Episode 110 McFoul! Drunkest Man at The Great Smoke! Who wants a Philly Cheese Steak?
Episode Summary
Episode 110 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is a loose, conversational two-hander between hosts Mike Szczepankiewicz and Mike Toon, built around a long recap of Smoke Inn's The Great Smoke event at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach. Mike walks through the whole day: arriving two hours early, getting stuck in the RV-show line, and then running into what felt like the entire industry — Erik Espinosa (a first-ever meeting and the highlight of his day), Jack Torano and Hector at the Espinosa table, Abe Dababneh from Smoke Inn, Robert Holt of Southern Draw, Matt Booth, Nick Melillo of Foundation Cigar Co., Pedro Gomez at Drew Estate, Jeff Gruver and Terence Reilly of La Palina, Leo of La Flor Dominicana, Shia Goldberg of Casa de Montecristo, Erik Gershenson of Cigar Dojo, Steve Saka, Robert Caldwell, and a very well-lubricated Pete Johnson — the running "drunkest man at The Great Smoke" gag. The hosts smoke a Tatuaje Fausto picked up at the event and an unreleased SBC 20 house test blend that's being given away to Patreon supporters.
The second half opens with the hosts discovering the first 30 minutes of video never recorded, which spirals into a bit about needing an intern and a promise to shoot 30 minutes of apology footage. Mike then tells the episode's other centerpiece story: a disastrous McDonald's mobile-order pickup where he had to walk in barefoot, got told by a manager that "the app knows if you don't have the credit card on you," waited 20 minutes, and left convinced the whole system is nonsense — hence #MikeysBigMacAttack and the call for listeners to fill out the McSurvey.
Between the stories, the guys preview their upcoming road trip to Delaware's State Line Tobacco to see Lou Rodriguez and a Powstanie/Guayacan/Fable event at Philadelphia Cigar Company, cover a thin news week (a UPS COD-on-tobacco report they can't confirm, A.J. Fernandez returning to PCA, and early coronavirus case counts from February 2020), mention Procigar's White Party in the Dominican Republic, and name regular customer Pedro Albanez as Listener of the Week. Also covered: Mike's squirrel-scratch incident, dog stories, and a Scarface concert outing plus a Neanderthal Lancero release at Fine Ash Cigars.
In This Episode
- 01Cold Open: Squirrels, Dogs and Shop BanterThe hosts trade stories about a squirrel that clawed Mike's hand, dog squirrel-hunting exploits, and the running joke about the shop's 'hostile work environment' Facebook comments.
- 02What They're SmokingA Tatuaje Fausto scored at The Great Smoke and the shop's unreleased SBC 20 house test blend, which is being given away to Patreon supporters.
- 03Weekend Recap: Scarface Concert and Fine Ash CigarsWhile one host worked The Great Smoke, the crew hit a Scarface show and a Fine Ash Cigars event for the Neanderthal Lancero release.
- 04Philly Road Trip PreviewPlans for State Line Tobacco in Delaware with Lou Rodriguez and a Powstanie, Guayacan and Fable event at Philadelphia Cigar Company.
- 05The Great Smoke 2020 Full RecapA play-by-play of the South Florida Fairgrounds event, the RV-show parking fiasco, and meeting Erik Espinosa, Abe Dababneh, Robert Holt, Matt Booth, Nick Melillo, Jeff Gruver, Terence Reilly, Steve Saka, Robert Caldwell and more.
- 06Production Meltdown and Intern WantedThe first 30 minutes of video never recorded, sparking a bit about apology footage, typos, and the ongoing search for an intern.
- 07Mikey's Big Mac AttackA barefoot McDonald's mobile-order disaster and the manager who insisted the app can detect whether your credit card is in your pocket.
- 08News, Coronavirus Numbers and Listener of the WeekA thin news week covering a UPS tobacco COD rumor, A.J. Fernandez at PCA, February 2020 coronavirus counts, Procigar's White Party, and Listener of the Week Pedro Albanez.
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Transcript
Welcome to episode 110, this week, McFowl, who was the drunkest man at the Big Smoke, and come on along for a Philly cheesesteak, all these and more, episode 110, on Cigar Hustler Podcast. You know, people like it when you sing. They do? They do.
Sing somewhere. Are you recording right now? Yes, I am, but sing somewhere. People like when you sing.
I will call you Betty, and Betty, if you call, you can call me out. 110. Call me out. I have a cigar hustler, what's one of those singing shows called on TV now?
American Idol. Cigar Hustlers, American Idol. It can't be Voice. The Voice?
We're NBC people. Oh, The Voice. Okay. Did you watch the new one yet?
With Nick Jonas? No, man. I feel that, what's his name, needs somebody to fight back. I don't think Nick Jonas is going to be able to fight him like the Maroon 5 guy.
I could see that being a problem. Yes. Yes. Now he's just going to walk all over everyone like you do here at the shop, Michael.
Oh, good. You know, you really got to calm down on that shit, because you're like, you're going, you know. You know what, now I don't have to, because other people do. Yeah, thanks so much.
Thanks so much. I don't even have to stoke it anymore. You do these fucking Facebook comments, and now everybody thinks, and I feel like I've talked to you about this before, and like... It's taking on a life of its own now.
And then you, you tone it down, and then you, and then like, something happens. Somebody else will bring him back up. I feel like you get into a fight with your wife or something, you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna fucking tee off on Mike. You're so hurtful.
It's such a hostile environment, Darv, Darv, Darv. I'm like, God damn it, man. So hurtful. It's not a hostile environment.
It's a very nice place to work, Michael. I enjoy it. I'm here probably more than anybody else on the team. Yeah.
Hours-wise. I would say, yeah. And if it was hostile, I wouldn't be here. It's true, but it doesn't matter.
You're telling just our listeners of the podcast. Meanwhile, it's out there in the open. I do come in later on Mondays. Let me know when you get there on Monday.
Let me know when you get there, because I don't want to quit more control. Yeah, exactly. So how you been, Michael? I haven't seen you.
I didn't see you Friday, either, because you had baby. I've been great. The baby. I've been great.
What did I do Saturday? I don't know what I did Saturday. Something. There's a lot of kids at your house.
Your wife put up a photo. Oh, yeah. Wait, I work Saturday. Oh, that's right.
You worked. Yeah. But, yeah, my wife was watching the nieces and nephews, and we had a whole soiree of children. Was it just her against all the kids?
It was her versus them. Yeah. It worked out well. Yes.
Yeah, she took care of it. She said she drank a lot of wine. Yeah, wine helps. Or as we now call it, adult Benadryl.
I can tell you a couple things that happened to me on Sunday, but I figured I'd save that for later. Later what? I don't know. Go ahead.
Later on in the story. No, no, no, we'll get your stuff, then I'll do mine, because mine's gonna be longer. Okay, so there's two really strange things that happened to me on Sunday. Yes, you went to church.
No. So, um... Don't you have to go to church now? So, you know, Sundays we usually hang out in the backyard with the kids, and we do football, and trampoline, and, you know, smoke some cigars, and you just kind of hang out, right?
Um, I heard, I was out back, and I heard like a loud car, and I thought that maybe it was... Beep, beep! No, like a motor. Brrm, brrm!
Thank you. And I thought that maybe my brother was there. High-tech sound effects here. Yeah, it's amazing.
That's a guy else for bad guys. So I thought maybe my brother was stopping by. So, quick, everybody down on the floor behind the furniture. No.
Don't answer the door. Okay, you just let me know. You go ahead and finish, and that's the story. I am helping with the sound effects, Michael, for your story.
No, you're not. It's like old-timey radio. So, let's see what happens. You go to one fucking great smoke, and now you're just going to run.
Nothing to do with the great smoke. We talked about you running people over all the time, god damn it. Um, so anyways, now you're gonna shut down. I'm just here to go, you go ahead with your story.
Oh, it's gonna be so great now. Um, so I went to go look over the fence, right? So I like kind of posted up on a chair and put my arm up on the fence to look up and did like a whoop. And um, and I didn't see Greg's car, but then all of a sudden I heard like this.
heard like this like this running and a squirrel was on the other side of the fence in a car in a car oh and um when i put my hand on the fence the fucker ran across my hand oh and sliced me up oh rabies ridiculous dude i'm like what kind of shit is this now you have rabies my own backyard isn't even safe oh you let the dogs out more on that side of the yard the dog was out on that side yeah oh which one falcor the shepherd oh that squirrel should have been dead yeah exactly falcor pull out a gun and shoot it exactly didn't touch daddy it didn't happen um so yeah i got i got clawed up by a squirrel wow um which i never thought i'd be saying i never thought that's not what i'm saying i'm a little more uh a bit on the squirrel story here yeah so as he ran across your The other hand, he just happened to scratch you as you ran across? Yeah. Or did he? Or did he stop and go?
No, no. And then run off? He ran across in like a panic. Yeah.
Oh. And dinged me. I'm like, ow. You know?
Wow. Sharp nails. Squirrels don't last in my yard. Squirrels.
Well, uh. Molly is, Molly the fat one is the killer of squirrels. Oh. Can I borrow Molly?
Oh, yeah. " And she's just locked up. She won't turn around. " So she'll just, and then just so you start going around the top of the fence, you're looking, "Where is it at?
" And then she whoosh, she shoots at it, and then the squirrel runs and goes to the neighborhood. Oh, but she doesn't get 'em? She got one once when we lived in Lake Mary, and we had a huge oak tree in the backyard, and there was dozens of squirrels that used to throw stuff at her. It was terrible.
But she got one one time. I opened the door to let her in. Like the woodchuckers? Yeah.
Yeah, like the woodchucks, all of those squirrels. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, wood chug, stop chugging my wood. Yeah. But anyway, she walks in with one in her mouth.
Nice. Big-ass squirrel, almost as big as her. She had snapped its neck. She walks in with it, spit it in the floor, and it walked off.
Solid W. Just letting you guys know. Letting you know. I'm running this backyard.
We threw it in the backyard, then let it sit for the rest of the day. Oh, nice. We posted it up, but, you know. Oh, oh, like, Christ.
Okay, that's nice. Yeah. That's nice. Molly did.
So the other thing. Let it be a warning to the rest of you. Don't, don't. And we never had a squirrel problem again.
Right. But then we had a hawk. That was worse. Tried to take the dogs?
He would post up when Rowdy was out there. Little Rodney. Oh, yes. So we had to start sending.
Molly would have to go out with Rowdy if he had to go out. Oh, small animal. Look at that. Take that with me.
I can get him. Ruckus. Ruckus. Oh, I have ruckus news.
But go ahead with your story. Tell me the ruckus news. Ruckus this weekend had a, how should we call it? It's a sex weekend for the little fella.
Really? Yes, a friend of Adrian's had a dog that she wanted to mate, and Rowdy has never been fixed, and he's never mounted up on anything other than another male dog. We figured he was, you know, homosexual. What are you doing over there?
I'm approving an online order. I'm still listening. So yeah, so evidently the young lady was not fond of him, but he finally did the deed yesterday, so he got to come home today. Oh, very nice.
So did he bring her a bottle of wine or something? Well, I packed him a little bag, and he had a red sweatshirt on because it was cold out, so I packed a green sweatshirt, and I said, well, I thought, well, just in case she doesn't like the red one, you know, here's the green one, and I threw some little cigarillos in there for, you know, in case he wants to smoke afterwards. Afterward, you know, yeah, and send him some treats and some food to keep his energy up and everything, you know? Order a pizza or something?
Order a pizza, yeah. Netflix and shit? I offered it to send flowers, my wife said that was crazy. Yeah.
Now you're just being ridiculous. Now you're just being ridiculous. I mean, the different color sweatshirts is way, far enough, but, you know, jeez. It's like sending one of your kids out to get laid, I mean, what do you, he's never had sex before, he's nine years old.
Hmm. That makes him, like, old. Yeah. I thought he was like 63 years old.
Yeah, well, he's the oldest of the three that we have, he's the oldest. Did he break his hip? " Five minutes. Hey.
Wow, look at you. Good for you there, buddy. So. Nice.
" Is he just snorting with his chest puffed up or anything? Nothing. No, nothing. You smoke anything good today?
What do I got today? I got, this is from The Great Smoke. It's a Tatuaje. Yeah, Fausto.
Fausto. It's not bad. It's a nice cigar. It's a very good cigar for the price point.
Yeah. Well, my price point for this one was really good. Yeah. I am smoking an SBC 20.
Yeah, she didn't offer me one. A test blend. You didn't say anything. I just grabbed it.
I would have gave it to you. But you already lit up your free Fausto. Well, it's because I didn't get one of those. But I brought this particularly to smoke today.
So this is the first time I've actually tasted this cigar. Oh, really? Oh, really? What is going to be the SPCA 20?
Or maybe 21? Well, I mean, it might not be anything. It might be the 21, that's what I said. Skip's on strike.
Uh-oh. We're on strike, no more work. See, he went to a concert over the weekend, a rap concert. Yeah, Scarface.
With his bling bling dog tag. With his dog tag bling. Yes. His club attire.
Right. And his gang. He took his posse with him. Yeah, he brought his whole posse.
Sean and Danny. Sean, Danny, and John. Oh, John, yes, that's right. Frenchy was there, too.
The whole squad. Wow, he's rolling big. Yeah. Meanwhile, Mike's out doing events.
Well, but he was at, though, Fine Ash, as you wore your shirt tonight. Oh, yes. Yes. So it's not like he got the short end of the stick at all.
That's true. Yeah, Fine Ash is a good place to go. He had to hang out with Rosie and her husband. They released the Neanderthal Lanceros.
Oh, that's right. I'm sure they still have some, if anybody wants. Oh, and then they all had their Neanderthal shirts that they make there at the Fine Ash. There you go.
That's a very nice shirt. So I'm sure they had a good time. I'm sure they had to look like it. A lot of pictures with Mike with people.
Excellent adventures. Yes. Scarface and Fine Ash. Yes.
So let's talk about where we're going this weekend, Michael. Where are we going? We briefly touched on it last episode. We're going to Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. And you added another place. Oh. Or did that fall back off?
Ah, fuckin' Lou. Lou Albano? The guy with the band-aid, or the rubber band he wears in his face? No.
I always wanted to meet him. Um, Lou Rodriguez. Does he wear a band-aid now? In Delaware.
Stateline Tobacco. I'm gonna have to go say hi to him. Is it just over the Stateline, is it? I think that's the name of the place, yeah, it's called Stateline.
I was up, up that way working one time years ago, and we drove to Delaware, just to say we'd been to Delaware, we drove up, we were south, so I don't know where we were, but we drove up, We stopped, got out, put our foot down on the ground, and then we got back in the car and drove back to the hotel. The only thing I can think of Delaware is the Wayne's World thing. You ever see the movie Wayne's World? Yeah.
Oh, they said they were in Delaware? Delaware. That used to be, years and years ago, that was the place to incorporate because it was free. Yes.
Or tax problems or something. Something like that, yeah. Or did not exist in Delaware. Some kind of sneaky thing.
Very, very small place. Sneaky. So we're going to Delaware and then we're going to run around Philadelphia. We're there for half a day.
We're there for like one and a half days. So what, we fly in? We fly in Thursday afternoon. We'll go to Delaware.
Go to Delaware, yeah, that's the furthest point, so hang that out, get that done. And then Friday is the event. Yeah, so we'll try. Friday night.
Where's the actual shot for the event, Michael? Please tell the two listeners. It's in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cigar Company. Oh.
So yeah, we're going to be there. Powstanie event. Yeah, a little Powstanie, a little Guai Moreau, a little fable. Oh, a Poshik event.
A Poshik event. A Poshik. Yeah, it's exciting. Where's your brother?
Spells it, Pacific. A Pacific event. It's kind of like the Atlantic, but, you know. So, yeah, we're going to do a little road trip.
I do so love our trips, Michael. So much fun. And then we've got to haul ass back because Jax's first baseball game is the next day. Saturday.
Yes, I think we have to be at the airport at like 4:00 in the morning. I know, you keep saying that. I think the plane leaves at 6:00. I think it does.
So, you know, it's a big airport, Jersey. Got to return the rental car. Does that have a hotel there at the airport? Maybe we should just do that the night before.
Save some time? Yeah, well, yeah, we'll stay close. Turn in the car? Uh, no.
No, we'll turn in the car in the morning. We'll have to do the prep work, though. There's a double tree over there usually where we crash at. Do the prep work at night, though.
Yes, the prep work. Well, I don't know how much, it depends on how cold it is, dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
If it's extremely cold, we won't be swimming in the car anyway. Oh, yeah. That's true. I talked to our friend, Mr.
Yogurlite, or he likes to be known as, no, I can't say a secret name, but he said this week we would have frozen this. Next week, the high is going to be 50. Yeah, we're not going to be in time. I think the high is like 40 when we're there.
Oh, shit. Yeah. But my wife did give me a new jacket. I know.
You're really excited about this jacket. Keep bringing it up. I wore it. We went and did some outlet shopping on our little weekend away, and she was insistent on buying me a jacket.
Mm-hmm. Anyway, we went to the Great Smoke this weekend. This is really good, by the way. Well, I'm sure it is.
I don't know. It's delicious. I wish you had one. Tastes like betrayal and left out.
Tastes like betrayal. It doesn't taste like betrayal. And left out. Anyway, we went to the Great Smoke.
Yeah, I mean, I've been waiting for you to talk to me about this. I couldn't talk to you because everything for the show. We need that content. We need that podcast content.
Everything for the show. So, we drove down there that morning, 'cause it hadn't started 'til, I thought it started at noon. Ooh. We got down there at 11:30.
It had already started? It hadn't started 'til 1:00. Oh, shit. So, we went and had a beer, you know?
Mm-hmm. So, we went to a Friday's, and we had a beer, and then we went to go find it. That was the beginning of the end, too. Oh, no, no, no, it was night.
But the only problem at the fairground, it was at the South Florida Fairgrounds, I believe it's called, but there were three events that day. There was a gun show, an RV show, and then the Great Smoke. It sounds like a great time. Yeah, people were standing there in line and they were standing like, well, everything's covered here.
This is a full day. This is amazing. There were people from the RV show in the line for the cigar thing until they realized, oh, this isn't the thing. But when you go to park to get in, they had a sign that said, this gate, RV only.
So we did a lap. We went around. No, nothing about the great smoke. So we got back in the RV line because there was a line coming off the highway to get into this place.
Get in the line. Get up to the guy at the thing rolling in the window. Well, actually, there's a button. There's no cranking the windows anymore.
Where do you go for the great smoke? Right in here, sir. So I cut some guy off, and people are honking their horns at me. Adrian's screaming, going, my new car.
Cigar Hostess Podcast, everybody. Follow me. Follow me in here. So we go over there, and we're waiting in line to get our credentials, and now these guys are doing a raffle for wounded veterans or something, and now that we're a military family, because Tanner's off at boot camp now.
But he hasn't even made it through boot camp. He's there. What if he quits? Well, you know, you can't quit.
If you go to their website and you go to the FAQs, frequently asked questions, can you quit? It says no, there is no quitting. It's not like a job. You can't like ring the bell or anything?
No, apparently not. But she's been watching a lot of videos from other training sessions, I guess, whatever. They have their own Facebook pages and all sorts of stuff where all the mothers and families get information. But guys are like, just like in the movies, look like the platoon sergeants yelling in people's faces.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, it's serious stuff. Apparently they get like emotional cards now, too, though. Like you get to use a card if you're feeling.
Really? Oh, yeah, I've heard of it. There was no mention of that there. Oh, yeah.
Somebody asked about cough drops, and they have to be sugar-free. They have to be menthol. Get down, get me 50. Oh, that's the way they're yelling at him.
Inches away, four guys were yelling at this one dude, yelling at him, calling him names, and he gets down to the ground, and one guy's laying underneath him, yelling at him. Oh, my God. Sounds intense. Quite intense, quite intense.
Anyway, she's doing the raffle, and I'm standing there in line, so I didn't lose my place, and out comes Erica Spinoza, who comes out from the front door. " I'm going to tap an Adrian. Oh, you're very excited. Erik Espinosa.
I've never met Erik before. Right. I've never met him. He's like your unicorn.
He walked right up to me. Ooh. Hey, brother, nice to see you. He shook my hand, said hi, and welcomed me to the show.
Yes. He knew exactly who I was. I was very excited. So I can blame Erik for your hostility remarks on Facebook.
Set the tone for the day for me. Oh, that was a highlight of my day. You were the fucking man. Highlight of my day.
So then we get inside, and the first tent is all the food, and the games, and the liquor vendors, and everything, and we get to sample the liquor, and this guy's selling ashtrays, and what's it called, the Silver Rhino, or Sparkling Rhino, or something, there's some strip club that they do, the after party ad has girls running around on roller skates. Oh, nice. In the grass? Is it in the grass?
No, no, this is in a expo center. Because in the grass would be fun. So it's a concrete thing. Okay.
And then the next tent over- Not as fun. It's where all the cigar people are, but it takes, you know, it takes a little bit to maneuver over that direction, so as we're trying to make our way through the crowd, because all the tables are already full, there's never enough tables with these things, never any place to sit. Was Scott Weeks there? Yes, he was.
Yes, he was. Did he have his own tent? No, no. Away from everybody?
No. No, he didn't, but I did avoid Scott Weeks, I don't think we don't. Because usually his line is bogged down. Well, they have tickets, is the way they ran theirs, there's tickets, one, they're all numbered, blah, blah, blah.
So we get in line and the first one is Arturo Fuente. That's number one. Right. It's a backup as soon as you get there.
Of course. So Terry's there from Cigar Porn. Okay. He sees us.
He walks over and says hello. We're standing in line. A little chitchat with Terry. " So we chat and I guess he's coming by this week.
He's on vacation. Okay. So he says he's gonna have time to hang out. He doesn't know what day, but when he comes, he's coming for the day.
Yeah, we'll probably be out of town. Yeah, I didn't think to tell him that, though. Yeah. Anyway, so, you know, it goes this way around the tent, and the only bog is at the first four, which is, I forget who it was, Arturo Fuente and then somebody else, and Adrian goes, why don't we just skip these people and come back later?
So we made it down, I think, three, and then we shot across because there was no line on the other side. " And then Eric comes walking up, and Jack goes, "Eric, look! " He sort of looks at Jack like a child that has been annoying you forever, and he goes, "I talked to him outside already. " And then he sort of went around behind the table.
That's usually the delivery, like, you know, dude, you don't even know what's going on. Yeah, you don't even know what's going on. We've already chatted outside there. Already caught up.
So, see you, Derek. Oh, Abe met as soon as we walked in. Abe from the Smoke Inn, he shook her. Abe, he calls me Zippy.
Zippy, yes. You referred to him as Zippy. Zippy. Zippy.
He did try to spell your last name. He was very close. Yeah? Very close, but he gave us a hug and asked if we needed anything, if everything was okay, and all that kind of stuff, when we walked in.
See, we had John Carney, Tear from Cigar Forum. Oh, and then Robert Holt. " Well, all the foods are already free, so the drinks are free, so I mean... You know, I'm really not happy about the free tickets you gave me.
Really not happy about all this stuff, Abe. Something else I can maybe have. I like your shirt. Can I have your shirt?
Tell you what, they're doing that spinner game over there for money, I'd like to win. Can you guarantee me the car? I'd like the car. Let's see, we met, Robert Holt was there, saw him, he gave us a hug.
Southern draw. Southern draw, talked to him for a minute. Let's see. Was he drunk?
No. No, Robert wasn't drunk. You know what, later though, in his live Facebook feeds. It looked like he might have been a little drunk.
You know who I think, well, we'll get to this in a minute. Because there was somebody, I believe, that had had a couple of drinks that came up to me. Pete Hernandez. Oh, there you go.
Bam! You don't even have to tell me. You don't even have to tell me. He wasn't even working a table, he was just walking around.
Owned. Yeah. Come on, man. I go, what?
You don't work a table? He goes, no. I love this. I got somebody here.
There was somebody. Slinging cigars? Me slinging cigars? There was somebody who was drinking a lot.
I'm like, oh. That could only be one person. And then Jack walked up. So there's a picture.
And then Shia Goldberg from... Yep. So there's a picture of me. Casa de Monte Cristo.
Casa de Monte Cristo. There's a picture of me, Shia, Jack, and Pete. And Pete's kind of leaning on me and hugging all over me. I think I was holding him up.
I don't think it was more of a hard time. I mean, you didn't even tell me, and I pulled that right out of the air. Yeah, you just pulled that right out. You did.
Let's see. Nick was there. Nick Malillo from Foundation Cigars. Nick Malillo.
Nick Malillo. He walked out. He loves my beard, apparently. He was mentioned to you.
He wanted to talk about my beard. " Oh, he's got the patches. Well, he's got a full beard, but it's kind of bushy in the front or something. I don't know.
Sorry. Sorry to hear that, Nick. How do you hear that, Nick? Oh, Matt Booth was there.
Oh, he's Boofy. Boofy was there. He had a crowd around his table when we were waiting to get in, and he sees me, and he points, and then he goes, "Everybody move! " He came out and gave me a big hug.
Oh, that's nice. He asked for you, "Where is the mic? " he said. Well, his son had a thing.
Oh, the family, yes. The family always comes first. The family. I must approve order.
Please excuse me. Keep talking. Oh, he's approve order again. Erik was there from Dojo.
I finally met Mr. Gershenson from Dojo. Him and his ex, not really partner, but co-host, I guess, who now works for Drew Estate, Mr. Hire, now works for Drew Estate.
But when I walked up to him, I went, "You're a lot shorter in person. " Damn. Well, he's not even as tall as me, or maybe the exact same height. I mean, for some reason, he just, you know, he says- I get that every once in a while, too, though.
He's a sensei. I thought he was, what, they think you're bigger? I thought you'd be taller. I'm like, eh.
I'm 5'9, bro. Yeah, at least I said, I could have said I thought you were thinner, but, you know, so, you know, you have that going for you. I feel like he's got the angle, though, on the camera. It makes him look taller.
I think what it is, I think it shoots, 'cause it's real close, so I think maybe it shoots up or down or something, yeah. We go over to Drew Estate, Pedro was there, Pedro did not remember me. How is your family? No, Pedro did not remember me, but he did call my wife over so he could meet her and give her her own cigar.
Oh. " Oh, Rico Suave. Yeah, you're making a move there. Suavemente.
Because she was, uh, she technically did not get cigars because she was a companion ticket. Not the person. But several people did give her cigars. That's nice.
So yeah, she came out with five or six that she would enjoy. Hey, alright. So that was good. Did she get another Azucar?
No, but Jack did keep just putting stuff in my bag. Oh, that's nice. That was very nice, Jack. Jack hooked me up.
That Jack. Yep. Such a sweet man. He is.
He's so tall. So intimidating. He looks like he lost a little bit of weight. You know, I thought so too in the photo.
I have a photo. Spence made a comment about that photo, about there was a lot of man in the photo or something, and I said, well, obviously we have all our testosterone in our stomachs, because that's what everybody seemed to have. I looked very big in the photo. You said something about the masculinity.
You know, I think you do yourself a disservice with the shirt, with the other shirt. You know, that was what my wife said too, but I wanted to wear, I had to wear the club shirt, because people are looking for it, but I wanted to wear one of ours, so we had the t-shirt underneath. I feel like you gotta choose. Sometimes you gotta make a decision.
You know what I mean? You gotta stick to one or the other. " She hates those dicky shirts. " It's just draping.
Yeah, it's all blousy. 'Cause she bought me a new shirt too, and she refused to buy me an extra large. She bought me a large. I'm just not comfortable.
It's just a little snug in places. Yeah, who needs all that? I mean, you know, get the size you want. Well, she was paying, so, you know.
So, thanks for the shirt that I'm never gonna wear, because it's not the right size. Well, actually, I put it on her last night when she had a couple of drinks. Oh, so she bought her a shirt. Well, yeah, so that's what I said.
I said, "Hey, honey, you can wear this. It's very soft. Very nice shirt. " All right, so I saw Jack.
I'm trying to think who else we ran into. Pete. I love Pete. I love Pete.
" Someone is really drunk, yeah. Was Sokka there? Saka was there, but he didn't, when I got to his little table area, he was busy talking to somebody, so he didn't even see me. Well, here's the thing, you gotta just interrupt when it comes to Saka, because Saka will sit there and talk to one person for 45 fucking minutes.
Yeah, that's what he was doing. Yeah. Yeah. That happens all the time.
But I don't think, I don't think he would have recognized me at eye contact. Right. So, you know, I did offer to bring a note from you on Facebook, something about an event or something, but we didn't set that up, because I thought it would have been funny. " And then he'd read it and go, "I can't do an event there.
" He said he would. Yeah, well, we'll see what happens. I'm trying to think who else. La Polina was there, so I saw a friend from La Polina.
Jeff Gruver. Did you talk to Jeff? Gruver, yeah. Gruver got a photo.
Gruver had to have a photo with me, with Adrian, and then there was a group photo too. Terrence Riley, I did. That was the first time actually meeting Terrence Riley in person. Very tall.
Very tall man. Yes, tall man. Very tall man. And Groover was a table and a half away, so he's still stalking him.
It's just getting a little uncomfortable, Terrence said. Was he... Now it's getting a little uncomfortable? Did you see the pictures, though?
I guess Terrence stayed at Groover's house or something in the morning, and he just went into Groover's bedroom in the morning. And got him sleeping? No, no, Groover took the photos of Terrence looking for a tie or something in his clothes to wear or something. Oh, nice.
And there's just pictures of feet. So there were two feet, but one with painted toenails and one without, so I did ask Groover, I go, why did you only paint the left foot? Are you sure it was his foot? It probably wasn't, but I was trying to help the man with the story, so, you know, depending on the situation, I would rather if somebody thought I had a one foot painted toenails than I had a one foot painted toenail.
Gotcha. Okay. " He goes, "Oh, I'm so sorry," and he gave me a hug. Let me chat for a minute.
Yeah, you're a big fan of Leo. I'm like, "You're my, you're my friend, Leo. " So, that was it. We, uh, we did another, we got all the cigars, and then we did another lap, said hello to a couple other people.
Yeah. Everybody's working, so. We got on time. 28 minutes.
I got another minute. We'll wrap this up here right now in a second. 29 minutes. We were only there for about two hours.
Then we decided to just go. We went and played tourist in the West Palm Beach area. Went out to the ocean, had lunch. That's the end of the stories?
Had a beer. That's the end of the stories. Unless you have one. No.
You have more. No. That's all the stories. That's all the stories from the event.
Okay. So we're at 29 and a half, so we'll take a break here. Oh, we did try to, I did try to get my wife to listen to the shows on the way home. She doesn't like the show.
No, no, she's not a fan. No, she's not a fan, but she does love the commercials though. I specifically played a commercial for her because she heard you talking about them in the Patreon. The commercials are amazing.
So yeah, so I played the commercial. " Yeah, the Teespring commercial you did was amazing. It was the Patreon commercial that she heard, because that's what I used last week. But yeah, I like the Teespring one though.
The one that helps us the least. It's the best one. It's the best one, right? You know what?
I even checked it. I don't know what's sitting there. I don't know what's sitting there. They could have.
We could have sold a buttload of t-shirts. I don't know. Yeah, probably not. All right, we're 30 minutes.
I've got to take a break. All right. Okay, bye. Hey, it's Mike Toon with the Cigar Hustlers Podcast.
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Well, apparently, welcome to The Cigar Hustler Podcast. So, we gotta talk about this. Oh, man! We gotta talk about this.
Where is our goddamn intern? We needed it! See, this is the type of stuff that I'm talking about here. I know.
You know, you go to these things, you go to the Great Smoke, you know, and your head gets a little bit more inflated, and then all of a sudden, you fucking fall apart as the production company. You're not recording things anymore. And it keeps kicking off the Wi-Fi for the camera. Oh, good.
So the entire first half has no recording. The entire first 30 minutes has no video. Has no video. " I wonder if you could do that.
I could do that. " I'm just, sorry. Oh my goodness. So sorry.
So, I mean, there, you got a couple of weak points here, Mike, that I'd like to discuss. Obviously, not hitting the record button on the camera is kind of a big deal. That's a big deal. You know, maybe we should put a mirror back there so I can verify that it's being recorded.
You know what? We gotta somehow hook it to a screen so we can see it. Yeah. I don't know if that's possible, but I will know tomorrow when Danny gets here.
Okay. Or Brandon. Brandon? Brandon?
I don't know. His last name is Vasquez. It's all I know. I keep forgetting his name, but he'll be here tomorrow.
Okay. So I will ask him if that is possible. The other thing, the other major mistake that you do is the goddamn spelling. It's typos, technically.
I mean, it's because I type too fast, and I don't go back and check. I try to always remember to go back and check because, God forbid, I do something and I catch shit from everybody. Yeah. Holy crap.
It's like there's a group of guys just waiting. Of course. They're just watching. And it looks really bad when you do it.
I'm like, ah, that's mine. We need an intern. If you'd like to be an intern, or if you'd like to just come in and run things. What's going on with that?
I have to, I didn't get a chance to check today. We did have one person that was interested, through Robbie, but his sister cannot make it here, a regular thing. She goes to college over in Tampa. That's kinda far.
It's kinda far. Like two hours away. She can come on Sundays, he said. When we're not here.
When we're not here. One of the only two days I'm not here. Okay. So, you wanna do the whole first half of the show?
No, I don't. I don't. sit there and I want you to think about your actions. It's going to be up there.
It's going to be up there. Why don't we divide some of the responsibilities? No. No.
That's not how this works. I think it should be. No. You'd like to be a member of the production team and you can be here on Mondays at 3 till 4.
Just need you for an hour. One hour. Or I just need Mike to fucking hit the button. Hit the button.
Why don't you hit the button? Button up your ass. Because you're the production guy. Now, so we did do a Patreon giveaway.
Yes, but we are going to do that on the Patreon. Yeah, we're gonna, we'll announce, but we gave, we're giving away some of the War Bear test plans for 2020. Yeah, well, how many people have entered? Do you know?
No, because we're not supposed to check it till Wednesday. Ah, okay. So, to my knowledge, I believe it is three that I can verify for sure. For sure.
Okay. Maybe five, because you mentioned somebody also. Okay. Well, I mean, depending upon where that number is, maybe we give away more than one.
Oh. I didn't, well, you don't have a whole lot of them, so. I know. I didn't want you to overextend.
But, you know, they are our Patreons, Michael. So maybe we give away, maybe two, maybe three. Ooh, the odds have just increased that you could possibly win. Maybe.
I'm just saying, maybe. Maybe if you're a Patreon. com/cigarhustlepodcast. So, do you want to move to the news now?
Or, I mean, you didn't let me tell my second story, so I'm feeling- Oh, I thought that was your old stories. You did Saturday and Sunday. I'm glad that I didn't get to do the video, you know, the story without- Without the video? Without video.
Wait, is there actions? No, there isn't. Oh. Then what difference is it's not a video?
They're still gonna hear it. Because at least people get to see my expressions and see how fucking upset I was. Oh, well, please. Please, do it now.
Would you like me to tell the story? Yes, tell the story. I apologize. I didn't realize you had more.
So, um, so Sunday's, you know, is cheat day, right? Oh, that's your diet cheat day, too. You get to eat whatever you want. But you really eat whatever you want anyway, mostly.
Not really. I mean, you eat healthy, but if there's cookies sitting around, you eat the cookies. Not really. I try not to.
I can't guarantee that I won't. Because you always say something like, "I burn 75 million calories a day. If I eat a goddamn cookie, it's not a problem. Fuck you.
" Yeah, you know, that's just me melting down. The fact of the matter is that I try and eat a controlled diet every day, except for Sunday. Okay. And I'm definitely not perfect.
I definitely cave more than I should. But, I mean, I have, you know, meal prep. You're only human, Michael. I appreciate that.
Thank you. Only human. That's very sweet of you to say. But Sunday's the cheat day.
I'm kissing ass now, I fucked up again. Sunday's the big cheat day. Yes. I feel, Michael, you could probably cheat any day you wanted, you would still be a large muscular man.
Thank you. Oh, it's just pouring in now, it's just pouring in. There'll be no hostile comments this week on Facebook, at least. Nope.
Chet, I need you to make hostile comments this week. I can fire Chet. No, you can't. He doesn't even punch in most times either.
Is that your wife? Your wife always calls her in the show. Anybody we can interview? It's actually Mardo Cigars.
Oh. Yeah. Gerard from Mardo's. Oh, hello.
He gave me some cigars to try. It was pretty good. Oh. Yeah.
I really liked it. We'll probably take it on. Is that the story? No.
So, Sunday's my cheat day. Okay. Right? And I just had this itch for fucking McDonald's.
Like, you know, we're going in. This is happening. With all the children. With all the children.
So happy meals for everybody. Well, everybody had left. It was just-- Oh, gotcha. It was just my family.
So two happy meals, you know, and then meals for me and Brittany. No happy meal for the baby. So, no. Not today.
She's still on phone. I got young Jacob a happy meal last week. That was very nice of you. Um, so-- Anyway.
So we get this crazy idea that, hey, why don't we just order it on the mobile app and just pull up? Right? Oh, you can do that? It'll be so much faster.
I said, okay, that's a great idea. How does that work at Wendy's? How does that work at Wendy's? I don't feel that a little more well.
At McDonald's. Oh, at McDonald's, sorry. " She punches in the order. " Some little scan bar or something?
Yeah, I don't know. So, I'm like, "All right, that's cool. I'll just take your phone and no big deal. " Like, I'm going in barefoot, right?
Because I'm like, "Oh, fuck it. " You know? I was outside out back all day so you know I didn't have shoes on, so I pull up and I start to punch in the rest of the thing or whatever and I finish the order and it says whoop, nope you have to come inside and it says order number yada yada yada. So wait, how does that work?
So you pulled up into the parking lot? Yeah, it says okay where are you parked? You know what slot number? And I said like slot number.
So is there like a, okay, the McDonald's out here in Deltona do not have that. Okay, so this is my first test trial at this. Right, right. It'll probably be the last time I ever fucking do it.
Right. So I pull up, hit the button. So I'm in, it's like if you pull up to a Target or Walmart. I'm in spot number seven.
All right, I'm in spot number four. Okay. You know. " Oh, no, sorry, you have to come inside.
" It's McDonald's. You don't need shoes. It's true. Yeah.
But, well, first of all, there's a sign that says you have to wear shoes. And shirt. It's more of a recommendation, I think, than a rule. So I walk in there, and the customers of McDonald's are definitely judging me without having shoes.
Oh, yeah. They're like, ah, this motherfucker, this guy, what it is. Did you have, like, yard work clothes on or something? Oh, yeah, I was in, like, you know, a tank top.
Tank top, tight shorts. Yeah, very tight. Speedo. Speedo.
You know. All glisten-y from these activities. So totally, so you could tell that some of the interesting people, in McDonald's were like, this guy's... Is it...
My life's fucked up. This guy's... Is it a remodeled McDonald's? It is a remodeled.
So it's a nice McDonald's. Yeah, so I walk in and I... These are levels of McDonald's. Yeah, so they just remodeled it.
So I walk in and I'm like, um, I go to the register and, like, it's a cashier and this dude has, like, a beard that's shorter than mine but he's got that goddamn net on at the register. Gotta wear the net. I'm like, okay, this is already fucking strange. So I'm like, He's like, "Hey, my order didn't go in, and it told me to come inside," and the guy looks at me like a deer in headlights.
Oh. He has no idea what to do now. I gotta get somebody. Yeah, I-- I gotta get somebody for this.
See, there's no button for that here. So the manager-- Large, mean person with no shoes. So the manager comes over, and she doesn't know how to do it. I don't know how to do this.
Let me get somebody else. Who's hired than the manager? So she brings-- she goes to say, hey-- Ronald McDonald came out. So Ronald McDonald comes out.
So then the next person comes over, over, and before she comes over, she says, hey, this person's having a problem with their mobile pickup order or some shit. And she says, well, does he have his credit card on him? Like, she's pissy over there by the fries. Well, you know.
And I'm like, oh, this is, like, I'm already pissed off. I'm like, you know, I'm. This is going now. Yeah, I'm like, I'm starting to get heated.
So she comes over, and she goes. You've not heard about my hostile work environment I run? She's like, do you not know who I am? Yeah, I'm not a very hostile person, god damn it.
So she comes up and she's like, well, do you have the credit card on you? And I was like, no, my wife did it. It was her card. I don't have that card on me.
She says, oh, well, the app knows if you don't have the card on you. I said, excuse me? She goes, yeah, the app knows if you don't have the credit card on you. I go, you're not making any sense.
I guess it is possible. No. No. It would help with credit card fraud.
There's no fucking way. There's no way. There's no logical explanation. The phone indicates in my other pocket that no.
I'm like, that doesn't. I go, ma'am, with all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about. Like, that doesn't make any sense. Well, that's what my supervisor told me.
Oh, OK. Oh, because this slapdick doesn't know what's going on. So you're going around saying this to people, other people, and your supervisor told you to say this. So people are actually going in and like, oh, I guess, oh yeah, okay, I guess the magical fucking card didn't work in my pocket.
I would have, I would have believed it. Wow, no, no, that doesn't make sense. So then I said to her, I'm like, okay, well then what do you have to do? Oh, you're gonna have to reorder everything.
I said, okay. So I took my phone and said, here you go. 'Cause I haven't fucking, I'm not dealing with this. Hadn't it already charged you?
No. So they don't charge you till you pick up? Yeah. So then I'm standing there for 15, 20 fucking minutes.
How does that save you any time? It didn't save me. It cost me time. Well, obviously you because you had to go in.
Yeah. But if I had done it correctly, it showed up with the credit card. So, they're saying the only reason it didn't work is because you didn't have the credit card. Right, which is bullshit.
Well, yeah. But... It's bullshit. Okay, but if you get there...
And the fact that you believe it is kind of scary. I don't know, but you... The reason why we don't have a video on this. Okay, let's say you had the credit card, okay?
Okay. You get there and you pull up. You have not been charged yet. Mm-hmm.
So they bring the food out, and then the app knows you got the food, so it charges you with them. No, you have to hit the button and say, "I am here," and then it starts to make the food and charges your card. So then when you hit the button, oh, when you hit the button, it went, boop, you don't have the card. Right.
No, it didn't say that. " Oh, it did on their end. Boop, no card. No card, no card.
That is not accurate. That is not accurate. Oh. And the fact that you believe that.
What if they're, okay, I agree with you. It's probably just bullshit. It's a cover for, because they don't know why it doesn't work. The machine doesn't work.
Right, they don't know why it doesn't work. Well, if you had the card, what would they have done? Exactly. Do you have the card on you?
Yes. Okay. Can I see it? No.
You don't need to see it. It's in my pocket, magically connected to my phone. The whole reason for me doing this is so I don't have to bring my wallet in from the card. Right.
The whole thing is, I'm supposed to be outside right now. Wow. So I'm standing there, 15, 20 minutes. Oh, 20 minutes.
I would have left. I'm totally losing my shit, this old lady comes up with a cane, and I'm standing at the counter, just fucking steaming. Is this another customer or employee? Yeah, another customer.
And she says... And you just want my free coffee? " I don't want to hit them dirty feet with my cane. I am totally not being respected here at this McDonald's by anybody.
Aw, this sweet old lady, I don't want to hit your toes there, young man. I don't want to step on your toes. You look kind of hostile and having a big Mac attack. " You get those, they're free anyway.
" By extra, do you mean 72? Because they're free anyway, up to like five or six. In the meanwhile, while I'm sitting there waiting 15 to 20 minutes, apparently there's a car accident in the parking lot. There was an accident in the parking lot.
I'm like, what in the fuck is going on here? You know what? You should have sat down and started picking your toes on a chair. I just wanted my double quarter pounder with cheese.
I gotta bite this toenail off. Hold on a second here. Can I get a stir stick? I got a little grime under my toenail.
So I took the goddamn McServey. I just want you to know. I let corporate know that they probably just took it and threw it away. Or nobody actually reads it.
It's McDonald's. Like, they care. I mean, you know? It's true.
They don't. They don't. Hey, in Altamont today, we had a McSurvey that came back negative. You could tell that everybody behind the counter at McDonald's did not give a shit.
It says on here, no shoes. What should we do with it there, Ronald? Eh, just throw it out of the way. Sir, we got your McSurvey, and we just wanted to ask you, were you wearing shoes at the time?
Oh, then you shouldn't have even... Oh, sir, it says no shoes, no shirt, no service. I'm really sorry about that. They have a shirt on.
Oh, mobile? You wanted us to just bring it to your car? Phil, do we have a mobile thing that we use? Is that possible?
I'll have Ronald call you. Oh, I would so do that right there. Record a message. Some guy with a clown voice.
Hey, this is Ronald McDonald. We appreciate you coming in today. I mean, but they say, oh, well, my supervisor told me that the magical card in your pocket dings. I'm like, come on.
That's insane. That is insane. It's insane. What if there's something in the chip that your phone can read?
There is not. Wi-Fi? Bluetooth? Bluetooth.
Should I turn the Bluetooth on on my card, Mike? It's Bluetooth. I mean, come on, dude. It's Bluetooth.
Your credit card is Bluetooth-y thing. Mm-hmm. Hm. Hm.
So, I was really pissed. That's funny. I figured you'd get a kick out of that. I'm glad that I got to say it on the second half of this video.
So hostile. It was ridiculous. Hashtag. Thank God this SBC 20 is amazing.
Mikey's Big Mac attack. Mm-hmm. Does everybody like to use that this week, please? Hashtag Mikey's Big Mac attack.
Hashtag Mac attack. Hashtag Mikey's Big Mac attack. That sounds so long. They aren't very long.
I can do something with my new Instagram name. It's so too long. Hashtag McManager. Everybody fill out the McSurvey, please, this week.
Let them know. Let them know they have treated Michael unfairly. Unjust. Ugh.
I just want to... You know what? Craven... We should just...
Unhealthy. We should just... What's it called when you don't go someplace? Protest?
Black... Blah, blah... Yeah, exactly. That.
Protest... Upscano... I don't know. I'm drawing a blank now.
I'm drawing a blank too. Whatever the word is, we should all do that. Nobody goes to McDonald's for a week. We'll show them.
Right. We have one news story, just one. Slow news week. Yeah?
Yes. UPS, no longer accepting CODs on tobacco shipments, Michael. That's not true. I got it right off a half wheel.
Yeah, but did you see the information on afterwards that UPS did not do that? J. Fernandez is also going to the PCA, so, I don't know. So then we have no news stories, Mike.
Well, that's because everybody's out gallivanting. Minha Levantean. Yes, everybody's busy. We do have a coronavirus update.
The global spread. Total cases of coronavirus now, 78,811 total people now that have it. Pandemic. Total death, 2,462.
Mainland China still has the most reported cases of 76,939, but they are now, now it is in South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Italy, Hong Kong, Thailand, United States, Iran, Taiwan, Austria, Malaysia, Germany, Vietnam, United Arab Republics, Emirates, France, Macau, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Cambodia, Egypt, Finland, Israel, and Philadelphia. I'd like to know what countries are other. There are 634 cases in other. Other.
Lebanon, over in the Middle East, they have shut down borders. No one is allowed to go from country to country now. And it finally hit the stock market. Oh, did it affect the stock market?
Mm-hmm. Oh. Uh, Nepal, there's one. One poor man in Sri Lanka.
I feel bad for the one Swede that has it, though. Hmm. What was that one of those attractive Swedish women? Oh, I have the coronavirus.
Oh, she's not Chinese. So, yes, it's a pandemic now. This is where we're all gonna die now. The coronavirus.
I don't think we're all gonna die. I like the post-social media where it shows like a public water fountain. If you drank out of this as a kid, you are immune to the coronavirus. Otherwise, if you drank out of a garden hose as a child, you're immune to the coronavirus.
Yeah, but you're not getting really Half Wheel news or anything else or Coop news because they're all traveling. Well, yeah, Half Wheel was all down in the… Pearl Sabore. Yeah, Pearl Sabore. And… That's a big event in the Dominican Republic, right?
Yes, yes. The White Party does look very nice. Looks very nice. That's on my bucket list.
I just want to go to the White Party. Oh. I mean, we're just pegging shit off of your bucket. Did you meet Eric Espinosa?
I know, I never tell you, we're friends! Yeah, huh. So, you know. It's good stuff.
It is. I don't know who, who we, oh, you know, I was disappointed that, um, um, crap, what was that cigar I was smoking earlier? I can't remember his name either, so I guess I shouldn't be upset now. What were you smoking earlier?
Um, um, um, um, crap, I'm drawing, you know, I can see his face, I'm drawing a blank, though. Caldwell, Robert Caldwell. Ah, yes. Robert Caldwell did not remember me.
Yeah. Yeah, I met him one time here a year ago. His wife was with him more than a year ago. I gotta be honest, I don't know if Robert Caldwell remembers me.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. That was the only person that, well, in Saka I might not have, but he didn't even see me. Yeah.
But I got my cigar from Robert Caldwell. That's nice. He didn't know. He even said Cigar Hustle podcast on the fat shirt I was wearing.
That was the one under the other one. I skipped Rocky Patel's booth, but Rocky was there. I don't normally smoke his cigars until later. If we just skipped it, I'm not going to smoke this anyway.
Rocky. Rocky. He was there. Yes, Rocky.
No Nish, huh? No. Nope. It was Rocky.
You know what? Maybe it was Nish. It wasn't Rocky. It was Nish.
Oh, well, if I would have realized that, it would have said hello. Nish is in my cigar club. Womp, womp. Womp, womp.
We do have a listener of the week, though, Michael. We do have a listener of the week. Yes, we have a listener of the week. We're at 50 minutes of this really short show, I was just dragging on, but the video's only 20 minutes.
Yeah, so it's not, so you get to watch it. The editing's gonna be tremendously short this week. The red cape. The red curtain.
No, I'm gonna shoot me sitting for 30 minutes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That would be amazing.
I'm sorry, yes. I'm gonna wear a dunce hat. Oh, I like where you're going with this. I will do something to amuse.
I'll do magic tricks. I'll try to juggle something for 30 minutes. No audio, because I'll put the show in, but there will be something to watch. That'll be awesome.
So, I work here tomorrow, I will set up the camera out there, and it will just be me for 30 minutes sitting there in the morning. Or they can get 30 minutes of me editing the audio show. Maybe should you bring some action figures or something? Oh, let me have them right here, I'll pick some guys out the wall.
Yeah, you can put on a little bit of a show. A little bit of a show there, so we'll do something. That'll be good. Oh, I know what it'll be, I've got something.
Okay, anyway, we've got to hurry up. Listener of the week is... Oh, very loud. Pedro Albanez.
Pedro's a regular here at the shop. He is. I harass him constantly when he was here. He's a good guy.
He is. He likes to come in on the nights at night work and then buy things. He's very nice. He's a good guy.
And he's a big, huge listener. He is a big listener of the show. I mean, it's really cool when you have a conversation with somebody and they already know where you're going with it. Right.
Like, I love that. I'm like, okay, so Pedro knows what's up. I'm like, you know me better than most people. I heard that on the show, oh.
Yeah, oh, did I tell you about the, oh yeah, you mentioned that episode 75, I'm like, uh, yeah, yeah, I did. Yeah, it's episode 75. So that's cool, yeah, and I thought that, you know. We'll give him two gogs for Pedro.
So I got to hang out with Pedro last week. Was it Thursday night? It might have been. Yes.
It might have been. He comes in on Thursday night, usually brings one or two gentlemen with him. Yep, he had a couple buddies, and I just kind of shot the shit with him, and like, I didn't, I've never really had, like, every time he's come in, it's always been, like, during an event. We'll talk for a few minutes, and then that's it, but like that day I got to kind of sit down and chill and talk with him a little bit, so it was really cool.
You know, I got to learn a little bit more about his craft and what he does for a living. What does he do? I have no idea. It's hard for me to explain, and I don't know if I'm allowed to, but he's all about, it's more along the lines of operating systems and kind of making things efficient, right?
So he does that kind of… Does he know how to operate a camera? No, but he could probably look at the back end of the store and say, okay, well, you need a system for this, you need a system… Oh! Like, he's that type of guy. Gotcha.
Yeah. So… So, Pedro. Thank you. Listen of the week.
Listen of the week. You want to know three gongs? Does he get three? No.
No. Just the two. All right, give him one more. Let's go.
So limited. Boom. Oh, three gongs. I might have to upgrade our gong.
Yeah? Oh, okay. I thought that one had it, but apparently no shhh. You need something with a little more depth, thickness.
You need to have the little loose rivets around the edges. Is that what it is? Yes. Maybe Greg could fix it.
Hmm. Probably not. He just finished his vampire bed. Did you see that?
Uh-huh. Yes, and now the poor man that stays there has to sleep with a vampire bed. With a glow-in-the-dark bed. With a glow-in-the-dark bed.
Greg had to make a glow-in-the-dark bed. It took him two years to fucking make it. Uh, that's so funny. Insane.
Okay. Alright, that's it. That's all I got. Hey!
Thanks for watching the second half and listening to this podcast. Yeah, it's been episode 110. They're getting hard to say. I like the 1-0 numbers.
Those are easier. Now it's 110. Episode 1,756. Eventually it will be.
I'll be dead then. You'll send me stuff sitting here. Same amount of work because barely I don't do anything anymore. Because Weekend at Bernie's, actually, the dead version of you will probably do better.
Oh, so mean. You know, I'm not carrying your bag this weekend like I do normally. Wow. Well, I appreciate, you know what, I'll carry my own damp bag.
Alright, guys, we'll, uh, whatever, you can say that here, people that know, I go get the car, I carry the bag, I fetch you protein powder. I don't take protein powder anymore right now. What? Yeah, cut it out.
Oh, that explains the drop in the protein powder industry I saw on NASDAQ. Yeah, that's why the Dow's down. The Dow's down, yes, you have stomped it. Uh-huh.
Oh, I made protein powder waffles this morning. Did you? Kodiak? Kodiak?
No. Kodiak, what? No, I don't know, my wife is on one of those groups where they're, you know, Beachbody or Arbanon or something. Oh, like the Kino shit or something.
Yeah, something, I don't know. Your body needs carbs, bro. I did, I made waffles. Good for you.
Come on, we got five minutes, let's just stretch it out to a little bit of an hour. No, come on. Well, give me a piece of paper so I can start with Mike. I'm sorry.
So, on behalf of the Cigar Hustler Podcast and the family, I apologize for my screw-up again today. No, he's really leaving, he's walking out. You didn't kick the camera or anything, at least, on your way out. Don't kick the camera!
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The Hojo Deeb. Hojo! It's the Hojo! Demandre.
You didn't even let him fuck it up all the way. I can't get past Hojo! I don't even have to try it. He's not even gonna try it.
We're gonna, we're gonna cover a lot of ground here, Mike. All right. Try to keep up. That's a sign of a good podcast.
It should be like four cigars when I walked in a door. All right, end this.
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This week all about the Great Smoke! Mikey has a angry Big Mac Attack and we will see you in the City of Brotherly Love Friday!
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