Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 338 Lights Camera Action
Episode Summary
Episode 338 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with the crew deep in a studio overhaul gone sideways — a returned camera, a wildly zoomed-in birdwatching lens they can't use, an ATEM Mini board with a 2,000-page manual, and a crash course in OBS that nobody has finished watching. The running joke of the episode is that they now own the best gear money can buy and have no idea how to operate it, prompting a half-serious call for a Full Sail intern who understands electronics (and is willing to smoke cigars on Monday afternoons).
From there the conversation turns to Father's Day. One host recounts a low-key day of mowing, laundry and leftovers, while the other tells the saga of gifting a Pandora bracelet for a first-time mom, an Orlando Magic hat, and the Padrón 50th Toro Maduro that got revoked when the recipient couldn't commit to more than "two draws." There's also a genuinely nice moment: a bundle of Powstanie Connecticuts handed out to dads at the gym.
The news segment is the meat of the episode. Powstanie's Connecticut Corona Gorda — the 5.5x46 that completed the line at $13.50 per cigar, with an Ecuadorian Connecticut seed wrapper over Pennsylvania broadleaf binder and Nicaraguan filler — earned a 91 from Brooks Whittington at halfwheel, giving Powstanie a third 90+ score and prompting a heartfelt aside about blending the cigar a decade ago and naming it after his kid. The hosts also cover Crowned Heads' two 2024 Las Calaveras releases (with a tangent on Alan Rubin of Caribbean Cigars and industry communication breakdowns), Plasencia's $100 Alma del Fuego Ometepe Edición Limitada, the Knuckle Sandwich Chef's Special 2024 from Guy Fieri and A.J. Fernandez, a partial dismissal in Gurkha's Year of the Dragon trademark suit against Davidoff, and the Freud Cigar Company Carlos & Maria "Orgasmo."
Brent from Tobacology calls in mid-show to plug the shop's "family reunion" event at the Haymarket, VA location — an acre of outdoor space, lawn games, a grill, RoMa Craft ties dating back to the 2013 tweet-ups, and the Little Debbie cover charge that's become a house tradition. Tobacology takes Shop of the Week, and every listener who sent a Father's Day message gets Listener of the Week.
In This Episode
- 01Studio Upgrade ChaosReturned cameras, an unusable telephoto lens, an ATEM Mini board and a losing battle with OBS software.
- 02Hiring an InternThe guys float recruiting a Full Sail student who actually understands the gear in exchange for internship hours and cigars.
- 03Father's Day RecapsLeftover cheeseburgers, mowing the lawn, a Pandora bracelet, an Orlando Magic hat and a revoked Padrón 50th Toro Maduro.
- 04Powstanie Connecticut Corona Gorda Scores 91The 5.5x46 that completed the Connecticut line earns a 91 from Brooks Whittington, Powstanie's third 90+ rating.
- 05Phil's Fun Facts: Ochopee, FLAmerica's smallest post office — 61 square feet in Ochopee, Florida, originally an irrigation pipe shed.
- 06Industry News RoundupCrowned Heads' 2024 Las Calaveras, Plasencia's $100 Alma del Fuego Ometepe Edición Limitada and the Knuckle Sandwich Chef's Special 2024.
- 07Gurkha vs. Davidoff Year of the Dragon SuitA federal judge dismisses part of the case because the plaintiff didn't actually own the trademark in question.
- 08Tobacology Family Reunion Call-InBrent from Tobacology phones in to promote the Haymarket location's outdoor family reunion event with RoMa Craft roots and Little Debbies.
Brands & Cigars Discussed
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Transcript
Everybody stand by. Industry is in the house. Here he is, the controversial, but legendary, BDV. Yeah, I'm dead, it's my destiny, make way for the king, another Mike and Mike production, in 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0.
Oh, now it is. Oh, my goodness. Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast Show, Brent. If you missed the intro, we're very sorry.
We're trying all sorts of different things. I'm Phil. That's Mike and Mike. You know the rest.
Oh, yeah. Please join the Patreon. Episode 338. Join the Patreon.
Make sure you look for a Cigar Hustlers Podcast. So, we returned the entire other setup. Yes. Everything before, everything goes way back.
We took the camera. Took the camera. Returned it. Returned it.
Took the lens. Took the lens, returned it. Took the mounting bracket, returned it. Everything got returned.
And then we bought this one. And bought new stuff. It looks like you bought double. We have more stuff for the same price now.
That we don't know how to use. And now we've linked, well, we've tried to link this thing into the board. And then we actually got. We got it to record.
But it records with all the measurements. It records in a studio. Studio setting for editing. We have no idea what the fuck is going on there.
We have no idea what's going on, but we're just gonna keep pressing forward until we figure it out. " I thought we hooked the camera to the thing, and the thing records through the filter into the other thing. " I watched the video. I thought it was a video on equipment only.
Now, I re-watched the last four or seven minutes of it, and they mentioned three different software, and they said they use OBS. OBS is the best, we use OBS. So, OBS is free. Makes perfectly good sense to me.
We're gonna use OBS. It's the best. It's the best one according to the guy. It's the best one.
We don't know how to fucking use it. We don't know how to use it. Don't know how to use it. It'd be the best one.
I was happy we got it to come up on the screen. You know, that's half the trouble there. I just wish that we could get fucking Jerome to respond. Like, I've sent him Facebook messages and stuff.
Jerome Barry? Yeah, 'cause he was selling one of these ATM mini boards on Facebook. Maybe he was selling 'cause he couldn't get it to work either. You think so?
We could be the selling poster. That guy is way more advanced. Oh, he certainly is. He's a photographer by trade.
Yeah, so I got a feeling that he just upgraded to something else. Oh. I know, is your genital? I might have his phone number.
Doesn't he do all his stuff for Espinosa? Look, this isn't even the fucking lens that I bought. Yeah, Jack has his, Jack has his number. Okay.
This isn't even the lens that I bought, because when we plugged the lens in... It just shut the table. It was zoomed in on the board. Lovely shot of the board on the table.
And I couldn't zoom it out. It's for birdwatching. It's this fucking ridiculously expensive lens. And apparently we don't need it.
Can't wait to see the shutter of the hummingbird's wings. We totally need it. Apparently not! There's gotta be a way to fix it.
I'll tell you what. Yes, we go back to the four cameras we have now in the other room where I shoot a beautiful show on Wednesdays. No. Yes.
Somebody clicked. My audio was off for a minute. Mine wasn't. Still recording.
That button's still red. This button's still red. Yeah, it's red. So far, so good.
Everything's red. Yeah, start putting stuff together over there, Phil. Just read instructions and things. Well, the instructions that came with the mini pro boards, 2,055 pages long.
All right, it's job security, Phil. Just dial in, get it all squared away. Don't tell us how you did it either. " Here's your screens, here's your lens working.
I think once we make it work, we will never know. It will just be working. It'll be one of those things. Don't touch nothing!
You broke it. That was your Father's Day, Michael. Do you have a lovely Father's Day? I did.
Good for you. Did you get presents? I had a lovely Father's Day. I did.
Good for you. I didn't want presents. You never want presents. I got a new Hero 12 for recording the sports.
Oh, that's the little... I brought it in here to see if we could link them up to the board. We don't know how the board works. Yeah, I don't know, because like, hey, well, maybe we could just throw, I have, now I have two heroes, because my other one's a little hokey, but I was like, hey, what if we plug them in, and that worked, and then we're back at, because those are 4K, and then we're back at three camera quality for the time being, and work to figure things out until we upgrade to the next, I think we, see, I think we have surpassed our abilities with equipment.
Well, we're going to keep going. I'm not going to quit. If you want to quit and pack it in, go ahead, man. I'm not quitting and packing.
I like the other cameras. We need better quality video. I don't think better quality video is going to get us more listeners. I don't care if it does or if it doesn't.
Well, that was what the discussion was. What is better quality going to get us that we don't do? Better video quality will help you on all of it, on all your platforms, social media platforms, Instagram platforms, all of that. But I'm going to tell you right now, it bothers me.
That's the main reason. It bothers me. It looks like shit. It doesn't look like shit.
It doesn't look good enough for me. It's never going to look good enough for me. We're going to be, what, uh, Paramount in here soon enough. You think we got that kind of money in time?
Well, we never have. We never have that kind of money. We got that kind of time. We never have that kind of money.
Can't wait to shoot a movie in here. Yeah, what does that stop us, Mike? Oh, no money problem. Yeah, money's not stopping.
Your brother keeps asking me for the rent, I'm like, no, what rent, who is this, rent, rent, I gotta go, talk to my partner, I have to leave, so you got a new camera, huh, that's good, yeah, and Father's Day was super chill, he's got the lens in one hand, he's googling with the other, Father's Day was super chill, hung out with the squad, we played a little football, a little basketball, a little Fortnite, huh, yeah, full day, good for you, yeah, Got caught up, watched House of the Dragons. Oh, that's right, it was on last night. Was that dropped? Yeah, I didn't make it up that late.
Yeah. It was good. Was it good? It was alright.
Yeah. Look, I gotta be honest, the video, the show content, the TV show content has been so shitty lately. Well. That anything that's quasi-decent.
Anything that's new. It's rerun season. Just bring me something. Right.
And this is okay. Mayor of Kingstown's back on too, so that's been helpful. Oh, that's a great show. It is a great show.
I don't think I saw season two. I watched season one, but I wasn't too excited. I think it's up to what, season seven? Is it seven?
I thought it was three. Yeah, it's season three. Is it? Yeah.
He hates doing it. This might be the last one. He hates doing it? He hates doing it.
He's a good actor. He is a good actor, but he hates doing it. But he hated being the guy. Hawkeye?
Yeah, he hated being Hawkeye until the last movie. I hated it. Was it the first or second where he was hypnotized for the entire thing? What?
No. Yeah, Loki touched him with the staff of death or whatever and had him killing his own people or something. Oh, really? Yeah.
I don't remember that. Oh. Yeah, so he hated the second movie, but the third movie he was back in. Well, listen, you can't- He's a moody guy.
What do you do? You're gonna do another- What was it called? The Town? Hurt Locker?
The Town 2, you died. Oh, we could do Hurt Locker, he didn't blow up. He was in Hurt Locker? He was the guy.
He was the guy. Yeah. Hurt Locker 2. Hurt Locker 2.
Hurt Locker 2. I didn't blow up. I didn't blow up. I don't know, man.
I love the guy. I like him. " Yeah. Since he almost died, maybe his priorities have changed.
But don't be a miserable fuck about things. I don't want to do it. Oh, is that from the show? No, I'm just saying.
I don't want to do it. I thought you were doing a line from the show. You're going to fucking do it. We need you.
Get up there. Damn it. So how was your father's day? My father's day's for the Patriot.
Oh! But we're not doing that today. Well, we can now, maybe. Depends on what kind of time you have.
We definitely can't do that now. Okay. It was over an hour and a half of… Oh, that's right. 3:45.
…of unfucking what we had done to just get it so that it's just recording. Right. And who knows what file format that it's going to be on. That's going to be… It's going to be interesting.
Oh, it should be regular video format, I would imagine. Regular? MP4? It's not going to be the MOVQ.
That's not how things work. The MVK, the MOVQ. That's not how things work. And I got this bad-ass lens that we can't even use right now.
That thing is, that's like one of the infinity stones. I'm just happy you didn't get mad and throw it down. This is expensive. Why would I throw it down?
Because you get angry and throw things. I would throw you down. You didn't do it on Friday. This would not, nothing I would have done Friday would have stopped any of this.
Unless I spent the night here and didn't go back home until Sunday night. Well, now you know the parameters of what it's going to take. No. We got to these blue couches.
Yeah, push them together, make a nice little bed. We need to hire an intern. An intern? An intern that knows what they're doing.
A college intern? A college intern that knows electronics. Hey, our things don't work. Yeah, who knows how to work all this stuff?
There's gotta be a guy. So we went to no lights. To multiple lights. It's gotta be darker, darker, everything's gotta be darker.
So we went darker, we turned off all the lights, we have four lights, off all the lights we have four different kinds of lights because we need special special colors special types of things whatever and then we need to dimmers in the ceiling we need dimmers it's darker and now we're going to be brighter it's got to be brighter brighter brighter lights better bring all the lights back that we used all the lights turn them all up we're working on things man we're working on things uh keep things fun you know what yes mike i think i gotta connect at Full sale. Do you? Yeah. Well, give us somebody.
I think I can do that. Who do you know full sale? Somebody's tied into the school with my kids. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Brittany's going to have to make the call. Reach out, reach out to people. Yeah. If you have full sale and you need intern hours, we will sign any paperwork you want.
Come here, smoke cigars, Monday afternoons, make this work. We have no idea how to use the camera. That's right. And it's a lovely camera.
Right. More to come. It's the best equipment money can buy that we don't know how to use. We have laptops, we have lenses, cameras, microphones.
So what happened to Father's Day? Like the swinging thing went sideways? The wines? We don't swing.
The neighbors over? No, we don't swing. Come on. The boys are older.
They all have lives going on and stuff. And Adrian got a migraine halfway through the day. But you got some details about something. Well, I don't want to spill all the dirt on the regular.
You're holding out? No, no. My wife tried. She tried.
She did the best she could. She cut, but I don't want to, but there was just things that are more for a limited audience than somebody that she knows might watch this, and I don't want to hurt her feelings at all, because she really tried. She did. All right.
So, I filled in Greg this morning. He just laughed his ass off. Okay. I mean...
You have an ashtray. Are there... you have a lot of requirements for Father's Day? No.
" I don't have requirements. Like, that's what's important to me. That's important to me. Like, I just want to be around everybody.
Like, and when I say everybody, I mean like my wife and kids? Well, after she got her migraine, I spent half the day, it was just me. Got it. I went out and finished mowing the grass today and didn't finish on Saturday.
And you don't like that? Uh, I was planning not to do that on Father's Day. Did three loads of laundry, cooked myself dinner. Oh, you could have called me or you could have came over.
Nah, that'd probably have been worse. Yeah? You over at my house? Don't make me do it all here because I don't want to hurt her feelings if she listens to this.
She's on summer vacation now. Who knows if she hears this or not. She did the best she could. She tried.
We had a ton of cheeseburgers left over and stuff. Yeah, good for you. I had corn dogs. I cooked in the microwave.
We had hot dogs left over. You've got to come hang out. What kind of corn dogs? I don't know.
Aldi's. So, let me tell you, we did invite Nick and Mika over. Yes. Because it was his first Father's Day thing or whatever.
And we kind of botched Mother's Day, so we wanted to get her like a nice bracelet for Mother's Day, you know, to kind of signify, so we wanted to give it to her. They almost didn't show. Oh. Yeah.
So you were getting her something for Father's Day on Mother's Day. Well, we got her something for Mother's Day. On Mother's Day. Well, it's like, hey, this is how this plays out.
Okay. It's Nick's first Father's Day. Should we get him something? Yeah, sure.
What the fuck? Let's get him a little something. Right? You don't have to get him anything.
That's above and beyond. yeah but like you know whatever right you know like i'm not talking about you know yeah you didn't get him a car i'm not going fucking nuts right right you know just get him something and it's like you know we didn't really do anything for mika right oh yeah so then it looks shitty because you know well well that's not the case it's just that i think that the person who considers all of that is normally britney and let's say and it's also kind of britney's day and And when it comes to Mother's Day. Certainly. So, you know, just this one time where she's a mom for the first time, we would have wanted to signify that for her.
Sure. So we went and got her like one of those little Pandora bracelets or whatever. Right. And it's a cool looking bracelet.
Nick's not a fan, I guess, but he was a little bit in his cups. " But we just got one. Wait, he downplayed the gift that you got his baby mama. Well, he didn't realize he was in his cups, so he didn't realize it.
I'm like, alright dude, whatever. So I had actually brought home two Padrón 50th Toro Maduros. Right. You wasted a Padrón 50th on me.
I was going to give him one of them. I was going to give him one of them. Right. That was going to be his gift?
No. Until he downplayed the Pandora bracelet. No, we bought him a hat. We just bought him an Orlando magic hat.
Okay. Nice. Nothing crazy. Right.
That's a good gift. He's been a big fan as of late. We hung out at Miller's Ale House a few months ago. I was like, do you like my magic hat?
And I said, that is the worst. fucking hat I have ever fucking seen. Because it was one of the vintage original ones that he got on Etsy with fucking lice or whatever. It was so bad.
Stuff on Etsy is not new? I thought it was stuff people made. No, they sell you shit too. He's like, do you like my hat?
I was like, no. It's vintage. I was like, that's a terrible hat. And he goes, oh, why would you say that?
I go, why the fuck would you ask me? Don't ask me questions you don't want to answer. Do you think I'm going to lie to you? I'm going to tell you exactly what I think.
You know? No, it's a terrible looking hat. You look borderline homos with that hat on. So what did I do?
So what did I do? I fixed the hat problem. Right? Okay, you got him a hat.
Seems like a nice gift. Yeah, so I went in. I took the boys. I don't like the hat.
No, no. He loved the hat. He's very excited about the hat. He bashed the Pandora bracelet.
The one thing that cost me fucking 5X. Don't interject. Did you keep going? I'm trying to follow the story.
You gave her the Mother's Day present on Father's Day. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
" And he's like... I didn't bring one. No, he just got kind of poopy about it. Oh.
" You know, I had like one or two. So I can have like one or two puffs. " Instantly in my head. Right, exactly.
" I'm like, "I got some... " He's got a delicious quorum over here. But he doesn't like, he's not a fan of the Connecticut, so I'm like, you know, we can do the Neanderthal too, or we got the Braille, you know, whatever you want. And with a little one.
And he's like, eh, I'm like, all right, so I went outside, I smoked the Post-On to Justice, right, I'll save the 50th for later. Right. And then he's like, hey, what's this cigar? And he picks it up because it was on the counter.
I go, you can't have that. Oh, he picked up the 50th? Yeah. I said, you can't have it.
Or maybe this guy's weasel game is good. No, he's like, this looks good, but I could take two draws out of this. What the fuck you can? Two draws!
Two draws, you know what that thing causes? I'm a blunt, man, what's wrong with you? If you wanted to sit down and chill with me, you could have had that cigar. You already fucked that up.
Right. Go put your hat on and sit outside. Yeah. No, go fucking stay inside, fucking whatever.
Yeah, you can vape in there. Yeah. There's no vaping in my house. I got you this lovely vape.
Take two draws on that. It's like Tootie Fruity. So, there were a couple people at the gym that I've always threatened to bring cigars to, and on Thursday, I said, "You know what? " I brought a bundle of Posani Connecticut's, and put them in two packs, and I just handed them out to a bunch of dads at the gym.
Like, guys that are friends are like, "Here you go. Happy Father's Day. Here you go. " So, that was pretty badass.
Yeah, that was nice. And it was pretty well received. You know, a couple guys, like, I don't even know their names, but I see them all the time. Like, "Here, dude.
" You know, so, Nick got neither one of those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He poo-pooed the whole thing. Yeah, can't poo-poo that.
Well, he got a hat. Sure, he got a hat. It's a lovely hat. He's fine.
At least you know, next Father's Day, he does not like cigars. So. Oh, no, I knew that. Next Father's Day, I won't even bother.
Right, second, next year. Like, I didn't want anybody, I wanted to be alone, right? Like, I just want to hang out with the family and stuff. I'm like, well, they're family.
Right. So, bring them. Nick and I, we can be men, right? We can be men on the patio, we will be dads, welcome to being a dad.
He hasn't quite grasped that concept, so we're just gonna go ahead and fuck that guy, whatever. He's new, and it was a surprise, he's still getting used to it. I'll catch you on Mother's Day, Nick, when we see Mika. Other than that, I never want to see you again.
So, we'll see. We're on a podcast this Saturday. We are. We are.
Cigar jukebox. I keep forgetting about this. There's a lot of rules, apparently, to how it's working or something. Well, I sent you that email.
Yeah, he sent it to me too, I think. Oh, did he? I didn't know if you were covered. I got it twice.
I appreciate that. So when you guys go on shows, they give you rules? No. This is like a game or something.
Well, it talks about, so I picked the song. Right. And you're supposed to listen to the song. And then something from that song is supposed to bring it to another song.
Like, oh, I want to listen to this now. Okay. And you do that seven times, and you have that list of the songs. I have to go back and read the thing.
Yeah. You didn't read it? No. It's kind of like all this bullshit that we have here.
I saw it, but I'll go back later. Hey, Palmer, here's all of this stuff. Let me know what wires we need if there's anything missing, okay? Okay.
No problem. I'm not reading any shit. This book is thick. Look at this book.
It's 2,000 pages. I'm not even watching a YouTube episode. I watched it, I just didn't know there was stuff at the end. So you didn't watch the whole thing?
I watched the pretty girl talk, and then I got, then she stopped talking, and I stopped watching. Oh my god. I didn't know the weird guy, the hippie, was gonna start talking. Yeah, yeah, he's the back end of things.
Well, actually, he recommends you have another person, which we have. We do have another person. He's not any further along than either of us, though. The third person to run all these things.
At least he put the camera, or the lens down. At least he was Googling things. Right, he was trying. Yeah.
So, what's the name of the podcast, uh, you, we said we're out. Cigar Jukebox. Cigar Jukebox. Dave Burke.
Dave Burke. Is, uh, Coop going to be on too? I think so. I should probably lay off of him for a couple days.
Oh, wow, why lay off him? He hates, uh, what is it, he hates, he hates Facebook stories. Oh, he's angry at Facebook stories? Complete waste of time.
Really? Right. Well, how does it help you if it goes away? Do you want something out in the ether forever?
Right, I said, it's what you do, you use little clips. Stories are only good for like 30 days, aren't they? Yeah, that's his problem, they go away. Here's what I like about stories, here's what I like about stories, is I like to repost on my stories, people that are smoking polsania.
Right, yeah, that's what we usually do with it, right. When people tag or whatever, or they're listening to the podcast or whatever, I'll always, like I like to promote people. Right, maybe people don't tag him and stuff. That's probably why he's angry.
It couldn't be. Yeah. " So, stories and reels are different. Reels are permanent?
This guy likes Coop. Yeah, reels are... More permanent, I guess? Yeah, they're out in the world forever.
Oh. Forever. Gotcha. That's why they gotta look good.
Right. Because they look bad. It has been nuts. Yeah, okay.
Everything drives you nuts if it doesn't look good. I'm a perfectionist, man. I don't want things to be fucking perfect. Well, there's a rusty fan been up there behind the counter in the shop for two weeks now.
What type of rusty fan? The rusty fan you brought in when Greg flooded the floor with the pictures. Ah, so what does that make me a perfectionist or not? Because it should be gone, it looks terrible.
You want it gone? Well, yeah, it looks bad. Okay, we'll have it today for you. Okay.
No, no, but I do appreciate you washing the towels and bringing them back. You gotta understand that there's a whole packing order of, like, what you want as far as things perfect, right? And where that fan is, is not even on the fucking scale. Well, it's just because you were saying you're a perfectionist.
If somebody said, hey, like this fan's gotta go, or like, hey, do you mind taking the fan home? I'd have thrown the fan in the car a long time ago. I'll move it downstairs. But instead, I'm running and fucking gunning, so help me help you, Michael.
Hey man, fan, this fan... All of a sudden, the fan, I should have a message, now the fan's my problem. This fan, hey, do you mind bringing this home? Sure, put it in the car.
Did you say, hey, your fucking cloths need to be washed? Did I take care of the cloths? Well, it took a week and a half. It did take a week and a half.
Right. But I got there. Right. I saw they're upstairs.
Yeah. All clean. Or at least I saw the bag. All clean.
Oh, good for you. I didn't hold them. I noticed. Somebody can do that.
Yeah. That's what the money's for. Right. Exactly.
Did you just throw the bag in the wash? No. Because you can kind of do that. Yeah, I'm sure you can.
But I know you want it to move around a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Those things are so stained and nasty anyway.
I fuckin' poured a ton of bleach in there. Did ya? Yeah, my entire house was sneezing. 'Cause of the bleach everywhere.
Yeah. Oh, nice. So, yeah. So, we wanna do a Phil's Fun Facts?
We have one. He's been awful quiet. Oh, he's got no camera. And we're no longer staring at him.
Right. It's kinda awkward looking back and forth at you guys. It's like looking back and forth at a mom and dad. Now we're like...
How is it any different than before? 'Cause you didn't watch the screen over there. I would watch the screen. We're like officially a production company right now.
We're a company right now. We're really weird. We just don't know how to operate in this stuff. Yeah, I don't know what I'm saying.
I don't know what I'm saying. We're using the lens that I don't even want. It's so far away I can't read everything. All right, there it is.
I see it now. With an inch movement. Well, that's all it takes. Hit the Phil's Fun Facts button, buddy.
I didn't know we were ready. You're still gonna shoot us. It is. Welcome to Cigar Hustlers podcast feature, Phil's Fun Facts.
Hello, peoples. All right. Did you know that Florida is home to the smallest post office in the United States? In Christmas.
We're out of Cigar Fun Facts. Last week's was, uh, we made that up, so now we're going to Florida Fun Facts. I like to close the back up. Did somebody call you out on the makeup one?
No, nobody called me out. Oh, okay, yeah. I'm just tired of making stuff up. Well, nobody listened to the show.
It's located, you know where it's located? In Christmas? No. Nope.
No. You're never going to guess. I want to hear you pronounce it. Because this isn't the place.
Yes, it is. This is a real place? That's legit. Ochopee.
Ochopee. I hear a phone ringing. Not mine. Maybe yours.
Ochopee. Florida. Ochopee? Must be an Indian name.
Ochopee. Ochopee. Ochopee. Is it two E's?
I don't know. Is it Ochopee? It's not Okeechobee. Ochopee.
P.? I don't know, Seminole Indian thing, probably. The tiny most, the tiny post office measures just 61 square feet and was originally a storage shed for irrigation pipes. So here's what happened.
That's small. So here's what happened. Right. Somebody pissed off somebody in the post office system.
Yeah. Like, Chris was just fucking up. I'm gonna show you. He's like, "You know what, dude?
Not a problem. you're going to run the office. And he's like, yeah, you're right. I'm going to fuck you.
I'll be postmaster general. Yeah, I'm going to fucking, yeah, I'm going to crush this. He goes, no problem. Let me bring you to your office.
Like, boop. Boop. That's where the sprinkler system runs out of. This is where you're going to die.
You're in charge. It's like those head people at condo HOA departments that just sit in this little fucking, I had one. Yeah. When I lived in a condo when I was younger.
That makes sense. Yeah. She's like Jabba the Hutt downstairs. She sat there.
She didn't fucking move. What did she have to have an office for? Watch people coming and going? For snacks?
I don't know. To yell at people. Oh, couldn't do that from her condo? No, she came out and yelled at me in the pool a bunch of times.
Oh, put your pants on. Yeah, the whole pants thing. Right. You couldn't bring floaties to the pool.
No drink? What? I can't bring floaties. I was 20 years old.
I was irate. I'm like, there's no one in the pool. Oh, not kids floaties. You mean like a floating toy?
Yeah. Somebody went and told on me, and then she had to get up, and I'm like, fuck you, evict me, evict me, I'm floating in the pool with my fucking float. You own the condo, didn't you? Yeah.
She can't evict you. You can't do that. A. has the ability to remove you from the...
Do they really? Yeah. Hmm. Good luck, though.
Right, I mean... It's gonna take me 20 years or so. A. kick you out of your house?
Mm-hmm. Really? Better be careful, Palmer. They can.
Nah, I don't own the house, that's fine. I think they can. My neighborhood loves me. I believe they can.
Oh. I know they can put a lien on your house. I know they can make you move. Yeah, I know HOA where I'm at.
Let's go, baby. Well, yeah. Your house sticks out from all the other houses. I mean, for the record, I would have failed HOA.
Sure. A bajillion times. Right. Even right now, I'd currently fail.
Oh, yeah. What's the update on the house? The HOA aesthetics. They're supposed to paint tomorrow in the interior.
Oh, so all the drywall's back up? All the drywall's back up. Backup. Air conditioners working?
Air conditioners are working. Roof doesn't leak when it rains? Roof doesn't leak when it rains. Oh, there you go.
I'd stop. Windows are gone. What? No windows?
I removed three windows, yeah. Oh, I heard about that. They were blocked by the roof or something. Yeah, they were half covered by the roof.
I said, just remove the fucking windows. That make that room darker? A little bit. Did you master bedroom?
Master bedroom what? Is that where the windows are? No. Well, if it's your bedroom, who cares if it's darker?
No, it's the family room. Oh, the ones there in the front? The front? Yeah, the top three windows.
Oh! The little square ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or rectangle ones.
I didn't think it was the big ones. They're like the big windows. We just took them all out. I went up there looking over things.
I go, there's no way that's to code. And they're like, oh, well, we'll see. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna tell you right now, those windows aren't to code. So, sure as shit, they're not to code.
Like, what do you want to do? We can get smaller windows. I'm like, or, or we can do the more affordable route here. Right.
Oh, because it's just you that have to pay. Well, no, they, I mean, it's, they're coming out of their pocket, I guess. You should run with the windows. Just seal them the fuck off.
I would like bigger windows. I'm sure they would have had pushback if I said, hey, let's do windows. I'm like, eh, well, we're not required to do that. I'd like a skylight now.
Now that you fix the roof, I'd like a skylight. And a pool. And a pool. You really want to put a second story on this bench?
Yeah, please. Start building. Alright, well, we got some news. Oh.
We do. From the four quarters of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Two. Powstanie, Connecticut, Corona Gorda.
The what? Powstanie? Powstanie? You said Powstanie?
No, I didn't. I never say Powstanie. Phil? I said Powstanie.
It's close. It sounded like you had a little E in it. Maybe it does have an E in it on the end. Last year, Powstanie released a third regular production line, the Powstanie Connecticut, which also happened to be the first new regular production line in the company.
The company has released since its debut in 2015. Was that really the year it started? Yeah. That makes sense.
With its Broadleaf and Habano lines, the new Connecticut line launched with only four sizes while the Broadleaf and Habano lines are sold in five sizes. Hmm, you skipped that one size, I guess. I did. Apparently.
Meaning it was missing one Batola. Oh, no, they're getting, they're getting the lead into it. Yeah, they're just waiting for you to get there. 50 per cigar, and 21-count boxes.
As with the rest of the line, the Coronagorda is made with Ecuadorian Connecticut Seed Wrapper, covering a Pennsylvania Broadleaf Binder and Filler Tobacco is grown in Nicaragua. Delicious. So, anyway, you got a 91. Oh, that was it?
It's a long-ass story. It did. It got a 91. He got a 91, and it was, uh, uh, can't think of his name.
Who did it? Not Charlie, the other guy. Brooks? Brooks, it was Brooks.
Brooks? Brooks. Wow, really? Because wasn't he the guy last time that, uh, you know?
Uh, you didn't get such as good a rating, but it was the Cigar Skip made, so it wasn't, uh. Oh, SBC? Yeah, the SBC. It got an 88.
Right. That's because Kip landed it, man. Right. The fuck you want me to do?
You know what I mean? Like, he's out there, he's running these streets. Right, he's trying. You know?
He claims he's a master blender. But you got a 91 and he got an 88. I got a 91 and he got an 88. I don't know what to tell you Uncle Skip.
Sorry dude. I sent him a nice Happy Father's Day text message. Did you? Yeah, he answered back, it was nice.
Did he say Tambien? Say what? Tambien. No, he didn't say Tambien.
He said you two brother. Oh. You got another text message? I got Tambien.
My phone's ringing. I don't know where it is. It's gotta be upstairs. Yeah.
So now you have 3 over 90 on Half-Wheel. Yeah, man. Oh, look at you. I think I do.
I think you're right. Yeah. Because, yeah, the War Bearer, the Polsana Connecticut Perfecto, the Polsana Connecticut Corona Gorda. Right.
And the ESBC is clocking around, you know, high 80s. That's no slouch. No, it's still good. Look, man, I'm not going to lie.
This one felt really fucking good. Normally, I'm just like, all right, cool. Yeah, all right. All right, but to get that 91 and to see the kind of statement and to see like how well received it was, the text that I got from people and the messages, it's pretty badass.
So now it's kind of like, because before I remember you were like, oh, you know, I don't really care when the War Bear came out. But now you're kind of like, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if I felt really good about this one just because it's got my kid's name on it. It's a little like it was and I blend more personal.
Yeah. And I blended it 10 fucking years ago. He didn't change it at all. No.
There you go. No, but that's a testament to the factory, man. You know, having the formula there and then making sure this shit's done right. You know, it really is.
You're lucky to be doing work with him. I am. Yep. All right, Crown Heads releases, or sorry, announces.
Crown Head announces two Las Calaveras releases for 2024. Exclusively for Caribbean cigars or no? -No, I don't think it is. -No, it's not.
Okay. -He's still putting on videos. -Yeah. -He's gotta comb his hair or something, though.
-Oh. -Well, he wore a hat in one. -Oh, he did? That would've been a better approach.
-Yeah, why don't I mean a hat? Right, cover something up. -Like, you gotta put it together, Alan. You can't look like the disheveled multi-millionaire attorney that you are.
-You know? -Can't look homeless. -Yeah. -Well, maybe that's a part of the video, 'cause he is disheveled, you know.
-Maybe that's what he was going for. -Yeah, maybe that's what he was going for, yeah. -Going for that look. -He should be doing like his image in front of his...
He's got a T-Rex, I think he's got a Hellcat, like, you know, this is my Hellcat, and I'm done with these brands. And they don't talk to me and they lie to me. Every video starts, he breaks it down. I love that.
When a company lies to you and does not do what they're going to say, this is what you do. So no answer yet to that. Oh, they're not going to answer anything. They're probably locked down and nobody talks to them now.
I think that's stupid. Yeah, why wouldn't you answer? Hey man, stop putting out these videos, let's talk. No, I just think that's stupid.
I think they said let's talk and he went, fuck you. No, he said, well, first of all, a lot of stuff is Patreon stuff, so let's not give way too much of it. Okay, I gotcha. But I will tell you that, you know, I think that if they tried to come correct, Alan's a reasonable guy.
Right. I thought they did try to connect, or correct, and he said no. He said, we'll see how that goes. Alan's a reason he okay he's an asshole but he's a reasonable guy he's a reasonable he's one of the coolest motherfucking retailers in this industry I love him to pieces if I'm going to Miami I'm saying all right I'm gonna go hang out in Caribbean right yeah I'm not going anywhere else we end up there eventually at some point hey man like you know what asking for a little respect hey we're in Fort we're in Fort Lauderdale I'm about an hour away from you uh you're gonna be at the shop because I'm just gonna blow past everybody else come hang out with you guys because you're awesome right right he's jack and actor gonna be there yeah and then tell him we're coming so yeah so uh in solidarity you want to just skip the crown heads we'll get a phone call oh man you know what look i like john john huber i like i love miguel miguel is yeah well that's the one guy that's one of the greatest guys in this industry that's a shingles guy that's yeah mr shingles he really is i mean yes he's very nice absolutely amazing He's an amazing dude.
So, I know, but like, I wish that they would have figured that out. You know what I mean? Right. Like, I don't know where the community, the funny part about these businesses, a lot of these, these shop, these manufacturers or brand owners or even retail shops, it's like, there's this shit that gets lost in this communications.
Like, things don't go the way they go. That's why we do our meetings every week. Hey, what the, what did we fuck up? Right.
Yeah. What's happened since last week? Yeah. Like, how do we fix it?
life better tell me so i can fix it tell me you know help me help you like oh well here hey look fuck this one up okay how do i fix it right like what do we go about to make it better i don't know i don't understand how i don't what how you don't know how i'm not paid an exorbitant amount of money from one of these manufacturers or brands or companies just to run their shit just to run their hey man just straighten us can't afford you just get us straightened straightened I'm like, okay, no problem. You could do that. That's a consulting firm. Yeah, I could totally.
Yeah, you started consulting me. Yeah, I just need to do that. Just forget all this. There's absolutely no consulting firms right now.
I mean, at this point, I'm just pelting 90s. We're just consistently pelting high 90s for our cigars, you know, crushing that. I mean, it's not like retailers are still banging down the doors, because you still got to go knock on there. You still got to make them buy stuff.
Yeah, please. My cigars are great. Look, have a little bit. Everybody says that, guys, please order something.
Well, I just don't have the shelf space. I'm like, oh, okay, great. Oh, good. The COA, the COA, the Consulting of America, PCA hired a consulting firm last year, did they, yeah, it was much better, I don't know, much better, the guy who was in charge left, you wanted more money, Josh, well I know, the consulting firm would have said, look, pay him more money, and the consulting firm probably said, hey, listen, you're probably not paying him enough, and he's like, yeah, see, I told you, I told you, yeah, like, now you're out of here, like, okay, fuck me, we should invite Josh, We're going to switch to the next event.
Apparently he goes though. Somebody just invited him to something. Oh, he just shows up? Well, it was a big dinner event.
We have Lupia. I gotta go to Tobacology on Sunday. It's coming Sunday? Yeah.
For the day? Mm-hmm. Before? That event.
What event are they doing? It's some kind of family reunion thing. Oh. Yeah.
He moves it to Sunday. I haven't even booked my plane ticket. Seems to say, because Saturday night you have a podcast. I know.
That's 10 hours. It's gonna be a busy weekend. Apparently. Super busy.
I'm in and out though, I'm flying back the same day. A Sunday night flight back home? Yeah. That might be tough to get.
It's like a 10 o'clock. Oh, so you've looked. Red eye. I took a peek last night.
Ah, gotcha. It's like two hours. I'll be home at midnight, 12:30. It's an average Saturday.
I might be a little tired. Is it Saturday or Sunday? I thought you said Sunday. Oh yeah, it's Sunday.
Yeah. Fuck. Off a cigar event on a Sunday. He kicked us off a Saturday.
He's got like a thing or something. Oh. What kind of family reunion cigar event? Yeah, bringing in different brands that he's friends with?
He's really hurt my feelings. Why has he hurt your feelings? Because now it's on Sunday. You want to call him?
I have his number. That number I have. Go ahead. Oh, yes.
This is going to be good. It's a good little plug. I've seen he's been buying a lot of Little Debbies. Yeah, he has been eating Little Debbies.
I've kind of been ramping up my Little Debbie production as well. Consumption? They got these little moon pie things with like sprinkles. I forget what it is he's eating.
Zebra cakes? No. The zebra cake ones are red, white, and blue right now. Those are pretty dope.
But they're like they're moon pies, but they're covered in like a frosting with sprinkles. Hmm. Yeah. Sound delicious.
They're pretty fantastic. Special editioners, though. Yeah, I gotta stay away from them. I keep buying them, though.
It could be like Brett Frye, he buys the whole, you know, can caboodle from whatever store. Yeah, he buys all of them at one time. Yeah, including an ashtray. I think that somebody does that to him.
Oh, they break it in? Yeah. Oh, he's got the little Debbie hookup. He's not coming, he's not gonna answer.
Monday, three o'clock. Hello? Oh! Oh, Brandon Tobacology, we need some Little Debbie Pies, we hear you're the guy.
Yeah. Buy a box, get a Little Debbie's free? Yeah, that's how we do it. So we thought you might like to plug your event you're having this weekend that Michael has to fly to on Sunday.
We have an event? Perfect. I won't be there. Perfect.
That's all I hear, that's all you had to say, buddy. FaceTime me on Sunday, pal, 'cause I won't fucking be there. Don't fucking be there. Yeah, man, we got the, we call it the family reunion.
Uh, we did it a few years ago with, uh, Roma Craft and, uh, figured we'd, uh, give it another shot. And then incorporate the redheaded stepchild of Roma Craft, which would be me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, you know, what are, uh, exactly what our thoughts were. Right.
So we'll have some fun, you know, outdoor games, fun activities, real lawn darts, things like that. Two phone arrows up in the air. Nice. Jarts, do you have jarts?
yeah yeah yeah you know have you been promoting the event let me ask you that have you been promoting it yeah yeah yeah that's how we do it baby people know when it's coming we got a guy with new bounces and tall white socks to work the grill be okay oh he's gonna create great stuff if he's got new bounces and tall socks he's a griller yeah you know it you know how it goes okay and it's gonna be the Manassas location no Haymarket location We got the outdoor area there, about an acre of land, so we had some fun. How far is that from the airport? Thank God he asked. How far is that from the airport?
He would have been at the other store. About 35 minutes. All right, perfect. Oh, yeah.
The event's up on Facebook. The event's up on Facebook. I tagged the most prestigious realtor in Florida. Oh, you did.
Oh, wow. I did. You tagged my real estate page? I did.
I sure did. You're an advent. Luxurious, luxury. The event, yes, you're a co-host of the event.
Oh, thank you also, sponsor. You never know what could happen. Oh, you tag Palmer, too? No, I said I would have, but you never know what could happen there, so you have a live wire.
That's a live wire. Well, we wish you all sorts of luck there, Brent. Thanks, man. Thanks, man.
We'll have fun. It'll be a good time. We've got the B&B, it's a group, a cigar group up here that was part of the tweet up when we first brought Romacraft into the shops. And that was, I believe, back in '13, when they were doing those tweet-ups, like, went around on buses and visited several shops, it's actually where I was lucky enough to be brought into the fold, so to speak, as a, uh, Romacast guy, and, uh, it's kind of gone from there, uh, we got along real well.
And here, you fast-forward all these years later. Ten years later. I don't know, again. A retail mecca.
Multiple locations. Just absolutely crushing. We have fun, though. Little Debbie's coming out of every order.
So many little, so many little debbies. Everybody needs some diabetes boys, everybody needs some diabetes. Delicious. So we, uh, funny stories, that guy came in from out of town, uh, Baltimore, not too far.
He was, uh, he comes in, and he says, hi, sit down, and he says, I'm gonna run over to 7-Eleven, the monastical, the 7-Eleven right next to it. " And everybody had a good laugh, he said, "Yes, sir, yes it is. " Well, you get treated the appropriate level to the snack that you bring, so. There you go.
Yeah. All right, perfect. I appreciate your voice calling and promoting a little bit. Yeah, of course.
Got to give it a plug, buddy. Yeah. We had this well planned out to do this. Yeah, right towards the end of the show is a perfect time to do it.
Right after the four kicks, the Crown Heads announcement. And it's at Manassas. Is that Manassas? Manassas.
It's at Haymarket. No, yeah, it's up. Oh, it's not at Manassas. It's not at Manassas.
It's at Haymarket. It's at Haymarket. It's at Haymarket. And it's at Haymarket, not Manassas.
Haymarket. I gotta feel it. I'm still gonna show up at fucking Manassas. Wait, where is everybody?
Somebody here. I'll bring you over. Hey, listen, you need to call me too, if I need to pick you up or whatever. All right.
Oh, yeah, I'll figure that out. I was gonna call Ro and see where he was at as well, or just get a rental or something. I don't know. Okay.
I know Sean's already down there. He's been doing events up in Maryland, so. Oh, running these streets. I like it.
Yeah, that's what he does, man. All right. All right. Go back to golfing.
Good to hear from you. Go back to golfing and eating your little. That was this morning. I had a charity event this morning.
See? Very charitable man. Very charitable man. Yes.
Very giving. I give up my time. That's what my wife says to her. " He was at the clubs jangling as I ran out the door.
it's a tough job honey somebody's gotta do it somebody's gotta do it you don't mind waking up early to go the children need to be fed honey somebody has to go out and feed the children that's the way it goes alright boys good luck talk to you later there you go so it's gonna be like a three legged race sack races moon pie eating contest pie eating Pi eating contestant. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Don't get the blueberries on your nose.
You're going to choke. That's the most details I've got about this event. All he's told me is, hey, it's going to be a family reunion thing, and don't worry, you'll have a t-shirt. I'm like, okay.
Oh, so they have to ring clothes. I don't know what the fuck that means, but okay. Don't worry, you'll have a t-shirt. It needs pants.
I'm going in surgical, baby. I'm flying there, doing the event, getting the fuck out. For like 45 minutes, bring me a jart, and a pie, and a hamburger, I gotta go. Irish exit, just fucking, oh, you're just gonna do it there, and you need to rent your own car.
Yeah, you're probably right, or, I can't be beholden to anybody. I have a secret Uber, just waiting, just wait here, I'll be right back, right. Gotta go. Was it Mikey here?
Yep, uh, there he goes. Try a little Debbie's and Barbecue. that arrives at stores. Such a long name.
For the last year, Plasencia Cigars has been hinting that it had a very limited $100 cigar. That cigar is now arriving at stores. Too late. It's called the Plasencia Oma Tempe Edition Limitada.
You hide your chance. A 6x54. Notably, the company says that this is the first cigar that has used a wrapper grown in Oma Tempe, Nicaragua. While many cigars have used fillers from Oma Tempe, Plasencia Cigars, the only cigar He's a rapper from the island, Oma Tepe, Oma Tepe, Oma Tepe, Oma, Oma, Temp, Tep, A, A, is there an M in it or no, yes, the P is silent, the M is silent, no, the P, you P, Oma Tepe, Oma Tepe, Mr.
Plug, you said the P was silent, it is, Oma Tepe, but you're saying with a P, Oma Tepe, no, that's the T, Oma Tepe, there's a T in it too, all right, it's an island located in the Nicaragua lake in the Nicaragua lake in the Nicaragua. Nicaragua, it houses two volcanoes, Concepcion and Maderas, which are connected by a small, lovely soil, lowland area in between. The company named the strand of tobacco, Joya Del Fuego. Joya Del Fuego.
The binder and filler are also from Nicaragua, though the company is not named which parts? It is from Nicaragua. Knuckle Sandwich Chef's Chief. Chief.
The Chief. The Chief. Oh, my. Knuckle Sandwich Chief Special 2024.
Guy Fieri now is wearing a little headdress. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I saw pictures from the event in Orlando. It looked great.
Nice turnout. Fantastic, yeah. Everybody goes to ABC for their Chief Specials. Bro, yeah.
So close. They were right over at Winter Park. They were almost there. College Park.
No, Winter Park. No, Winter Garden. Winter Garden. Winter Garden.
It was in Winter Garden? Yeah, it was in Winter Garden. That's far away. Not that far.
45 minutes? It's closer than Miami. It's closer than Miami. I mean, it is closer than Miami.
Richie was here. Eric. Wow. Guy Fieri.
Wow. Tyler. Tyler Jones was here. Tyler Jones.
The best salesman. The best salesman in history. Well, not even the Florida Rebels there. Alfredo doesn't go to those things.
He's not invited. He doesn't live up here. Is it good? Mike that.
Ridiculous. The cigar is a 6x54 Toro oval shape. The first time that size has been used for the Chef Special release is also a different blend than the previous Chef Special cigars. J.
Fernandez, San Latino Factory, and Octal, Nicaragua. The Knuckles Sandwich Chef Special 2024 has an MSRP of $16 per cigar and production is limited to 2,000 boxes of 10 cigars. It's not a bad price It's an oval shape It's actually a really good cigar Yes We'll review that on the next Patreon Okay You're gonna love them That was I'm telling you That was It's probably the best chef special I've had Oh nice That's like the same size as As his birthday cigar The 56 That was a 6x56 Yeah That's why Oh but I mean by the oval shape I thought it was his age It was But I think they did everything To make it a 56 Right Makes sense Let's see, court dismisses one part of Gurkha's year of the Dragon lawsuit against Davidoff. Dismissed.
Dismissed. No, sorry. Got to find out why. Oh, please tell.
A federal court judge had dismissed one part of the Gurkha's lawsuit against Davidoff over Dragon-related trademark. Is it because of his racial posts back in 2020? No, I had to read the story three times to figure out what the reason is. , I cannot even close his name, some long Greek game, Demetrolius.
Demetrolius. , there's no G in it, but so it is, yes. Yeah, it's completely silent. S.
Sixer Court for the Southern District of Florida decided with Davidoff in its efforts to dismiss Gorka's request for discretionary relief on the court of the complaint, which would have likely resulted in ruling over whether a pending year of the Dragon trademark should be granted, basically, because the person who sued Davidoff does not own the trademark. They used the wrong company. Oh, a technicality. " So who owns it?
Let's see. " Yes. You know, I bet you it's the same concept. " Right.
It would probably be similar in format. Unless he owns everything Halloween. He could own everything Halloween. Yeah, but they could just resubmit.
Okay, the lawsuit is Gurkha Cigar Company, Inc. versus Davidoff, Geneva, USA. , not the plaintiff, and the trademark was opposed by Davidoff, not the defendant. As such, the judge found that the issue, there wasn't an actual conflict between the defendant and the plaintiff as a matter between the two other entities, because neither one...
So, what you're saying is the attorney fucked the dog, is what you're saying. Right, yeah, not only did he- I'd be like, well, you're fucking fired. Not only did he use the wrong company to sue with, he sued the wrong company. Oh, we don't even know what's going on here.
Yeah, we don't know what's going on here. We're enraged about the Year of the Dragon, mad that it's across the board. Was he self-represented or- No, no, he probably paid somebody. He probably did.
Wow, that guy got some money. Somebody did not check the paperwork. And that guy said, I don't know what's going on. But thank you for the $50,000.
" As it gets kicked out. Right. I have a list and I'm not done. Damn it.
So ridiculous. Sorry. Oh, I thought something happened over there. He's crossing it off.
Who is he waving the list to? The crowd, the crowd. Do you think there are people just standing out of the courthouse like, you know, like this is an all-time epic fucking... Yeah.
Everybody was there. The film crew and the news team, you know, everybody was there. Sir, do you care to comment? I'm not done yet!
So where are we at as far as the theory of evolution? Can it be taught in our schools? I mean, like, what the fuck are we doing here? The new PCA staff was there.
Joshua Bershke was there. I'm not done yet. You're not done, you just got dismissed. Next year's Gurkha will be year of the retainer.
He's gotta fucking recoup. All the Gurkha lights were there. Gurkha lights. He'll hire a better attorney that actually knows who owns what and who is using who's.
I came out and said, I fucking hired an idiot for an attorney. I wonder what the attorney's name is. Oh, all of his letters are silent now. Yeah, all of them are.
You know what, dude? You can just clock in. You can work to register. It was his nephew.
His nephew was from here. He didn't want his name disclosed, because he doesn't want everybody to see how, you know, that he's going to get him next. Yeah. I wonder if he wrote the, the, the clause for Tyson's licensing.
Oh, I think. I wrote that too. Freud Cigar Company's Carlos and Maria Orgasmo. Oh, yeah, dude.
Limited edition. The Orgasmo has started shipping, Michael! Uh-oh! The Jackie Hilario is coming soon!
The Orgasmo, the second cigar in the Freud Cigar Company's Carlos & Maria trilogy, is beginning to arrive at retailers. And we are very excited! The cigar is a 6x60 Gordo that uses Ecuadorian wrapper and an Indonesian Sumatra binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic in Nicaragua. The blend was developed by Wiber, W-I-B-E, or Wiber Ventura, and produced by Tabla Calera, William Ventura in the Dominican Republic.
The detailers aren't excited about shit except to double up. Like, "Hey, I sold it before I got here. " That's all they care about. Give me a break.
As for the name, it is meant to represent the passion of the storyline as serves as a follow-up to the Amoro, a line named for everlasting love. Previously, Tritt said that the third line with a name that has not yet been announced: Ejaculario. Is it really? It sounds like a cologne.
Come on. Oh, well, that'd be kind of... It smells like pineapple. Pineapple.
The Carlos and Maria Orgasmo is a limited edition with production limited to 500 boxes of 10 cigars. Individual cigars have an MSRP of $21. $21? Well, you have to be 21 to get one.
Yeah, it was appropriate. It comes with batteries. A full box of 10 is $210. Trid also previously said there are still plans to bring the Carlos and Maria brand into the luxury products, specifically spirits.
I'm drinking the Orgasmo now. Oh, would you like an Orgasmo beverage with your Orgasmo cigar? I'd like the Oral Orgasmo. Speaking of which, the Plasencia cigar comes in a fucking glass dildo for a hundred bucks, I mean, this is so ridiculous.
You know, I almost put that into the story. Yeah, I don't know how you didn't slide that in. A reusable glass dildo. Yeah.
For multiple uses, possible anal. That's it. That's all the news we got. That's all you got?
That's all the news. No Florida story. No, no, there was nothing to Florida story. The Florida story is an Okechoe, Okechope, fucking 65 square foot office box.
That's like half this room. Where Chris fucked up. Yeah, well, I can tell you they would definitely have problems with their lenses if they're trying to record a podcast. Right, the security cameras there screw up all the time.
Because apparently we can't. Listen here, Bobby, no podcasts in this building. They have the big camera and the big lens on the security cameras and it just zooms right in just on the envelopes. I'm so mad about that.
I wonder how he fixed that. I think I found it. I'll show you guys. Yeah, he Googled.
Phil's got it now. god all right you gotta you gotta listen to the week michael phil phil phil man i don't know dude i got there is a bunch of listeners of the week right i got a lot of father's day texts and messages and facebook messages and instagram things and i got a lot of text messages were nice from a little group of yeah and yes that was from a lot of the guys of the podcast and stuff right so the listeners of the week are going to be all those guys and not one in particular but For everybody who reached out and wished us a happy Father's Day, I'm really grateful for all you guys, it really is a great feeling, for sure. Good. I even got a nice message from your wife, that was nice.
Yeah. She likes you. I know. I like her.
Yeah. You got a Shop of the Week? I do. Tobacology?
You got it, buddy! Tobacology! In Manananas? No, no, not in Manassas, in Haymarket.
Oh, the Haymarket. The Haymarket location. That's right. That's your favorite one anyway.
Yeah, it's the one I love. That's where the family... That's where you're doing the event. That's where the family reunion is going to be.
With a t-shirt. And I'm going to dress like Annie. Oh. Annie Oakley?
No, the redhead step-shirt. Oh, Annie from, okay. Yeah. Should do Annie Oakley.
It's a cowboy thing. Annie Oakley. Yee-haw. Yee-haw.
Pew, pew, pew, pew. Oh, no, no. It's going to be good. Hey, when you get home, ask your wife if she can make the sound of a machine gun.
Women can't do it, supposedly. What do you mean? Okay, like make the sound of a machine gun. Brr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r.
Right. Girls can't do it. No. That's what I read.
Stop it. Nope. So ask. I guess you just had...
Where did you read this? Online. I read shit online all the time. On TikTok?
No, no. I read it somewhere. I don't know. So I was outside playing football with the kids, and Teddy was out there, and I retro-ed.
Right. Oh. " I go, "Yeah. " Well, here, honey.
Light your cigar. Yeah. Try this blondie. There you go.
I mean, it's not for kids. It's not for kids. It's not for kids. It's not for kids.
Here, do the one that's called Cookies and Cream. That one's for the children. All right, you got anything else? And on a high note.
No, that's it. Yeah, we're just giving tobacco to children now. Yeah, that's it. All right, this has been episode 338 of Cigar Hustle Podcast.
We're not sure what we have. It recorded, though. It did record. Well, the light was on the entire time.
So there's that. Sure. Now you just can't convert it. This light, you know.
Yeah, who knows what the format is. Might be that unusual format. It's a TPR. I can't wait.
V. All right. Let's get the hell out of here. All right.
Bye. Bye.
Show Notes
Hey guess what? We got ANOTHER new Camera....no didn't add it to the one we got last week we sent that back and ordered a new one! The show looks great but has no sound except for the sound version...
Industry news...jokes...Mikey is going one another trip...Palmer wasn't thrilled with his fathers day...
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