Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 342 Cigars to Beach
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Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers
Podcast episode 342 Take 3,
Recorded live at the Mike and
Mike Production Studio in
Deltona, FL.
This is Cigar Hustlers Podcast,
the show where two guys share
their passion for cigars,
business and life.
Join Mike the King, Stephon
Kevich and his Co host Mike BDP
Palmer as they talk about the
latest cigars news, reviews and
interview some of the most
influential people in cigar
industry.
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sound tech.
Phil, whether you're a seasoned
aficionado or new to cigars,
this podcast is for you.
So sit back, relax and light up
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Have made sense to just do it
then.
Well, I didn't know.
We just hit it and there's a
timer there.
Five years?
You had no idea.
Well, there was a there was a
timer on the little thing that
it just stopped.
I got like this hair, right?
Is the timer on?
Yeah, everything's, everything's
running.
That could possibly be running
OK, except we don't have that TV
on.
We are prepared.
All right, well, I need to move
that over there now because
we've changed, but not not right
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So this is take two.
Yes, take two.
I mean turn the coin.
Because.
Yesterday we had audio problems
because things weren't touched.
I didn't hit the right buttons,
boots hit.
The right button.
I was not involved.
We're all taking.
We're all taking equal.
Oh, we're all taking.
Equal fault.
I'm Michael.
It's a 3 way.
Part.
Now we're taking equal, OK.
I never said it was your
problem.
I just said why do I always have
to hit all the buttons?
Yeah, that's what I said.
That's not why didn't you hit
it?
I mean, you saw it was it was
green too.
Look, I don't I, you know, I
didn't notice that's not a thing
that I do, but it will be.
I don't.
We don't normally look for that
either 'cause this is new that
we're backing it up over.
Here.
It's something I do now, though.
I'll record it.
OK, I'll hit the button.
All right, All right, since I do
nothing here.
I I said what are you doing?
I'd be having VMP's your ashtray
still.
I knew he was going to bring it
up.
I'll make sure he kept going.
I'll.
Make sure that it's.
I'll make sure that it's empty
today for you too, buddy.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I provided you with your own
trash can.
Yeah.
Oh, we had to move that.
I can't.
She's at school.
I have to take this.
So you guys talk about something
else?
Why is Palmer answering the
phone while we're doing the
show?
Hey.
Honey, we're doing the podcast.
We're doing the podcast again.
Again.
Well, yeah, how about that?
Right on in here.
So how was your week?
I don't know off the top of my
head.
Oh my week it up and text it to.
You, Oh my was great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You want me to elaborate?
That was it, huh?
Oh.
Yeah, elaborate, Elaborate, I
went.
To the beach, yeah, That, that
that was my highlight.
Phil's got a whole clan of
beachgoers now.
You know, I did see that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's quite, quite the, the quite
the beach thing is going on
there.
Yep.
Yeah, former employees of Cigar
Hustler.
Current employers.
Current employees of Cigar
Hustler.
And customers of cigar hustlers.
Cigar hustlers.
I guess it's better than.
Local dignitaries and political
figures, yeah.
All brought together because we
all met at Cigar Hustler.
And it makes me so happy.
It's a great meeting place.
Yeah, it's great.
So.
So we had a recording and it got
botched, so we have to act like
we've never done this before.
Well, if you didn't mention
that, we could have not even
told.
So how was your trip?
It was a lovely trip except I
got sick.
Except I have AI have an update
for the for the illness.
Oh, you got sick?
You have the norovirus.
No, I don't think I did.
You didn't have the.
Norovirus I.
Was reading, yeah, good news,
bad news.
So you know, so, so the good
news is I don't think I had the
norovirus.
The bad news is I think I had
the new summer COVID.
What?
That causes vomiting?
Yes, vomiting and diarrhea.
I was watching this morning,
vomiting, diarrhea, chills,
fever.
Now, the one symptom we all had
that we thought was strange is
we had a our throats were
affected, we had a hoarse
throat, and I didn't throw up.
You didn't vomit?
No, I didn't vomit.
I just had terrible diarrhea.
Oh, I thought you said you were
vomiting.
No.
Think maybe you just said.
Adrian and her sister vomited
and I had diarrhea, so they were
coming out the top.
I was coming out the bottom, but
the new summer COVID affects
your throat, gives you sore
throat and makes your voice
hoarse.
And we were all talking like,
why are we all talking like
this?
And they thought, well, we've
been throwing up, that's why.
And I was like, well, I didn't
throw up.
So mine had summer COVID, which
isn't as bad as the regular
COVID.
The death rate's way low.
So we're still fucked.
Yeah, you guys are still fucked,
but I feel better than they're
still going.
To play so.
No, what's the incubation for
COVID?
It's not 24 days or whatever
you.
Don't tell Greg though.
I want him to keep making plans
for his funeral.
Well, he finds out it was COVID.
He's going to be worse.
Covid's what almost killed him.
Now he can't go up and down the
stairs anymore.
Could we go to Walmart buy the
whole natural supplement area?
My wife was going can we get AZ
Pak?
I'm like, it's not even what we
had.
He's going to fucking.
What's that stuff called where
you put in the diffuse water
diffuser well?
Yeah, his hydrogen diffuser.
Yeah, that lasted.
Oh, that too.
That's the other thing.
Yeah.
Oh, this is good water.
I'm like, I love that.
I said.
OK, so.
I asked him if he was still
using it.
He said sometimes.
On what planet?
He does not.
On what planet is?
It was growing.
Hydrogen water like.
Well, that's what Superman
drinks.
That's.
So absurd.
On Krypton, all the weather's
hydrogen.
I can't some of the stuff that
he he does, you know?
But other than that, it was, it
was, you know, other than the
two days of being dead, it was,
it was, it was, it was a lovely
trip, OK, A lot of lake
watching.
Yeah, So that was the one thing
that it was extremely perplexing
to me, right, is that you went
on this trip, right, and you
didn't bring any cigars.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, I didn't take
cigars.
I was trying to be nice.
I'm the only cigar guy in the
family and I thought it would be
polite not to be sitting around
smoking cigars.
I didn't know who, you know,
people go, oh, it's so smelly,
or you know, or take me away
from the crowd or something.
But believe me, never happen
again.
So this is the problem with
cigar smokers.
We're too polite.
Right.
I don't think for.
Bullshit.
Well, not everybody.
Well, not to the other cigar
smokers, but we're polite to
other but there.
Was, you know, there was, there
was a lot of kids there.
There was a lot of family
members I'd never met before.
I didn't want Adrian go, you
know?
Hey, your husband's name was
coming.
Where does he go?
Oh, he's over there smoking by
the lake.
You didn't have to smoke during
all of those activities and
stuff as as things die down
throughout the night or
whatever, you want to go chill
out on the patio when
everybody's kind of settled in.
No.
When it gets dark, I go inside
because of mosquitoes.
It's a lake.
There's mosquitoes everywhere.
OK.
I was just a lot of excuses for.
No, I was never outside at night
one the last night before we
left because I didn't see any
fireworks.
There's still fireworks.
It was the day after or
whatever.
I was outside and I go, you
know, and they're going to look
way over there.
There's fireworks like, oh,
they're pretty and then you're
slapping stuff and.
They have a spray for that,
yeah.
But then you got to take another
shower, you know, just going to
bed.
Yeah, you got to spend fucking
10 minutes in the shower.
Not even.
Man your anxiety is super crazy
my.
Yeah, my life.
Is you wanna take it?
My life is.
Too.
You're out of your fucking mind,
my.
Life is just one big anxiety
attack.
So, you know, you know, they
didn't have anxiety was when I
did the marijuana gummy.
And that night's kind of a blur.
So you took a high dose THC?
Well, I bet in half, but then
later in the night he suggested
we eat the other half too.
I was like OK wow, I'm drunk and
high, I'll take the other half
too.
Did you wake up?
Was your ass sore?
No, no, no, no, my wife, I
texted her before I took the
second-half and look, I'm
slurring my speech.
I'm about to take the
second-half of the gummy.
You better come get me.
Fucking Palmer's on the floor.
Well, yeah, we know he wasn't on
the patio smoking cigars.
Right.
We're not on the patio.
It's hot in here.
Is it hot in here all of a
sudden?
No.
Oh, it's the COVID.
I'm dying again.
It's probably the.
COVID that you?
Have the summer COVID?
Hospital, the norovirus or
whatever the fuck COVID slash.
Norovirus.
Oh my God, so Jax got hurt
playing basketball?
Yeah, I saw.
I saw the Facebook post
immediately texted you and asked
if he was OK.
You didn't answer.
Thank you very much for reaching
on this you.
Didn't answer so I immediately
went to Plan B which was reach
out to your wife.
And what did she say?
She.
Told me everything.
Were were we at the hospital at
that?
Time the pictures where I don't
know.
I wasn't concerned.
Oh, that was right after.
I wonder if the child was OK.
Yeah, so he was he's he's really
good at stealing the ball during
basketball, right.
And he went to go drive.
He.
Upset the other day.
Yeah, that's, you know, I don't
know, man.
Part of me is like, hey, that's
the game.
Yeah, it, you know, And part of
me, I was like, yeah, it's kind
of fucked up, but what?
Well.
When you told me the original
story it didn't sound as as
rough as the the story I heard
once I saw you, so the slap down
part makes it sound a little.
I got it on film.
I'll have to look at it.
So he went up for a layup after
he stole the ball and the kid
kind of trucked him.
What does that mean exactly?
Trucking to them?
Not from sports, they're.
Up in the air and you.
Ran through, yeah.
OK, gotcha.
Like Jack should have learned to
stop and then kind of go up and
then take the foul.
Instead, he does it in motion.
He's going to the point.
So when he came down, he came
down on his left wrist and he
buckle fractured his radius
bone.
Yeah, I'm a doctor now what?
Between all the injuries that
I've had and.
We had several on call.
Yeah, I mean, what you told me.
I reached out.
I was like.
Hey, I immediately googled as
soon as I was told.
I was like, OK, because I'm
pretty sure I knew which bone it
was, but not specifically which
side.
And so, yeah.
Well, fortunately for US1 of
Jax's best friend's dad is also
like a doctor.
He's a, you know, he's like a.
Any foot guys?
No, he's in a, well, this coach.
Well, he's not a coach, he's
just a friend whose kid plays
with.
So he's a, he's up there.
He's like emergency surgery for
ER or whatever.
So he looks at it, he touches it
a couple times and, you know,
asks Jax a bunch of questions
and he says.
Oh, he was there at the game.
Yeah, yeah, He said you probably
want to take him in.
I said OK, so then we gave Jax
the option, like, do you want to
watch the rest of the game or do
you want to go?
And he's like, I want to go.
It hurt.
So any.
Tears.
Maybe more teary along the lines
of I can't play more basketball,
more upset than pain.
Yeah.
And at that point we had figured
we he thought that if he was
going to get a cast, he wasn't
going to be able to go on the
water slide on 4th of July.
He wasn't going to be able to go
on water slide for one of his
buddies birthday.
So.
All these things are running
through his head.
I'm like, I'm like, relax, dude,
fucking.
We'll figure it out, right?
So thankfully they got a cast on
or like a temporary cast on it,
right?
And then we took him to an ortho
and it was just a brace.
So we just bought a couple of
extra braces, let him get wet,
whatever.
And then?
Just throw him in the dryer.
Boom.
I don't know if you can dry
them.
Just let him air dry.
Oh.
OK, swap them out.
You can call Doctor Baldwin.
Of course I could.
OK, well you didn't mention part
of the story.
I was like, I don't do anything.
I don't care who tells me until
I talk to doctor.
This is how it played out,
Doctor.
Assess.
Right.
Must go.
Right.
OK.
And then I called Doctor
Baldwin.
Yeah, right.
Hey, I know it's the weekend.
You're probably off.
Where we at?
Yeah, we start the text with.
I hate to bother you, I'm sorry,
but.
Oh, I'm past that at this point.
Oh, you don't even say that.
Yeah, you know, like.
There was somebody.
Hey, going to the hospital.
Oh yeah, I know with that.
Oh, then you get right through.
There was some couple of weeks
ago I had to ask him about and
you know, he answered and he was
a big help as always.
And I told him I go.
My wife has the instructions
that I'm not dead until you tell
them I'm dead.
That's right.
So if something happens, she'll
call you.
You have to come in and assess
me.
Oh, he's got to call it.
Yeah, he's got.
Yeah, that's what I said.
I'm not dead until Doctor
Baldwin says I'm dead.
He's got to call it, right?
He's the one.
We're going to need he.
Said that's the deal.
Yeah.
They're going to tell I'm sorry
your husband died.
What do you mean, no?
Well, Chris didn't say he was
dead.
Who's Chris?
That's his personal position.
You got to call him.
Nice.
Somebody in there rotting so you
better turn his buttons back on
because he's going to be mad if
he's not then.
Right.
Well, that's fantastic.
Well, I'm glad you have that.
Yes, well, I'm sure he'd do the
same for you.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he would.
Right.
Good guy.
Probably not.
Phil.
They'd call him.
He'd go, yeah, he's dead.
Listen, if if you're patient,
long, if you wait a few weeks, I
mean, the Baldwins could be on
on a fill picture that's true at
the beach.
Oh, that's right.
They might be.
He's calling them right.
He's.
Accumulating all of them.
Right, yeah, sorry.
Sucking everybody up.
It's a big movement.
Wow.
I like how he's in the front of
the photos too, like he's the
the leader of the.
Oh he is.
It's his phone.
He is the clear, he said.
No, no, that's not why.
Yeah, he's a clear leader.
Because everybody else has short
arms and I had the longer ones.
He's the leader.
I don't know.
I think he's a leader too,
right?
He's a leader.
I like that Chad only comes
around on days and times and I'm
not here.
Oh, has he been here again?
Yeah, yeah, I see pictures.
I've seen pictures.
Pictures of him here.
Yeah.
Oh, I've not even seen pictures
of him.
Here like like the hustler mafia
meeting or like.
They still have those.
Yeah.
I'm not downplaying, I just
didn't know.
Yeah.
Every week.
Yeah, and then he went I.
Saw the ones at the winery that
looked wonderful.
He went through, he lost his
mind one day.
He went through this massive
purge and just a limited
everybody who doesn't really
engage.
Oh, in the little chatty.
Thing I was like, what was that
about?
He's like, well, they don't
know.
If you don't come to the why do
you need to be in it?
I mean, that's a great point.
Sure, but the way I dropped out,
I didn't ever win, so there.
Wasn't even a threatening
statement though, he just oh, no
warning enough.
Yeah, he just dropped the
fucking hammer.
Well, there's been talks before
of you have to participate.
Oh, he's going.
Florida Cigar Club rules.
I think that he got mad, yeah,
that other people started
including adding other people to
the group.
Oh.
The group was growing, yeah.
No, it was it was mainly because
everybody in the group that was
there was saying, hey, we should
probably start taking these
people out if they're not going
to come and support the brick
and mortars.
I said, yeah, you know, that's a
good idea.
The.
Brick and mortar wineries, Yeah.
Oh.
We were at Hustler when this was
going on.
Oh, oh, gotcha.
Hard hammer dropped.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah.
I got to get for some.
I got to do $5 fillets to get
them here more than once a
month.
Oh, even with the, even with the
other specials and everything.
Or maybe just get some roast
beef and I'll just chop it up.
Charcuterie.
Yeah, Yeah.
Nice charcuterie, $5 charcuterie
boards.
We tried that, it didn't.
We support everybody that
supports Hustler.
Except.
For the winery, that was the
only one.
I'm waiting on my hefe reorder.
Let's call them call them right
now on the show.
Well, can't you just handle it
when you're there going?
Yeah, when you can't just say
hey, they need this, this and
this.
I tell them all the time.
Dresser.
Are they out?
They're they're not completely
out.
No, completely.
Close.
Really.
They're down to three sticks.
Yeah, no, they're, they're
close.
But every time we go there, we
we pretty much sell their cigars
for them.
So we put everybody towards the
post, Anya and.
That's very nice, Very nice of
you.
Oh, I saw them.
I saw them smoking.
La Flora, not a flora, but.
Cheddon Boots.
La Aurora when?
When they last pictures I saw
them there.
La Aurora.
Yeah, they were there with
Willie, of course.
Oh, that's that's a free cigar.
And then Sweeney popped into to
this to this town and.
Oh yeah, Sweeney.
Yeah, Sweeney, I know he.
Doesn't remember Sweeney.
I remember the name though.
Yeah, La Cultura 0.
OK, gotcha, Gotcha.
Yeah.
Yep, so there's all that.
We're at 60 minutes.
You want to do Phil's fun fact.
Sure.
Or should we give him more shit?
I don't care, we can go either
way.
I'm good either way.
Well, 4th of July had a water
slide fireworks.
Yeah, you did a lot of
fireworks.
I did.
That we upped it this year,
yeah.
Because, you know, what's funny
is I usually go to Doctor
Baldwin's.
OK.
Before the July.
But yeah, but I didn't hear from
him and I didn't want to be
like, what's going on, you know?
We I saw my my Facebook memory,
whatever we were there for.
We've done a couple of years
with him but nothing recent.
Yeah, no, I think we were there
last year.
I think we're there almost every
year at this point.
And I was like, I don't know
what they're doing and I didn't
want to make it like.
Yeah, so we're making plans.
What day should we come?
Home.
Yeah.
So is so is it the 4th again?
We're doing it again.
Should I come at six?
You you like the dip I brought
last year?
Yeah, I just want to make sure
you know what I mean.
So like.
I mean, we obviously weren't
here, so.
Yeah, I didn't want to.
I don't think Britney would ever
make a dip.
Yes, she would.
She does.
She makes dip.
She's made dip for Boots house
before, yeah.
She's usually like extravagant.
Well, it's fancy dip.
I like the.
She doesn't, she doesn't open
up, you know, a little dish of
sour cream and onion, you know,
and.
Pop it out.
I mean she goes hard in the
paint regardless.
We had our neighbors come over
and we had 75 cheeseburgers.
Yes.
But you ate chicken yesterday.
I figured I'd see you eating a.
Cheeseburger.
Well, then what she does is she
makes sure that she evenly
distributes the additional, oh,
everybody, everybody gets to go
home with.
Because it was one year.
That's perfect.
You will get cheeseburgers.
You ate cheeseburgers and hot
dogs for like a solid month?
Yeah, one year after you tell
them they were lion dogs.
Yeah, the lion dogs the.
Lion Dogs.
I think I don't know if the hot
dogs are still there, she might
throw them away, but I've I'll.
Throw them away, bring them in.
Everybody's poor here.
We'll all eat them.
Yeah, we'll all.
Eat them.
I've gone back to them a few
times.
We found, we found this cute
little bar on the on the lake
that somebody had some rich guy
had owned it and then he killed
himself.
So it sort of sat for a couple
years.
This is a story I was told and a
new guy had opened it so and he
had done really, it looked
really nice.
It was a nice, you know, simple
little bar, but his food menu,
everything was hot dogs perfect.
So like he had, you know, four
or five different kinds of hot
dogs with the toppings and
stuff.
And then he had hot dog nachos.
Oh my God, sounds delicious it.
Sounds terrible.
Maybe there's a cut off hot dog?
There's some type of appetizer
that would normally have
something else that had hot dogs
in it.
That's cool.
Yeah, it was kind.
Of neat.
Something different, yeah.
Was there beans and weenies on
this restaurant?
No, because then there's beans.
That's fucked.
Up but you could get 2 hot dogs
and a beer for $16.00 on the
lunch special.
Feels all about.
The whole the beer.
He likes the weenies.
Phil wants the weenies with the
beans, right?
You know.
Right, I'm sure there's like a
pack of hot dogs in the back and
a microwave.
How'd you get the beans on top
of the frank?
So.
So, yeah.
All right, Well, let's go.
Let's go on to Phil's fun facts.
And we're going to call
somebody.
Yes.
Oh, he had it ready.
Welcome the Cigar Hustlers
podcast feature Phil's fun fact.
Hello peoples.
All right, a shot of whiskey in
the Old West.
A 45 cartridge for a six gun
cost $0.12.
So did a glass of whiskey.
If a cow hand was low on cash,
he would often give the
bartender a cartridge in
exchange for a drink.
This became known as a shot of
whiskey.
Did you write this?
No, I don't write them anymore.
If we get sent in, that's not
for my regular suppliers.
So really, it's not a oh, I
thought for.
Sure, that was from them.
No they sent one too but it had
to do with tattoos but this
other gentleman have sent a
couple and I haven't used them
so I felt obligated.
Oh, who's the guy?
Jean Jargelet?
Sure.
He sent me two of them.
We haven't used them.
I don't know where he is.
He's in.
He's still in Ocala.
He's in hiding.
Hello, John.
I don't remember where The thing
is for hold on, give me a minute
here.
I didn't have that one ready.
I.
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From the four quarters of the
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with M2 John Carney departs La
Florida Dominicana John Carney,
the longtime VP sales of la
Florida Dominicana, is no longer
at the company.
He joined the company in 2011 as
sales representative and in
2013, just two years later, was
promoted to VP of Sales, a role
that he's held since earlier
this until earlier this week he
updated his social media to
reflect that and was no longer
at LFD Cigars and instead was
focusing on shoulder of giants
and AI business development
company that he started with his
father.
I'm looking forward to spending
more time with my family and
focusing on my personal
ventures, said Carney in a
statement to cigars or podcast
LFD Dominicana or LFD Cigars.
Sorry, said it would be issuing
a formal statement soon and now
on the phone.
Let's see.
Well, it's gonna you know this.
Oh yeah, you got to call and
then hang up and then count to
10 and then call back.
Let it ring three times.
That's exactly right.
Ring a Ding A Ling a Ling A Ling
A Ling a Ling a Ling Rd.
Caster.
Oh yeah.
There you go.
Now it's blue.
That one has to be blue, the
other one has to be red.
If it's green, we're all fucked.
Except over there can.
Forward it to.
Voicemail.
Oh, there you go.
There's the secret one.
Yeah, that's so.
Now everybody knows it's not a
secret.
Well, nobody has his number.
Will he answer?
He's got to find the headset.
He's scrambling right now.
Did you pretext him?
I did.
Did he answer?
He did.
He threw his espresso on the air
and everything and got all
nervous.
Oh, he's driving now, back up to
Cigars on the Ave.
Your call has been forwarded to
voicemail.
The person you're trying to
reach is not available.
At the time.
Please record.
He's on the phone with HE.
Did update his phone so it no
longer says the number like four
O 7 the.
Message Yeah, well, why nobody
has the number?
John Carney, let's see if he
calls back.
But let's go.
He doesn't give a shit.
Call Jack.
Then talk to him about John.
Hey, what do you think happened?
What do you know about John
Carney?
Leaving.
Oh yeah, maybe he knows where
he's going.
OK, so I will tell you this.
Maybe there's gossip called
Jack.
Maybe there's gossip.
So we interviewed him on the
original episode.
Yesterday, yes we did.
And then we called him on the
Patreon and asked.
Much better questions.
Some more in depth questions.
We pretty much on the regular
show got I'm not allowed to talk
about that.
So or what?
What?
No, what did he say?
He goes.
I'm sorry you broke up.
What was that question?
Yeah, yeah, which was fantastic.
Yeah, it was.
It was hilarious.
We enjoyed it.
We're sorry you're not going to
be able to partake in that.
But tell you what, I'll ask you
a question and you say you
didn't hear me.
Yeah.
OK.
So can you tell us why exactly
is you left LFD?
We heard there might have been
problems with management.
I'm I'm sorry I didn't get that
there.
There were some communication
errors in my headphones.
OK, Boots, now you left.
OK, Mary, Bleep kill.
You can say fuck on this show,
it's OK.
Oh.
So now your display isn't there.
Because I changed the buttons.
Gotcha.
There's a lot of a lot of things
so complicated.
So many buttons are here.
That's funny.
And this one has to be blue and
that one has to be red.
If it's green, it's no good over
there.
If it's white, it's no good.
It needs to be red.
Three Reds over there.
Yes, three Reds.
I was like 3.
What's the third one?
That's for the camera.
Scramble.
Scrambler to the third red.
All right, well, and this.
Has to be out over here too,
those two lights.
Well, hopefully Carney will call
us back.
If not, we'll just.
I mean, we was in the show.
Earlier.
Well, we just called Jack and
asked him why John Carney left
out.
Seriously, let's ask Jack if he
heard any gossip.
I'm just curious.
He doesn't know we talked to him
because he hadn't heard the
Patreon yet.
He.
Heard Jack.
Why did?
Jack, we can't get him on the
phone.
What's the real shit?
What happened?
What's the?
Nobody answers for us anymore,
Jack.
Wondering.
Jack is automatic.
Jack Smooth Torano, What's up,
buddy?
How you doing brother?
Good man.
So this is the regular podcast.
Just so you know, we we're we're
redoing it today because
apparently we had some audio
difficulties.
Entirely my fault.
Perfect.
It sounded like you were on the
helicopter again.
Yeah, no, we didn't have that.
You can hear any audio
whatsoever.
Apparently there's a.
Palmer's back from vacation.
He's back from vacation.
They.
Can't run this without me, yeah?
We're lost without.
Somebody's gonna fuck up the
buttons.
I I had the either COVID or the
norovirus.
I'm not sure which one.
To be the term.
I I got four friends that went
to Napa.
These two couples, they all came
back with COVID.
My Rep in Texas, Brandon Luna,
also known as as Arnold
Schwarzenegger, fake Arnold his
his whole family had COVID.
So there's.
Summer Covid's going wrong.
I told him I said buddy, just,
you know, put a little light up
your ass and and drink a little
Clorox and you'll be good.
Just in time for elections.
Yeah, right.
So we we have a question for you
because we can't get John Carney
on the phone today.
Yeah, we did a nice, we did a
nice interview with him
yesterday, but there's no audio
of it, so.
So just was like, we're just
sitting here, Yeah.
Wow, so we thought, who's going
to answer the phone, Jack?
Jack will answer the phone.
Jack always answers.
So why did John Carney leave
LFT?
What'd you hear?
Yeah.
So what do you think I I don't?
Know I actually, I actually sent
him a very nice text message
wishing him the best and that I
was sorry to hear the news.
Did he?
Answer I got Steven Hernandez
calling me.
Oh, I did great. 03 way call him
in that must.
Be bored.
So no, you guys, you get, it's
not bored.
It's it's there's crazy what's
going on right now.
Do do do do.
Do do do this just in what?
Is it?
That's for, That's for, not the
regular show.
What's happening?
I mean, we're doing the, we're
doing the Patreon.
Whatever.
You wanted to be.
You guys, you guys, you know,
you always call me for, for fun
news and I got, I got something
going on that's hilarious.
Hang up and call back, Michael.
Hang up and call back.
Yeah, we can add it.
In we can add it in.
OK, we'll be right back.
Thank you for listening to
episode 342.
You guys are podcast.
See, that's, that's why he's
been, he's so political about,
you know, so nonchalant with the
whole LFT Carney because that
was last week.
Right.
Yeah, it's old.
It's old and.
I wish, I wish him the best and
I don't.
Know back to Carney, I I thought
he never even responded to me.
He responded to heck, Sir, He
didn't.
Respond to me Did you?
Did you use the right phone?
Yeah, they took his phone away.
He has a new number.
Yeah, he has a new number.
That's real.
Yeah, that was the but I mean.
Hector, I don't think I don't
think Hector Hector would be
have his new phone.
I don't know, but I will.
I will cross reference there and
he.
He might want to verify that.
I might want to verify it.
OK.
Yeah, that does that does make a
little sense.
That might track.
And then you have to call and
hang up and you have to count to
10 and then call again.
Yeah, you got to call him twice.
I.
Don't know is it?
Did anything else come out?
Did he leave or did they leave
him?
You know, when I asked that
question, he got got broken up,
he said he didn't.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear that
question.
So.
So I, I don't know either way.
I mean I I wish Cardi the best.
How, how much do you wish him at
the best?
Like as far as replacing you at
Espinoza the best or like
slightly?
I have, I have.
I have no worry about that.
That I know.
So.
That I know, yeah.
I have no worry.
I have no worry about that.
But you know, listen, I would
hate for him to replace a buddy
of mine at a company, but I
consider John Carney a buddy, so
I would part of he would be
happy for all.
Right.
So let me ask you, I'm just
going to ask you this one
question.
OK.
If he replaced Justin Andrews at
STG, would you be OK with that?
Yes.
I I don't think Carney.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, not
that.
Not that he wouldn't do it.
Not, not, not the qualifications
or any of those things, but
would you be OK?
I just, I, I, I just hung up
with Justin.
So no, I wouldn't.
Be OK with Oh you're such a
sweet.
Man, I had to.
I had to.
I had to fill in Justin on the
news of the day.
Oh my God, we have to.
What's in this show now?
This is ridiculous.
I'm.
Going to call you back when this
is done.
Thank you.
Bye all.
Right, bye.
All right, this is the.
OK, here's the news.
There's a $200.00 cigar.
John Carney left, Sanji Patel,
then the Latios make it start.
Over go back.
Come on.
Why not know what Jack?
Just relax.
This guy has a lot of anxiety.
Let's go.
He can.
Relax.
Did you already hit the news?
You already hit the news button,
right?
Yeah, I, I don't know, Should I
hit it again?
Last week I didn't want to hit
it at all, so I hit it twice
this week.
Oh no.
From the four quarters of the
world.
Did you red light?
Today, no.
We need the cigar hustler.
He's got summer norovirus.
Yeah, I, I was sitting there
this morning going, I ain't
pooped in three days.
This is weird.
'Cause it all came out in once.
That's why, as my wife said, she
goes, well you shit for three
days straight, what do you want?
There's nothing in the system.
A lot of gas.
Though Yeah.
Oh, very nice.
Very weird and you're scared
'cause you're like.
Could this be?
Well, for three days there was
no trusting of Trinidad edition.
Limitada 2024 goes on sale for
$200.00 per cigar in the UK.
200. 200 in late June the
Trinidad focused Tabano's World
Days, a multi day event that is
held in selected countries each
year.
Not This one took place in
London.
You.
Want to talk about too late to
the boat?
During that event, Tabano's
essay and Hunters and Franco,
the UK distributor of Cuban
cigars, celebrated 55th
anniversary of the Trinidad band
including a humidor auction that
raised 6.5 or 6.53 with $6.53
million U.S. dollars for the
Cuban health system.
Including the humidor auction
was the turn at 55th Anniversary
Fundamour's Vintage 10 humidor
made by SD DuPont, which
contains 55 Trinidad Fundamour.
So 6.53 million went to the
Cuban health care system.
Yes, the Fidels.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes to the Fidel.
You went to the Fidels, not the
Castro's, but if your first name
was Fidel, you.
Get free Health Care now in.
Cuba, we have free health care.
That's just how they're doing it
this year.
Ought to be named Fidel in Cuba.
It's it's probably the number
one name of the male child in
it's.
It's actually required, right?
It's mandatory.
If you have more than one child,
one of them has to be named
Fidel.
If it's a boy, Fidel.
If it's a girl, Fidelia.
Fidelia.
Yeah.
The event also marked debut of
the Some Weird Cigar That Sells.
It's a six and an eighth by 49
Toro extra that it made for
Cohiba, blah blah blah blah.
Six and an eighth.
Six and an eighth.
That's what it says.
It's like a Wonka size.
Six and an eighth.
The cigars carry a gold and
black secondary band that says
Addition Limitada da and the
year they are released.
In addition to being a unique
vitola, the brand Habanos essay
says that Addition Limitada
cigars use tobacco from the
Voluta Abaja region in Pinot Del
Rio.
Hello, I am Hiroshi Robonia.
I am from Henna Del Rio.
Thank you very much.
You know, go off the color of
that band real quick.
Yes, black and gold like Rocky.
Like before the Postonia band I
didn't see a lot of.
Black and gold, black and gold.
Everybody likes purple.
We're just trendsetters.
I like the black and gold.
H Upman, Magnum, FINI Finite
Ramon Alones, Absolutas and a
Trinidad wow Caballeros Sunclair
when they when they will show
know what the.
Fuck is that?
I can't even correct him.
I don't remember this from the
first five takes like I don't.
We didn't.
We didn't go that.
Far I don't know where to begin
as far as correcting that.
He started to smell something,
but I don't think he.
Finished.
Yeah, I just gave up with the
word malorganite.
All right, California tobacco
tags decreased today.
Hey.
How much then It's OK because
the Colorado cigar tags
increased today so now it's a
wash though if you live in live
in both of those states.
Well, it's amazing to me
because, you know, you figure
that the California government's
like, oh, we're going to raise
the tax and right.
Raise the tags.
Hey then I'm buying.
Hey, what's going on?
Why aren't we selling any
cigars?
Well, because everybody's just
shipping things in from the
United States Postal Service at
this point.
Well, we need to regulate that.
Well, in order to regulate that,
Sir, you're going to have to get
a warrant for every single
transaction.
Search the mail.
Yeah, they kind of can't just.
Randomly open packages.
You think they try to make you
think they try to make rule
changes for that.
So that did you can go through
the mail you.
Can't.
Well, you can't go through the
mail now without a search
warrant.
Hey, we're going to go.
We're going to go through the
mail.
Yeah, the California's not
allowed to do that without
warrants.
No, but I mean like do you think
maybe they make it illegal for
cigars to be shipped to
California?
I'm sure that it's considered
illegal.
Yeah, they already do that now.
Oh, is it?
That's why we ship pencils.
Just like cigar hazard again,
just like it's illegal to do
drugs, but you know it has to be
caught doing drugs, right?
You know what I mean?
Like, and if you're a drug
dealer, you need a warrant to go
into that seize the house.
Well, so you're going to get a
warrant for every single mail
package that comes in.
Well usually I see like the when
people mail cigars they have
like a sticker like Willy's
cigars or something.
Doesn't matter what it says, he
could.
Put Willy's drugs on the.
Box.
Yeah, he could say.
He could say.
Yeah.
Cocaine.
Yeah, he could say.
They still get a lot.
Probable cause.
No, no, you don't get probable
cause to open up a package.
Oh.
OK, I didn't know.
It's not like you're going to
have some police officers just
hanging out of the post office.
Maybe if the Fidel's take over
the system.
Maybe then they can't.
They just.
Fucking rip them shits open.
They don't.
Nobody's.
No, that's.
That's custom, yeah.
They only do when it comes into
the country.
That's Customs not giving a fuck
about what comes in.
Oh, we thought maybe drugs.
So we destroyed.
Yeah, we.
Drilled a hole in the side of
the glass case.
If you'd like to file a
complaint, there's the line over
there and and then if you see
that small fire of paper burning
next to that person, that's
where all those things go.
Those are the suggestion box.
Right.
Yeah, That's where your form
goes.
Right in there.
Sanji Patel and Aladio Diaz team
up, friend.
Charisma line.
Orgasmo Charisma.
Charisma no Orgasmo is a
different group of.
People, I think that's Aladio
that.
Was Aladio.
Yeah, was it Aladio?
Sanji Patel, owner of the MUGA,
MUGA Inc and the SP1.
You know what he calls one
company?
MUGA.
The other one's SP 104-1014.
It's probably his address.
That way if.
Post office box SP1015 yeah,
there's a new line disputing
today and that he developed with
eladio Diaz is called charisma
and features a blend dominated
by Dominican tobacco that Phil
does not like.
Phil loves Dominican tobacco.
The rapper is a.
Dominion John Carney knew.
You're late.
He's hang up and he's got to
call back.
Now he's got to call back.
Were you pooping?
No, no, I got my phone on do not
disturb.
I was working on some stuff on
my computer so.
I missed it Do not disturb
because that Autobot thing
really.
Do you have the headset?
Yeah, the headset on well.
You know what, No, I don't.
Did you guys want to do the?
Did you guys want to talk like
we did yesterday?
Yeah.
Oh well, we're, we're talking,
we're recording right now.
We're just calling to say hi.
We just missed You can make us a
daily thing now.
So am I supposed to pretend like
we didn't talk yesterday?
Yeah.
Actually.
And later we're going to go to
Cigars on the Avenue.
Are you going to meet us?
No, I'm fly.
I actually I am going there
right now.
Do you work?
Yeah, yeah, we, we thought you
worked today so we were going to
come by it's.
Got a lot of downtime, yeah.
No, I no, I'm going, I'm going
by.
So I'm driving down to to Boca
today because there's Evan
Darnell is a good friend of mine
in the Red Meat Lovers Club and
he's got a big dinner and
fundraiser he's doing tonight at
New York Prime and Boca.
So I'm driving down to Boca
today to go and do that.
And you know, I've been involved
with him with some events in the
past.
So I'm going to be, I'm going to
start doing some stuff with him.
I think eventually, whether it's
whether it's participating and
helping just raise funds or, you
know, bringing people to the
events.
But you know, we, we, we've had
a, we've had a great
relationship and friendship over
the years, so.
I'm going down there.
See what's happened?
Well, they did do me a favor.
We did a red meat lovers event
here.
We well we did a sober mazing.
No, but we called it that
because we did the steak dinner
and I had a little, I had a
little interaction with him.
He was very nice.
He just asked us not to use the
name because I guess it's not
part of the cigars, right?
It's, it's his organization.
So, so we, we took it down.
I mean I I changed everything
for him and he sent me a nice
little message and said thank
you and said he was going to
send me something as a thank
you.
Will he never sent it?
Oh, so so so now we're sending.
Yeah, so.
So if John's going to be there
and he knows that way, good
look.
John Carney's The Mug.
You were very nice to him, you
sent him a nice letter thing but
he never got the gift.
You don't know if you miss
shipped it or went to the wrong.
I will.
He's a great guy.
So he's going to he's going to
probably send you up something
really nice.
I'm also, I'm also providing my
services tomorrow as like a, a
Courier service.
So when I drive back up
tomorrow, I'm bringing some
stuff up.
So I will mention it to him
that, you know, Farmer did his
thing, but the the, the
challenge is going to happen.
He's probably going to give you
something and it's probably
going to be like some event
exclusive cigars.
So I can't guarantee that they
won't get consumed on the three
hour drive back though.
So you're not going down there
at some potato concierge or
anything like that?
No, no, no.
No SO.
And it's and when you snack,
snack, snack.
Oh.
Got it, got it.
So when you're driving down,
just a confirmation, are you
going to use the LFD card for
gas and tolls or has that been
shut down already?
It's.
Still active.
Did you have to put that put
that in the mail?
They might.
Have forgot the LFD speed pass.
Yeah.
All the stories I could tell if
I wasn't, if I wasn't on the
record.
Oh man, and also we spoke to
Jack today and apparently he
sent you a nice text message
wish.
Wishing you luck and everything.
He doesn't know if it went to
the LFD phone.
He said he never got back to
you.
Never got back to him but you
didn't do.
That so Jack.
Jack has that number, so I has
the old number, so I will.
We.
Will send him a text message.
He's very heard.
Yeah, we.
We explained that to him, but he
said Hector got an answer, so he
was very.
Upset.
So just to be clear, this is the
regular show, This isn't
Patreon.
The Patreon one worked.
All right, great, all right.
Just letting you know.
Well, it's funny you mentioned
so Hector.
Hector messaged me on social
media.
So he mentioned me on social
media.
Jack, I don't know if Hector has
my number.
Honestly, social media is the
best way to get a hold of me
just because it's I've had four
numbers in the last like seven
years.
So it's, unless you're on
iMessage with me, you know, it
doesn't, it may or may not go
through.
And, you know, and a lot of the
manufacturing friends that I had
had had that number, which is
kind of interesting.
So, you know, I probably should
reach out to some of those
people just to send them some
messages to let them know that
I, that I, you know, that I got
a, that you have a new number.
And some are just my friends,
you know, Some are just friends
too.
Right.
I will say.
The offer's so good to scroll it
here on the screen if you want.
Yeah, the the Espinoza people.
Put it on the street.
The.
Espinoza team was the most they
they went out of their way to
all get a hold of me, which was
really nice.
And they, you know, they sent a
lot of nice messages.
Eric himself was was great.
So I, you know, I think I said
yes yesterday on the Patreon,
right?
Yes, you did.
Yeah.
I'd say no.
All right, Thank God if I said
no, I didn't want him to be
like, man, we were so nice.
This guy trashed his fucking
Patreon.
Yeah.
I mean, I just think that if
Jack and Hector are being nicer,
they're just looking for the
juice, bro.
Let's be honest, you know, they
want to, they want to know
what's going on with you, wish
you the best.
What happened, you know?
You know, you mentioned
something about the, the company
credit card.
So I, I don't know, this is
something that people think
about.
I thought about it in my head.
I'm like you swipe the credit
card to see if it's still
working or not right?
Test it.
Yeah, I did not do that.
So I didn't swipe it or.
Nothing.
I just immediately took and
threw it away.
No, man, you're you're a man of
integrity, dude.
That doesn't surprise me.
He's driving to Boca Stop at a
gas station.
Now if if it were me, I'd buy a
fucking boat.
What is this $80,000?
I'm like I have no idea.
Do you know right now in Florida
there's no taxes on fun stuff?
Governor's made it for the
entire month of July.
Fun stuff, clear.
Boats concert tickets.
Hookers.
Really.
Vacations.
Yeah.
Anything fun spent money on in
the state of Florida?
No sales tax.
Wow, wow, that's.
Really how it should be to be
honest with.
You regards.
Does that count those?
Are fun.
We should send a letter, yeah.
We really ought to send a letter
'cause it is recreational.
And here's the thing, not only
is it recreational and I don't
know if recreational is probably
the best term to use, but it is
it's it's expendable income.
So it would be something that's
not so fun, would essentially be
anything that's not necessary,
right, Right.
Oh what?
What?
Is necessary.
I mean if hookers is on a list,
cigars has to be there.
Did they take credit cards?
They swipey.
You know.
Have.
You ever haven't you heard the
song Tip Drill?
Get points, you know you get
points, honey.
Yeah.
Yeah, they have a loyal.
Zoo there is there double points
there double points, double
point, double points on Tuesday.
I have a feeling that this is
we're redoing this now.
I have a feeling that these
weren't the questions that were
asked yesterday.
No, no, this is the.
One, that's the one you didn't.
Hear.
So you know what I'm going to
ask.
So let me ask the same question
that I asked you yesterday.
Was it did?
Did you get fired?
Did you quit or was it a mutual
departure between the two
parties?
Sorry, Candy, it was, it was a
mutual, it was a mutual
departure.
It was, as I said, I, I think I
mentioned this on the Patreon a
little bit or when we were
talking yesterday where it was,
it was something that was
obvious.
It was time to move on.
They were moving in One
Direction, I was moving in
another non negative direction.
I was just, you know, just the
focus and the, the direction was
time to kind of move on.
And they said the next steps
that they were taking, I wasn't
going to be part of that.
So it was, it was time for me
to, to take the next steps for
me, my personal ventures and
whatever else is out there.
And so, yeah, it was, it was
mutual.
It was, there was nothing.
There's no negativity in regard
to the company, you know, and
the brand on my end and on their
end and what I'm, you know, what
I had planned on doing, you
know, So it was a good situation
overall, especially, especially
for me.
Yesterday's answer was funnier.
It was, but too bad no one will
ever hear it.
No one will ever know.
No one will ever hear that, all
right.
Man, I know it's too bad.
It's too bad that I didn't know
that it wasn't actually being
recorded because I mean, I could
have just been really no holds
barred off the record and non
political and just said like,
hey, by the way, if you want to
hear everything, you can come
back and listen to the one that
has no record, right?
Zero audio we.
Just said that.
Yeah.
So do you want to, you want to
plug what you're doing right now
as far as Shoulders of Giants
and Snack Shack?
Sure.
So what the ultimately what's
happening here and it said it
was, it was kind of unique.
It's not kind of kind of unique.
It's not a thing.
It was unique in the way that I
wanted to handle it.
When kind of the media side of
this came out the play, it was
obviously had a big splash in
the media.
My departure and the all part of
it was probably the timing.
You know, it was unexpected and
then, you know, it was a decade
and a half I spent there.
So it was a unique opportunity
to provide some information and
kind of what's next and isn't
the end all be all.
You know, the other
opportunities may arise and
whenever you have a business,
sometimes there's failures and
but there's things I've been
working on.
So what shows the Giants is, is
a leadership think tank and free
newsletter essentially that my
dad has been doing over the last
decade with his experience in
leadership in the restaurant
business and the restaurant
industry nationwide, worldwide.
She started this free
newsletter.
And so I kind of built it for
him for fun.
At first I was like, hey, you
know, let me get you some logos.
Let me create some logos, let me
create a brand for you.
And it was kind of just for fun
to learn some things.
And as I got into it deeper,
when I started learning AI
integrations, I started working
on some advanced social media
things.
And then my goal was to kind of
expand that in my in my position
with LFE at the time and you
know, see where that goes.
It was kind of a test and it was
just a hobby and I got very good
at it.
And when my father and I started
talking, he was like, this could
be something that you could do,
you know, the next step.
And it's, it's kind of a
freelance type situation, but
it's really not, you know, I'm
building a, I'm building an
agency really now it's one
person, but as it grows and I
have goals, as I set certain
amount of clients where we'll
add, you know, other workers and
other people will come on.
So we'll be managing social
media marketing, website design,
graphic design, business
development, So really a full
suite of things.
And, and the more the modern
aspect of it and the, you know,
the future driven side is the
artificial intelligence
integration where we could build
a really comprehensive chat
bots, AI integrations for
businesses to automate parts of
their sales processes, managing
their teams, all sorts of
things.
So shoulders of giants is, is
that that's the, the consulting
and the the agency that's going
to manage those things.
And it's really a one stop shop
for someone that has a business
idea and just needs to get it
figured out.
We're there for them or
existing, you know, existing
businesses that that may need
services from us.
So we'll be working on that the
next the next few weeks that
that'll be fully launched next
week.
In regards to the service aspect
of it, the newsletter comes out
once a month and people can join
that for free.
It's a, it's a nice insightful
thing that my dad does.
And, and then the snack Shack
kind of grew as of last week
when so the Snack Shack was a
business my dad started in the
early 70 to 1972.
So technically this is our 52nd
year.
So I did a bourbon with Tony
Gomez called Bulls Breath and
we, we released that bourbon
several months back.
We still have it.
It's going to spit the work.
We're moving it slowly.
We're using it at, you know, I'm
using it at dinners, events,
things like that.
So we're not actively trying to
move through all of it, but the
distillery that I worked with in
blending houses in Winter Park
down the street from my house
and it's called Forward Slash
and they do pop up dinners and
pop up food trucks and things
like that several times a week.
And Michael Buffa and the owner
of that, one of the Co owners, I
had this great idea.
I was sitting with my dad.
I was like, wait a minute, I've
got a catering light down here
in Florida through my
father-in-law.
And I was like, why don't I
bring the snack shack back?
I go, this would be a great
thing to do.
So I sent them over a, a, a, a
menu.
We have a secret family onion
recipe, handcuffed French fries,
dry eggs, burgers.
So I sent over the menu and
Michael replied, he's like food.
He goes, this is great because
I'd love something like this.
And we started communicating
that we're going to start doing
Sunday brunches.
So the 21st is our target date.
So we're looking to do, you
know, maybe two days a week.
I don't want to be in the
restaurant business full time,
but we got a cool concept that
we're going to do with that.
But we're working around some
ideas of how we can do alcohol
infused milkshakes as well.
But it'll be a simple menu, real
high quality goods, local type
stuff and burgers and fries
elevated I.
Mean he just combined two of
Phil's favorite things right
there.
My favorite actually is a
alcoholic hot chocolate.
There you go.
There you go, he can make it
hot.
Yeah, it's perfect.
And what about Shoulders of
Giants podcast?
Are you going to do anything
like that or?
So, so we have, so we have some
ideas with that.
I'm, I'm going to see where the,
where the business grows in, in
terms of clients.
I, I, I'm going to be, I have a
quite vast contact list,
obviously, and I'm going to be
working with people on there to
see, see what we can do.
And I want to see kind of what
my client base is 1st and where
we grow with that.
Because right at first it's
going to be a lot of time on my
end because I'm the one doing
all of it, right?
And so I can bring somebody else
on board, which really doesn't,
if it takes off to an extent, it
doesn't take a lot to bring
somebody on board to assist with
that.
You know, they can kind of bring
on their own clients too.
Well, if you really want to fuck
it up, just give us a call we're
happy to have.
We are the number one vodka.
We are the number.
One cigar podcast, even though
we're fucking monkey fucking our
way every step, every goddamn
episode.
Like the chaos, They love it.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So we'll see.
And you know, I, I, I'm sure
there'll be a, you know, I'm
sure there'll be a handful of
clients from the cigar business.
I have some moms cigar related.
But to answer your question,
yeah, we, we're talking, we, we
have a membership service that
that's going to mature a little
bit.
We don't actively have members
in it because I've not pushed it
and I'm kind of trying to wait
to see what that is.
But there's two tiers of that.
And in that tier is some
podcasts and some leadership
things that we're looking at
doing.
So once I get the ball rolling
with this, I, I would like to
maybe do some leadership Q&A S
with my father where we maybe
did like a monthly Q&A type set
up where we do a YouTube video
or podcast set up where people
can come on and ask questions
and we interview on a certain
topic each month.
But yeah, that's something
that's in the works.
It's not something I'm going to
go crazy on quite yet.
This is I got to get the
business up and running and I
was generating some revenue.
And once it does that, then we
can start looking at other
things if it's viable or not.
But yes, there, there is some
goals that have some, some of
that some video content.
I think we got a lot of great
content that we could produce
with it.
So that's that's an area of
focus all.
Right.
All right, brother.
We'll, we'll let you go on that
note.
Thank you so much for calling us
back again.
Oh shit, bad news might get in
recording.
We, it's been recording.
We, we, we appreciate you, man.
I hope you have a safe trip down
to South Florida and we'll touch
base as soon as you get back.
We'll hang out, we'll have a
couple cigars or whatever, so.
Three maybe?
We're gonna have to go to the
we're gonna have to start going
to the gym soon too, so I know.
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's
been in the back of my head to
mention that on the podcast to
you.
But you know, like you have
threatened this for years at
this point.
And and then and then like it
was you were really leaning
like, what are what are you?
What are your days?
And I gave that to you.
And then you kind of dead aired
me after that.
I was like, I can't.
I can't force you, John.
I can't force you.
But any of the commitment on
cigars on the app?
1st So if you want you know, you
know where to find me, I'm here.
I'm here.
You know my I know your days, I
know everything now.
Yes, to me I have to make.
This.
That's it.
If if you want a date, let's
date.
If not, it's okay.
Well.
Thank you guys.
We'll be in touch.
I will see you soon and and I
appreciate it.
Appreciate everything.
All right, brother.
Thanks.
Thanks, John.
If you will.
Later he hung.
Up there you go this time.
Yeah.
Mikey hung up on.
Him, well, I think the other
thing was the the last time on
the Patreon too, I think that he
had Don Patel was kind of in the
area like.
Yeah, he said he'd walked in.
He's waiting to talk.
He's.
Probably so he was ready to go.
Ready to wrap it up now he's
just sitting in the car, Yeah.
All right, what else in the
news?
Cigars International is opening
something in Saint Louis.
Yeah, nobody cares.
Yeah, we're about out of time
anyway, So.
And White Panda Domino's
shipping a cigar, nobody really
cares.
By the age he only made 300
boxes or whatever it was, nobody
cares.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
But he's what?
Luciano's driver and intern at
one time and now he's the brand
ambassador, which I don't know
if that's a promotion.
It sounds expensive.
It does.
It does.
It sounds Brandon Brand
Ambassador sounds like he pays
and nobody pays him now.
So yeah, how are your brand
ambassador of your own line?
Good point.
Well, you kind of were, I guess.
Maybe he's a brand ambassador
from Luciano Cigars.
He's not owner, you know, he'll
be brand owner.
I mean, Skip doesn't call
himself the brand ambassador.
Yeah, but Skip owns his company.
This guy doesn't, Luciano.
Well, I'm the brand ambassador
of Plistonia.
Well, I guess to a point you
are.
Maybe Phil's a brand ambassador?
I think he thinks he is.
He's a brand ambassador of the
beach.
Beach Ambassador.
Beach and deejaying.
DJ Ambassador.
Yeah, DJ Beach Ambassador.
That's a YAB.
It could be a lot of yabs all
right.
Do you have a listener of the
week?
I do.
Oh, you do, Yes.
Bong.
Listener of the Week.
Our newest Patreon Listener of
the Week.
Father John Richards.
John Richards.
I think technically he is a
pastor I believe.
I think he is I.
Think he is too, yeah.
I mean, he went to school for
it.
Everybody can be so you know.
I mean but he like legit went to
school for it.
So did Palmer.
Sure I I.
No, he he made a couple of
clicks.
At school.
I raised my hand and said the
thing.
Do you?
Yes.
Do you?
Yes.
Good.
You're married.
You.
Want such kids?
Well, you guys don't really ask
that question, so it's fine,
Yes.
No, only one month.
I don't know what that just
happened there, but yes.
All right, and Shop of the week.
Yes.
Lake Country cigars where you're
not going in July, you're going
in August.
I'm going August 19th.
It's in.
It's not July.
I messed that up.
It's an.
Event or you just.
Yeah, it's a multi vendor event.
Oh, that's right, you said that.
Yeah, so if you want to hang
out, I will be in Wisconsin
August 19th.
Is it cold yet there in
Wisconsin in in August?
I don't know.
It's Wisconsin I.
Never met the Indians and go,
hey, is it hot in August?
They're like, yeah, everywhere.
No, not everywhere in Australia
right now.
It's winter time.
Have you ever met the Indians?
I don't know.
He's a racist.
Who knows?
In Australia, it's winter.
Their seasons are opposite of
ours.
Wow, Yeah, it's cold.
It's cold there right now.
See, there's a there's a globe.
We all live on this world thing.
And it's right, it's actually
round.
It's not so.
Our our summer means we're
closer to the sun right now.
Yeah, but how cold is it in
Australia and.
Then what we consider the 50s in
most of Australia.
Well, if you'd done, if you'd
listened to to the Cigar Jukebox
podcast, right?
Yes, yes, where we played the
basic guitar for for an hour
and.
All four of us cold outside.
He's in Australia.
Yeah, no, he, he lives in Puerto
Rico, Miami.
He.
Lives in Puerto Rico, Miami.
Right next to the Fidels.
Yeah, right next to all the
Fidels.
All of them.
Yeah, get your Quaaludes hit.
We're calling Jack.
After the show I'll.
Mess that up.
What are you trying to do
Quaaludes?
Fuck that one.
You'd just seen how long?
I want no.
I want to see quaaludes.
No.
Press the Quaalude button.
Palmer.
Well, he went off the buttons.
The FBI is searching our YouTube
right now because we said it
three times.
You can't find it.
Here.
I got quaaludes, I got acid and
I got cocaine.
That should be the green button
on all three screens.
I mean, just cocaine, cocaine,
cocaine.
Oh, we can.
We can.
I can do that.
That way you never get lost for
it.
That's this is.
I got quaaludes, I got acid and
I got cocaine.
I never get tired of that.
It makes me happy.
All right, You.
Know what happens if you take
all those I got qua.
What do you realizes it's shit?
What do you realizes it's?
Shit, sounds like your vacation.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, pretty much.
All right.
That's why don't go on vacation.
Yeah.
All right.
Anybody got anything else?
All right, there's been episode
342 cigars or podcast.
Thanks for listening.
We appreciate you.
Bye.
Hopefully it recorded bye.
Is this thing on Wow?
Hit this button.
Yeah, hit that button.
Should I hit this one?
Yeah, hit hit it over there,
too.
Don't.
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Show Notes
In this episode of The Cigar Hustlers Podcast, we dive into some major changes and exciting updates! We start with an exclusive phone interview with John Carney, discussing his recent departure from LFD Cigars and what’s next for him. Palmer shares the wild story of how he caught Noro Covid while at the Lake of the Ozarks. Phil reveals his new role as the Beach DJ Master, and we get the scoop on The King’s oldest son fracturing his radius. Plus, Jack Torano joins us with the latest industry news. Tune in for an episode packed with insights, laughs, and the latest cigar buzz!