Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 318 Pirate Dead

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Make sure you put the A in the front. Yes. A. A?

Do not have it written out. I forgot to print that one. It's the most important one. I have it right here.

It's the most important one. So, what are we doing with the Patreon? The Knuckles Sandwich 56. The new Knuckles Sandwich 56.

Just came in upstairs. Oh, wow. Yeah. Better than the 55, I heard.

This one has a little more, a little less hair on the top of the head. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, as it gets a little, you know, it's harder to pee. Yeah, it, it, uh, this will wait, this, the 56 is where you, if you start waking up in the morning, in the middle of the night.

Three times? Yeah. Yeah, I understand. Oh yeah, I'm 56.

It's for my birthday. It's very nice, gentlemen. Thank you. Oh, they did it just for you.

Just for me, but it's a year late. Well, that's the way the industry goes, right? Oh, it's two years, actually. It's two.

Oh, two years? Two years. Two years. I'll have to stop smoking his Limitada.

I supposedly have won a Phosphoroprize with my last post yesterday. Did you? He said I was a winner. I'm waiting to see what I get.

Oh. Congratulations. From Mr. Mute.

Yes. I got the hashtag right this time. Smoke Phosphoroprize. Congratulations.

Thank you very much. On your winnings. How did you get it wrong? I think I just put Phosphoroprize.

Oh. Apparently that was wrong. Maybe you Is that spelled it wrong or something? No, no, I look at the band, it's right there on the band.

And don't call it upside down, Roma Crafty gets mad, don't do it. Oh, you did that? No, not in a public setting, just on the podcast. So what's going on, Michael?

You have an announcement to address, I understand. I mean, it's not really an announcement. But I mean, I'm getting some phone calls about it. For those of you guys that follow my wife on social media, I don't tag, I mean, you know, I don't tag, but if I'm tagged on it, I guess maybe you guys, I don't know.

Maybe you guys see it. So, but I'm getting people asking me about my daughter-in-law. Wait, my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law being pregnant. Yes.

She's, she was 38 weeks pregnant. She had no idea. Wow. No idea.

As Skip said on Facebook yesterday, what, the baby bump didn't give it away? So, so technically, I guess, here's how we got here. For one, when two people are in love, when the mommy and daddy really like each other. Let me tell you about the birds on the piece.

Give us the Arnold Schwarzenegger edition. So, uh, apparently, her fucking ovaries or some shit. Ovaries? Something was sideways.

So, because of the fact that it was sideways, the baby was growing sideways. Oh. My wife just explained this in a text, so I can explain that. You have a prepared statement?

You're going to read it from your phone? I'd never heard of that. What? Of the ovary being sideways.

It was something sideways. There are several reasons why a female can have an irregular period. Well, I wasn't even at that far. I'm just talking about, well, how, how did we not see that she was pregnant?

Like, how do you not see? So in December, she looked like she was, she's bulking up a little bit. Okay. And, you know, I said, that bitch's pregnant.

Well, the baby doesn't grow any ovaries. Yeah, well, I'm just saying, well, I don't, look, I'm trying to look. Well, okay. Tech said that as they're, uh...

We have a prepared, can we get you Mr. Baldwin on the phone? I'm calling Dr. Baldwin, calling Dr.

Baldwin. I need to explain this. Hi, this is Dr. Baldwin.

" "This is Dr. Baldwin. " Riveting podcast information. Her uterus grew sideways.

Ah, okay, well that makes more sense then. Okay, the uterus grew sideways. So then the baby, instead of going out, was going up and down. Was going this way.

So she was taller. No, it was this way. Oh, this way instead of that way. She's squished.

Ah, gotcha. So, you know, you didn't really notice. She looked wider. She didn't look like, you know, it was bulking season.

She never, like the doctor could never see that as she was growing up. And her menstrual cycle has always been kind of irregular throughout her entire life. So, she didn't pick up on that. Yeah.

They don't keep track of it as much as a woman would that gets it, you know, every 28 days or whatever. Yeah, so I think that there were still things going on or whatever. Right. So you add those couple things, and the fact that...

So like all of a sudden they spun it? So I guess after X amount of time, like... Oh, ran out of room left and right. As we were getting closer, yeah.

Oh. Baby shifted. I thought at Brittany's birthday... Which is actually super close.

What? The time for it's done? Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's got like a couple of weeks left. She's got a couple of weeks left. February 1st, I believe, is the due date. Well, that's tomorrow.

Is that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? I don't know. 31 days. I don't know.

Day after tomorrow. So, yeah. Oh, your house is on hiatus right now. Well, yeah, to say the very least.

When I told my wife, because we saw her a couple of days before that, she said, yeah, I could tell. She could tell? Yeah. She could tell what?

That she was pregnant. When? Then, Brittany's birthday. So why didn't she say anything then?

Well, you don't go, hey, you're pregnant. Okay. Now, like, if you don't announce it, you don't go, hey, hey, hey. But here's what I'm saying.

Here's what I'm saying. if the inclination was she's pregnant or you think she's pregnant normally you get in the car and you say to your spouse i think that bitch is pregnant like didn't she look pregnant to you she wouldn't call her you know what i'm saying right no that uh referencing no we don't we don't normally um you know break the evening down on the drive home i'm not saying look that i'm not I'm not telling you to review everything, in particular, that's a big one, you know what I'm saying, like, hey, didn't she kind of look pregnant, it was like that, she's pregnant, oh, well, okay, that makes sense then, because I thought she was a little bigger, I mean, you know, if you were bulking up, I would tell you that you were bulking up, well, Adrian doesn't know Nika hardly at all, so it's not like, you know, she would, all right, but if Adrian, was bulking up. I would tell you like, what's going on? We'd have a conversation about it.

You'd ask if she was okay. Everything all right? You know what? If it was Brittany, she would have said, you know.

Is she okay? Is she okay? Is she pregnant? But I mean, Mika was in and out that night.

Just putting it in that long. I mean, she always wears sweatshirts. She always wears sweatshirts. That's what I was going to say.

She had a pretty white blousey dress on that night. Anything that's, you know. Well, that's, the kids do that now. Well, she probably thought she was getting heavier.

" I need to conceal. I need to conceal. I must conceal. Now that you know she's pregnant.

Oh, the skin tight clothes. All of a sudden it's like, bam. Right. Right.

I can breathe. Oh my goodness. Put all the spanks away and the constrictors. It had nothing to do with the food.

You know, that makes for a cool story though, to tell her kid. I didn't even know I was pregnant with you. I didn't even know you were coming. You ruined everything.

I didn't even get to experience being pregnant. I just got the last week. So no baby shower? I mean, they're going to work on some sip and see or some shit afterwards because it's just too, you know what I mean?

Right. This could happen at any moment, so you can't really do a baby shower. She could have the baby at the shower. So question, since her uterus is sideways.

It was. It was. They've turned it. Okay, so she can have a natural birth.

Yes. Okay. She can have a natural birth. Right.

I'm sorry, I didn't know they were going to do a C-section. Yeah, with a little plastic tub. Your cold punch. Yeah, in the cold punch.

In the cold punch. Great idea. Oh my God. I would love that so much.

It would restrict the blood flow. Yeah, it would restrict blood flow. Right. So, yeah.

God, this world is cold. The one I just came from was nice and warm. It was so warm. What is this place?

I hate that. I'm going back in. Put me back in. So.

All right. So there you go. So, I mean, are they like quickly picking names and all that kind of stuff? They have a name.

Cooper. Oh, that's a nice name. I like the name. I think it's a good name.

That seems to have flown nicely. I mean, I was a fan of Mike or Michael. Yeah, that would have been good. Yes.

Covered a lot of bases with that name. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Is the baby's middle name Jessa? Uh, no, no, no.

Michael? Michael will be Cooper Michael? Sounds good. You know, minimal acknowledgement.

You know what I mean? Like, you know, it is... It's a thankless job, putting in all the work. You really need to stop moving that microphone.

You need to fix the microphone. I mean, enough is enough. Wait, you want another one? We don't have that kind of money anymore.

Be easy on him, he's got a lot going on in that household right now. We got these, we've got that thing, we spent a lot of money the last quarter of '23. I'm so sorry. That's all right, we had improvements.

Well, we know. So if you'd like to become a member of a Patreon, please. Michael needs a new microphone because it's static. If you want the best quality show.

One of it, it's probably not the mic, it's probably the arm. Yeah. And the cord. That cord does not come out of the arm.

- Right. - Could be the problem. - So yeah, man, the next couple of days, bro. - So there's that, yeah, there's that going down, that's going on in my house.

- We might have. - Well, she is now living with her boyfriend. - We have another one of those. - She's not in the house.

- No. - Oh, they threw her out. - She is, uh, yeah, we're not dealing. - We're pregnant without a husband, we're out of here.

- We can't feed another house. - You know, we have, uh... - You know, we go to Catholic churches, we'll not go well there. - You know, so we're gonna, we're setting up the front room, we're gonna have a crib and everything in there and the whole shebang.

The front room that she stayed in or the front room? The front room that she stayed in. Oh, so it wouldn't have been her. Will now become like a, almost like a nursery or whatever.

Okay, so she's not coming back at any point. You can change that from a bedroom into a baby's room. We could. Well, it's going to be a bedroom with a crib in it.

Yeah, I got you. I've never seen the other side of the door. I don't know how big that room is. Yeah, I've never seen the other side of the door.

As far as I know, it went to the outside. Right. I actually never knew there was a room there. When she lived there, it was always best that nobody opened that door.

Yeah, it was always shut. " Like, instant. Things fall out like a closet that's packed full of them. What is going on?

" Oh, wow. Yeah, it's pretty entertaining. So. Well.

Oh, yeah, Shohei. So, at least you're not going to have the baby in there 24/7. I don't know. Yeah, I guess not.

Right. I mean, I'm not, I'm not against that, though. No, I'm not saying, like, it's a good thing that the baby's not there. What I'm saying is, is your life is already nutty enough.

Here's what I can tell you. Let's just bring on the fuckery, bro. I don't care. Just give me the chaos.

It is what it is to me. You know, it doesn't affect me in any fashion. At this point, it's like, okay, well, it's just one other thing that we're going to work through, you know? You know, right.

It doesn't surprise me. It's not. Oh, he's going to do sports, too. He's going to be a football coach now for the next 18 years.

Uh, you know, who, me? Yeah. Uh, no, it's not. That's not my role there.

I'm not, uh, you know. Oh, Uncle, Uncle Mikey, I want you to coach me in football. Scorekeeper. Well, I'll see.

You can be a scorekeeper, though. And in basketball. We'll see. And in soccer.

I mean, you know, I generally give the impression of, uh, for whatever reason, intimidation and scare people, so I don't think that he'll like me until he gets a little. I don't think that works with children at your house, though. I think it works with children too. Teddy's the youngest, she's not afraid of you.

No, Teddy is, Teddy is the mini version of me, mini female version of me. Well, maybe Cooper comes out very passionate. Very passionate? Very passionate.

Extremely passionate. Extremely passionate young man. Just comes and just... I don't know, I don't know.

The dad is not as passionate, not even close to the amount of passion, he doesn't have as much passion as I have. No, no. You know, he's very happy. He was a friend of me on Facebook the other day.

Oh yeah? he's integrating i like that yeah he's mingling he's mingling in with the family yeah perfect well he probably knows that you're the godfather yeah all right that's fantastic he has learned the roles oh gotcha you're nice to the old guy guess i gotta be in the family tree now that's right 38 weeks i didn't know now i'm in start calling your dad what does his parents say does he have parents still around i mean i don't know i hardly know I don't know anything about the young man. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. He looks like Madhunt.

I don't know a ton. He does look like Madhunt. He does look like Madhunt. I call him Madhunt.

That's what I call him. So I didn't even know what his real name was. Yeah, the parents are very involved with him. So we'll see what that looks like.

What if the baby comes out looking like Madhunt too? Oh. That would be funny. Baby Madhunt.

Baby Madhunt. I want to get Dad checked there. Baby looks... Matthew.

That's what I was planning to do, Matthew. What do you want to do, Matthew? Maybe they're like distant cousins or something. I mean, maybe.

Who knows? But there you go. Any marriage talk? All right, Mr.

Carney. I don't know. Well, I didn't know if they would have said something. Here's the thing.

Look, I do my very best to keep my involvement at all times, as well as keep my distance. I would assume you would have heard something. Like, we've got to get the shower, and then we've got to do the wedding, and then... That hasn't been announced.

I think we've got the baby for two weeks when they go on a honeymoon. I think that we're going to take this show one step at a time. Come on. Bomb just got dropped less than two weeks ago.

Let's not express pass everything. You know what I'm saying? Just run right there, express pass the whole thing. Yeah, let's not do that.

Let's just mitigate all the problems and just move right there. Let's take one step at a time. So that's what they're doing. Well, congratulations, Uncle.

Thank you so much. Yes, Uncle Michael. Congratulations. And Auntie Brittany.

And Auntie. And Auntie. And, um, so getting on to regular life here, took justice to Royal Rumble. Yes, how was that?

The wrestling thing. Fantastic. Tropicana Field is the fucking worst, the worst field to get out of. Oh, is that the old football stadium?

No, that's the baseball stadium in Tampa. Oh, oh. I mean, atrocious. They had wrestling at the baseball thing?

Yeah, it was enclosed. Yeah, it's like a dome. Yeah. Oh.

It was terrible. Leaving was terrible. I went to a baseball game there once, and it took like two hours to get out of that fucking area. Yeah, dude.

I mean, I moved at first, I got out relatively early, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna get, I'm gonna, and I stopped, and I did not move for over an hour. I didn't move for over a fucking hour. Yeah. So, you know, like, this was kind of, so I did this thing with Jax when he was eight, and then I decided to do it with Justin as well.

Hey, wherever you want to go, I will take you. And he was, I want to go to Royal Rumble. It just so happened that Royal Rumble was in Tampa, so perfect. Right.

So we went. Which, first of all, is an amazing thing to go to as a child. Yeah. Yeah.

Because Royal Rumble is like the Super Bowl of wrestling. Yeah. I mean, would you consider the WrestleMania the Super Bowl? Oh, yeah.

Maybe WrestleMania. I mean, Royal Rumble is right there, though. It's just not the same. Yeah.

Royal Rumble is cool as shit. It's different. Yeah. Right?

So, and that's, he would, he, I told him, he goes, oh, I want to, next time he goes, I want front row seats. I'm like, okay, listen, dude. First of all, I looked. We got here.

First of all, I looked and I said, there's no fucking way of getting it. That is not happening. Is wrestling real expensive? I have no idea.

Yeah, Royal Rumble is, it's not, I mean, within reason, I guess, at this point, because by going to football games, I can tell you that, eh, it's about the same. Maybe a little less for wrestling. Well, yeah, I would assume it's not as much, especially now with McMahon's problems. Well, he's in Saudi Arabia, it's owned by Saudi Arabia now.

Oh! McMahon no longer owns it. Yeah, this is the first time. Oh, he doesn't own WWE at all anymore?

This is the first time that not one McMahon is in WWE, there's not one. Oh really? None of them? None of them.

Wow. Take your billions and go away quietly. Oh, he definitely went away super quietly, thank you. Well, he has to now.

So, he ensued. So, look, so, you know, like, I wanted to make it nice for him, special, and I said to do whatever you want, whatever you want to do, whatever you want, you can have, right? You know. Who's his favorite wrestler?

Oh, it's a good question. I thought it was the Olmertou guy or whatever his name is. Olmos is definitely up there, just because the guy's super nice to him. Right, right.

He's met him. Yeah. So, he was very excited to see him come out during Royal Rumble. I think he likes Randy Orton.

He likes a bunch of them. His favorite guy got hurt. Big E or something like that. Yeah.

Snapped his neck or something. Wow. So... He'll be back.

Yeah, I don't think so. I think so. It's just a Tuesday. No, this is legit.

It wasn't a script. He's probably done. So I said, hey, you know, we get in there and I go, hey, whatever you want to get. Let's go to the shop.

Let's go get you something. And he goes, anything? I'll say, anything you want, dude. Whatever you want.

I would like the front row seats. So, no, I'm talking about a toy. So we're looking around. I'd like the front row seat.

Do you want a hat? You know, what do you want? You know. So the first thing he looks at is a stuffed animal, like a teddy bear.

I'm like, okay, let's walk around. Let's walk around. Let's make sure that that's what you want. Whatever.

Dress like a wrestler or something? Yeah. It's got like a whatever. And then I bring him over to the replica belts.

They have this whole display section of all these different replica belts. And they go anywhere from like $350 to like $600 and change. And I'm thinking, you know what? Fuck it.

If this kid wants one of these belts, whatever. Yeah. It's not like you're going to go back to Royal Rumble every year. No.

And I want him to say, you know, I want him to remember this. I want it to be, this is the, this is fucking awesome. Right. Right.

I said, do you want any of those belts, dude? You can have one. He goes, all right, well, maybe I will get the spinny one. I said, okay, well, let's take a look at the spinny one.

He goes, no, to be honest, I really want that stone-cold stuffed animal that's over there. Like the, you remember how back in the day they used to have them? They had one that was stone-cold. He goes, I want that.

I said, are you sure? He goes, yeah. All right, no problem. So he bought the $40 stuffed animal.

Yeah. And I'm going to tell you right now, that thing has not left his side. Whenever he gets home, bam, he's on it. So stone cold, baby.

Does it talk or anything? No, no. That'd be funny if it talks. No, it doesn't, it doesn't do anything.

If he get two beers and we're coming by now with its little hands, he goes. Yeah, right. Um, so. I see him on TikTok every once in a while.

The guy's in a lot of pain. Is he? Yeah. Yeah, he had, well, he wore two knee braces forever.

He's just starting to cold plunge. Is he? Yeah. Well, I highly recommend it.

He has a working ranch, too, and he works on it. Yeah, yeah, he's on Stone Cold's Ranch, that's where he says he is. Rattlesnake Ranch. " That's all he does, a little bit?

Well, he's getting used to it. He's doing more and more each day. Oh, I was going for six minutes. It's perfect.

Isn't it crazy, like... After 30 seconds, you're fine. You can go forever. Two guys, you had The Rock, and you had Stone Cold.

Yeah. And they're both the same age. Yeah. So, like, to see the two different guys and how their body styles are...

Oh, they're the same age? Yeah, and the wearing tear, it's like, the rock is like in great shape, like, I'm sure he probably has ailments, you know, there's probably- Yeah, he's ibuprofriing every morning. Yeah, but the way he takes care of himself is probably way better than Stone Cold. Yeah, of course.

Well, yeah, I mean, one was, yeah, for sure. That's cool, though. He wanted, he wanted the stuff there over the belt. Yeah.

The belts are dope. The belts are ridiculous. I thought for sure, I thought for sure we were walking out of there with a belt. Put it on the shoulder.

You know, this little eight-year-old walking around with the fucking actual full replica size. Oh, it's life-size. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You should get Derek Dukes to come to his birthday party one year. He would have no idea who he is. Well, you show him a couple things before. Prep him.

Yeah, prep him. Like, hey, daddy knows this guy. He's got a belt. Adrian's got a picture with the belt.

He's got a belt. I don't know what wrestling league he was in or whatever, but... But he would do that. Of course.

He's a nice guy. He is a nice guy. Isn't he working for Espinosa or somebody now? I think so.

So, whatever he wanted, I gave him. " Got him ice cream. He got a hot dog they took two bites of and they didn't eat. Want a hot dog.

" Like, I'm not saying no. " So, he had a blast, man. It was a great time. And slept well on the way home.

I was going to say, you get all cute in the car and you fall asleep, parking in the little steve house. Of course, within the instance of us getting in the car. Oh, you're not in the parking lot. No.

But he is full of sugar. I didn't even make it to this part in the parking lot where I had stopped to sit for an hour before he was passed out. Oh, yeah. I looked back at the door.

He is done. He is done. You should have took a picture. I took some videos.

I don't know of him sleeping in the car. I did. Then you can make a reel and make that at the end of your reel. I was going to.

Oh. I was going to. It's too late now. -No, it's not.

-It's already passed. -It's not too late. I can do whenever I want. -It's a 24-hour real rule, Mike.

-Is there? -Yes. -Okay. Well, maybe it's on.

You just don't know what Instagram account's on. -Yours or your wife's. I follow both of you. -Maybe there's another one.

-I don't think so. -Okay. -And then I got my ass kicked at football. Both boys got fucking...

-Mmm. -Mmm. -Mmm. That worked.

-Yeah. -Did you make sure that Jax did not leave before the end of the game? Yeah, Jack stayed the whole time. For the coaching?

Yeah. There is nothing more frustrating than having great plays and having people in the right spots, and players just dropping balls. Kind of like the Detroit Lions in the second half. Oh!

Yeah. There you go. Yeah, amazing. That was a sad game.

That was a sad game. They had it, and then they just crumbled. Mm-hmm. Must be getting close to Phil's fun facts.

Let's just keep this going. Either that or you just wore the mask. Keep this going. Sure, we'll just not do that.

Skip that, yeah. So, how was your weekend? My wife was gone. Yeah?

I power washed for six hours on Saturday and Sunday. It was supposed to rain, but it didn't. Right. I went grocery shopping and that kind of stuff.

Did you ever put on pants or no? Yeah, when I was out power washing. Yeah. But not when you're grocery shopping.

Well, it's Aldi's. You can do whatever you want. You can just live your best life. Yeah, it's Aldi's.

They don't care. They don't care. There's no rules at Aldi's. Except you gotta put the quarter in for the card.

But I got past that too. Some lady gave me her card. Oh, look at you. I tried to give her the quarter and she's like, no, no, you didn't give her.

Did you give the quarter back? When I put my card up, I did not hook it in. That's like the bus pass. Pass it along to the next person.

You ever see that? You probably haven't. You've never had that experience, I guess. I've ridden a bus.

But there's a trick to it. There are all day bus passes. And if you're done for the day, you will leave your all day bus pass on the seat. Oh!

So that when somebody comes on, they just pay for the one thing, they don't have access to it all day. Oh, nice. Yeah. What type of bus are we talking about here?

City bus. City bus. You gotta learn how to work the system, buddy. Never rode one.

Yeah. Oh, it must be nice to be so rich, you never have to ride the bus. Yeah. Earliest memory is riding with my mother to the hospital on a city bus because she cut her hand.

Interesting. that's your earliest memory where did you grow up yeah I don't know where we were then it could have been Indiana I guess I don't know but evidently mom didn't have her own car dad was at work because I remember picking at the rubber seal around the window because back then it wasn't like a molded rubber seal it was just like tar yeah and papa was a rolling stone huh out there papa was a Kmart papa was a Kmart a Kmart alright that it yeah Yeah, I mean, my weekend was very uneventful. All right, well, thanks, everybody. Have a good one.

I see you have a football shirt on. My wife went to Missouri. She brought this bag for me. So I told her I'd wear it today.

I'll wear it on the Super Bowl and then I'll go in the closet and I won't wear it again. It's ridiculous. At least you have some type of sporting shirt on. It's ridiculous.

Why? She's a fan. So she brought me home. Why don't I go, oh, that's stupid.

No, I don't want that. What? She bought it at the airport. Oh, it was nice.

She brought me something back. Because nothing says I love you, like an airport gift. Like an airport gift, that's right. I was thinking about you the whole time, so much, that I got you this football shirt.

Oh, I doubt that, because she had two baby showers she went to, and one of them she had to help throw. Well, there's a third one coming up she can attend. Oh, well, there you go. It's going around, apparently.

Yeah, apparently, it's in the water. A lot of people are dropping loads. Dropping loads, buddy. All right.

You know, the saddest part about the 38-week thing and not knowing is that you could have been dropping loads that whole time. Well, he probably was. I mean, apparently he has a weak pullout game, but... Oh, I was gonna say, I mean, it's not like it's just that one time, you know, like, "Oops!

" I don't think that, you know, I don't think that it was intended, you know? Well, I thought maybe because of her irregularities, they might have just figured, what are the odds? Let's roll the dice. Snake eyes.

Exactly. They got one time at least. Without knowing the frequency, you know. There's that.

It'd be funny if he goes, we only had sex at one time. You said it'd be fine. Got him. Oh, my God.

Oh, dude, I have to refrain sometimes from some of the jokes that I have. Oh, I'm sure you can't do this in front of her. Oh, first of all, yes. She can listen to this and I'll get you a phone call.

First of all, I 100% will totally cut jokes. Like, I treat her, it's weird. Right. Like, I treat her like she's a daughter to me sometimes.

Right. But we're also siblings or just friends. So, you know, this is kind of the world that I exist in this weird universe. That's the third triangle of Mika.

Where I just kind of fucking say whatever I want, out of humor, and I'm like, whatever. It might hurt. I kind of feel like Skip Martin. Oh, just saying whatever I want.

Say whatever you want. Yeah, yeah. Not concerned about feelings. Not concerned at all.

I just love the fact that he's had that baby mask on this whole fucking time. Sweating his ass off on that baby mask. Fantastic. Staring at the...

He's actually looking at the iPad. Yeah. Oh, there you go. It's scary when he turns his egg because the nose is bent.

It looks like maybe we've been punched in a vase. All right, let's go. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers podcast feature, Phil's Fun Facts. I thought he was going to forget to turn it.

Hello, peoples. All right. Did you know? The world's shortest cigar was so tiny that it couldn't even qualify as a short smoke.

It was more like a quick exhale. It's still bigger than my penis. Wow. Wow.

Sorry to hear that, Phil. Sorry about that, Phil. I'm sure there's some doctor you can see about that. I have a question about cigars.

You put the cut-in in your mouth, you light the other end. If you're concerned about the form of measurement compared against the size of your penis... No. What is, if either one of you know, what is the shortest cigar ever made?

We just told you that. It's called Short Exhale. Yeah. That's the name of it?

Yeah. It said it was more like a Short Exhale. Yeah, it's what it's called. Yeah.

What was that? Is that your question? Is that it? Who was it made by?

I don't know. Some Cuban dude, probably. Yeah, it's gonna be Cuba. Yeah.

They probably had a little scrap of tobacco left on their table, and the bunch of girls here, Ponce de Leon. Donde esta, amigo, Ponce de El Cigarado? He was looking for the smallest fountain of youth. Oh, Ponce?

Yeah, oh, Ponce. Little Ponce. Ponce de Leon. Ponce de Leon.

I really hope there's one news clipping when you start reading the news. That talks about small penis? No. What do you want it to say?

Yeah, I don't know. The new partnership. Did you get that one? Oh, yeah, that's at the end.

Okay, good. Because that came out yesterday. Yes. Yeah.

So it got added on because I always do the show news on Sundays. I can move it to the front. I get all my cigar news from you guys. Oh, that's good.

Yeah. Good. You don't ever look at Facebook? No.

Well, half-wheel. Yeah, I take half-wheels every once in a while, but not really. Oh. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm hardly, yeah.

Alright, go ahead. I'm just waiting on him to flip the camera to one so I can do the noise. I need to know what's going on in the cigar world. Oh, okay.

From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report, with Mike Thun. S. , but the Year of the Dragon will be one of those exceptions.

And very few cigar consumers smoke Vegafina. 75 by 54 Toro Extra. Blend-wise, it uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Why do they not get any?

Why don't they just say "undisclosed" at that point? It's Ecuadorian... Ecuadorian wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers. So it's grow...

the wrapper's grown in Ecuador. Oh, Nicaraguan binder and then fillers from the Dominican Republic, yeah. And Nicaragua. And Nicaragua.

Yeah, basically it's undisclosed. It's pretty much just telling the country. Yeah. It's uh...

Why don't they get Vega Finis? What's the deal? So where is it from? E-Cigar?

Where is the cigar made from? The country. You're just not gonna answer that question? What's your question?

Why do they hardly ever get Vega Finis? Here. Why do they hardly ever get Vega Finis? I mean, it's not a Cuban cigar.

I think it's just that it was a catalog brand. It became just so... Oh. Okay.

Yeah. In the US, the MSRP is set at $15 per cigar, and there are 500 boxes available for the USA. $15 for a Vegafina. So where are they selling them, Matt?

I got some Baccarats upstairs, then. There's 75 a clip. 6,888 boxes were made. Well, they're only putting 500 here.

Where's the rest going? China? Yeah, probably China. Asia?

This particular Vegafina is made at Tablicalera de Garcia in the Dominican Republic, alongside many of the non-Cuban Monte Cristo and Romeo and Julieta cigars that Altadish USA sells. Ooh. However, Vegafina was designed as a non-Cuban brand for international markets. Sold by sister companies of all today.

Oh, there you go, then. I just read my own story. Rocky Patel adds Trio of the Year of the Dragon Cigars. All you have to do is read your own report and answer my own questions.

Year of the Dragon for Rocky Patel? Yeah, Rocky Patel adds Trio of the Year of the Dragon. Gurkha's gotta be fucking throwing lawsuits. There's like 12 Year of the Dragon cigars coming out here.

You can't do that. Rocky Patel did a list of companies making Year of the Dragon cigars, except the company isn't just making one Year of the Dragon, it's making three. Oh. They all use the same blend.

What? They're all the same cigar. I'm sorry. Rocky Patel, Year of the Dragon, Robusto Grande.

Oh. 5x52. That's lovely. It's a duty-free exclusive.

Duty-free. You have to get in. 5x52. Is that a bit bigger?

It's not duty-free. That's a USA exclusive, not duty-free. Yeah. Oh.

And the Rocky Patel, Year of the Dragon, 2024, regular Robusto. It's not Grande. Standard. 5x52.

That's also international. 5x52. They don't get the size. Yeah, because, I mean, standard Rebuso would actually be 5x50.

Oh, so the half makes it the Grande. Grande. I feel like somebody just... The Rebuso Grande is 5 and a half.

5 and a half by 52? Yes. But if it's standard 52, if it's standard Rebuso... I think somebody made some too big.

Yeah. Who the fuck made these 5 and a half by 52s? Oh, who did that? Raise your hand.

Who made the 5 and a half? We already printed the boxes. Oh, my God. We're going to have to make a new box.

You know what? Here's what we're going to do. We're just gonna do limited exclusives in specific regions. Oh, that's a great idea.

Hey, why don't we make the Robusto Grande a duty-free? Perfect. " Right, nobody's gonna know there's only five boxes of those. Is that Pedro over there fucked up making that one?

Yeah, fucking Pedro. Wow. First of the cigars going to sale will be the Robusto Grande. We gotta get those out quick so nobody sees them.

Get them out of here. Sees that out of here. Which is a duty-free exclusive. It will go on sale February 9th, which is the day before the start of the Chinese New Year.

What? Chinese New Year's already over. They're already back to work! Oh, the calendar Chinese New Year.

Okay, never mind. They're already back to work. The Robusto Grande Vitola is sold in five packs. Oh, they're not in the boxes.

See? That's how they got past the box thing over there, Phil. Yeah, we're just gonna throw them in the boxes. They don't fit in the boxes, just five packs.

Well, they didn't sell them in the ceramics. They didn't intend to sell these. You know what I mean? Right.

Somebody's found them fucked up. It's limited, though the company has not said how many they fucked up. Is it unlimited or is it unlimited? It's unlimited.

Unlimited. It's unlimited? Yes. Wow.

Perfect. And they're not saying how many they have. Yeah. We don't know yet, because Pedro's still rolling cigars over there.

Rapper is Nicaraguan. Binder is Honduran. Oh, they said what it was. Mexican San Andres wrapper over two binders from Connecticut.

Filler is tobacco. One of them is Broadleaf, and filler is from Condega, Esteli, and Jalapa regions of Nicaragua, As well as the Jamestrand Valley, in Jamestrand, is Jamestrand, is Jamestrand, Handmade in Esteli, Nicaragua. That was good. Oh, where is it?

Is Handmade in Esteli, Nicaragua. Thank you, Pedro. Shouldn't have rolled those so fat. All Saints is doing a price increase, Michael, on February 1st.

All Saints. Oh, it's going to be a huge increase. Did you see his new summer? Huge, huge.

I saw a barber pole All Saints, never seen that before. Yeah, that was new. All Saints Cigars will increase prices next month, but the changes will only affect three Vitolas in each of the company's lines. And it's going to be huge.

Huge. It's going to be huge. In an email, Mickey Pegg, co-owner of All Saints, told Cigar Hustler Podcast... What's up, Huge?

that the Robusto Toro and huge Vitolas in each of the company's four lines, Colorado, Dedication, Habano, and the St. Francis, will increase between... What is it, Michael? It's a range.

I'll give you a clue. Uh, seven to nine percent. Close. 33.

What was it? 87? Yeah. 33.

Oh, that's not bad. It's a big swing. Not really. Isn't it normally like 7 to 9, like you were saying?

Yes, normally everybody's been 7 to 9. Guy Fieri celebrates his 56th birthday with Knuckles Sandwich 56 Cigar. Oh! Last year, Guy Fieri celebrated his 50th birthday with a Knuckles Sandwich 55 Special Cigar.

Next year, he will be making a 57. Oh, we're smoking that now. Delicious. Yes, the year there will also be a limited edition cigar to celebrate his 56th birthday, the Knuckles Sandwich 56.

I wonder how they came up with the name. It's the ring, oh. He's 56 years old. Is that what it is?

Yes. Last year, he was 55. They did a 55. Next year, they'll do a 57.

It's not the ring gauge? Knuckles Sandwich is a 56 by 56 is a 6 by 56 Toro overall that uses a Mexican San Andreas wrapper over Nicaraguan binder, Nicaraguan fillers. Is this the same blend as the cigar they already make, or is it completely different? It's a good question.

Because we were having a discussion upstairs. Well, I couldn't answer it then. I still can't answer it. No, no, not you.

Me and the boys, before you got here. Oh. Because we were talking about it too. And I think it's, I think it'd be the same, but they said no, it's not.

Yeah, they're saying it's not. But they are curious. They think it might be the same as the 55. Yeah, that's...

Well, all you have to do is look up the 55 article and have... Well, I'm in the middle of a podcast, Michael. I can't do that. Well, maybe you should have done that beforehand.

Get your shit together. You embarrass yourself. Wow. Knuckle 55.

And this is where you finish the show. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Segar Hassler is the goddamn fucking best!

So let's see some best, Michael, you finish the show. Yeah. It's a Mexican San Andreas rapper, Nicaraguan binder, and Phyllis from Nicaragua. Was the 50?

Yeah, exact same. Was the 55? Yeah, exact same. So it's the exact same.

5x55. Delicious. They just made it a bit different. It was a robust.

5x55 as well. 5x55. And what's the 56? A 6x56.

It's a 6x56. It's bigger. Do you see what they're doing? Yes, next year it'll be a...

A 57? A 57? It'll be a 57 gauge. The time he gets to be 60, it's going to be one big ass cigar.

That's going to be huge. You think it'll be a 7x57? Sure, why not? He's going to keep going with the flow.

I just hope Guy Pieri makes it to 110. Oh! Yeah. That's the kind of cigar she likes.

The real big one. The real big one. Last year, we wanted to do something special for Guy's birthday, so we produced the blend and made only 555 boxes. As a token for Guy, said Erega Smills in the press release, we had no idea the impact the cigar was going to have.

It immediately sold out, becoming one of the most coveted unicorn cigars ever. The customer is still asking for it to this day. We always want to keep our customers happy, so we decided to continue the tradition. They sold so well, and we made a lot of money.

It's a good cigar. Espinosa Premium Cigar says the Knuckles Sandwich 56 is shipping today, not two years after the guy's birthday. Did you smoke a 55, Palmer? Wow, I'm sure I did.

I don't remember. I smoked so many cigars. Mikey, did you smoke a 55? Yes, I'm sure we had them.

It was good. Cuban cigar prices increase for 2024. With the start of the year, Cuban cigar distributors around the world are beginning to adjust prices in their markets following the price increase from Habano SA. He's from Habano SA, the Cuban Cigar Monopoly.

In Spain, one of the largest markets for Cuban cigars, the adjustment amounted to an increase of roughly? More money. 12%. 23%.

Okay. 23% is based on approximately 350 skews, though some individual cigars are listed multiple times because they are sold in multiple packaging formats. Rocky Patel plans his new 6,000, 60,000 Cigar Per Day Factory in Nicaragua. Say that one more time.

How many? Rocky Patel plans a new 60,000 Cigar Per Day Factory in Nicaragua. 60,000. Rocky Patel is building his second Cigar Factory in Nicaragua.

Guess Pedro fucked up in the other one. Today, the company will announce plans for the new Rocky Patel Premium Cigar Factory, which could open as soon as the second half of 2026. The new factory complex takes on eight Manzanas, roughly 14 acres of land in Esteli, Nicaragua. It will have eight, you know, everybody, you can just say Esteli.

We all know it's in Nicaragua by now. So if we could all agree to just eliminate that part of the press release, that would be great. Thank you. Other buildings will include offices, a cafeteria, medical facilities, and something that is being described as a cigar entertainment or a man cave style lounge.

Wow. The Disney World of Cigars is being built in the Rocky Patel factory. That's pretty cool. Patel plans on this being an all-in-one facility, which makes sense.

It is as it's adjacent to the company's Finca Vela Cuba Farm. The new complex is located in Miraflo down the road from AJ. See, they didn't say Miraflo in Nicaragua. Is that a street?

I don't know. I've never been there. I'm assuming it's a town. Down the road from AJ Fernandez's main factory at the Oliva Tobacco Company SLE-based facility.

In 2008, Raik Patel opened up his current factory, and he told Cigar Hustler Podcast that this factory's rolling room will be 15 times larger than the first one. In addition to its own factory in Nicaragua, Patel contracts the company's manufacturing to the Plasencia, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, and Drew Estate. Once the new factory's opened, Patel said the company will shut down the old factory. So this is his second factory, he's going to build it and then shut down the first one?

Correct. So he only has one. He will only have one. Well, it's gigantic.

For a short time he will have two. Right, it's gigantic. It's got a man cave in it. Yeah, but he should still keep the yellow.

Why would you? Anyways. Because he's got to have enough rollers to do 60,000 cigars. What's he going to do, spin them off on the other one?

Yeah. You make other people's cigars in the yellow. See, the overhead's really high in Esteban Nicaragua. Is it?

Yes. It's really high. Land is actually very expensive in Esteban Nicaragua. Is it?

So they'll sell the first one in the land to help pay for the second. Or who knows, maybe he wasn't, it wasn't his property, maybe he was renting it out from Luciano. Oh, it's Luciano's factory. Maybe Luciano will just swoop right in and pick up that other factory.

Wow. You never know, he's a very smart man. Cheese and cracker boards are gonna be where the charcuterie boards are made. Uh, first, my father and Tatuaje, La Union Collaboration, near his release.

Yes. First half of La Union, the collaboration between, oh the first half, yes, of La Union, is it Union or Union? Spelled Union. It's, uh, La.

La. You. You. Me.

I. What? You. No, if you want me, that's it.

Stop it, stop it. The N-I's gotta make the knees. Come back with me, come back with me, I'm losing you. La.

You. on. On. La Uni Ion.

Wow. If I point to you, if I point to you, you can say it. The collaboration between my father and Tatuate is almost ready to begin shipping to stores. Here's an update.

Yeah. Pete Johnson says, no, it's not. He clarified that these will not be shipping. The story originally indicated the cigars were shipping, but Pete said, no, no, we're not ready.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, hold on. Slow down. Slow down there, people.

La Uni Ion. There are four different blends, each rolled, seven and a quarter by 50, double Corona, with a 109 style cap. What is a 109 style cap, Mike? You're the cigar expert on the show.

We come to you for this type of information. I will happily tell you. It's almost a Belicoso. It's a Belicoso, but it's a little more rounded.

Oh. Yeah. The Cro-Mag timeline was the same style. Ah.

The cigars were blended by the Garcia family of my father, while Pete Johnson... It's old school Cuban. Oh, okay. He said old school Cuban.

I understand. - Oh, you get that? - I know what that looks like. - About the Uni Ion?

- Yeah, right. Pete Johnson Tatuaje blended the other two. - It's Tatuaje. " He blended two of them.

- And they're called Tatuajes. - Tatuaje. - Tatuaje. - You know, Charlie says there was a word he said on the different, I think that was it.

- Tatuaje? - On the consensus, he said some word different than anybody I've ever heard say it before. - Really? Let's see, blah, blah, blah.

They use a black, wait, La Unión. Thank you. La Unión. Tatuaje for my father.

You can say it faster, La Unión. La Unión. Tatuaje, Tatuaje, for my father, why is black in parentheses, uses a shade-grown Nicaraguan Corona wrapper while La Unión. My father, for Tatuaje Black, uses an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper.

Oh, that's how you can tell them apart. Hmm. That's for the other two seconds. We don't know what they are.

It doesn't sound like there's a unification if they're using two different wrappers. No, it's unification. Unification. Unification.

Right, right, right. Yeah, there's no unification. The MSRP for both boxes is set at $2,400. What?

2,000? Yeah. I'm sorry. $2,460 per cigar.

What? Nobody's buying these. No, they're not. Yes, they are.

The MSRP for both boxes is set at $2,400 or $60 per cigar. It's still $60 a cigar. Oh, $60 per. Right.

Yeah, but didn't he just come out with that Chanel one? Chanel? That was like a hundred bucks? No, no, the NFT.

Tatuaje is the NFT, the NFT. Tatuaje? Tatuaje. I'm sorry, I thought we were still on rocket.

It was really hard to follow this story because of your pronunciation stuff. Your pronunciation. My pronunciation. Your pronunciation.

Well, his pronunciation, whatever. Pronunciation. That's not how you say that one. Pronunciation.

Annunciation. Annunciation? Annunciation. Yeah, that one.

Follow with me. Uh. Uh. Uh.

Noun. C. U. Asian.

That's my shit. Don't you fuck with my shit. Wow. Redux is limited to 1,500 boxes per color.

1,200 of which will go to the US. Each box comes with a Zykar Perfecto Cutter. Oh, it comes with a cutter. Yeah, yeah.

And a white pearly, it's a white pearly cutter. Every Tatuaje comes with the Evermeak, has been produced by the Garcia family, the two companies, first called the first client of the Garcia's, you know, I'm going to go see when it, when it, when it, when they highlight it for it's a link, it doesn't show up, I'm going to try and order the uni ions just so that I can get laughed at. I was like, Hey, I'd like to, I want to place a order for two boxes of uni ions, please. And, uh, I'll take both of them.

Did I get that pronunciation right? pronunciation. AJ Fernandez, increase in prices on On February 1st. Price going up.

Well, he found out Pete's selling cigars for $66. How much? How much? Raise those prices!

J. Fernandez cigars will increase prices. The company says the price of its cigars across the board will increase by 5%. Oh!

Ding, ding, ding! On the money! Effective February 1st. J.

Fernandez branded products like New World, San Latino, and others. J. Fernandez makes for other companies are not affected by this. Not affected.

So people that are saying they're doing a price increase because production prices are going up? You're lying. J. Fernandez factory.

That's, first of all, you don't know that for a fact. He says he's not raising prices on other people. He's not raising prices on other people because he's probably been jacking them up the whole time. But if their price is going up, he didn't hit the production costs didn't go up from him.

Maybe he has raised prices on them in the past. Oh, and they just ate it? He just hasn't done it right here. Oh, all right.

Another news. And then we have one more story. Now that it was porn star, Jesse James, died at 43 the other day. What?

Porn star? Porn star, Jesse Jane, Jane, Jane, Jesse Jane. Oh. The actor was best known for her appearance in shows like Entourage and the big-budget triple-X movie, Pirates.

Wait a second, is Entourage a porn, or is that the regulation? No, no, she was in Entourage, she played herself. Oh, okay. But she was in the big-budget movie, The Pirates, apparently, of the, I don't know what they would have been of.

How did she die? Autorotic asociation? No, overdose. Her and her boyfriend were found dead in their apartment.

There's a very lengthy story, but basically they were found dead in their apartment. Surprise. Her boyfriend did not show up for work. They sent over police to do a- A wellness check?

Thank you. A wellness check, and they found them both dead. So, that's a thing, huh? Oh, on social media, adult performers and veterans expressed their condolences to Jane's family members, along with their memories of her time in the industry.

Jesse was a megastar. She discovered a Hawaiian Tropics contest, even though she quickly became a porn sensation. I'm sure her mother is very proud that people remember her daughter as a porn star. Well, you know.

All right, we say this. But you do remember. I mean, I had no idea who Jesse Jane was, but apparently you did. I look at a lot of nudes.

Yeah, I was Google searching Jesse Jane. You look at a lot of nudes? Is that what you said? No, I said news.

I'm always looking at nudes. I pronunciationed it as news, Michael. You're a horny old man. I get it.

Luciano Cigars and Peter James Company announces a partnership to create Peter James Luciano Cigar Company. Oh, my God. He has now merged. Now merged into accessories.

Luciano Cigars and accessory maker Peter James have announced the launch of the exclusive partnership that will create Peter James and Lucio Cigar Company, and we'll see a new collection of cigars and accessories released in the near future called Luciano Peter James Accessories and Cigars. According to the Luciano Morales, the new entity is a joint venture that is equally owned between Peter James Company and Morales as a business partner and Tiago Splitter, Luciano only 99% and Peter James and Tiago splitting the remaining 1%. The creation of the company will hold the Peter James trademark in the USA as owned by Luciano, as well as other trademarks for future products. The two are working on a new cigar that will be launched in March, though details about its specifics are being kept under wraps.

Until Do Luciano find someone he doesn't owe money to to make cigars? Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.

What is known is that it would be being produced at Luciano Cigars Factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, and it'll be distributed by Luciano Cigars in America. I'm gonna put you in a fucking hockey outfit at PCA. Like a goalie. Imagine what I took out.

Imagine what I took out. There were some things in the story I felt were a little over the top. " Yeah, I gotta walk that back. It's delete, delete, delete, delete.

The new partnership, in parentheses, will also result in other luxury cigars, which Mary Alice told ACHP will be Luciano Cigars' most premium, exquisite cigars, highlighted by impeccable packaging, impeccable cigar construction, and rare tobaccos. Nice. It will also be a cigar lifestyle piece, which a press release described as offering an unmatched experience for cigar smokers. I don't know what that is.

Maybe they're gonna use Rocky Patel's... Yeah, we're gonna check out this new private lounge that I'm building at the new Rocky Patel factory. "Judy departed with Luciano Cigars with a decision I couldn't refuse, rooted in fear, confidence, and shared understanding that our individual strength, when combined, will lead us to achieve our greatest potential," said Peter, said John Peter, that's Peter James, but he has a different name. "Founder and President of Peter James Company, via alleged press release, I'm generally excited about the endless possibilities this partnership presents," Luciano said.

All right. That's all I got. You got a job of the week, Michael? Uh-oh.

What is it? Smoke on the water. Job of the week, smoke in the water! In what city?

That's not Davey, what is it? That's in Westin, Florida? Westin, Florida. We're going to...

I'm going to be sending my people. Sending peoples. To the chili cook-off event that they have, Saturday, February 3rd. Second.

Second. Second. February 2nd. If that's Saturday, because it's on February 2nd.

Yeah. Well, Larry called me today. " I'm like, "Saturday? " So, it's Saturday.

Does everybody know that announcement that was put up today on Facebook was not made by the director of social media? Who made it? Oh, he made it. Phil made his own.

Phil did it. Phil made his own. Is that not supposed to make it? That's the wrong date.

I don't know. It was February 2nd. Yeah, but I thought you said Friday on the thing. I think it's a Saturday.

Oh, if it's a Saturday, then it's fine. I did make it. But if it's a Friday, it wasn't me. You got a Listener of the Week, Michael?

Do I have a Listener of the Week? John Carney, we hope you now fully understand the pregnancy situation and you are all brought up to speed there, so... Yes. You are the Listener of the Week.

Perfect. Wow. Anything else? Got any other family members pregnant or going to be or...

Is there anything you want to announce? No, I think that's it. Everybody else is fine. I think I'm good.

You want to call your mother, let's check in with your mother, see what she thinks. I'm good. Well, I feel good. I feel good where I'm at.

You feel good? Yeah. All right, this is episode 318 in Cigar Hustlers Podcast. All right.

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Show Notes

Welcome to another flavorful episode of A Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where BDP and The King dive deep into the world of premium cigars. In this week's episode, get ready for an exciting lineup of topics that will surely ignite your passion for cigars.

First on the agenda, the VEGAFINA YEAR OF THE DRAGON 2024 is making its way to the U.S., and Rocky Patel is not far behind, introducing a trio of Year of the Dragon cigars that are sure to impress. But hold onto your lighters, as ALL SAINTS announces a price increase effective February 1, 2024.

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri takes center stage as he marks his 56th birthday with the release of the KNUCKLE SANDWICH 56 CIGAR. And if you're a fan of Cuban cigars, brace yourself for the news of price hikes in 2024.

In a groundbreaking move, Rocky Patel is set to build a new factory in Nicaragua with a staggering production capacity of 60,000 cigars per day. Plus, get the latest on the collaboration between MY FATHER and TATUAJE as their joint venture, LA UNION, is about to hit the shelves.

But that's not all—AJ FERNANDEZ is joining the price adjustment trend with an increase effective February 1, 2024.

In Other News, the podcast pays tribute to the late Jesse Jane, a renowned adult film star, known for her roles in shows like Entourage and the blockbuster XXX movie Pirates. The hosts reflect on her impact beyond the adult industry

And breaking news just in—LUCIANO CIGARS and PETER JAMES CO. have announced a partnership to create PETER JAMES CIGAR CO., promising enthusiasts a new and exciting addition to the world of premium cigars

Tune in for all this and more as BDP and The King bring you the latest buzz and insights from the cigar world. Light up, relax, and enjoy another episode of A Cigar Hustlers Podcast!