March 12, 2024· 39m

EPISODE 324 STOP! or I'll Hot Dog?

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Everybody stand by.

Industry is in the house.

Here he is.

The controversial, the.

Legendary.

It's my destiny.

Make way for the king.

Can't be stopped shooting.

My.

Shot another Mike and Mike

production.

In three 332-221-1100.

Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers

Podcast Episode 324.

Recorded live at Mike and Mike

Production Studios in Deltona,

FL.

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Well, it like bunches up and

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Oh, so we should add that.

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Right, Pete.

Yeah, he's one of the biggest

patrons.

He is Pete's one of the big

ones.

He is one of the big patrons.

Today anyway.

With us today is Pete Hernandez.

Hello, Pete.

He's been dieting.

Lost weight too much?

Weight What are we doing for the

Patreon?

You have them there in your

hand.

We are doing, oh, the new room

101.

Hit and run.

Completely different than the

original.

Hit and run.

It's an entirely different type

of Torah.

Is that the trend?

Now let's make cigars with the

same name, but completely

different.

Delicious.

When you get lazy, you just.

Oh, it's like TV and Movies Now.

Hit and run again 15.4g.

Not even hit and run 2. 15.4.

Then you put a #2 on it.

What is this Toro.

Toro.

Toro. 6 by 52 looks like that,

Toro.

Looks like it.

I can look it up later.

All right.

You look it up later.

So how was your weekend,

Michael?

I got to hang out with Mark

Romatron here at the shop.

Came here on Saturday.

Somehow we botched that.

Well, he arrived on Tuesday and

then couldn't make it here till

Saturday.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what happened there

because we had set a time and

then all of a sudden it had

turned to Saturday and he said,

well, you had your son's

birthday and I was like, well,

my son's birthday is April 8th,

so I don't know how we mixed up

the months.

Yeah, you know what he said,

'cause I told him, I go, look,

it's probably only gonna be me.

Everybody's got plans.

And he said, yeah, Mikey's son's

got his birthday and I'm going

the birthday is in March.

That's April, so I don't know if

he had said April.

I don't know.

I was kind of surprised he was

here already so.

Oh.

Either way, I think that it got

mixed up, but I did hear that he

blew blew up somebody's lighter

upstairs.

Oh, did he?

Must have been after I left.

Yeah, He said something ablaze.

Oh, he said something on fire.

Was it Howie G Lighter I?

Don't think it was Howie G's

lighter.

I kept him in the we.

We sat and chatted in the

private lounge for about an hour

and a half and he was going over

since asking me my opinion on

some cigar stuff.

And Howard G is one of the

cigars he was interested in for

his shop up there.

And then bam.

And then bam, we go upstairs and

there's Howie and Leon's here

and then sitting in there.

Just hanging out and.

Go.

Oh, here you go, Howie.

Mark.

Mark Howie, He would like to

carry your cigars and then Howie

get all excited.

He.

Said.

We got action.

Yeah, so that that's his new

thing.

We got action.

Good old Howie.

Well, that's nice.

I'm glad that that worked out

well.

Yeah.

Did Leon always have glasses?

Yes.

They are very thick now.

His eyesight must be going.

I think his eye, his eyesight's

been going a little bit.

Yeah, he's such a nice man.

He is cool.

Stands up and says hello.

Stands up and says goodbye and I

know it hurts every time he has

to move so.

Does he make noises like I'm?

No, he doesn't.

He doesn't grunt or nothing.

No, none of that.

But it does.

You know, take a second.

The man's body's been, you know,

beat to hell.

That's all you know.

He's a big guy.

I can't get up off the floor

without making noise and hurting

so and I've I haven't been run

over by people.

He's a big guy.

He has a big niece to the big

man.

Not a fan of Bike Week.

He's not take my extra 45

minutes to get here.

Well, I mean, yeah, I wouldn't

be a fan of it either if it got

in my fucking way, right?

Well, football season is

officially over for at least a

month.

A whole month, Yeah, yeah, but

you're already doing basketball.

Basketball's over, too.

So is this like non sport Stefan

Cabbage time it's.

Just like a quick yeah, this is

Perfect time for you to fuck up

your leg.

Perfect time.

Perfect.

Yeah, I did fuck up my leg, so

it'll it should be interesting.

PCA should be interesting.

You you got the scooter.

I mean, it's not like you leave

the booth very much anyway.

You'll just be sitting down.

Well, I thought.

In in order to walk anywhere in

fucking Vegas.

It's 75 miles.

Well, yeah.

I'm from the lobby or from the

hotel room to the lobby in

itself is a pain in the.

Head.

Right.

Well, get your wheelchair.

I bought a scooter.

A knee scooter?

Yeah.

So we'll see what that looks

like.

When is that coming?

Today oh.

Yeah.

Nice.

Very exciting.

This is going to be interesting.

It always is.

You know what, dude?

Just a.

New wrinkle in the plan, So.

You know what, I got to be

honest, bring on the fuckery.

I you know I can't I can't

operate if if everything's

running smoothly.

It's just doesn't doesn't fit me

so.

Right.

It's got to be something.

Yeah, just give me the chaos and

the bullshit.

Right.

'Cause I can thrive in that.

I don't need shit to.

I don't want it moving smoothly.

Don't give me smooth heels.

I don't.

I don't want any part of that.

Give me the difficult

complicated, and then fucking

smash my leg on top of it and

say, OK, this is all right, here

you go.

I want to Here's some Here's

some more to deal with, right?

Here's some more to deal.

Like perfect.

I feel good about that.

It's much better for me.

So I'm.

Gonna tell you everybody's going

to be jealous.

You know why?

'Cause I had the scooter.

Yeah, because when we're all

waiting in line for food and

stuff, you.

Get on the plane first.

Yeah, yeah.

It was a lot.

Of wait in line for food.

Well, we don't have to wait in

line and check in.

I don't wait in line for food.

I bring my own.

Yeah, he brings his own anyway.

No, no, when we go out, usually.

Oh, like it was like if there's

nine of us and one guy's got a

scooter, they're not going to

set us. 1st or.

Not, yeah, but he can sit down

on the on the scooter.

Oh, you have a have a whole.

Chair.

Oh, where am I going to sit?

Barb.

She's got a Walker, the kind you

go around, sit in the front.

Dude, shit's annoying.

That would have been a lot

longer.

That's hard.

Well, no, I I have one of my oh

don't have, don't have the

wheels.

Well, so football's over.

Basketball's over.

Gearing up for the PCA?

No.

Sports at all for the next 30

days.

I think so.

Well, you're going to have to

start practicing eventually.

Well, yeah, I mean, how many

years has it been since there's

been nothing?

I have.

I have these little lows the.

Whole 30 days.

Yeah, it's like a month.

Yeah.

And it's nice.

It's nice.

Oh, I'm sure the schedule you

guys have to keep.

Well, but we're gonna start

training the boys and start put

them on a little bit of a

regimen at the at the house, so

that should be interesting.

Well, I saw Jax's work out with

his trainer.

Yeah, started working out with

his trainer again, playing with

the new the new toys that I got

for equipment.

Yeah, it's lovely videos at the

auction.

Did you see the one that I put

up on or Britney put?

Up I saw all the ones Britney

put.

Up.

Yeah, so that one of them's from

the.

I assumed.

Yeah.

Right it.

Was really good.

I thought I did.

I thought I did well.

Can you?

So how does it?

Does it dump to your camera or

is?

There I I just got a memory

card.

You can dump it to your camera,

but it's just easier if you just

plug it in with a little

transition thingy and just save

it and just.

Got you Well.

It was like 10 minutes worth of

video that I brought down to

about two minutes by clipping

and editing and stuff.

So it was cool.

Auction was was the auction for

the school went well had a good

time then I got to see the so

that you know it was

entertaining.

We had DJ Chet on the.

Yes, I got a full download from

DJ Chet this.

Morning, did you?

Yes.

Telephone.

Television.

Telecheck.

Did you know I was like, I

don't?

Know he was there.

He told me he.

Had a good time.

Teddy did, yes.

He had a He had one issue.

From what I heard of more than

one, yeah, several.

But nobody could.

Nobody noticed.

I noticed.

Which is why you well, what a

good DJ is, though.

Things happen unless you're just

talking about the speaker.

No, OK, No.

But you know, I think it, I

think it went really, really

well.

So and that was it, man.

Sunday was what was Sunday.

We put a new faucet and drain in

the master bathroom.

Connor came over and helped

'cause I know I'd never done

that.

Before look at that, oh, he's a

faucet installer.

Well, he has done it before,

apparently.

Now he's a pool cleaner.

He's a pool.

Boy, he got a bonus and a raise.

They love him there.

Really.

Yeah.

You're doing so amazing.

All right, cool.

Yeah, you.

Don't remember what you did on

Sunday?

Edited the video.

Grocery shopping.

My son went to the Arnold Palmer

Invitational and.

Oh, nice.

And Mika's son, Cooper.

I saw there in church, was there

baptism?

It's for no.

It's in Greek Orthodox.

Oh.

It is Greek.

It's called churching.

All of my wife's calling me the.

Podcast Hello, We're podcasting.

Oh, sorry, I forgot.

How do you know what's from

them?

If you scan the QR code, it'll

tell you OK.

All right, sorry.

Love you, Bye.

Love you, bye.

So we brought the neighbors to

the auction.

They had a good time.

Good.

And my buddies and Lynx went

and.

We're talking about the

churching.

We already we already covered

the auction.

What is?

Churching.

So you just take them to the

church?

Well, you have to wait outside

of the church, like in this

little, like a waiting room out

front, right?

And then the priest has to come

in and it brings you forward and

says a bunch of things.

In Greek and and oh, not in

Greek.

Not like the like the like the

Catholics do the Latin, they

don't do the.

Thing wrong and then the and

then it carries the baby around

the room or some shit.

But there's nobody there.

No, it's a full mass.

Oh, during the mass.

Oh, so you walk around going

like this is the candles?

If you look if you see this is

the the cross we have.

Very nice.

That is Jesus.

So you'll get to know him.

I will.

Tell you so the two things I'm.

Lost hold on they.

You are at Mike and Mike

productions too, I know.

But you wait in a room.

Yeah, and like they, like, tore

you around the church during the

match.

No, no no no.

At the at the end of the mask,

as the mask is starting to

close, you have to wait.

You have to watch the mask in

the front and then they come

out.

They the priest comes out and

brings you into the Mass, the

room, and then the and.

When you say I'm sorry, when you

say the room, you mean like the

big room where the mass is going

on.

OK, so so Mika and what's his

name are waiting in the little

room.

Yes, Nick, I can't.

I'm terrible with names are

waiting.

That's actually the first time I

got her name right.

They're waiting in like a little

room to decide or something.

So then the mass starts and then

he gets him.

Or he.

Gets him close to the end of the

mass.

Oh, so they sit in a little room

the whole time.

Or watch?

Yeah, yeah.

OK.

A lot of movement.

Trying to trying.

I'm just trying to follow the

story.

There's a.

Lot going on at a Greek church.

Oh.

I know, I'll tell you what, man,

the color, the fucking church is

amazing.

All the yeah, all the colors and

paintings and shit.

I'm like, damn, this is.

Bougie OK, so they're in there,

The masses.

Guy on the ceiling like

painting.

There's there's a lot of,

there's a lot of things on the

ceiling.

The thing's almost over and the

guy goes bring the children.

Bring me the child, and then he

says all the stuff.

Then he grabs the baby.

Or they walk up the aisle, and

then at the aisle they he grabs

the baby.

He takes the baby in the back,

walks around the baby in the

back.

Oh, around the altar and

everything.

Yeah, there's a whole thing.

I like the backroom.

Yeah, well, it.

But it's kind of enclosed, a

little weird.

Oh, little weird.

Yeah, oh, finger in the butt.

Then he gives the baby back and

says another blessing.

He's a new baby or something.

What?

Do you think about that, Pete?

Yeah, Pete, what do you think?

Bam, you got to go to work.

Sounds a lot like soccer, but

it's closer when you get to

that.

Bam, you got to go to.

Work.

Bam.

You got to work, Pete.

That's right.

Exactly.

So yeah, that went well.

And then.

We went to church again Saturday

night too.

Did you to a Greek one?

No, no, no.

I hate to think my wife really,

she really enjoys going to.

Oh, to the, the, the.

Yeah, journey journeyman

churches.

I don't know.

She's cleansing her soul.

It's good for her.

She enjoy.

I like it.

She's smiling and she's saying

she's starting to do the hand

thing.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

What's the hand like this?

Like this?

Yeah, well, no, she's a she's

start here.

She's the little fish.

And then I caught a bigger fish

and then I made a touchdown.

Like, no, this is the TV carry.

The TV it was.

Kind of.

Like half spirit, no spirit,

half.

Spirit, full spirit thing.

I just like.

I just watch her.

She's.

She's in the little fish.

Yeah, she's doing a little fish,

that's.

Cool.

Good for you.

Yeah.

And then, then we went to lunch

with the Nick's family.

He's got a.

Oh, you meant Nick?

Was this the first time I'm

meeting Nick?

Show I no.

Well, I met his mom, but I this

is the first time I met the dad

and I met the brother, The

little brother.

Oh, he's got a brother, yeah.

Is he like Nick?

What is he like?

Why?

Why are we smiling?

He's the coolest of them all.

He's the.

How?

How little brother is he?

Probably like a couple years.

Oh, so he's not like 10?

No, no, no, no.

Breaking his mom's balls The

whole time I was like, dude, we

are going to get along.

Absolutely.

Is there?

Any talk of a wedding or

anything for them?

No, I mean, I don't dabble in

any of that.

I I just show the fucking maybe

would have.

Overheard or?

Nothing has been said.

Does the family seem to like

Mika, The other family, Not your

family?

I think so.

Yeah, looks looks all right.

Well, I mean.

This is a bit of a shock.

All of a sudden, you know, your

son goes, oh, by the way,

family, your grandparent.

Hey, congratulations, I'm a

grandparent.

It's all.

Yours.

Who are you dating?

Well, I mean, they could have

technically not met her, depends

on how the know how long the

relationship was.

It's.

Interesting.

It's not like.

You know, the baby was expected.

It's very.

Interesting.

Well.

Things things seem to be OK, so

well, yes.

I'm sure they are.

At the moment, they're all

breaking.

Bread together.

I'll tell you what.

Is fucking not good, is the

pollen and shit that we've been

dealing with.

Oh my God, I'm not even.

But gonna deal trying to scrape

it off my car my.

Nose is killing me, Ryan

upstairs.

Smells.

Oh, not smells.

He smells.

He smells, but but he's Ryan.

Upstairs smells better, but

smells.

He smells.

Terribly sounds terribly, yeah.

Every two.

Minutes.

Jeez, the.

Wheeze isn't what's bothering my

eyes.

It's bothering my nose.

I'm like, yeah, yeah, Greg.

'S truck looks like a like it's

a camo.

He should, actually.

Leave that, it looks pretty

good.

It's like tiger stripes.

You must have little leaves of

playing all over.

It's funny, where you?

Could see like the cars on the

street where that sit park under

the park, under trees.

And stuff covered it.

Shit.

Oh my God.

I've never seen it this bad

before.

No it.

Is spread, isn't it?

Your eyes get all sticky.

Yeah, it's insane.

It's gonna be. 70 today and then

80 something the rest of the

week it's.

Over.

This is what you're telling me?

Well, I thought it.

Was already over down to like.

60 though at night time it was

nice.

Last night, it was.

It was in the 40s last night.

But it is going to heat up to

80.

Yeah, it's in the. 80s the rest

of the week.

Every time I think it's over,

they pull you back in, pull me

back.

In Well, This is why.

We moved to Florida.

This is it for the.

Pollen in the heat?

Yeah, we love it.

We love it.

It keeps the people from coming

out.

I'm going to Kennedy space.

Center on Thursday Oh yeah.

Oh, are you doing the floating

thing?

I have no idea.

You can't walk.

I got the scooter.

He's got the scooter.

You're.

Going to have one leg that's

going to be very, very tired.

Wait wait wait is.

This a school field trip?

Yeah, it's a school.

Field trip, so I've already I've

already reached out.

To my my other.

Dad's that I've locked in with.

I was like, are you going?

And I said yes, one guy says, do

we have to get on the bus?

I'm like, I can't smoke on the

bus.

Yeah, they don't make it.

Oh, it's my.

Fucking car public school.

You had to ride the bus.

That is actually a rule in

public school.

Yeah 'cause I did all that too.

Reached out to my buddies said

don't worry, I'll be catering.

Ozzy bringing booze too?

No.

Bringing cigars.

But they could bring their own.

I don't.

Drink, I said.

They.

Could BYOB boys BYOB?

What's that saying for Bring

your own?

Booze boys.

Oh.

Nice.

Pete, what do you think about

anything about that?

Pete, you got to go to work.

Yes, Pete, you got to go to

work.

You got to work, Pete.

All right.

Well.

Let's get into you want to get

into Phil's.

Who's number one cigar?

Hustler.

Their podcast.

That's right, Pete.

Their podcast is number 10.

I'm glad that guy still thinks

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Want to stop here and wait on

Pete?

Or you want to do?

Some some of the news, I guess a

little bit.

Hold on.

Wait.

Wait, let's let's link up to the

Bluetooth and we'll call this

motherfucker up right now.

See.

Where the hell are you?

Tobacco.

I'm in the drive thru.

I'm on my way.

I'm on my way, guys.

Stop.

The donkey keys stop.

The Donkey keys.

See, it was on the way.

The problem?

With Pete is he's so good at

bullshitting that now we know

that he's always bullshitting.

Like when he texts me, I'm on my

way.

I instantly knew he's not on his

way.

Hey, I'm in the.

Parking lot.

I better hear wind.

I'm on my way.

I'm 30 minutes away.

I'm walking out the door.

Right now he.

Hasn't even left.

No, no.

I'm in the pay.

I'm.

I'm on my way.

Is this are you guys alive?

Yes.

Well, we don't do the show live,

but as close as we can get,

we're doing a.

Live Today.

Just because you're not.

Anyway, I'm hauling that.

All right, head out there.

All right, boys, I'll be in a

minute.

All right.

Bye.

We can be done with the show in

30 minutes, so he's got 30.

Minutes.

Well, thank God.

We with no traffic.

He's 30 minutes, yeah.

He's not here till 1:30.

Yeah, it'll be after 1:00.

Yeah.

All right, we got to the news.

Oh.

Angels has got their wings.

He's going to Co host.

Today, all the cigar industry

news you could possibly need.

The Cigar Hustler Podcast report

with Mike too.

SCG 2023 Revenue slightly up,

Profits slightly down.

Yeah, I didn't.

I understand that.

The Canadian Tobacco Group, the

publicly traded company that

owns General Cigar Company,

Cigars International and other

things about cigars, means that

they've.

Had more spending, has

announced.

That it generated 8.7 billion or

was sorry, that's the the DKK

1.27 billion in revenue which

the company says was up .3%

compared to 2022.

The evident before special items

they measure profit decreased by

310 million, down from 2.3

billion in 2022.

It's DKK figures again free cash

flow.

I don't know any of this means

just keep saying it.

Notably the.

Company said the experiencing

decreasing volume in most

product categories driven by

lower consumption, those able to

overcome this due to solid

pricing and other changes such

as a new store.

The company cited its North

American online and retail

European branded divisions is

helping to drive growth but

indicated there was negative

growth in the North American

branded and rest of the world

division.

It cited its North American

online and retail European

branded division is helping to

drive growth.

Oh, but the North American

branded rest of the world

division that included General

Cigar and Ford Cigar.

Despite A challenging consumer

environment, STG delivered solid

results for 2023 due to the

commitment and performance of

our employees.

This makes none of this is

making any sense, although it

was a weird.

Story.

All right, Well, just moving on.

Who wrote that?

I don't know.

One of the guys at the half

wheel?

The the news source.

We get everything right.

Lincoln Bravada year.

The Dragon goes on sale.

Oh.

Yeah.

COH Cigars, a retailer base in

Hong Kong, has announced that

they begin selling the Liga

Bravada year The Dragon.

According to the retailer, it's

6 by 52 Toro.

Neither Drun Estate nor COH

Cigars have disclosed the blend

of the cigar, and an e-mail sent

to Drew Estates was not

returned.

Rising for the release.

We're not.

We're not saying it's the third

year in a row The COH Cigars has

gotten an exclusive cigar

inspired by the Chinese Zodiac

calendar, and associated symbol

is a fourth year.

Druid State has created a cigar

like this, but the Liga for

about a Year of the Dragon,

released in 2021 was sold to

other stars and then dab it off.

General Cigar, Gurkha Banos, JM

La Galleria, Oliva, Myselfa

Placencia, Rocky Vittel United

Cigars and Vega Fena have also

announced to hear the dragon

themed cigars and they are on.

What's that guy's name?

Kaisa Tait list.

Oh I'm I'm the dragon I'm.

The dragon.

I'm the dragon.

The dragon is it like?

A lipstick list or he doesn't?

It's a lipstick.

List it's on there.

With the ACLU and some other

organizations, PCA News Rocky

Patel Gold label debuted at the

PCA 2024 Cavalier Geneva, adding

its Petite into vitola to three

lines at PCA 2024.

I'm just reading headlines.

I see that my file.

Is L Centurion H-2K Dash CT

adding new sizes at the PCA

2024?

Setting a new vitola to the L

Centurion line during the 2020

or PCA Convention trade show Don

Pepin Vintage Edition, adding

two vitolas.

Expanding to all retailers at

the PCA 2024.

Was it a Don Pepin Don?

Pepin, Don.

Pepin.

Don.

Pepin.

Right.

Oh, is that?

A factory. $150.00 Monte Cristo

1935 Anniversary Edition Doble

di Diamante debjohen at the PCA

2024.

That sounds exciting.

Well, they got to pay for the

name.

It's very long down to heart.

Geo's going me from down to

heart.

Oh, oh.

Oh, put them on you probably.

Want something?

Rabbit does.

Where's my money?

Hey.

You guys never called me on the

last fucking episode.

Geo Palmer, my buddy.

What's up?

Hey, we're recording the

podcast.

You're out of here.

Definitely want.

Something.

Oh shit.

Yeah, I'm your buddy.

What do you want?

Actually, I just, hey, I just

had a quick question for like

the PCA stuff here.

OK no, we're trying to set up

some appointments and stuff.

But the show, like, I know it's

different with the exhibitor

stuff.

And was it something that we're

able to get at the early stuff

as the media entrance or is that

something we have to go in at

10:00 with everybody else?

No, I think media gets in before

the show starts, I believe.

Oh, sweet.

OK, that's huge.

Yeah.

Yeah, 'cause there's usually,

and I think last time I went,

there was time after too.

I don't know, I was doing it

this year.

But yeah, we definitely get it.

We're getting, like, an hour

early.

OK, cool.

That makes things easier.

OK, Yeah.

All right, man.

Well, I'm I, I Phil.

Yo.

Yo, Geo, What's up Buddy Can?

You hear I don't.

Know if we can hear you guys,

right?

Could you hear them, 'cause

you're you're not Bluetooth.

You're just at my microphone.

I can hear them very faintly.

Oh, oh, that's how we like them

on the show.

Just so long as you can hear me

fine.

Perfect.

I'm.

I'm the Caleb of this show.

Yeah.

Hey, nothing wrong with that,

right?

All right.

Anything else?

That's it.

Brother, take it easy.

All right, man.

See you later.

Bye.

Goodbye.

Gio Downtown Gio from.

Down to HIRF.

Down to HIRF?

What?

What are we talking about?

Oh, you.

Oh, you want to talk about the

the the gold trophies we're

giving away?

I mean, you've been on camera.

One the whole time.

Well, because he was.

Reading the news, I was reading

the.

News, yeah.

And then I was talking to Gio.

He's not getting enough camera

time.

He put on, he put on him.

But how you how?

You going to talk about the mic

thing if it's not in the

picture?

Well, it was on camera two,

right?

But you weren't.

On camera two, OK Do you?

Want him?

No, let him talk to him.

I don't care.

Go ahead.

So, Michael?

What are these?

I have no.

Idea.

This is your thing.

You.

Agreed to it, though.

We're giving.

Away these coveted cigars or

podcast awards at the PCA, but I

don't remember what they're for.

What we got worst Somebody

should write these down worlds

worth.

Retailer or sales Rep?

We're sales.

Rep Are we doing worlds worth?

Dealer too?

Probably should not do that.

I think that one.

'S locked in at this one.

We're a sales.

Rep What Else are we doing?

We have four of them.

Don't know.

We have a list, yeah.

No, I'm making a list now.

Write it down.

No, we just.

Sort of goofed about it three

times.

Oh, I don't.

Have the energy to determine

that right now.

No, we're not talking about

that.

So, so secret that a handful of

cigar manufacturer been pushing

upper limit of cigar prices

recently and now all to this USA

is the latest company to bet

that it can't command a three

figure price tag for for one of

its cigars.

What the cigars in Monte Cristo

1935, which cost $1935 for one.

Cigar.

No, no, it's a. $150.00.

Oh, that's $150.00.

Cigar $150.00.

A guy.

Yeah.

The the title of the story was

$150.00 Monte Cristo 1935

Anniversary Addition Duble

Diamante Debuting at PCA 20.

Got it.

Perfect.

Is there a hyphen, the little

squiggly line over the O?

For addition, yeah, Yes.

OK.

And duble is not doubled, so

it's got to be duble, duble.

Duble.

Fratello debuting in Arlequin,

Connecticut APCA 2021.

So he's doing a Pocahontas and a

Arlequin.

Pocahontas, yeah, remember.

Last week there was a

Pocahontas.

That's over.

No, we had this discussion last

week.

Pocahontas is not owned by

Disney.

She is a historical figure.

Yeah.

But that's a real person.

Her family's going to be mad

about this dismiss.

They might not be.

Around they're going to be

dismiss.

Oh, it'll be changing the name

like a old nick there.

Yeah.

Can't do the poet.

Somebody's related around still.

Change it you.

Know he should have an Arloquin

and a Pocahontas at the show.

If he was doing anything good,

change it to.

Axe him.

What's up?

What I think I feel.

Like somebody said, what do we

change to?

I don't know.

Axe him like, OK, that's a great

name.

And then.

I don't know.

No, no, I want.

It's a great name.

You.

Know what that is?

That guy discovered the Ark of

the Cup.

The Indiana Jones and.

I said no, I want you to axe

him.

He discovered the Indiana Jones.

Then he discovered.

The Ark of the Covenant in the

Indiana Jones man.

No, actually, I think what went

down was somebody called Nick

Malee, though, and they said

hey, so and so really too,

please, He's.

Talking.

He's going to get mad.

So and so really.

Fucked up the name, they

couldn't say so.

So what do you want to do?

And he said, just axe him.

Oh, OK.

We'll write it down.

Yeah, and they went all right,

Axe.

Axe him it is, axe him it is

who.

Knows Nick.

Somebody look it up.

See what the fuck it is, yeah?

Hey, who's going to pose for

this picture?

I don't know Axe him.

I don't know, Axe.

Him.

Oh, OK.

Find that guy.

It's really Pete Hernandez with

like some messed up photo thing

like edit.

It you know, we've already we've

already covered leather, leather

football helmets on our last

bands, as you know.

Yeah, the poet thing didn't

really catch on.

So everybody likes Indiana

Jones.

Yeah.

What do you think?

Why don't we ax them?

Ax them bam for.

The Cigars is adding an Area 51

alien at the PCA 2024.

What the fuck just happened?

Bam.

BA MB Period A period M Period F

Period BAMF BAMF.

Cigars.

Is adding.

OK.

PT.

SITAN parentheses which is.

OK.

And Area 51 alien at PCA 2024.

Oh man.

That's actually super bad.

Not enough?

Later this month during the PCA

2024 Convention and trade show,

BAMF Cigars will will be

debuting 2 new regular

production lines.

The first new creation is an

acronym stands for Put That

Smoke In Oh Air.

I thought I was gonna say ass

Put That Smoke in the Air. 5 1/2

by 54 cigars.

PSITA.

PTSITA, not pita like pita

bread.

Put that.

Smoke in the air put.

That smoke in the air, Pete?

OK, so now we're doing.

Acronym cigars.

Doing acronym cigars right, I

started a train with the BDP.

Nice seeing that.

Look at you.

Look at that such a trendsetter

in addition to.

Come by releasing the area 51

Alien A 6 1/2 by 48 but told

them include a glow in the dark

band.

So excited I.

Want one of those?

We're going to have black lights

in the black lights in the

lounge.

And they'll have the those

lights on their hands.

Where?

Is that so?

Oh, there it is.

There it is.

I trapped.

It on the floor, we're going to

run.

You know, did you remember the

movie Blade?

Yes.

Like the entry went don't do,

don't do, do, do, do.

We're going to have that going

in the lounge, too.

We're just going to loop it.

Nice.

Can we get a strobe light for

your little scooter?

Of course.

And an air horn.

Oh, who's calling you Maple?

Leaf, Eric J.

Oh, it's just a it's a

star-studded show today.

Oh man.

You're hey, you're on the

podcast.

Oh shit.

Well, yeah, that's what I need

to talk to you about.

I need to be on there, OK?

Yeah guys, it's a.

Fucking issue going on.

Nobody.

Let nobody listens this.

Is good.

Oh, all right.

Well, I'll call you back as soon

as I'm done.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We need to talk, bro.

It's it's it's kind of

important, man.

Just just hit me back whenever

you're free, all right?

Give me like. 10 minutes.

All right, bud, all.

Right.

All right, now call him back and

don't say we're on the show.

OK, show's over.

What do you want?

My cousin works for him.

We're on the Patreon.

There's a young.

Lady whose last name is Palmer.

That works for him.

Oh yeah, Cassandra, I think is

her first name.

So we call each other cousin now

on Facebook.

Very pretty girl.

You have so many.

Cousins.

I do have so many cousins, HVC

hot cake fresh out of the oven

broadly to be on APCA 2020.

I don't think groove is.

Working for HVC anymore?

What happened there?

He won't say anything.

Ask him if the.

Cigar is any good?

If he says no, it's not any

good.

He won't.

He won't say anything.

The name is actually hot cake,

fresh out of the oven.

Broadleaf big band, Big band

goes all the way around that

goes back and forth, crosses the

thing.

The 2006 HUC cigar released at

Penn Caliente Elimination Cigar

that was named after Hot Cakes

In 2020, Smoker Friendly

acquires Low Bob's Discount

Tobacco.

You heard of Low Bob's?

No, I haven't either.

The Smoker Friendly chain of

retailer stores is growing

thanks to an acquisition of 54

Low Bob Discount Tobacco stores

in Indiana today.

The cigarette Store LLC, the

corporation behind Smoker

Friendly, closed on its

acquisition of Low Bob's

Discount Tobacco from Richmond

Masters Distributors, Inc.

These stores will be rebranded

as Smoke Friendly Locations, or

allegedly by the name Luciano

Morales's Smoker Friendly.

Arnold.

Abbott handed out four plates of

food to homeless people and oh,

this is Florida Story.

Never mind, I thought it was

just let her into Wow, they're

passing out homeless food.

They do. 50.

Four Extra stores 50.

Four more stores well get get

to.

The Florida Story, then

afterwards Arnold.

Abbott handed out four plates of

food to homeless people in South

Florida Park.

Then police stopped the 90 year

old from serving up another bite

off, Professor said.

Drop that plate right now like I

had a weapon, Abbott said.

Abbott and two pastors in Port

Lauder, Florida were charged

with feeding the homeless in

public on Sunday, the city's

first crackdown under a new

ordinance banning public food

sharing, according to CNN

affiliate WPLG.

Now they face possible jail time

and a $500 fine.

Despite some criticism from

homeless advocates, city

officials have vowed the new

rules will be enforced just

because of media attention.

We don't stop enforcing the law,

enforce the laws here in Fort

Lauderdale, Mayor Jack Seller

told WPLG.

Well.

Hey, you know, I mean the

homeless.

What city?

Was this in two Fort?

Lauderdale They don't want the

homeless congregating downtown

waiting on free food.

They're going to congregate

anyways, Yeah, but they're.

More likely to show up there

where the food is.

Apparently you can pass out the

food if you bring in a Porta

John.

Oh 'cause you just can't have

them shit anywhere, I guess.

Yeah, maybe they're shitting

everywhere.

Maybe this?

Shitting's a problem.

Maybe that could?

Be the problem.

Hey, look, you know.

I don't know what to tell you.

You guys really kind of fucked

that up, right?

Like we're trying to give you

free food here.

Now you're shitting on the

streets.

You can't be.

Shitting on the floor.

Now we can't.

Give you the floor.

Oh.

God.

Oh, I don't have to.

Tell you there's really.

Nothing going on in this city.

What?

That they had to change the

rules to then enforce a weird

rule.

Maybe a lot of them, a lot of

homeless people.

Maybe there's some?

Homeless issues are a problem.

This is like one of.

Those rules like you're not

allowed to sit in the courthouse

steps?

I'll tell you what we'll.

Just call.

We'll call any random person in

California and ask them how they

feel about fucking homeless

people, because there's

apparently it's fucking rampant.

Well, yeah.

Do you see the prices over

there?

This is Fort.

Lauderdale, yeah.

Well, they see that there's a

problem.

They don't want that shit in

Orlando.

They stop panhandling be the

same reason to keep the homeless

people out of downtown.

Make sense?

I think you'll see him.

Yeah, but.

They're not begging.

Not supposed to be begging for

money.

Oh, maybe it's not enforced.

I see him, don't feed him.

For God takes you end up in jail

I'll.

Give him a sandwich.

How many?

Homeless people are.

Because I'm telling you, I only

see like the same 5 every time I

go to Orlando.

Oh, maybe.

I just, they like to hang out

where Booch is going to be.

They see your post and they go,

oh, he's going to be hanging out

here.

We should go.

There's one guy.

With a he does push ups.

There's another guy.

That guy's good.

He's a workout.

Guy or workout homeless.

He does push ups.

For money.

Nice.

He's working.

For it, we got one.

Guy that's in the vicinity, What

do you get paid by the push up?

I give him a.

Dollar there's like 10 push ups.

You give him a dollar one.

Dollar for 10?

Yeah, the guy's.

Ripped.

Give him a dollar.

For each one, I'll give you 10,

right?

Is it the guy that?

Used to work for you.

No, I don't know.

No, this guy never worked for

the lawn and.

Garden guy.

No C.

JCJC.

J is not.

CJI saw CJ doing push ups at the

beach that time.

Maybe he was.

He was getting ready well.

He was like he would probably do

push ups for money though.

Tough, and you're a tough.

Guy, yeah.

What'd you say?

You see the same guy?

Where what?

Oh, there's a guy that's in, you

know, like the Altamont area,

He's usually barefoot.

And, you know, we usually see

him, right?

You see?

Him all the time, right?

And then yeah.

And then we have one guy who

built like, this train had a he

had like an electric scooter.

I should hit him up.

He's got electric.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he built the train of like

dog cages and other stuff where

he keeps his animals and shit.

And he was.

He has animals.

Yeah.

And he was.

I haven't seen him lately.

How many?

How many cars on his train?

There's like 6.

Or seven.

He got that many.

Animals he's doing well for

Homeless man I think 3 of.

Them are animals and the other

four like just his stuff,

stuffed animals.

Yeah.

And then I was like the ones in

the back.

Are quiet.

Don't talk to them.

And we saw, I saw one, I saw one

the other day.

I go, oh, he's new.

And Britton's like, yeah, he

just got in.

He's just recently acquired in

the area.

I was like, oh, no shit.

So he moved.

In her day with business was

good, see.

What I'm talking about Like you

see, like the same homeless

people all the time, yeah.

Yeah, it's the same people at

the exit here by the Oh yeah,

that.

Lady's been there for years,

she.

Parked, she parks her car over

at McDonald's.

Yeah, the Mercedes, yeah.

I've seen her dog, she got her

walk to her car and her legs are

always shaved.

So, I mean, she's got to raise

her, at least.

Dope car.

There's a guy.

With his family at the Lake Mary

exit.

If you're heading towards your

house, Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

He's.

Yeah, he's got the kids and his

wife and they're all sitting in

folding chairs.

Usually there's a bag of fast

food there or something and he

goes, lady's got makeup on.

How homeless could she be with

makeup?

Yeah, but they try to get you

the kids.

Yeah, yeah, That's.

Why the kids are there?

Sure.

Works well, right?

All right.

Well, hey.

He's pinching them.

We're gonna, we're gonna.

Get into a Hopefully we'll get

into a Pete segment after this.

So if he ever.

Shows up.

Yeah, we'll see.

All right.

We gotta rob the bank.

Bye.

We'll take a.

Take a break.

We're taking a break.

Taking a break to Rob the bank.

OK, call Eric and we'll record

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Show Notes

In this episode, we dive into the latest news and updates from the cigar industry and beyond. We start with STG's 2023 financial report, revealing a slight increase in revenue but a dip in profits.

The highly anticipated Liga Privada Year of the Dragon has finally hit the shelves, and we explore the Year of the Dragon-themed cigars from various other brands like Davidoff, General Cigar Co., and Gurkha, among others.

Next, we discuss the latest announcements from the Premium Cigar Association (PCA). Rocky Patel is set to debut the Gold Label at PCA 2024, while Cavalier Genève is adding a Petit N2 vitola to three lines and showcasing Tempura. My Father's El Centurion H-2K-CT is expanding with a new size, and Don Pepin's Vintage Edition is adding two vitolas and expanding to all retailers at PCA 2024.

We also highlight the $150 Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Edición Doble Diamante and Fratello's Arlequín Connecticut, both debuting at PCA 2024. B.A.M.F. Cigars is adding "Ptsita" and Area 51 Alien, and HVC is releasing the Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Broadleaf at PCA 2024.

In a more sobering segment, we discuss the recent incident involving Arnold Abbott and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who were charged for feeding the homeless in public. This comes as the city enforces a new ordinance banning public food sharing, sparking debate and criticism.

Tune in as we unpack these topics and more, offering our insights and perspectives on the latest happenings in the world of cigars and beyond.