Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 363 Trending Topics Kaley, Outllo and Eagles Football
Episode Summary
Episode 363 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast finds Mike "The King" Szczepankewicz and Mike "BDP" Palmer in the studio for a trending topics and cigar news round-up. They open by previewing their recently recorded interview with Erik Espinosa (dropping Friday) and reflecting on their interview philosophy — avoiding the worn-out "origin story" format every other cigar show runs and digging into family and personal history instead. They also look back at the strong response to their Martin Schuster episode and discuss John Carney's push into AI at Bentley Cigars, debating whether AI is being used as a genuine growth tool or just marketing gloss.
The trending topics segment is pure off-the-rails banter: a Jack Cleveland Casino poker dealer charged with skimming pots 14 times (with a detour into how casino rake actually works), a multi-hour Microsoft Outlook and Teams outage, Brandon Graham's season-ending torn tricep and Darius Slay's injury in the Eagles' 37-20 win over the Rams, Saquon Barkley's monster 245-yard game against his former team, the Giants' dysfunction and Malik Nabers' postgame frustration with coach Brian Daboll, and Kaley Cuoco's much-discussed decision to rehome her dog Shirley — a story that becomes a running punchline for the rest of the show.
On the news side, the hosts dig into J.C. Newman's new Personal Reserve custom blend program, rolled at the El Reloj factory in Ybor City with tobacco cherry-picked from the Fábrica Oliva/Estelí operation — $250 for the consultation plus $30 per cigar with an 80-cigar minimum, or $2,650 total, with a six-month turnaround. They also cover Ferio Tego adding the Metropolitan Host Hudson to its humidified Fresh Packs, new U.S. arrivals from Maya Selva, the No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act passing Congress and what it might mean for the long-running General Cigar vs. Cubatabaco Cohiba fight, the $300-per-cigar Oliva Serie V Roaring Twenties Super Limited Edition (with gold foil and a La Petite cigar knife, proceeds to the Oliva Helping Hands Foundation), the Aganorsa Leaf Anniversario 25 Edición Limitada at $29.99, El Septimo's 2025 price increases, and Espinosa shipping the Murciélago Chikaka to TAA retailers.
The episode wraps with listener of the week James Garcia, shop of the week Harrisburg Beer and Cigars in Pennsylvania, and a plug for the December 13th steak dinner and meet-and-greet with Steve Saka, where the hosts will record a live podcast for a capped group of roughly 24 guests.
In This Episode
- 01Erik Espinosa interview preview & interview philosophyThe hosts tease their upcoming Erik Espinosa sit-down and explain why they avoid the recycled 'origin story' questions every other cigar podcast asks.
- 02Martin Schuster, John Carney and AI in cigar mediaA look back at the well-received Martin Schuster episode and a debate over whether AI is a real growth tool for cigar brands or just self-glamorizing marketing.
- 03Trending topics: casino skimming, Microsoft outage, Kaley Cuoco's dogOff-topic banter on a Cleveland poker dealer charged with stealing from pots, the Outlook/Teams outage, and Kaley Cuoco rehoming her dog Shirley.
- 04Eagles, Giants and NFL talkBrandon Graham's season-ending tricep tear, Darius Slay's injury, Saquon Barkley's 245-yard game against his old team, and the Giants' dysfunction with Malik Nabers and Brian Daboll.
- 05J.C. Newman Personal Reserve custom blend programBreaking down the new $2,650 build-your-own-cigar program rolled at the El Reloj factory in Tampa, including the online configurator and six-month turnaround.
- 06Ferio Tego Fresh Packs and Maya Selva U.S. releasesNew Metropolitan Host Hudson four-count humidified Fresh Packs plus Maya Selva's Vize Donaly and Año de la Serpiente hitting U.S. shelves.
- 07Cohiba trademark bill and the No Stolen Trademarks ActCongress passes a bill blocking recognition of confiscated trademarks, and what it may mean for the decades-old General Cigar vs. Cubatabaco Cohiba dispute.
- 08Oliva Serie V Roaring Twenties, Aganorsa Leaf 25th, and El Septimo price hikesA $300 gold-foiled Oliva limited edition with a cigar knife, the Aganorsa Leaf Anniversario 25 Edición Limitada at $29.99, and El Septimo raising prices across 16 cigars for 2025.
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Transcript
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com and search a Cigar Slurs Podcast. You're lucky he gets words out. You expect him to emphasize on an all-cap? It's a capital, it's a capital.
Emphasize. I know, he has a third grade reading level. Come on. It's probably, it's this too.
It's a big word for him. Oh yeah, it's four letters in that one. Big word for Phil. Be reasonable.
So we interviewed Erik Espinosa, well, you interviewed Erik Espinosa last Friday, and it will be out this Friday. I feel like we interviewed him. You're there. You were helping.
No, no, I was part of it, certainly. I ran the board. I understand my role in the interviews. Yeah.
Certainly. I could sit over here if I wanted to, but I choose not to, because you're doing such a good job. I think it's fantastic. Yes.
It was a really good interview. Last week, it was. But, I mean, Erik could interview himself for 45 minutes. Erik can interview himself.
That is true. Here's the difference. Eric has these Espinosa-isms, that he has four or five stories, that he's gonna... I didn't hear one, I don't mean, I'm sorry, we're trying to get better at this, I didn't hear one repeat story this trip.
Yeah, when he was upstairs doing the events at all? Or just here in person? Both. Yeah.
I did, but that's fine. I cut him off. We had a couple of good conversations, and I already heard that one. " But here's the thing, I want to make sure that when we do these interviews, that they're not like everybody else's same shit.
When we first started doing podcasts, and we were doing our interviews, it was cool because nobody else was doing it. " Well, we would try to find something that no one else talked about. Yeah, because at that point, there wasn't anybody really doing it. So, you know, it was easy to cover, I mean, you had your normal guys, right?
You had your bears, you had your, you had your coops, right? Your, no, we were out before, how about? Yeah, so, you know, but then as things kind of started moving along, every, when I talk with other media guys, oh, we want to hear the origin story and stuff, and I'm like, that's no longer original. Yeah, you can't, no, you can hear that back on somebody else's show.
Yeah, it's the same thing over and over. So, now, I kind of go back and I look into these things and I'm thinking, okay, what else can we talk about? There's more to this person than... And why do you smoke cigars?
Yeah. Right. You know what I mean? The story with his dad smoking in the kitchen and all that other stuff, that's one of his things that he always mentions.
Oh, I've never heard the dad smoking in the kitchen before. Yeah. Gotcha. You do a lot...
Oh, my dad would smoke anywhere. You do a lot of family questions with your interviews. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's like, look.
Well, there's not a whole lot left to cover. No, I just, you know what, if you're not going to talk about cigars, it's family. Well, look, I just think that there's a lot of experiences that go on in your life that shape you into the person that you are, and a lot of times it's going to have affiliation with your parents, your siblings, you know, are you a family man or not, how do you feel about, you know, like, Eric's a family guy, you know what I mean, 100% through it, and you would never really guess that until you sat him down and actually had a... Yeah, I've never heard anything about his mother before.
Yeah. I mean, obviously, I've met his father several times. Right. But yeah, I've never heard anything about his mother.
Let's not get too far ahead of this. Oh, sorry. Well, everybody knows he has a father. The interview hasn't dropped yet.
And he probably has a mother. Or had, or has, or... Still does. Well, yes, he does.
Yeah. Yes. Allegedly. Last week's interview did really well.
Yeah. It had... Martin Schuster. Yeah, Martin Schuster, the ratings on the video was higher than the regular show.
Oh, really? Yes, yes. Well, hey, you know, like, again, same scenario. But this is a guy that no one has really talked to.
Right. You could ask him just about anything. Yeah. And, you know, it's kind of intriguing because you have this one guy, John Carney, who's heavy into this AI.
Right. Who's heavy into this vision and it's kind of different. And, you know, he's getting positive and negative flack about it and all these opinions and stuff. Sure.
And I'm like, okay, this is cool. I mean, some of those opinions, positive, negative, are coming from us. Right, yeah, yeah. I don't think we should do that.
Yeah, we did the survey. But we're not like, but we want what's best for him. Certainly. You know, we're not looking to...
No, we're not just taking shots at him. Yeah, to beat somebody up. Right. You know what I mean?
But it's kind of fascinating, right? And... Did you get the impression that Martin was maybe, humoring might not be the right word, but he might not be all in on the AI, but he understands what it is and he wants John to pursue it because it might be something? I don't think anybody is all in on the AI.
Yeah. Well, we have a news story. Oh, really? Yeah, we'll get to that.
I don't, you know, I think that, I think that it, I think that it's misused in a lot of ways. Let me elaborate, right? Sure. I think that there is a good place for it, but just like anything else, just like any type of marketing, people will use it improperly to kind of glamorize themselves.
Right. And it's not really conducive to growth. Now there are other people that are going to use it, and it will be conducive to growth. Sure.
So I think that's the kind of fascinating part about AI. It's changing so quickly. So yeah, so you're looking at John, and you're like, okay, is he going to use it the right way? Is it going to be helpful to him, or is it just bullshit?
Right. And it seems to me... Bullshit seems a little aggressive, but okay. It seems to me like he's using it the right way, right?
I'm like, okay, this is interesting. Do you think he is trying to find ways to use it? Or he does like a whole separate show? Or he knows what he's doing?
Or he knows what he's doing? Do you think he's trying to find a way? He has this amazing tool, and he knows it can do something, but maybe he doesn't know exactly what it can do yet. So let me try it over here, even though maybe I should be trying it over here.
I don't think anybody really understands the full power of what it is Yeah I think you're right So I think that he's like Okay let me Let's start plugging this in Right let's see where this will fit And just kind of go from there And he's actually going Yeah he makes that sound In his white t-shirt Yes in his undersized white t-shirt Snug That was the other show we talked about I was just dropping that real quick So go ahead Alright trending topics One-time poker room dealer at the Jack Cleveland Casino is accused of stealing isn't spelled out in court. Wait, how much one time? Oh, how much? Sorry, I skipped.
How much the one-time poker room dealer at Jack Cleveland Casino is accused of stealing isn't spelled out in court records? Really? Yes. Ex-casino dealer in Cleveland is accused of stealing from the pot.
Really? Yes. Poker dealer? Poker dealer.
Okay. And not pot, the pot where the money is. A former casino dealer in Ohio has been charged with skimming from the pot more than a dozen times this past summer. Wow, yeah.
Just a dozen times? Over a dozen times. During the summer. Well, I don't imagine you could do it on every hand.
Yeah, but like, how do you determine when the pot gets big enough, that's the one that you're gonna skim from? Well, if I was to have skimmed from a pot, here's what I would do. You're the dealer. The card.
Yeah. Everybody's just tossing chips in the middle. Right. You go together, the card's up, maybe you grab a couple of chips when you're going to win.
No, that's not how you skim. Maybe that's how he skimmed. No. Or scammed.
That's not how you skim. Well, let's read on and see what he did. Okay, go ahead. Authorities began investigating after a poker player accused a dealer of stealing from a pile of chips being wagered during a hand in September, according to the records from the Ohio Casino Control Commission.
Right. The OCCC, which regulates casinos, investigates gambling crimes. A casino reviewed the video and found other instances where he stole from the table. According to the commission, he was fired a day later.
Court records show he's accused of stealing 14, oh, what did I hit? 14. 14, what did I hit? Uh, did I hit?
Here we go. Uh, suggested correction. No. Uh, show he's accused of stealing 14 times since early August.
Oh. Wow. And that's the end of the story. And that's it.
That's it. It doesn't say how. I thought that was, uh, the With the button I hit, I thought was more information usually is what it has. Right.
So here's how it goes, right? You know, hands go out, everybody bets, pot, right? Then you have a rake, right? So whatever your commission is, you know, it's usually capped at five bucks or whatever in here in Florida or something like that.
So once it reaches, you get 10% of the action or whatever. I actually don't know that for a fact as far as what the rate is because I haven't been in a poker table in 100 years. Is that like what the house makes? Yeah, so you pull that and you set that into like this little place where the rake, the house rake would go and when the round is over, it gets dropped, right?
Okay. Now, after everything clears out, you get tipped, normally you tap, tap and you put it in the tip jar. Oh, gotcha. So, how he would skim it.
I don't know anything about whatever this rake thing is. The rake? No, no, I understand what it is. That's a percentage.
I've seen it, but I didn't understand how the house made money off of poker. Yeah, you get a piece of the action, 10% of the- That makes sense, they have to somehow. 10% capped at X. Right.
It's not like Blackjack where the house is playing a hand. No, you just, yeah, it's 10% capped at X. I gotcha. Now, sometimes they'll have jackpots and like a portion will go to the jackpot thing or whatever the case may be.
Right. Like that'll go on another side. Oh, this is for the jackpot, this is for this. Gotcha.
So, I don't know how he got away with skimming off of this pot. Right. putting it into his tip jar unless he wasn't putting it into his tip jar just palming it somehow but you know you can't palm it and then move to the next hand and you know what in a group of 10 people just sitting at the table you got to be fucking stupid if you don't see the guy maybe the guy can get away with skimming once or twice right well 14 times over summer not 14 times in one night yeah there's got to be more than that so maybe he's waiting there's probably more but they have 14 of them on video yeah because if the guy's skimming what's he skimming a five dollar or a $10 chip or something? I don't know.
You know what I mean? Maybe it's high stakes. So 14 times he took $150. Yeah, I wish I would have given a total.
Yeah, that's not even close. Right. There's, you know, it's got to be more elaborate than that. And how no one noticed.
Maybe he waits until everybody's not paying attention. You should always be paying attention. You figured there would be some, well, you have to know when to hold them, Michael. You got to know when to hold them.
You have to know when to walk away. Oh, yeah. It's important. I just think that that's, look.
People are fucking dumb. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. You're sitting here...
Yeah, he knows the entire thing's being videotaped. He works for the casino. Yeah, but if the house is making theirs and no one's complaining, he gets away with it, right? Yeah, I guess you're right.
But I don't understand how 10 people don't see it. Well, if he's taking, like you said, he had to be taking part of the house action. They wouldn't complain about that. Well, they would if they weren't making enough.
No, the house action is always getting the house action. He's got to be taken on top of that. Well, that's what I meant. Maybe he's taking from the house.
If they, if they get 10%, maybe they only got eight, a couple of hands. The player wouldn't complain about that. No, but they got them on video. I'm not, nobody says a player.
You did say a player completely? No, I don't, I don't pay attention to the story. You just read? We added that one at the letter.
Letters, letters, letters. Yeah, letters, letters. At least I can read. At least you can, this.
This. This. This is the Cigar Hustler Podcast. Okay.
Hit me again. Let's go. Microsoft mass... Man, Microsoft's massive outlook in Teams outage has gone on for hours.
What? Microsoft said Monday that it's identified the cause of a major outlook in Teams outage and is deploying a fix to the problem-- they're deploying-- a fix to the problem. Deploy. As of noon, Eastern Standard Time Monday, outage tracking site Down Detector showed more than 5,000 user-reported problems through this data.
It doesn't fully reflect the scale of the outage. Oh, my goodness. 5,000. 5,000 people.
That's not really a big number, you think, in the millions of people that are using it. Hey, Chris, just following up on that email, just wondering if you heard from us. Oh, he's not responding. We've started to deploy a fix, which is currently progressing through the affected environment.
We're deploying. Deploy! Deploy! While this progresses, we're beginning a manual restart.
Control, delete. When in doubt, power cycle. When in doubt, power cycle. Well, this progresses.
We're beginning a manual restart on a subset of machines that are on an unhealthy state. The company said on X earlier in the day, around noon, the company said the fix had reached approximately 98% of the affected environments. Though reports on down detector kept increasing. Unhealthy state.
Unhealthy state. That sounds like a good cigar name. Unhealthy state. It does, actually.
It can take time for updates to work their way to customer systems. However, Microsoft then noted those restarts were progressing slower than dissipated. Eh, this power cycle's taking a lot of time here. Oh, it's rebooting.
It's rebooting, rebooting, uh, and did not provide an estimate time to fix. The outage has hindered many office workers, though some US users on X celebrated the small break ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. We're out! Computer, don't work!
It's not working. Not working, I gotta go. We're gonna go home. Right, if this comes back on, let me know.
Mm. Did you power cycle? Well, I did half. Well, we did the power cycle, and then we realized there was an update.
Right, so now we're on the update to load. Supposedly they have deployed my update. They've deployed, and it's all an unhealthy state. Yes, it's all on X.
You gotta love X. Everything's on X now. I gotta get on X. Yep.
Eagles defensive end, Brandon Graham. Yeah. CB, CB... cornerback?
Oh, thank you, not center break. CB. Breaker, breaker. Breaker, breaker.
Darius Slay is injured and a win. Darius Slay. This in from Los Angeles, Michael. Eagles veteran defensive end Brandon Graham will miss the remainder of the season, he told reporters Sunday night, after tearing his left tricep.
Oh, no. Daring Philadelphia has 37 to 20 win over the Los Angeles Rams. He's got another arm. Right, it's the left one.
Yeah, should be fine. And he's a defensive end, he don't have to catch anything. I mean, it helps to catch. What does he catch?
Interceptions. Well, they can just tape the army, just make, put them on the line. Yeah, there you go. He'll be fine.
Yeah. It's possible that Graham, oh, it's a possible that Graham, a Philadelphia icon and the author of the biggest play in franchise history. Oh, what is that? I don't know.
Oh, let's read on. A strip sack of Tom Brady. Oh. And Super Bowl 53, L is 50, right?
Oh, we don't talk about that one. We don't talk about that one. The Eagles, their only Lombardi Trophy, has played his last NFL snap. Uh-uh.
Uh, snap. He said before the season started that his 15th year would be his last, playing at a high level at age 36. He has since left the door open for a return, but that is no guarantee. Just trying to process everything right now, I haven't gotten that far, Graham said, but you know what, I'm going to keep my spirits up!
Is that how he sounds? Yes. Cowboy, huh? Cowboy.
Keep enjoying it, because we got a special team right now, and it's time for They do have a special team right now, that is true, Philly has... Well, I hope they can all step up then. Why is there no story about the other guys? It's only about Brandon.
What's funny is Slay has only got his fucking ass kicked the whole time. I saw him get jammed. Why did he hurt? Why did he hurt?
No, what did he hurt? Why did he hurt? What did he hurt? Oh, that is Gramp.
There was a play where Slay got jacked. Slayed? He got slayed. He got like a helmet straight to his arm.
And I'm like, oh, that's not good. And then he came back in a few plays later, and then another, a ramp. A bruise. Yeah, a very bad.
A boo-boo. A boo-boo. And then there was a play where a receiver just fucking obliterated him. And he went down, and you could see when he went up, he started shaking his head.
I'm like, oh, he's concussed. He's fucked. Oh, yeah. So he's got a concussion.
Aren't they supposed to be redesigning the helmets to help with the concussions? Who knows? Who knows what they're doing? I like that some of the guys are rocking these guardian caps.
It's fucking hilarious. What's a guardian cap? It's like a cloth thing that goes on top of the helmet with additional cushion. That seems silly.
Oh, dude, you got to see that shit. It's hilarious. When they get like airbags. It's hilarious.
They hit another person. J. Simpson naked gun. You ever see that?
Where you can't get through the door 'cause it was pro? Right. That's exactly what the guardian cap looks like. Oh my goodness.
It's amazing. So? Oh. Next.
Next story. Kaylee Cuoco. Cuoco? Cuoco?
Cuoco. I think that you pronounce it. Kaylee Cuoco reveals she's rehomed a dog, Shirley, because Shirley was getting into fights with her fiancé, Tom Felpree's dog. Shirley, you can't be serious.
Yes, I am serious. Well, plus it's like her fourth fiancé. Stop calling me Shirley. Well, you know, they run their courses, buddy.
I don't know. Fuck this guy. Well, maybe she did. She wouldn't have even been fiancé.
The actress known for rescuing many dogs opened up in a video on Instagram about rehoming her late... Oh, the dog dead? No. Kaylee Cuoco speaking about rehoming her late dog Shirley.
Yeah, apparently Shirley's dead now. It's her late dog because it was her dog. Now it's gone. Late means it's dead.
I don't think so. On Sunday, November 24th, the actress opened up about the story behind rehoming Shirley who reportedly died of cancer. Late dog is dead. They're dead.
So late means they're dead. Apparently, yes. Revealing in an Instagram Reel that Shirley had to leave her home after having fights with her fiancé Tom Felfree's pup. Uh-huh.
Most of you know I had Shirley for many, many years. Oh, she had a dog a long time. She canned the dog before he died? Right.
Wow. I bet you found I had cancer. That's going to be depressing. I don't watch his dog die.
That's what I do to my fiancés. All of a sudden you kind of stop seeing her and I started to get a lot of questions. I started to get a lot of questions as to where she was because she's very unlike me to just stop posting about a dog that I had since she was six weeks old. Right.
Wow. " Well, not that special because she got rid of her. Right. And whether the love of my life came into my life, Tom, who is also a mega dog lover, except for Shirley, apparently.
That doesn't like Shirley. " Oh, surely the German Shepherd could have handled whatever the Shirley dog was. A couple years ago, fortunately, Blue and Shirley started getting in in some mega fights. Hmm, that's where the story ends, sort of abruptly.
Well, so they shit-canned the dog. Shit-canned the dog, and then the dog died! Hmm, that's a bad look. That is a bad look.
That's a bad look. And she's a known dog lover. She's a dog lover, apparently her fiancé who knocked her up before they got married. Oh.
Dude, dog, outranked, Shirley. Blue. Who was dying of cancer. Blue, outranked, Shirley.
Our hearts go out to Shirley and whoever it was. Look, man. We feel for you, Shirley. Oh, you feel for Shirley?
I feel for Shirley. Wow, she got ditched. That was intense. Shirley got ditched.
Look, man, Shirley fucked around and found out. Maybe it's Blue's fault. Maybe Shirley shouldn't. Sherman Shepherds are known to be aggressive.
It's known to be aggressive. No, no, no. German Jaguars are known to be aggressive. They're aggressive dogs.
No, German Jaguars are amazing dogs. Your dog is aggressive, Michael. My dog is protective. There's a big difference.
Potato, potato. No. Yeah, and you're passionate, not angry. We all know how that works.
That's how I'm very passionate. Yes, you are very passionate. Yes. Giants' Brian DeBoll talks with Malik Naber after wide receiver's rant.
After the train wreck that is the New York Giants. Apparently. He's Rutherford, New Jersey. This just did.
New York Giants coach Brian DeBulle spoke with Malik Naberson on Sunday night and again Monday morning. Very chatty young man. Yeah. After the rookie wide receiver expressed his frustration following the 30-7 blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Nabor questioned why he didn't get targeted until the second half and when Giants were already down 30-0. Oh, he got the one touchdown maybe. Did he get the one touchdown? I don't know.
I don't think so. He didn't watch the game? The Buccaneers. I was busy.
He's a very competitive individual, Debal said, Monday on a conference call three days before the Giants play again on Thanksgiving against the Dallas Cowboys. Ooh, that's always a good game. I thought the Lions always played on Thanksgiving. They do.
Oh, they'll play too. I think so. Oh, okay. Probably the Bears.
Again, you want to get the ball in his hands, and I got to do a better job of getting the ball in his hands. Well, at least he has that all worked out. You know what, man? He's going to get the ball in his hands, so I need to get the ball in his hands.
Look. Yes. The entire organization just needs to go away. You got, I'm talking about GM, head coach, they're all a fucking train wreck.
It's ridiculous. You take Saquon Barkley, which I know you have no idea who this is. Saquon Barkley? And Phil isn't here to help me.
Doesn't he play basketball, Barkley? No, he's a great, one of the greatest running backs currently in the game. Of all time. You, I mean, you can have that argument, but I don't know if we're there yet.
I don't know who he is. You take this guy. Yes. And the guy's a stud.
And you trade him away. Ugh, like Shirley. Yeah, you Shirley this guy away. You Shirley this guy out.
Yeah. Aww. Poor Shirley. Okay, so look.
Not only do you trade him away, you trade him away to a division rival. Oh. He went to the Philadelphia fucking Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles?
Yeah. The guy put up like 245 rushing yards yesterday. Oh, that's a lot. That is a ton.
Wow. I think it was- For the Eagles. For the Eagles. Okay.
Just trying to follow. Yeah. It was like the most, I think, in- Eagle history? Like over a decade, I think.
Oh. That's a lot then. Yeah. Yeah.
What's an average number of yards for an average person who's not have a vendetta against the team he's playing? A running back that's doing well in a game will have a hundred yards. Oh! He had double that.
He had more than double that. Well, I just was rounding. Yeah. You know, an elite running back will have a hundred yard rushing game.
It's a 100-yard rushing game. Oh. And they'll do that 10 times in a season. If you can hit 1,000 rushing yards in a season or whatever.
Right, you're doing good. So that's pretty good. Oh, and this young man's already over his average. He's just absolutely dominating.
Oh, he's pissed off now. So the Giants look really dumb. Right. Then they recently fired their quarterback, sent him packing.
Right. Oh, they surely the quarterback. They surely the quarterback. back.
They surely Saquon. A lot of Shirley in here going on. Daniel Jones got surely'd. Okay.
And now this receiver is pissed off because the new guy, Tommy DeVito, or whatever his name is. Oh, Danny DeVito's son. Yeah. Danny's son.
Right. Grandson problem. Yeah, grandson. Is, you know, there's no chemistry between him and the White House.
He just, you know. Brian, I mean, what are they going to do? Yeah, so Malik is upset. Brian's saying I got to do a better job.
What? You got to do a better job. You got to throw the ball to him more. You got to go If you fucking apply at Walmart or something, dude, you just, these guys are horrible.
Horrible. Maybe they should Shirley him. They should Shirley him. They should Shirley him.
We need a complete Shirley-ing the entire, the entire top down. Get rid of the whole organization. Get Coop on the phone. They'll tell you flat out.
No, we're not getting Coop on the phone. Yes, we are. No, I don't want to talk sports with Coop. I want to ask him why I have Luciano on though.
He's busy talking about... Luciano. No. You had Luciano on last week.
I'm not, it's not on his new phone, because I blew up my phone. Oh, you don't have his phone? I don't have the Rodecaster Pro on here. Oh, and it's way over there.
Yeah, it's very far away. Oh. I wanted to ask him if he had to pay Luciano to be on the show. Oh.
Just send him a post-dated third-party out-of-state check. That'll be fine. Did you get cash? Okay.
All right, that's all the trending stories, Michael. Excellent. Phil, do you want to do yours? Oh, but good.
Oh, I like word. I like word. Word's good, letter. Only 15 minutes in.
You want me to do his? No way. Oh, it was 15 minutes? Well, no, I started it because I had to do the first part of the story.
Yeah, I started late. So we're going to just move right into the news? Right into the news. C.
Newman launches custom cigar blend program. Oh, here we go. C. Neumann has been working on a way to let consumers create their own cigar.
Okay. That are then rolled at the company's L... How do you... That's certainly spelled wrong.
What? What is the name of their factory? Tell me. The factory in Tampa, Florida.
No, no, no, no. C. Neumann first... No, no, no.
Back it up. I want to hear the name of the factory. R-E-L-O-J. Does that sound right?
Yeah. I have no idea how you say that. Relosh. Relosh.
There's no S on this, Michael. Relosh. J is an S in Spanish. Reloche.
Hmm. El Reloche. El Reloche. C.
Newman Personal Reserve Program has officially been launched. Oh, it's official. It's official. Those interested can either visit the El Reloche factory located in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood or have a virtual consultation.
Oh. I want to have a virtual consultation with the Newman family. Right. C.
Newman has launched an online cigar configurator tool. Probably the first of its kind that helps to visualize the task in hand. See, this is where I think John Carney should have more AI'd. Really?
Bentley cigars, I mean, I'm sure you can go online and make a Bentley car, so why can't you just change it and make a cigar? How does that work? So how would you be able to utilize that into a third world country? C.
Newman. They're rolling them in Tampa. Right, that's what I'm saying. How could Carney do that?
Oh, well, they're in Europe. They can roll it at the factory. They don't make them in Europe. They could.
They could. But they don't. They have rollers. They do have rollers.
So it seems the only thing they need is tobacco, and they have that there, too. They do have some tobacco. So I don't see what is the problem here, Michael. It seems like they have all the tools necessary to do a Bentley AI cigar making.
As of right now, Bentley's made in Nicaragua. Yes, but they have tobacco in... " After the consultation period, the custom blends will be rolled and will age for 3 to 12 months. How much of it do you think is bullshit?
3 to 12 percent. That's it? Come on. Come on, dude.
If it wasn't for the price and the consultation period, I would have already have done this so we could see what it is. Really? Yes. How much is the price?
Oh, let's get to that. Yeah. C. Newman charges $250 for the consultation, $30 per cigar for a minimum of 80 custom cigars, bringing the total price to $2,650.
Wow. To have your own cigar. That's incredible. Now, the photo they showed, it was like a screen where you pick your wrapper, you pick your binder, you pick your binder, you pick your You know, how do you know that's what you get?
Oh, you don't. You don't. You have no idea. I think you're making one cigar.
I took this out. And you get a custom band. C. Newman, I think that there's definitely a level of integrity there with our company, so I'm sure that...
C. Newman's encouraging customers to select a Toro Batola. Yeah. Because those are the ones we already have made.
No, that's not the case. Though other sizes can be used. Yeah. I mean, that's your most common size.
I've got tobacco in my mouth again. And it's probably the easiest to make. Probably. Yeah.
C. Newman's a career already read it. Each custom cigar order will take at least six months from the start to finish. The company has said that it is capable of making more than 80 cigars as it intends to market this for weddings, corporate functions, and fraternity and sorority gatherings.
Look, that's smart. I think that they're trying to tackle a niche that already exists, you know, and make it a little more special. " I mean, that's a good point. They need to be more efficient than a six-month turnaround.
Well, they gotta age you for 12 months. Six to 12 months to age. Oh, and their underground aging room. Ooh, they've underground aging room.
They don't need to age you for six to 12 months. You would think the tobacco would already be aged. Yeah, I think it'd be like eight to 12 weeks. Three to 12 months.
How do you know if you get a three-month-er cigar or a 12-month-er cigar? The taste. Yeah, but when I select it, does it say, if you pick this one, it's going to be an extra nine months. It's a little more complicated, yeah.
Hmm. C. Newman has the best of both worlds. Our Boutique El Roche Cigar Factory.
Real Roche. Yeah, that's what I said. In Tampa, Florida, they can handcraft 80... Perfect.
Perfect. Cigars. And our large Pensa Cigar Factory, Nestle, Nicaragua, has a vast library of aged cigar tobaccos that they have. We have cherry-picked, said Drew Newman, fourth generation.
It becomes a little more complicated if you make it out in Nika. Yes, but they save money on the labor though. Not for that small of a quantity. It's a big pain in the ass.
Ooh, birth of a child too. Are you having a baby? A baby for you? No, if I'm having a baby, I remember I had babies.
A baby for you? I was a little busy, I wasn't thinking, you know, we only had six months left, honey, and I've got to get that cigar made. I gotta punch that in. I gotta punch that in.
I think people would do it. I don't know, if I got a baby coming, I got 26, 2,650 extra dollars, I'm buying formula and diapers. I mean, is this direct to consumer? Are we gonna be in and up?
Is this direct to consumer? Yeah. Are we gonna be in an upheaval about it, or what are we doing? I don't know.
How it does not carry, I mean, what's going on? I like that people get upset about that, you know? Why don't you call Drew and get him on the phone? Oh, wait, go ahead.
Which one? Drew Newman. No, we don't speak. Oh, what happened, you guys get in a fight?
Yeah, no, he just doesn't know who I am. I haven't met him. You've met him? Sure.
He has no idea who I am. Call Bobby, get Bobby on the phone. I don't have the Rodecaster Pro connected. Oh, well just hold the phone up like you do when your wife calls.
Hello? No. Fiero Teigo adds Fiero Teigo Metropolitan host Hudson as part of its Fresh Packs. Ooh.
We should make Fresh Packs. Yeah? Everybody likes Fresh Packs. Everybody likes Fresh Packs.
Put it in the Ziploc. Fiero Teigo, no, no, Fresh Pack, it's a sealed thing, it's not just a Ziploc. It's a Ziploc. Yeah, I know, but it's a fancy Ziploc that's all printed in it.
Okay. It's nice. Fiero Tego has announced it is selling two new four-count samplers, one of which contains a new Vitola for the company's sweet-tipped Metropolitan Host brand. Ooh.
The Fiero Tego Metropolitan Host Fresh Pack includes four cigars. Go on. Two Fiero Tego Metropolitan Host Hudson and two Fiero Tego Metropolitan Host Maduro Hudson. Not one, but two.
Four, the Hudson is a new 6x50 Toro Vitola for the line, which is currently only available in the Fresh Packs. Only available in Fresh? Metropolitan Host is made by Davidoff in Honduras. Blend wise, each uses Honduran Tobacco.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 95 per pack. I didn't know they were Honduran. I didn't either.
After that, I just went on to, you know, details. I thought they were Dominican or whatever. As with many other samplers, these are packaged in a resealable plastic bag. Does not say supply.
Ziploc. That contains its own humidification element. The bags are made by Humidity Group. Humidity Group.
These fresh bags offer a great opportunity to share the Fiero Tego experience with loved ones, or bring the Fiero Tego experience with you in a safe, humidified way this holiday season. Okay, so you think that the... Wait, I have a quote from Michael Horowitz. Okay, go ahead.
Jeez Louise, this is a long fucking article. This isn't even long. Oh no, never mind. Okay, good talk.
Oh, he did say something, but you don't really care. Right. " That's his quote. Humidity is the most important thing?
Humidity. Do you think that the humidity is the most important thing? I would go with tobacco. You think tobacco is the most important thing?
In a tobacco product, I think if I'm having a cigar, I'm more concerned with the tobacco. And then making sure it's okay will be the humidity. Well, it's in the humidified fresh pack. It's in the zip lock.
Fresh pack. Zip. Fresh pack. Hey, look, you know what?
These things work. People will buy them. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, they do.
Fresh packs, so. Hey, I take these and uh... I have been asked if we offer fresh packs. Really?
Yes. No shit? Yep. I didn't know that.
I told you, you said we're not doing Ziplocs. We're not doing Ziplocs. I have a Kinect, I can get these. You got a Ziploc guy?
These type of fancy bags, yes. Yeah? Yes. Can you give me the Ferriotega ones and put the post onions in them?
Well, I don't know how we're going to reseal them because you can tear that top piece off. It's kind of ragged sometimes. Okay. And they're straight.
Yeah. Never. Okay. All right.
Maya Selva. Yeah. I don't know what this means. Maya Selva Bzzz Danalee.
Bzzz. VZ. Maya Selva's VZ Danalee. Oh, maybe it's a cigar.
S. shelves. Okay. S.
retailers. There's the VZ Donnelly and the Año de la Serpentine, both which debuted in the Interdeback 2024 trade show in mid, ah, we didn't go. Yeah, I had no idea that Maya Silva was still around. They had good cigars back in the day.
I didn't realize that they were still making stuff. The one cigar looks pretty cool. It's got a band. It's like this long.
Because it's got a snake, that would be the Serpentine one, I'm assuming. That's Spanish for serpentine. Serpentine? Serpentine, Spanish for serpentine.
Okay. Two sizes in the VZ Donnelly. Right. At Robusto and Toro.
Robusto and Toro. Yeah. What about the Año de la Serpentito? Robusto and Toro.
Only comes in one size. Only one size? Toro. $25 per cigar.
Am I wrong? I'm looking! They don't say what size it comes in. Oh, only comes in one size.
And what size is it? Whatever we want! It's $25. Wait, wait, wait, how did we get there?
Look, look, man. We would, uh... I don't know what else to tell you. C.
Newman put it? " Maya Selva recommends you buy the Toro. C. " That's the quote.
That's the quote. That's such a good sales line. It is. " But we have other sizes available.
We have other sizes available, but we recommend you take the Toro. Congress passes a bill targeting stolen Cuban trademarks. Oh, what are we doing? This story came out a year ago.
S. from recognizing trademarks that were confiscated. The bill's authors made it clear they were targeting trademarks that were seized by the Cuban government during the Cuban Revolution. Oh.
Oh, Revolución. Viva la Revolución. Over the last few days, the bill has suddenly passed both chambers of Congress and now heads to the desk of the President, Joe Biden, to be signed into law. If I was him, I'd just be pushing papers.
He doesn't know that there's paper. Did you see the video where he got lost in the Amazon? No. He did a speech for the group that's saving the Amazon.
Yeah. And behind him is the Amazon. Oh, no. He finished the speech, he turned around, just sort of wandered into the jungle.
Just went into the jungle. This poor guy. Poor man. Oh, my goodness.
He doesn't know where he's at most days, I don't know. s trademarks of cohiba right as in we don't acknowledge right cuban tobacco applied for registration of the cohiba mark in cuba 1969 was granted a trademark in 1972. General applied for a mark in 1978, and in December 2022, the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in December of 2022 canceled General's two Cohiba trademarks in the USA, citing Article 8 of the Inter-American Convention for Trademark and Commercial Protection, a document known as the Pan-American Convention to which both the United States and Cuba are parties. General is fighting that ruling.
All that said, it's unclear whether a court could find And Cohiba would be covered under the new language in the No Stolen Trademark Act. Because we stole it a long time ago. Right, it shouldn't count. We took it a long time ago.
While the evidence that there was a Cohiba brand prior to the Cuban Revolution, it's unclear if it was registered, let alone confiscated. Most consider it to be a post-revolution brand whose original origins are traced back directly to Fidel Castro. But was it registered? Allegedly, Luciano has stepped forward and said he owns the name outright.
He got it from Fidel himself. I knew it. Yes. I knew he'd be involved.
He's always involved in everything. It's crazy. Crazy. Yeah.
Oliva Series V Roaring Twenties. Oh. Have you heard about this? No.
It's a $300 cigar. It's heading to stores. Because why not one more atrociously expensive cigar? Almost 18 months ago, it was first announced the most expensive cigar in Oliva's history.
The history is finally on its way to stores. Thank God. The Oliva Series V Roaring 20 Super Limited Edition is a unique 6x60 Double Perfecto. And it's a 6x, oh, Double Perfecto.
It's a 6x60? Like the rest of the Series V line, it tastes terrible. Oh, that's not true. Well, you don't know.
I did. I added that. It doesn't say that here. Oliva has good tobacco.
Oh, they have all, yeah. They have all the tobacco except for the Cameroon. They don't have all the tobacco, but they do have the Cameroon tobacco. They have good tobacco.
That's a Murph. Oliva has good tobacco. Yes. Yes, they do.
They make FQ cigars. Or FQ makes from Oliva tobacco. They used to. That's a totally different Oliva.
Is it really? Yeah. Hmm. Is it really?
Yeah. This is not John Oliva? No. Who makes these cigars?
Who makes what cigars? The Oliva cigars. It's not made out of Oliva family tobacco? Yeah, the Oliva family makes its cigars.
What? Yeah, there's two Oliva families involved in tobacco. I didn't know that. Yeah.
Oh. But they have the exact same name. Is he like Rival Brothers or something? Are they related?
Yeah, I mean, like, I don't want to get, it's kind of soap opera-y. You know what I mean? Oh, okay. There was a lost brother.
Are you scared to why I've never heard of you? He was abandoned. Oh, but he found himself on a tobacco field. Yeah.
And he just naturally went to it. Like, this is mine. Yeah. And then he started to develop.
Oh. It's crazy. It's remarkable. It's a great story.
It's also not true. Oh. The release not only uses different bands, but ones that are much more, oh wait, we need to back up, 6x60, the rest of the Series V line will use the Ecuadorian wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Nicaragua, but everything after that is decidedly different from the normal Series V. It's a totally different, totally different, totally different, totally different, the release not only uses different bands, but ones that are much more intricate than the smaller, well, they got a $300, yeah, it's $300, better come with something, better come with a knife, it should come with a Bluetooth speaker, it should come with.
Each box also comes with a gold La Petite by Les Vines Lames Cigar Knife. Oh, it really does come with a knife. It really does come with a knife. Oh, no, no, it comes with one of those knives that cuts, you know, with a little notch in the handle, so you can cut your cigar.
Oh, really? Oh, it is functionally the same as the other La Petite knives. Amazing. La Petite?
What kind of knife do you have? Oh, it's La Petite. It's La Petite. The design can only be acquired by purchasing a box of the Roared 20 Cigars.
We'll take 12. This is from the Vander, Vander Morales Family of Cigars. The Vander? The Vander, Vander Morales, it's a long answer, it's more letters than your name.
Really? Yes. No. Yes.
Not true. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, how many do you have? Fifteen. Oh, exactly the same number.
No, it doesn't. V-A-N-D-E-R-M-A-R-L-I-E-R-E, oh, you won more, it's 14. Told you. I just estimated.
It's a parent company of Oliva. It's an investor in Las Fiennes La Petite Knives. They're also priced at $300 per cigar, $3,000 for a box of 10. Production is limited to 300 boxes, so that's $3 million worth of cigars.
Is it $3 million? Wow. You're quite the mathematician. Two-thirds of which are to be sold in the USA.
Like some other companies, they have made cigars at similar eye-popping prices. Oliva says that it will donate all of its revenue from the sales. It's a guy to charity. Yeah.
Maybe some, maybe not so much. They leave a Helping Hands Foundation, which helps to ride schooling for children in Nicaragua. Oh, that's nice. In addition to the knife, each box also comes with a chance to win.
Yeah. A trip. A trip for two to visit Nicaragua to see the school they're making. Oh, there you go.
The Oliva Escuela Elemental. Escuela. That's what I said. Escuela.
Escuela. That's Spanish for school. Okay. It's an elemental, it's an elementary school.
That's an elemental? An elementary school in Nestle, Nicaragua, the same city where these cigars were rolled. We are so excited to present a cigar to the world, says Fred Vendor, whatever that long V name it, CEO, there's the name again, Family of Cigars, the parent company of Oliva. Wow, all right, moving on.
Well, wait, if you make a $300 cigar, you get a long ass story, apparently, there's more. The statement was made by nearly 18 months ago, while the project mostly looks the same as it did last year. All right, moving on, moving on, moving on, come on. I think it's funny.
They cover the cigars with gold. Do they? Yes. Okay.
But they were going to be all covered, now they're only half colored, but the gold is supposed to melt as you smoke it, you don't take it off. Oh, we're in a recession. Right, exactly. It melts?
How does it melt? You will cut me off. The bottom half of each cigar was covered with gold foil. Yeah.
It wasn't just decoration. The cigars were designed to be smoked with the gold still on the bottom. Got it. The cold will get hot enough and eventually melt into the ash.
This is similar to a concept that Marshall uses for his own golden cigars. It just breaks apart. That's all. It melts.
It doesn't melt. It doesn't melt. It separates. They didn't say separate.
They said melt. Okay. Are you questioning my journalistic integrity, Michael? I 100% always am questioning your journalistic.
Agrenor Salif Anniversario 25 Edition Limitada. Supreme, second, dream, second, supreme, supreme, supreme, supreme, rare, no, no, no, no, no, this is the Agarose Leaf Anniversario 25 edition limitada, no supreme in the name, what are we doing, they like long names, what are we doing, they like the long names, what are we doing, 25 years ago, Eduardo Antonio Fernandez, Pujols, Pujols, Pujol, Pujol, the J is an A, The H, bro. Why don't you put an H in it then? Because that's not how they pronounce.
Oh, Pujols, like the baseball player. Yeah, exactly. Oh, is he related? Probably, he's tight.
He's tight with the Aganorsa family. Is he? Yeah. Is he the Anniversario Dicion Limitada baseball player?
Yeah, he is. Oh, he's nice. They're very excited about the, uh, what is it called? Aganorsa Leaf Anniversario 25 Edicion Limitada.
Like, what do you think they do? How do you think they come up? Riley's going to need a bigger jacket for the name to go all the way. They take 75 random words, and they're all the same.
Just make sure it starts with Agoronersa Leaf. They have a monkey come in, the monkey shits in his hand, and he throws the shit onto the wall, and whatever words it's stuck to. Okay, we hit Anniversario, we hit the number 25, we hit Addicion, and Limitada. perfect we always put a limitada on you yeah supreme leaf limitada rare leaf limitada everything's limitada limitada tada everything's limitada tada uh you know he wasn't really gonna make cigars that wasn't his plan oh yeah yep he was gonna go to agriculture yeah good for him his journey in the tobacco sector started a year later with the founding of agricola grenadier everything agonorza agns i think it'd be great if they came up with like a supreme cream leaf leaf Limitada Tata, I think that would be fucking awesome.
The Agonors Leaf Anniversario 25 Edition Limitada is a six and a quarter by 52 Toro Extra that is made entirely of Nicaraguan tobacco. Because it's got the quarter inch, it's the extra? Yes. Okay.
Production is limited to a thousand boxes of 10 cigars. Okay. So each store will only be able to purchase five boxes. Okay, so by your math, 75 million.
99 per cigar. Cigar expected to ship stores in early- $30 a cigar. Right. So that's the line?
That's where we're at now, as an industry? 99. $30 bucks. Well, unless you're leaving, that is $300.
Yeah. They just forget the decimal. Yeah. Oh, coming in February.
Where's the decimal? I just charged $300. It's already printed. It's too late.
The Supreme Prime Leave Leave Recession Session. $8. Okay, moving on. We're done with them.
Okay. Elsa Timo! Oh, Prince Alba Boa? Yes, actually.
Announces a price increase for 2025. They're going up. They're going up. They're going up.
And it's ridiculous. Wait till you hear how much they're going up. Oh my goodness. The increased cost of tobacco.
El Septimo has announced that it will be raising prices on a number of cigars as of January 1st. A total of 16 cigars have been announced as seeing their price increase. Some have been part of the company's portfolio for a while, but others are more recent releases. Okay, I don't want to read all the names.
Yeah. But what's the average? Okay, just tell me, just tell me one, the one that's important about. Okay, the Sacred Arts Collection, Salvador Dali, currently $20, gonna be $24.
Alright, so a 20% increase. The Culinary Arts Collection is going from $9 to $12. Okay. Sacred Arts, Sacred Arts is going from $20 to $26.
The Raphael is $15 to $20. Right. Uh, the Van Gogh is 38 to 40. So somewhere between two to six bucks is where he's at.
Right. Very expensive. Look, you know, his, those prices are high. Right.
I think that, listen, this industry's hard. And, and the fact of the matter is... Stop giving away all the damn trips over to Paris! Look, look, he, he went, he's, he's been in it now for a little bit.
Right. He's had some experience, they realized, where's the fucking money? There's no money. Why am I doing this?
This is ridiculous. So he raised his prices. Over the last 12 months, the cost of our premium grade tobacco has increased significantly, said Zaya Yunnan. Chairman and CEO of El Septimo via press release, despite our efforts to absorb these rising expenses, we are now at a point where we just can't do it anymore.
Right. So, the price of selected cigars to ensure that we continue delivering the unmatched luxury experience of El Septimo is known for. Union added that the cigars affected by the increase already offer value for the quality, size, and grade of tobacco. Union said that the adjustment was necessary to reflect the superior craftsmanship and materials that go into every cigar to sustain our dedication to excellence.
It feels like Chad GBT. It feels like Chad GBT. It feels like Chad GBT. It does and does.
All right. Espinosa begins shipping the Murciélago Chicaca to TA Retailers. The first shipments of Espinosa. I feel like we've been talking about Chicaca for a fucking month already.
But yeah. We have. We had, at the lovely Luzonapalooza two weeks ago, we were able to have a Chicaca. Yeah.
It was a great event. It was a great event. We had a wonderful time. Jack, Hector, Eric, Tyler, everybody there, amazing hosts.
We had a great time. It was a fantastic... We were very happy. We were giving Chicacas the moment we walked in.
We were given Chicacas. Yes. And they were good. They were good.
We enjoyed them. Yes, we enjoyed it all. Everything about it, we enjoyed it. The food was excellent.
Yep. The drinks were flowing like crazy. The party. There was music and dancing and laughter.
It was amazing. It was dancing and laughter. I think they're happening now. Oh my God.
We didn't have things. The first shipping of Esmeno Supreme cigars in New Mercy Lago, Chicaca, are set to leave... Chicaca? Chicaca are set to...
You know, I ate some bad food over the weekend. You had the Chicacas? I had the Chicacas all weekend. To leave the company's Hialeah Gardens Florida Warehouse today, headed to, where we were, we were at the Hialeah Gardens Warehouse, it's very nice, he cleaned it up for the event, it was lovely.
Headed to retail members of the TAA, the Tobacco Association of Aruba, yes, the cigar is a new limited edition extension to the company's Murciélago line, which gets its name from a Spanish word for BAT. Yes. Do I have to read all this, do you think? No, I think that you're approaching an hour.
Oh. I'm going to tell you. Okay, let's see what else we... Oh, this is the last story.
The Murciélago Chikaka is named the white bat for its light-colored wrapper, and the fact that it uses two white band fans of the 1995 movie Ace Ventura When Nature Calls will recognize the Chikaka name as it is the name of the great white bat. It's a great name for the cigar. I love it. It was great.
Honestly. Yes, it is. All right. All right, that's all I got.
Listener of the week. I'll hold on a minute. Hold on, I have one right here. Will there be a listener?
James Garcia. James Garcia. James Garcia's listener of the week. Harrisburg Cigars.
That is, you know, that, coincidentally, is the Shop of the Week, Harrisburg Beer and Cigars in Pennsylvania. I like James, he's a good dude. Yes, yes, he's very funny. He is.
Yes. All right. All right, Tully Guy, you got anything else? That's it.
All right, it's been episode three. That's not even close up there. 363 of a Cigar Husser's Pocket. When's the Sokka thing?
Do you know the date? Um, we got a meet and greet with Sokka here. December something, something. Hold on.
Hold on. I have it right here. 13th. 13th.
Sokka. December 13th. So a steak dinner with Sokka. If you want to have a steak dinner with Sokka and you want to spend some time, some quality time with Steve, it's going to be capped out.
It's got a, it's locked in a large room with just you and him. It's going to be a low number of people. I think there's going to be like 24 people there. That's it.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to do our own podcast there.
Yes, you will be doing. It's going to be fantastic. A live Cigar Hustler podcast. Yeah, yeah, we're going to smoke some half-dead unicorns.
Oh, nice. Yeah. So, if you want to partake, make sure you reach out. Contact the shop upstairs.
Reach out to Cigar Hustler. All right. All right, thank you very much. Appreciate everybody.
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