping and what aficionados can expect from this release.
But wait, there's more! Boveda is increasing prices—what's the reasoning behind this move and how might it affect consumers?
In non-cigar news, we'll take a fascinating turn toward Florida's waters—Great white sharks are making their presence known near Daytona Beach. What's driving these magnificent creatures closer to shore?
And finally, let's talk basketball! The world's tallest teen is playing high school basketball right here in Florida. Join us as we discuss his extraordinary height and his plans for the future.
Tune in for all this and more on Episode 308 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Grab your favorite cigar, settle in, and let's dive into the world of cigars and beyond!