Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 354: The Aftermath of the Seven-Course Feast
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Everybody stand by.
Industry is in the House.
Here he is, the controversial,
the legendary.
Make way for the king.
Can be stopped shooting my shot
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Yes.
Welcome to cigar hustlers
podcast episode 354, recorded
live at the Mike and Mike
production studio in Deltona,
FL.
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Oh, this show is going to be
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Rosales made a mess over here on
my table.
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I don't know if it's coming from
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believe it to be properly
documented, but we're going to
smoke it anyway.
This particular one is an AJ
Fernandez factory in SLE.
Thank you.
It was stumbled upon a forgotten
batch of 7 by 47 true Churchill
size cigars age undisturbed for
nearly six years.
Michael.
Six years undisturbed.
Originally crafted for a luxury
European brand that never
launched, these cigars feature a
golden Ecuadoran abando rapper.
Now we'll get into that on the.
Yeah, that's fine.
Yes, I'm excited to have this
cigar.
Yes, I'm can't wait to home like
cigar later.
So our boy Romatron, he has
found the Cao Nicaragua's.
Oh.
Yeah.
OK, earlier conversation Sam is
in.
OK, he has found, he found them
at some grocery store or some
shitty real.
Yeah, yeah.
He's like, I they have a
humidor.
He's like.
Some Publix have humidors and
they're liquor stores.
And but in his standard fashion,
I'm like, dude, it's no rush
like whatever.
I will overnight them right
away.
He's like I'll, he goes.
I left, but I'll go get, go.
Maybe I'll go tomorrow.
You left, Why did you leave?
Maybe I'll go get them tomorrow
or something.
When did he tell you this
Saturday?
I think so.
He should have them in his
hands.
Oh, he went back that day and.
Oh yeah, did he only get 2?
I hope he only got 2.
Did he get 2?
He got 1 1/2.
Close enough.
He got 30.
Who got 3?
Hi, we're doing a show over
here.
How you doing?
How you doing, Phil?
Nice to see you.
Phil, nice to see you.
I was looking at the cello on
this.
Thing.
Welcome to the pub.
Well, it's been aged six years
and some barn in Nicaragua.
Well, normally that's just a
story, but you could tell by the
cello it's not just.
Or they aged the cello and slew
the cigarian.
It's I don't look, I.
Don't think it's bullshit, but
we'll talk about that on page.
Stop.
It right now I'm just getting
it's.
Hot in here.
Phil, can you?
Can you hit the air?
It's still on 74.
Well, that's where the sales
staff keeps it because we have
any money in there.
So we try to keep the.
Thermostat a little higher,
trying to be reasonable.
Right, but when the 'cause
there's a fan in the other room
too, but during the show.
When the talent shows up, you.
Exactly.
We we bring it down to cool up
the room for your hot talent.
Thank you so much I.
Appreciate it.
Yeah.
Open the door, let the fan air
in.
From the other room.
I appreciate that.
Yes, so.
Yes.
How was your weekend?
That's broken.
How was your weekend, Michael?
I was very busy, actually very
busy weekend.
Yeah, Lot, lot, lot transcribed
or happened or whatever the
word, OK.
Transpired.
Transpired thank you that's the
word that's the word well Friday
night it worked here so
everybody could go to the local
charity event yes so I was not
very busy here was the sales
gonna.
Good Friday.
Excellent.
Not much for the event for the
BDP birthday bash, which I
didn't think so, but they told
everybody I just don't like to
work if there's not an event.
It's just not as much fun.
You had Dave Revis up here.
Dave Revis came up.
Yeah.
I mean, we had, we had a dozen
or so people in the shop all
night long.
We sold a lot of the two for one
beer.
Sold a lot of beer.
Nice.
So that's, you know, money's
money.
It's like.
Beer.
It's like beer.
Yes, yes, it's like beer.
Yeah.
Saturday we went and took mom
for her stuff.
She's just a miserable lady at
this point, right?
And then we had the event here.
We did, yes.
We had a stellar event on
Saturday night with Roma Craft.
Yes, Michael Rosales.
We did a 30 minute mini show
with Michael Rosales which will
come out at some point during
the week.
We'll release it this week,
yeah.
That does dilute the original.
Show who?
Cares.
I don't know why.
Who gives a shit?
Because our show is based on
ratings and downloads.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't fucking care if we have
something cool to share with
people, I'm not looking at the
bottom line.
We did get a lot of compliments
on that, like the best interview
I've ever seen, the best podcast
I've ever seen.
But the other show had better
ratings.
I don't give a fuck.
I'm just talking.
To you, Michael, But I'm telling
you how I feel about it.
It means nothing to me.
Well, you don't watch the
ratings.
I want to provide good content,
right?
OK.
Period.
I want to provide good content
too, but I want a lot of people
to hear.
Well, that then you keep going
and you keep providing good
content.
Oh, one of these guys now that I
follow.
Yeah, because of, you know, the
new thing.
Because of me, yeah.
He didn't make it big in
podcasting until Year 7, so a
lot of people think after 90
days that's it, you get Yeah, so
then they give up.
So next year.
Yeah.
So next year?
Next year's, yeah.
Actually, next year's year 6.
I thought we were in, I thought
we were in year 6.
This is Year 5.
Oh, then we got two more.
I thought this was year six.
I thought like him next year.
I'm gonna tell you right now I'm
a expedite this motherfucker,
and we're gonna, we're gonna hit
it.
We're gonna hit it year.
Six.
We're gonna hit it year six.
Yeah, good.
Yeah, it's gonna be crazy.
You got it.
We're got.
It, but it's.
Kind of big bananas.
It's going to be right around
the time Phil quits.
That's the you ever you ever see
The Sopranos show?
Sure, at the end when the
seasons are getting to end and
then like Christopher and him
get in the car accident, right?
And then he kills them right?
And then he feels free and
stuff.
We're killing Phil.
I think that's going to happen,
Phil.
'S.
Going to die, we might.
Have to go in the car.
We got to take car, right, Phil?
And then we just shoot into the
stratosphere.
That's right, fella.
I've had good correspondence
with my boy John Mctavish this
week.
Oh, have you?
Yeah.
He's behind several episodes, so
sometimes he says things and I'm
like, elaborate?
Oh yeah, you've mentioned that a
couple of times.
Yeah.
So he's still behind.
Wow.
I talked to him last week, but
it wasn't really about show
stuff.
But the event, excuse me, the
event.
Oh, it's really good.
I didn't.
I inhale a little bit on that.
10 was awesome.
It was everybody seemed to
really enjoy it.
Yeah.
These quarterly experience
events, if they have been called
customer experience events, are
doing really well.
Yeah, and it was the.
Something you don't get out of
the.
Place the way that the style
that they were cooking.
I've never seen that before.
No, I haven't either.
And every dish was fantastic.
From what I had, it was quite
good.
Yeah, it was fucking remarkable,
man, right?
And without giving away details,
but I think that I have some
good ideas as far as making it
better.
Yes, yes, I think so too.
I think all those are excellent
ideas.
Yeah, yes, really kind of level
it up.
Sure.
Like, how do you know?
You always try and look at it
and just try to make it better.
Right.
Well, why?
Why do it the same?
Yeah, and I think that my ideas
were pretty.
I think so too.
I think they they, they will do
well.
Pretty spot on.
So yes, I'm looking forward to
it Friday.
Friday.
Football.
Last spring.
The Yeah, Little Friday football
update.
Jack's team won, right, Silver
team lost and Patriots lost both
their games.
Yeah, tough weekend.
Yeah, it was a little rough.
It was a little rough.
Basketball How was.
Matching justices team won Jacks
team.
That's not what I mean.
The important questions Did the
Abuela show up again?
No, Yeah, we didn't see her.
You.
Didn't see her.
Did the lady with the camera
show up again?
That got her phone snatched
away.
Yes, yes.
She was here, yeah.
Extra security.
And was there extra security?
She didn't do anything wrong.
No, no, I understand it.
But was there?
Well, she might have been afraid
of the the old lady.
Well, now they strike me as a
person.
That she's not a fear person
now.
Now we know who was in trouble.
Was the other lady?
That's not.
There, the other lady did not
show up.
She was embarrassed by her
behavior.
She's laying low, She's with El
Chapo ah.
Yes, yes.
She's biting, biting the.
She's she's with Lito Gomez's
wife's ex-husband.
She's held up in some prison
somewhere.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
You're correct.
Yes, she's with Enrique.
Enrique, is that the right name?
God forsakes get the name right.
Eduardo We have to grow our
tech.
We have to grow our text group.
So we're not getting corrections
from everyone at different.
Times.
So we have to elaborate a
little.
So when we go into detail on
things on the Patreon, we don't
Fact Check anything.
Sometimes we get people's names.
Wrong.
We make things up.
So of course we screwed up this
name of this person really bad,
and Jack and Hector decide to
chime in.
Well, I don't know who those
days.
We get a weekly critique from
them to be.
Honest.
Yeah, I don't know the, the and
then.
In 7 minutes and 54 seconds, you
guys really screwed up that.
Guy.
And then one day delayed, Skip
chimed in.
Yeah, well.
We get it from Skip, Yeah.
So we're going to add Skip and
the other two gentlemen together
right into one corrective
texture.
Yeah, we would just prefer a
massive, you know, yes,
berating.
I thought we should start
another Patreon level where they
are in the text group and they
get to correct.
And they can tell us how much we
suck.
Right, exactly.
I love the show but you guys
suck.
Yeah, you guys are fucking, you
know.
That's not true at all.
I'm going to listen next
Thursday, but you guys that's.
Right, so so for $17.00 you get
into the text.
Group.
So a buddy of ours, you know,
like friends of our whole
family, they had accidentally
purchased one too many tickets
for this pro camp.
With Paulo Branchero.
Paulo Branchero.
Yeah, Wow.
So they said, hey, we got this
extra ticket.
I don't know.
Who Paulo Branchero is.
Who's Paulo Branchero, Phil?
He is a basketball player, but
not just any He is the All Star
for the Magic.
Didn't even know what sport it
was.
He's the All Star for the magic.
The basketball.
I thought he was on the Three
Money Goes movie.
I thought he was the bad guy.
He was the number.
Why was El Wapo?
Oh, oh, he wasn't the second
command guy.
The little, the little Mexican.
Guy, I can see where the
sounding is close, yeah.
It's close, Banchero.
El Guapo, yes.
I think Banchero's Italian or
something, I don't know it.
Does No, No.
Yeah.
Italian.
Yep.
So.
So anyway, there was a camp.
Yeah.
So we got invited to say, hey,
you know, obviously we're not
going to refund those tickets.
You want to bring Jax?
Which one of your children gets
Jax?
She said.
Teddy will enjoy that.
She will go.
Yeah, Teddy's on her way.
No, it was, I think that it was
a best fit for Jax.
Oh, certainly.
I think next year, because they
do it, apparently they're going
to do it annually.
Oh, next year I'll have to get
tickets and bring.
Dust.
I was going to say next year
you're going to hope they buy an
extra.
Ticket.
No, I I told them I actually
said it moving forward if you
could accidentally buy a third.
That would be great, yeah.
And then in another year, a
fourth would be really nice.
For me, yeah.
You know, if you really want to
up it, you know, but it was cool
because he did these little
one-on-one things with kids and
then and then they did like 5 on
five.
So you get to go too.
I mean, you can't just leave
your kid.
Well, he might have went with
them and they, you know, they
like picked him up and took him.
Yeah, you know, for me, I would
have been OK with that.
I just felt like.
You need to experience it with
them.
No, I just felt like, no, I just
felt.
I just felt like that's kind of
inappropriate.
It's like, cool, take my kid
fuck off, you know?
I.
Mean they asked.
So that's, you know.
But that's a but that's a cool
thing though.
Yeah, but.
For your kid I I literally just
didn't know if they like OK.
Like if you buy 1 ticket, your
child goes and the accompanying
parent.
Yeah, no, I mean they had no
issues with the parents sitting
there.
OK, so like he had four tickets,
he could have taken 4.
Parents the tickets probably for
participation.
Well, yeah, I mean, you couldn't
have bought the ticket and you
ran around on the court.
No, no, no.
And most parents, I didn't see
any parents that were like Dicks
like they were.
They were parents that are.
Folks.
Oh, Boyela wasn't there.
No, they were, they were
obviously there for their kids
to be in and interacting and
stuff instead of, you know, like
you've seen these grown ass men
be like Paula, when will you be
out of ground?
You know, like that sort of
shit.
Like that wasn't happening,
which was nice.
It's a different level.
Yeah, so they did like 5 on
five.
They did like competitions and
tournaments and stuff.
They'd.
Play horse with everybody.
No, that would have been
awesome.
That would have been like, you
know what?
You.
Know what everybody lineup horse
with Elwapo.
Is Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan play horse.
He he what he does at every camp
is he plays horse and if they
beat him, he buys everybody
Jordan's shoes.
Really.
Yeah.
But if if he wins, they all have
to buy tickets for next year.
Oh, that, that.
Seems reasonable.
That sounds like it's a it's a
win win for Jordan.
He loses every time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He loses on purpose to give all
the kids ships, right.
Oh, I missed the layup.
Oh.
Yeah, they gave away some PS
fives and so on.
But that camp ticket is like
$800 like.
I think that Paulo.
Buying the Jordans?
I don't know how much Paulo's
is, but it's probably up there.
Right.
Well, I think he's part of
Jordan.
Well, we they got, they call him
Little Jordan.
They got Jordan backpacks.
Yeah, he's part of the Jordan
brand.
Oh, with the the guy with the
hand up in the leg spread thing
on the backpack.
Yeah, no, the only one that
matters.
I know the logo, I'm not under
the sports but I know logo if.
You're familiar with it.
I'm familiar with the logo.
So I didn't want to leave him by
himself.
I I felt that like I should go.
Yeah, if you know, I mean, if it
was allowed, certainly, why not?
I mean, it sucked.
Oh, how was the facility, 'cause
it was probably in the training
facility.
No.
Is that Lake Brantley?
Oh.
OK, Brantley High School.
Yeah.
They have a nice facility.
I'm sure I don't know, but I
would, I would have thought it
would be like at the, you know,
over at the training center.
It's not like you can do
anything though as a parent, you
just kind of stand there.
You couldn't even sit.
There are some spots to sit, but
I'm not the I'm they.
Didn't like open the bleachers?
Yeah, some bleachers were open,
but I'm not really.
Lake Brantley was.
There anybody else there stood
there with you?
The head coach showed up, but we
see him everywhere.
Just stood there with your arms.
Crossed.
That's me.
Yep.
Should have sent your stunt
double.
You didn't even.
Have to go.
Yeah, I could have brought Josh
from right.
Just sent him, nobody would
know.
Yeah, like who are you?
I'm Mike.
I was there, he was standing in
front of me and Brittany and we
we both looked at him and looked
at each other and were like,
that's not Mikey.
That guy is definitely bigger.
Than him, he's bigger than he's
definitely bigger than my
husband's like wow, yeah, I
know, but.
Yeah, OK.
I'm, I'm not aiming to get that
big.
No, no, no.
I'm good where I'm at, I can
still scratch part of my back.
We have to do a video though
where we put him in as your
stunt double.
That would.
Be hilarious.
That would be hilarious.
You woke up cut.
We put him in all right.
He picks up something heavy
right and then cut and then.
I go, I go back.
We could totally do that.
He's got the dark hair, the
Mohawk.
It'd be funny.
Yeah.
Then it close up your face going
that.
'D be amazing.
Well, I mean, that's pretty much
all I have from the week.
Wow.
Yeah, last week he ate it up.
Now it's really 15 minutes in.
It's almost literally time for
pills.
Fun facts.
Look at that.
Well, what about your weekend?
Where he did, my day tapped into
it.
That was that fast.
Yeah, he said he did a lot.
And then he did like briefly
surmise, right.
Well, I.
Mean Well, did you cut the
grass?
Did anything?
Yeah, but it was like a 2.
Part episode.
Yeah, I started on Friday night,
so I started on Friday morning.
Oh good.
So and then Sunday we went to
the we went to Swamp House with
a friend for lunch.
Nice.
It's so hot.
But there was nobody there
because it was football Sunday.
Nobody.
There's no TV's outside.
They have no TV's.
Oh yeah, they don't.
Yeah, no, no TV's outside.
I'll tell you what they used.
To be went.
Behind the Alabama game was
crazy.
I saw that catch the guy made.
I thought for sure Georgia was
going to win that game.
Yeah, it was a crazy game all
the way to the end.
Yep, all the way all the way to
the.
End all the way.
There's no way this end will be
on our list.
Did you weigh it?
I.
Oh.
I did, but then I forgot
there's.
No way it's going to be on the
list.
No.
Oh, do you want to use like?
17 do you?
Want to explain the cutter
you've got sitting there?
Is that why you brought her?
I do just take the sell off.
How much does the seller weigh?
It's 15 grams.
It usually weighs like 1.
Yeah.
So online, we're going to be
doing a.
Giveaway Do a close up Phil.
Online, we're going to be doing
a giveaway all month long.
We're going to raffle this bad
boy off.
This is the and if.
Nobody wins.
We're going to sell it on eBay.
The.
Elusive Dunbarton tobacco
cutter.
It's got a retail value of
around like 400 I think or
something.
But you can't buy it anywhere.
Well, except for us on eBay.
Well, here's what.
We have a second one up now.
So in order to here's how you
can get some entry tickets to
win if you if you buy any 5 the
camera not me If you buy any 5
Dunbar and tobacco products any.
Five any 5.
On our website,
squirrelholster.com, you're
going to get 5 entries.
If you buy 20 of anything,
you're going to get 25.
It's just that simple.
There's no.
Purchase of the week.
Oh, sorry.
No purchase necessary to enter
as well.
Where's the little?
IPad Nice, yeah.
And your left to my left.
I saw that one in the corner of
my eye.
I'm like, how'd you get over?
There that's going to be running
all October long, all month
long.
We have one giveaway in store, 1
giveaway online and we're going
to announce.
The one for sale on eBay.
And one for sale on eBay.
If you don't want to buy this
again, look up Phil's.
Stuff.
Phil's stuff on eBay, you know
someone's going to look that up.
Sure, they are just in cage
because they don't.
I could be joking.
I could be telling the truth.
All I need is a nasty phone call
from Steve.
What's this Phil stuff it?
Wouldn't be the first one.
It wouldn't be the first one.
That's, I hope somebody goes and
makes the Phil stuff, yeah.
The fucking picture on there it
is.
There it is.
There it is.
Yeah, well, if he calls him
like, look, it's not us, They're
right here.
It's not us.
Here they are.
There's a photo of all.
Of them go away.
All right, let's get into Phil's
fun facts.
What was he waiting on?
I can't.
Hit the.
Button Find the button Find the
button.
Welcome the Cigar Hustlers
podcast feature Phil's fun
facts.
Hello peoples.
All right, for many Americans,
bobbing for apples is a favorite
childhood pastime that signaled
the arrival of Halloween.
However, the origins of apple
bobbing?
I already see where this is
going.
No, it's it's legit.
I didn't make.
This are actually based.
It's a legit thing.
It's not even dirty.
I didn't pre read it so I'm just
kind of going.
It's not even dirty, just.
Are actually based in love and
fate rather than ghosts or
ghosts or goblins.
I'm so nervous here.
Start over, start over.
Bobbing for apples?
OK, you like to Bob for apples.
The origins of apple bobbing are
actually based in love and fate
rather than ghosts or goblins.
As adults, we don't play this
game too often because of, well,
germs, but that wasn't always
the case.
Apple bobbing was once a popular
game in early Europe.
While there were different
variations of the game, the
purpose remained the same, to
see the future of the one's love
life.
In one early variation, apples
were pre assigned to potential
love interest.
Once placed in the water, a
young woman would try to
retrieve the apple.
If it took her only one try to
grab the apple, it meant the
young couple was destined to be
together.
If it took her two tries, it
meant that her beloved would
pursue her.
But ultimately the relationship
was faded to fizzle out.
Three tries.
Don't even think about it.
Hey, raging like 1/3.
Grade Wow, I'm I'm proud of you.
Well, I guess that wasn't dirty.
Yep, that's that's true.
Apparently they would write the
names on the apple somehow.
Yeah.
And then, like, if they wanted
Phil's apple, she would try to
get the apple.
If she got it really fast,
they're locked.
They're gonna get married.
They took a little couple of
tries.
Then he's going to have to chase
her around a little bit.
Third, if she couldn't get it at
all.
No, if I could, Phil's moving on
to somebody else.
She's a dud.
I mean, if she really wanted the
Dicks, you could just prep for
that.
Like she could, you know, she
could drill, she could get her
and then it goes a.
Step further.
They peel it into one big piece
of peeling.
Yeah.
Throw it up in the air and it
lands on the girl.
And then it apparently makes
some type of letter.
Yeah, that would like.
It would have to be AP if it was
going to be Phil right?
If it resembled AP as it.
Landed on her, yeah.
Man, these guys were smart.
Or very bored and had nothing
else to do.
Yeah.
I think that's what it was.
Yeah, I think it was bored
We're.
Gonna get we're gonna get an
apple.
We're gonna.
I bet you I can throw this apple
peel at her and her not be upset
about it.
Yeah, there you go.
Right, exactly.
OK.
Alright Phil, what are we?
FedEx 1 Lamb.
One lamb.
Oh, a bit in a lamb.
Yeah, Lamb on the.
Line little steep?
How about a pig?
Lamb's delicious.
I don't know why pigs.
Yeah, very pig.
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That's not.
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That's not good.
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She has to, well, she has to
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But when they burn it, I think
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I think so too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah.
Is he having problems with the
light of their clicky?
Clicky, YEAH.
Chase, Louise.
You think by now he would figure
it out?
OK, what do we got for the news?
I don't know, Just stop.
Just don't acknowledge him,
because if you if you
acknowledge him, then I'm going
to acknowledge him and I'm going
to lose my shit.
I don't have a.
Oh God.
Oh God, oh God, out of hell and.
Phil dies.
Where are we going to make it
now?
Here we go, right?
To the top.
Guess we won't be needing that
six year turn.
Guess none.
We can do it at 5 1/2.
Yeah, the volume turned all the
way down again.
They're all the genius.
Let's try that over.
Ohh my he.
Didn't even notice there was no
sound.
This is so weird.
I hit this.
So I was, I started thinking
about, I was like, why is it
that play?
It's broken.
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Hold on, I had the wrong thing.
I was.
About to do it do it do it.
Royal Crafter backs do Mastranza
line will go on sale the first
time next week.
Oh, the sentence that was copied
and pasted from a story two
months ago.
And yet once again, it's true.
In July, Roma Crafter back
shipped the first release of
Monstranza the stores, but next
week the company will ship the
actual Monstranza cigars for the
first time.
Oh, it was always meant this
way.
Monstranza is the newest regular
production line for Roman craft
tobacco.
Blend wise, it uses a Mexican
San Andreas wrapper over a
Brazilian binder and fillers
from the Dominican Republic.
Yes, they're using a lot of
Dominican tobacco now,
apparently since the Quintin
Quantin get.
No, I think that they've always
kind of used some Dominican
tobacco.
Oh, had they used Honduras and
Nicaraguan too?
Because you're using that too.
Honduras, Yeah.
What's the guard do they have as
Honduras?
I don't know.
It's like, I could tell you,
it's like.
Talking to Rosales in a special
interview?
No.
Oh wow, that's.
Not nice.
Well, you asked him a question.
He's like, I don't.
That's not my end.
Yeah, I mean, he should know
better.
That's not his end.
He should know better.
Well, he should, but that's not
his.
End.
He should know better.
I'm like kind of on his side.
No, you.
Gotta do your research.
He knows it's good, just like
Skip.
Can I have a quote?
Skip.
It's good.
Well, you know.
Delicious.
Thank you.
Skip, are you continuing with
this?
There's more.
OK, because I I mean there's I
have questions.
OK, Roman Kraft considers the
darker risotto rapper to be
Spanish market selecione, a term
that was once used alongside
American market selections and
English market selections to
describe a lot of selections.
It was apparently.
When the Masranza line was
unveiled, the company laid out
A2 part plan.
You got the.
You got the selection selection.
Right now you have the Spanish
market selection, the English
market selection and the
American market.
Selection and then the selection
of the American selection,
correct.
But a company laid out a 2 Part,
2 part plan getting the cigars
to shelves One we ship it.
That's a great idea.
That's the biggest part.
Guess you got to start
somewhere.
Right, it would release a
limited edition 4 1/2 by 56
petite Gordo size known as the
Craft Marquette la Mastranza.
OK, that's what happened in
July.
That's what we did.
Yes, sometime after that, three
regular production Batola's
would ship.
That's what's happening now.
Not one, not 2, but 3/3.
Are those cigars are the
Mastranza?
Yes, I want to hear this.
Oh.
Wait, what?
What the hell is that?
Come on, let's go.
The Mastranza Cudetella
Catalonia, Uh huh.
It's very close.
That's that's how Logello said
again Mastranza Castillo Merica.
It's Murcia Mauricia.
OK, you said Merica during the
interview.
That's what threw me off the
whole time.
Merica.
That would be great if it was
Murica.
That one's I told you.
That's the you know.
The red, white and blue one.
Yeah, the Mastranza Caballero
Valencia.
The Caballero that's.
What I said actually it's
Caballeria Valencia 9 dollars
$11.00 and $10.
Valencia, isn't that like
basketball or something?
I thought there is a Valencia
College.
I thought it was an orange.
Is it a there's a Valencia
orange car?
It's AV or AV?
It's AV.
It's VV la Mastranza Baloncesto.
Not la, just monstranza,
Caballeria, Valencia.
That's the basketball.
It's a box of 40 for $400.
Is that what it translated into
Spanish?
Box of 40 for $40, Is that what
you?
Said box of 40 for $400.00 so.
This is a $10 stick.
Yes, yeah.
As for the name, Skip said he
can do whatever he wants.
That's what he said.
That's what he said.
Said I will do whatever.
I want As for the name inspired
by Skip, who has helped people
not say correct names for cigars
for years.
Right, this is what I'm going to
call it.
I've really, he's really upped
his game like like here is a
good cigar.
It doesn't suck.
Right, that's your the standard.
Quote right?
OK, what's the name of it it's
called?
Only he can say it.
The LA Campana de Panama
Soberania, that's a legit cigar
that he made.
Oh yeah, that's nice.
Like, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
Can't we just, if it's just a
cigar, can't we just name one
cigar?
Right, Bob?
Name it Bob.
This is the Red 1.
Yeah, the brown one.
The Brown one.
The Toro.
The Toro.
This is the robusto.
Yeah, the yellow one, OK.
What are your questions?
Because that's all I.
Got because I got to tell.
I was just saying like, I don't
understand.
It's got to be so complicated
because I don't know anything
because it's like, hey, so look,
I reach out to loyal customers,
right?
And I say, hey, we got this,
these coming in.
Are you interested?
And they're like, yeah, I know
exactly what they're thinking.
I'm like, OK, listen, here are
the sizes 4 by 50.
It's a 6 by 52, whatever, right?
Like which ones do you want?
You know?
And they say, oh, I'll take
that.
I like the medium size.
Yeah, I don't.
I, I, yeah, of course I want.
I don't know.
I would like the $10.
I like the Venti.
I'll take, I'll take the Merc.
I'll take the Grande.
Give me the Merc.
Merc.
You know Marissa Mercia.
He's like, hey, I just want to
make.
Hey, I just want to make.
Can you give me a hey, Phil?
No, I just want to make your
life a little more complicated.
I'm like, come on, what are we
doing?
But everybody does remember the
weird names.
OK, Yeah.
But they might not be able to
say them.
OK, OK, OK.
Yes.
No, I don't, but I don't if
you're going to ask me any names
I don't remember.
To some degree.
To some degree you people
identify like the Izzy Einstein
and the Bill McCoy like that's A
and then if you actually look
some of these.
Wild Bill Hickok.
If you look up some of the
stories about some of those
things, they're actually pretty
interesting, right?
Certainly.
What size is the Bill McCoy?
Is that the Corona Gorda?
It's the little fat one.
No, the little fat 1.
I don't know.
I have no.
I have no.
Idea.
That's my point.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
So if it but if you like.
These you would know.
I like the Bill McCoy.
Yeah, Bill McCoy is really good.
Right.
Yeah.
What does it?
I don't know what is going on.
It's.
Good, I smoke.
Yes, it doesn't suck.
It doesn't suck.
Right.
It's fucking just call them,
label them numbers, do you?
Think do you think other Other.
Companies one like the Mastrans
are one please the.
Mastrans are two.
Oh, that would be nice, yeah,
Wouldn't they?
Do you think that other
companies like fall into this
naming of things?
I'll wait till the second story,
yes.
Oh.
I don't think that anybody does
it like.
Rome, second story.
Red meat lovers Fritanga.
Oh for fuck's sake.
Coming to the great smokehead of
PCA 2025, the Red Meat Lovers
line from Dunbarton
Tobaccontrose will begin in a
new size in 2025, a Steve Sacca
announced on Facebook it'll be
releasing A6 by 52 box Prestoro
vitola called the Fritanga.
The Pachanga.
Pachang the cigar at the Red
Meat Lovers dinner on March
14th, 2025.
That is part of the great Smoke
Smoke Smoke in in South Florida,
wouldn't it?
It's in March.
Yes, it's in March.
Right before the PCA, Well, it's
very close.
Saka calls the cigar a spicier
variation of the Red Meat Lovers
blend, but has not yet disclosed
what changes to the cigar result
in this That's.
Ratanga.
You put more pepper in it.
As for pricing, in a reply to a
comment on Facebook, he did say
that it will likely be a little
more pricey.
Of course.
'Cause.
I like money there.
You go, but not crazy, just a
little.
Bit we're just testing to see
and where the.
Yeah, where it is.
Pricing has been between 15 to
$17.00 range for the regular
production size.
Thus far, he's produced 200
bundles of 10 cigars.
It's hard to read when they
don't bring it up here.
We want to see your beautiful
face.
He has produced 200 bundles with
10 cigars for the dinner, but
said that none will be sold at
Smoke In or the Great Smoke.
Instead, whatever cigars are
leftover from the dinner will be
sent back to the company's
warehouse to hold for the 2025
Teds they're not doing.
That shipping them?
No, I bet you he is.
I believe that he is.
Now, so wait, he receives them
in New Hampshire?
Yeah, that where he lives in New
Hampshire.
Yeah.
Ships them down to South Florida
and then instead of shipping
them to Louisiana, which is over
under halfway to New Hampshire,
he ships them back to New
Hampshire.
I think he ships them back.
And then ships them back down to
Louisiana.
Yes.
They're hooking a pop by then.
I think that realistically, you
understand how many people you
sold this dinner for and you
know how many you've sold for in
the.
Right, you would think.
Yeah.
So you know, you just you up
that by 10% and you make sure
you're covered and you just ship
those down, right?
Yeah, anything's leftover.
And then Abe keeps them and
sells them later.
A.
Little side hustle, you know,
maybe you know, maybe a couple
of people are like, yo, I mean,
I really want it you.
Know you got cash, hey.
Look, sometimes you make people.
I got cash, right?
Look, sometimes you make people
feel special.
I hear you like money.
I like money.
You like money, Mr. Zaka?
No, at that point it would be
done with.
Let's see, the red meat lovers
line started.
We don't care where this
started, that's fine, Asaka
notes in the comments below.
The name of these new size comes
from a style of Nicaraguan
street food centered around
grilling meat on an open flame.
Interesting.
We should have Fritagas next
time we do the bar Fritaga it's.
Almost.
Pretty much what it was, right?
Like a fritata?
Yeah, it's a frittata.
Oh, that's the egg thing.
A frittata is the egg.
Is the egg thing it's?
Like it's like an open face.
It's a Spanish.
Yeah, Spanish open face omelet.
Frittata.
Wasn't.
That a cigar?
No frittanga.
Frittata, though, was a cigar.
No it's not.
It's an open faced Spanish
omelet.
OK, who made the frittata?
I'm.
Gonna let that out.
I I remember that name.
I'm.
Gonna be busy the rest of the
show.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Tetwa, Fritz.
Free FRE TA TA.
Carry the one.
Tetwa Hey the Wolfman Redux 4
shipping next week.
It's tetwaji.
You know the box is ZS old box.
It out so so he's proven that he
has the right.
I know he has the right to
every.
Year to the Monster.
Every year it's oh.
I mean this one looks almost.
Every year it's like that.
That's not new.
Oh.
Yeah, talking about the.
Monster.
As much as I like to bash people
on entertainment purposes, I
mean the reality is that the guy
who made this is his thing.
I'll do that later.
OK.
The founder of Pete Johnson's
confirmed to Cigars for Podcasts
that the Redux version of the
company's fourth Monster series
release will be shipping to
retailers.
Oh, today.
Oh, are we kidding?
No.
No, of course.
You want me to text Pete so he
can laugh at me?
Hey, let me get some werewolves.
I was like fuck you.
Right, the Wolfman Redux 4 is
based on.
Whatever, I call them
werewolves.
Oh, that's why he'll laugh.
It's we don't have those.
It's A7F by 52 torpedo.
Like the original version of the
Wolfman, the Wolfman Redux 4 is
made with an Ecuadorian Sumatra
wrapper covering a binder and
fillers from Nicaraguan tobacco.
MSRP of $13 per cigar and
production limited to 5000 boxes
of 13.
There are three different box
versions.
There's a 666 box.
I'm going to text Pete Hernandez
right now and just out of shits
and giggles.
What if he says you can have
him?
He ain't going.
To 34 boxes are numbered XX and
4300 boxes are unnumbered.
Let me get some wolf men, man.
The wolf man pictured above,
though, there's no.
Wolf man, man.
Yo, let me get some Wolf man.
Wolf Man War sent Ed's you.
Know what you have to do in
order to get those?
We're going to need those.
You got to send Pete Johnson a
picture of your Dick and.
Then Oh my God, soft or hard?
Wow.
Both.
Both.
He wants to see the growth.
He wants to measure the growth.
Yeah.
So he likes to see.
That's important.
That's important to Pete.
His last name is Johnson.
Think about.
I guess you got a point.
Think about all the things that.
Realize his name is Jones, but
he likes to be called Johnson.
Yeah, he likes Jones.
It's Pete middle name.
Show me your right.
Yeah, Johnson, exactly.
Oh, your second letter is
coming.
No, he's pretty cool.
It takes a while.
Later this week, a new Ventola
and a Warped Cigars Aloso line
is being released exclusively at
smokingpipes.com.
Another exclusive that we don't
get I.
Don't even know they're still
around.
Smoking pipes or or tetuahe.
No, that's warped.
Oh, warped, yes, I don't know.
Warp's still in business.
Yeah, I guess so.
Apparently they are
smokingpipes.com, the other
Vitella's warped El Oso line.
The name means the bear in
Spanish.
The new release uses the
Ecuadorian Bear, El Oso Blend
and Ecuadorian.
It was really I smoked the Ello
so a long time.
Ago I did too.
You should be good.
It was good.
And at that point it was like,
I'm like, dude, it's really
expensive now.
I mean, if it's in the same
price range, it kind of fits.
They don't say how much it is
okay, 500 factory in Miami, blah
blah blah.
No, they don't say.
All right, Hirochi Rabbania's HR
cigar brand returns with New HR
Black Line.
Hello, I am Hirochi Rabbania,
this is interesting to me
because I'm curious to see who
exactly I am from Pinoba Del
Rio.
Thank you.
Exactly who's handling the
distro for them or whatever.
Let's read on it.
Yeah, that can't wait.
In last week's Enter to Bag 2024
in Dortmund, Germany, most
people were talking about
nothing because nobody cared
about anything that happened
there.
Yeah, but at the Urbanos essay,
in contrast, a famous Cuban
cigar person was making a
surprise comeback in his own
booth.
They weren't talking about
overseas because, well, it's
overseas and we're sending it
over and it's going to be #1
right.
It's going to be #1 overseas.
You know what?
I think that I like if Skip just
did that.
Oh yeah.
Number one, Number one.
Number two, he could.
Have started at the very
beginning with first cigar the
number. 1:00 We'd be at number
875 right now.
Still, at least we could say it
and spell it.
Oh, no, it's 875.
It's not 876.
Yeah, Oh my Lord.
All right, Hrocher ban.
Yeah, an HR cigar.
Ban, Yeah.
For five years or so, the HR
cigar brand has been dormant.
Who's the guy that used to
Spence Spencer Drake.
Now he sells houses.
Yeah, really.
I still follow Mortgage.
I still follow him on Instagram.
He actually called me today
today out of the blue.
Oh wow, does he say, hey, would
you like to buy some of the
black cigars?
I said yo, let me get three
boxes and he's like, what are
you doing?
And I said, dude, you still have
the card on file.
Don't.
You and can you buy back the one
box we still have?
We can't sell those at all.
The HR Browns.
Those are really good.
They are, but they're really
expensive and nobody knows what.
They are.
At this point, they're not
really expensive.
Oh, that's true.
They.
Probably they're like slightly
above at this point.
For five years, though, the HR
Cigar brand has been dormant
because Spence is now selling
houses.
It's now back with distribution
agreement for international
markets, and a new line with HR
Cigars debuted in 2014 with
Spence.
It was one of the top stories in
the cigar industry.
Rochi is the grandson of the
legendary Alejandro Robania.
Alejandro.
The famed tobacco grower whose
prominence remains unparalleled
in Cuba.
A Banos essay created the Vegas
Robano Band brand.
Sorry, the lone example of a
modern Cuban name, Cigar, named
after a living person and upon
his death was covered in the New
York Times.
All right, who's doing this?
Each other's favorite Michelle.
What's that?
Doesn't sound like they're being
sent to this.
I think it's only only
apparently.
See, nobody cares.
It's Dortmund, Germany.
Yeah, like sucked me in.
Nice, nice picture of Hirochi.
We did.
We had the the first podcast he
ever did in the United States
was on our show.
That's true.
You just leave the picture.
You didn't read the story for
me.
I never read the stories I like
to.
I like to be this first.
Together, I like to live it.
Oh, it's a nice picture.
Yeah, it was a nice picture of
Rochie.
I met you.
I sat next to you.
I know that guy.
He was very, Yeah, he is Rochie
Robagna.
The plan was for Rachel Cigars
made Nicaragua and Robagna
serving as a figurehead.
Oh, so he never actually made
this cigar?
Didn't even make him.
He didn't even make him.
Never made Nicaragua.
Yeah, he didn't go to Nicaragua.
He stayed at Palo Del Rio.
Peno Del Rio.
Right at one.
Let's see, At one point the
company hoped to get 50
retailers to play significant
orders for HR Apparently that
didn't happen because this is
the brochure.
I just went away.
I.
Don't.
I don't know, man.
I don't know, I.
Feel like I.
Feel like mistakes were made.
I just feel like that could have
worked.
It could have fucking.
Worked.
It would lead to Robania going
in a cross country tour to
launch the brand.
While many within the industry
were buzzing at Robano's entry
into the US market, his name
didn't resonate with the
consumers and the excitement
quickly dissipated.
Nobody knew who it was.
That's how we got him first.
Nobody knew.
You know, I could tell you this,
man.
I could tell you that it takes
time.
It doesn't matter.
No, it didn't happen overnight.
Yeah.
Yeah, like it does you.
Got it.
There's there's high levels of
abuse you got to take to be in
this industry.
Oh.
Furthermore, things quickly got
weird.
In the summer of 2015, less than
a year after the cigars went on
sale, Rabbania announced that he
would no longer work with Cuba.
Cuba.
Cuba.
Copacon.
Cuba.
Cubanacon.
Thank you.
That's.
Yeah, that that that one right
there.
That's it, and it's owner Robert
Medeiros who was responsible for
distributing the cigars.
That same week, La Polina
announced that Rabbania would be
working with the brand,
something that never came to
fruition.
We'd like to announce he's
working with Post Tonya Cigars,
not to.
That's not true.
Well, it doesn't have to lie it.
Doesn't have to.
It doesn't have to.
It's not a lie, it's just not
going to come to fruition.
That's what it says right there.
The following week, La Corona
factory, which was making the HR
cigars, announced that it too
would stop working with
Cubanacon.
Nobody likes it.
Spence didn't even get mentioned
with his Black Hat operations.
Yeah, over claims of unpaid.
Oh, there's the one paid bills.
Spence didn't pay the bills.
Oh, no, Cubanacon didn't pay
that.
Yeah, I got you.
And La Corona, along with the
owners of the two sides, sued
one another dispute was settled
in 2016, Spencer Drake, the
former VP of sales for
Cubanacon, ended up launching
his own company, White Hat
Distributor.
White hat, white hat, white.
Hat.
Oh, he made the cigar with the
white hat on it.
Yeah.
And the the scary old guy
cigars.
I really like that.
Do you remember that one?
That one was good.
I like.
The zombies, the.
Scary old man Zombie.
Yeah, we're good.
Which became the distributor for
HR Cigars.
That went on for about 3 years,
but then Drake fell off the map
and exited the cigar.
Business and started selling
mortgages.
Sometime around 2020 today he's
in the mortgage and home buying
business.
Does that.
Yes it does.
Since then HR has been a thing
of the past.
Well there's more stuff about
Germany and stuff.
Well who cares then?
But Tina cigars move
distribution to the city of
Palms.
Germany, you know, they did some
evil shit.
I don't know.
I want to you.
Want to hear more about Germany?
Nah.
Oh, US Portman, Tobago.
Where's?
Kind of a sore subject.
Revenge cigars.
We're not talking about that.
That was a long time ago.
What are we talking about?
Who killed her?
There's no proof.
Yeah, just leave us alone.
We're sorry.
We're.
Sorry.
We really fucked.
No one ever forgets.
We really fucked that up.
Do you see there's an interview
with Robin Williams where he
does, he's been interviewed by a
German lady and he does a couple
things.
A lady doesn't laugh or
something, and she goes, why do
you think your humor does not do
well in German?
He goes, Maybe he killed all the
funny people.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
The interview that was the end
of the interview, that was it.
Over that was it.
All right?
Our phone, our friend.
Williams a legend.
Yes, our friend MO is first.
He's going.
What was it, Netherlands last
last week?
Was that what it did?
Patina, Yeah, Patina, Yeah,
distribution.
Another was last week.
Aggressive expansion.
Yes, now he's moving
distribution, departing from
Sutliff Tobacco to join the City
of Palms.
Oh, he's no longer working with
Sutliff.
No, no, no.
Everybody's changing.
Everybody's changing.
Not us, not us.
We never fucked with any to
begin with.
That's right, working with
Setlift team over the past five
years was an absolute joy and
I'm proud of what we're able to
accomplish during that time
that.
Feels like bullshit to me.
Yeah, if it was, if it was good,
he would have stayed.
Yeah, you should have just said,
hey, MO, hey, man, Como.
Hey.
Listen, I'm not, I'm not here
to, I don't want to give you
details, but fuck those guys.
That's what he should have said.
When reformed to Sutlift would
no longer be Oh, Sutlift told
him to fuck off.
Oh.
Oh would no longer be
distributing cigars past 2024.
I knew that City of Palms was
was.
So they're no longer
distributing cigars?
His cigars.
Just his cigars or cigars in
general when we were.
Forming the Sutherland would no
longer be distributing cigars.
Oh, I guess period, it says.
So he's maybe they just told
him, look, we're just not doing
any cigars.
This is.
Just.
This is just.
It's just temp don't tell him.
But we're it's all cigars.
All, all we're not.
Doing any at all anymore?
All out put those HRS back in
the closet.
Let's see, City Palms are press
release.
All the press release in City
Palms we didn't get.
This next year, Sutliff
announces.
Distributing cigars for Hirochi
Robania to have MO join our
distribution on the heels of
announcing entry into the
international market could oh,
are they putting him in
Netherlands?
Maybe they're doing him in
Netherlands?
Oh, that could be Little Houses,
Little House.
Little wooden shoes cannot be
more exciting.
Timing is everything and having
established our company a year
ago on October 30th, Ann and I
couldn't think of a better way
to celebrate and to have MO come
over for dinner and bring
cigars.
Could you fucking imagine?
Hey, I think that this, you
know, we could take this tree.
Oh my God.
Build a city around.
It and we can put, we can put
our feet in in here and they'll
be fine, right?
A little side note, there are
going to be some delays in
fulfillment.
Why this change?
We're just not.
We're not ready.
Yeah.
Why MO makes more cigars Knox?
Just won't give you the
opportunity because they're busy
making the red meat lovers or
whatever.
Right.
Yeah, the frittata.
Frittata.
Which, by the way, we never got
back.
In the frittata cigar who made.
No, it's not.
It's not a cigar.
I was thinking of Fratello.
Completely different.
Yeah, Fritada's a.
Totally different.
An open faced Spanish omelet.
Fratello's a really tall rocket
scientist guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Completely different, but he was
called rocket science.
Open faced roast beef.
Oh, was he really?
Yeah.
Oh, disappointing.
Yeah, he's not a rocket
scientist.
No, he's a rocket accountant,
Yeah.
Wow, it's all a lie.
Wow, I'm very disappointed.
I thought the whole lunar thing
and all that.
Yeah, he.
Just made a the rocket ship box
cigar.
Apparently he should have been a
cash register or something an
adding.
Machine should have been a
fucking Abacus.
Should have been an Abacus or
something an adding.
Machine debits and credits.
Debits.
It could have been debits and
credits and like a Connecticut
and a Maduro, yeah.
That would have made a lot more
sense, yeah.
And Little.
Cash drawers could have put an
ass on.
Boxes look like a little cash
drawers with those slots.
Yeah, there you go, Prohibition.
All right, Principal cigars,
but.
How do we get away with?
Nobody, But apparently nobody
listened.
Oh my God.
No, this is the middle of the
show.
This.
Is middle show.
They already they already turned
off right now.
We did a post that segmented
specifically what you said about
the show.
It was shared.
It has.
Over 1000 times.
It has a ton of fucking views.
Yes.
Nobody said anything.
No, they should have.
Worked.
Yes, yes.
People are scared, people are
scared of it.
I mean if they.
Say something, it's just going
to get worse.
Maybe they called their attorney
and they're like, what do we,
what can we do here?
Like there's nothing.
There's nothing you can do.
What are you going to take?
They got nothing.
Yeah, what are you?
Look man, I could send a letter.
They're just going to read it on
the show.
I could send a letter.
There's not.
That's.
We would frame it and put it
right here.
It's going to.
It's going to cost you X and
nothing's going to change.
All right?
Perfect.
All right, Principal partners
with five Dominican cigar
legends, Starts a boy band.
What?
This is what it says.
Wait a second, is it really?
Give me the headline again.
Principal partners with five
Dominican cigar legends.
Starts a boy band.
This is cigar industry news.
Yes, there's cigar industry
legends.
OK, Darren, Something of
Principal Cigars had an idea.
Who told them that there were
two are legends.
Apparently.
Pronounced his last name.
CIOFFI.
Look if.
He Yeah, coffee.
Maybe.
OK, Like who?
Who would be a legend in this
industry?
Well, why don't we?
Why don't we?
Read Oh, I don't want to pedrone
Aladio Jorge Pedrone Oh, Carlito
Puente.
Wait, wait.
What about the Davidoff?
Guy Aladio, I said.
Oh, Adobe no.
Jose, I'll just read the names.
Go ahead.
Jose Blanco.
OK.
Aladio Diaz.
Yeah, Hendrick Hen, these are
the.
These are the members of the
boys.
These are the members of the boy
man Hanky.
Hanky.
Yeah.
Ernesto Perez Corrillo, junior.
OK.
Manuel Quesada, junior.
Quesada.
Quesada, quesada, quesada.
I know the cigars.
OK, so they're actually starting
a boy, man.
I think they're just calling.
I think they're just calling us.
Cigars.
Who's the coffee guy?
That's the guy at the Principal
Cigars.
Isn't that?
Like 1.
Kofi, isn't that like a a stop
like you get into my head?
Now we can't.
Sing We'll get in trouble.
YouTube is seriously.
No, you can sing, no you.
Feel like I.
Can't even sing.
No, we can't use people's music.
We've already have one.
Just by saying those words.
Well, you were singing it
though.
Unless we have permission to use
their song, yeah.
If it doesn't sound like.
It we already have one, one
strike, we get three, they take
us down.
OK, so I can say I can say bye
bye bye, yes.
And then I can say like, I just
want to tell you that I've had
enough.
Correct.
But I Can't Sing.
Sing it with the melody you
Can't Sing.
It that's just how he talks.
That's how he talks.
With the melody.
Let's see, let's get more of
this instead of hold on, Kofi
told Cigars or Podcast He didn't
want to put too many
restrictions in each.
OK, so we had each one of them
make a cigar apparently.
Sounds like a I've watched a
documentary.
Isn't coffee like a old drug
Lord?
No, no, that was the LFD guy's
ex wife's husband.
Oh that one too.
Different guy.
Maybe they're all.
Eventually.
So Peter Anand does respond to
when I said yo let me get with
man, he says you want it in
regular DVD or Blu-ray.
I think I might even have it in
BCR.
Little did he know that I was
just using him as a segment on
our podcast.
So apparently each guy made
their own cigar.
They're putting him in a box.
The Principal's Boy Band Volume
1 is due out mid November.
There'll be 5000 boxes that each
contain one cigar from the five
makers, and the boxes contain
pictures from each man's youth.
Oh, so it's not a real boy band,
it's just a.
It's a box of cigars that go on,
boy.
Bands so I'm just throwing
pictures of children on boxes.
What are we doing?
What are we doing, $16 or $80.00
or $60.00 per cigar, $80.00 a
box for five?
OK, I'm sorry, because I wasn't
listening.
Who's making the cigar?
Principal principal, Principal
cigars.
Kofi.
OK, Mr. Kofi.
Mr. Kofi.
Yeah, Mr. Kofi, Darren Kofi of
Principal Cigars.
He's handling the like he has a
factory.
Well, I imagine each guy's
making it at his.
Factory.
They're making their own.
Yes, each guy makes their own
cigar.
And then they send.
Them to each other, then they
send them all to principal.
He puts them in a box right
sells them for 80.
Dollars.
Then he takes a bunch of
pictures. 5 pictures of pictures
of their.
Yeah, pictures of them as
children or of just children.
And then does he send the money
or not send the money?
Does it get donated to some type
of foundation to Save the
Children?
Of the Dominican or the
Dominican?
Of the Dominican Jesus.
This is another inner to back
stories.
That's why it makes no sense at
all and demand in dormant
Germany.
The latest year with the artwork
for I Put a spell on you.
It's quite oh, then they're
doing it.
The artwork is I put a spell on
you.
It's an older song.
Oh, it's even worse.
The five kids I put a spell on.
Right, a spell on the five
children.
OK.
Listen, here's what I'm thinking
this.
Is horrible.
It's worse in Germany.
Look, here's some thoughts, just
randomly throwing this out
there.
If you guys are going to come up
with ideas, maybe you guys
should just sit at a fucking
table micro dose a little bit.
And think out what they've done
already.
Think.
Out-of-the-box here.
I mean, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
Yeah, we're going to call it the
boy band.
What?
What are we?
What?
Wow.
There's five of them these.
Guys are out of their minds.
Probably because of the the 98°
had five look.
You know what, Just because you
can grow tobacco and you can
blend it or whatever, that's
still questionable as far.
As White couldn't have been
called like the five Dominican
legend that's.
Still questioned because that
was taken.
That was John and Fuente.
They already got that, the
Legends.
He got all of them to agree to
this.
Yeah, so he's like the fucking
Weinstein.
What was?
The guy's name of Epstein.
No, no, no, no.
It's totally different.
Did everything scratch?
That out of the show.
Is Diddy hung himself?
Yeah.
That's no, not yet, not yet.
I saw a clip on Instagram what I
was like, what country has the
most oil?
And somebody responded with
Diddy.
Wow.
I was like, yes, that is that is
correct.
You know, So wasn't it Mark
Weinstein that did oceans?
I think it was Weinstein.
Yeah, yes.
So he's like, hey, here's what
we're going to do.
This is going to be a great idea
or whatever.
I mean, that's what this coffee
guy did.
What do you I got a great idea
it.
Sounds like a terrible idea.
Yeah, I need, I need you to make
a cigar and give me baby.
Pictures.
Listen, when we're getting close
to the end of the year, yeah,
top 10 cigars, We're throwing
that out the door.
We're going to do top ten worst
ideas in 2024.
Number one, Yeah.
Number one there, yeah.
All right, back to the cigars
of.
It might that would, that could
be #1.
Back to cigars of unreasonable
names.
OK. 85 cigars launches 85 cigars
is the word 80 and then the
number 5.
That's the name of the company,
correct?
Launches Ocho Cinco Cigar of
Honor.
OK, so it's Chad Ocho Cinco
shit.
Yes, his last.
Oh.
That is his company.
His last name is also Johnson.
His name last name was Johnson.
He changed it to Ocho Cinco OH.
Ocho Cinco's in parentheses.
Yeah.
Oh, this is a bad.
This is a football guy.
Yes.
Ah, I got you.
He's making it.
They're making a cigar frame.
Well, he's made well, he's made
one, but they're.
Making another He's making
another one, a new limited
edition cigar.
It's called Ocho Cinco Cigar of
Honor.
It comes in a 6 by 60 Gordo
vitola with a blend that uses
Ecuador and Habano Maduro
wrapper and Indonesian binder
and fillers from Nicaragua's
Halapa and Kondega regions.
Halapa.
Our goal with the cigar of honor
is to give.
I don't know how he talks.
That's not that's not how he
talks.
Yeah.
No, it's not even close.
Huh.
More like yo this cigar.
Yo, our goal.
Was it the cigar of honor to
give our supporters something
truly special, said Johnson.
Said Ocho Cinco apparently is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Said Ocho.
Did they call him Ocho for short
Ocho?
I don't know what they call him.
He's funny.
Chad, OH.
And he's up there for me, like
the guy I want to smoke a cigar
with.
Yeah.
And I talked with them and he's
like, oh, I'm gonna come see.
I'm like, no, you're not.
Yeah, he's not coming.
Yeah, he did say he was going.
To go still this day, two years
later, Nothing.
Bring your new cigar.
Oh, each cigar has got its own
tube, like the glass volcano.
It's got a tube.
It's got the glass volcano thing
on it too.
Oh, magnetic.
I was in a handicrafted glass
coated cedar wood box.
Oh, very fancy.
Oh, it's a box.
Not even a tube.
Well, it's in a tube too.
It's a customized tube.
Coated.
And then they put the tube in a
glass coated box.
I don't know you.
Can't get to the cigar at all.
They're not even sure they're in
there.
I.
Don't know if you can buy them
except from this one location.
Let's see, because we just
secure the box, you can reserve
them by placing a non refundable
$85 deposit via 85 Cigars
website by October 11th at
11:59.
Direct to consumer.
All the boxes will be signed by
Ojo Cinco.
Oh, so finally change it as
Johnson earlier and one lucky
Cigar of Honor supporter will
win 2 tickets to Super Bowl in
New Orleans with the added
opportunity to meet Chad when I
was back to Johnson again to
meet Chad Johnson that doesn't.
Happen how many cigars they
selling?
85 just 8560 yadda yadda yadda.
I.
Don't think you said.
They don't say how many.
I don't say production.
Nope.
They're a young company.
They're yeah, I'm not going to
say.
Bro, we're going to give away
Super Bowl tickets.
Super Bowl tickets.
Just one.
One set of tickets.
Yeah, well, Chad has to have one
and then.
It's the opportunity to win, so
they're not even guaranteeing a
winner.
Right, Right.
Never happens.
Yeah, never happened.
I do like the gangster price
though. 85. 85 Sell it for 85.
No $85, that's a deposit.
Oh oh.
Here we go.
They made 850 boxes of 10 cigars
and it's $850 a box.
What?
$850 a box.
Yeah, 85, Everything's 85.
It's the theme.
Is there 85 cigars in this box?
No, there's 10s, yeah.
So they're. 800.
And 50 boxes, 10 cigars in each.
Box so they're 85 a pull right?
I love that.
That's like, that's so bad ass
because look, it's price is
subjective and the reason why I
get it.
And he said, yeah, let's do it
at 85.
Here is the name of the company.
Yeah, 85.
I mean, what he could have done
was even like.
Changing the company to 99.
He could have done 8 pesos and
five pesos that.
Would have.
They don't want pesos.
That's not much money, no.
I mean, you're really paying for
the signature.
He's he like soccer.
He wants more money.
I like money.
I like money, right?
Today's podcast day, Michael.
It's national podcast.
Oh, really?
Yes.
How exciting.
So to celebrate I had ChatGPT do
a review of our show.
I I just asked for reviews.
All I did I just typed in.
I would like a review of Cigar
House.
Republic, Yeah.
Did it say it's it's Eduardo,
not Enrique?
Yeah.
You guys don't know what the
fuck you're talking about.
Well, the ChatGPT that you did
last week, I tried to do it and
we didn't come up.
Well, I did it later and we
still didn't come up in there.
So it changes apparently because
Jack and Hector did it.
But this, this is AI mean,
granted it only knows I guess
all ChatGPT pulls from the
Internet and stuff you tell it
right?
So it does all our descriptions
for us of the show.
So you said I'm great, like to
it?
No.
I didn't see that.
OK.
All right, go ahead.
Cuz I tried doing top 10 best
cigar podcast and most of them
I've never heard of right.
So I I don't it's but here it
is.
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I thought that was pretty
accurate, yeah.
We're a tad pretentious.
I don't think we're pretentious.
I wear, I wear.
I have 5 black T-shirts.
I rotate them in and out.
Yeah.
My clothes only change because
now I have to wear.
Different as national sales
manager, Yeah.
OK.
So do we have a listener of the
week?
Hold on, I.
Have Oh, you want to do
something else?
No, no, my wife just called, but
I was reading the voice when
she's getting her nails done.
Yeah, I have a shop of the week,
but I don't have a listener.
Shop of the week is Hutch
Humidor in Kansas City that just
opened this past weekend.
So congratulations.
They did really well.
Very nice.
Yes.
Sold all their private
memberships or private lounge
memberships.
Thank you, Hutch Humidor.
Thank you, Hutch Humidor, he
texted me on Saturday to give me
an update on how his opening day
went.
Very nice.
Do you have a listener of the
week?
Michael, I saw you look at your
phone.
I tried to check I felt like I
had one but.
You had one last week.
And that was Mike Boggs, right?
Yeah.
So how about this week?
What about this week?
You have one, Phil.
Do you have a Listener of the
week?
Yeah, Phil.
Phil's the Listener of the Week.
That's.
Terrible.
Listener of the Week can be you
know what?
You know, what about the
Gordons?
You.
Know who I'm going to make
listen of the week?
The.
Gordons like they're I don't.
Because she she occasionally
gives me a hard time about this
and then she's never
acknowledges.
Listening.
Oh who?
Britney's chef on Cavage
Listener of the Week.
Oh it's so nice.
I'm an avid listener.
I'm going to need confirmation.
That you heard that, by the way.
It's at the end of the show.
She listens to all of.
Them she listens.
To All of them.
She does.
She never commented back on how
often you take your clothes off.
As many as you walk in the
house.
Yeah, she did not.
Yeah.
Yeah, she didn't verify that.
She let that go, huh?
Good.
Not now you're going to get a
text.
Now I'll get a text message 12
as soon as he walks in the door,
there's a trail from the back
door.
No, I pretty much I do change as
soon as I get in the house.
No, I mean, you strip off your
shirt.
We're talking about how often.
You like to be shirtless?
Naked was shirtless.
And your yellow banana hammock.
I I wore shirtless yesterday
working on house stuff outside.
Well, I was outside.
That's in observance of the
mastranza, the new one.
Yeah, it's the new yellow
Mastranza.
You have the yellow banana.
I've actually taken the labels.
Oh, invade.
A band, Yeah.
Oh.
How'd you get labels in advance?
Yeah.
I know somebody.
Oh yeah, I got the Kinect.
Oh, probably you spelled them
wrong, but how would you know?
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I mean, who
would know?
Yeah, except Skip.
Nobody's going to know.
Nobody's going to know.
Nobody's going to know.
Yeah, unless it's spelled with
like a XBA.
Or you still you might not even
know.
Oh look, it's Monstrandi.
You spell it with an X.
Did you find the Castillo de
Yada Yada the good one or did
you like the Cadda Shawl?
The Cadda shawl was my favorite
one I enjoyed.
The Cadda.
Yeah, that's my favorite.
It's the Cadda Shaw.
Me too.
I'm a lot better than the
Valencia.
We're going to get nasty
messages about you fucks.
Yeah.
You fuck.
All right, but episode 354 four,
is it 4?
Sure.
No, don't look over here.
Don't look, don't look at the
wall.
Look at your paper.
What is the paper?
I think the paper, Yep. 354 all.
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Show Notes
In this exciting episode, Mike and Palmer dive into the highlights of the recent seven-course meat and cigar event at Cigar Hustlers, which turned out to be a huge success! While Mikey enjoyed a quiet weekend with his family, Palmer was busy catching up with friends. The duo also discusses the latest happenings in the cigar industry, sharing their insights on the week’s news. Plus, Phil the Engineer shares a hilarious and unexpected story about how he met his wife—thanks to a memorable bobbing-for-apples experience. Tune in for great laughs, industry insights, and some delicious cigar talk!