Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 314 Year Of The Dragon

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Let's get this bitch going. Are you recording over there? Yes. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers' Podcast, episode 314.

Hungry New Year, babe. Angry New Year, babe. The number one cigar podcast of the world-famous cast, where we bring you the latest news and insights into the world-famous cigars. In this episode, we dive into the big stories of the week.

P. Palmer, are two dynamic individuals who co-hosts the Captivating Cigar Hustlers Podcast. And me, I'm Phil. Angry Baby New Year, Phil.

Sit back and join us for another exciting episode of Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Heads up, we're still proudly sponsor free, but a massive shout out to our amazing patrons on Patreon, thank you for your unwavering support, we're able to deliver unfiltered, unbiased opinions on all things cigars and personalities in the cigar world. Your backing makes it possible for us to keep it real for both our lists for you, keep it real for our listeners.

com and search a Cigar Hustler Podcast. It's great stuff. Well worth your while. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unless you're Mark Gordon and you're upset about last week. Two please, two please. Listen, Mark, we were all sick and dying and it was a holiday. It was a holiday, just relax.

Skipped one. Skipped one, pal. You wanna do the... Sure, let's do the thing.

Let's do the thing. Sure, give me one of those. Apparently we gotta turn these on first. Oh, did we not have mine last time?

Yeah, I screwed that up. Oh, jeez, one job. Wow. One job.

I feel like it's more... I feel like it's more than one job? One job. I feel like I have more than one job.

Doesn't it like turn a certain color when it's connected? Yep. Sure does. Oh, it is in mine.

One, two, one, two, test, test, test, one, two. I don't know if it's working or not. Oh, nice. It doesn't have like a little EQ thing or anything?

No, no, it's high tech. High techy tech. Super high tech. Very cheapy.

High techy techy. Well, here it is. We're raffling off Palmer's house. There you go.

All right. All right, you ready? Ready. Final GORUCK.

GORUCK. The winner for the final GORUCK. For the final GORUCK. Oh.

Oh. Hey! Oh. I'd have you look at this.

You can't. You can't. I'd send you the baby, but the baby's covered. The baby took his mask out.

The final winner for the GORUCK is? Final winner is? Uh-oh. Who is it?

Benjamin Rowland. Hey! Farmer Ben! Yes.

Jerry wasn't his wife? What's that? Jerry wasn't his wife, wasn't Sarah? It was not his wife.

Wasn't Sarah? Congratulations. Nice. You have to share with Sarah.

You got the goodies. You're in the club. All right, we're going to give this away right now. What?

Right now? It's unheard of. Two giveaways in the same show. It's upside down if it was, it's like a distress signal.

It's upside down to Phosphor. Yeah. Distress. If it's upside down, it's Phosphor.

All right, so let's see here. Let's see here. The winner of the Bosnia/Phosphoro Ashtray. Thank you, everybody, for...

Roma. Roma. Pustania Roma. I don't know.

Still on medicine. Same thing, I guess. I'm still on medication. Pustania Roma.

Orders. Orders. Winner is... It's just palatable, the excitement here in the room.

It's just going terrible. This is pretty funny. This is exciting. The guy crushed it.

The guy crushed it. The guy who went? Yeah. Oh, how do you...

He's a good dude. I just did it. Is it the random number? Yeah.

You know who it is? I do. I know who the winner is. Uh-oh.

Let's not say. You know what I'm saying? Let's tell you at the end. All right.

Thanks for coming, bye. Let's tell him at the end. We'll tell him on the Patreon. I can't tell him on this?

Oh, you can tell him on that if you want to. You have to. I don't know. Hi.

Hi. The winner is... The winner is... Oh.

Francis Saleta. Whoa. Mr. Top 10 himself.

Congratulations, brother. He did a wonderful top 10 today. Did he? Remember he said he did the top 10?

I haven't looked at it yet. Yeah, you did, you commented on it. Oh, then it was great. I did look at it, didn't I?

Yes. It was an awesome post. I'm very tired. Very tired.

All right. So, hey, there it is. Congratulations. Congratulations, everyone.

Thank you all for entering. We appreciate each and every one of you. We're going to get the Cigar Hustlers podcast going right now. We've got to go.

Yeah. And we're going to get the Patreon going, so thank you very much. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year.

year. Let's crush Let's crush 2024. Alright. They didn't play that song this year.

I don't know. I didn't see 10 o'clock. I didn't see 1030. You didn't see 10 o'clock.

I saw 1030. I saw 1020. It's the last time I remember seeing the time. We've got a lot going on in my house lately.

Oh yeah? Like what? Well, the fence has been redone for five days. They're finishing today.

Poor Japanese gentleman and his son. Alright, there's sound. Oh, there's sound. Oh, good.

He did his lighter by the microphone. So what does that have to do with you? Well, the dogs have been freaking out because, you know, no backyard. Put 'em in the fucking cage.

They're not used to Japanese people either. Chinese. No, Japanese, yeah. But poor Whiskey didn't poop for two days.

He was all stressed out. He wouldn't poop. I'm not going out there with them Japans. I'm not going out there with them commies.

I know what happened to the cat. Oh, damn. He was freaking out. That's cold.

He finally pooped last night. I mean, it was only so long you can hold it. Well, he held it for two days. Why didn't he shit in the house?

Well, we told him, look, if you have to, just go, just shit in the house. We'll just fucking, we'll take care of it. Sit in the garage with him for an hour, like, shit in the garage. We'll take care of it.

It'll be fine. Nope, he didn't even. Neighbor's yard. We're gonna review the Patreon, we're gonna do the Don Dor, the other Don Doroteo.

The other Salt of the Planet or something. Pedra Angular. Not the green one, but the black one. The black one.

Didn't one of these make the Down To Herf podcast? The green one. I didn't look at their list. The green one did?

I mean, listen, love those guys. I love those guys. I got some questions about some of them. Some questions?

Yeah. Say what I'm on the phone. You want me to call them? Sure, call somebody.

Alright, I'll call. Call them and give them a check. I'll call Jerry. How does this come off?

You need to hit the button? Oh, we got to call Jack today, too. It's his five year anniversary at Espinosa Cigars. Is it?

Yeah. Excellent. All sorts of phone calls today. Good.

I'm glad I put all those prep work in. I'm glad you did, too. No news. Barely any news for two weeks now.

Well, we're going to send some news out tomorrow, too. Don Doroteo had news. Didn't they? They hired Gary back.

Hello? Hey, you're on the podcast. Is this Jerry? Oh.

Oh, what's up? Jerry from Down to Herf Podcast? What's up, officer? What's up, guys?

The newly sponsored Down to Herf Podcast? Hey, so we got some questions about your top 20, top 10 list. Top 10 list, we have questions? Yeah.

Like, what exactly does Pete Johnson's penis taste like? I'm just kind of curious. Wow. The number one cigar?

Don't beat around the bush, Michael. Just go. Wow, yeah, just right at it. My goodness.

Hey, man, it was a good cigar. I thought it was good. I thought it was good. Your graphics looked great.

What's it going to take for us to get you off of Pete Johnson? I mean, honestly, what's it going to take? I don't know, man. I'm a big tat guy, man.

I like the tat guy. You are. You are a big tat guy. It is like tat.

Scary. But I've always been like that, though. I mean, that was always like the brand I go to, that's my go-to brand. It's your go-to brand.

It's my go-to. But of all the Tatuajes that came out, you picked the one that was an NFT, and you couldn't, and you have to get it from a fucking, I don't know, these stupid people who have them. Certain, a certain person. Yeah, you have to get them.

com. com? What is that? That's where we got them from.

We're going to bleep that out. Beep. Just so you know. That's fine.

Put in Palmer's voice. com. com. I'm going to bleep that out, buddy.

It's the same cigar they put out before. It's not a new blend. No, it's not a new blend. But we actually, we just reduxed the original from 2010 the other day.

It was awesome. Yeah? What'd you think of that one? Dude, it was awesome.

With a little bit of age. I don't know, man. To be honest with you, We did the Redux. I think it might have been a little too old.

Maybe it lost a little flavor. Yeah. Yeah, it was kind of bland, but it was really good. I mean, the thing, construction-wise...

It was really bland, but it was really contradicting itself. It tasted like shit, but it was awesome. Yeah. I mean, construction-wise, I was also hammered.

It was put together really well. I was hammered. We were hammered. We were doing the Patriot.

Hey, how's that working for you? Anybody sign up yet? Did you sign up yet? We got a few members already.

Good for you. It's a new thing. It's growing. I have no idea how to plug the Patreon, but we'll figure it out.

Plug it on your show. Yeah. Patreon backslash Down to Herf Podcast. Make sure you guys check it out.

When you put a post up, they give you a link that you can post that you can put on Facebook. Yeah, yeah. I'm playing around with it. It's a pain in the ass.

It's just another thing I gotta do. Here's what I think you start doing. I feel you, but none of these guys understand. When you arrest somebody.

Michael, I understand. And they're sitting in the back. I know what you go through. Thank you very much.

I appreciate the love. And they're sitting in the back of your car. You turn around and say, hey, listen, just so you know, we got a Patreon going. When you get out, if you could sign up, we would greatly appreciate it.

I won't go home. You ever see those stupid handles that people put on like their back mirrors? It's just like, here's my Patreon handle. Like somebody's actually going to see it and be like, man, I'm really going to go subscribe to that.

I'm going to sign up to that Patreon. No, I have not seen that. We might look the other way if you sign up for the Patreon. Yeah, you know, I'm just saying, this crack, it might disappear.

It could not make it to the station. I may or may not have seen this crack. Right. This crack might end up being weed.

If you just go ahead and sign that up right there. All right, perfect. And again, this is only if you sign up for the $12 membership. Yeah, yeah, right.

Oh, yeah, of course. This is the mega-HERF membership. Yeah, I'm going to need that six-month commitment at $12. For sure.

On number three, he had the Pledge of Allegiance. Yeah, the Pledge of Allegiance. The Pledge of Allegiance, man. Is this when you were hammered as well on that one?

No, it was the 4th of July, man. I was feeling patriotic. And then ironically, yeah, I was definitely a little toasty that day, too. So you were toasty.

I'm starting to see a trend here. Yeah, I'm starting to see a pattern. I'm starting to see a pattern. I don't know, going to be crazy.

You need to, you know, sign up for a program or something. Nah. Okay. Nah.

Any other ones that are sus? But most of these are LEs, right? Well, the La Vereta is like a... La Vereta is now a, it's now a Coraline, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a regular production cigar.

But you have to be a special person to get it or something. There's, there's a specific buy-in to getting it. Which, uh, salt of the earth did you smoke? Did you smoke the green or the black?

I think it was the Corretta, Corretta, Corretta, Viva, I think it was the black one, so that's the other one, that's the green one, yeah it's gotta be the green one, yeah I'm not looking at the list fellas, no you're good, well you didn't take a picture of the whole cigar, you just took a picture of the band, oh yeah that would be Giovanni who posted that, just so you know, I had nothing to do with that, we like Gio, oh good job Gio, shoulders, he's shoulders, I don't think his list was horrible. Head, shoulders, knees, and Trent. Yeah, there you go, head, shoulders, knees, and Trent. Exactly.

Yeah, I don't think his list was terrible. I just had a couple questions, especially with that number one. You know, that number one fucking, I was like, oh my god. Dude, it blew me away, man.

What am I gonna do? I mean, there was no War Bear. There was no Connecticut. I get it.

I get it. I can't believe the Connecticut ain't gonna lie. You didn't want me to dominate. We didn't even get to do the Connecticut on the show, 'cause we fucking, our fucking local guy didn't get him in.

And then I fucking had all these shows planned out, and then they're still through the waste. I mean, you could order online, there's 75,000 websites that have it, so. There's definitely one I know of. There's no, don't give me that excuse.

Should we plug it? com? Yeah, there you go. We're not gonna bleep that one, right?

No, that one doesn't bleep. Yeah, that one would not, that one would not. com. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the tobacco guy made it over the, uh, Pustani, Connecticut. Johnny, I mean, that was a good cigar. It's a good cigar. Yeah.

That was a great cigar, man. Plus, on top of it, the show was hilarious, dude. Mike came on with Matt Booth. I mean, dude, that was awesome.

That was a great time. Oh yeah, I did do that. Yeah, dude, you were part of that, too. That was awesome.

I have not smoked this Night Commander yet, so it's pretty good. You have his number two. Number two, man. It was good.

Two from Foundation in the top ten. What was the other one? The Senager. Oh, the High Clear Senniger?

Yeah, I like the Senniger. It was pretty good. It was a good cigar, man. It's hard to argue with.

Well, I got a top 10. We're gonna bang out a top 10 here in a second. We'll talk about what I think came out that was really good. I can tell you that Anarchy was not on that list.

It doesn't make the list? No. I feel like a lot of people are surprised that Don Doroteo cigar being in top 5. No, I, you know what, dude, I agree with it.

I think they're good cigars. It was just a, it was like, just such a strange brand, like, and then when we smoked the cigar, I was like, what the fuck, man, this thing's awesome. They don't, they don't make a, uh, it's a good cigar, they don't make a bad cigar, but I think the biggest gripe about the first one they came out with was the price. The price.

The price. Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess there was claims that there's like 13-year-age tobacco and shit in there and all kinds of... Look, man, who gives a shit?

If it's good, it's good. Yeah, your number one cigar is $100. Yeah, it's a hundred fucking dollars for no legitimate reason. Hey, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't say it was fucking obtainable to the everyday guy, but I mean, this is also an industry full of people with expendable income.

You actually have really expensive cigars on your whole list. I don't think there's one that's... Very bougie group of me, guys. Yeah.

They only smoke the best. All right, well, we're going to let, uh, Officer Lawandowski. Oh. Lawandowski.

Hey, uh, yeah, and before this airs, just so you know, That's Phil Boots. Buffalo's coming to take it in person, baby. AFC champion. That's Phil.

That's Phil. That's Phil. That's Phil. Hey, I invited you down.

Listen, guys, I don't know. Does Boots also like, or does Phil actually, does Phil like the Miami Dolphins too or not? Guys, guys, listen, you guys, look, you can suck each other off all day. The reality is neither one of you are going to the Super Bowl.

It's not happening. No, that's fine. I know Baker ain't going either, buddy. Yeah, absolutely.

You're absolutely correct. It's going to be Detroit. Let Baker roll. Let Baker.

I like Baker. It makes me happy. We need to get a new offense. Do you think he's going to get a contract, Mike?

Yes, I do. You think somebody's going to pay him? I think Tampa's going to pay him. You can't see playoff golf.

I think Tampa pays him. Yep, I think Tampa pays him, buddy. I heard Deshaun Watson's on the move. I heard Deshaun Watson's on the science table.

No, you got to keep him there, you already paid too much for him. They're trying to figure out how to get out of it. It's impossible. They gave him so much money they traded away the entire house.

I got to go. You guys have fun. That's the list. Thank you, sir.

Later, Jerry. See you, Jerry. Jerry down to Herf Podcast. Jerry from down to Herf.

Nice. Catch them on Wednesdays. It's on Wednesdays? They come out on Wednesdays at 4AM.

Right, and now they have a Patreon. Now they have a Patreon. Good for them. Moving things along.

Yeah. It's a growing show. It's very good. Yeah.

It's on the Hustler Network. It is on the Hustler Network. I've heard good things about that network. All right, so you want to get into...

Sure, what is your top 10, Micah? I think some of these are going to come as no surprise to you. I'm going to be honest. Well, of course.

" But it's not a no surprise, it should be. It has to be. Like, I'm watching some of these lists, I'm just thinking like, what the fuck are they smoking? Well, we did get snubbed on the half-wheel consumer consensus.

Yes, we did not make the cut. So what does that tell me? That tells me that we don't have enough smokers out there that are smoking. Apparently not.

We gotta get going a little bit. Well, you're kind of competing with the Romacraft guys, though. We're competing against everybody. But Romacraft didn't get on it, did they?

Yeah, they did. The Volstead. The Volstead, maybe. Yeah.

Which brings me to one of my cigars. And one of the Knuckle Sandwiches made it too. Esbinoza made it too. Yeah.

Which brings me to one of my cigars on the list. Are these in any certain order? Well, let's start in order. No.

I don't really have an order. You want me to put it in order? Yeah, put it in order. Yeah, put it in order real quick.

Just go with it. Just flip it around there. Alright, we'll just take it right off of him. We'll go down to Palmer.

Oh, hi. Oh, there you go, Palmer. Hi, how are you, Phil? Good, good, good, good.

He's got a very new match for the season. That's very nice. Oh, thank you. Oh, you want me to get Phil's Fun Facts while he does that real quick?

Oh, yeah, let's do Phil Fun Facts. Okay, hurry, he's got to put his match back on. I'm done. Too bad, we're going to do Phil Fun Fact real quick.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Camera, switch the camera. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers podcast feature, Phil's Fun Facts.

Hello Peoples Alright, in the 19th century, a man named George S. Bowen panned a cigar making machine designed to replace human cigar rollers. The catch? The machine was so prone to making mistakes that it was often referred to as a lunatic cigar machine.

It seems even in the world of cigars, some things are best left to human hands. It wasn't funny, it was just a factual fact. That's factual. I can't take anything seriously coming from a baby.

Next week, we'll have a cry on the board, that'd be perfect. Wah, wah. Okay. All right, back to the top ten.

So here's my top ten. All right. Three. I'm gonna tell you, my top ten.

Okay. There's one cigar that's not in here, 'cause I don't have it upstairs. But it would have been the Johnny Tobacco. 'Cause it's sold out.

Mmm. Delicious. It is delicious. It's a good cigar.

It's a good cigar. So do you have nine on the table? I have 10 here. Oh, okay.

So it's honorable mention. With honorable mention, yeah. Honorable mention is Johnny Tobacco. I'm gonna start with my number 10.

I put them in order real quick. Okay, real quick. Number 10. The Mikarita Papasaka.

Oh! That's a good cigar. This was one... I'm just looking for sound effects to go in.

This was a cigar that surprised me because I didn't like the Sakakon. I didn't either, no. But in this size... It's better.

It's actually really good. So same blend, different size. Yeah. It was delicious.

It's delicious. Yeah. Number nine would be the Red Meat Lovers Beef Stick. That was good.

Wow. Same scenario, man. Yeah, I know. It's weird.

We smoked other sizes of this cigar. I like that one, too. And we didn't like it. Yeah, we rated it horrible.

But in the Corona, the Corona Gorda, or whatever this is. So weird. So it's two Sockas on the list. It's a six by 48.

Yeah, these two Sockas surprised me. Right. Right. Super obtainable.

Number eight. Number eight. The Charter Oak Pasquale. Michael Joseph.

I don't think I smoked that one. Yeah, we have. Did we? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. We have the Connecticut that's really good and the Broadleaf. I think the Broadleaf is slightly better than the Connecticut. Oh.

Wasn't really that impressed with anything else that came out of the Foundation. We'll talk more about that later on the Patreon. Patreon. Oh, okay.

But Patreon. Still never got that Joe Rogan's. Oh, I smoked. It was delicious.

We smoked a Joe Rogan's. Yes, we did. You had one. Yeah, we did.

Did he have it? Yeah, me and you smoked it. Yeah. He didn't.

Yeah. Okay. Or did me and you get one and he didn't? I feel like you just said that you smoked it and it was delicious.

I did smoke it. Oh, here it comes. He got one, too. Yeah, here it comes.

I smoked one. There were guys on Smokin' trying to get him to carry him. Really? The Joe Rogan cigar?

Yeah, the Joe Rogan cigar. How do you carry it? Abe can't. That's what Abe was trying to explain to people.

That's not how this works. It's not sold. I can't just go buy it. It's Joe Rogan's.

The only hit. But I did enjoy telling them all what it tasted like. Number seven. And this cigar didn't get any...

It didn't get any fucking attention. What is it? Oh, I was surprised, yeah. Nothing from the Phosphoro.

Which is retarded for me. I just don't understand how this cigar didn't make lists. Is it not a big enough brand? Maybe none of the reviewers smoked it.

I could tell you that Phosphoro is doing extremely well. He bought his own factory. In Connecticut, in the Connecticut they made, in the Habano that they produce, and then this Limitada. They all do fantastic.

But for me the Limitada was the best one. Yeah, and he hasn't made a bad cigar. No, he hasn't. They're all good.

So, for people not to acknowledge that, I think, just goes to show, you motherfuckers aren't paying attention. I don't think it's a big enough brand. I don't fucking care. I don't care.

You don't care. Cigar does well. The cigar moves. It's in enough stores.

Yeah? Right. Yeah. And it's consistent enough where it should make some notoriety, for sure.

So, yeah, this is one that I think that a lot of people slept on. A sleeper. The Fosforo Limitado. Yeah, definitely delicious.

Coming in at number six. You know what I'm counting? Oh, number six. Number six.

The Volstead. Which Volstead? I mean, personally for me, the box press is the best one. Right?

I can't think of the name of it. Noble Experiment? Yeah, Noble Experiment. Bam!

Bam! I don't have any right now. Oh, that's how good it is. But that was the best one.

This one that I grabbed was the George Remus. Yeah. You know, truly, all of them are good. Look, here's what's really funny about this cigar and what's really kind of remarkable that nobody's fucking talking about.

There was probably three or four Sumatras that came out into this industry this year. And I can tell you that the only one of them is worth a shit. The other three are terrible. This one is amazing.

Amazing. Hands down. Yeah. And it goes to show, you know, Sumatra is not an easy wrapper to work with.

No. I'm going to tell you. I believe you. A lot of them don't taste well.

And the price is unbelievable. As far as price point is concerned, as far as cigar, flavor profile, damn man, this thing was a fucking banger. Banger. Noble experiment, that was the best, of the 75 sizes that River Crap produced.

We have a lot of Simadra, keep pumping on things out. It's all core, 75 sizes. So, is it because you had so many names to use? I've got all these names, so I need different sizes.

You know what's funny is we have some Pennsylvanias upstairs The new Pennsylvania Broadleafs We should fucking smoke that shit What are we doing? I have no idea I'm waiting on the press release I have to write to tell people that we're not smoking Oh okay Top 5 Alright here we come I don't have a drum roll Quinquan Gennaro Yes Super delicious And look, here's what makes these cigars a top 10 for me. Cigars that I've gone back to time and time again throughout this year. I'm like, I would smoke it again.

Like, all right, I'm gonna smoke that, I'm gonna smoke that, right? Fosro Limantada, definitely. These top 10, I would smoke all of those. I smoked all of them multiple times throughout the year.

You would probably smoke all of those. But I'm gonna tell you, these top five, I smoke all the fucking time. The only thing I don't like about the Quinquan Gennaro is it's a one-timer. Yeah, that's what I was about to say.

There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, I understand. But for consumers... His heart hurts.

His heart hurts that they will not be available one day. Yeah, exactly. Like, once you smoke through them, that's it, man. Well, maybe in another nine years, when he turns 60, he'll make some kind of geriatric cigar with Ernie.

You know, I'll be like... 60s geriatric? I'm just a couple of years away, Mike. I got news for you, buddy.

You're on the wrong side of 40, pal. Oh, I was waiting on that one. I'd be lucky to make it through the year. Don't say all that.

Are you guys going to record all of these because of my memorial? That's actually when the show stops. All right, let's go. Well, yeah, who's going to do the work?

Yeah, it's done at that point. Palmer's Dead show's over. Palmer's Dead. I mean, we tried to do one fucking mobile show, and you saw how that ended up.

You did do the one COVID show with the skeleton. It was not set up for scissors. Was that with Brandon? No, no, it was the two of you.

I still had to edit and everything, but I wasn't in here, though. So you sent it to me. So, the Quinquan Gennario, it's the only Dominican cigar that doesn't taste like it's from the Dominican Republic. Yeah, I don't really like Dominican, and that's great.

It's incredible. Yeah. It's flavorful, it's full-bodied, it's sweet, it's undertones of spice, I mean, it's everything that you would expect from a cigar. It's like Hug and Skip.

It's like Hug and Skip. Exactly. It's like a big Skip hug. Big Skip hug.

The thing that's crazy is, it tastes like it's from Nicosueno. Yeah. There's no difference. It tastes like it was blended by Skip.

Yeah. Yeah. Was it blended by Skip? Yeah.

Him and Ernie. It's just crazy. I think it's pretty much just Skip at Ernie's factory. Can he go to any factory and do that?

Not necessarily. Yeah. You got to find, see, what's great with Ernie's, Ernie has a lot of tobacco. So you can't just walk into any factory and say, you know, I'm going to make it.

Well, because a lot of them have some bullshit. Maybe he could. Maybe he could. He should try that.

So walk into any random factory and go, I would like to make a cigar. I am. I am Skip Martin. I'm a Martin, I would like to make a cigar.

And Skip. Bring me your best tobacco. And if not, I got some in my pocket here. Yeah, if not, I've got my own hair.

Hold on. All right. Top four. All right.

Heavy. Coming in at number four. Oh! Number four!

That's a four? SBC 22. Oh, you didn't blend it. I didn't blend it.

There you go. That's what's number four. I remember. No, this is a really good cigar.

Super delicious. Super delicious. It's amazing. And this cigar means a lot to me.

It represents a lot of things. He's been doing all the things surrounded by champions, acknowledging all the people that make it all part. And it's, it's even better that Skip actually blended the cigar this year. I thought that was fantastic.

I mean, this is probably our best seller, right? Like everybody gets excited about the cigar every two years. Yeah, when it comes out every year. It's never a disappointment.

Uh, and it's really cool to see that the people that have them collected, like Julian Gordon, some of these other guys, they have, they have the spread of all five. And that's cool because the color schemes, they all happen within the year. Like, I want to do this. Right.

And to see them all come together and none of them make sense is awesome for me, but they all stand out. Right. So yeah, this thing is, it's an amazing cigar for sure. Is it better than these top three?

I don't know. I wouldn't say, I would tell you that these top three, I smoke, I smoke these top three cigars every day. What happened to Cutting Back? I tried that.

We're just going to move on. That didn't work. We're just going to move on. It was a good run.

It was a good like week. Find another book and you read something new and it's like, ah, cigars are bacon. Yeah. Why you should focus cigars.

Listen, listen, I've been going through some mental processes as of late, okay? And I thought that maybe scaling back was the answer, but apparently it's not. That wasn't it, huh? Okay, no, no.

All right. All right, top three. Number three. So this cigar is not new.

Not new. But it's different this year. Huh? It tastes different this year.

I didn't think that this cigar could get better. Yeah, it does, it does taste a little different. And this cigar tastes better than what it did two years ago. Oh, why is that?

I think the fermentation process is different in the factory. Oh, because you got the Bodegas. And that's the Neanderthal HN. My favorite Neanderthal.

I'm going to tell you right now. That's on no one's list. No, because it's not brand new. It's not new.

I'm going to tell you right now, this cigar is a cigar that will fucking attest time. time. This is a cigar that will be around. Stand the test of time.

That's it. Thank you. I forgot. Stand the test of time.

Thank God, Palmer. Appreciate you. I'll help you with the words as you read stuff. Champions, Michael.

We're all champions. We're all champions. This cigar is amazing. It's fucking incredible.

It is. It's a good cigar. They broke the mold when they did it. They did something totally different.

They should stop making all the others. This cigar has been attempted to be replicated by other people. Have they really? Of course.

Oh. Just listen to anybody. When they say San Andreas I guess with the big, with the Green River Valley, Pennsylvania. Nobody else does the Green River Valley, sucker fish thing.

Yes, they fucking do. Who else does? I mean, there's a list I could look them up for. Oh, okay.

Maybe later. But dude, I mean, if you just say, hey, Skip, tell me the people that have tried to replicate San Andreas. He would tell you exactly the people. It's a delicious cigar.

This cigar is amazing. It's good. It's always the same. Always good.

Absolutely incredible. I smoked two a night. Again, price point. Yeah.

Oh. Everything about it. Amazing cigar. Amazing.

Number two. And I'm going to tell you right now, my number one and my number two, they were tough to decide which one would be one and which one would be number two. When did you say they tied? I'm not going to say they tied.

I determined which one I think is number one. How do you pick your favorite child, Michael? I tell her all the time she's my favorite. Oh, well, Teddy, yes.

In front of the other two. In front of the other two. I say you're my favorite. Me better.

Jesus Christ. He tells the other two. So much to a point where-- Don't be sorry, be better. Don't worry, kids, he tells us too.

" Wow, dad, no stutter, nothing. Yes, I love you both. Straight to it. Didn't even hesitate.

I love you both. She's my favorite. Gun to my head, you guys are dead, sorry. Jesus Christ.

Gun to my head, you guys are dead. head you guys wow right like we're gonna shoot what we're gonna shoot two of the kids pick one no that's not gonna happen i wouldn't let that happen it'd be like a john wick moment she's my favorite oh i understand she's amazing she is she will rule the uh the family one day yeah yes you will her and her dog you ever see gladiator yeah where he's talking with his daughter he's like if only you were a man you'd have been fucking caesar you know like because your brother's a slap dick Like, you know, not that my other kids, I love my other kids obviously tremendously. Right, right, right. Just not as much as her.

She's my favorite. Right. She's the girl. You have a fucking favorite.

Don't tell me you don't. Uh, yeah, but mine changes. I could understand that to some degree. I would see that as things like time progressed.

Yeah, yeah. But as of right now, she's number uno. And you got a favorite, sir. Yeah, I do.

Exactly. So don't tell me. Hey, I didn't say anything. I understand.

I'd have to, I want to guess who your favorite is. You already know who my favorite is. Sofia? Yeah.

Yeah. She's cool. She's a cool kid. You know what I mean?

And Ava's still too young. Yeah, she's too young. Yeah. Whereas Sofia's at that age where shit's, you know, and she's just a happy kid.

So anyways, I could pick my favorite. Number two... The War Bear. Is a Posanya War Bear, Corona Gordo, Box Press.

And I'm gonna tell you right now man, I fucking love this cigar. It is absolutely amazing. It has not gotten that notoriety. You know what's awesome is I think that I would say, arguably, eight or nine of the ten cigars that I've picked didn't get the notoriety that they deserve.

Right, yeah. Ecuador and I've been with San Andreas Barberpool and a box press is just fucking bar none. How many of those do you smoke a week? these a fuck ton yeah yeah uh probably two every day i think uh out of all the war bears i think that's my favorite size there was one more that i liked better than this one the non-box the last one the original the perfecto was so good it was so good and it aged so well i've never smoked it I have a cup on my humidor, but I won't smoke.

Just get on it, bro. What are you doing? They're meant to be smoked. If I find more, I'll smoke those.

They're in the cage upstairs. How many SBCs are there? Six? Five?

Five? I have six. 16, 18, 20, 22? No, four.

Four. There's four. Oh, I have five. Because maybe you do some on the fifth one.

Maybe. We'll see. We'll see. All right, so when you were making the Warbear this time for that size, why did you do the box press?

It was just a different size for me. What's cool about box presses is that you don't have to stay on top of them. Like here as exhibit A, because I put this cigar down a few times, I got to relight it. This shit, you don't have to relight really.

You can put it down, you go right back to it. Boom. Right? You're in business.

I was going for walks with this cigar. Man, this cigar is fucking awesome for just kind of hanging out and bullshit and talking, whatever. The flavor profile is fucking amazing. And, you know, what's really cool is I like doing shit that's different.

Right. So I said, hey, let's take an Ecuadorian Habano. Let's take a Habano and let's offset it with a San Andreas so it's not as overbearing. So it has more of a complexity, more of a flavor profile.

Right. And it's a banger. Yeah. Yeah.

I've never seen somebody else come out with a barber pole that I'll smoke all the time. Yeah. Can I get you a letter? This letter sucks.

It's not happy. Thank you. All right. All right.

Number one. Numero uno. In this Vitola as well. The Postana, Connecticut.

Yes. Toro. Go ahead. Hit something.

Give me something. Yeah. Yep. Face the crowd.

It's never been, this cigar has never been done before. No. This blend doesn't taste like anything else you've had. Ever.

And you can smoke it at any point in time of the day. Yeah. Fucking amazing. And it almost didn't happen.

That's what even makes the story even better. It almost didn't come to fruition. And I gotta tell you, this cigar is fucking stellar. It's a good steak.

I can smoke a Neanderthal, and then smoke that right after. And you can taste it. Yeah. It's great.

And truthfully, for a while there, I was smoking nothing but that every day, all day. I start my day with this motherfucker. Every day. Every day, it's a Toro.

So wait till the Corona Gorda drops next year, or this year. It's gonna be a banger too. Delicious. Mmm, delicious.

So, yeah, man. That's a great top 10, because that's something, all the cigars are obtainable. They're not all super expensive. Your most expensive one is the SPC out of that.

Yeah. Oh, the Quinn, maybe. The Quinn. Oh, the Quinn.

They're close. They're close in price. But they're all super obtainable, and they're all delicious. You could take that lineup and smoke that in the next two days and not have a bad one, not feel horrible about spending, you know, $300 on cigars.

Here's what I can tell you about 7 out of 10 of these cigars. They're extremely unique in their flavor profiles. Oh yeah. They're not easy to replicate by far, right?

And they're all totally different. Correct. I mean, they broke the mold with the Volstead. The Sumatra's fucking, there's not, there isn't a Sumatra out there that's close.

And there isn't. Sorry. There isn't. Limitada, the phosphory limitada, fucking banger, man.

And again. And nobody said anything about that. Nobody mentioned that cigar. Incredible.

The Quinn we were just talking about, SBC we were just talking about, the Neanderthal. I didn't think the Neanderthal could get better. And it did. It got fucking better this year.

Probably a lot of those that didn't make anybody's list. Yeah. And then the War Bear and then the Posada Connecticut, they just stand on their own. You know, I will say this though, I saw some top lists from some other, some, you know, maybe not the fucking Half Wheel or whatever it comes to be, but, you know, some of those cigars did definitely get some notoriety.

And that was the first year that I've actually kind of experienced that, which is pretty cool. Oh, your cigars? Yeah. Yeah.

Coop's still doing his countdown, isn't he? Probably. Yeah, and Dojo just started today, I think. Yeah, Coop still has like a week.

He's still doing that video every single day. Mm-hmm. Guy's next level. Yeah.

He does a background on every cigar. True media. What type of background? He talks about the cigar, where it came from, who blended it, the price point, the leaves, everything.

He does like a little five-minute show on each one. That's cool. On the Patreon, we'll talk about the scars of the biggest disappointment of the year. Oh.

All right. I think that'll be fun. I'm sure all of us will probably be in agreeance on a lot of things. I'll give you, I can give, I'll give you five, you know, we'll talk about five.

All right. Oh, nice. Yeah. I just, uh, I just saw some come across Facebook, 'cause you, you were talking about Sumatra, and I think me and my phone is listening, I'm not sure.

Yeah. Oh. Espinosa's coming out with a Sumatra. Of course.

A Sumatra Knuckle Sandwich? No, it's just a regular one, purple. Oh. It's a tough leaf to work with, man, I'm going to tell you right now.

But it looks light. A lot of Sumatra is light. How is his, because his is a little darker. It's probably its thickness, plus the fermentation.

Plus the fermentation, yes it is. That's dark. As far as the Sumatra, yeah, that's dark, bro. Oh.

Well, I'll tell you what, we'll grab the other Sumatras in the fucking humidor, Humidor, and you say, tell me which one the darkest one is. I believe you. It just didn't look dark over there in your pile. It's a pile of darkness.

A pile of darkness. So there you go. There's your top 10. That's a great top 10.

Thank you. Congratulations, Michael. Should I build a sampler pack? Yes.

What did you just send me? I sent you the Sumatra. Oh. Yes, a sampler pack.

You should do a Mike's Top 10 Sampler. That's a great sampler. If you had enough of them. I probably could put it together.

Maybe not the Charter Oak. Which one do you like? You like the Maduro better than the Connecticut? These 15, 10, 10 commandments.

What? The Charter Oak, you like the Maduro better than the... I do. The Connecticut's really good too, though.

So, there you go, Michael. What was your favorite? No, I don't know where we're going now. Palmer, what was your favorite cigar of last year?

I don't know, well mine. The BDP? The BDP. That was out a couple years ago.

Has it been Matt Long now, huh? I don't know. BDP 2. BDP 2.

Oh. No, there's no BDP 2. We can make a BDP 2. We still got ones.

You want a BDP 2? The Dark Edition. The Dark Edition. The Deadman.

Dead. Big Dead Palmer. Oh, wow. With the black band.

Same band, but the black. Want to do some news? Yeah, we'll hit a little bit of news, and then we'll get into this Patreon. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need.

The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report, with Mike Toon. Fuerte Libre turns to Illusion for fulfillment. January 1st, Fuerte Libre will use Ferner International, the parent company of Illusion for the fulfillment of its cigars. Fumare operates a bonded warehouse in Reno that will allow other companies to use.

Fumare. Fumare? Yeah. Fumare.

Hmm. In addition to the physical space, Fumare has other back-end solutions like software and logistic services. Fumare International position as a brand owner coupled with over 15 years in cigar and blah, blah, blah. Caffey 1901 introduces naked cigars.

Nearly two years ago, Caffey 1901 moved production to its portfolio from Honduras to La Aurora in the Dominican Republic. Since that move occurred, the company says it has been saving the scraps of tobacco that are left as part of the cigar making process. Wow. Now the tobacco is being used in a new brand, Naked Cigars by Caffey 1901.

What do we do with these? What do we do with all these scraps? We're just gonna make some Cuban sandwiches. The naked part of the name means the cigars will come with no bands.

Oh, like many mixed filler cigars, they'll be sold in bundles. There are three different wrapper options, Connecticut, Natural, and Maduro, all coming from Ecuador. The fillers used in the brand come from the different tobaccos Caffey uses across its other blends. This includes tobacco from Connecticut, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduran, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pennsylvania, and Peru.

- You're still coughing, eh? - Yeah, I still got this cough. - Premium cigar imports near 2022 levels through Q3 of 2023. - Yeah.

S. is tracking very close to the record-setting numbers of premium cigars imported in 2022. Mm-hmm. S.

87 million premium cigars from January to September 2023. 8%. As of the end of the third quarter of this year, premium imports have climbed back to near break even when comparing this year with the third quarter of 2022, said Daniel Cotter, chief statistician for CAA. They have a chief statistician.

Right. The data shows the low point when comparing this year to last year at the end of April, as of 4-30-23, premium imports were down almost 7% year-end over a year. 5% of all imports. In order to beat the 2022 numbers, an average of 41 million cigars per month will need to be imported during the final months of 2023.

It's going to beat those numbers because of where PCA lands. Oh, because? Because it's Q1 now, instead of, you know, Q3. So everybody's bringing in stuff.

Yeah, I think that I would, I would believe that people are bringing in more inventory. Two please, Phil. He's on his phone. He's on his phone over there.

He's high score. He's high scoring. Yeah. People are bringing in more cigars right now.

To get ready for the show. To have inventory for, there's a button. I know. We have a button.

I know, I know we do. There's a button for that. I can't get to it fast enough. Good look.

Ready? There you go. Good job. Attaboy.

Thank you. So, I think that, you know, you'll see true numbers as far as, on a consumer level, end of 2023. And I think that it'll be down, but it won't be down huge. So, they're importing, but they're not necessarily selling.

I think that they're importing and they will sell in Q1. However, come the end of the year, there'll be no push, the income Q2, Q3, as far as imports. And you'll see that dip probably between 7% and 10% is what I would guess. And then you would kind of sail into the end of the year down about 7%.

That would be my guess for 2024. Sounds reasonable. Yeah. All right.

Gurkha sues Davidoff over here of the drag. I love this. You love a good lawsuit. Gurkha has filed a lawsuit against Davidoff over the latter year of the Dragon limited edition cigar, which Gurkha claims violates its trademarks.

S. District Court. This is actually last week's story for the Southern District of Florida. And the complaint Gurkha claims that the exclusive licensing of various Dragon-related trademarks that are owned by, I can't pronounce this, Hansuta?

Hansuta. H-A-N-S-O-T-I-A. Hansuta. And Company, uh, Kaizad's Company.

Kaisers? Kaizad. Kaizad. Kaizad.

Kaizad. Kaizad. Kaiz. And the owner of Gurkha Cigar Group.

Kaiz? Kaiz. Ad. Ad.

Kaizad. Kaizad. Yeah. That's what I said.

Those registered trademarks include: Dragon, Dragon Fire, Dragon Lord, Dragon Slayer, Imperial Dragon, Red Dragon, Royal Dragon. Two dragons. Anything with dragons. All the dragons.

One dragon. Double dragon, fight the dragon. They have a double dragon cigar? Cigar?

Yeah, it's totally a double dragon. Totally, totally a double dragon. Oh my God, that'd be great. Earlier this year, they filed for a trademark on Year of the Dragon, which is theirs too, apparently.

We are the Year of the Dragon. Yes, Davidoff and Davidoff Company opposed the trademark as such a particular trademark as listed as opposing pending Gurkha's application was filed on November 2, 2022. Wow, this goes back a whole year. Gurkha claims that after learning that Davidoff planned to sell a Year of the Dragon cigar in or around July 8, 2023, He contacted Davidoff to demand it stop selling that product, which claims Davidoff refused to do.

So they didn't? They didn't. No. Davidoff offered Gurkha some lovely Davidoff steak knives and a coffee mug in exchange for the rights of the drink.

They love the steak knives. Everybody loves steak knives. Gurkha loves the steak knives. Caldwell adds Blind Man's Bluff.

So just to be clear, so we're going to get shitty if Brian Descend of Pravada Club does a trademark infringement and people come down on him and all this other shit, but if Davidoff gets under attack, it's no big deal. They're allowed to infringe. No, they're being sued by Gurkha. " Well, he's doing children's things with the cookies and, you know, the Elmo.

Well, I'm talking about the FF Fox from Fuente, and then Fuente gets mad about that. Oh, we never heard what happened to the X, either, from the opus. The CAO? The CAO XX.

Is that still out? Can you still buy it? I guess. I mean, it's, what day is it?

The second? Tuesday? I mean, Justin Andrews shouldn't be in a meeting. No?

No. He should still be on vacation. Yeah, he's ceased. He posted on Facebook, though.

Did he? Oh, we need to congratulate Jack Taranio on his five-year anniversary. You wanna give him a buzz? Sure, let's call him real quick.

Congratulations. That's the next story. Jack Taranio celebrates five-year anniversary. This just in, Jack Taranio celebrates five-year anniversary with Espinosa Cigars.

He has not been fueling the growth for five years now. Dun, dun, dun. Does he answer? He always answers.

Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. What the hell? The person you're trying to reach is not available. He must be with Justin.

Call Hector. Try Hector. Hey Hector, we just wanted to talk to you about Jack's five year anniversary. Yeah, I'd like to congratulate you on Jack's anniversary.

Thanks for keeping him there. Are we calling Hector? No, maybe. I'll call Hector.

They're probably sitting next to each other. Call Eric! Fuck, go to the top! He'll answer, but...

You know, we'll have to hang up on them eventually. Yeah, bro. Hey, where's Jack? Thanks for calling me.

What do you guys want? Where's that asshole with my smoker? Wow. Did you guys get the nickel sandwich?

Delicious. Did you vote? Did you vote? They're in a meeting together.

They must have an optimization meeting. You know, he's looking at his phone going, did they just call you? They just call you. I'm not answering.

Unbelievable. Wow. Hey, this is Hector. Go ahead and rename the number and I'm brief.

Son of a bitch! Wow, dude. No respect. Call Tyler.

Oh, oh, oh. Jack Tarano. Oh, oh. Tarano.

Perfect. Hello? Hello? Hello?

Is this Jack Tarano? It's Jack Tarano. Hey, Jack Tarano. Hey, Jack Tarano.

Hey, congratulations, Jack, on five years of not fueling the growth. Congratulations. Five successful years on non-fueling of the growth. Yeah, this is the longest I've been with any company.

I was gonna ask if it was. Isn't that crazy? You beat Palmer to it. Look at you.

Damn it. And then tomorrow, tomorrow, is my birthday. Oh, that's when Eric's gonna get him. That's when Eric's gonna get him tomorrow.

That's when he got fueled. Did you guys get the invited party? No, I didn't get invited. Oh, no.

Greg did though, Greg got invited. I got thanks, Jack, for the invitation. Yeah, I didn't get an invite. See, I invite you to my kid's birthday and everything.

I send gifts. Yeah, popcorn. We got popcorn. Oh, nice.

Fancy popcorn, I'm sure. Yeah, fancy popcorn. Fancy popcorn. Of course.

Chicago popcorn, baby. Chicago. So are they having a big party for you today at the office? No, and tomorrow they will have, today I barely got a, I got Junior said, it's been a long five years.

Wow. And senior didn't even acknowledge my anniversary. Happy anniversary. Yeah, yeah, yeah, five years, whatever.

Five years, yeah. I've been doing it for 40 years. It was the worst day of my life five years ago. You put in another 50, and then we'll talk.

Maybe I was drinking, I heard you. Don't beat me on cornhole. Hey, look, Hector Alfonso. Hector Alfonso just walked into the room.

Oh, did he? Oh, he's not answering his phone either. He'd call me, he called you. He says you don't answer your phone.

I'm in the fucking toilet. He was in the toilet. Was it number one or number two? Three.

He was rubbing one out. Number three. Number three. Oh my goodness.

That's how he celebrated my anniversary. Oh, there you go. Went in there with a photo of you, huh? Okay.

Dropping that dub deuce. Atta boy. Well, we just wanted to wish you a happy five year at Eric Espinosa. We look forward to your anniversary cigar coming out sometime this year.

Yes, I'm just working on it. Hector will be in Nicaragua in two weeks, he's gonna work on the big jack. The big jack. We use that.

I think you might still have some in stock. The knuckle jack sandwich, that's what we'll call it. Nice, that sounds great. It'll be great.

A collaboration. And then the events will only have you and Guy Fieri. That's it. Is anybody on the show?

Is anybody on the show? Like, do you have a special guest or anything? Yeah, you, we have you on the floor. I'm the special guest, I'm honored.

Yeah, you're the special guest. Isn't that amazing? Give me a heads up. Yeah, we don't like to give anybody a heads up.

No, no, I like to get the real guy. What kind of fun is that? And how was your New Year's? New Year's was fantastic for me.

I hung out of the house, had the neighbors over, and we just kept it chill. Yeah, New Year's night was nice. We went to a neighbor's house and kept it quiet. New Year's during the day, they dropped 56 on us over there in Baltimore, so that wasn't too good.

Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, so, and now we've got to pick Buffalo for the, you know, I figure we'll lose this week and then we'll go to Kansas City as a sixth round seed after flirting with the number one seed, but, you know... It was a good run, it was a good run. It was a good run.

The Dolphins always peak too early, you know? So, by the way, we released a new cigar today. I don't know if our rep has contacted you. No, we saw it on Facebook, the Sumatra.

Fantastic, fantastic. I've never had that before. Yeah, what's it taste like? Yeah, how does that burn?

It tastes like pure joy. Wow, pure joy. Rolled on Hector's thigh. Oh, I can't wait for that.

Sounds amazing. Love that, I love that. We'll see our rep about April. Yeah, yeah, he'll swoop in here.

And we called Tyler, get Tyler's in this. Yeah, Tyler plays the winner for us. Tyler Jones, unprecedented salesman of the year this year. There's no tie.

There you go! Yeah, exactly. That's our boy. Need I fucking say more?

No, you need not. Alfredo comes in, you know, he's great out of the gate, but he's not one for stamina, you know? He's number two. Yeah, dude, stick fucking Alfredo in Oklahoma and let me know how he does, okay?

Tyler doesn't have Oklahoma. Super cool. No, yeah, but he could. No, Tyler has fucking Montana, Missouri and some other shit, right?

No, he has Indiana, he has Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Okay. All right. So just to be perfectly clear, you didn't say anything about the top three markets that are in the cigar industry: Florida, Texas.

Tyler, in all reality, Tyler can have any fucking state he wants. Exactly. Yes. Exactly.

Guy's a beast. He's the guy. That's how good a little kid is. That's how good he is.

Absolutely. I totally agree with that statement. All right. Well, hey, happy birthday, bro.

Yes. Happy birthday. Tomorrow? I'll call you tomorrow.

Sure, we'll call you back tomorrow. I'll call you at midnight. I'll call you at midnight. Today's anniversary date.

Tomorrow's birthday date. Today's anniversary. Oh, happy anniversary. Well, happy anniversary, sir.

All right, guys. Thank you. There you go. The legendary Jack Taranio.

I know. All right, two more stories. We got a story and then a Florida story. All right, hurry up.

All right, Casa Cuevas is increasing prices on core lines. Casa Cuevas has announced that it will be increasing the price on its core line as it aims to keep up with the rising costs that are affecting nearly every aspect of cigar manufacturing process. Let's see, they are going up. Where was it?

It's like 7% like everybody else. All right. All right, now we've got a Florida story. Here it comes.

Deputies in Polk County said a man faces charges after he's accused of walking into an unlocked apartment and stealing the ingredients to make a screwdriver. m. and made off with a bottle of vodka and a bottle of Florida's natural orange juice. Wow.

How do they price that? The victim told deputies that the door used by the suspect is a secondary door they don't often use, and they had no idea it was unlocked. That's right, the burglar stole the ingredients to make a screwdriver, and then he left. Detective said he tried to open the door, took the apartment across the hall, but it was locked, and he left and released.

It was the neighbor? No, no, he walked into one apartment again and stole the vodka and the orange juice, and then he went to try to cross the street, cross the hall, and it was locked. So anyone who's waiting on bloody marriage with Toby, he's not going to be coming back. Deputy said that the total value of the theft was just $35.

That's over. That's over? 20 bucks. Oh, yeah?

So poor Toby is in the pokey, no screwdriver. God, what a horrible New Year. Toby probably doesn't have all of his teeth. No, he did.

He actually looked like a normal guy. Oh, yeah? They have a picture of him coming out of the door with the vodka and the orange juice. Oh, it was a setup.

Must have a ring camera across the hall or something. It was a setup. Oh, you let Toby go with that. I don't call him.

I'm like, you know what? Come on. Go back to two. I think I need it more than I do.

What type of vodka was it? That would be better than that. Probably some skull or some shit. No, no, the one with the Sweden or whatever.

Svedka? Svedka. Platinum 5X. Svedka.

Six times the still. But it was Florida. Florida OJ, though. I mean, it's a good stuff.

That's expensive stuff. $35, apparently. All right, let's get on the Patreon, guys. We gotta go.

Thank you. The end of the day, the end of the day, the end of the day.

Show Notes

Join the Cigar Hustlers Podcast as they delve into the latest buzz in the cigar world. In this episode, the hosts kick off with the revelation of Kafie 1901's innovative move to repurpose leftover tobacco scraps into a new line, Naked Cigars. Discover the story behind this eco-conscious initiative and how it's shaping the landscape of cigar production.

The discussion shifts to the intriguing report detailing the surge in premium cigar imports through Q3 of 2023, closely rivalling the record-breaking numbers of 2022. What does this mean for the industry's growth and consumer trends? The hosts dissect the implications and potential future shifts.

Controversy surfaces as Gurkha takes legal action against Davidoff over the "Year of the Dragon" issue. The podcast unpacks the legal intricacies and potential ramifications in the competitive cigar market.

But that's not all! Caldwell stirs things up with the addition of Blind Man’s Bluff Sweet Tip to their lineup, while Casa Cuevas takes a bold step by increasing prices on their core lines. The hosts analyze these strategic moves and their potential impact on aficionados and the market at large.

In the midst of industry updates, the podcast touches on the arrival of Viaje Skull and Bones Tsar Bomba at select retailers, enticing enthusiasts with this exclusive release.

However, the episode takes an unexpected turn as the hosts discuss a bizarre incident in Polk County, Florida. A man's peculiar escapade involving the theft of vodka and orange juice ingredients for a screwdriver cocktail leaves everyone baffled. Join the hosts as they explore this curious news story, adding a dash of unexpected intrigue to the episode.

Tune in for insightful discussions, industry news, and a dash of unexpected tales on the Cigar Hustlers Podcast.