Episode 116 Pandemic World Take 2.... President says its ok to shoot people in non compliance!

Episode Summary

Episode 116 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is an all-pandemic show recorded in early April 2020, with hosts Mike Szczepankiewicz and Mike Two smoking through an hour of coronavirus-era cigar industry news and lockdown life in Florida. The guys open with talk of virtual herfs — including one with Steve Saka and a Friday Cigar Club-style Sunday hangout with Willie of Miami Cigar & Co. — plus quarantine haircuts, shaved heads, and a shout-out to David, Jonathan and Barry of The Cigar Authority on their 10-year anniversary.

The news block is the meat of the episode. La Flor Dominicana laid off four of its eight sales managers (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Southwest territories) after closing its Dominican factory, and the hosts note the heat the company took for it. Crowned Heads announced a strategic alliance to handle U.S. distribution for ACE Prime Cigars, the company founded by Luciano Meirelles, Erradio "Nestor" Pichardo of Tabacalera Pichardo, and former NBA champion Tiago Splitter — the same factory that produces Crowned Heads' Juarez line. Davidoff of Geneva USA shifted its 2020 product innovation plans toward digital engagement, including an AVO "Challenge the Tempo" DJ lounge with DJ Tony Touch and an online cigar seminar with brand ambassadors Klaas Kelner and Jeff Stone, plus programming for Camacho and Room101. The hosts push back hard on the direct-to-consumer tension that creates for brick-and-mortar retailers. They also break down the court's indicative ruling from Judge Paul W. Grimm pushing the FDA substantial equivalency deadline from May 12 to September 9, and debate whether a delay actually helps the cigar industry or just buys the FDA time.

The back half turns to pandemic culture: record 6.6 million unemployment claims, which businesses were deemed essential versus non-essential (right down to laundromats, landscapers and childcare), Grupo Modelo halting Corona beer production in Mexico, a 55% spike in U.S. alcohol sales, Busch Beer's dog-fostering beer giveaway, and the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte authorizing police and military to shoot lockdown violators. There's also the San Pedro train engineer who intentionally derailed a locomotive toward the USNS Mercy hospital ship. Lighter segments include podcast reviews of Cigar Hacks and Sultans of Smoke, mailing Patreon "war bear" test blends to listeners, grocery-store glove-and-mask protocols, and Mike's ongoing Meisner acting lessons.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Pandemic life in Florida
   The hosts open on lockdown reality, hurricane season fears, quarantine haircuts and whether masks and no handshakes are the new normal.
2. 02
   Virtual herfs and podcast community
   Recaps of online herfs with Steve Saka and Willie from Miami Cigar, plus a 10-year anniversary shout-out to The Cigar Authority.
3. 03
   La Flor Dominicana layoffs
   LFD cut four of its eight sales managers and closed its Dominican factory as the pandemic hit the industry.
4. 04
   Crowned Heads to distribute ACE Prime
   Breakdown of the strategic alliance between Crowned Heads and ACE Prime, the Luciano Meirelles/Pichardo/Tiago Splitter venture behind the Juarez factory.
5. 05
   Davidoff goes digital
   Davidoff of Geneva USA shifts 2020 plans to online engagement with AVO DJ lounges and Facebook seminars — and the hosts question the direct-to-consumer risk for retailers.
6. 06
   FDA substantial equivalency deadline delayed
   Judge Paul Grimm's indicative ruling moves the SE submission deadline from May 12 to September 9, and the guys debate whether that's good news.
7. 07
   Essential vs. non-essential businesses
   A long read-through of stay-at-home order rules, from churches and laundromats to landscapers and childcare facilities.
8. 08
   Pandemic news oddities
   Record unemployment, soaring liquor sales, Corona beer production halted in Mexico, Duterte's shoot-to-kill order, and the USNS Mercy train derailment.

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Transcript

Welcome to Cigar Hustlers podcast episode 116 with your host Mike, I'm an actor, Stepankiewicz, and me, I'm Mike, too. Sit back and relax. This is an all pandemic show. Here we go, guys.

all right everybody welcome to uh episode 116 god damn i've been doing this in a long time cigar hustler podcast social distanced pandemic world in the social distance pandemic world Of 2020. Did you ever think we'd be here, Michael, at this point? I gotta tell you, man, fuckin' 2020 sucks. It does, doesn't it?

Ugh. You know what's really gonna be worse? What? 'Cause here's how this plays out for us Floridians.

Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We fuckin', this finally, the dust settles on this, and we're gonna have a Cat 5 headed straight for us. They say we're expecting four very heavy storms this year.

Yeah, I believe it. I fuckin' believe it. But, you know, we're all ready with food and toilet paper, so, bring it on! God, it's just absolutely insane.

All right, let me get this lit. Hold on. Yeah, you go ahead. I'm getting mine lit.

You get yours lit. Oh, I can't see. You said that you got enough content for fucking three episodes. I have 12 pages.

Oh, I just dropped an ash. I'm going to light on fire. I have 12 pages here in front of me. I've got 10 pages for just a straight pandemic show, if you want to do a pandemic show.

Pandemic show. Oh, Jesus. And it's just content every day. So much content.

" A lot of news, a lot of news stories. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well, my wife and I were talking the other night, what if this is the new normal now?

You know, nobody shakes hands anymore, you have to wear masks when we go out. I mean, there's no guarantee this ever goes away. I highly doubt that. I highly doubt that it'll be the new normal.

You don't think so? Nope. I really don't. Well, did you think that last year at this time that now we would be wearing masks to go to the grocery store?

I mean, my perspective has changed on this thing progressively. Yeah, I saw that last week. It changed right when the president said, okay, everything, or the governor said everything's locked down for the rest of the month. You started walking around like this in the shop.

Don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me. No, I mean, like, you know, obviously I was fucking around a little bit with that, but, you know, I didn't think it was, you know, the first week of it coming out. And there's a week of it coming out. I'm like, okay, whatever.

Shut up. Right? And now, I still kind of feel that way, but I'm just, I'm a little bit more precautionary. You know?

The lady in the CDC, this came out overnight. I heard it this morning on the radio, that if you don't have to go out this week, they recommend you don't go. This is going to be the bad week. They think it's going to spike this week and there's going to be more people sick this week than in the previous weeks.

This is the one. This is the one. And this is the one, according to the information, however they figure it out, that this is it. I still feel like we've already, it's already made its way through here.

It might have, we might have had that, that December thing. Because of Costa. I mean, I was sicker than I've ever been in a while. I mean, I was passed out in bed for a good day and a half.

Yeah, I feel like when I went to TPE and Costa virus was, it was, it was kind of funny, it was a big joke. I don't remember if I got it, I think I got it while you were gone. Maybe. And then you came back with it, because I came in and did that one show, and other than that one show, I wasn't here that week.

Yeah, and I just couldn't shake it, and I had an upper respiratory thing. I'm like, man, I was still working out. Yeah, I mean, I was coughing and hacking, and... I got some Z-Pak, and I was good to go.

I moved to another room of the house, which I never do. I mean, I went to one of the guest rooms, just shut the door. Mm-hmm. It's crazy.

Couldn't deal. We had a great virtual hearf with Sokka. That did go really well. Yeah.

It did. I still can't get you to say a goddamn thing on those... I enjoy watching. They're not there to hear me talk.

I mean, what am I going to do? Chime in on something I don't know anything about? You're a funny guy. It's like watching TV.

Yeah, there was a couple of times I could have threw in a joke, but it didn't seem appropriate. And I don't know Willie well enough last night. I don't know any of the Disney jokes you guys were passing on. Oh, so Willie is...

Yeah, I know who he is. He works for Miami Cigars. Yeah, I was talking to him in the beginning when you weren't there. He was asking everybody what they were smoking.

I was like, "He's looking for Miami Cigars, guys. " Nobody had one. Well, that was the virtual herf that we did, or that you did with FCC. Oh, yeah, we did it this night.

And we're going to do that every Sunday, apparently. Everybody really had a good time. They enjoyed it. Yeah, I was in rare form.

You were a little liquored up, Mike. I was a little liquored up, but-- A little liquored up. I've never before got a text message from your wife warning me and asking how you were acting and if she needs to get you. It's just me enhanced, which is a lot.

That's a lot. Because me sober is a lot. Yes, that is true. So, I mean, but I wasn't, like, hammered, hammered, you know what I mean?

You were taking, I mean, you were having that glass up, you were going. Oh, what a great reenactment. You were not sipping that tequila. Was it margaritas?

Yeah. I saw it was a little bit yellow. Yeah, it was a margarita. Oh, I meant to bring margaritas today, son of a bitch.

You blew it. I forgot. Yeah, so Willie's obviously big into, like, he likes to visit Disney. Obviously, yeah.

All the fucking time. He lives over there in Celebration. Yeah. And when we were here, when he was here with Jack Taranio, we had like a meeting.

Oh, that's right. He was here that big night. Yeah. This was right before, you know, everything started really shut down and they had just officially shut down Disney.

Oh, that's a big gulp. He took a big gulp there. Excuse me. Just burped down here.

They just officially shut down Disney and he's like, they're not going to close Disney Springs. So, meanwhile. That's the shopping thing, right? Yeah.

Fast forward to now. Oh, and you just spit. Everything. Yeah.

You spread. Corona. The COVID. No, we call it Corona.

The coronavirus. We still call it Corona. We still call it Corona here on the show. Because that's what it's called.

That was the original name. Yep. Corona. My Corona.

Well, let's get started here with the show then, Michael. First, I'd like to wish David, Jonathan, and Barry, the gentleman from Cigar Authority. Yeah? They just had their 10-year anniversary show on Saturday.

Hey. So, congratulations, gentlemen. Congratulations. 10 years.

10 years. Long time. He said, or David said, he had never missed a show in 10 years. Wow.

That's a lot of shock. That's pretty impressive. So he wanted to take next week off, but they won't let him. Well, I mean, I get it.

But when they started, this wasn't even a thing, I mean. Yeah. Did they start on podcast? There's no way.

They were explaining what it was, and I never heard before what they were doing. One of the gentlemen, and I don't know. It's called MySpace. Yeah.

I don't know who's who, other than David. Other than David, I don't know who the other two gentlemen were, but one guy in the middle had started some type of internet radio show. There was no video. And that's where David got the idea to...

And that was the beginning. That was, and then it got started. And now, three years into their ten, we're the number one show. There you go.

Just so you know, gentlemen. I shaved my head. I believe everybody has noticed. Yeah.

You look like, and it's a terrible comparison, but you look like from a concentration camp. Oh, thanks. Other than you're quite bulky. Well, here's the logic behind it, right?

I'm not gonna see my barber for a month. Yes. So, what the fuck? They're wanting to shave my head at home, and I was almost there, but now I can't because you did, so I'm just going for the haircut.

The mutiny. Yeah, no, so now I'm just going for the haircut. The tribe is attacking the chief. There's a lot of hats going on at my house.

There's a lot of bandanas wearing and here's the thing like when I do my hair it's fucking super easy right I just fucking just throw some gel in there and I'm right right but when it gets so long all of a sudden it becomes like this task and and you can't really spike anymore because it's getting so long it's like a sideways yeah it starts leaning yeah exactly so from the flat top days when I used to do that so I started to experience that on Thursday and Friday I'm like I'm not I'm not doing this for a month so I just said yeah I can't part mine anymore because this side The side is so full, and then this side's flat, and it just, I noticed on the Herp Wysaka, it looked, it looked, it looked, it looked like I had hair on just one side of my head. Yeah, you know, I just don't want to think about it, so it was just very. I'm going to go short, my wife cut my hair for years, so she can do it if she's in the mood, but I'm not going to, I want the sides and the back really, really short. And then the top, just long enough where it's starting to stand up, but not short.

It's like a mini mic. I don't want to go that, yeah. I think last time I went down the street and I got the guy that has the same haircut no matter what you're asking for. Yeah, that was great.

We both got that. Right, yeah. My wife just wouldn't buzz the rest of it off. I mean, it was just, you know, there was nothing left.

You want a fade? You want a flat top? Oh, yeah, sure. This is the one thing.

You want a comb over? Yeah, no problem. Oh, you look so good. Oh, yeah, yeah.

He'd get into it. Oh, you look. Oh, this is a great cut. Taking that little half brush thing on your head.

Oh, I trimmed a beard? Let me trim the beard. Like, I don't know what I... Let me just shave that off, too.

But yeah, so... So... We're rocking. Everything good at the house?

I'm rocking... What was the Brad Pitt movie with the monkeys? It was called 12 Monkeys. 12 Monkeys.

Yes. Oh, yeah, the Brad Pitt 12 Monkeys. Or Fight Club. Maybe the Fight Club.

He shaved it off. Oh, yeah. Fight Club, too. Yeah.

Not concentration camp. Thanks. All right. I got to take this thing off.

I'm sweating. So talk for a minute. You got to remove your scarf. He's taking his scarf off right now.

Wow, look at all that hair I just saw. I know, I'm kidding, look at it, look at it. That's amazing. It's a lot of hair.

Just shave it off. I'm not going, no, because then everybody say I'll do it because you did it. So I can't just shave it all off. I think, who cares what they think?

Eh, no. We know why you did it. I'm not doing it all off. Okay.

All right, I have some lessons learned, I feel like something's missing. Lessons learned in the past few days, China won the Third World War without firing a missile. Oh, OK. Europeans are not as educated as they thought they were.

OK. Rich people are, in fact, less immune than the poor people. Oh, because they got, well, they got their tests first. Well, they got their tests first.

Hey, I got COVID. But none of them are working. It is the middle class and the blue collar workers that are running the country. Yeah, but the 1%ers are going to be just fine with that.

Oh, yeah. OK, so we do. No priests, astrologers, or, what is this, poon jams? Poon Jams?

I don't know what Poon Jam is. They can't save anybody, apparently. Religion is not helping. Health professionals are worth more right now than football legends.

Yeah. Oil is worthless in a society without consumption. Well, I mean, they're purposely fucking reaming it down, too. Like, that's a whole war thing going on.

The Russians and the Middle East are having a war. Everybody's got a stockpile, so everybody keeps lowering their prices. So, apparently the Middle East is, they've ramped up production. They did.

Oh. They did, just a big nice big... More, more oil, we did more oil. Oh, okay, oh, we're at $20 a barrel?

" Oil, we did this, let's see. Number seven, animals most likely feel the same way in zoos as we do in quarantine. The planet regenerates quickly without human interference. Majority of people can comfortably...

The oceans look beautiful. Yeah, yeah. If you look at the satellite photos, all the smog's gone in Los Angeles. You know, if global warming theoretically was an issue, I feel like it's squared up now.

Everything's even. What do we got? Number nine, majority of people can comfortably work from home? No, that's a lie.

No, no. The majority of people are still working from home. Okay, they are, but it's not comfortable. You know how many distractions are at your house?

Well, you have children. A lot of people do. A lot of people do. A lot of people do, yes.

It's hard to teach and work at the same time. I'll tell you what. What else? What else you got?

Everyone can survive without junk food. Yeah. Yeah. Living a hygienic life is not that difficult at all.

I've seen a lot of joggers. People are bored, so they're like exercising. Oh, I should see the people walking in my neighborhood. Those people live in here?

That's amazing. I didn't even know they had a dog. Men can cook too. Media is full of nonsense.

Actors are just entertainers. They are not heroes. But they got their coronavirus test before us. Hey, I just want to know, I have it.

Number 15, the final thing, life is so fragile, please handle with care. Life is very fragile. Did you see this story yesterday? It was very sad.

A lady FaceTimed her husband, who had the coronavirus in the hospital, and watched him die on FaceTime. That's... It was very sad. That's pretty intense.

And then the article said, at the end, the doctor got, you know, turned the phone on to him and goes, And he goes, I'm sorry ma'am, there's no more pulse. Wow. And then, blink. That'd be hard to do.

I didn't get that at first. We watched something, and some guy was complaining that he'll never see his mother again, whatever. And then we saw a report from ambulance drivers and things, and they're having a really hard time. One, because they might catch it, but they're going in and picking these people up, and nobody rides in the ambulance anymore with them.

And they know when they take your husband, your wife, your grandmother out of the house, they're never coming back. Well, they got a 50/50 shot. Not if you're in your 80s. We'll say grandma and grandpa then.

I mean, statistically speaking, at this point, with what the information's been given to us, if you're going... Well, yeah, it is a little better now than it was, it is true. Well, I mean, it's still 50/50. That's a coin flip.

Yeah. Shit. That's pretty intense. But, then they go to the hospital, you die alone, I mean, they don't check on you a whole lot 'cause there's really nothing they can do.

So you just expire. That's it. It's sad. Did you just retrohale?

I usually retrohale a little bit. I don't smoke coming out of your nose. I didn't notice that before. Yeah, just a smidge.

All right, so that's very, very sad information. All right, on with the news? Yeah, thanks. Thanks for bringing us down, Mike.

Yes, but the last thing was a little depressing. Yeah. La Florina Dominicana lays off half of its cell's reps due to the coronavirus. Four of them.

Yeah, four of them. Evidently, they only had eight. Yeah. So it's still half, Michael.

Well, Florida Minicana has laid off four of its eight sales representatives due to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. I'm going to skip the COVID-19 word now for now. Yeah. Last week, this was last week's news, the company laid off its sales representatives, which the company refers to as sales managers, in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and Southwest regions.

The company's other sales representatives are handling these territories on a temporary basis. Yeah. Yeah. Have you talked to Mr.

Carney about this at all in any of the other things you saw? No, I haven't talked to Carney about it. I talked to Leo about it briefly. Yes, my friend Leo was still employed.

I wanted to make sure that he didn't get the ax. With recent stay-at-home orders, more than 75% of the American population is under stay-at-home orders, issuing people to stay-at-home unless the work is essential businesses, need essential supplies, and medical services. These work orders are extended to cigar shops around the country, many of which have been forced to turn into mail-orders-only shops, or in some cases close the doors completely due to the local orders. Yeah.

Like pretty, like every other notable factory in the Dominican Republic, La Florida Dominicana closed its factory last week due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yeah. So that's gonna say it. I'm surprised no one else has done it yet.

Well, it's kind of a shitty thing to do. Yeah, you know what? And I think everybody's seen that they took some heat for that, so... Yeah, I mean...

If they can possibly not do it, let's not do it. I mean, realistically, I mean, I'll hold my tongue to the best of my ability here. Save it for the Patreon. Crownhead LLC is another story.

Crownheads LLC, your friend Wes, and Ace Prime Cigars, it forms a strategic alliance that will have Crownheads handle all the distribution of Ace Prime products. That's interesting. Yes, it is. Crownheads, which has been in business since 2011, distributes and markets such brands as Headley Grange, Four Kicks, and others.

All of them made under contract by other companies. Ace Prime Cigars is a new company launched last year and has made its public debut at the PCA Trade Show in Las Vegas. Now, weren't we talking about that company because they had... They had quite a few cigars show up on people's different lists.

Right. And because of scheduling problems, we didn't get a chance to meet the owner of the company. Right. He offered to come in here, but I think we were gone.

But now we got Wes. Now you got Wes, so with that hat, did he by chance throw a couple of Ace cigars in that bag? No, he did not. But he did give me this badass white Four Kicks hat that we're going to have to give away to somebody.

Ooh. Yeah. I don't know what we're going to do with that. Somebody deserves the hat.

The trio behind Ace Prime is a blender and entrepreneur, Luciano Mariales, Erradio Pichardo, the owner of the, I don't know, one factory I can't say, Cigar Factory Nestle Nicaragua, and Tiago Splenter. I wonder if he's related to the Mutant Ninja Turtles? Oh, maybe. Maybe.

An assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets and a former NBA player who won a championship with San Antonio Spurs. Wow. Wow. The company's products include the Pichardo Cigar Lines, the limited edition Luciano, the Traveler, and MXS Signature Cigars of former NBA stars including Dominique Wilkins and Splitter.

Splitter, I guess, not Splinter. Splitter. We are delighted in the announcement of our strategic partnership with Crownhead, says Mary Alice. This is a fruit of years of authentic relationships and brings together a common DNA to build something distinctive and long lasting.

Isn't that the first time the two companies have worked together prior to the launch of its own brand of cigars, um, how do you say that word? Tabula, what is it? Tabaculera. Tabaculera, thank you.

Tabaculera Pichardo, which was founded in 2005, made cigars under contract for other companies in 2016. In 2016, Crown Heads came to Pichardo to produce its Juarez Cigar Line, Frontline Retailers Thompson. The brand is now available to all retailers. That is a good cigar for a budget.

Excellent price point. Excellent price point, yes. "We had the privilege of knowing and working with Luciano and Pichardo for the past three years," said John Huber of Crown Heads. " Yeah, cool.

So, no comments? No, nothing to say? I'm excited for it. We're just reporting.

It's good to have access to the, I mean, I want to try the cigars anyway, so… Right, it was on the list of things that we want to… That's the whole purpose of jumping in with somebody who does well at handling their own distribution, I guess. So, kudos. I think it's a smart move. We'll see how it develops.

Oh, so you have Mike's approval. Very good. You have my approval. That's a very important thing to have.

Yeah. I think so. Davidoff announces plans to engage with customers amid the corona crisis. Now I'm changing the name when it says COVID to Corona.

Erik Gusterson reported this on April 3rd. It was from a press release. Davidoff of Geneva, USA, adapts its 2020 product innovation plans due to the current Corona crisis and prioritizes digital engagement along with continued support of business partners. Okay.

So, here's the problem. Yes? Do you want to hear what they're doing first? Yeah, go ahead.

Tell me. S. team members in order to contribute to the continued and collective well-being of the cigar community due to coronavirus. " So it sounds like they're just going to hop on the Zoom train here and just figure out a way to do it.

Okay. Poor little brand's announced February. We postpone it later. Blah, blah, blah.

I mean, so. Oh, here we go. Starting on Sunday, April 5th, Avvo Cigars launches its first ever Challenge the Tempo Lounge with DJ Tony Touch. Oh, DJ Tony Touch.

The brand will continue similar programming each week after, where it plans to provide uplifting entertainment via a lineup of world-class DJs. DJs. So Davidoff is now spinning. Wigga, wigga, wigga, wigga, wigga, wigga.

On Tuesday, April 7th, Davidoff, oh, it's already passed, we didn't hear it. Damn. Wait, what is today's date, the 8th? Oh, it was yesterday.

The 6th. Oh, it was tomorrow. Oh, since 1911, we'll host its first Davidoff Online Cigars Seminar on Facebook, which features brand ambassadors Klaas Kettelner and Jeff Stone. Additional, oh, you touched my face.

Additional programming is in development for both Davidoff Cigars, along with the companies Camacho and Ernie, U-R-N-Y? Okay. Brands. They will continue to be proactive in efforts that contribute to the overall cigar community, especially understanding the substantial impact coronavirus has had in retail businesses.

The company's ultimate priority remains a success of the retail partners ensuring business continually throughout these challenging and unprecedented times. Look, here's the problem, okay, so here's the problem with Davinoff, you know, let's review like the past year. For one, they're direct to consumer, right? Right.

So, that's a problem. Are they doing that now? I didn't know that. Well, they have retail shops.

I mean, you've got a retail shop in Tampa. " Well, I mean, if you give them your information in needs of this crisis, who's to say that they won't? That's a good point. That's kind of what I was leaning into.

They released a cigar. They released cigars that were the same cigar, but they called them a limited edition, which everybody was pissed off about. So, like, if you're a retailer and you represent Davidoff, I think that, you know, I have a hard time saying, "Hey, yeah, you know what? Log on to this and check these guys out.

" Right? Because who's to say that your head's not next on the chopping block? Right. Let's cut you out completely.

You know, theoretically speaking. Theoretically speaking. Allegedly. Allegedly.

Because we don't fact check. Just saying, I mean, you know, I understand that some of these... I think the brand owners and manufacturers and stuff are trying to engage customers, I get that, but, you know, just to say, hey, trust us and give us the information to your consumers, I don't know about all that, because when your quarterly sales are down and you look to push, now you can go direct to them, offer them a deal that you can't compete with if you're paying a third party, like a retailer. Yeah, because everybody's got to have a piece in the pie.

So, you know, they're not the only company that's doing something like that. So, they just made a big announcement that they're doing it, but they're not, I mean, they don't have an Eric Espinosa or a Jack Taranio or a Steve Saka. " That's true. So, they're doing the DJs.

So, you know, they have DJ Tommy, whoever his name was, DJ Tony Touch, which I'm not familiar with his work, but I hear it's quite well, quite good, quite entertaining. I don't know. I'm sure it's not even music that I've heard of before. A lot of club music with that.

Well, good for Davidoff. Wish them the best. Some good news, if this could be actually good news. Tell me something.

Something positive. Coronavirus. Court signals FDA substantial equivalency deadline will be delayed until September 9th. Yeah, I don't know if that's good news or not.

Just like everything else, it's going to happen in the fall. Yeah. Hey, we're going to push everything to September. S.

Food and Drug Administration will almost certainly be delayed from May 12th to September 9th due to the, oh, they said it here, coronavirus. Mm-hmm. Pandemic. Oh, they had a pandemic on the end.

I like that. Judge Paul W. S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the same judge who moved the deadline up more than a year, issued an indicative ruling granting FDA's request to delay the deadline by 120 days.

However, his ruling isn't final, hence the indicative status, due to the procedural issues that are expected to be resolved quickly. Yay. Because of the appeals filed by a variety of organizations, including the FDA itself, Judge Grimm -- one of the Grimm fairy tales, one of me has any relation to that. It's Grimm.

No longer has the authority to modify the original ruling. Oh, I think I feel like I skipped the word. You're out of line. You're out of line.

The two Utes decided they need to push that back. What needs to happen next is the Fourth Circuit Court will modify Grimm's order to allow FDA to delay the change. FDA will then need to update its regulations to move the date to September 9th. Mm-hmm.

I don't know, you know, like... The process for the delay has been set up, blah, blah, blah, blah, all roadblocks to the postpone, be affected, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just don't, you know, people say that it's good that it gets kicked further down. I don't know about that.

You know, I think I could argue either side of that. Like, let's just get it over with. Well, I mean, you can't have a meeting now, and you can't, you know, can't have a courtroom thing. But all other businesses can work virtually.

I don't know. I just feel like, hey, let's… Well, all the tobacco stuff's all shut down, so... Yeah, but I'm just saying the ultimatum of substantial equivalency, the deadline hits, maybe they, you know, if they don't have their shit together, I don't want to give the FDA time to put it together. It's kind of my point.

Oh, you think they're still working on it? Yeah, they don't have an answer. While this particular legal matter is likely to reach its conclusion shortly, it won't stop the appeals by various parties against Grimm's initial ruling. The cigar industry, the vaping industry, and FDA itself all have filed appeals against the ruling for a variety of reasons.

For a variety of reasons, those lawsuits seek to move the date back to the August 2021 deadline. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yay.

Okay, we're at 26 minutes. We're taking a break? We're going to go ahead and break. That was fast.

We're going to break. All sorts of things going on today, Michael. We're going to take a break, and then we'll be right back. Bye.

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And we're back! Episode 116 of Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Part two. Part two.

Part two. Let's see. Should we do this next? No, no.

We'll talk about something else. I listened. Last week, we talked about all the top 20 shows that you should watch or listen to, whatever, and we were listed number two. Yes.

I listened to Cigar Hacks over the weekend. Uh-huh. I threw it on my back, as you know, this weekend. You did?

Yeah. Yeah, I did. You didn't tell me. Yeah, because Greg wanted me to run up here.

Oh, I thought you were just bullshitting. Oh, no, no. And I was actually naked sitting on a hot bath trying to be able to stand up straight, but I walk a lot when we back out. It seems to help if I keep moving to loosen up the muscles.

So anyway, listen to Cigar Hacks, there must be like 10 guys on that show. Really? They introduce everybody with a little, they get a little song when they introduce their name. Oh, like wrestlers.

Yeah, yeah, kind of like wrestlers, exactly, kind of like wrestlers. But I can't, I don't remember anybody's name, but once it starts, you can't figure out who's who. Ooh, 10 people. Yeah, I mean, I don't, and it's not that they go, okay, now Bob's talking, Steve's talking.

They just talk over the top of each other. I couldn't, I couldn't follow it. It wasn't that entertaining, to tell you the truth. Huh.

They got ten listeners, because there's ten of them. Yeah, and they do it live in different shops, it sounded like they were saying, because this week we're in blah, blah, blah shop. But it still sounded good. Very good sound quality.

So I don't know if they had a big table with ten guys, or... Maybe we should become friends with him. Maybe. I don't know.

Because Sultans of Smoke have, what, four? Sultans of Smoke. They have four guys. Is that including Danny or not including Danny?

That's including Danny. I think it was four or five. I listened to their last show, too, when I was out walking. I don't know their names, but they at least sound different enough, you can tell when the next guy starts talking.

Because the quality is slightly different. And you know what? Danny sounds the best, and he's not the guy working the board. He should sound the best, god damn it.

So, good for Danny. He was part of the Developing Palette's, what, 24 hour, HERFA, whatever thing they did. So. That's amazing.

Yes. That was, but I didn't watch any of that either. I'm surprised you weren't on there. That's a commitment.

I don't know. I didn't get an invite. It's okay. Well, you could have just jumped on.

I mean. Nah. Fred Brewey, I don't think he got an invite. I think there's, you know, there's only so many you can do, you know, like, as far as it's virtual.

Oh, I have applied, uh, out of the, uh, email we got this week, we have applied to be on three shows this week. Yeah. Two entrepreneurs and, uh, entrepreneurial shows and, uh, one, uh, show that's just for men. They talk about different things that men would be doing, problems, uh, likes, dislikes.

I thought if we could do a little cigar segment for them, so we'll see what happens. Cool. Have you yet to see any of those actually come to fruition? No, none of them have.

I don't have. We've got a thank you for applying. We got way more responses than we plan to. We will go through them, blah, blah, blah.

So don't call us. We'll call you. It's better than the standard. No, I'm sorry.

You don't fit the criteria for our show, which is normally what we get. Those are evil. Evil. The evil empire.

Hey, we sent out all the warbears to – Did you finally send all the warbears? Yeah, warbears were those. Did John Yogerlite get his? Yeah, I sent one to him.

Okay, good, good. There was one other gentleman, and I can't pull up my phone. Maybe he didn't, but we'll check out for the show. Stephen Wells?

Might have been, yes. You got him? Yep. Okay, good deal, Michael.

Very nice. Took care of it. Good for you. I mean, you know, all of a sudden I had like this downtime.

All sorts of free time. I was like, hey, you know what, I need to just fix this. I need to just send all those things out. So we gave some test blends out to some of the listeners on the Patreon.

Good deal. Took care of them. Good for you. All right, this is from last week, a record-smashing 6,648,000 people filed for unemployment in the week ending March 28th.

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. S. S. economy, forcing thousands of businesses to shutter amid government-mandated stay-in-place orders.

The service industry led by accommodation from food services was among the hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Yeah. According to the Department of Labor data, other industries that have been heavily impacted include: do you like to guess? The movie theaters.

Healthcare, social assistance, manufacturing, retail, and construction. Now, construction is still considered an essential business. And later in the show, I have a list of what is and isn't an essential business. Oh.

S. just a few months ago prior to the coronavirus outbreak. S. was near a 50-year low.

Wow. So, you want to know what they're doing since people aren't working? I have what people are doing since they're not working. Tell me.

Painting. Americans are drinking a crazy amount of alcohol during the coronavirus lockdown. Wow. Americans are concocting cocktails to cope with coronavirus and lots of them.

Domestic violence must be through the roof. And child people beating up their children, too. Wow. S.

sales of alcoholic beverages have risen 55% on the weekend in March 21st, according to the Nielsen data. Hard alcohol, such as gin, tequila, and premix cocktails is on the top of the poor list, and spirits have seen the highest increase with sales jumping 75% 100% compared to the same period last year. I can tell you what's up at my house. Fucking, we're level 125 now, Call of Duty.

My son and I take turns, he's six, and I'll put him up against any of you guys, so fucking... Wow. Modern Warfare, done. You wanna give out your handle so people can friend request you?

It's C-G-R-H-S-L-R. Wow, you kept making something easy, couldn't you? That's Cigar Hustler. I understand the acronym, but...

You can't write, you can't make it CIGAR. Oh, really? They won't let you? Yeah.

Oh, sorry, that's a bad. Could have been Sig Hustler. That's bad. That's probably cigarettes.

You're the devil. Okay. Wine and beer are heavily flowing also, wine sales are up 66%. Oh, Jessica Baranski must be happy.

And beer sales have risen 42%. Tequila. Yes, you and your tequila. We did go to the liquor store the other day, and we spent $140, and you know it's bad when the man gives you a box to carry the liquor out with you.

That guy's a pro. You know, what's funny is, like, the conversation of all the, like, everybody's talking about whiskeys and, you know, getting deals and stuff like that. Oh, all the different bourbons and scotches and everything. I just drink the one thing.

And you're going, "Tequila! " I wasn't doing that. Yes, you were. Yep.

And then a lot of laughing, a lot of slurry. I was having a great time. A lot of giggling. It was fun.

Tee back off on Josh Fabello, that was pretty funny. You just, you did this last night. I mean, we've done a lot of these virtual her things together. But you had this thing last night where when you talked, you had to get up and move closer to the camera.

Yeah. Because, you know, the one shitty thing about the virtual hearse is usually two guys kind of take over. Right. And they just start talking.

We had three last night counting you. Yeah, well, because I was interjecting. Right. And I was just, like, I got bored with the back and forth from two guys.

It was Ozzy and Eddie. And, like, that's just – and, you know, those guys are awesome. They're good guys, and they had, you know, good stuff to talk about. But it's important to kind of engage everybody else, right?

So – I think most of you guys just like to get on and watch. That's kind of creepy. No, it's not. It's like watching a TV show.

I want to hear from them. Hey, what's going on with you? Well, I'm fucking stuck in my house. Okay.

Yeah. I'm sitting at home smoking just like you. Yeah, but there's still intricate fucking things going on that are different in everybody's home, in everybody's jobs, all of it, right? So I don't know.

I think it's more – for me, when it comes to those virtual hearths, it's important to engage everybody, right? How much longer did it go after I left? It ended at midnight. Oh, jeez.

So I muted myself, muted this volume, and I just kind of tilted it away because I was obviously – you stuck me with the host job. Thanks. Well, I mean, I was done, and you were still going at it, so, I mean, I'd been on for two hours. So, I just kind of moved, and I just went on.

When we had planned it, we were gonna go an hour. I slowly watched them drop off. Yeah, just sort of. And the last two standing were Chet, it was Chet, and Andrew Peck.

Oh, see, they're buddies anyway, so. They were the last two going back and forth. Yeah, they might as well have been together at the same house. And then I watched them both, and then I watched Andrew go, and I went to go talk to Chet, and then he logged off.

I was like, alright, cool, so... It's just me now. It's just me now! Well, I didn't get the, you know, the yellow fuckin' square when I was talking.

So I don't know who could hear me. So you thought if you'd move closer to the camera? So I was like, hey, hey! Hey assholes, I'm talking!

I had a good time. I had a good time. Josh Fabello, he's broken my balls. He gave me a hard time about a post that you made that was like a blurry pic.

for our samplers like oh who took your pictures oh you and your no no it was the uh it was a sampler pack was this the oh i didn't take that yeah but i don't know why but the cigars were blurry on your image so he teed off on that he made a you know he made a funny comment he's like you should pressure wash your fence like like a week or two ago on the okay yeah so when he went on his tangent i fucking muted him oh i was still on then yeah that was awesome i was like hey that That was actually, if what he said is true, that was important information. Yeah. But we'll see what he said was true. We'll see if it happens or not.

Yeah. All right, with the beer sales are so good, Bush Beer has announced 500 people who adopt or foster a dog from the Midwest Animal Rescue will be awarded a three-month supply of beer in the form of $100 prepaid debit cards. Not worth it. What's $300 you got?

In Bush. Well, Bush Beer, not in Bush Beer, they make other beers besides Bush. Everyone could use a companion for the couch right now, so if you foster a dog from the Midwest Animal Rescue Service, you'll be given a three month's worth of beer that Bush makes to enjoy by their side, Bush said via Facebook. So you get drunk and beat your dog.

The great promotion is scheduled to run through April 25th or until 500 new dog owners and winners have claimed their prizes. Oh, I'm sure that's done. Yeah, well, I'm sure it is, yeah. Honey, honey, go get a dog!

We need an animal. And bring me some of that bush light back home, place. We need an animal and hit the 7-Eleven. We mentioned this last week on the Patreon, but I need to do a slight retraction from the Pornhub Premium Service.

Uh-oh. Apparently, if you live in North Korea and you're caught viewing or selling pornography, you are punished by death. Yeah, so don't do that. So don't do that at all.

I mean, the one guy took down a poster and he died. What was that guy's name? They didn't kill him, did they? He came back a vegetable and died.

Oh, that guy, yeah, and he died as soon as he got back, so they gave him enough drugs to get him home on the plane and then he's dead, he's dead, he's dead. I mean, believe me, I don't think you're thinking about porn in North Korea, you're like, man, I better not touch anything. I did check, we have, we do, you're correct, we have one listener in North Korea, so if you went for the premium service, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, dead. Okay, so now we have, just running along here, these are what are considered with a stay-at-home order and what is considered an essential activity.

These are things that you are allowed to do, which some of them don't make sense, but you are attending religious services conducted in churches, synagogues, and houses of worship. Now I guess that's limited to a certain number of people because last week in Tampa they shut down that church. They arrested that guy. Yeah, they had too many people there.

But I don't know, man. That's where she gets hairy. It's like religion and government. And – oh, I did read this morning.

People are freaking out. Who is that guy? What are you doing? One of the famous – Tiger King was terrible.

I mean, I understand why people want to get out. I mean, that could have been like one episode. That's what everybody's saying. Yeah, it's like, I just stressed that shit out for no reason.

Since you told us all about it, I'm not watching it. Good for you. I started watching Ozark. Yeah.

Did we talk about that last week or on the Patreon? Sorry. Everything runs together anymore. So I don't know.

Yeah. So I'm trying to, you know. You can participate in recreational activities consistent with social distancing guidelines such as walking, biking, hiking, fishing, hunting, running, or swimming. You can take care of your pets, which is, you know, when you.

I recommend doing that. So you get your bush beer. With or without pandemic. Well, you can go out for walks.

Take care of your animals. Right. You can care for otherwise assisting a loved one or a friend. That's nice.

So what can't you do? What you do? Like according to this, I can come to your house, I hope you power wash your fence. Yeah, you're not coming over.

Well, I wasn't invited before the pandemic. I don't imagine I would be invited now that it's going on, ain't it? You're correct. So these are the essential businesses.

I don't want my kids to be subjected to it. I mean, when I walk in the door, I, you know, I instantly jump in the shower and, you know. I've got a friend who's a manager to Lowe's, and his wife put up a video the other day of him coming home from work. And first she has him strip in the garage, and then she hoes him down with a can of Lysol.

It was hilarious. I watched it nine times. I mean, that's a bit excessive. Well, I'm sure it was for the Facebook video that she did it for.

I walk in the door and I say, you know, and my kids are always excited when I walk in the door. I'm like, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me! " And then I go and change and shower and the whole thing.

Well, I went out for supplies this morning. I got to Publix at 10:00 to 8:00. They open at 8:00 now. They're open 8:00 to 8:00.

There was 25 people waiting outside, everybody five to six feet apart, majority of the people had on a mask, some had gloves, the only guy that didn't was coughing and clearing his throat, and he was right in front of me, so I thought about killing him a couple times, just for the good of the other 26 people in the line. Did my business, I got out, I was in and out in about 45 minutes, but I-- Did they have Lysol? No. No, they did have toilet paper, paper towels, that's all back in again.

They had plenty of meat and food and, I mean, all that was there. I went home and then got Lysol wipes, went out and did the steering wheel of the car, the door handles, the trunk, anything that I might have touched. I did my shoes so I could wear them in the house. Oh, I had to take my shoes off.

Eh, I thought about that, too, but I'm hanging out in the garage now. I mean, I've turned the garage into a second living room now, so I got all that cleaned up. Okay, but here are the essential businesses. All right, make it quick.

Oh, I've got seven pages of essential businesses. Oh, my God. I don't think you need to do all that. Health care providers, I'll just do the main things.

Health care providers, grocery stores, food cultivation, including farming, livestock, and fishing businesses, newspaper, television, radio, hardware stores. Majority of these stores now, as of today, I think, at least in Florida, they're limiting the number of people inside, including Home Depot and Lowe's. Yeah. I'm only letting so many people inside.

I read that Walmart is doing one-way aisles to keep the six-foot... That's smart. Yeah, but I mean, who's going to listen to that, though? Dude, I'm going to tell you, I mean, people don't respect the fucking six-foot thing.

You know, in public this morning, people were. Nobody crowded anybody. I, you know, instead of normally, you know, there's a lady walking down this side, you know, the opposite directions, you can cut through the middle. No, I waited.

I waited until the aisle was clear, and then I went and got my stuff. I was surprised canned vegetables are hard to find. Are they really? They weren't my Publix, except for peas and creamed corn.

Nobody likes peas. I love peas. Ugh. I love peas.

Cream corn. I guess you're good then. I'm out with the creamed corn. Well, no, nobody else in my house does, so.

So you skipped it? I did get two cans of Publix green beans with, I don't know, these cans look like they're from 1950s. That might be something they just found somewhere. That's nice.

Like, hey, we could sell these. Sell these out, they'll buy anything right now. Clear out some of this old shit. Exactly.

It was either brand new stuff, or really old, because it was not the standard packaging. So, but like, I went to Target a few days ago, and, because we were looking for chalk, like sidewalk chalk. Yeah. I mean, you gotta try and keep these fucking poor kids occupied.

Yeah, you gotta keep them busy. Um, and of course, you know, they hardly had anything, but so I'm checking to see, and like, people are fucking starting to encroach on my space. " Just give me a second here. I'm just trying to figure this out.

But then you fast forward a few days later when I had to go do grocery shopping. I was fucking masked up. I was gloved up. We don't have gloves in my house.

I don't know why. I mean, there's just no need on a regular basis to have rubber gloves. Where did you happen to have them? Your wife wears them when she cleans or something?

I don't know. When my brother comes over and does work in my house, he always wears gloves. So those black rubber gloves from the race that he carries in his car. Yeah, so we made sure that we always had gloves on standby for any type of operation that was going on in the house, so we have them.

Just in case he comes over. Yeah, so, but I will tell you this, I mean, man, I felt good walking in there with a mask and gloves, I'm like, fucking. What'd you, did you take the gloves off before you got in the car? Yeah, so what I did was.

Throw them in the parking lot like everybody else. No. No, that's what people do. No, no, no, that's fucked up.

Yeah. I had like a disposable bag. I mean, first of all, my wife plans all this shit. Oh, sure.

So, you know, we have every step of the way. You have a detox kit in the car. Oh, yeah. So, you know, I take one glove off.

I open up my car door. I put it in the bag. Then I remove my other glove and I put it in the bag. And then I have a fresh set of gloves for the next place that I have to go to.

Glove up again. Oh, very nice. I keep my mask on the whole time. Yeah.

And then when I'm done, I take the mask off. I took it all off, put it all in the bag, and I threw the bag out when I got home. Oh. Oh, yeah, man.

Not fucking around. Do you clean the stuff when you bring it into the house? Yeah, so now there's a process for that now, too. I've seen videos of people with stations like in the garage.

Yeah, exactly. So anything that's required to be cold or frozen, it instantly gets cleaned and then gets put into the refrigerator. Other stuff that's, you know, non-perishable just sits out in the garage for 24, 48, 72 hours, whatever. Oh, very nice.

Yeah, man. We discussed that last week, and I mean, we bring in groceries and we were all standing there looking at 'em and like, you know, who's gonna put these away? You know, so we're discussing, how far are we going into this? Are we going to now...

You gotta commit. wipe down everything? Oh, yeah. We're not at that point yet.

Oh, we are. We're not at that point yet. Yeah, but I got a... Yeah, you have small children, yeah.

You know, she's three months old. None of us are in the danger age group. I'm the closest one, and maybe I've already had it, so... Arguably, it's possible.

C. Harbiter, contractors, other tradesmen, businesses providing mailing and shipping services including post office boxes, private colleges, trade schools, and technical colleges, laundromats, dry cleaners, and laundry service providers. I'm surprised that's an essential business, but I guess you've got to clean your clothes. Businesses that supply office products, businesses that supply other essential businesses with support or supplies.

So if you need supplies or deliver supplies, business to business, businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, goods, or services directly to residency, let's see, airlines, taxis, and other private transportation, home-based care for seniors, assisted living facilities, professional services, landscape and pool care businesses, childcare facilities, aren't those all closed? No, they're not. Are there still some open? Yeah.

The one for justice is open, but he's not going. Right, yeah. Like, unless I had to because of work, and even then, I mean. Yeah, but so, like, so, but it's so fucking hard, man, because they're still a small business, right?

Right. So, you know, like, the first couple weeks, they clipped you for the full amount, and then they're like, "Hey, if you want to stay on, we'll do half or whatever," and I'm like, I'm not about to fucking, I'm not gonna, not, I'm not gonna just drop the ax. I mean, my kids have been going, Jack's went there for four or five years, and then now Justice has been there for two or three, you know, and I'm like, I just, being a small business owner, I just don't have it, I'll figure out the fucking, the money, right? Right.

I can't, I just can't do it, I can't fucking, now, when we get into the summer, if this thing is still going on summertime, and I would have pulled him out, then, okay, I'll pull him out, but. So does he not go in the summer time? No, because if his brother's home... Oh, that's right, he goes to regular school now.

Yes, so... There's not some type of program, a camp or something he would be into? I mean, I... We never really did that with Jax.

Gotcha. We've never done like the weeks of... I mean, I'm sure that eventually that'll happen. Is he in first grade now?

Excuse me. I can still... Can you cough that way, please? Did you spray Lysol on this recently?

I did again today. I cleaned the tables and everything. Because, like, I'm getting it. And just very lightly and from a distance.

Dude, inhaling... Just because you don't know who from out there is coming in. I understand. I appreciate your concern for my well-being.

Well, more mine than yours, but you know. Well, I appreciate your concern for your well-being. If you catch it, I catch it. But I can tell you that inhaling Lysol is not fucking pleasant on this thing when it's on the mic, so...

Let's see. Logistic provisor, telecommunication provider, provision, propane, natural gas, office space, administrative support. I get it. So they closed art galleries.

Okay, I get it. Factories are still open. Waste management service is still open. Any business that are interacted with customers solely through electronic or telephonic means and delivering products via – I get it.

Man. I get it. But the bigger issue is just the economic impact. I mean people are not coming around.

Well, really the only thing that's not – is retail clothing. Yeah, but a lot of people also use the excuse to fucking axe people. Yes, that is true. Which is so shitty.

I've heard some of the big box stores, Walmart targeting those things, they're roping off the clothing areas, which makes no sense at all. Well, I mean, Costco had like the, you know, they have those patio sections. Yeah, right, like the middle of the store, sort of like Sam's. Yeah, so they taped off the patio, because people were just sitting and, you know what I'm saying?

Oh, they're just sitting in it and hanging out. Yeah. That's not a good idea. I saw an ad today, an $800 patio set for $147.

Where was that? No shit. If I hadn't just built all that furniture for the patio, I would have snapped that up, because it was like, It was a big L-shaped couch, a coffee table, two chairs. You've got to show me that, because I know I can find it again.

I'm due. I'm ready for a new patio set. Oh, mm-hmm, good, because I helped deliver the one I'm not allowed to sit on anymore. For a hundred, what?

The patio set at your house, I brought to your house and helped you bring that in. Did you? Yes. You got that from David Colon, yes.

I was in on that move when you sold his house. You're such a sweet man. But now I'm not invited over, now you didn't sit on it, and usually when I do, when I was coming to your house, I always got the white fold-out chairs too, never the good, never the good. Why would that happen?

I don't know, it's where you always stuck me, over by the screen door. It's because I love you, I can abuse you the most. Let's see, on April 2nd, wow, we're at 50 minutes, I still got three more pages. That's what I'm saying, you gotta speed this up a little bit.

Okay, the Philippines president gave authorities okay to shoot those violating coronavirus lockdown orders. Seems like a good idea. The Philippines President, Rodrigo Dutarte, is allowing for the use of deadly force against those found violating lockdown standards implemented in an effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Yeah, just kill them.

In a televised address on Wednesday, President Dutare emphasized the importance of respecting the quarantine guidelines as authorities work to slow the virus, which has affected nearly one million people worldwide. So let's shoot some people too. A volatile leader added that he's granted the military and local authorities permission to shoot those resisting the new measures and abusing medical officials. It's getting worse.

So once again, I'm telling you the seriousness of the problem and that you must listen, Dutarte said in a broadcast to the nation's 107 million residents, my orders to the police and to the military is there is trouble and there is an occasion that they might fight back and your lives are in danger. Shoot them dead. Jesus. What a country.

Okay, we're gonna skip, I had a couple other stories. " So they arrested her. But that was a longer story, and I had a nice photo of the lady who just looked like... I'm glad you summed that up.

Yes. Let's see, Mexico's Guapo Modelo said on Thursday it will temporarily stop brewing coronavirus beer. Corona Beer and other brands exported in 180 counties, 180 countries after its business activities were declared non-essential. In Mexico, beer manufacturing is non-essential.

The Mexican government this week declared a- It's a priority here. That's right. Sales are up. And that's where you get the dogs.

Health emergency ordered the suspension of non-essential activities after the number of coronavirus cases and the country surpassed 1,000 on Thursday reported 1,510 cases and 50 deaths. I'll say the stock market's up today. Is it? Yeah.

Oh. Let's see. Looks like five or six percent. Yeah.

Let's see. I don't want to do the Mexican voice. We'll skip that. And finally, we'll wrap this up here.

Tell me. Just because we talked about the hospital ship last week. Yeah. In San Pedro, Los Angeles last week, an engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into the USNC Mercy Hospital ship, the prosecution said.

The other prosecutors alleged the train engineer, Eduardo Moreno, 44, of San Pedro, intended to hit the ship, saying that he thought it was suspicious and did not believe the ship is what they say it is for. That guy is on some serious peyote. The train crashed into a concrete barrier at the end of the track and smashed through a steel barrier and chain-link fence, slid through one parking lot, and then a second lot filled with gravel and hit a second chain-link fence. He had that train hauling at it.

Wow. He came to rest after passing under a ramp leading to the Vincent Thomas Bridge and was seen with webs from Spider-Man. No, I added that because he stopped that one train. Oh, good.

Yeah, the train remained in that position Wednesday. Yeah, I mean, Spider-Man's not in Cali. Be real. Be realistic.

He's in New York. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Ridiculous.

Maybe it was the Red Witch then from the Avengers. She stopped the train, too. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No one was injured in the derailment and the train leaked fuel that required a hazmat response.

A good thing everybody's always wearing those outfits anyway, so. Worked out great. Hey, you three guys. Come over here.

Come over here. Clean and shut up. Authorities say Moreno admitted to crashing the train intentionally and said he did not plan it out in advance, so he didn't. Crime of opportunity.

Are we keeping you awake? People are nuts. Are we boring you? You're yawning and stretching and coughing and sneezing over there.

It's believed that he acted alone. He allegedly made statements to a CHP officer that included: You only get this chance once, the whole world is watching. I had to. People don't know what's going on here.

Now they will. I can give you an update on my acting lessons. Oh! So sad that didn't keep going.

The Navy hospital ship was brought in to handle non-coronavirus patients. Blah, blah, blah, blah. The ship was about 1,000 hospital beds, 800 activity. Okay.

Anyway, yes, acting lessons. Are they doing them on Zoom? Well, they offered a virtual one, but I'm not... Oh, please?

No, I don't want to. Record? I won't do it. Come on!

I want person-to-person. The people of the show, Michael, would like to see the great actor, Michael Szczepankewicz. I need person-to-person contact. There's no love scenes, Michael.

It's acting class. No, but I want to know, like, you know. What if during... Oh, we should call Britney.

What if during the acting classes there is a love scene they want you to do? That's not gonna happen. So you have to hard pass. Sorry?

Yeah, I'm good. I am an actor, but I shall have to pass on the love scene. And the love scene. I mean, you know.

What if it's a gay love scene? Still no. No? What if it's with Hunt?

Okay. He should be here by now. Is he coming in today? Yeah, yeah.

Oh. Oh, dude, look at all his stuff that came in from Mexico. Yeah, because the FQ cigar just came in from Mexico. But they're closed.

I don't understand how they're closed. He should have been here for the delivery. Well, I told him that we were quarantining his packages. Oh, so that's why they were put downstairs for a certain amount of time.

Correct. Oh, very good, there we go. We have a very, a very small show update, and then we are done, we are 55 minutes. That's beautiful.

So this works out well. We would like to welcome, Michael, a new listener. Yes. Oh, do you have a listener of the week?

No. I'm trying to think if we have one real quick. No, we don't have a listener of the week. Anyway, we would like to welcome Laos People's Democratic Republic.

Really? Yes. They are a small country in Laos. We have one listener there now.

I'm not sure how the premium thing works in your country, so you're kind of on your own there. Make sure to do your research. Do your research before you check into the premium service. You don't want to get killed.

You're one listener. You're the one listener down there. And Laos. And Laos.

Laos People's Democratic Republic. That's nice. Very, very small country. Hey, we got 'em, though.

We gotcha. Got 'em. Might only be one guy in that country. I'm not exactly sure.

So. We appreciate you listening. Population two. Sir or madam.

Whichever it may happen to be. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Listener of the week.

That's our Listener of the Week. Oh, there we go. Listener of the week. The unknown person in Laos.

The unknown person in Laos, People's Democratic Republic. Yes. So, thank you, sir, for listening. You know, I wanna know if my coach is worth a shit.

That's really why I-- If you're what? Oh, the acting? Back to the acting? Yeah.

Should we take a commercial and come back to the acting? No. We can leave it at that. I'm excited for it.

Well, do the virtual one! So I started reading another book, another Meisner book, and it requires like-- Acting class? Like training sessions. So I looked at Brittany and go, "Guess what?

" Oh! So the first lesson is actually-- You've got a minute and a half. One and a half. Okay.

The first lesson is actually it requires three people. And it's everybody says one word and you piece together sentences. So it's gonna be my wife, me, and Jax. We're gonna do this shit.

It's gonna be amazing. We're gonna have three Oscar-ready actors in the house. You're gonna video it? You gotta video it.

No, I'm not gonna video it. Come on! I will video some of it, but not this one. There are some things that require a session where a person's supposed to analyze two people speaking.

Yes. And instead of having a person analyze, I'm going to record it. Analyze it yourself? Yeah, and then review it.

Oh, well, let me. You can review it. You can critique it. Yes.

There you go. I want you involved. Excellent. I want you involved.

Hector. You are the Hector. One day, Mike. Alright, guys.

This has been episode 116. Yeah. Long show. Long show.

All pandemic news. Full hour. Of sad news. You should see the pandemic news I have for the pandemic show.

I mean… I can't wait. Woo! All right. I've already got next week's show.

All right. He's leaving. He's done again. And those headphones come off really fast now.

There's no hair to slow it down. Yeah. Woo! Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you, everybody. Stay safe. Wash your hands. Wash your hands.

We appreciate the support. Wear masks in public because why not? Supposedly Miami, it's a law this week. Well.

So. Miami, you know, it has no laws. It's like a lawless country anyway. I thought we were lawless here.

Let's go right to 60 minutes, right to the end. Let's go to the end. We got one minute. Sing a song, Michael.

Do a scene from your favorite movie. This is where I leave you. All right, guys. Have a lovely day.

Thanks. Bye. These broadcasts are presented and made public as entertainment in the hope that they will be entertaining to the audience. This has been a Cigar Hustlers podcast, a Mike and Mike production.

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for all new episodes. Hi, I'm doing, I'm Husto-E-Raw. Yeah, we just don't have to do a single, uh, single podcast ever again. Perfect.

I'm good, Mike and Mike. How are you guys doing? The Hojo, the... Hojo!

It's the Hojo! You didn't even let him fuck it up all the way. I couldn't get past Hojo! I don't even have to try it.

He's not even gonna try. 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'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door. All right, end this.

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