Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 312 Padron / Fuente

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Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, Episode 312, the number one cigar podcast with the world-famous cast, where we bring you the latest news and insights into the world of premium cigars. In this episode, we dive into the big stories of the week. The King, Mike Steponkiewicz, and Director of Social Media of Cigar Hustler, Mike BDP Palmer, are two dynamic individuals. We co-host the Captivating Cigar Hustlers Podcast.

And me, I'm Phil. Christmas tree, Phil. Christmas tree, Phil. Whichever.

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Three. And I'm supposed to tell Phil that Romatron says hello and a shout out to Phil. Oh! Oh, did you see that I went after Tyler a little bit?

He's nice. Tyler, Tyler, Tyler? Yeah. Oh, no, I didn't.

Yeah, I did. The sleepy, sleepy pictures? It felt good. No, he made a comment.

I saw his top 10. Oh, I didn't even see it. Okay. Well, first of all, what are we doing for the Patreon?

Today, we are, what are we doing, Michael? You have them. They look blended in over there. The part of the tree.

We are doing the Viaje Kanda kind. Oh! Should I weigh this inside the tinfoil? Weigh it inside it.

Weigh inside the tinfoil. It probably, He probably needs it. Ouch. It feels heavy.

It does feel heavy. Weight? 2 grams. 2 gigawatts.

Ooh, that sounds heavy. That sounds heavy. Yeah, well, it's in the fucking... Okay, what if you take it out?

Take it out, let's give them the benefit of the doubt, see what it is. Or do we just save it for the other show? Are we giving too much weight? We got it.

I can give you the weight at least. All right. Don't anybody listen. la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la And then, I don't know, he said, I don't remember what I asked, but he said something in response, and I'm just like, Jesus, man.

Maybe if he does the show again before the end of the year, maybe they'll already do it. So, no, no, no. If he does one. So, he made that comment, and I said, oh, well, I don't know, man, you know, but to be honest, at this point, you didn't acknowledge the War Bear, you didn't acknowledge the Corona Gordas, you didn't acknowledge the Connecticut's, and then you're gonna fucking handjob the one that Skip blended.

Give me a fucking break. That was his number one? Yeah, SBC. So, I'm like, okay.

And I'm like, you know, nothing for nothing. I bought all your fucking Vsos. Right. You know, I fucking help facilitate all of that.

Right. What else did we do? We did a bunch of shit for that. Everything.

We adopted him. A bunch of things for this. We sent him money to papers bills. We tried to fucking sponsor his fucking show that he does once every fucking year.

Right. He fucking took the interview from Jason away from us. Oh, that's right. To slide in there.

Right. And then all of a sudden they're gonna do a show. And he said he would fucking help me with this bar, and he never fucking helped me. Oh, that's right, you never get the bar.

He never fucking helped me. Son of a bitch. So it's just like, at some point, I'm just like, you know what, dude, we're just, I'm gonna say hi to you when I see you, and we're gonna leave it at that. Christmas tree fill is now the Green Lantern.

You no longer have me on your side to help you in any way, shape, or form. Oh, I changed. Why would I? I don't blame you.

God doesn't give a fuck about us. He's dead to us. Yeah. Sorry.

That's the way it works. We'll mark it today. m. m.

He's fucking dead. He officially is no longer with us. It's ridiculous. This is ridiculous.

Yeah. I mean, it's supposed to be on the same team. Oh, no. Zero appreciation for anything.

Hey, man. Zero. Not even like a hey, I appreciate. It's all right.

It's fine. It's fine. I don't need it. No, we don't need him.

He'll be fine with it. Or his show. He'll be fine without us. Sure, he'll be fine.

Yeah, skip. That thing looks big. Man. It is.

Doesn't taste candy cany? Do you know where candy canes originated from? Would you like to know? This is from Patreon.

Oh, please do tell. A Catholic priest asked a candy maker to make them in the shape of the cane so that they would be thinking of the shepherd so the kids would be quiet during church. Oh. I don't know, I learned things and it's just weird.

That's just weird. Is that from the class you took? Yeah, in the candy canes, candy canes class. Nice.

All right, well, hey, let's knock out this video real quick. Oh, oh, we have another name to release. Yes. Oh, excellent title.

Bing Bong. Michael. Yes. Hi.

I have another, I don't have an anniversary this week, so it's whatever you want to give it to. Oh, okay. Last week. Well, we're back at it.

Okay. We're back at it. We have another GoRuck that we're going to give away today. And you brought the laptop, so there's more than one.

Yes, no, there is more than one this week. Oh, excellent. And the ashtray. I want to show you guys.

This is the grand prize. Oh. Ooh. It's a $300 ashtray.

Whatever. $299. Full retail value. Full retail value.

Full retail value. So. They're very heavy. So here's how you win.

Here's how you get into it. How do you win, Mike? Michael, how do you win? Here's your chances.

You get to buy a box. Of Romacraft. com. I'm going to ask you to win.

And then what we're going to do is we're going to give away a go-ruck every single week. Every single week? Every week. That's just crazy.

Lance Saletta won last week. Yes. Yes, you did. Congratulations.

Happy anniversary. And we have some entries this week, so we'll have to pick our winner. Uh-oh. So let's pick our winner real quick.

All right, let's pick our winner. All right. Hold on. Right on.

Bomber could be us. I did buy a box. It's not you. Yeah, it does have a winning.

That was one blow. Everybody's excited. Oh. Let's see here.

Random. org. org. org.

Still not a ton. Not a ton. How many would a ton be? Seven?

There's more than seven. More than seven this week? Ooh. Greater than or equal to.

Greater than. Greater than. Oh. The winner.

Yeah, I'm talking to you, the two mics. The winner. The winner is. For the Go-Ruck this week.

The Tom O'Craft Go-Ruck. Dun-dun-dun-dun. Is Bill Sarpalius. Bill Sarpalius.

I don't think I know Bill. Congratulations, Bill. Congratulations, Bill. You won this week's go-rec.

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. Oh, you can see me. All right, well, we're going to get back to Cigar Hustlers' podcast, but thanks, everybody, for contributing, and then we're going to do it again next week. com.

I'm so excited. Get yourself some AromaCraft boxes. Buy a AromaCraft box, you're entered to win. And then we will announce the winner.

But then you still get to- Yes, Bill, you're still entered to win this. Now it's just two people, right? So the winners of the rucks go into the pot to win this? Or everybody?

No, everybody's still entered. Oh, everybody's still entered. Okay, I wasn't sure. Yeah, the people that win, they'll get canceled out.

Ah, I got you. Right, that's how that works. Oh, I thought it was like the winners build up from this, you know, like a radio show. No, no, no, that's it.

That's it. Nice. All right. Well, hey, thank you, and we'll see you later.

Bye. Goodbye. Goodbye. You know, these are set up right now.

What? The buttons, you coughed. I'm sorry. I fixed them in everything.

I fixed them in everything. Gentle reminder. Gentle reminder, we have that button over there. And thank you for this is episode 312.

Give me my mic. It's 312? It says 311 on the board. That's right.

It's 312 on the paper. It's 312 on the paper. All right. Glad we got that out of the way.

Whew, that's close. I'm exhausted now. Doesn't take much. I'm old, you know, I didn't nap.

I didn't get to nap. No napping. I like how you keep putting that in your mouth and you just look a little upset. Because, bro.

No peppermint flavor at all, I'm guessing. We'll talk about it on the Patreon. So, who did you beat up at football, basketball, baseball? Well, we had basketball.

Basketball. We did have basketball. Yes. And we did crush basketball.

Did you have to have a talk with someone again? No, the coaches were great. Ah, excellent. The coaches were awesome.

They said, man, you guys got a great team. " Thank you very much. I'm the head coach. I'm not the head coach.

The refs were awesome. I guess he's better done. It was a good game. Oh, the refs were good, too.

You know what was, yeah. You know what was kind of funny was, Jax wanted a nail a three, so he kept taking ridiculous threes until he made one. Oh, because you had that kid do it last week. Yeah.

He wanted a three. He wanted a three. So he got one. Oh, he got one.

Congratulations. He's currently my favorite grandson. And the other guy who's, you know, a great player. Right.

arguably our star player or you know shooting guard shooting guards the number one guy right usually the quarterback yeah so our shooting guard we pulled them towards the end of the game right because you're winning with such a wide lead the dad is the head coach ah yes oh so but i pretty much handle people going in and out while he's kind of you're the head coach no oh sorry well he's running the thing so right personnel coach so he's so we pulled anything so every time we We pulled Jacks and we pulled this other kid, they'd get upset, like, what's wrong? I wanna play! So, no, so the kid says I'm really close to my PR, his personal record on basketball. And that was the last game, wasn't it?

Yeah. So, I was like... Gotta put him back in. Get back in there, man.

Get back in there. Gotta get your PRs. Yeah, you gotta get your PR, man. That's right.

Everybody was happy, nobody died. Excellent. Everybody get to play? Everybody got to play.

So how big a lead did you have? They stop at 25 or 30, they stop keeping score. So they stop keeping score the whole game? Yeah.

Right after the first period. Into the third quarter. Third period. And in periods in basketball?

No. They're quarters. There's four of them. I thought it was quarters in football.

Wouldn't that make sense if there was four of them? I thought that was... There is quarters in football. There's periods in hockey.

Oh, we're not talking hockey? No. Oh, I thought you kids were playing hockey. Sorry, my mistake.

My mistake. So, no. They throw these notes away. The sports.

The other team put up 10 points after it was all, like, after it was all said and done. That was the most it did. Oh, total? Yeah.

Ooh. You had at least 25. Jax was stealing every ball. Oh.

Every ball. Every ball. As soon as they broke half-court, he would steal it. Oh.

Stallings. Yeah, it was crazy. He's like, "I got ball. Stealing ball.

" He announced it before he would do it? " Meaning, like, I'm covering the other ball. So he could seal the ball. Ah, I got you.

Nice. So he could get his PR up. I don't think he's ever kept track. Maybe he has kept track.

I'm sure he keeps track. I'm sure he keeps track. But he's never said it to me. Oh, well.

Like, I should ask him, what was your highest score game? I'm sure I don't know. Well, against the so-and-so's, I scored 72 points. It was like 77 points or something.

I don't know, Dad. They stopped keeping scores. Yeah. But I didn't.

And then Saturday, we actually ran down to South Florida. Oh! Oh, nice. Yeah, for a surprise birthday party.

Oh. Yeah. That's nice. Whose birthday?

My dear friend, John Hackman's mom. Oh. Dear friend, John Hackman's mom. Yeah.

Oh. Growing up. Oh, that John. Yeah.

Okay. Nice. So we did that, and we drove home that night. The weather was terrible.

Oh, on Saturday? Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was like the pre-hurricane stuff.

Yeah, it was. Cyclone, wintertime, it's a cyclone. Is that what it is? Yes.

Winter, it's a cyclone. It must have been really bad at night, because up here, I mean, it was Sunday morning, you could see the remnants of the storm. I mean, everything was flooded in my neighborhood. During the day, it got worse as we were heading south.

Yeah, here it was 1:00 to 5:00 AM. So yeah, that would make sense. Gotcha. I woke up to flooding.

We don't flood. We're the highest point in the neighborhood. Oh, so you just looked around at all the chaos. Yes.

From the top of the hill. And you stood atop the hill. Top of the hill, yeah. Oh, look at this poor people.

In your robe. Yes. Yes. Drinking coffee, smoking a cigar.

Yeah. Aha, you will all try. My Superman robe. Wow, you have a Superman robe?

Sure, I have for years. It's the only robe I have, actually. Sunday was pretty chill. Yeah?

Well, you were tired from the drive. I was tired. I don't know what we did Sunday. Chilled.

I think so. A lot of cold plunging. I did cold plunge on Sunday. Now it's getting hot in here.

I feel good. Well, that's what's important. That's what's important. That's what's important, Michael.

You gotta keep the talent. It's at 73 degrees. It's perfect. That's hot.

I never had this room at 73 when I'm in here. It's nice, right? I'm starting to sweat under my hat. Just let it happen.

Let it happen. It's getting so uncomfortable in here. It's not uncomfortable. You should be.

I want you uncomfortable. Why? Just a little uncomfortable. I'm always a little uncomfortable.

Okay. I don't want you to get in time for Phil's Fun Facts already. He's already putting a hat on. Slightly more uncomfortable.

Now my glasses are starting to fog. No, they're not. Yes, they are up here in this corner. Oh my goodness.

You gotta lose the hat. That's because you're uncomfortable. What'd you do this weekend? Anything fun on Saturday?

No, because of the storm. That was on Saturday. I know, we didn't do anything on Saturday. Well, we did, but I'll talk about that on the other show.

Oh, really? Oh, my goodness. Because there's some people that listen on this show. Oh, that's going to be good.

So, Sunday we went Christmas shopping, and then I took me out to dinner. Very nice. Where'd you go to eat? Twin Peaks, because we went to the Altma Mall.

Nice. You know, I don't know how Sanford Mall's dead, and that one is so busy. What is he? Altamont Mall?

Yeah. Altamont Mall is always packed every time we go. Even not at Christmas. Yeah.

Sanford's a ghost town. Seminole Town Center. I've been to Altamont Mall when it's dead. It's their town.

Well, there's nothing in Sanford Mall anymore. But that's why, because they got dead. Yeah. Because they're dead.

Right. It's just so weird. The money. Apparently.

I went, we went to go try and see the Grinch today. Oh, that's right. That's what you said this morning. So we tried.

A universal? Yeah. I think maybe a week ago. And the wait time was like 180 minutes.

Oh, wow. I'm like, what? You know, we'll just, we'll come early. It's over two hours.

We'll go in the morning. Right. And we'll go see the Grinch then. Cause that makes sense.

Right. You go in the morning. Should be crowded. No issue.

Apparently everybody has the same idea. How long do you think the fucking wait was this morning? Four hours. More than 180.

More than four hours. To see a guy dressed in a green suit. The next day. No.

It was 390 fucking minutes. See, I hate that. I would still be in line. Yeah.

Right now. We were, while we were doing the shot in the open mall, Adrienne goes, you know, I asked her, you want something to drink? We're waiting in this line. She goes, how about a pretzel?

Okay, I think the pretzel place is over there. Pretzel place line was just ridiculous. So I came back with a drink from somewhere else where I'm like, how about just this? The pretzel place closed.

I'm not going to believe this. Well, they had the, you know, the rails. Yeah. So, four reels packed, and then it went down the mall, around the corner.

Oh, fuck that. Did you get to get a bucket of Rachel Bites? No, no, I'm good. I'm good.

So, I went to the candy shop that had no weight and got her a drink, and like, here you go. Here's for you. This is for you. You know what, uh, you know where I got to eat yesterday?

Where'd you get to eat? Torchy's Tacos. Oh! It's open!

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I can't wait to go. Can't wait to that, Michael. I haven't, last time I ate was, there was years ago when I was in Texas. Right.

It was good, man. Was it good? Yeah. Oh.

They got these little tacos. Fried dough things, cookie dough things. Yes. Amazing.

You know, like the things you get at Taco Bell? No. Like the little cherry sticks? No.

They have those too. Oh. Their food is a little more upscale. Yeah.

Oh, is it really? Yeah. Oh. Like steak tacos and stuff.

Beef for hearing. Oh. It's good stuff. Yeah?

Yeah. Everyone in Colorado. Oh. Yeah.

Wow, they're all over the place. Yeah. Did you go in and did you see your friend? Was he there?

He wasn't there. Did you drop his name? No. I should have asked for him.

Why did you drop his name? Well, we, I mean, they're, you know. Hey, is Mr. Torchy here?

He's my friend. I'll bring up a couple things. Okay. For one, I'm going to tell you right now, Brittany was very upset about a 390 minute wait at the Grinch.

Oh, I would imagine. She said flat out, this is fucking ridiculous. Right. I'm sure.

Who the fuck would do, why hasn't Universal fixed that? I'll fix that. And she's right. Universal should fix that.

Put another Grinch out. Yeah, they should have more than one Grinch. For fuck's sake. Something.

When we went last year, wasn't there two? Or was it just one? I know it was a special event. I think it was just one, but it wasn't that bad.

That would sort of, I think, diminish it with the kids. I was like, I'm two Santas standing there. If they had two Grinches. How would they know?

Because you could see there's two of them. When we went, wasn't that like a... Kids will notice. Wasn't that a special event?

It was when we went, that's why the line wasn't bad, when we paid to go see the guy, but I think if they had more than one, it's like if you go to the mall, you gotta wait in the line, there's only one Santa at the mall. Okay, that's fair. I agree with that to some degree. My counter to that though, is when they talk about the Grinch, I say that's Jim Carrey.

You know who Jim Carrey is? Oh, you know, you don't sell them as the Grinch? I'm not selling them as some magical fucking guy. You're supposed to.

You know, with Santa, there's some drunk guy they found outside. No. The Grinch at Universal, Jim Carrey? No.

When we watched the movie. Oh. You know. Well, yeah, because it's a movie.

Yeah. Well, that's Jim Carrey. Like, Teddy doesn't think there's actually a Grinch guy? I don't know.

I don't know if she grasped that concept. You know? She probably does. How about Justice?

No, Justice gets it, it's a dude in a costume. Okay. For sure. Definitely getting sick, by the way.

Thanks. Three coughs. Yeah. No.

I'm sorry, Brittany. The man flu is going to hit your house, Brittany. Mm. Very sorry.

Well, I got two days to get the fuck over it. What happens in two days? What happens on Wednesday? Uh, no, not Wednesday, but the 23rd is Brittany, uh, Teddy's birthday.

Right, Saturday. All right, so I got some, I got, I got a little window. Yeah, like four days. There's some emergency.

You got to get this going. But then you got to back to back though because you also have something the next day too. Christmas Eve. Right.

And then Christmas Day. And then the Christmas Day, right. And it's a lot of changing going on in your house. So if the sick comes, how long, you got sick?

Yeah. How long were you sick for? Since Tuesday. Yeah, you can say, and he's still sick today, he's on the tail end today.

So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday. I mean, I'm a little bit healthier than him. That's true. You don't eat.

Yeah. He eats. He eats a lot of protein. Yeah.

Drink some emergency and take zinc. I honestly think I'm going to be fine. Is this this little tickle thing or whatever? Okay, tickle, tickle.

Like that pre-feeling where you can sort of feel sour on the inside? No. Well, then maybe you're okay. Yeah.

Maybe just a cough. It makes a little tickle. I mean, I might have something so hot in here. I feel good.

I'm getting hot too, though. Yeah, see? See, that's not good. Because you get the heat on!

What you guys feel and I don't feel, I feel okay. I'll turn the heat. I'll turn the heat on. I'm sweating.

I'm not taking any more clothes on. Last week, I stripped into a t-shirt, so this week, I just went straight for the t-shirt. See, my glasses are still fogging at the top. It's hot.

It's hot. You know, if you put the camera one on, then it's called movie magic and they don't see him getting up. Yeah, it's too late. What about camera three?

Camera three, right on him. Right. Maybe they like it better. It's movie magic.

All right, well, let's get into Phil's fun facts. Moving right along. I like the button, hold on a minute. Ding dong.

Welcome to Cigar Hustlers Podcast Feature, Phil's Fun Facts. Uh oh, hello peoples. All right, this is a long one. This is a long one.

Well, he complained last week, he was so sure. Did you know? Did you know, that during the Victorian era, there was a bizarre trend where cigars were marketed as a weight loss aid? Right.

Advertisements claimed that smoking cigars could help individuals shed pounds by curbing their appetite. Yeah. The idea was that puffing on a cigar would keep your mouth occupied, preventing you from snacking and thus aiding in weight control. It's an amusing historical tidbit that shows how marketing and health trends have evolved over time.

It's obviously fake and doesn't work. Or I would be thin. Here it comes. No, no.

Because he's not thin. Ah. That was the joke. But you talked over him because you thought cold plunging.

Say it again. Say it again. Do the last line again. It's obviously fake and doesn't work.

Or I would be thin. Wow. He smokes lies again. Yeah.

Well, no. Thanks, friend. Hey, listen. Nobody likes a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, okay, buddy?

We need it nice and cold. You know, last week I didn't take a shot at him and you got mad. This week I take a shot at him and you're mad. It's not Adam, and you're mad.

Who's mad? You! You're sitting there talking about, I'm making fun of him. No, I didn't.

I just said, nobody likes a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Nobody likes a thin tree. How is that me beating on you? You're very angry when you're sick.

I'm not sick. I might be sick. You took... Oh, no, it's back to two.

I thought he took everything off with the camera slot. You took... I mean, you're not Jim Carrey. We have to keep the illusion going.

Yes. Camera one, please. Come on. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need, the Cigar Hustler Podcast Report.

With Mike too. I watched the video of last week's episode where we had smoke on the water interview at the end. Yes. It was fucking frozen.

It was just frozen. I was like, oh my God. Yeah, I just went with the frozen. Phil, you really fucked that up, buddy.

That wasn't me. That was the internet there. It was the thing. What was the mask you had to wear?

Was it Ronald Reagan? Oh, yeah. George Bush, Bush, and apparently George Bush's mask that was there is 15 years old, never been washed, been put on various people. Oh, several, that's probably where he got sick.

That's, you know what, that is probably where he got sick. There's germs growing inside that mask. Okay, several weeks ago, we covered the Arturo Fuente Padrón Legends collaboration that was shipping. It's not shipping.

Now it's delayed. Oh! Fuente and Padrón Legends, a collaborative project between Arturo Fuente and Padrón, will not be heading to stores this year. S.

Carlos Carlito Fuente Jr. announced the shipment on social media. In the two weeks since, it became apparent that there was an issue that prevented the first batch of cigars, which were expected to be distributed by Padrón, from being released. Oh, they were going to be distributed by Padrón.

According, apparently, yes. As it turns out, some of the boxes in one of the two shipping containers arrived to Tampa Damage. The two companies say that they will delay the release and inspect each box individually, which necessitates the delay. That's such bullshit.

It is bullshit. I was gonna bring it up. It doesn't take that long to inspect two containers. No.

Here's what happened. A couple of Chinese guys can just knock that out. Here's what happened. It was a premature release.

Two, please. It was a premature announcement. Carlito's probably excited about it. He was excited, it probably shipped.

Fucking, everybody went nuts. Right. They don't have all of it yet. Right.

They haven't established how to handle it. Yeah, who do we send the 750 boxes to? So they said, hold on, why don't we take a step back here? Yeah, wait till we get everything.

Let's get the 2,000 boxes and then work this through. Right. Yeah. Fortunately, after years of planning to work, we have a setback in our Legends project.

I'm extremely disappointed. We'll have to delay its release, said Jorge Padron in a press release. While these adverse situations are nothing new for either of our companies, I will look at this as a learning experience for the younger generation and our families. Our families are responding the way we were taught, working together to ensure that we see projects through to its completion.

Yeah, so Carly, they said, "What are you doing, man? " "What are you doing? " And Carly said, "You know what? Fuck you.

It's your problem. " I hung up the phone and Jorge's like, "You know what? I'll take care of it. " "Oh, the container was damaged.

" He didn't say that shit. " Perfect response. That's how you respond. " Okay, perfect.

No ETA. No ETA, no plans on how they're gonna do it, who's getting them or anything. Yeah. You think maybe they're just smoking them?

Well, look. You think after four years they would've already had that worked out. We're getting 2,000 of them, here's a list of people. Right.

No, they're like, "Oh, they're here? " Okay, so, I mean, look, your top Padron account might not be your top Not Puente account. So now they're arguing. So how do you make sure?

Right. That is a problem. I've never thought of that problem. Now there's some of those that will equate.

Padrón's going, here's my list, and Carlito goes, here's my list. They're not the same. Well, I'm sure that there are some that will correlate. Probably.

There are some Padrón top guys that will be some Puente top guys. Right. No problem. Right.

And there's going to be a lot of outliers, though, that are big Padrón guys and outliers that are just big Fuente guys without being big Padrón guys. Right. So how do you make sure that those guys are taken care of? It is complicated, and it should have been sorted out before where it's at now.

They know all this is coming. Yeah. Well, they're building the plane as it goes down there. That plane is fucking built.

They have gold planes. They have a fleet. They're good. They're solid.

They're solid. I'm surprised that that was a mistake that they made. You know, realistically, they need to go back. The problem is it's two different companies.

They should probably produce another 2,000 boxes, maybe more. Yeah. Or just divide them out. A thousand here.

You get a thousand, we get a thousand. You're still not going to satisfy demand. No, somebody's going to be upset. No matter how they do it, somebody's going to get mad.

A lot of people are going to be upset. Well, yes, more than one. Especially how some of these retailers are. Oh, sure.

Do you know how I'm... Uh-oh. Uh-oh. My wife's calling me.

Oh, I love when she's on the show. Hold on one second. Do I need to hit the button? No, it's not.

It's not connected. Try it now. Sorry. You're going to produce a fresh market, right?

Yes. Okay. All right. Love you, bye.

I love you, too. Bye. That was it? No complaints?

She is in the thick of it right now, buddy. Wow. We are ramping up towards Christmas. We got a birthday party.

I know. You got three completely different events. Christmas Day. Yes.

And she's got three kids. It's like the changeover at Universal. And she's got three kids with her right now and none of them are complying. Oh, I feel bad.

Well, get them in line. Gonna have to line 'em up, baby. She may have a sick husband on her hands. Tell him Jim Carrey's coming.

Yeah, Jim Carrey's coming. Cro-Mag Clovis slated for April. Oh. Next year, Roma Craft Tobac will unveil its updated version of its Cro-Mag line with a new blend and updated packaging.

The original Cro-Magnum may return at some point, but the company's focus will be on the updated Cro-Magnum line, line, which features a Pennsylvania Broadleaf wrapper instead of the Connecticut Broadleaf. That has been used for Cro-Mag since the launch in 2011. Love us. Those changes will extend to the regular production Vitolas of Cro-Mag.

The 2024 Roma Craft price list shows the same seven regular production Vitolas for the Pennsylvania version as the Connecticut version. It also limited production Vitolas. There are four limited production cigars listed for the Pennsylvania blend, three of which are new. 15 cents per cigar and 2024 production is limited to The 500 boxes of 24 cigars, Clovis is expected to ship in April.

I'm pretty sure Skip already hasn't figured out who's getting what. Clovis, if it's named after this guy, became the first king of France. I don't think he explains who Clovis is. Nope.

He's considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of early Middle Ages. Oh, excellent. So. Hmm.

Would you Google Clovis? I did. Oh, excellent. I Googled it.

It was called Skip. I did. I was thinking about that. And he is in town.

Oh, that's right. I didn't want to get yelled at. I'm sure I would have, you know. He would just ask you for your production numbers.

We sent that to him, and I'm going to get berated. Oh. Skip, call the show. If you'd like, attach me and I'll FaceTime him and see if he answers.

It's flashing. All you have to do is go. Broadcaster Pro. Ding dong.

You want to see me take the abuse? Yeah, because Britney was way too easy. You're fucking weak ass, blah, blah, blah, production numbers. This is it.

This is all you want. Please don't bring it up if it doesn't say anything. In the love of God. In the love of God, both of you.

Yeah. Hey, you're on the podcast. Oh. You busy?

What's going on? What's up, buddy? So, hey, what made you come up with the Clovis name? Where'd that come from?

What's that? What'd you come, what made you think of Clovis for the new one? We just, we just talked about the headline of the release. The release.

We're featuring your cigar on today's show. Yeah. Oh, it's, uh, what cigar are you featuring on the show? We were talking, we read the news article in regards to the news with a Black Iris descendant of Clovis, the Pennsylvania Broadleaf Barber poll, that you're going to be releasing allegedly in April.

Well, you should know, because you got the source of that story from Half-Will, that Clovis can, where it comes from, you can't just deal with a headline and not read the actual story. Well, Mike didn't read that part. That's what I'm saying. Oh, Clovis references the Clovis culture, Michael.

Now, well, he looked up something, Skip, to be fair, and I just stopped looking. I dived into Clovis. But they existed around 11,000 BC in North America. At one point, it was believed that Clovis people were the first humans in America, though it is now disputed.

This is great. It's now disputed. Not by Skip, though. Not by Skip.

No, he agrees. I never said they were the first. You know, I read the article like you asked, Skip. Well, I don't know what to tell you.

It's Charlie's fault at this point. Yes. It's kind of like a Pennsylvania crew magnet. Right.

Right, yeah, we covered that. Yeah. We're excited. No, I'm saying it is a early modern human that has artifacts in Pennsylvania.

Ah, makes sense. Makes sense. You're so smart. All right.

Well, reading for comprehension is a critical life skill. Yeah, I can, I see that now. Thank you so much. All right.

Well, that's all about those production numbers. That was, that was it. All right, buddy. Thank you.

Did you, did you talk about, did you talk about the Cigar Sean singing to you today? No, they're pretty good. The what? The lightweight heavy or?

No, the cigars that I had, that I brought back with me, that Sean said. Oh, yeah, no, I haven't disclosed any of that information yet. I haven't said that we're working on a new cigar yet, and I haven't said any of that. Oh.

We're intrigued. But yes, we're working on something. But please, tell us more. We're working on something.

Shh, be quiet, Mike. Go ahead, Skip. We can let Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dunn there know when we put it in Half Wheel. They can read it in Half Wheel.

Yeah, I'll send the press release to Half Wheel, and then they can talk about it. I write the press releases. So, you sent them already? That's exciting.

I'm excited. I told Sean to send them today. Excellent. Just two of them.

I don't know if you actually sent them. No, no, three. Yeah, just two cigars. Just two cigars.

You know, there's no third one. Okay. Cool. Oh, Christmas is coming early.

Oh, excellent. Thank you. And the bill. What cigar are you doing on the Patreon?

Today, we are doing the Viaje candy cane. Andy Cain. No. He's so excited!

Try to do something new, something that just came in, and it came in. So here we are. What would you have us review? No, whatever, I don't, you know, you have like six listeners, I don't think it really matters.

Yeah, exactly. We only have six. Yeah. Does that include you or not include you?

There's like six people in the background. I was thinking, I'm talking about paid listeners. Oh, he's talking about the Patriot. He doesn't count to that.

He doesn't count to the six. I mean, it's more entertaining when you do things that you can talk shit about. So I guess the FBI is a good choice. I've been smoking the Standard & Twain.

" This is confirmed. Or I'll go, or I'll be like, "This is pretty good. " I got Jason doing them and I'll tell him, I'll be smoking, I'll tell him what it is before he looks it up. Nice.

Well, I mean, you know. I don't, I don't know about, I don't know about flavors and flavor notes and all that bullshit, but I can tell you what a good cigar is. Right. And you can tell where specific tobaccos are coming from.

Well, I can tell you they're good tobacco. That's all that matters. That's all that matters. That's all that matters.

All that matters. Taste is subjective, but there's most, a lot of the reason why these cigars are bad are objective problems. I think people like collecting cigars and putting them in Tupperware more than they like smoking them. That's true.

That is very true. I'm just an old school cigar smoker. That's it. All right, man.

Well, I'm glad I could help you out. Thank you for taking the call, Skip. Yeah, absolutely. Your guidance is always appreciated the best.

We appreciate you. Anytime. All right, brother. Take it easy.

I don't like you right now. We are not friends. He didn't even say a word. He just hasn't checked his emails yet.

Probably. That's Jason's job. He doesn't answer the phone. I thought I had more time.

I thought I'd just open this thing up and light it. Tell him about the production. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Fuck you.

You threw me under the bus. How did I throw you under the bus? You always throw me under the bus. When?

All the time. He's talking about because he didn't read the rest of the thing. Tell me the one time. You started saying that it was that Clovis was some president or something.

He was, he was. So I stopped reading. Apparently, the next line actually on the thing was who the Clovis was. Got it.

All right, Romacraft. He's the Pennsylvania Cromac. Apparently, yes. Yeah.

Romacraft Tobac increases prices next month. Oh. Get him back in the phone. No, no, don't get it.

Hey, we're talking about your price increase. For 2024, Romacraft Tobac will increase the prices of its cigars. 9%, though even with a single throw, even within a single line. Individual SKUs are increased by different percentages.

Most of the increases appear to be within 4% to 6%. You want what each one is? No. That's it, huh?

Those figures do not include the limited production SKUs such as Cro-Mag, Black Irish, or Neanderthal OM that Roma Craft Tobac releases in limited quantities. While a select group of companies noted It's probably Altidus, Davidoff, USA, and everybody's talking about it. Because everybody's norm is eight. I would say your basis is normally seven.

I was going to say six to eight seems to be the average everybody's at. So he's under the average. 9. Yeah.

So some of his or more. Depends on the size of the cigar, I would imagine, more tobacco. It probably blends out somewhere between six percent. Well, we did mention that in the story, but, you know, we don't read those.

Yeah. Oh. Both the increases appear to be within four to six, yes. Do you think, do you think there's a point in cigars where they stop increasing prices, or do you think it just keeps going up, up, up, up, up, up?

Do you think that there's a point in life where they stop increasing prices for, I don't know? Anything else? Vehicles? Cereal?

Fucking fruit? I mean, there's a crash, usually. No, what happened? Right?

You mean... These entire system collapses. I'm gonna guess there's that. That's a good point.

I don't, I mean, even, but even- Have you ever seen that with cigars? I haven't, no. Even when the market has crashed, though, car prices, what, they stalled? They didn't go down.

They didn't go down. I don't think anything ever goes back down. Because- Well, I guess gas fluctuates, but- Well, the reality is that- Never gonna see a dollar a gallon. Cash is still being produced on an annual basis.

Currency is still being produced. being produced right as long as currencies continue to be produced and put into the marketplace prices will continue to rise right okay the only way prices fall is if you pull cash out and stop producing it and that would probably be bad i would assume i mean all right but you know what the fuck do i know the fuck do you know just a cigar guy i don't even think i qualify as a cigar I mean, I don't even read. Villager Cigars, Villager Cigars, North American is doing a price increase, 5% to 10%. Oliva is doing a price increase, 5% to 7%.

And then Avvo, Avvo, poor Avvo, he's collaborating with DJ D-Nice for a new cigar in 2024. Saw that. Over the weekend, D-Nice. Avvo's dead though.

Right, but the company is not. The company is. I'm sure he didn't know who D-Nice was. No.

He did not look like a rep. Raps. Does he play the piano? Is it Denise?

I don't know. Denise. D-nice. N-I-C-E.

D hyphen N-I-C-E. Oh, okay. It's Nietzsche. Nietzsche?

He's Chinese now. Denizche. Denizche. It's Russian.

Ah, yeah. Over the weekend, Denizche, a noted hip-hop DJ, announced that he was working with the Avo brand for a new cigar in 2024. Yep. The cigar will be called Expressions 2024.

Expressions. While Davidoff of Geneva has confirmed the project, virtual Actually, none of the details have been released. De Nietzsche post indicated the release will happen in second quarter 2024. Maybe.

Press release says... It may happen. It may. Listen, De Nietzsche, you're getting ahead of yourself.

Welcome to the cigar industry. If you think it's going to be released in June, good luck. 2,500 boxes of 15 cigars. He was born...

How many boxes? 2,500. 2,500 boxes of 15 cigars. 15 counts, okay.

The Avo brand has had a strong association with music since it was founded by the late Avo Unveza, a noted pianist and composer. Over the years, Davidoff has used music as a theme for various Avo releases. Aha. So this is a Davidoff brand?

This is very exciting. Yes. Well, Avo and Davidoff, you know, together. Right.

Avo died many years ago. He did. Yeah. Fred Rui was a friend of Avo.

They loved him. Fred loved him. Fred loved him. Fred loved him.

He had this beautiful, He had a little Raiden-esque hat that he would wear. AVO, not Fred Rui. Yeah, AVO. Yeah.

So, there's that. He had a lovely white goatee beard. Yes. Yeah, he kind of reminded me of… Raven, you're kind of right.

He kind of looked like… Big Trouble in Little China. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. It was amazing. Supreme Leaf is shipping again.

Yay. Yay. Most of the time, a cigar company will choose unique dimensions for each of the sizes, The size is within a line every once in a while. There might be an instance when a particular blend is sold in a 6x52 Toro, also a 6x52 Torpedo, but even that is fairly rare.

Next week, Agronosa Leaf will buck the trend entirely by shipping the third different Vitola in the Supreme Leaf line, the measured 6x54 ring gauge of Supreme Leaf Perfecto. They're gonna ship empty boxes to buck the trend. It's the seventh Vitola for the Supreme Leaf line, which is a Nicaraguan Puro, highlighted by a Corojo 99 wrapper. Supreme Leaf debuted in 2020 and has been offered in various shapes and sizes.

All of them have been between 5 and 6 inches long, and most of them have been 52 to 54 ringgages. So wait a second, so every time I release the Warbearer it's a different Vitola and I'm breaking the trend? Apparently. Look at me.

Look at you, you trendsetter. So rebellious. The MSRP for the Supreme Leaf Perfecto is set at? Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait.

$11. 99. Holy shit! Per cigar, and this shipment is limited to 1,500 boxes of 10 cigars.

Those cigars will only head to retailers. $16. At our Agronosa Select Accounts. Wow!

A retail loyalty program used by the company. Supreme Leaf. Are we Agronosa? Yeah, we are.

We're qualified. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, we buy those. And we'll sell them.

99. Delicious. Agronosa Leaf Select Partners choose each year to make a significant commitment to our brand, Welcome to our brand, said Terrence Riley, VP of Sales and Marketing for the Agronorza Leaf, in a press release in September from his Giraffe Sanctuary. We wanted to reward them with an exclusive size of our most coveted cigar.

Is it most coveted because they put it out so often? No, it is definitely their most sought-after cigar. They still haven't changed the box, same box as always. It's a delicious cigar.

It works. It works. Why fuck with it? You know what's so funny is they try to do it with the rare leaf and shit, and that doesn't even fucking work.

Oh, really? Yeah, the Supreme Leaf is the best seller, hands down. That's the orange and purple one, right? Correct.

Yep. That's delicious. Correct. Do I still have boxes back there for Mark saved?

I don't know. I think you got rid of them. Did I? Yeah.

Okay. I don't know. I think there's two. I don't know why.

I bet you there's two back there. St. Paul, Minnesota votes to reduce the number of tobacco retailers. Who?

Who? St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota.

They have found a way to reduce cigar consumption By limiting the number of places you can buy it. That's fantastic. On Wednesday, the St. Paul City Council set a process in motion that will eventually cut 50 tobacco retailers' licenses and 10 tobacco product shops' licenses, as it looks to make it harder for individuals to access tobacco products in the city.

Wow. I mean, how many is there already? That's pretty shitty. Let's read on and find out.

Okay. Because, you know, if I read the damn articles, I would know the answers to the questions. Wow, look at, look at, look at, look at, this is an essential skill in life, he's, it's an essential skill, according to the ordinance that was passed, it said it will gradually reduce the number of tobacco retailers licenses from 150 to 100, while the number of tobacco product shops licenses will go from 25 to 15, the former covers things like convenience or liquor stores, while the latter covers shops that derive 90% or more of the revenue from tobacco sales, requiring customers to be at least 21 years old and have at least one staff member completely dedicated. Blew your presence around.

I felt the germs hit me. They'll be fine. Tobacco sales. Any store that applied for the license on or before July 31st, 2021, will be grandfathered in as long as they can remain in compliance with the city's tobacco laws and apply for renewal within a year of a license and expire.

Huh. So wait, I'm trying to follow this. I don't know, I don't know, that sounds fucked, it sounds totally fucked. So they have, currently they give out 150 licenses, I guess that's 150 licenses a year, not like total number.

So now they're going to only give out 100, so that's 100 new, because if you had your license before July 31st, two years ago, you're still good. So they're stopping... So the first part of the article sounds like they're closing, they're going to force stores to close. Right.

So they're just limiting the number of new ones. Okay. It's the most ridiculous thing. So now it's not even, now it's just a feel-good story, because how is that going to change anything?

I don't understand, I just don't understand the interference of the regulation. It makes no sense whatsoever. Right. I guarantee you, fucking marijuana will be legalized if it's not already in Minnesota.

As retailers close or otherwise lose their licenses, it will reduce the number of licenses available. So that's how they get you. So instead of rallying behind small businesses and helping them grow and develop, we're going to shut them down and shit on them. and make sure.

Right. Perfect. Perfect. Makes sense.

Yeah. Now, I'm not rooting for the Vikings. How's that sound? Oh.

Yeah. Timberwolves out. Fuck them. They're probably reconsidering the law right now.

The Twins can go fuck themselves. Who else? Who else is in there? That's three.

Is there a hockey team? There's got to be a hockey team. There's got to be a hockey team. It's Minnesota.

It's fucking... They have periods in hockey, I understand, too. Yeah, I heard good things about the periods. I heard that earlier in the show.

Good thing. Minnesota slapdicks. There you go. Powstanie Esports.

Okay, and finally, the Bostania SBC-22 is arriving at stores. Oh! For God's sake, did Ronnie get his cigars? Yeah.

Oh, thank God. On Saturday, the Bostania SBC-22 launched at an event in Smoke in the Water on Western Florida. Now it's arriving at other stores. It is.

SBC is an acronym for Surrounded by Champions. It debuted in 2016 and seems targeted to be an every-other-year release with the company. Though the SBC-20 shipped in '22, and the SBC-22 shipped in '23, and so on and so on. The next, next season, next series of them?

Yes. S-B-W-R-I. Is that the new cigar that Skip just talked about? No, no.

It's called Surrounded by Well-Read Individuals. Oh, that's nice. Yes. Yes.

Albeit, in a way, we're one rapper. All four releases have been a five and a half by 46 Corona Gorda that used a barber pole rapper. Yes. So these releases, you didn't change if it totally, so you're just going along with the system.

So I brought some to the party? What party? The birthday party that I went down to in South Florida? Oh, yes.

And they're like, damn, this is, whew, really good. And I'm like, well, Tyler said it's the best one. I honestly try and downplay it. I'm like, I didn't blend that one.

It's not as good as the other ones. No, mine's way better. The other ones are always better. Damn it.

It says some right here on the paper. Yeah. The company is not disclosing the blend info for the SBC 22, but like other Postalian cigars, it is made at Fabrica de Tobacco Nicasueña in Esteli Nicaragua. It is a very good cigar.

Prices have been set at $17 per cigar, production limited to 500 boxes of 20 cigars. Yep. Mm-hmm. All right, Shop of the Week, Margo.

Shop of the Week is going to Omerta. Because we had like a thing pop. Oh, is that what the noise was? Yeah, your light's gone.

See that behind you? No, you're either behind you. Oh, so, you know, the electrical that we can't get fixed in. Oh, yeah, any day now it's good to go.

Good to go. Yeah. Always happens after a rain. I had already said it once today.

Almirta. And where is Almirta located, Mike? Oklahoma. Oklahoma.

Where they don't restrict the licensing. Yeah. Well, not yet. We don't know.

All right. Who's the listener of the week? The listener of the week is going to be Adrian Carmona. Why would that upset him?

Oh, well, I mean, you know, I don't know. I said it was going to go. I didn't say it was going to upset you. I said it was going to go dark.

So, yeah, Adrian was a friend who recently passed. He's very young. I don't know exactly what happened to him. Yeah, he wasn't young.

His daughter took over his Facebook page. He's not saying how, just that he has passed. When she did, I didn't understand it. I didn't either at first.

And then when Andrew reposted it in Weasel, Team Six? Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh, I went back, I've read it three or four times, because people keep commenting on it, looking for maybe some little tidbit of information.

His parents lived in my neighborhood. Yeah. He's been to the shop a few times. Yeah.

You know, he's... He used to tag us there for a while. He tagged us quite often in his post. Yeah.

You know, we never really kept in touch except via social media. Right. But he was a good dude. He was.

He was a nice guy. And, like, that's the... He will be missed. That's the blessing and the curse of the cigar industry, man, is you get to meet so many people.

Right. You know? And then you get to celebrate some of their triumphs with them, and then you get to fucking... Then you get this.

Right. So, I mean, if he wasn't old, I imagine, his daughter's not that old, I would imagine. No, he was like 42 years old or something, he was young, he was young. Crazy.

Phil looks a little, uh, he doesn't, Phil does not take death well. No, I don't know, but you will be missed. Yeah, he was a good dude. So, I don't know what happened, man, but it's a fucking bummer.

All right, you got anything else? Uh, no, I'll skip again and talk about your production numbers. You, fuck, man. Well, he's definitely gonna call Wednesday, or Tuesday.

Oh man, I'm doing my best with what I got, I'm working my ass off here. I'm sure you are. I don't appreciate you coming down. Tell us about the new cigar.

No. I'm not gonna tell you anything. And you know what I'm gonna do? When it gets here?

Smoking on the show. Without you guys. Actually, you know what? I'm gonna give it to Phil.

Yeah, I didn't say anything about production numbers. He laughed. Phil and I are gonna smoke. Phil laughed.

There's actually two blends that we're gonna smoke. Oh, good. Enjoy them. Delicious.

Meanie? Yeah, you're mean. Oh, whatever. I said, don't say anything, and you fucking went right for it.

I'm trying to deflect. You're gonna pay. You know what happens when you poke the bear. There's gonna be problems.

Well, you're bucking the system. The bear's always a different patrol. You're gonna be a trendsetter. You're a trendsetter.

I'm gonna trendset the hell out of you, buddy. You know, one of these presents has a gift in it for you. Am I telling you which one? I can't wait to open it and pummel you with it.

So next week's show is gonna be late. Yeah. 'Cause Christmas is Monday. We'll have to do it on Tuesday.

So we'll do it Tuesday morning or something. Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah, Christmas is Monday. Oh, he's yawning, we must be boring, we're boring, Phil over there, he's sleeping.

Phil's been sick, he's sleeping, he's sleeping, he's sleeping, he's sleeping. You leave poor Phil alone. Deflecting him, deflecting him, deflecting him, deflecting him. Phil and I got lovely cigar pimp hats, we didn't even bring that up, I didn't even mention it.

You got what? Cigar pimp hats. Oh, where were those? We got them at Smoke on the Water.

Oh, you guys should have wore them already. You didn't get t-shirts to wear on the show. Are we over here just berating you about it? No, no, we let it go.

Let it go. You can wear your lovely hats. Oh, no, no, no. You should plug, you should plug your friend's shot.

I plugged them several times. I did a whole podcast for them. That was recorded by Phil. Right.

Audio only. Yeah. All right. It's been episode 312.

I'll try my best. We have to go to The Secret Show. That number's wrong, too. All right, guys, we got to go.

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Show Notes

In the latest episode of The Cigar Hustlers Podcast, the hosts dive deep into the latest buzz in the cigar industry. With big names like Arturo Fuente and Padrón Legends Collaboration facing delays until 2024, listeners get an inside look at the reasons behind these setbacks and the anticipation building around them.

The episode also sheds light on the upcoming release of Cromagnon Clovis by RoMa Craft Tobac in April. With a revamped blend and updated packaging, the hosts discuss what enthusiasts can expect from this highly anticipated launch and its potential impact on the market.

However, it's not all about new releases. The podcast delves into the industry's pricing dynamics, highlighting the imminent price increases from Roma Craft Tobac, Villiger Cigars North America, Oliva, and the intriguing collaboration between AVO and DJ D-Nice for Expressions 2024.

For aficionados eagerly awaiting new smokes, the hosts unveil the details about the Supreme Leaf Perfecto, shipping out next week, and the arrival of Powstanie SBC 22 at stores, giving listeners a sneak peek into what's hitting shelves soon.

Additionally, the episode covers the regulatory side, discussing St. Paul, Minn.'s recent decision to reduce tobacco retailer licenses and ban tobacco vending machines, providing insights into how these changes might shape the local cigar market.

Tune in for a comprehensive roundup of the latest industry news, releases, pricing updates, and regulatory shifts that are shaping the cigar world in Episode 312 of The Cigar Hustlers Podcast.