Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 329 Terminator

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The Controversial, The Legendary, BDM, The Controversial, The Legendary, BDM! Yeah, I'm dead, it's my destiny, make way for the king, can't be stopped, shooting my shot, another Mike and Mike production, in 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers Podcast, episode 329. Recorded live at the Mike and Mike Production Studios in Deltona, Florida.

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Camera 2. Camera 2. Camera 2. What are you texting?

Camera 2. No, I love you more. No, I love you more. No, Greg, you came up.

No, Greg, I'm done. I'm not talking to you right now. I'm busy, I'm downstairs. So Phil's got an attitude problem today.

It's everyday. Very chippy. I put the lighter on the table in case you need a light. Oh, do you have an attitude problem?

I'm just tired. He's got an attitude that is tired. He's tired with his attitude. So, Michael.

How are you, Michael? I'm tired. You're tired? I'm always tired.

No. Did you red light? No, I didn't today. I was running a little late this morning, and when I left, we're installing a new light in the bathroom.

Is it red? No. No, it's a red light fixture to match the new black sink. Oh.

A new black light fixture. Nice. That sounds exciting. I did that this morning.

Well, you'll never remember, because you didn't have red light. Right, and so I only took the old light down. Oh. There's wall repair that has to be done.

Painting and things, because it's a different shape. Nice. Oh. So.

Where's the big lighter? Where is the big lighter? Oh, it's over there. Oh, it's over there.

Yeah. It gets taken off the table for the other show. Where's the Hellraiser Cube? I forgot about that.

Do, do, do, do, do. Ah. Thank you, Phil. That was Phil's hand, everyone.

That was Phil's hand. Very lovely hand. The hand of Phil. That's the one he holds the camera when he's dancing during his DJ thing.

Phil doesn't, Phil doesn't DJ. Oh, no, that wasn't Phil? Oh, my mistake. You're lighting with that massive thing.

It's just ridiculous. It looks great. It looks great. I installed new lights outside.

On your house? Yes. Oh, like by the door? The front door, the pathway.

Ah. The ones that I had, you hang up or whatever? Yeah, right. Well, you know how they say LED lights are going to last forever, whatever the fuck?

It doesn't work. No, they last about two or three years. Is that it? Yeah, they turn to complete shit.

Did you put like outdoor, indoor lights outside? No, they were outdoor lights. So, I started to switch them out. Wait, are these string lights?

No, it's like the lantern lights. You attach it to the wall and it's got like that lantern. The ones that I had before, they were just the LED and you couldn't replace them. So, my brother helped me install the first ones.

Well, that is your problem right there. I think so, because when I pulled one out, it was... There was 10 wires. Water had gotten into it.

Oh, of course. Even though he cocked the ever-living fuck out of his thing. He cocked it a lot. He's swinging his cock.

He's a real good cocker. He's a fucking cocking machine. Well, what Greg would do is probably eat the cocking. Yeah.

I didn't want to say the other word, but cocking. Yeah. He would eat the cock. You could say it.

You could say it. He would eat the cock as he was. Write that down. 4-11.

Perfect. Got him. 4-11. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. Look, here it is right here. He'd probably. Oh, no.

Sorry, it's not. They'd probably eat the cock. Eat the cock. So when I pulled one out, it was just rusted and shit, so obviously something had happened.

Water got behind it, apparently. Yeah. So I called my neighbor, because I haven't really talked to my neighbor a little bit. I like to bullshit with him.

" The neighbor you like? Yeah. Is this the Airbnb, or is this the other neighbor? No, this is the good neighbor.

Is there a random guy at the Airbnb you like? No. " Well, I had sold a light. Yeah, and that kind of gets sucked into him helping me.

Right, him hanging the light. And I instantly feel guilty, I'm like, that wasn't why. That's not why I called you over. That's not why I called you over.

I really just needed your support. But thank God he came over because things moved a lot faster, you know. Oh. He's definitely more seasoned and he has more tools.

Oh, more tools, yes. You couldn't borrow your wife's tools? Yeah, I didn't want to borrow my wife's tools. That's crazy.

Does she have tools? No. I feel she has tools that you don't know about. You can't touch the tools.

These are my tools. They're my tools. Why don't you touch my tools? So, got the lights installed, I mean your neighbor installed the lights, well he helped me, he did help me, but I feel bad.

Is there really room for two guys, because normally when you install a light there's not really room for two guys either, somebody's got to be doing it, somebody's just, well he's probably telling them like, hey do this, do that, yeah, we're on kind of two ladders, and you know, two ladders, yeah, nice, a little romance, yeah they're romantic, how big is this hole, that's what I mean, how big hole did Greg have to make to install this light that rusted behind, it's fucking, it's actually the front door, he built that too, It doesn't work. It was weird because when I went to go install it on with the, I don't know what the fuck it's called. The mounting plate. No, well, the electric mount, the, like, it's a thin.

The wires? Oh, the box. The electrical box. Oh, okay.

I couldn't, it wouldn't attach, it would have a big gap space. So I just removed the fucking thing and then bolted the mount right to the fucking wall. And then caulked that. You just need an extension ring.

An extension who? An extension ring for the electrical box. An extension ring? Yeah, they're like 60 cents.

I don't know if that would have worked. Well, it brings it out like another half inch? It couldn't be brought out anymore because the brace that I added to it pushed it out further. Oh, that was probably the Taiwanese box that Greg used.

You use shorter screws, maybe? No, shorter screws wouldn't. Did Greg say it's going to take a while for these boxes to show up? It's no big deal, bro.

I just fucking bolted it right to the wall. Greg said, look, I took this RC car apart and I used the electrical box from that for your lights. Dude, we're in business, man. Fuck the box, just fuck it.

You didn't put up a picture of the lights, that's what you're supposed to do. What? I actually have a picture of the lights. Oh.

Would you like it? I'd like to see it. Certainly. Oh, fuck it.

Oh, yeah, please. Well, remember, he's not telling you things before. Yeah, that's true. So the paint started to come off around it as well.

Oh, perfect. Oh, nice. Did you repair that? No, so the next project for me- Is painting the house.

Once the roof gets done, I'm going to paint the fucking house. I'll probably just paint it myself. It sounds miserable. It does sound miserable.

But painting is so fucking expensive, man. People are fucking... It is. Well, I mean, just start doing it.

You'll see why. Yeah, it's a pain in the dick. Hey, Jared, so you don't have to do it. I'll scrape the shit, I'll pressure wash it, and I'll start painting.

Oh, you're scraping? I'll start doing panels at a time. Just paint over? You can't paint over.

I already know how it's going to go. Greg is going to try to come over and paint the house. He's been dying to use his paint sprayer for some reason. He's got a paint sprayer?

Yeah. Trust me. He's going to try and do it for you. Don't let him...

I'm not doing that. I'm gonna roll it. Rolling is better. Because with a sprayer, it could get on somebody's car, you know, nearby.

Oh, nearby, the Airbnb customer. Yeah, but they charge the other people. Yeah, but that's not my problem. That's not my problem.

They're allowed anyway. I feel like if I just kind of did one panel at a time, like I scraped it, and then I pressure washed it, and then I hit it, and like I did that like once every weekend or something like that. In eight months, I would have a... It's a full white house.

They're like an 18 inch roller. White? Yeah. It goes white.

What, white and black? Yeah, white with black. Yeah. That's a new thing.

That's a thing. Yeah. It's like a Miami Deco. Yeah, there you go.

In red. And I got a flat roof, so it's gonna look very Miami Deco-y. Oh. A nice neon border around the top.

Very excited. Be nice. Well, you gotta get the lights. Neon lights.

Oh, neon lights? Okay. That'll look Miami. Like around the windows.

pink and deal yeah that'd be very Miami yes pink and blue neon cocktails and dreams that's what we're going to call it perfect I'm very excited you guys got me all fired up we had our first cameo oh yes we did I had to talk about it later I didn't know who the we was we can't say who it is because his birthday has not happened yet I forgot that we were even online. I did, too. I had deleted the app from my phone. Really?

But we got an email last week that we had three days to do it, and people are starting to recognize. Now we're rolling. We're rolling. We're in business, baby.

Better hurry and get your orders in now for the holidays. Check this out on Cameo. Thank you, John Yogerlite. Yes, hope your wife enjoys the happy birthday message.

It was super cool, man. It was. It was fun to get. Does it give you like a thing to say?

They give us intel. Yeah, it gives you intel. It gives you the person who it's for, obviously, who's doing it, and then they ask, the question is, tell us something personal about this person. Right.

And when their birthday is, that kind of stuff. Oh, they must have inputted that in. Yes, yes, the person who does it. If you don't know the people, how would you say something?

They give you a little thing. It was fun, because we couldn't figure out where to do it. We were arguing with each other. I'm like, this is fucking ridiculous.

We started fighting. We're laughing as it's going. We're having a good time. Pull it together!

Like, for fuck's sake, man. Nice. Redo it. Redo.

Redo. So. But now we're seasoned experts. Yeah, now we're fucking veterans.

I thought the cameras were off again. It's amazing. Yes. Cameos, baby.

We got the first one in the can, as they say. We broke the seal. We broke the seal. Whoever would like to have theirs next, please just jump right in.

For Mother's Day. See, Mitch Smith was smart. He'd pay 20 bucks for me to say Broadleaf is the best lead. Right.

You know? Yeah, it could be anything. And he could post that anywhere. There's even an option for a breakup message.

Yeah, we're not. Well, I mean, we could do that. We could do the breakup message. We could do the breakup message.

But there was one that was like relationship invite. There was one, yeah, relationship invite. That's a hard pass. That's a hard pass.

There was a breakup one? Yeah, there's a new thing where you can click in what you would be willing to do or talk about. Yeah. So it was a bunch of different options.

And there was a couple where like, oh, we can't do that. But imagine like, hi, I'm Mike, and I'm Mike too, and this is the Girl Houses Podcast. We just want you to know that Tim... We just want you to know, Tia, that Boots is going to leak.

That Boots... No, it would be the other way around. Oh, that's right. Boots, we just want you to know Tia is going to leak.

Boots, we just want you to know Tia is done with your bullshit and she's fucking out of here. She's out of here. So, thank you. " This has been a Cigar Hostage podcast.

You're never home and she's tired. She's tired of your weekend gallivanting. And she says, it says notes here, tell him. It says you have a small penis.

Wow. Good luck. Good luck with your ED meds. And that rash cream.

You no longer have endurance. And that rash cream. And your ALO cream for your thigh rash. Wow.

Oh. It's a good way to start a Monday. We actually, Tia, we'll do that one for free, Tia, if you want us to. She doesn't watch.

She doesn't watch. We know. That'll be the clip. 12 minutes.

That's the clip. We're way past that. Not on my clock. Is that the red light clock?

Yes. That's the red light clock. So yeah, we had football. We got our ass kicked.

We went to Fort DeSoto Park to go hang out with Alex and his fiance on Sunday. Oh, how was that? Talk about the Patreon. Oh, Patreon.

It's a long drive. Yeah, it's St. Pete. South St.

Pete. Two hours. Two and a half hours. Two and a half.

It was two hours there, 2:45 back. Sounds about right. Yeah. Sounds about Tampa, baby.

Yeah, right, exactly. You know, I love that because whenever we go to those fucking Bucs games, you know, we try, I try and leave like three or four hours in advance. Right. Because you don't fucking know.

Well, we left early on a Sunday morning, so there was no traffic on the way there. Right. But on the way back, there was a magic game we had to drive. Yeah.

Last time of the season. Yeah, baby. They blew out the bus. I think that was, that had just cleared because it was, you know, can't go downtown.

You gotta go around. Gotta take 429 and go around. Then we stopped to get gas and get a snack. And then time I got back in the car, I was like, just drive straight through.

It's fine. Yeah. Disregard. Disregard.

You'll be fine. You'll be fine. Express pass. Yeah, this is not my exit.

This is not my exit. It's a great strategy. But it's a beautiful beach over there. It really is.

But they packed the people in my Lord. Well, you're on the Gulf side. So yeah, the sand's nicer. The water's nicer.

Yeah, you could actually be two miles from the beach and still be on the beach, two miles from the ocean, that's what it seemed like. People just kept coming in and coming in and coming in, like ants. Wow, that's incredible. And there was a mass baptism going on right as we left.

A baptism? A mass baptism, they had a thousand people. In the ocean? In the gulf.

They're just dunking them on? Well, that's the ocean. They had flags all along the beach with different cities, so I guess if you go to this church, or it's all one church, but you go to this campus, you go in between these two flags. Did you guys participate?

No, I'm not allowed. I didn't get burst into flames or something. I kept telling my wife, I can baptize people. It's in my book.

I can do it. The whole point of that is to release your sins. Yeah, you're supposed to be, yeah. It cleans you.

Yeah, it's supposed to be, it's like a reset. Yeah, no, we had to talk on the way back. I'm like, I have questions. She's like, oh God, what now?

What now? We talked about it on the way home. What do you want, Mike? What's the idea of a re-baptism, honey?

I mean, you've already been forgiven once. You got to get washed off again? She goes, what is all this washing you're talking about? It's what it is.

You're washing off the sins. That's the way it works. Hey, listen, dude. Sometimes these things are good for the soul.

I've done some bad things and I'm just going to splash a little water on me. If you don't like to get wet, you go to the Catholic Church and just get in the box. Right, yeah. Well, no, they do the splashy on the head when you're baby and then you have to do the box the rest of your life.

Oh, we got the full tub in ours. There's a tub. Oh, really? A church we go to has a tub they bring in.

It's sort of like your hot tub thing you used to have. Oh, cold ones? Yeah. Oh, like that?

Yeah, like it's an inflatable. It's an inflatable one? Yeah. I thought the...

You had to put a bunch of towels under it. Yeah, that's nice. I thought the whole Fallon thing was cool. But I think when I was baptized, I was baptized with like a, it was like a bowl, like a goblet thing.

Yeah, but you're small. Full of holy water, and you take the cup and just pour it on your head. Yeah. Well, I don't think it was a cup.

I think it was just like a... Oh, it just splashed. Yeah. There you go.

We did a bulk baptism thing recently, like last year, and I got to tell you, the fucking look on Teddy's face when she got dunked, she stayed. Oh, we talked about that, yeah. " That was amazing. She, like...

It'd been so funny if you swore when you pulled her back up. Motherfucker. Listen, asshole, what is this? So we went, we go to the...

How many did my hair for an hour? So we went to the porch. That's kind of like the restaurant we go to sometimes after football games. I've heard of it.

Yeah. Brittany loves it, so I'm gonna go to the porch. Yeah. Go to the porch, make her happy.

Oh, is it down by the airport? No, it's down by Winter Park. Yeah. Okay.

Nevermind. So we go to leave and it's kind of late and my kids are obnoxious and not paying attention. I meant the city airport. That makes a difference.

No. Okay. So, and there's like two older couples that are leaving at the same time we're leaving. Right.

So all of us adults, we stop. Our kids keep going and they walk in front of them. Right. But I'm holding Teddy's hand.

So they kind of, and you could see that the old people were little peeves or whatever. And the kids all cut us off. Yeah, and I walk by, and I go, as we catch back up to them, I go, hey, you idiots, you know, pay attention, there's, you know, the old people that you're talking about. Be respectful, they're already walked past.

They're already gone. Be respectful when older people, you know, are trying to leave. Right. And Teddy looks at me, and she says, Daddy, am I an idiot, too?

And your response was. And I was like, absolutely not. No, you're perfect. Just the boys are idiots.

Just the boys are idiots. That's right, Daddy, they're idiots. Bubbles, kill the idiots! Bubbles, kill the idiots.

Kill the idiots. So yeah, that was pretty fantastic. Is he still going after Jess's? Bubbles?

A little bit. You know, so I learned a little more backstory as to why he doesn't go after him. He doesn't go after him. Right.

Okay. So there's this game that we play. I don't know if I ever spoke of this game. I don't know.

What is the game? Chase Jesses? Yeah, everybody after Jesses. It's called Ninja.

" Okay. " Okay. It's fantastic. Right?

He's playing with the dog. He's playing with the fucking dogs. No wonder the dog don't like it. Yeah, so he's jumping out and scaring the piss out of the guard dog.

Oh. " Yeah, the dog never did. Is that the only people he can scare are the dogs? No, he scared me a couple of times.

Oh. So, I've been working on that. I worked on it today, or this weekend. Right.

Yeah. So, Bubbles. Don't yell the dog. No, no.

So, he went to go hug him, Bubbles growled at him, I fucking jab Bubbles right in the throat. " And he's like, "Oh, God. " Can't you teach the kid not to scare the dog? All he was doing was hugging him.

Yeah, but it's the other stuff. I don't give a shit. I don't care if my kid pulls on the dog's tail. Don't growl at my fucking kid.

Look, I love, I love my dog. I love, well, you love the kids more, obviously. He's an amazing dog, he's fucking the best dog I've ever had. He snaps at my fucking kids, I'm an old yeller that son of a bitch out back, we're not, and there'll be no questions asked.

You're gonna have to pick, you pick the children, they're the humans. I will fucking mentally traumatize my kids, they will see it through the window. You ripped the hair off the cloud. Old yeller.

That's it, you're done buddy. Old yeller. Is this like one of those ongoing games in life? The dog's in heaven going, he yelled "Ninja" again, I didn't know what to do.

What was I supposed to do? " Instead of her, instead of her, I mean. Is this like one of those ongoing games forever in life? Yeah.

Like that movie Tag? Pretty much. Oh. Yeah, it goes on forever.

Oh. So you're gonna be like, well, you don't think you're gonna live past 60, so you're gonna be like 60. I think 69. Okay, you're gonna be 69, and that's gonna be the heart attack.

Yeah. " But he didn't say it before he died. " Yeah, I fucking told you guys. I told you, that's why I growled with the kid!

He'd be long gone by then. 30 years from now? Yeah. I don't know, man.

Some of these dogs I've seen lately, they're fucking surpassing some years. I had a Ridgebag Mix who hated being in the crate. Really? When he was in the crate, he would go to attack you and everything.

Yeah. So after I got divorced from Connor's mother, the second one, I found out her son when he was little used to terrorize the dog when he was in the crate. Like him and his friends would come over and just beat on the crate and stuff. Nobody ever told me, I always felt bad about the dog.

Right, makes sense. Yeah. The dog will tell you the dog. " Right.

Yeah. Kids. Kids. It's fucking kids.

I swear to God. He's got the mask and either he likes it or it's done. No, we're just gonna leave that going. I'll just prepare.

So. Yeah. So we had a rough, we had a rough couple games. The Pats game.

Oh, you're back to playing? Yeah. The Pats game, actually, you know, for one practice and kids not playing, we actually played really well. Jax's team.

Is that the name of the team? The Pats? Yeah. Jax's team, the Bucs.

Oh my goodness, they were terrible. That's the same team it was last year? A lot of them, yeah. Oh, are you, which, are you coaching both teams?

Yeah, I'm assistant coaching on both teams. And basketball. Right now. So, but I love these guys, you know, and the offensive coach, he's my buddy.

Like we are fucking, we're pals. So, you know, but he freaks out a little bit. He was, shit started going sideways. He's like, we dropped down to Silver League.

And he's like, I will not. Oh, not Silver League. Yeah. It's like, because we lost a couple of our primary guys.

So he says, I will not coach if we lose every single game at Silver League. I'm done. So I'm like. Is that the lowest level silver?

Is there like bronze? No, it's just silver. Is it just gold or silver? Yeah.

Okay. Trying to follow the story for everyone at home. You're welcome. I was texting him later.

I was harassing him. I was like, the best part for me was that you were pouting like a five year old saying that you were going to quit. Aww. She tried to ninja him every once in a while.

Ninja! Right. Just in the middle of the game. In the middle of the game.

You got to say it. I got you. I got you. Na, na, na, na, na.

Do you have a whistle? You know, I have a machine whistle. What does that mean? But I can't find it.

What's a machine whistle? Whistles for you? Yeah, you push a button. So he doesn't have to blow it.

Yeah. Did too much work? I like to yell a lot. Well, he's not the head coach yet.

I like to yell. So it's nice to have it in my head. So you yell as you're blowing the whistle? I like doing push-ups.

Dude, the practices look so good, too. These kids are fucking lit up on practice. " Well, you didn't have the whistle, coach. Yeah, you're right.

I must just make them do push-ups on the field when they drop balls. Oh, what do you think? Yeah. Great idea.

Up-downs. Right then. Yeah. One, two, three, four, five.

Bang them out. Right. I think that'd be great. They can do up-downs so they get dirty.

Kids don't like that. I get dirty for no reason. Because I got in trouble. Right.

So, that's my life. And I had an AC guy redo some ducks in my house this weekend. Oh, wow, you were very busy. They were not happy.

Why were they not happy? Because he has 12 inches of attic. Yeah, because there's 18 inches of crawl space. Yeah, there's no crawl space.

Yeah. But they did it. I thought you were going to do that once the roof gets ripped off. Yeah, well, the way that it's kind of formulated...

You don't know when that roof thing is going to happen. We got to go ahead and do it. Just do it. Is it better?

It's hard to say. It's hard to say. Too early? Yeah.

The box needs to be replaced too. Like the box from the... Yeah. Portal.

But in order to do that, you gotta cut, gotta cut the ceiling. So... Oh. Disaster.

Disaster. A lot of work. But the lights are up. Oh, they're good, yeah.

They're very lit up outside, but you guys are hot in the house. That's lovely. Are they waterproof? Yeah.

Perfect. Good. Very exciting. Are you ready for Phil's Fun Facts?

Yeah, let's move on. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers' Podcast Feature, Phil's Fun Facts. Hello, peoples. Yeah, this is a long one.

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This means that throughout the year, daily gain changes. During the winter, on good winter forages... All right, just wrap that up, just wrap it up. And the, and the basic, I don't know, I don't know, breakdown of this whole thing, just what that was.

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I love when he does "The Dirty Ones". Alright, you ready? You wanna do that now? The Dirty Ones?

Okay, sure. Do you wanna call? Yeah, go ahead. Alright.

Is this on the regular show? Yes, this is. So we have a, yeah, we have a major, a major announcement. Major, major celebrity.

Not the, the corner. No, no, no, no. Jack's Corner. Two, two please.

Hello? Hello? Hello, is this Jack Taranio? How you guys doing?

We're fine, how are you? We heard that there's a major celebrity and he wants to get involved in the cigar industry. Oh. He wants to make an outfit on our show.

Yeah. Isn't there always a major celebrity wanting to get involved? Well, that's true. That's true.

But this is pretty high. But this is one with Espinosa cigars. Yeah, this is pretty big. This is a big deal.

Well, I could tell you about it or I could get him on the podcast. I think, let's get him on the podcast. That'd be fantastic. That'd be great.

He happens to be there. Please be Alfredo. Let me get him on. Let me get him on.

- You guys hang on one second, okay? - All right. - Okay. - Let's check.

- This is gonna be amazing. - Three-way calling? - I don't know. Linking them in.

- Just answers right away. - This is riveting podcasting here. - It's fantastic. - Oh, this is gonna be riveting.

- I've been looking forward to this all week. - It's Monday. - He's probably not answering. - It's not available.

- Must be busy doing push-ups or something. Drinking Protein Smokes, eating the entire egg with the shell. Are you guys there? Yes.

Arnold? Oh my god. What the fuck do you want? Hey!

Arnold Schwarzenegger! What's up, buddy? How are you? I'm fantastic.

How are you guys today? Doing well. We're doing well. We heard you're getting into the cigar industry.

What was that? Heard you're getting into the cigar industry. That's fantastic, right? It's going to be awesome.

Yeah, what are you- I can't wait to work with Espinosa. Yeah. It's going to be fantastic. Who am I speaking with today?

This is, this is Mike and Mike from a Cigar Hustlers podcast. Oh, Mike. That's right. The only guy out there who's got a name harder to say than mine.

That's right. That is him. That is correct. That is correct.

So- How do you say your name? How do you say it? Say it for me right now. Szczepon Kiewicz.

What? Szczepon Kiewicz. - Yeah, I'm not going to fucking try and say that, that's bullshit. - So you've been a big cigar smoker your whole life, right?

- That's right, since I came out of the womb, I've been smoking cigars every fucking day. - And what type of cigar are you making, do you know? - Well, I'm going to work very closely with them, and I'm thinking about doing something called the Terminator, because of course, right? " And I'm like, do I need to go over there and choke your fucking neck out and make you realize that it's going to be called a Terminator?

I love that. That's a great name for a cigar. Yeah, yeah. It's going to be a 10 by 100, and if you're not a pussy, you can smoke it, or you can always hit someone over the head with it.

It's whatever you want to do. This is amazing. This is fantastic. It is fantastic.

So after that, are you going to make any other ones, or is that it? We're just focusing on Terminator? We're going to do the Terminator 2, and it's going to be even better than the Terminator 1, it's going to be a 12 by 120, and again, you cannot be a pussy, you're going to buy it, and you're going to smoke it like a fucking man. I love that.

And we're going to do some pussy sizes too, we might do a Toro, might do a Robusto, I don't know yet. Okay, that's fantastic. So have you talked with Eric at all about this? What kind of an impression do you get about Eric Espinosa?

You know, what kind of person is Eric? Oh, boy. Oh, Erik is the fucking best, man. He's one of those guys out there that's like, he knows what he wants.

He's not a girly man. He's not afraid to go out there and be aggressive and take what he wants. And I love that about him. Okay, excellent.

Excellent. Maybe you weren't gonna go hard in the paint on Erik, huh? Yeah, I was waiting for him. Interesting.

Interesting, Arnold. I saw that you did an interview with my boy the other day, Guy Fieri. - I did. - Yes.

- Yeah. Yeah, you were over there asking him pussy questions with the little noodle arms waving around. You don't even have any good questions for him? What the hell?

- Yeah, no good questions. I was just so scared. I was so nervous. Very intimidated.

- Yeah, he's very intimidated. - Yeah, I'm a girly man. I'm very weak. - That's fantastic.

At least you admitted you're not a pussy that way. - Yeah, of course. You gotta embrace it. You know what I'm saying?

- You got to embrace the pussiness. And you guys, I'm just fucking with you. You've got some nice arms. You probably work out a lot, right?

Of course, man. Of course. A few days a week. Yeah, you got to do this.

Do I need to go over there and then wake you up one day and motivate you like, "Get the fuck out of bed! Stop being a pussy! Go pull it! Do more!

" I need the pump. Do more. I need to get the pump. You gotta pump it up, yeah.

Exactly. I would love that. Yeah, we should work out together. When are we going to work out?

Haha, I'm going to bury you. I'm going to be in the fucking ground if you work out with me. You can't keep up with this, I'm like a million years old, but look at me, it's fantastic. You're like 110, Arnold, I feel like I can hold my own.

Then fuck you, there's no way you're going to hold your own against this, it's me, there's nobody out there like me, and that's why this cigar is going to be fantastic, and that's why I'm working with Eric, because he's fantastic, it's going to be the best cigar in the world. All right, how about Jack, what do you think of Jack? Yeah, what do you think of Jack Taranio? I love Jack.

Jack is awesome. I could bench-press him, but it's fine. Oh, wow. What about Hector?

Can you bench-press him? Hector is the guy that does it all, right? I mean, he does all the blending. He's a small little guy, and I could probably throw him, like, 20 feet, but it's fine.

I love Hector. There's got to be somebody you can tell. Did you try his Sumatra cigar? Oh, what am I afraid of?

What do you think about Hector's other Sumatra cigar? I love the Sumatra cigar. That's it huh, well, what about Richie? You know Richie?

Anything good to say or bad to say about Richie? Nah, fuck that guy. There he goes. Nah, fuck that guy.

What about Tyler Jones? What do we think about Tyler? Tyler Jones is a fucking beast. You can't mess with that guy.

He's out there, he's working hard every day, he needs to work on his hair a little bit, like, you know, either shave it off and be a man or stop wearing the fucking hats. I don't know what he's going to do there. Maybe hit the gym a little bit, get some pushups in or something. He's definitely got to hit the gym.

But he's working towards it. He's not a super girly man. All right. Well, Arnold, thanks so much for coming on.

We're sure you're very busy. We appreciate you taking the time. For giving us the exclusive. We look forward to this.

We're excited about the Terminator Cigar. It's going to be fantastic. Thank you so much, Arnold. Hey, Arnold, before you go, will you say, "I'll be back"?

I'll be back. He didn't like that. All right. Thanks, Arnold.

And thanks, Jack. All right, guys. All right, take it easy. All right, there you go.

Nobody else is going to get that interview but us. Not a single person will get that interview. It's exclusive. Exclusive interview.

Amazing. A lot of good sound bites there. Yeah. The Terminator.

Terminator. Huh? James Cameron. Somebody would name a cigar I'll be back or something.

What's better than a Terminator? Yeah, but Terminator is a good name. If he was gonna do a three, I was gonna go, well, the third movie wasn't really that good, so. Wow.

Maybe stick with one and two. Ouch. The third one wasn't that good? I don't remember.

The second one was really good. The second one was good. I like more like The Last Action Hero. Oh, what a terrible movie.

Really? Yeah. You didn't like Last Action Hero? I thought it was a good movie.

It's rated as like, wait, is that the one where he was in the movies? Yeah. Yeah, that's rated as like one of the worst movies ever made. He wore like the dope, tan, brownish jacket.

Yeah, yeah, that jacket. I thought it was great. The gun. What about The Kindergarten Cop?

Oh, yeah. That's a good movie. Yeah. True Lies.

Oh, we should have actually hit a tumor. It's not a tumor. It's not a tumor. Yeah.

Yeah, True Lies is a good movie. I like that one. We could always have Arnold back on again. Sure, yeah.

He's easily accessible. He's very accessible though. Yes, yes. We should get his number direct.

Yeah. We don't have to go through jazz. And say, Arnold! Arnold!

Ooh, what'd you snort? All right, news. Let's get into the news. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need.

The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Toon. Altonish USA partners with Kentucky Derby for a Romeo and Julieta 1875 run by the roses. Wow, you just got that. What?

I just got that press release today. Oh, it was their Saturday, actually. Oh. This year will mark the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.

In the Kentucky Derby, now there's an official cigar or two to celebrate. As part of the milestone celebration, Altidus USA will release the Romeo and Julieta 1875 Run for the Roses, a pair of Dominican cigars that are being made in partnership with Churchill Downs and Liquor Barn, a chain of stores in Kentucky that sell alcohol and cigars. Well, sense, I guess. Yeah.

According to a report from Cigar Aficionado, there will be two sizes, an Exhibition No. 3, a 6x50 for $20, and the Churchill, Richel Downs, obviously, 7x50 for $25. So those are the only places you can get it? That is the only places you can get it.

Wow. The actual racetrack or the liquor store. Exclusive. Yes.

I'll see, the number three is 2,000 boxes, sold beginning this weekend at Liquor Barn Stores, both the exhibit, the, how do you say exhibit in Spanish? I'm having a hard time pronouncing it. Exhibito? Yes, Exhibito.

We'll go with Exhibito. Exhibit up number three, the Churchill will be offered during Derby weekend, the Kentucky Oaks takes place on May 3rd, and the Kentucky Derby on May 4th, but the Churchill will only be sold at the racetrack. Wow. The report says the cigars are a tweaked version of the Romeo and Juliet 1875 blend, an Indonesian wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

They are produced at Tablicalera de Garcia in the Dominican Republic. And when I say tweaked, I mean, it's in a tube. Yeah. It's in a tube.

It's in the exact same cigar. Tweaked. Just a little. We tweaked it.

What we did was we put a different band on it. We put it in a different tune. Other than that, it may be the same. It's practically the same thing.

14 cities filed a lawsuit against Ohio's new tobacco preemption law. Really? Early this year, the Ohio General Assembly passed a law that prevents cities and counties from enacting their own tobacco regulations that are stricter than the state laws. Oh.

Ohio's such a pain in the ass to work with. Wait, wait, wait. So they're making it harder to smoke. The state has passed a law that says the cities cannot pass a law that is stricter than our laws that we already passed.

Hey, you can't do that. You can't do that. Makes sense? Right.

I get it. Phil looks bewildered. No, I understand, but is it hard to smoke in Ohio? I don't think that it's hard.

There's a tax thing or something. I can tell you this. I can tell you that we have to report to them all the time with our wholesale transactions and shit, and it's just so fucking obnoxious. Ah, it's part of a year-long battle about whether flavored tobacco sales would be banned in Ohio.

Okay. So the city can't say it's banned if the state says it isn't banned, or vice-versa. So isn't that a federal thing? Like, so we're bored, so we're...

Yeah. What the fuck, man? Right. There is now another chapter in the battle, as 14 cities have filed a legal challenge to the law.

If they are successful, those... Oh, my wife loves me, I just can text myself. Oh, that's so nice. If they are successful, those cities would be able to introduce their own laws.

A collection of 14 cities, Columbus... Oh, there's a big list in there. They're all Tyler Jones' cities. They have the authority to...

Does he do Ohio? I don't think he does Ohio. I don't think he goes that far. Minnesota.

Yeah, he doesn't go that far east. " It's fine. It's fine. Jennifer True joins Fratello.

Oh. Jennifer True is the new VP of Marketing and Operations for Fratello Cigars. Tru spent four years at Altidus, most recently a senior director of marketing and assistant Fratello at last month's PCA convention or trade show, and was appointed to the formal position on April 1st. Oh.

I looked at my camera and it wasn't on. Yeah. Okay. We are thrilled to welcome Jennifer Tru to Fratello Cigars Family as our new vice president of marketing and operations said, Omar De Vries, the very tall rocket scientist that is the founder of Fratello in a press release.

The guy who shoots the ghost all the time. I'm honored to join the Fratello Cigar team. It's as exciting chapter as we continue to engage enthusiasts with our unique take on premium cigar brand experiences, said true. Very exciting stuff.

Very exciting. Is this like a thing? Did Coop cover that? He has not up to this date.

Oh. I'm watching. We're watching. But it's a VP.

VP is different than a director. I actually looked up to see what the difference was between the two. So director is okay? No, no.

Coop does not cover director. It's VP and up. Okay, so he would have covered this? Yeah, I guess possibly, yes.

But he just didn't feel like covering it? I guess not. Obviously nobody told Coop. It's marketing.

It probably could have been, you know. Do you want to call? Let's call Coop. Oh, yes.

I'm going to call Coop and ask him if he's going to report. Oh, he wants to be called. Yeah, because this is a great one. Tell him we have Jennifer True on the phone.

She wants to talk to him about her promotion. I'll act like Jennifer. Okay. He's not going to answer.

He's got to be working. Hello. Perfect. It's Monday, he wanted to be on the list.

He said he said he's ready. Your call has been forwarded to an automated voicemail system. That is, he sent a voicemail noise. That's it, now you're off the island.

That was it, buddy. You go back to the bottom of the list. You had your shot. Please call me on Monday.

Number one podcast. We were trying to get you a little air time and help your, you know, your show. I want to get your intel on where you draw the line. Jennifer True.

Maybe he draws the lines as a woman. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe sexist?

Yeah, could be. It's very possible. Very possible. Strong possibility.

Strong possibility. Arturo Fuente from Dream to Dynasty Collection shipped as part of his 110th anniversary celebration. Arturo Fuente commissioned two different books to be written about the company and the Fuento fame, and the Fuento. The Fuento.

The Fuentos. That's Spanish. They live next door to the Flintstones. You know what, we're gonna, we're gonna come out with the Fuentos.

The Fuentos? Yeah, that was Spanish. The Fuento, Fuento, Ipes, Z. Window Window IPC, that's perfect.

Both books are written by Aaron Sigmund and published by Ashuline, with the first Arturo Fuente from Dream to Dynasty launching in late 2022, all the year, uh, so that thing you got, does it have books in it? It's got a book in the middle, yeah. And that's this book. Well, there's two books.

Yeah, there is two books. This one's a little bit smaller. They previewed a new cigar sampler around one of the two books. This week, the collection began heading to stores around the Arturo Fuente from Dream to Dynasty collection contains Arturo Fuente from Dream to Dynasty, one of those two books.

As well as 22 cigars that are made by Arturo Fuente. Right. The cigars are packed in two different 11-count boxes, all three items are placed in a large box, which depicts an Arturo Fuente. Right.

Some of the cigars include a regular production items, others are harder to find cigars, like the BBMF. What is this? Big bad motherfucker. Yeah.

He doesn't talk that way. Carlito? He does, he's got all the, like, he's got some of the rare pinks are called, like, hookers and shit. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, that's right. Stinky, or not Stinky Pinky. Yep, they're called that too. Yeah, this one, yeah.

Clean the lines, whether it's like the Opus X 25 are nearly impossible to find. Interesting that not all the cigars are Arturo Fuente products. Ooh, Fuente. C.

Newman, Prometheus, all of which are made by Fuente. Fuente. Arturo Fuente. The Arturo Fuente from Dream Designs collection is an MSRP of $2,200 before tax.

There are 1,500 samplers produced, roughly 1,000 of them are heading to stores in the USA. We have 500 of them. We have 7,000 of them. Oh.

com. For those of you wondering about the book, it's physically smaller and less expensive than the- The original, yeah. Yes. The book was hand-bound and contained luxury finishes that individual cigar bands placed on pages in the book is an MSRP of, guess how much the book costs by itself?

Five grand. Would you like to- $1,200. Oh, you read the password. That's exactly, exactly- I remember that.

I vaguely remember that from last year. Ah, I got 1,200 bucks. So for just the book, but it's got pictures of cigars in it. It's got pictures of rare cigars in the book.

I'm going out right now. Listen, listen, you can roll the pages and smoke them like cigars. Look, Robby would. Allegedly.

The fact of the matter is in today's world, if you're going to drop 80 to 100 G's on a non-tangible fucking whatever. Oh, that's true. You actually get to hold the book. You get paper for the 1,200.

So, is this an NFT? No, it's an actual book. You get the book. Non-fungible, tangible, whatever the thing I'm finding.

Yeah, but you don't have to buy the book to get the cigars. The book is... No, no, you can buy just the book. Last year, they released just the book.

Okay. This year, they released a smaller version of the book in a set with 12 cigars or some shit. 22. Hard to get cigars.

22 cigars. Two packs of 12 or whatever. Right. Well, that doesn't make sense, but okay.

Well, two packs of 11 would make sense. All right. Maybe it's 11. Two packs of 11.

Well, that kind of... Okay. Hold on a second. Is there doubles of a cigar in there?

No, no, no. It's telling the story of Fuente. Oh, through the years. Yeah, with all of their...

With the cigars. With all their, you know, high-end shit. Right. Like, here's a picture of the Opus X, and here is an Opus X.

So they're not just all hard to get cigars. Like, some of them you could still obtain. Like the Ashton. Some of them, but not all of them.

Right. Well, I was just thinking, because they just released that Impossible 13 not too long. The year prior, and that was less cigar. That's 13 cigars.

More money. This is more cigars. So there's additional ones that you can't get to. So that is an impossible toy, too.

com. So go right ahead and fucking buy them, please. Go right ahead and get them right now. See, that's why I pulled the story, Mike.

Yeah, thanks so much. Fratello Ships Concealed Carry 18th Amendment. With Jennifer True. We're doing a whole amendment series here.

The first two blended Fratello's Concealed Carry sub-brand is off to stores. It's called 18th Amendment. Did you see that one of the images originally had the image of prohibition that Skip used for- I heard about it, I didn't see it. Wait, this is Fratello?

Yes. I thought it was Bravada. No, Fratello. Bravada is having a different problem with Skip.

Oh, yes. Yeah, there was a bunch of things. So, there's two people now. No, there was three, actually, because Davidoff made the monolith.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Somebody else released a dragon. Another dragon?

Another dragon. Is it called the Gurkha dragon? No, he just completely copied them, right? Made by Davidoff.

The tongue of the dragon. We're going to call this one Gurkha. Gurkha. Right, we're calling it the mother of all dragons.

The mother of all dragons. We're going to get a steak knives of it. The concealed carry brand will eventually consist of six blends, each in the same five and a half but fifty-four patola, and each with its own individual branding. The cigars are being made in undisclosed factories in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

So everywhere they make cigars. We're not telling you. We're not telling you where they are. Fratello says only 75 stores will carry the concealed carry lines.

The next batch is scheduled to be shipped to stores in early June 2024. It's going to be 24. Somebody got mad at me on one of the interviews, because one of the information that we did, like, the binder is designed, well, we were explaining what it was, designed to hold the cigars together. Can you tell me more than that?

I'm like, dude, I don't know, man, sometimes I get bored. Like... Oh, who'd you do that with? That was the...

The interviewer you got mad, or somebody listening? No, somebody listening. So what the fuck is that? I'm like, look, man, I'm sorry.

Oh, so anyway, Pete from Tatuaje was just on smoking tobacco. Oh, really? Yeah. What'd he say?

I didn't watch it. He was there. He was there. So how'd you get in the cigar industry?

Right. I don't know. I logged in enough so I could say hi, and then I... Hey, it's me.

Hey! Oh, baby, and then I'd leave. So now there's multiple people making this prohibition type... Cigar.

Amendment cigars are a thing now. Yeah. I just don't understand that. I thought that was something that was...

Well, Skip and Mike are having such luck with it. Now somebody else is doing it, too. Allegedly. Well, what are you gonna do, man?

You know? What are you gonna do? We have McDonald's. We got the Big Mac.

We got the Big Mac, right. We've got the Second Amendment. They've got the 18th Amendment. They're on the 18th.

Eladio Diaz, before and after, begin shipping today. Eladio. Eladio Diaz, first regular production line called Before and After. It's on its way to stores today after making its debut at the PCA Convention to Trade Show last month.

Before and After is a blend that features an Ecuadorian Corojo wrapper, Dominican Habano 2000 binder, And all the Dominican filler that contains Havana. Was he at the show? Apparently. We can't pick that motherfucker up in a lineup.

I don't know what that looks like. " Hey, Eladio! Holy shit, let's get a picture of Eladio. Right.

This is a guy I've really been wanting to hear or see. Right. Because you guys talk about him all the time. We looked up last year, the year before, we saw a picture of him.

He's a very tall, slender man. Is he? Yes. I can't even remember that.

Like Gomez? -Who's Gomez? -Lito, Lito, Lito, Lito. -Oh, Lito Gomez?

-Tony Gomez? -I think he's taller than me. -Tony Gomez is fuckin' John Wick at this point. -He looks straight out of...

-Oh, more like a Caldwell? -Yeah, like Robert, but older, older. -I just wanna know, like, gunfire, I'm going to Tony. -Alright.

-That guy's, he's gotta be equipped for it, you know? -Alright. -Sleep back here. -All I gotta say is, kill Tony's dog and let's see what the fuck happens, you know what I mean?

Shit's going sideways, we're eliminating the entire cigar industry. Oh. Perfect. I'm humbled to invite you to live this unique experience with a blend of tobaccos that represent my before, when I was employee of a cigar factory, and my after, seeing my children keeping alive the legacy of what has become labor of love for me, said Eladio Diaz in a press release.

Eladio. Arango Cigar Company is handling sales. Arango? A-R-A-N-G-O.

Arango. Arango. See, they put an O on the end. Arango?

Yes. Arango. No, it's Arango. No, no, no.

Ringo is the drummer from the Beatles. Ringo? It was actually a wrong, but now they put an O for Spanish. They're handling sales and distribution of the line.

The company also distributes the Eladio Diaz 70, a limited edition that came out last year on his birthday. Eladio. We're still waiting for our birthday cigars, Eladio. It's never happening.

All right, we have a Florida story. I don't think I've ever seen a cigar from Eladio. We've had them up there. Have we?

Yeah. We had some. They were overpriced. Not the birthday.

It was the Agape. That was what it was. That was Agape. Agape.

Agape. Agape. Women claims God told her to shoot drivers because of the eclipse, Florida Troopers says. I saw this story.

It was the eclipse. Talyn Nichelle Celestine, 22 of Georgia, was arrested on several charges in Bonafide, Florida. A woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, then shot two drivers on Interstate 10 before being arrested and charged with attempted murder. William did murder Monday.

What's wrong with people? According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Taylor Celestine, 22 of Georgia, entered the highway 115 miles from the Alabama border in the Florida Panhandle and was headed west. Oh shit, I was just on that road. Exactly.

That's where there is a bulletin story. Holy moly. Just so some of you people at home are listening, this is a backwoods Georgia city. Yes.

Not city, town. Town. That drinks Kool-Aid. Obviously.

Right. She went to Florida to shoot the people. Right. All right.

I'm getting the hell out of this state. Within five miles, she fired into a passing car several times, spraying auto glass and grazing the driver in the arm, and the department said in a statement. She then fired on a second vehicle, hitting the driver in the neck. The driver was injured and treated at a hospital.

Troopers stopped the woman after she drove for about another 16 miles and found her with an AR-15 rifle and a 9mm handgun. She was arrested and booked into the Holmes County Jail. She was charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, with a A Deadly Weapon, and Improper Discharge of a Firearm. I don't even know why they put those last two charges, because the first one, she's gone.

She's gone. Yeah, we're going to do an improper discharge of a firearm because you missed. She goes to a fucking psych ward. She doesn't.

Oh, yeah, she's not seeing time. Yeah, that bitch is grabbing her shit and slinging it across the room. There's no way that she goes to a regular prison. Right.

That's fucking crazy. I have to take a drink. We have one more thing. Uh-oh.

Keep that cup away. It needs to be distant. Yeah, Phil gets mad when he gets in my cup. He feels very angry.

The Sins of Fina Cigar was rated by Brooks from Half Whale and received an 88 rating. Really? Yes, it was just published this morning. Oh, nice.

Yes. Brooks ended the review with: "This is a tale of two different profiles. All three cigars feature very similar flavors as part of their main profile, consisting of almond, cedar, floral notes. " Inde?

Inde? Inde. I think it's supposed to be Inde. Inundated.

Inundated. With a massive cotton candy sweetness on the retro hill that the other two cigars completely lacked. While the first cigar was one of the best I've smoked so far this year, the other two were no slouches, and the collective total is a very solid debut release for the brand. I agree.

Yes, congratulations. Good job, Brooks. Thanks, man. To Sam and Rosie.

Do you think Brooks needs cotton candy? I would like some of the cotton candy cigars if they still have some. If they have more cotton candy cigars, I would like cotton candy cigars. well that's nice that's very nice brooks was very nice to be pca yes yes is this the gentleman that a while back wrote that one review skating report about uh about phil and that guy in the bathroom oh yes that was him no that was palmer oh i wrote the review about i wrote the guy that it wasn't brooks and it was somebody else that wrote it there brian maybe it was brian remember Do you remember they gave you like that weird review a while back?

I don't think Brian does reviews. It's Brooks, Charlie-- Patrick, Patrick. Oh, Patrick. That's who it was, yeah.

Patrick gave me one really good one. Did he? And then he walked it back. He, I continued to meet.

Yeah. That's the way it works. I think it was right when the Connecticut first came out, wasn't it? I don't remember.

I don't remember. So many reviews. So little time. So much hate.

Well, we like Brooks. So little time. I like all the guys at Half Wheel, I even like Patrick, he's a really nice guy. Oh, good.

Did Charlie come to, um... He popped in at the end. He popped in at the end. He had a family thing, for every league excuse.

I saw him just enough for him to make some kind of snide comment to me as I was scooting by in my fucking scooter. Oh, surprise, that wasn't covered as part of the, uh, PCA. What? Mike Steppon-Cabbage scooter right on Twitter.

Yeah. Picture of you. In scooter. It's too late now, can't press release.

Yeah. It's done. Nah, I don't know what press release is. Alright, you got a Listener of the Week, Michael?

I don't have a Listener of the Week. You have one job, one job, but just show it, Michael. I do? Yes.

Listener of the Week? Listener of the Week? Listener of the Week's Jack Taranio. Obviously Arnold Schwarzenegger's been listening.

Oh, yes, Listener of the Week, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shop of the Week? That was not really Arnold. Arnold's...

That was Arnold. I have to disclose it's not really Arnold. No, that was Arnold. We put it in the description of the show.

The not really Arnold? Yeah, they have to read that part. Oh, okay. Why do we still pull it off?

They're not really doing that. And I did not do the press release, Jack, as you requested. They're not really doing that. Yeah, movie magic, movie magic.

They're not really doing that. You think when they do Sesame Street, they say there's somebody inside the Big Bird costume? There's nobody inside Big Bird. Well...

It's not a real bird. Well, I mean, if Big Bird got upset about it, then you have to tell Big Bird. Oh, that's the whole problem. He's not like you.

We're not that big a show. We're big enough for something. Somebody's gonna tell him. Yeah.

Somebody's gonna tell Jack? I mean, you know. I'm always going to tell Arnold. They told, uh, you know what the Mel Diaz thing to Mr.

Hoover, so it could be. Please God tell Arnold. Record it. Yeah, please God.

We, we have never received a cease and desist, so, you know, we're looking for, we have a frame right here on the wall. Can't wait to get that email and phone number. We're looking for our first one, could be you, Mr. Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger-O. Might as well aim high. Schwarzenegger-O. Hey, you know what?

Arnie, Arnie, Schwarzenegger-O. There you go. Twenty percent. Twenty percent.

We're good. Twenty percent. All right. You got anything else, Michael?

I have a shop of the week. Oh, I already asked you. You said no. You said do I.

No, you had a retail. We're going to hell. Wow. I just turned it.

I turned it. That's it. You got a shop of the week. Cigars for you.

You have cigars for me? Cigars for you. Oh, nice. I have cigars for you, too.

Oh, that's nice. What is cigars? Where is this? Houston, Texas.

You got a lot of us. Oh, cigars for me. Cigars for you. That's what I said.

Cigars for me. Cigars for you. Oh, in Houston, Texas. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. All right. There you go.

New Powstanie account. Oh, nice. Nice. That's right.

So, Mike will not be here next week. He is going to Nicaragua. Nicaragua. I am.

So, what day do you leave? Oh, you leave on the weekend? Yeah. This morning, then you come back on Thursday?

Uh-huh. Oh. You leave this weekend? This weekend.

Yeah. Oh. Isn't he going to be surprised? If he's going to let me show next week, he just won't be here.

Because normally, you know, we're going to record it. I'd like to be a part of it still. We're going to make that work. Oh, from there?

Yeah. Okay. When do you want to do it? I don't know.

Monday. How do you know where you're going to be? Oh, you mean you want to record it there and then send it to him? No, I'll be on.

No, no, he'll call in. Yeah. Oh, okay. He can call in or FaceTime me or whatever.

I don't know. He wants to check up. He's nervous. We need to figure out how to do that.

We can just FaceTime him in the roadcaster. It doesn't do video, Mike. Yeah, I don't have to do video, I can just be talking. Oh.

Yeah. Oh, you mean because you have to, you can't physically call? Yeah. Oh.

Mm-hmm. We can call on Facebook. Facebook thing or whatever. I'm in the factory.

Is that where you'll be Monday? Aren't you spending some time on the mountain with the monkeys? Yes, I'll be with the monkeys at first. Oh.

I would rather do it from the monkeys. I'm gonna hang out with Buster. Oh, I'm with Buster on the show. You can't have your phone inside the factory?

What? Sure you can't. You said you'll be in the factory. Yeah, yeah.

He wants to do it in the factory. I want you to do it from Skip's house. Probably do it from the factory. I want to hear how the factory sounds.

What's it sound like? I don't know. That's what I'm saying. Spanish music playing in the background.

Is it? Is the guy reading the newspaper like in the old days? Do they listen to like regular Spanish music or is it like... Like Bad Bunny or some shit?

Can they listen to Cigar Hustler Podcast when you're there? Can I do what? Can they listen to Cigar Hustler Podcast? You know, I can tell you this, that normally when I travel, there's a, there, it happens.

It plays in the background, Skip's listening to it, and then I get critiqued the whole time. Oh! I can't wait for him to hear the Arnold Schwarzenegger. I really wish you would have did this.

You missed a really good opportunity at that point where you could have said that. Oh. I talked to him all the time, Skip. He just won't listen.

I'm very sorry, Skip. I'm very sorry. I'll do better. Yeah, don't be sorry.

Do better. Yeah, it's rule number one. Don't be sorry. Be better.

Sure. So Skip will be on then, too. I said that to Saka too. I said, we have a rule in this house.

Yeah, he's on there. Yeah, rule number one. So Skip will be on too. On what?

The show. It depends upon where we do it. Well, you're going to be with him no matter what, right? If I call like 11, I'm not with Skip.

11 in the morning? No, he'll be sleeping. Yeah, he's not sleeping. He's in bed.

We'll do it earlier. I can get here early. What's the time difference? No, he gets up later.

Yeah, but catch him when he's still up. m.? Okay, well, yeah, I'm up too. What's the time difference?

Just an hour back. Oh, so if we're here doing this normal time. Skip will be there. Right.

Can your mommy bring you earlier that day? I don't know. All right. You ask her.

You check with her. Add to slide in one more, huh? You better start doing that red light. All right.

Anybody got anything else? I think that's it. We would like presents? Look, man.

I'm probably not bringing anything back. Cigars for you. Cigars. Just for you.

Cigars for me. You already said that. Look, last time I brought, I think, 30 or 40 cigars back, and I got stopped, and I had to go through a whole fucking process, and I got nervous that I was gonna miss my flight. Baby.

Yeah, but you got TSA pre-checked now. Yeah, tape them to your thigh. They don't check your bags or anything. Yeah, they don't check your bags, that's right.

You don't have to take your shoes off, nothing. Right, so put them in your shoes. Cigars, I really, if we make something and I say, hey, send it, they'll just send in the next fucking, send it to the factory. Let's just go through the, just go through the proper channels, pay the fucking tax and fuck whatever, man.

It's not a big deal. I'm not carrying anything. Oh, we said this on a recorded show, yeah. No, I'm just being, I'm being a hundred percent honest.

I'm not fucking carrying it. I'm not doing it. Oh, whatever. Skip, make him, bring me something.

And Phil too. - Dude, I caught the one guy, do you have anything to declare, I have cigars, how many have, I don't know, 40 or 50. - What? - You just say I have two.

- I've been waiting all day to check. - What are you, I'm like, there's samples for me to smoke and try. 40 or 50, I'm like, yeah, I'm not selling these, they're not for sale. - You probably copped an attitude.

- No. - I didn't, he's like, you gotta go report, you gotta go declare those. I'm like, okay, so then I go downstairs. - There's no price tag on this.

- I go downstairs, there's a Chinese family in front of me. Oh, they're in trouble. They're in a lot of trouble. They're pulling fish out of their fucking...

I mean, food, you know? Don't bring food. They're really in trouble. Nobody speaks Mandarin.

Yeah, no, no. They call me on the phone. And there was one person checking people. They put an A on the end of every word there.

There was one person checking people. And I'm looking around thinking, I'm never getting the fuck out of here. I am totally fucked. Thank God, another guy comes and sees the disaster that's in front of me.

And he's like, come here. And I said, hey. He goes, what do you got? Like, I got like 50 cigars.

He goes, seriously? Like, yeah. He's like, okay. It's like six bucks.

I'll give you 20 before you leave. You know what? Thanks, man. I appreciate you coming in and expediting this for me.

Did he put the six bucks in his pocket? Because I may miss my flight. Cigars from Nicosoria are so reasonably priced. Those are delicious cigars.

That's just the tax, dude. You got to pay the tax. What kind of time do you get between flights? Yeah, so you should have allowed a lot of time.

You don't get to pick that. First of all. Sure you don't. You know.

You can pick your connections. You know, I fly all day, get home and like, late as fuck, get home like 11, 12 o'clock. Oh, that's funny. We got in at 6 o'clock in the morning, come back and make.

Yeah, well, that's what happens when you fly front fucking tier. I don't know what you expect. All right, we're at an hour and one minute. So how was my time right now and it was off before?

Where, one hour and one minute on my clock? Yeah. It's an hour and one minute and 30 seconds. 30 seconds.

I was messing with you earlier, Red Lighter. I was messing with you earlier. He's cranky because I mentioned his mom. He is cranky.

He picked him up at school and brought him in. All right, I'm shutting this off. All right, we gotta go. This has been episode 329.

The Cigar House of Pocket. Arnold edition. Arnold edition. Arnold edition.

Arnold though. The Arnie. Arnie, uh, sports and Nagar role. Okay.

Making a new cigar with Espinozo. Okay, goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye!

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Show Notes

On Episode 329 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, we dive into the latest headlines from the cigar industry and beyond. We discuss Altadis U.S.A.'s exciting partnership with the Kentucky Derby for the Romeo y Julieta 1875 Run for the Roses. We also cover the legal battle as 14 cities file a lawsuit against Ohio's new tobacco preemption law.

In other news, Jennifer True joins Fratello, and we explore the release of the Arturo Fuente From Dream to Dynasty collection. Fratello also ships its Concealed Carry 18th Amendment line, while Eladio Diaz's Before & After collection begins shipping.

On a more serious note, we discuss a shocking incident in Florida where a woman claims God told her to shoot drivers because of the eclipse, resulting in her arrest on several charges.

And in an exclusive story, we have a live phone interview discussing Arnold's partnership with Espinosa Cigars to create a signature cigar blend.

Tune in for these stories and more, only on the Cigar Hustlers Podcast!