Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 357 Aaron Rodgers, Donald Trump, Elon, Musk and Hurricane Oscar
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without?
Someone's got to hit the button.
Oh yeah, I think let's see who
we calling.
Nobody but if we want to play.
The clip.
The clip later.
Yeah, and I need help.
Do I have to get up and hit the
button?
No, I got it.
Can somebody?
Can somebody hit the Bluetooth
button?
The.
What do you tray?
What ashtray?
I don't think I'm ahead of
myself.
Oh, I know what ashtray is.
Yeah, nobody's going to.
There's nobody left up there.
Steve's there.
Oh, Steve's there.
Oh, I need him to do something
by the way.
What are we doing?
We're so unorganized.
We're so unorganized.
So what are we?
What are?
Today we are smoking.
Thanks to Jason Sharp, we are
smoking the world's oh you gotta
do the hand thing.
The world's strongest cigar.
The world's strongest?
As we were reviewing on the
Patreon today by HVC.
Give me a break.
Come.
On it made David Garoppolo sake.
And New England Cigar Expo.
It's from the the event up
there.
It's from the New England Skirt
Expo.
Yes, with David Garofalo,
there's still that out of there.
It's got some good weight to it.
It does feels a little heavy
it's. 18.9 grams 18.
Point. 9 grams.
So your buddy Aaron Rodgers has
a problem.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
What he does.
What did he do?
And The Jets game last night
during the Steelers, he was cut
picking his nose.
Really.
And then he ate it.
Oh, I gagged typing up the
story.
He's got more than he's got more
than one problem, dude.
Because they looked.
Terrible.
Yeah.
It went on to say it and then I
guess people attacked him
through social media for the
rest of the game.
Really.
Yes, and he was very upset and
he was terribly distraught, so
he was very angry.
That's hilarious.
But there's actual footage and
then just.
Picking a nose and eating it.
Look, what's the thought?
Who eats it?
What's the thought process on
that?
OK, it's not hold on, hold on.
Sunday night, prime time.
Yes, all cameras.
I mean, you got to be in a
stadium of what, 7080 thousand
people minimum?
He got caught on football feed.
It's not like you know somebody
with their phone guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, he was.
Yeah.
He picked his nose and ate it
but.
You got to think a guy like him,
there's always a camera on him.
Right, so that's what I'm
saying.
So he probably doesn't think
about it.
And he's like, you know, he
would have better just went, you
know.
Yeah, than more masculine.
Right than I mean his fingers in
there.
I saw the footage.
Maybe that's why I had such an
off day.
I don't know, there was some
bowl about it helping the, you
know, eating boogers helps the
cognitive ability of your brain
or something.
That's completely horseshit, and
that's not true at all.
That's amazing.
It's.
Very quiet.
Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers.
Cause hair's not turned up
eating boogies, eating buggies,
buggy eating.
Now.
Now he's going to be the booger
eater.
Everybody's going to call him
that.
Well, did you hear about, did
you see Deshaun Watson?
He went down.
Deshaun, OH.
You have no idea.
I have no idea.
And now I don't have Phil here
to to help me.
Yep, sorry.
So this guy, so he snapped his
Achilles and he's a Cleveland
Browns guy.
That hurts.
Oh, So what in the same game?
No.
And they were.
And the entire fan base was was
chanting.
You deserve it.
Oh yeah, it's pretty bad.
It's pretty.
Bad.
You know, definitely not a
Deshaun Watson fan.
Barely nobody is.
I don't know if I could partake
in the chanting.
Yeah, I mean, the guy got hurt.
Yeah, he's done.
So you're going to have to turn
the air down.
He's done.
You're killing me.
You're.
Closer.
Yeah, but I will.
I will start reading the next
trending story and then I will
cut you out.
Oh my goodness.
The late golf icon Arnold Palmer
was appalled by former President
Donald Trump allegedly started
boasting about Palmer's
genitals.
Yeah.
At a campaign at a campaign
rally Saturday and couldn't
believe the crudeness of the
Republican nominee for
president, according to his
family.
What did he say?
Yes.
What did you have for the sign?
You have for the sign.
Thank you.
Perfect.
I'll grab it from there.
Steve, Steve.
Steve, Steve, Steve.
Hey, I I got something I don't
know.
I won't tell.
Him on the show and he's gone.
That's fine.
You didn't turn the air down.
I did.
Oh, OK, I did, did, did, did.
In closing, let's see.
A senior advisor for Trump's
campaign told reporters before
his rally in Latrobe, PA, that
the event would kick off his
closing argument to voters as
the election nears.
OK, so he wasn't supposed to
obviously talk about?
Arnold Palmer's huge Dong.
Apparently, yes.
Instead, Trump opened his
remarks by talking about Latrobe
born Palmer's penis.
When he took, so that's what he
said.
He said when he took the showers
with the other pros, they came
out there and they said, Oh my
God, that's unbelievable.
That's like a violation though,
right?
Aren't you're not supposed to
make Yeah, you.
Know, but I mean, he's dead, so
he died in 2016.
Oh, he's.
Yeah, Arnold Palmer, who died in
2016, would almost certainly
have been insulted by Trump's
latest.
So we're just assuming that he'd
been upset.
Well, I've never heard any.
I mean, he was played golf for a
long time.
Yeah, I never heard anybody else
talking.
I mean, like Milton Berle
supposedly had a big one, but
everybody knew, Everybody talked
about it.
I've never heard us about Uncle
Larney before.
Would you be mad if somebody
said you got a huge Dick?
Well, maybe he's the original
BDP.
Maybe he is the original BDP,
maybe you know it's just like.
I don't know, it's a little
disrespectful.
I mean, the man's dead.
Maybe if he was alive it
wouldn't be as upset.
It's not like he said he had a
small Dick.
Well, that's true.
It doesn't seem like it's.
But why?
Why does he bring that up?
And it showed him going like
this.
Yeah.
Like he was, you know, nice.
It's big.
Nice.
I don't know.
I don't know why he did to keep
it.
Just got to keep it
entertaining, I guess.
I.
Guess maybe it was the only fact
he knew about Arnold Palmer.
Arnold Palmer, huge Dick.
Huge Dick.
I mean huge.
I mean huge, huge, huge.
It was massive.
Biggest Dick I ever saw.
Well, hey, you know.
We call them BDP.
We call them BAP, wait, BDAP.
Big Arnold Palmer, Dick.
Big Dick Palmer.
Palmer.
Just BDPDA.
Just BDP.
Big Dick Palmer.
Yes, runs on a family.
Apparently runs on family.
I got it the original BDP.
Sorry it took me a second the.
Original BDP ready ready for the
next one.
You think this is going to be
the strongest cigar ever?
That is actually the name.
That's the name of the cigar
I'm.
Going to tell you right now.
Yeah.
Ain't no fucking way.
Well, we'll find out.
I so hope you.
I smoke 2 Neanderthals a night.
Especially stronger.
I don't know what's in it.
We haven't got that.
We will get into that on the
other show.
OK.
But I tried getting them from
Terence Riley and he said I
didn't make them.
I go well, you had a box in your
hand.
HVC made them.
HVC made it, yes.
So before you get into the next
story, I really want to reach
for this here.
OK, All right, look, can I reach
for it with my headphones on?
Let's.
See.
Yeah, Yeah.
You got a little elastic there.
Oh, I got excited.
You leaned into my lap.
So, Mike, I had this bet.
You had a bet.
I wondered how we got it.
I had.
This bet with Eric Espinoza,
yes.
And he made a comment and he
said I bet you anything.
I bet this is what's going to
happen.
I said OK, I'll take that bet.
Is this that he could beat you
up that one?
No, no, no, no.
But I did see a recent thing
that Eric Espinoza still trends
as far as you know, people, if
you get into a fight, who do you
want on your side?
Oh, and Eric Espinoza.
Still becomes one of those
people.
I think John Yogurlite commented
and said, oh, that's Mike all
day.
I want him on right so.
We made he had a birthday.
John Jurgurlite.
Yes, he did.
Happy birthday Missus Yogurlite.
So I made this bet, yes, I said
I'll take that bet, you know,
goes two.
I'll just give you 2 to one or
something like that usually.
What was the bet you didn't?
You skipped over.
There, I don't know, I mean.
You're not saying what the bet
is I'm.
Not saying what should I say
what the bet is?
Well, it's sort of the story.
Do you think so?
Otherwise we just have an
ashtray that you won for some
reason.
He believed, yes, that something
was going to happen in the in
the nation.
OK, what was it?
Before elections and.
A revolution?
No, no, no.
Civil war, he thought.
For sure that there was going to
be.
I don't know if I should say it.
Why?
He thought for sure that there
was going to be another
shutdown.
Of the OH for the for COVID or.
Whatever, I'm like, OK, I'll
take that bet.
Sure.
That was a sure thing, right?
So, so here's what I so here's
what's funny.
I don't really bet.
Sure.
Yeah, you're not a gambling man.
Yeah.
I don't like to.
Bet you know you guys used to
every year PCA you guys used to
make the same bet about.
I would, yeah.
Yeah, I would always bet the
Bucks to win, right.
And then of course, COVID hit.
We didn't do PCA right and the
Bucks won and that was the end
of it from I was done at that
point.
Gotcha.
I like to drop 100 on the bucks
to win, right?
And that would have been a nice
payday.
But of course, there was no,
there was no PCA.
So, so I made this bet with him.
OK, and here's here's what
happens when I do something like
that, right?
I write it down verbatim, sure
exactly what the bet is, right?
And when the date is that it
expires.
It pays off.
Greg does that too.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not fucking around.
Sure.
Right.
So the month comes, the date
comes, and I send the text to
Erica.
Hey, you have officially lost
your bet.
Oh.
And it was before the election.
What if it happens this week?
Yeah, well, I mean, I you know,
what's funny is the date that he
had said, yeah, once I said I'll
take that bet, he goes, oh, no,
no, I need more.
More time than that.
More time.
I said, OK, no problem.
How many?
How many more months?
I would.
Have went to election.
How many more months do you
need?
So we worked it out.
Sure.
And I said it marked it in my my
calendar.
Was this always the payoff?
No, OK, it was supposed to be a
box of cigars.
Oh, or two.
It was either 2 to one, two
boxes of mine for one for him or
something or two for him, one
for me.
Something like I don't, I mean,
I have it written down.
Sure.
So I said OK, no problem.
Hey, guess what, you lost.
So.
Oh, you texted him?
Hey, the Yeah.
Surprise.
So.
So Jack reaches out to me and
he's happy.
You can tell that Jack, Jack is
happiest.
Hey, I heard you.
I heard I got a bet that I need
to iron out and I said OK, well
what are my options, you know?
Oh, what am I winning like?
Because my choice is.
Supposed to be cigars.
I'm like, what do you have?
I don't want to like, I want it
to sting, but I don't want it to
be something obnoxious.
Yeah, right, right.
So Jack says, you know, we got
these really bad ass ashtrays.
I said, oh perfect, I'll take
one of those.
I think there's like 300 of them
made or something.
Yeah, I remember when they
showed this, so I wondered how
we got.
This.
Oh yeah, I don't know what the
hell we're going to do with this
thing.
Do you need help holding it up
there?
It's it's bigger than Arnold
Palmer's penis.
Maybe the same size?
About the same size.
Maybe that's what he held it
with.
Dude, look at this thing.
How am I going to open this?
I'll just pop this out.
Yeah, I'm going to say there's
no way to stay in the box.
It's a megalodon.
Grab that box.
Look.
Look at this thing.
How funny you, baby.
It's huge.
It's huge.
Huge.
It's huge.
Has it been autographed?
No.
Should've put that in Eric
Espinoza.
I should not have bet.
Right.
That's what he should say.
We should put Eric's face in the
front of it.
Somehow put it in.
Bet loser.
Oh, So yeah, I think it's got to
go.
We got to put it up in the
lounge or something.
I want it somewhere.
Well, we're on this.
Big.
I mean, it's not like it could
fit on that table.
Well, we have to take everything
else off.
Yeah, I really like the gorilla
so.
But yeah, this is my winnings.
Oh, I'd figure out what to do
with that.
It's nice.
Hell yeah.
When when this thing got here
and I opened it up, I'm like, my
God, this is gigantic.
I thought maybe we had an event
or something coming up.
I wouldn't.
Know this is a bet loss.
We were just talking about it
this morning, me and Steve, and
I was like, well, I don't know,
maybe Guy Fieri's coming to the
shop.
You wanna put that piece back on
top?
No, Guy Fieri can legitimately
come to Deltona, and he's over
there on that shot.
Yeah, I'm, I'm talking.
The the phone, oh, it's heavy.
Guy Fieri could legitimately
come to Deltona and are you
good?
I don't want to drop it.
I'm holding on.
I can't move my hand now because
it's going to fall.
It's going to fall.
Let go.
Just let go.
You're, you're upsetting me now,
making me angry, passionate.
You're making me passionate.
All right, Well, whatever.
So yeah, oh, this is a big deal
here.
Pretty soon, I mean, we already
have the other thing on the
wall.
We're going to be an Eric
Espinoza podcast studio.
Oh, if you hit that camera.
Yeah, it's just a matter of
time.
I want, I mean, I need a guy
here to come and say nice things
about me.
He already.
Did.
Yeah.
Unless you got the birthday
message.
It's true.
It's true, but it's not recent.
I need it again.
Oh, you need something?
You need something new.
Oh, that should have been the
bet Guy Fieri on the show.
He can make that happen.
I know, that's why you should
have got that.
That should have been my
earnings.
Should have been the payoff.
Hey, here's what you're going to
do.
I want Guy Fieri.
I need Guy Fieri at an event at
my shop and do the podcast.
Multiple.
I need Guy Fieri's phone number.
He's not going to answer that.
Guy Fieri?
Yeah, sure he is.
He answered.
He's like Matt Booth.
I think he answers everybody's
phone.
I think.
So he just gives it out,
probably like Matt Booth.
And then you call him and he
goes, hello, I want to see my
penis.
Oh, that's just Matt Booth, not
Guy Fieri.
Yeah, it's not be reasonable.
Right, He's like, what do you
want for lunch?
Yeah, what are we eating?
What are we eating?
Oh, that would be a cool way to
answer the.
Phone this awesome dive.
Hi, this is Guy Fieri.
What are we eating?
What are we eating?
Oh, we're.
Going to go to chicken guy
Chicken.
All right, Elon Musk and giving
out money, Michael.
Really.
Elon Musk, the billionaire
founder of Tesla and SpaceX
who's gone all in on Republican
Donald Trump's candidacy for the
White House, is pledging to give
away $1 million a day.
A day to.
Voters for signing his petition,
his action?
Pity.
One random not all of them.
Everybody doesn't get one right.
Which he could probably still
afford that too.
Yeah, right, backing the
Constitution.
Who would not sign a petition to
back the Constitution?
I don't know.
I mean, we're all for that here
in America.
Yeah.
Everybody likes the
Constitution.
I think so.
I don't think so.
Who doesn't like it?
Try and make what are.
We going to be socialist now,
just throw it out the window.
No, I don't want him to speak
and sound stupid but doesn't.
Oh come on, isn't the
Constitution about like right to
bear arms?
It's the Bill of Rights.
That's the Bill of Rights.
Constitution is the We the
People.
That's the we the people thing.
We the people.
It's perfect union blah blah
blah blah blah blah Gotcha.
Blah blah, there you go, there's
your clip.
You sound like dumb.
Some experts say it is a
violation of the law to link a
cash handout to signing a
petition that also requires a
person to be registered to vote.
A message seeking comment was
left with the the PAC on Sunday,
as was AI was Thursday.
PCA, but it's PAC.
Yeah.
I was request for comment from
the Justice Department.
You can't do that.
You.
Can't do that.
Did you see him land that
rocket?
Yeah.
Rocket booster.
Yeah.
I mean, it just came right back
down and just right back.
And how about the bots?
Did you see the robots?
Well, we did the robot last
week.
It's amazing.
It is.
I need.
I robots.
I need those.
We have rockets now that come
back and put themselves.
Back and stand guys crush all
you know right so many people
hate them too it's got to make
there's.
Probably he's going to make
better cars, though.
There's problem with the cars.
Really.
Well, you know, I mean, they're
not that it's not that big a
deal anymore.
They need better cars.
I'm sure he'll he'll up.
I'm sure.
Yeah, right.
It's like the iPhone 13, right?
So he's making a phone too.
Is he really?
Yeah.
Oh, that is nice.
Global domination.
Elon Musk is going for global
domination.
He's going to run.
Well, he sent all that Wi-Fi up
to where the hurricane through,
Yeah, all the Starlinks he's
have.
You ever seen one in the air?
No, it's one of the creepiest
things ever.
No way it is satellite but you
put a thing like on your house
or something.
No.
So it's a satellite, right?
Right, they're already up there.
Yeah, so one with his own
rockets he has.
OK, so one day I was walking
right in the evening with my
neighbor, OK?
And we said, what the fuck is
that?
How low was it?
It was, it was like this stream
of lights.
It was like it looked.
Like, oh, so you, you saw the
satellite go over.
It looked like satellites go by.
No, it looked like 8.
It almost looked like eight or
nine stars kind of linked
together and they were moving in
unison.
But you saw it in outer space.
Yeah.
OK.
So I'm like you can see at the
top of the house.
No, it just looked like stars
were moving.
Got you?
Like what?
Well, he probably doesn't know.
What the hell is that?
I would like my own consolation
to look like my face.
So he moves the stars around.
At that for for about 45 minutes
to an hour, I was convinced that
it was aliens.
I'm like, there's, there's this
has got to be a higher being or
something.
Something's up.
There this is.
That's not.
That's not.
Look, somebody's up there, Bob.
That's not stars.
That's not stars.
Satellite, yeah.
And then once we went home, I
looked it up or my neighbor
looked it up.
And you googled.
Aliens, I said.
What is the Squire Stars and
Ultimatum?
Sure as shit said Hey, this is
don't worry, this is the
Starlink.
Oh wow, powerful stuff.
Oh sure.
Crazy.
Well, he's guys on rockets.
Puts him up anytime he wants.
Yeah.
He's doing all right.
Crushing it.
He is crushing.
Isn't he?
Like the world's richest man at
this point.
Where he's going to end up just
taking over, something's going
to happen.
Think so.
Yeah.
In Elon we trust.
I don't know seems.
Right, his picture will be on
the money.
I don't.
Think we want that, but I like
the fact.
That I'm not saying we want it,
but I mean, he's going to
control.
Everything he's back in the
Constitution.
Right.
Yeah, which isn't the Bill of
Rights.
No, that's totally different,
totally different thing.
It's an add on.
Yeah, right.
Like page 2.
Let's see what else we got going
on.
Oh, there's another hurricane.
Yeah, there's.
I figured there'd be 1/3, it was
just a matter of time, right?
This is a little one.
Is a poof.
It's a little one.
Is it a little poof?
Tropical Storm Oscar remained
crouched over eastern Cuba when
it would drop more than a foot
of rain as it crawls over the
island at it's only going 3
miles an hour.
Oh my God that sucks.
And it's Cuba, so it's not like
I have any infrastructure
anyway, right?
Oscar was a tiny, weak storm
with tropical storm force winds
extending just 45 miles from the
center and maximum sustained
winds at 40 mph as of Monday.
11:00 AM.
That's today update.
The National Hurricane Center
said the storm could continue to
weaken as it traverses the
mountain terrain in eastern
Cuba, but maintain tropical
storm strength as it exits Cuba
later Monday night.
I feel like, look, there's gonna
be the weather is still the, the
Ocean's still warm right now.
Right.
Well, Elon, Elon's controlling
the weather.
Now, oh, is he?
Oh, I heard that.
Sure.
Interesting.
Just put that out there.
Just throw that out there.
Why not?
'Cause I like it when people get
angry with us on YouTube.
Like, hey, oh, that one young
lady was very upset making.
Jokes about that.
But that one guy was so funny.
Oh yeah, I.
Guess the direction was down.
Guess the direction was down.
See, the guy was in One
Direction, right?
So apparently the direction was.
Down, down.
Have you followed that story
since last week?
No.
Apparently there was drugs
involved.
Of course bath salts were there.
I mean, you know.
No, no, no bath salts, no baby
oil.
No baby oil.
Apparently he tried to leave or
something and leave the country
and there's something wrong with
his passport or something.
So they were keeping him.
So that might have fueled the
anger.
I think with the drugs.
I'm just speculating here.
I'm not sure.
I don't.
Really check that you were my
form of news that's going on in
the world and and elsewise as
far as the cigar media let you
keep me up to date.
Oh that's nice.
I appreciate it.
I'm gonna start making.
Stories up now.
Please don't do that.
Please don't do that.
I'm counting on you.
You'll never know.
OK, So what else do you got?
I have some news.
Oh yeah, there's no fill today.
So there's no So yeah, when we
found out he was not coming and
I did not do it, Phil's fun
fact.
Oh, we're OK.
We're we're about halfway
through the show.
We got our That was Phil's fun
fact.
That was Phil's fun fact.
Eric Espinoza.
It would have been something
about picking a nose.
That would have been the fun
fact, right?
OK, I would have gone more into
the cognitive abilities of
eating boogers.
The cognitive ability Phil would
have, I'm sorry, Phil would have
got this wholesome or that he's
very adamant about us.
Oh, who is it?
Mordo.
Oh, OK, yeah.
Mardo cigars.
Bam.
All right, done.
There's one what I want him to
check.
I mean I won't get in specifics.
There's an e-mail address I need
change and I've changed it twice
but the invoice keeps going to
the old e-mail anyway.
Not a huge problem, but the guy
laughs and tells me every time
he goes did it again.
Got a lot of QuickBooks.
Yeah.
This thing's tunneling.
You won't mind.
Sure.
I just trade, yeah, just
straight to swap them.
All right, well, let's get into
some news then, Sir, from the
four corners of the world.
All right, PCA adds consumer
membership, but no trade show.
Oh.
Yes.
The premium cigar association
PCA has announced 2 new
membership tiers, one for
businesses and another for
consumers, that will seek to
broaden the organization's
membership roster and revenue.
Right.
Both members are part of the PCA
alliance.
The concept that is that these
are for consumers or businesses
that would like to be allianced
with the PCA by supporting the
organization.
So there's consumer alliance,
which is $99 annually, OK.
The business alliance is $250
annually.
What's the difference between
the two, Michael?
Apparently $150.00 that wasn't
planned.
That was just easy.
Previously, consumers had been
outright banned from joining the
PCA, which is a Trade
Organization.
Only entities that were in the
cigar business were eligible,
such as cigar shops,
distributors or suppliers.
Those memberships start at $472
for industry partner
memberships.
Distributors and media fall into
that category, or $600.00 for
retail sales.
OK.
The Business Alliance members
are being targeted at businesses
at breweries, golf courses and
restaurants.
I guess things that carry
cigars, right?
Most important sense, neither
Consumer Alliance nor Business
alliance memberships will
include access to the annual
PCA.
So basically we would like your
money, but you still can't.
I think that that's still
bullshit.
I, you know what I think it is
too.
I think that the, the, that this
is a step into the right
direction.
I think that they're trying to
slowly kind of bring that out as
far as consumers.
You think they want to let them
in?
Look, you like the fact they're
going to let.
Them, I love the fact that
they're going to bring what?
If that doubled the number of
free cigars you had to give
away.
We would figure that out.
We would figure out there's got
to be some form of compensation
for that as far as look these
things cost money, right, Right.
So if it's a even, if it's a
break even for me and that's a
contribution to the PCA.
Wait, I'm confused, what if a
break even?
OK, so let's say PCA says, all
right, we're officially going to
run a consumer day.
OK, All right, here's the amount
of money that the tickets are
going to cost, OK, right.
And here's the allotted amount
of cash that we are going to
give to you.
Oh, you.
Want them to pay you for the
cigar?
Yeah, I mean, it's it shouldn't
be that difficult to do, right?
Sure.
Even if you had specific
requirements.
OK, You got top 20 guys, right?
Fuente, Pedrone, you know, Alta,
Dis, whatever.
Dab it off, whoever they are.
You know Drew a state right?
Those guys get an allotted sum
of X for whatever.
Like here's what we expect you
to here's.
What we're going to pay you to
give away cigar?
Here's the amount of cigars we
want you to give away and here's
the price we're willing to pay.
Okay, right.
And then if you wanted to add
additional people for that, you
could say, hey, you know, people
were asking about you as far as
cigars, giveaway, whatever,
right?
Or you could do it.
For Oh, so they don't get it
from everybody.
Yeah.
So here's the ones that we're
going to cover, All right.
If you as a, if you as a person
want to give stuff away, you can
do that too, gratis, no problem.
Sure.
You can submit that we can
offset those costs as far as PCA
contribution you.
Want PCA to give you money back?
Yeah, there's there's tons of
ways to do it and where it's
still lucrative for PCA, they
can still add revenue, right?
And it's good for I believe
myself or other brand owners and
manufacturers because look, I
want to talk with consumers
anyways.
Sure, if you're going to go out
of your way to come to
something, right?
And you're excited to meet me,
right, I'm excited too.
I want to talk about it, you
know, like let's, let's.
Be friends, Passion.
Let's be passionate, let's be
friends.
I'll be friends, you know?
So I'll add 99.
Oh, so you went.
So they're already paying $99?
Yeah, they get nothing for that,
right?
So now they pay $99.00 and buy
the ticket.
Well, if they want to purchase
the ticket, yeah, they can
purchase the.
Ticket in this one.
OK, so $99 still does not get
you in.
No no, it gives you access to
the ticket.
You got a sticker?
You get a nice sticker.
Nice sticker.
I suppose I or PCA like I voted.
Yeah, exactly.
It's about that size.
Right.
Yeah, perfect.
Little round.
Gotcha.
Business lines memberships are
being targeted at already.
Read that memories will include
as a business alliance.
If you're a standard consumer
and you receive some type of
notification from the PCA
saying, hey, we heard you smoke
cigars and want you to support
the PCA, please reach out to me.
I want to see what it looks
like.
I'm kind of curious.
Oh.
Yeah, I'd like to see what it
looks like.
Because many cigar companies
display new products during the
PCA convention trade show and
notably give out free cigars to
retailers to try consumer
access.
PCA convention and trade show
has been a much talked about
topic for years.
In the summer of 2019, the
organization availed plans for a
cigar con, a day of the trade
show when consumers would be
allowed onto the trade floor.
The idea was met with fierce
resistance and less than 60 days
after the event was announced,
they cancel the cigar con.
Yeah, well.
At that point, I feel like it
was not, it wasn't put together
right, right.
You know, they just kind of
threw it up in the air and said,
all right, we're going to do
this right.
So it's instantly going to be
met with pushback.
And if you can't answer the
questions.
Well, they're just going to do
it like any Tampa Cigar Bash or
Cigar Fest or any of that.
Thing which all of that's fine.
Even if they went that realm or
that that route, that's
perfectly acceptable to me.
You still have to have a plan in
place.
And they didn't like, Oh, it's
just going to be like.
Oh well, they were thinking of
doing it like and you guys just
give them cigars.
We're not paying you.
Right.
And I don't think that that's
appropriate.
Sure, because things cost money.
I'm sure they do.
Right.
So there should be an option to
give stuff away if they're going
to cover costs or whatever there
should be so.
Do you want an extra day added
or do you?
Of course.
OK, so then that's an extra day.
You have to also pay for all of
us to be there.
Not necessarily.
You can send people home.
Well, some yes, but I mean we're
a small group which one of us it
only you could really for that
you can only really send one of
us home.
Well, I would tell you that the
entire staff would stay.
Everybody that's there with us,
right?
Well, no one's going anywhere.
OK.
So it's another full day of
expenses.
Right, which I'm perfectly fine.
With so you're fine with that?
Just the cigars.
Yeah, I mean real.
Like I don't mind spending that
additional cost.
Sure.
It's an opportunity for me to
get in front of people that are
excited about my cigars or
excited about meeting us.
Right.
I'm already there.
I'm in I've.
Already spent the money.
I've already flown, right?
Right.
I've already done the abuse.
Flu there, I'm fine I.
Got to be honest, I think that
that would probably be
refreshing at the end to talk
with people that are excited
about my brands.
Sure, I'm sure.
Some people would, but could you
see George sticking around an
extra day to meet?
He didn't want to meet us and we
were going to buy stuff.
What?
Are you talking about George
Petron?
Oh, yeah, it wasn't happening
that.
No, But you know, there's still
going to be some people say,
hey, man, love the podcast, love
to talk.
You know, I'm, you know, Bobby
Duncan's a great, great example
of that, right when Bobby came
up and he was, hey, I'm really
excited.
You know, I listen to podcasts
all the time or whatever, like
that right there.
And I'm like, yes, because I
know that what we're doing, I
know that what we represent, I
know that we're honest.
And, you know, and it's cool to
see that people receive that.
Sure it is.
Yeah, they appreciate it.
I enjoy meeting fans of the
show.
Thank God, because I just got
fucking kicked in the face three
times from, you know, asshole
retailers that are like, well,
what's the deal?
You're gonna get me?
Like, there is no deal.
The deal is I'm giving you the
best price I possibly can to all
retailers instead of
incentivizing specific ones at
price breaks, Right?
Right.
So yeah, if a consumer is
excited to me to meet us, meet
you, me.
Sure.
Even Greg.
Right, Right.
That happens every once in
awhile.
It does, you know.
Hell yeah, That would make me
feel good, you know?
I think we're the exception
though, more than the rule.
I don't give a fuck.
I know you don't care.
I don't care.
Yeah.
Well, because a lot of these,
look, I think that there's a lot
of things that are going to
happen in the next decade of
cigars, right?
And a lot of, I think that
you're already kind of
witnessing a lot of the
bullshit.
It has to slowly go away because
we're now at a realm where
information kind of runs wild,
right.
So, you know, as that
progresses, you're going to see
better things happening in the
cigar industry.
You're going to have some
challenges as well.
I mean, government's always
going to be breathing down our
neck trying the best to regulate
and control and, and stop any
type of cigars because even
though there's no proof that
it's bad for you, they're, you
know, they're hell bent on.
Right, stopping it for some
reason, right?
Anything.
Anything fun.
They don't want to, but I, I.
Can't do that.
But I, I wholeheartedly believe
that in the in the next decade,
you're going to witness a lot of
the bullshit kind of being taken
away.
I think that's already kind of
happened and it's going to
continue to happen.
There's still those hardcore
guys out there that believe
everything they see.
Sure.
Yeah, I ran into one last week.
Right.
It still exists.
It still exists, yeah, but I
think it gets better over time.
I hate when it does that all
right.
The PCA is one of three
prominent cigar trade groups Up
till the summer of 2019,
organization was known as the
international.
We don't even know who cares pro
cigar partners with Dominican
government for cigar worker
school.
Oh, this is a very interesting,
very interesting story.
An effort to deal with serious
shortage of cigar rollers and
bunchers.
Pro Cigar, the Dominican
Republic's leading Trade
Organization of cigar
manufacturers, and the Institute
of National.
It's all in Spanish.
Are you about to pick your
booger?
No, it's all in Spanish.
I had a niche.
So it's institution of national
deformicae.
What?
I don't know.
The INFOTEPA Dominican
government agency has partnered
to create a new vocational
school that will train adults to
work in cigar factories.
We should go.
Yeah, to slide in as Dominicans
Hola.
It's free.
Hola Hola donde cigarro rollo
rollo rollo rollo.
Yes, I am Dominican.
I've been.
I've had a sheltered life.
Sheltered life.
I.
Only speak I know who to get in
the sun I.
Only speak English.
It's first class underway this
month, a three month, three
month training program.
Makes sense?
30 days, 90 days training
program that will train people
to work as cigar Rollers are
bunchers.
I could be the buncher, you
could be the roller.
We'll be a team.
How long do you think it takes
to actually learn how to roll a
cigar?
90 days apparently.
I mean, I honestly think that
that would make sense.
That seems, Yeah, it seems like
a reasonable amount of time.
Classes are being offered twice
daily during the day and once at
night to accommodate those who
have, you know, other jobs,
Right.
And Tamborile, an area of
Santiago there is home the that
is home to dozens of cigar
factories.
Ledo Gomez, Co founder of La
Florida Minnicana, president of
Pro Cigar.
He's got a lot of free time.
They're not really making.
So.
Yeah, Tulsa goes for podcast
that he expects the first class
to contain 40 graduates. 40
people. 40 people.
It's 20.
Pairs.
Yeah, it's 20.
I did that math right off the
top of my head.
Look at that, it's twice the
same day.
I did upstairs too feel like a
great program.
They're they're trying to train
the next.
Group of the next generation.
Thank you generation of cigar
rollers.
So it seems like they're they're
obviously having a issue
facilitating.
Rollers, right?
Right.
Maybe that's why they don't make
any signatures.
Right now?
Well, I wonder.
I wonder why that is?
Let's call John Carney.
Do you think that, I mean is the
pay enough is, you know, like.
The school's free.
Yeah.
Is it not enough people
interested in it, you know?
Well, I guess there's no way to
train people at the moment other
than, you know, like if your
father was a roll.
Well, normally what happens is
they join a factory.
That's what I mean.
It's on the job training.
Yeah, they join the factory and
they usually roll cigars that
are massively produced.
Sure, at the lowest cost, right,
Right.
So when they fuck them up, it
doesn't.
Matter.
Right.
They just, you know.
People, it's an Andalusian bowl.
People are going to put them,
throw it together.
They're fighting for the name.
It was number one Cigar 15.
Years ago.
All right, Chip Golden.
Yeah.
He got kicked out of El Septimo.
Oh no, yes, he got kicked out.
Kicked out.
What did he say?
I mean the head prints off a
block and say whatever the hell
he wants all of these bad things
about all these other friends.
Chip Golden, who has headed up
El Septimo sales for the last
three years, he crossed the line
no longer with the company.
Oh my goodness.
Zaya Yunan, owner, is that the
Prince you're doing so?
OK, we'll just call him the
Prince 'cause I can't say his
name and apparently it upsets
people when I get the words
wrong.
It upsets them.
Tyler, Jack, Hector, I think
several other people.
Oh, I thought Tyler said.
It was refreshing.
Oh, I don't remember, I say his
name right all the time.
Owner of El Septimo confirmed
his departure but did not
provide any further.
Owner of El Septimo.
Oh yeah, Prince.
The Prince said it.
Yeah, he's done.
He's done.
Attempts to reach Golden were
unsuccessful.
Oh, now we can't find Chip
either.
Rumor is he was responsible for
hiring the Hernandez brothers.
And now recently the final straw
was trying to hire Alfredo Cruz.
Like, get rid of him.
Formerly, his title was director
of sales and business
development.
Golden is best known for
spending more than two decades
with Ashton Distributors, where
he was VP of sales for the
company behind the Ashton, La
Aroma de Cuba and San Cristobal
brands before leaving and
quickly joining Elsa Timo.
His tenure began in July 2021
and aligned with a period of
major transformation for Elsa
Timo, which was a brand with
little US presents prior to the
prince's purchase in earlier
2019.
OK.
So that had to be a press
release, right?
Yes.
So somebody obviously released
that information saying, hey, we
terminated this guy.
Well, the Prince.
The Prince said hey.
Prince said.
This guy's no longer with us,
right?
But he didn't explain why.
But he would no, And he's not
available for comment, right?
And Golden is not answering
phone calls OK.
So I would guess.
That what is your speculation.
Mike that he obviously I kind.
Of like the now we're looking
directly.
Yeah, this is better.
Fuck you guys on the camera
there, we don't care.
I would guess that he was
terminated because he wasn't
doing sales, obviously.
Anymore.
Well, he.
Sales have slowed down.
Yeah, He obviously wasn't
achieving the goals that the
company envisioned, right?
Maybe you know.
I guess what happened?
You know, I got.
Yeah, that's probably what
happened.
Sure.
Right.
So why don't you just say that?
Maybe because they want?
To you think it makes the
company look bad I.
Mean, I guess maybe if you're
the Prince.
Hey Guy missed the but like, why
not just be honest?
Hey Guy missed the mark.
Missed the mark for 3/4 in a
row.
We're moving on.
Because I'm the Prince, we we
have sales all the time.
I'm.
The Prince we.
Have sales all the time.
So many sales.
So many sales.
So many, so many.
We're doing so well, we're going
to fire.
Doing so well, he cannot keep up
with the sales.
Yeah, or we have more than he
can handle.
Or I mean.
You're hiring Alfredo Cruz?
OK, But you could say that as
well.
You could've.
You could've said anything.
You could've.
Said anything hey, but he just
not.
Hey, here's the reality.
The reality is that we've
exceeded our sales, yes, and
we've exceeded production and we
just saw no need for him.
Right.
OK, hold on.
You beat Charlie over at half
wheel.
OK, I'm going to be the Prince.
OK.
Ring, ring.
Ring, ring.
And hello, half wheel.
Yes.
Hello.
I am the Prince of El Zptiva.
Hello.
Mr. WAIT wanted you to know Chip
Golden is no longer here.
Yes.
Why?
And why is he no longer with the
company?
Click.
He want to know why I don't want
to.
See him now?
He's Chinese again.
Now he's Chinese.
Perfect.
I almost slipped into my French
accent.
No, I am a Chinese.
Let's see.
Quickly joined Oh.
EP Corillio announces a 2024 TAA
exclusive.
OK.
There's a lot of those right
now.
Do you want to know about all
of?
Them, I think that's funny.
You know, every year it seems
like the TAA exclusives come out
and it seems like every year
less and less consumers give a
shit about them, right?
Yeah, like nothing.
Because more exclusive it seems.
And this year they went to
Aruba.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Why?
Why don't they?
Ever go to like Cleveland?
I would totally be down with
joining TAA just.
Right.
OK.
Now last year I wanted us to be
a shop, a TA shop and I
understand that some of we got
to get somebody's you have to
blessing and then kill somebody.
There's a sword.
What are you going to be?
To be a manufacturer, is it
easier to go that way?
I'm sure you have to be able to
give away a lot of stuff.
Yeah, you have to give away
stuff.
Yeah.
Oh, I saw Richie's picture of
the table.
So everything on that table he's
giving away.
He's probably just giving away
shit.
Lots of giveaways.
I'm surprised they could afford
to send the.
Ashtrays at this point, I mean,
Jack will tell.
You the table is covered in
ashtrays.
Jack will tell you what it takes
to BTA.
Oh yeah, yeah, I would.
I would like to know Mr. Now
will he, will he want us to
share that Intel?
Afterwards, No, no, we will not.
We won't talk about it, but I
would like to know.
Yeah, they have a thing called
the Dream Machine where you hit
X amount of sales together as a
whole, then you get everybody
gets a bigger discount, stuff
like that.
Oh.
Yeah, that's how that.
Works sounds good at all.
That's incentive.
That's not like a.
Oh well, you got more sense.
Who's the work out for who?
Who's the advantage?
Because if we are a
manufacturer, we have to give
deals.
Yeah, I look and if.
We're a shop.
I guess if you're a shop, you
make out.
OK, So, but what happened?
Here's what I think is what's
happening, OK?
I think that by putting so much
pressure on the brand owners and
the manufacturers and then you
want them to create this
exclusive cigar, Sure.
What are they going to do?
They're going to cut corners
making that exclusive cigar.
I don't know.
They look very nice and
everybody's doing them.
Yeah, well, you put a nice band
on it.
Yeah, very nice bands.
Some of them look like the
regular cigar with just a
different band, right, Which is
TA exclusive.
This has to be a right here.
There's it's got to be like,
well, fuck these guys because
it's not like.
Mr. Garofalo, this is the one.
This is TA exclusive.
It's not like they're making a
ton of money when they have to
give away all these discounts,
right?
So why would they go an extra
mile to make something?
And who pays for the trip to
Aruba?
Does the TA pay for everybody?
I don't think so, No, no.
No, Everybody pays for some.
Of course, we couldn't go
without taking our wives anyway
it.
Wouldn't Oh, I would.
That's exactly why I would go
right.
I'm like, I'm taking my wife and
we're making a vacation out of.
It vacation out of it.
All right, let's see what EP is
doing joining the list.
Cigar makers producing an
exclusive cigar for the TAA this
year.
And it's it's it's Tobacconist
Association of America.
Why don't they ever meet in
America?
Just like an eyes wide shut type
thing at these little parties
and they're wearing the masks
like Tom Cruise.
She can cut that in.
Though.
Perfect.
I I think you.
Know doing the key parties where
they're putting all the keys in
a bowl and then you pick out a
oh to put cigars in a bowl and
you pick out a cigar.
Yeah, and that's and you leave
with that manufacturer.
Why?
Makes sense.
Manufacturer's wife?
Sure.
Who wants to leave with the
manufacturer?
You never know what goes down to
the T you never know what
happens.
But you got to.
I mean, all the jokes aside, you
got a valid point.
TAA back Tobacco Association of
America.
Where are we gonna?
Where are we gonna meet?
Somewhere other than America.
Somewhere than America?
Well, what's a nice little
country we can go to?
The math It ain't math in.
Right, see Ernesto Perez.
I'm truly looking forward to
seeing how retailers and
consumers respond to the special
TAA exclusive.
So Ernesto Perez Corrillo Junior
founder and master blender VP
Corrillo via press release.
The well fermented Ecuador and
Havana rapper combined with the
Nicaraguan binder What?
That combined with Ingram Binder
makes it a unique and harmonious
blend.
Hey Cigar looks like a pledge
with an extra band on it.
Well, I don't blame the guy.
I don't either, You know, what
do we get?
Laying around back there in the
room, guys.
Let's put something together,
right?
Hopefully it tracks.
Right, I would I do want to see
what they because their theirs
last year had to.
It was good.
It was really good.
We smoked.
It but it was a gold band.
It was a gold band.
That was a different band.
And it was good.
It was, it was very good.
I'm pointing at the ice straight
in the floor.
I'm sorry, from the knuckle
sandwich.
People.
Espinosa.
Espinosa knuckle sandwich
people.
Let's see, Aroa made one.
So at the end of each one of
these stories they have so far
Cle crown heads fiero tego Hoya
Dekanagra Hoya.
Dekanagra.
Yeah, it's a whole new
cigarette.
That's wow the.
Whole new cigar.
That's what they put the thing
in the bowl, yeah.
Miami Cigar Company and Villager
Cigars North America have
announced new TAAESP releases
for 2024.
Nice especials.
I guess, see, but like Miami
Cigars, that's not a big
company, is it?
Miami Cigars, is that a big
company?
Yeah.
OK.
How about Villager?
Villager.
They're big as far as like pipe
tobacco ones.
Right, yes, I mean, they're
going yeah, they're in Aruba,
Jamaica.
I mean, they're oh, you're going
to that guy or Can't Sing
they're.
They're a pretty big brand,
dude.
See Aurora made made 10.
There's not coming out until
next year though.
Ferro otego time.
I bet we could get that.
One the ferry Otego.
Yeah, Bet we get that one.
I bet you.
We can't make a polo.
Yeah.
We could.
Timeless TA exclusive see his
looks the same but with his
second band right, it looks the
same gun.
For the third year in a row,
Fiero Tego was offering the
Black banded Timeless TA
exclusive and be offered in
around 80 retailers in the USA.
There was a time where a lot of
those things were really sought
after, like crowd had made, like
the angels anvil or whatever,
right?
And that was sought after.
They always had the band with
the little Indian on it, yeah.
That's why he's made a couple
TA.
Those were sought after.
Yeah, they were.
But eventually people were just
like, OK.
Oh I see, he made a black banded
Fiero tego in 2022-2023 and now
in 2024 he's including a box.
There you go, that's the
difference.
Nice the. 6 by 50 Toro made
entirely of Nicaraguan to me.
We're moving on.
Well, that's what all the
stories were this week.
Oh yeah, Horo.
What?
About Steve Saka.
Well, that's at the end.
Oh, OK.
Got to get through all this to
get to that one.
Gotcha.
Joro de Nicaragua, Cinco de
Cinco.
They're made of Cinco de Cinco
TAA.
OK.
So I understand they've asked
for some back from Tobaccology
to put the band on so they would
have those because?
He has.
All of them he has all of them,
$23 per cigar.
That's not bad, I guess for ATAA
cigar that.
Sounds a little expensive.
Oh, here's a good story, Oliva.
Yeah, recalling 60,000 lighters.
Really.
You heard about this?
No.
Oh yes, this is amazing.
That's hilarious.
Oliva Cigar Companies announced
that it's recalling about 60,000
lighters due to lack of child
safety mechanisms and testing
for child safety.
So we've we've given out a
lighter that is not childproof.
It's a lighter.
None of them are.
Yeah, when did it was OK, so
we're pulling back 60,000.
60,000 of them, they gave them
away at they didn't sell them
right.
So you get nothing back.
You have to turn it in and then
we just say thank you.
Good luck with that.
Yes.
How's that going to work?
Hold on, I've already had, I've
already had an interaction with
this entire program.
The lighters are all the same
basic model, but there are four
different colors, A brown a
what, a brown Oliva version, a
brown Oliva Series V version, a
red cane version, and a white
nub version.
All four were used as
promotional items during the
last two years.
These lighters did not undergo
the US Consumer Products Safety
Commission CPSC testing
protocol, which determines
whether a lighter poses a risk
to a child.
The CPSC provides detailed
guidelines about how lighters
must be tested.
They probably figured, we're not
selling these, why get them
tested?
And apparently somebody's child
burned themselves or something.
I mean, my goodness, what?
What is going on?
Oh.
Sure.
By the little Tommy here, you
can have this.
It's it's fine.
They test all those to see if
they're good and you just have
that right there.
All right.
I legitimately just watched you
throw it at me.
I did.
You didn't even try.
Yeah, the requirements have
prevented certain lighters, such
as the Tor jet, from being sold
in the US.
Certain lighters, notably
disposable lighters that have a
value of less than 275, are not
subject to these requirements.
So why would theirs be?
It's a giveaway.
It's not even worth 270.
Oh, maybe it's more.
Oh, in this case, I guess we
read on.
In this case, it leave it says
lighters do not have child
restraint mechanisms and we're
not tested to federal regulatory
requirements for child
resistance because the lighters
were given to retailers or
consumers and not sold.
There's no refund for the
latter.
I mean, I guess it makes sense
as far as like the press, some
of these lighters are harder to
press.
Sure.
I mean like that one.
It's got the little extra button
you got to push for you can
flick it up and for you can
flick your BIC.
It's a big lighter.
OK, so.
So I was at a shop.
So, so there's going to be a
press release the next week of
somebody, the Oliva CMO or
something is fucking fired for a
60,060 thousand.
Letters.
But I was at a shop and the guy
goes here I'm I understand I'm
supposed to return this And the
shop owner went, well yes,
there's been a recall and the
guy goes, OK, well what am I
getting exchanged?
He goes, no, that's not the type
of recall.
You give it to me, I throw it
away, you leave or act like I
didn't see you and the guy goes
put the back of his pocket.
Yeah, I mean, he's not.
No.
Nobody's returning those.
But they like, yeah, they get
like. 88 back, yeah.
Right.
But they've offered, so now
they're, you know, we have.
We're done.
We're clean here, we're clean
here.
We've legally done what we
needed to do.
We got another press release out
of it.
Right.
Oh, apparently I pulled the pro
Cigar Partners government cigar
worker story twice.
It's such a good story.
Nice.
Supreme leave.
It's coming out again, Michael.
Oh yes, why not one more?
Two newest fotolas of Ergonors's
Leaf Supreme Leaf line have gone
on sale.
OK.
But only in Germany we put these
out.
In America we still have some.
What do we do?
We sell them to Germany.
Yes.
Yes, Last month Ergonorsa Leaf
previewed 2 new sizes during
Interdevac 2024 in Dortmund,
Germany.
While the cigars have slightly
modified bands.
Not really, I saw them.
They're not that different,
right?
It's got some German words.
On it via the Germans.
Via the Germans, the seaside on
them, well, the cigars are
slightly the blend is the same
as the other Supreme Leafs, same
as the American one, but now
it's in Germany.
All the tobacco is grown by
Agron or said Nicaragua, and the
rapper Lucid is a Corojo 99
varietal Supreme Leaf Robusto
and a Supreme Leaf Euro Turo.
So they believe that the
American consumer and the
European consumer likes the same
cigar.
Yes.
It's pretty much what they just.
Pretty much what we're doing, we
have extra of these two sizes,
OK.
So we're making them available
in Europe.
I don't know how well that
tracks.
Well, you know, we saw Terrance
talking to the Vikings.
Maybe they said we've liked them
very much.
We would like you to bring them
over.
Who knows?
Bring The Supremes the Vikings
speak have German accents as
well.
Huh.
Yeah, you know, they went to
Germany.
Interesting.
Scandinavia.
Germany is on.
Yeah, that same hilarious.
Same thing.
Same over there, yeah.
Right, a news reporter break in
in Dunbar and tobacco and trust
rental car.
Thousands of merchandise was
stolen.
Yes.
Do you want to play it?
Now we have a sound clip.
How long is this?
Oh, here we go.
Steve Socket here from Dunbarton
Tobacco and Trust and well, this
is our last day in California.
OK, they're.
Just all gone all.
Taken.
You went through everything.
Yeah, that's fine.
Ashtrays.
Cutters, cigars, mugs, Botta,
Barrow.
What's a Botta Barrow I.
Don't know, but it's gone.
It's gone.
We'll never know what it is to.
Do the Aloni event today.
We're going to miss the Botta
Barrow.
The Botta Barrow.
We'll never see The Botta
Barrows, yeah.
And like, it was like it was
almost 10K worth of stuff.
That's what we're talking about
here, man.
So.
So if you take Steve.
So it's probably like 2500.
Right, let's say $10,000 worth
of stuff in 2 Pelican.
Gases, if you got I'll figure
these cases, you got a 4X that
right?
This is 10K. 10,000.
Dollars, some dirt bag out there
snagged everything.
Well, you know what that
happens.
You then got to call the police
and then you got to deal with
the rental car that you can't
drive.
Anywhere.
OK.
All right.
So, yeah, Yeah, you got to,
right.
You got to get a new car.
$600.00 You had to pay for that
car for two days.
So he's with Lafferty, right?
Right.
He left Lafferty to deal with
the police.
Why?
He ubered to another airport to
get the car.
How do you not pull the shit
out?
First of all, what What are you
driving?
It's got a big it.
Looked like a big SUV.
It was an SUV.
It wasn't a.
Van.
No, it was an SUV with a lift up
backhand thing.
So you got 2 Pelican cases,
right?
Why isn't Lafferty bringing that
into the hotel?
Yeah, well, I don't know.
I don't know.
What the fuck?
Right, because they're heavy.
Hey, this is $10,000, allegedly
$10,000.
Yeah, $5000 a Pelican case and
we're just going to leave it in
the car.
Yeah, you know, it'll be, it'll
be fine.
Not important.
Not really.
Yeah, fine.
Yeah.
OK.
Who's going to take?
Who's going to know?
Yeah, who's going to know who's
who's actually watching?
In Pearson, Florida, kangaroo
survived a scare from a bear
Really Thursday night in Florida
and now the search is on for the
hopping marsupial.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike
Chitwood said on a Facebook post
that the kangaroo escaped its
enclosure and was spotted
hopping along a road in Pearson,
about 55 miles north of Orlando.
Just when you think you've seen
it all, Pearson is hopping
tonight.
Chitwood said.
He later provided an update on
Facebook saying the kangaroo
reportedly escaped due to a bear
entering disclosure.
Enclosure not located yet, but
we have been in contact with the
owner and are keeping her eyes
peeled.
Spokesperson for the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission acknowledged
situation in the following
statement.
To Cigars or My Guest or New
Six, it was the same thing.
Right one of the other.
Yeah, FC officers are continuing
to search the area for the
missing kangaroo.
The remains an active
investigation.
The public can report any recent
signings to FWC by calling the
Wildlife Alert Hotline at
1888404 F WCC or 3922.
So this thing is loose.
It's Loose.
Chris Kristen Turner, public
information director for the
Northeast Region and Wildlife
Conservation Commission.
In addition to the FTS.
He told News 6 that the kangaroo
was confirmed to have belonged
to a nearby resident.
I guess you can have Kangaroos
apparently.
Because of the thing.
No other details about the
kangaroo, including whether it's
a pet or type of enclosure.
What else would it be?
If it's not a pet, what's it?
Does it work?
It's Florida, brother.
It's a lawless want.
We do what we want.
Have been released.
Anyone who sees the Rouge should
call Sheriff Chitwood directly.
Here's the cell phone number.
Here is his number 386.
888-840-4392 to.
All right, now we have another
haunting.
Ah, yes, in the area.
OK.
Wops Hops.
You know where Wops Hops is?
No, I've been there.
Yeah, it's in Sanford.
OK Wops Hops Brewing Company was
Sanford's first microbrewery,
but before that, it was Stokes
Fish Market.
OK.
The building was built in 1916,
operate as a fish market until
the early 70s.
Reports from many different
mediums.
Mediums who have visited a state
of there are 5 ghosts.
There 5. 5.
That's one of them.
Who?
Still reside in the building.
And other people.
Yeah.
Ghost people.
Not ghost people.
Ghostbish.
They have names.
Yeah.
They've given their names.
Bob, Jennifer.
Yeah.
Claudia, Steven, David.
OK, And a fifth spirit who will
not give his name.
The unnamed 5th spirit.
Yeah, it's the spirit to be
named later, and I've been seen
wandering the brewery on many
occasions.
Visitors of the brewery have
mentioned feeling cold spots,
seen misty apparitions, and dog
owners have claimed that the
four legged friends get an easy
in the beer garden.
It's on the outside edge of
town.
You can visit WOP shops for the
ghost and stay for the beer.
Nice.
I've been there.
I've had food there and
everything but nobody ever
mentioned the ghost.
Nobody said anything.
Nobody said anything about the
ghost your.
Food didn't move by itself.
No.
Slimer was not there.
No Slimer, nothing.
No Slimer.
No, you think that?
I mean, I would lean into that,
that I'd have.
I would have pictures up and
things and everything I'd have.
Next level stuff I'd have,
right?
David Pepper stuff.
David was an IPA guy, you know
what I mean?
He'd have his own David, one of
the He'd have his own tap.
Yeah.
Jennifer Stevens Oh, David.
Yes, Claudia.
Steven liked a nice ale.
Right and the.
Claudia was a real bitch.
She was always angry.
But maybe you don't want to make
fun because you'll piss him off.
The unnamed ghost would be like
a stout or something, right?
Yeah.
There was another one, I, I
forget where it was, but there
is a, a busboy.
A ghost busboy, yeah.
And if you see him, he gets
angry and attacks you.
Really.
Yeah, it's not in Sanford.
I think it was Saint Augustine.
That's so if you see him, you
supposed to act like I don't see
him over.
There.
I'm not.
I'm not looking at you.
I'm not looking at you, look at
him and go hey look at the
ghost.
Apparently he throw shit at you.
I'm.
Like, are you going to take care
of these glasses or what?
Right.
And then he attacks you.
Yeah, right.
Oh, it's terrible.
It's terrible.
You Listener of the Week.
I have a shop of the week.
I was hoping you had a listener
of the week.
Oh.
OK.
Do you have a listener of the
week?
Yep, we don't have a gong gong.
Listener of the Week is.
Santos Torres.
Santos Torres.
Oh, now you know his name.
Is that the Santos we're talking
about upstairs?
Yeah.
Had no last name.
No.
Yeah, Steve is her last name.
You go, no, it's just Santos.
And I said it's like Cher or
Madonna, and you just looked at
me funny.
Oh, I I wasn't listening to you.
Guys, Yeah, obviously.
Yeah, obviously.
Shop of the Week is Cigar life
in Lakeland.
Oh, really?
The newest addition to the post
on your family?
That's fantastic.
Yes, yes.
Cigar life in Lakeland.
Yes, go over there, see Mario
and Patty and smoke all of our
cigars.
Excellent.
Yes, All right.
You got anything else?
I think that's it.
We got a Smashing Pumpkins event
this Friday.
Smashing Pumpkins this Friday
smash a lot of.
Pumpkins with Drew Estate, it's
one of our best events.
Is Katie's coming?
Yeah, Katie'll be here and
they'll have lots of giveaways.
No Pedro, no Pedro.
Oh thank God we don't have much
liquor here in the.
Building he's handmade.
He's handmade in Estelina.
This show is going to be
bananas, bananas, bananas.
Hey Jack was just on Elsa El
Fumar.
I watched part of it.
Oh, did you?
Yeah, I saw the beginning.
I don't.
I love Bear and I love Bear
Show, but what's that little
thing in the beginning where he
acts like he doesn't know the
cameras on?
Oh, like, yeah, he yeah, right.
It's like this behind the
curtain thing, right?
Yeah, he likes that.
Oh, does he?
Yeah.
And then I, I messaged several
times in the comments section of
I'd like that hat.
Can I have that hat?
Oh, did he have the same hat?
And yeah, well, you know,
because he doesn't like he.
Doesn't like but the hat, right?
And I didn't get acknowledged,
so I left.
Until you stopped watching.
So then I just watched the I
just watched The Jets get their
ass kicked.
Oh yeah.
All right, all right.
This has been 350-0357, like the
gun.
All right, we got to go talk to
you later.
Bye bye.
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