Moon Have To Pee, Russian Love, Japanese Pie and TPE News

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" I know what's the score, 'cause that's the one we want 'em to listen to. That's a pretty good idea. What? " If they can play along live, it might be fun for them.

Maybe just one time, you don't want to do it every time. Well, announce it today, then we're going to do it tomorrow. Yeah. And pick a time, what time are we going to do so they will know.

You need to do it like two days in advance. No, it's just a day. Yeah, yeah, no. Oh, yeah, because, well, if we announce it today, they won't actually see it till...

Tomorrow. It'll be, well, we'll record tomorrow, but it'll be on, yeah, it'll be on Monday's show, so they'll have the weekend. Will they forget to watch? It's live.

I know it's live, but when we record, oh, I see what you're saying. So it'll be on tomorrow. So we can, yeah, we got to do it two days in advance, he's right. Yeah, so let's, uh, we'll just talk this through on the show.

Oh, we're already talking it through. Oh, we're recording. Oh, let's do it on Monday. I'll just, like, I will go Facebook Live on Monday.

Alright. Okay, I'm so nervous. I'm not nervous. Cause you're going live?

Yeah. Oh, you're nervous cause you're going live? Yeah. People have been wanting us to do a live.

Here we go. It's gonna be on Facebook, though. That's it. Well, Facebook live.

Is that the only one it'll connect to? I don't know. You want me to ask? Sure, right now, let's talk artificial intelligence.

Why don't you do the announcement? What's the name of your artificial intelligence? Is it William Cooper? No.

Oh, thank God. You've got to be intelligent. Jesus. Welcome to A Cigar Hustler Podcast Episode 501.

Hello. I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and on today's show, we have the whole crew once again. We have Phil, I Like Russian TV, McGuffey. Oh.

And then my co-host, a man among men, scheduling to appear on the hit new Russian TV show, Michael Szczepankevich. What's the hit new Russian TV show? As the show goes on, maybe you will find out. Okay.

Hey Meta, what can you go live on? We can't hear it. Or Instagram. No, I heard it.

Facebook or Instagram. Oh. Or? Can you do and?

Like, both of? It said Facebook or Instagram. So probably one or the other. That's the fourth member of the show, his sunglasses.

Can I go live on Facebook and Instagram at the same time? - No, no, you cannot. Stop asking me stupid questions. - Yeah, let me go do my food review.

- The arch is great. - This bitch, the way that she said it, she's like, no, get the fuck outta here, AI, what are you talking about? - Giving you attitude. - Yeah, like I'm an idiot, you know?

Hey, can we go live on both of them? Nooo! What was that? Can you change the voice?

Yeah, I think you can, 'cause she's gotta go. Yeah, I don't like a woman telling me what to do. I got enough of that in my mind. Yeah, that's my wife's job.

That ain't my sunglasses job. Yeah, all my things talk is men. Except Alexa, because Alexa has a new voice that is, I forget what they call it, but she's a little more lighthearted. Yeah.

And less, no, she's not transgender. Oh. Less intimidating, you know? Yeah.

Less intimidating? I like that one too, yeah. You find women intimidating? No, no, no.

No, but the voices, you know, she's, she's not as matter of fact. It's more like you're talking to a, you know, a nice, like a servant. Well, not a servant, a nice person. Uh, I'm going to look for.

Okay, you, you look for that over there. On today's show, we can go back to the moon, but we forgot to check out a pee in the spacecraft. Oh, dude, John Cena is an AI voice. Done.

Fancy me. Absolutely. Alright, that's adjusted. A new TV show is bigger than Game of Thrones, Japan really likes pie.

Of course they do. And water is now fancy drinking. And then in cigars, we have TPE attendance info. Oh.

A new budget cigar. PCA wins its all back to school. And finally, a horse-driven what's-the-score. But before we get started and while Mikey talks to his sunglasses, How do we get some of that CHPod swag?

com where we have all of our CHPod swag. We had a purchase last night. Let me get a shout out here. All the guys, almost all of them on the video I did last night, there was six to nine at any given time.

They all had something on. Yeah, they're solid dudes, man. And one guy had hung his Warbear thing on his outdoor fireplace. Have you seen that one?

Where it's lit up? Yeah, where it lights up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's Rick.

He's a good guy. Yeah, I thought you were going to say he's rich, but that's what they kept saying. No, he's V-O-T-L. He's like the Veterans of the Leaf.

He runs that organization. Well, he's still rich, apparently. He has a 22-bedroom house. Shout out to Rick Jones.

Oh, Rick Jones. Who picked up a Post Anya Greatness hat that'll be shipping today. Meta, his voice has not changed yet, so. We gotta give your glasses a name.

It can't be Meta. John Cena. Not until you change it. It's going to be...

Right now it's Joan Cena. It's going to be John Cena momentarily. It could be Karen. It could be where Karen hides.

That answer will be found out this Sunday. All right, did you get all your stuff out? You didn't say hi to make it up? No, not even close.

Like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to this show. If you enjoyed The Secret Show on YouTube casually today, where episode 500 should have been, or yesterday, Congratulations. Wasn't our best work, you know, apparently we like to keep me sneezing over and over again in the show. We didn't edit any of that out.

Was that on the Patreon, the Sneezing? I don't remember if you sneeze so much. Yeah, I went on like this allergy. It was very hard to put that together as you saw.

There was a lot of technical things going on that day with different things we were testing and trying. Yeah. So yeah. Is that what it was?

That's an accumulation of three different files to get it to that point. And then you put it on YouTube. You put it on YouTube. Well, apparently.

I had a lot going on last night. Maybe it was just a loud bang from the confetti cannon. No, that's what should have went up. Yeah.

That's great. I added, when I launched the thing, 500 comes up on the screen. There's something shaking out of the camera and stuff. Oh, that must have looked nice.

You know what's really cool? What's really cool? Is there are listeners of the show that listen on Spotify, but then go and comment on YouTube. Oh, really?

Really? Yeah. Because some of the people that were on that, I took screenshots and, you know, they're good guys. They're like, they're good listeners.

Like, they're big supporters. So I'm like, oh, they don't even, they don't even watch the YouTube. They listen and then they comment on the YouTube. There was a very long comment on Skip's interview.

Oh, was there? Was it from Skip? From before? No, no, an older one.

Yeah. You replied to it. You thanked him for the kind words. Yeah.

But I don't know who it was. Dude, when I finally got my hands on this thing for doing the studio or whatever, I went back and responded to every comment. All of them. There was a complaint that nobody responds on Patreon, so I started responding to Patreon comments.

But normally comments are like, "I really like this," or, "This was funny," so everything gets a response now. " Let everybody know we appreciate them, because we do. We tell them that every week on the show. I know, but we want them to know on the Patreon especially.

I will now comment on all the Patreon messages. Excellent. Another job. Unless you want to make...

Maybe Phil should respond on the Patreon. No. No? No.

It's like a once a week thing. Yeah, but there's money there. If we give them access to the show. There's money there.

Wow. " All of a sudden, he stops complaining. Right. We have no Patreon money.

It's his new account on Patreon. I'm getting into some of the comments here. Yes. I mean, now it got scrubbed, so I had to start over.

But T-Money said, "Damn, Mikey's Red Bull must have worn off at the one-hour mark. " I mean, I don't think I was angry, but you know. What do you mean it started over? Was he not listening to the show?

Yeah, did you not hear anything that I just said? So Palmer uploaded the Patreon for episode 500 on YouTube, so you had to delete it and then re-upload the true episode of 500. Yeah. And then he just blamed, like, he was really busy that they're very complicated.

And I didn't attack him, I just let it go. Okay? See? I was very busy last night.

Super busy. You called and checked on me, so, I mean, even you knew things were going on. Yeah. Oh, it happened last night.

Yes. I'm not gonna break your balls at all. I'm going to totally give you a pass. Thank you.

I get it. Why didn't you upload the Patreon? Can you schedule that earlier? Because I was trying to build it up.

It took me a couple of days to put it together. Got it. Got it. Okay.

Yeah, nope, you're not going to hear shit from me. But it was the YouTube where the error was. The Patreon file had been created and it was named episode 500 also, but they look different if you pay attention to it. Right.

So maybe we shouldn't call them episode 502. Normally it doesn't run into the episode of the same day. Right. Because when there's nothing wrong, it goes up on Tuesday or Thursday.

Right. Okay. Oh, uh, well, here's another one. TX Southpaw said on episode 498 that title says episode 497.

That was already fixed, I caught that before anybody mentioned it. No, it wasn't. I fixed it last night at 2 o'clock in the morning. I changed it, too, two days ago when I saw it.

98, whatever it was. No, I fixed it last night. I'm gonna go into some of the comments that got deleted. I took a picture.

" No, it wasn't CW. I'm sorry, but it is there now. It went up like that. It's scary when it goes fast after it normally doesn't go fast.

Yeah. So I had to check it, so it said it was the right one. And then @stevenwell says, "I don't understand why Palmer would be upset if his neighbor was killed and then turned daylight on at his house. " It's the wife and the dogs that it would wake up.

Yeah, you're correct. I would already be up, but then it's nice and quiet at three o'clock in the morning when I'm the only one up. Oh, and you don't want that messed up. Yeah, I don't want to have to explain why, you know, we've been hit by the solar laser.

We're fine. Everything's fine. - Yes. - Fine, everything's fine, go back to sleep.

- So, if you wanna hear your comment, ooh, a Vista print ad. " - Yeah, now it looks fine. - Did you leave the light on in the microwave? - However, I am a little blurry.

- What do you look, you're looking at the show? - Oh, that's not, I'm not that bad, yeah. - Are you watching an older show? - I'm checking episode 500.

- Oh, he's watching yesterday. - I'm just making sure it's good, bro, I'm just making sure it's good. If you want to potentially hear your comment on the show, Comment below on our YouTube page. We may or may not comment if they're funny or not funny.

I like to just kind of say them and upset Palmer at this point. No, if you had not said you're only going to read the funny ones, then I would not have said a word. Well, now I've changed it. I'm just going to say whatever.

Then make sure you read Mitch's, too. I love Mitch's comments. When do I not read Mitch's? I just want to make sure he gets taken care of.

He gets taken care of. I just want to make sure. Daddy delivers. Is he Southpaw?

Which one is he? Oh, he's Mitchie Maduro, I think. - Oh. - Yeah, that's TXL, Paul.

- No, he messaged me this morning, complaining to him. - Nuh-uh. - That I gave him in trouble, not that you did it. Like, gee, thanks, I got you the poop coke all the way from Japan.

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Phil. I mean Phil. It's hard, I know. Yeah, like a peacock, look at him.

They asked me last night what his real name was and I went, Boots? Who? I don't even know who you're talking about. Oh, well, they had already mentioned what is Phil's real name.

Yeah, I would have downplayed that and like, who the hell's Phil? The camera guy? The monkey? The camera monkey?

I like how people don't know my real name. Well, we never say your real real name. No, I know. I find it funny.

You want to know what I like? " And I don't say anything. I'm just like... He's like...

Jerks. Yeah, we are really funny. And I know that you won't hear it because you won't see it now, but he may see it and be like, "Oh, you didn't talk about me at all. " I'm like, "No, that's not what happened.

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You can't change it, but you changed the Spotify? Yep. You did? Good job.

Okay. All right, on to the news. I'm terrified of what German movie I'm going to be a part of. All right, the rocket took off.

The rocket did take off. Did you guys go out and watch the rocket take off? I was doing basketball. Yes.

Well, you were already outside. All you do is look up. Basketball's inside. Oh.

Yeah. Well, you said that when I looked. It was history, Michael. It was history?

First time a manned rocket had been sent that direction since the 70s. And? And what? Bummer, that's the only thing you know about it?

No, no. A light came on inside during takeoff and the toilet malfunction. The toilet malfunction? Toilet malfunction lit up.

Oh, it's like spirit. That's not good. Right. Right.

So the toilet apparently is built into the floor. They're in a capsule. It's not even like a big spaceship. Right.

No, that makes sense. Right. So for 10 days, they basically sit in chairs. Like Star Trek.

Yeah, there's not. Well, no, I mean, where they control the Star Trek from is smaller than what they're in. I mean, bigger. Bigger than what they're in.

So like the original, the OG Apollo series, they had more room? That makes sense. It's about that size. It's about that size?

For 10 days. Oh, I thought it would be bigger. Like the old ones were bigger. Kind of like how it used to be with airliners, where you had like the bigger chairs with the ashtrays and stuff on the side.

Yeah, it's not like a space shuttle that has a whole lot of room or anything, it's a capsule for 10 days, and now the toilet doesn't work. It doesn't work? No, the light came on, there's a problem with the evacuation system for liquid fluids. You can still poop, you just can't pee.

What are we doing? We're just going to collect them in bags? Well, they just step outside and find a tree. Yeah.

No, but they, uh, they have pee bags. Yeah, okay. But, there's not like, you know, privacy. Not like you go behind the curtain or something.

I think that when you've signed up for this, you're well aware. You expect that? Yeah. Well, I mean, the thing's in the floor, so you sit in the floor, and I would, I'm imagining like this much is above, you know, the thing, so everybody knows you're peeing, but nobody can see you peeing.

Was there a girl on this crew? There is a female on the crew. Oh. Yeah, I think that, look, there's a code there.

You know what I mean? Well, definitely a code with guys. There's a code. Right, but they didn't check to make sure this was not gonna happen.

We didn't check the toilet? Like they check everything, you know, they check to make sure there's no leaks in the fuel, make sure the oxygen works, make sure we got plenty of freeze-dried food or whatever it is they eat up there now. But nobody checked the P evacuation. Who's this?

Which one is this? Which is what? Like is it NASA, is it SpaceX, is it Bezos? This is NASA.

This is NASA, Artemis II. Yeah. Okay, so big shocker there. Right.

If we lean on the government to do it, we're not gonna do it all the way. You want to do it all the way. Is that what you're telling me? Four billion dollars and you can't pee like you're supposed to.

Yeah. I want that to be the first interview when they're up there. Like, I really got to pee. And I have to do this back.

Right. I mean, it's taken off. You've been sitting in your suit. You can pee in your suit while you're sitting in the chair.

Yeah. But then, you know, the lights flashing, the lights... Bad news, guys, we can't pee. There'll be no peeing.

There'll be no peeing. " Did you imagine if it was me? Imagine if you were there. That's right.

They're not gonna have enough bags. Dude, at liftoff, you're like, hold on, I gotta pee. Well, you pee in your suit. I gotta be honest, they would have known that there was something wrong instantly before liftoff.

I would have checked. You would have had to have peed before liftoff and you said, hey, this isn't working. Right. And we would have scrubbed the whole thing.

You think they have two different bags, like one for pee, one for poop? There is a different poop evacuation system, but it works. Oh, oh, dang. They could have, man, if they had poop bags, they could have found, like, It's like an alien house, put it on the doorstep, who's got the light on?

Does the poop just float around in space? No, no, it goes into an evacuation system, which I imagine it stores it until you get back. Yes, it floats in space. Yeah, it floats, yeah.

You've got a door in the back, it comes out, and it just floats around. I like to think, I'm going to believe. Sticks on the window. I'm going to believe, in my mind, that we just eject the poop out into space.

Of course they do. I would say no. Did you see the movie Martian where the guy got stuck on Mars? No.

You didn't? And he grew potatoes. No. It's a good movie.

Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, what is that guy's name, Phil? Not Wahlberg, but the other one. No, not Wahlberg.

It's not the guy that played Batman. It's not Ben Affleck. It's the other one. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Matt Damon? Yeah, Matt Damon. Matt Damon gets left on Mars.

You guys are horrible people. Why? You guys? You don't know who Matt Damon is?

I couldn't think of his name. Peter's face. Wow. Holy shit, it's boring.

Do you like apples? So, anyway, he uses the astronaut poop. Your mic is so sideways right now. Yeah.

Well, your heart monitor. Fix it. You just corrected it. Look at how it sits.

Look, it's going that way. That's what you said to do. No, no, it's too far that way. All right.

And it's not like Dum Dum's gonna have you fix it. I didn't know anything about it being sideways. I mean, yours looks like... There you go.

There you go. I'm not even gonna say anything. You don't think it's better? I feel like it's the same.

It's definitely not. Well, his is more upright now, yours is more... No, yours is more turned the way mine was saying before. Diamond-ish.

Talk. I did talk, I said yours has turned more. Does it sound better or more or less? He doesn't have those kind of ears.

Just for us to fast-forward through this, it sounds great. It sounds so much better. No, he sounds the same. Anyway, they put him in these small little bags and suck all the air out in that movie, Because he uses the poop to fertilize to grow potatoes because he needs food.

Right. So it goes into these little bags and then it gets stored somewhere until they take it off when it lands. " You watch this movie? Yeah.

Martian? Yeah. Matt Duman? Yeah, I like it.

I've seen it more than once. Really? Yeah, why? It's about a lonely guy that is just on Mars.

Yeah, but I like the movie. He's looking forward to that. He wants that part in his life where he just goes to another planet and he's just left alone. It's literally cast away in space.

You're right, it is. Yeah. Except he can record videos. Kind of like the new Alan Richardson movie on Netflix is like a modernized predator.

Really? You see that? No. Yeah, so they're like rangers, but they're about to become rangers.

Right. There's this… Like, Army Rangers? Yeah. There's this alien… Oh, the Alan Rickman movie.

Okay, gotcha. Sorry. I was thinking of somebody else when you said the name. The Alan Richardson movie.

Oh, whatever his name. I don't know who Rickman is. I've never seen it, so please explain. Yeah, so… They're about to be Rangers, keep going.

Yeah, and they're doing their last field test or whatever, and they come across this alien spaceship thing that just kills them. Do they look like… Like, you said, it's like Predator. Yeah, and the concept of alien comes down kill people. Oh, so that, wow.

It's really, I'm enjoying it. Oh, you haven't finished it? No. I don't really like the movie.

You don't? I don't like the premise of the movie. Like you said, it feels like it's another movie where they just put a different monster in. Well, I think that that's what happens with a lot of movies.

Well, I'm sure. I mean, there's only so many ideas, I guess. You're very cutty-offy today. Sorry.

Trying not to. Slow down. You were doing so good. Good.

Like, now you're going back to that. He's stressed out. No, I mean, like most, like, there's five or six main movie types that are always created over and over again. So it's not, you know, there's only so many things you can do.

It just, it had that predator feel, but it's still a good movie. Yeah. Have you guys seen Anaconda, the new one? No.

Man, I wanna watch that one. I finished, I did finish Peaky Blinders. Oh, oh, I had a schedule. Don't talk about it.

Yeah, apparently they didn't want to sleep last night. So I finished that and then I was like, oh, War Machine, I guess I'll just start this. And then at that point I was like, it's four o'clock in the morning. Was War Machine good?

I haven't finished it yet, but yeah, so far so good. So you go to bed at four? Are we like tagging in and out? Because I get up at four today.

Yeah, I'm like, okay, dude. All right, bombers up. I can go to bed now. You know, my problem is that like if I start thinking about all of it, whether it's what I'm going to do, What are you going to do for here, you know, what I'm going to do for one of the, it's 11 teams this season, I thought it was 10, it's 11 teams, or, you know, what are the family plans for the upcoming week, like whatever, Easter now, it's just like, you have to turn this off, dude, you have to go to bed, and then it's like, or just, you know what, fuck it, just turn on a show.

That's my problem when I wake up, everything starts running for the day, and what's going to happen, what do you do? At night, I either watch TV until I get so tired, I fall asleep in the chair, and then I get to go to bed, or I'll lay in bed and watch TikToks or something, I don't even know if I drop the phone on my face or something, because if you're doing something else, my mind doesn't think of the other stuff. Wow. So you doom scroll until you pass out.

Yes. That's awesome. More like my wrist gets tired or something. I have dropped the phone a couple of times.

Nice. Okay. And it smacked you in the face. " He was at the Kennedy Space Center.

" And it's like a 10 year old kid or something. Did he say the word or did he say effin'? Oh, he said the whole thing. He said the word, huh?

It was hilarious. I was looking for the clip, but there is like background CNBC music. I'm like, eh, we can't play it, yeah. Yeah, probably 'cause that's what his dad was saying.

I mean, this kid was excited. Yeah. That's pretty badass, yeah. So if you guys were in the shift, are you guys claustrophobic at all?

Uh, not like right away. I don't think I do this most yet, but they say, but they get to go out and do spacewalks, so then it's the opposite effect, so you're in this tight little cramped space, then you step outside, and it's just, it's big as big can you get. Handless. Right.

You know what, I've had a couple of times where I've gotten some panic attacks when I felt like I couldn't move, but that was years ago. I don't know how I'd feel right now. Well, it's gotta be big enough for four people. Yeah, but it's not like four people and a place to run around.

- Well, they're probably not running, but they can move. - I don't know if I could do it. - It doesn't look that big. - That would probably drive me nuts.

I'm not built to sit still. - Right. - You know what I mean? And I gotta sit still for 10 days?

- Right, exactly, man, that's a long time. - Yeah, it's a bit much. This is the wrong cigar, by the way. But thank you.

- Well, it's a delicious one. - So that leads to the next question. - But I usually go Habano first. - Would you rather die in space or in the depths of the ocean?

- Oh, God. - What's the difference? - Well, out in space, you're going to expand. When you go down deep in the water, you get crushed.

- I'll take ocean for a thousand, Alex. Expanding sounds miserable. - Why would it matter if you're dead? - I've been fighting this so long, trying my best not to expand, you know?

And I love food so much. And then you're gonna-- - But you're gonna start eating as you're-- - And then you're gonna make me expand, you know? - I would do the space. - Well, you would, uh, space?

- Drowning seems claustrophobic. - I think, I think drowning is a miserable way to go. - Have you been in space before, Palmer? - No, but I've seen movies.

- But we're not talking about drowning, you're talking about just overall compression, just... - Yeah, but I mean, you're gonna drown, you know, so you go out in space, take your helmet off, or you go down in the water and take your mask off. - Hmm. I don't think I'm doing either one of those sounds silly.

Wow. Yeah, now you're talking about suicide. With preference would be no. You know, like, what's the process?

I don't know how easy it is to remove the mask in space. The helmet? Yeah. That's what the movie showed us?

Oh, is that what they do, yeah. That's how they put it on. It goes, are you locking it into place? No, I'm pretty sure that I've seen people assist them when they put their helmets on.

Yeah, that's because that's that guy's job. We're going to need a guy for this. You know, when they land, he's gotta get all the poop out, so. You know, due to budget cuts, he's no longer the bathroom guy, so.

Oh, no, they don't need that. You know what, when they announced that, that the poop thing didn't work? You know that guy that has that job to get the suits off? Man, he was cussing up a storm, I bet.

I'm gonna clean these suits after 10 days. You're sitting in your own pee for 10 days. " You said you checked! That that thing was cool.

I don't understand how they don't have the technologies to get pictures of the dark side of the moon. There's no lights. Night vision, whatever. Then it's just green.

I still want to see it. Doesn't night vision work off of reflectivity or whatever? Yeah, something like that. Shouldn't they figure that out though?

It's not magic. Listen. Magic. Didn't anybody put the magic green glasses on the spaceship?

It is magic. All I'm saying is we're going all the way out there. We should have the ability to take some pictures. Meadow, light this place up.

Yeah. Can't do that. Stupid glasses. I'm sorry, you can either, no, you can Facebook Live or Instagram, but you can't do both.

Okay, this is a brand new toilet they put on the spaceship. Of course. It includes upgrades such as privacy door, handholds for zero gravity use, and the ability to handle both urine and solid waste. Well, only one, apparently.

It marks a step up from the Apollo era plastic bags and funnels which astronauts describe as messy and unpleasant. Which we've reverted back to. Yes, what we're using now the backup is the urine collection bags that are on board if needed. The crew can still manage solids waste, but no.

So the engineers are trying to tell them how to fix it. So all they do is they poop with their suit off and then they got a guy that goes around and catches all the poop in the air. Well, I think once you take off, it seems like they put on those blue jumpsuits or whatever it is with the NASA logo on it. Yeah, they're like pooling outfits.

Here's what you want to do. I want you to unplug the toilet and plug it back in. Yeah. Let me know if that works.

Take the plunger that's in cabin C7 and stick it in there and jerk it up and out until it happens. I don't know about the last part, but aren't these people like engineers and stuff? I don't know. We got to move on to the next show.

I don't think all of them are engineers. Let's go, let's go. They have different specialties. We're 28 deep at this point, and we're on the first thing.

He doesn't like the space poop. Well, there was a lot of comet-y stuff going on earlier. I did see the rocket for a second. We went out and watched it take off.

Well, there's a big cloud in the way. Yeah, we saw people pointing at it, and we're like, "Where? " And then, there it was. 6 share every week.

6 share? 6, apparently that's a big deal. Okay. Yes, I know what it is.

It's called Heated Rivalry. Okay. It's a gay hockey drama. Okay.

Wait, did you say Mikey was going to be a part of this? That's a show on HBO. Yes, but in Russia, it is the number one show. Okay.

But they have strict laws against gay TV and… We got 'em. Right. We integrated through Max. Got 'em!

Yep. It's become an underground word-of-mouth hit in Russia with fans risking potential fines or imprisonment due to strict anti-gay propaganda. Oh, I love it. I love this.

They're watching it, even if they might end up in a gulag somewhere up north. That's a gulag? That's amazing. That's when they used to send people to Russia.

We send to gulag. We send to gulag. You must go. You make little rocks at the big rocks.

You watch the ice skating with the men and you're out. That's right. You watch the... You like rubbing the sticks together?

You like the hockey love? You like the hockey love, you must go. So to punish the gay people in Russia... Wait a second.

Or whoever watching the gay shows. Hold on. Is that what you guys are just talking about? Hold on.

Hold on. So you're telling me that... You can't even get this out. So you're saying you have to be gay to watch the show?

I don't know, man. Is it a good show, Wiggle? It's a great show. Oh, there you go, Boots.

I'm not watching. I'm at him. Apparently, he's gay. You guys are...

Oh, God. That's right. That's right. No, but, so, my comment was gonna be, is to punish the people watching this gay show, which may or may not be gay.

No, the show's definitely gay. No, no, I mean the people watching it. Oh, oh, I gotcha. They're gonna put them all in one room?

One prison, apparently. Right. Hey, you guys play nice in there. So the reward, what he's saying is, the reward for watching the new gay HBO show on Russian black market TV is they send you to a vacation up north with many other gay people.

Yeah, it's like a gay hotel. Where they play gay Russian hockey apparently. Hey, I like this one character, I'll be him, you be him. You be the Canadian, I'll be the Russian.

I'm sorry. You know what, listen, I know that we're making a fun joke out of it when you guys are going to town, but here's what I'm going to tell you. It's awesome to hear that the government couldn't stop this and that it blew up and that people got to see it because there's no reason why it shouldn't, you shouldn't have the right to either A, watch it or B, you don't have to decide for me, right, as a government. I don't, I don't think that that, I think that that's ridiculous, right?

And to see that it's such a problem for them and that it's, are you fucking kidding me? Did we see a shot again? Is that the Chinese? Why didn't you bring it right up to your mic?

Like, I'm in the middle of a fucking sentence here, you gotta bleep out how many F's today. Like, that's like four for me. Doesn't our program automatically do that? No.

That's what you guys said. You are allowed a minimum number, I don't know what it is. Oh, we've exceeded the time limit on this one. Nah, probably not.

Probably not four. It'll run in a little tummy, and then I get the opportunity to fix it if I so choose. Okay, so my point is that it's awesome that they're having this issue because one thing that I absolutely despise is overregulation, period. It doesn't matter where it comes from.

You're out of line. A government that tries to stop you from viewing something that's perfectly acceptable, there's nothing wrong with it. It's obviously got good reviews, right? You can either A, decide to watch it, or B, not.

Right. You don't have to say no. I don't think that I disagree with that. So it's awesome to see that it's gone sideways.

Well, it is a communist country. Let's get them all food and then worry about what they're watching on TV. Do you think they don't have food? They have food lines.

Lines where you have to go wait in line to get food. In Russia. In parts of Russia, yes. It's a communist country, Mike.

I mean, we have food lines here. Yeah. We have food lions here. We have food lions here?

There's lions at Burger King. Yeah, but it's not because Burger King is the only place that has the new Whopper. Right. Or soup.

Yeah, or soup. Or stale bread. Right. You know.

It's not like they have a Publix they can go to on the corner and go, "I would like some borscht. " I don't know what other Russian food. Hold on. Schnitzel?

That's German. Want to close? It's on the new Russian platform. " So they have food.

Sounds like us over here. Yeah, like, okay. Just can't afford it. Yeah, so what else is new?

No. Sounds exactly, exactly. I think we're a little better off. First of all, we're 100% better off.

Yeah, we're definitely not getting thrown into jail for watching gay hockey. Yeah, I mean, it's available on, it's available on Max, on HBO, Go, whatever you want to call it. Oh, it's on Max? I like the dirty version.

Yeah, that's the dirty version. That's the preferred one that I like to watch. Wait, wait, if it's on that, then is there... scenes?

Well, one's Russian, one's Canadian, so I imagine when the teams play each other, there's stuff that... The clip I saw looks like a lot of texting going on. One's Russians, one Canadian. Yeah, I'm not understanding the correlation.

I'm trying to figure it out. One guy's on the Russian team, one guy's on the Canadian team. They somehow have met, and the trailer showed a couple of random connections, and then a lot of, you know, texting and smiling, like, you know, here's a picture of my hockey stick. Oh, here's a picture of my hockey stick.

I don't know what they're saying. Phil, I'm really gonna need you to deep dive into this. I'm not deep diving into nothing. Well, I know that this is something that makes you extremely uncomfortable, and that's exactly why you're the one that needs to do it.

I need you to watch the whole series. I'm not watching any of them. And then get back to us. Especially if it's on Max.

I'm not like you don't watch Max. I gotta be honest. We could probably watch gay hockey. I watch other stuff.

It's not gay hockey. It's a show about gay hockey players. That's the same thing. No, it's not.

You're picturing an entire team rolling around on the ice. Yeah, you know what? It's two guys. I wasn't picturing anything.

I just wanted to know, I'm gonna do this for the greater good of us. You're gonna watch it all? You're gonna look at it? I'm gonna ask on Grock, is there any nude scenes in the show "Edit Rivalry"?

And now Grock is going to ask me specific questions. Of course it is. People will be in prison in jail, Mikey. Is it like, why do you want to know?

Yes. The answer is yes. Awwww. Multiple nude scenes and a large number of explicit sex scenes.

Oh, god. Yeah, Boots has to, Phil has to watch all of it. Primarily between the two male leads. Oh, I would guess.

I would guess that would be it. So we need you to do like a book report? No, I'm not. And come in and tell us specifically who's on top, who's the pitcher, who's the catcher.

Well, there's no pitcher or catcher. There's just a goalie. And a forward? And a power forward.

And it's a power play, baby. All right, I know how the price of oil has gone up. You know, the oil has gone up 40% since the start of the war. 40?

40%. Okay. So you know what's made with oil? Plastic.

Plastic bottles, which has caused the price of water to go up. Well, the water's at the same price, just put it in a metal tin. You can't put it in a metal container, it would cost more, 'cause that costs more than the plastic. So, guess what, now we're saving the environment.

Yay! I don't know. Go ahead, I'm just kidding. How much did water go up?

60, currently, just after two weeks of war. Is that 5%? That's what it says, I don't know. Okay.

I didn't do the math. I'm just reading the article. Okay. There's taxes.

So now when you drink bottled water, it costs you more money. An extra 10 cents. An extra 10 cents a bottle. Okay.

Man, you got me. And if you buy the fancy water, if it's a percentage, it's gonna be higher. Ooh. Well, if you're buying the fancy, you really care?

Well, maybe you're at the line. Like, I like fancy water. It tastes better. The Fiji water, but maybe it's, uh, you know.

You're on the cusp? No, we don't drink Fiji water at my house. I drink water out of the sink. So, doesn't affect you?

Doesn't affect me at all, but I thought, you know, maybe it affects you. Maybe when the children leave the half-drink water bottles laying around, maybe now you're a little more, you know, stern with them. First of all, I'm always frustrated at that. It doesn't matter what it costs me.

" However, they usually do like the metal cups. Ah, the Yetis? Well, the knockoff ones. And they're spread across vehicles and cars, you know.

They fill them up. You have filtered water, I think, don't you, at your house? It's just a regular fridge water. Yeah.

I didn't know if the kids pour the bottles into the cups. That's why I was asking. Do you think the kids do any of that? Mommy's got that on lock.

Yeah, you know how many kids he's got, too? That'd be a lot of water bottles. Well, that's why I was asking. You know, the even funnier part with the metal cups, too, is like whenever we go out the things, justice, especially justice.

We're doing practice, whatever, I don't have any water. i'm like how do you not have it i just left it at home like okay i guess you're not thirsty yeah i guess you're not well i but that's where i i have daddy's water yeah he's trying to see if they can stop at the gas station yeah i'm just like dude you're bigger than him take his water yeah i'm always like you're just gonna have to deal with it and then i'm just like whatever dude just take this but it's usually pellegrino spicy water spicy water oh they don't like that you're right It's very expensive water. It's very expensive. Yeah.

So. All right. Gambling on the fact that that story would have not done well. The plastics?

Yeah. The plastic water increase. Okay. I want your avoid.

So I have a backup story. Oh. Okay. Normally it's three and three.

Okay. We have four and three today. All right. Well, I mean, look.

For one, I think it's... Let me say two things. For one, I think it's extremely comical that when we have an opinion about something, We don't really have an opinion about any of it. We're just kind of being funny about landing on the moon, all those other things, whatever.

And like in this same fashion, when it comes to this, like we're, people are, that article's obviously pinned towards trying to get you to be outraged about the price of water. - Sure, or the war in general. - Yeah, so like, but, look, I don't know, I don't know, I'm not involved enough to say if this is good or bad. But I'm going to say this, if this is true, if it's death to America, and we're close to nuclear missiles or whatever, or we're looking to control all the oil in the world, I mean, like, it is what it is.

Like, if I got to pay 10 cents more for a bottle of water for the security of the United States, if that's the case, calm down, please, internet people, then whatever. Then, okay. I'm willing to suck it up. And I don't care who the president is.

I don't care. Like, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not really a fan of anybody. Right.

I know they're complaining about the price of water. But if you look, like, have you been in a gas station lately and seen the prices of everything? It's all gone up. Not just water.

Well, inflation was a given since 2020. Right. You know? - Like the Ghosts.

- I don't know, like here's the funny thing that I can tell you is, man, from a retailer's perspective, 2025 sucked. It took everything, it took so much work to sustain and stay positive and get some growth, right? It took a lot, it took a lot of innovation from the team, a lot of hard work from the team, And if you're a retailer in our industry and you survived, then I think that you survived the hardest part for the next decade, right? Because, man, 2026 ain't looking so bad, bro.

It's not looking so bad. Sales are definitely up and I think that it's a testament from all the hard work. So if you look at, if I just use the economy as part of that comparable, I think that things are trending in the right direction, even if the cost of things are higher, you know? Is it perfect?

No, it's never gonna be perfect. Is a capitalistic society perfect? No. But it's the one I choose to be a part of, 100%.

I don't want any of the other ones, for sure, so. 60 now, but as the price of oil goes up, the price of water is going to go up. So let's fear monger a little bit. Well, that's what the article goes into that's the problem.

60 when it's two bucks, you've saved 40 cents a bottle. I don't believe that for a second. Maybe there's a couple of handful of crazy people like yourself, you know, you probably still have toilet paper that you saved from COVID. I have the emergency toilet paper that I had bought.

Well, I mean, it doesn't have a hole in it, so it doesn't fit on the roll. Right. So, I mean, there's no way to put it in a regular rotation. You can utilize it if you wanted to burn through it.

Just sit it up top. Well, I have a roll of it in the shed where I blow my nose. I have a roll of it in the garage where I blow my nose. So it's a tissue.

It is now a tissue. Well, it does say on the package tissue paper. Yeah. Right.

Would you go and buy a bunch of cases of water right now because you're going to save two bucks on the case? No, and this reminds me of this TikTok I just saw. It's like this, they were talking about like wartime. Hockey players?

Wartime hockey players? No, no. Like when people freak out about stuff and they go and buy everything, it's like, it says, me when I walk into the grocery store, and then when he walks in, there's like three people with foil things on their head, like foil little hats. I'm like, yeah, that's, people are nuts, man.

I'm like, they bleed the Kool-Aid. They bleed the Kool-Aid? They believe it. Oh.

Like this is like, somebody freaking out and saying that, I'd like to see, you know, what company they own. Yeah, bro, keep it 100, man, I don't, like, I'm not, I'm not faced. Go buy all my water, especially Nestle. Right, yeah, hey, you know what, hey, hey, release, exactly.

It's the Dasani that tastes terrible. Dasani? Whatever it said, whatever, potato, potato, Mike. It's Pepsi.

Tastes like the bottle. Tastes like the bottle, okay. Okay. All right.

Japanese McDonald's has announced a new dessert. Yeah. The Poop Dessert. The Adult Cream Pie.

Oh my God. Are you kidding me? The Adult Cream Pie? The Adult Cream Pie.

Wow. Comes in two flavors: a yellowish-white and a dark brown. They don't give us names. There's a video.

The video's funny. " And then the name comes up and it stops. " But to be fair, in Japanese, adult translates into luxury or better, so it is the luxurious cream pie, or the better cream pie, not really much better, as far as we're concerned. It's the billionaire cream pie.

Right. So, their desserts are better cream pies than a regular cream pie. Whew. Wait, their word "adult" means something different?

Yeah, when it translates, it translates into luxury, so it'll be like the adult travel agency, it is the luxurious travel agency that has the better trips. Why do they say that the American language is the hardest one to learn? Because we're complex. That seems pretty complex, like it's not really adult.

It's the slang that gets them with America. They can't, they can't understand the slang. Right. Well, it's not the real English language, it's slang.

You know what's funny? It does though. You know what's funny though? Like, I mean, listen, there's always going to be struggle when it comes to, you know one language and you're going to another one, because I distinctly remember one of the first times I went to Esteli, And I was working on - I was asking when something was going to ship.

Like, when is it gonna ship? So, when I translated it in Spanish, the word was barco. Barco translates to ship, like a boat. Oh, that's where I thought you were gonna go.

So, you were asking, when is it gonna boat? Yeah, so, when is it gonna boat? " They couldn't figure that out? I mean, that seems reasonable.

If you would ask me if something's going to boat, I would assume you meant when is it going to transport on a boat. When is it going to transport on a boat? I guess. I guess you got a point there.

But like, yeah, I mean, that's kind of a given. " When are we going to, he wants... He wants these cigars to boat? What is that?

We're going to make a boat out of them? Gringo Loco. Gringo Loco. Loco in La Cabeza.

Grab the Modellos. We're going on a boat. Grab the Modellos. No, it's something far worse than in, what is it called in the beer in Nicaragua?

I don't know. Yeah, it was something weird. I don't know, I've never been. Tonga.

Never been. Something. You got a video for us, Michael? Of course I have a video.

All right, he broke the streak. It's not just another picture? You're not very nice. M and M...

Okay, so this kind of brings us a little further down this rabbit hole because since you were so violently attacked on the interwebs, I wanted you to see this. - Why was he violently attacked? - About his feelings that we did not land on the moon. - Oh, yeah, give me a little more specific.

Where did you send that? - Oh, I didn't crop that out completely. Why is this thing so blurry? I don't have it.

You don't have it? No, where did you send it? M&M Productions. The last thing I got there is eye here.

Am I having a stroke? Is it supposed to be blurry? It's on there. Is it supposed to be blurry?

Oh, God. So, for our listeners... Is the Wi-Fi down or something? And non-viewers, what it is, it's a guy running around in like this weird landscape.

And what he's saying is why have we all ignored this madness and it's what he's trying to argue is the fact that this is where the moon landing was shot. Yeah, the terrain looks like it. Oh, it's not even close. The mountains are different.

Yeah, they're brown. Yeah, they're brown. Well, they're a lot older now. Yeah.

When you get older, you turn brown, huh? Right. Yeah, I agree with you. I don't think that this really works.

- I thought it was on a soundstage. - You thought it was on a soundstage? - Right. That's why the background's so black you don't see stars.

- No, somebody explained that. - Yeah, I know they did, but I didn't listen to that part. - Where's this guy's foil hat at? - Yeah.

" It's not even close. The topography is all different. - Yeah. You know what's funny, though, is like when you watch that a couple times and you hit record and whatever and you save it, all of a sudden I start getting other stuff.

Now you're getting a bunch of stuff. So it's like, hey, it's like, look up satellites. Yeah. And then the guy's like, it's all just like kind of images, not actual pictures of satellites in space.

Oh, like the stuff you said. It's like pictures. It's not. Yeah, it's pictures, not videos.

Yeah, it's pictures. It's pictures. It's pictures. He's attacking.

I'm not attacking. What's going on now? I'm making show fodder. I tried to give you a pleasant pass here.

It's show fodder. People like it. It's entertaining. Yeah.

Yeah, and they like when I encounter. Well. Touché. " At that point, he's contemplating.

Right, yeah. " 'Cause, you know, like, that's the, that's one of the things that I, you know, there's no real images of satellites. There's not an actual picture. Oh, that's right.

You've never seen one of it in outer space. I could tell you, I saw the starlink from the sky, it freaked me out. Wait, what did you see? A while ago, when I was going on walks with my neighbor, we looked up and we saw these moving stars.

Oh, okay, when you said saw it, I thought you were in a plane or something. No, it looked like moving stars. I mean, you could, if you had one of those telescopes. Telescope things?

Yeah, yeah, but the high-powered ones that you can buy. Maybe, yeah, like a telescope thing. You can see them. When I lived in Eusis, me and the neighbor used to sit outside at night and drink, but we would stare up at it and we would count satellites, because you already see them, they're faster, fast-moving lights that go across.

Right, yeah. No, those same people that thinks there's no satellites, those are actually UFOs that you're seeing. So, like, the funny part is that the conspiracies, they go on and on and on, and what's funny about them, I mean, the problem is they probably get the most views on social media. Oh, I'm sure.

People dig that stuff. I mean, we're still tracking about the black hole ending in August. We're over three million views on Instagram. Down to Herf has a segment for conspiracies.

Where Caleb puts on a foil hat. Yeah, it's too much. Well, he's Mr. Conspiracy Theorist.

Anyways. All right, on to Cigar News. Everybody paying attention, Cigar News? Here we go.

All right, happy birthday to show friend Mr. Scott Pierce of the CAA. Today is his birthday as we record the show. Ah.

Happy birthday. I thought about calling him, but I don't know. Nah. It's kind of hard to do with the new system we have in it.

I like to like this one. All right, PCA acquires the Cigar Academy from Oliva Cigars. Okay. The Premium Cigar Association has announced that it has acquired the Cigar Academy from Oliva Cigar Company.

Cigar Company, The Cigar Academy is an online cigar education platform centered around a few courses that teach people about cigars and how they are made. Riccardo Corolini and Thomas Grieson launched The Cigar Academy in early 2024. So this is the guy that we just brought on, not we, but we as a PCA, brought on to be in charge of the education program of the PCA. Yeah.

Oh, this is the Expedia guy. Yes. Yeah, yeah. But now, apparently, as he is now in charge of PCA education, we have bought the Oliva education system from him?

Yeah, the automated video system. When you just log in and just watch the videos. He's a little self... Well, they said...

Was he part of Oliva? Yeah, he launched the Academy in 2024 for Oliva. Oh, did he? Right.

And then he sold it to himself. Just now. That's brilliant. No, no.

That's brilliant. It said acquired, but it didn't say bought. Yeah, that's true. Well, at the end, there is a statement that exactly how it switched hands has not been released or told about.

Yeah. So acquired normally means that, you know... They bought it. They bought it.

Here's why. Here's why. Here's why I'll tell you. I think that they bought it.

Because if Oliva gave it to them, Oliva would tell you that they gave it to them. They gave it to them. We believe that this knowledge should be given and spread across. That's not how that went.

- Oh, that they're doing good. - Yes, correct. Like when they gave, when that one company gave the eggs or whatever to everybody. - Right.

- We gave eggs. - And Fuente gave eggs. - No, I think it was like-- - Gave a lot of eggs. - I think it was Alec Bradley or something.

Who knows? We don't fact check. - So anyway, Ricardo Chilly Chally, whatever his name is. - Chilly Chally?

He worked for the parent company of Oliva and started this program for them. That's so smart. $50 for a level one course, $250, that is just, hold on, one hour option for $50 and a level one course for $250 that is described as taking one to three months. It is one of a handful of different entities that have tried to turn cigar education into a business.

Right. So what are they teaching you for a month? These are cigars. Right, exactly.

" You know, one thing that I saw yesterday, or maybe last night, is that somebody marked on the Skip Martin interview, our most recent one... Yeah, I mentioned that it's a very long comment. No, no. Oh, not that?

No. Don't worry, I can finish my own sentences, because that's not what I'm saying. Sorry, it seemed like you stopped. You went to look at your phone.

Yeah, well, my phone's ringing, so I denied it. And it was talking about how, like, You know, like when he's working a pilone, when like 30% of it is like at 90% completion, he pulls that to be used and then he keeps the rest of it in a smaller pilone at a later time to progress and use it when he needs it again. I'm like, I wish I had noticed that a little bit more on the interview because that's pretty fantastic. Like, no one has ever really said anything about that, right?

I believe it was Ben, he put up 2530, which is where that conversation starts. Yeah. I think that's what he was saying, this is something that maybe you should have been picked up on. You think so?

It's very interesting. Yeah. So. Are you gonna pay a raise?

No. So, like, I mean, I don't think that this type of educational platform will cover something like that. they'll say we grow the we grow the tobacco we you know we get the tobacco from various places we put them in the pallones we monitor the temperatures we might you know we move them so they don't decompose then we put them in packets or bales or whatever they're called and then we assemble cigar you know like and then we make sure two different side times of doing it accordion or And to borrow, we let them sit so that the vapors evaporate and then the cigar. See, I don't think that is the person, the person who would need that information, I don't think it's who they're directing this at.

They want more of the everyday cigar smoker guy to come take these, not Fuente to take a glass of hat. So, not retailers? There might be some retailer information, but I don't think so much manufacturer as to where, you know, somebody needs to know that you can pull the polona part And do 30, 30, 30 sections of it and this is how you age it. - Why wouldn't it be free?

- Well, maybe the level one is in more in-depth. - They used it as offline events such as seminars and trade shows and events. - Yeah, so why wouldn't it be free? Or like incentivize it.

You know, like, hey, it's $200. Right? - Right. - And once you watch all of the videos, You got awarded a sampler pack from X-Kwasi.

Oliva. Right? Well, back then it would have been Oliva. Now it's PCA.

Yeah, but, you know, like... Apparently, there was a press release that was sent out that said how the PCA is going to use the new school they had just acquired. Oh, okay. Did you see that?

No, we didn't. We don't get press releases from people. That'd be ridiculous. Did Coop cover that?

I don't know. I don't watch the show. "When Ricardo Corolini and Thomas Grayson first presented the Cigar Academy, we recognize its potential to elevate, educate across the industry," said Corey, that part CEO of Olivas Cigar Company. Oh, so they pitched this idea to the Olivas.

Hey, you know what would be a great idea? Let's make these classes and charge a lot of money for them. I mean, not a lot. It's like 200 bucks, 250 bucks.

That's not a ton. 250 bucks to watch a month worth of videos. That sounds like... Could be three videos.

That sounds like... I don't think it's three videos. Sounds like a lot of value, to be honest. Before the next show, I'm going to deep dive into this a little bit and see what kind of classes they offer.

All right, you have two days. Oh, well, I'm not gonna read it. No, you have one day. I have one day, it'd be tomorrow's show, which will come out Monday.

I'm not gonna read anything, though. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. No, you have to watch the HBO show. Yeah, you gotta watch Heat of Rivalry.

I'm not watching that. Why? Why? Watch it with your wife, she'll like it.

Yeah. A lot of, you know, male nudity. Yeah. 'Cause you literally just read off of Grock.

No, here's what I want you to do. Naked? I actually... What I want you to do is I...

Not doing that. I'm sorry. What I want you to do is I want you to bring one of these cameras home, and I want you to record you and Tia watching the show. No.

Just use your iPhone. Don't take these cameras off. Yeah, just plug in your iPhone and then record... Yeah, because if they get carried away, I don't want to have to clean...

The hour-long episode. stuff off here. Carried away about what? You know.

Maybe your wife gets a little excited. She's got extra hormones right now. Yeah. Now's the best time, buddy, when they're pregnant.

Can't get her pregnant twice. There was a funny TikTok about that. I'll have to send it to you guys when I find it. About your wife getting pregnant twice?

No, no, no. It's about things that happen when women get pregnant and the husband. Okay. Alright, whatever.

Alright, Jake White Cigar. That was a big nothing burger there. Jake White Cigar Company releases value-focused Titan Series cigars. Oh, really?

Yes, it's the thing, apparently. You're gonna start to see more of this. Jake Wyatt Cigar Company has released the Titan Series, a new trio of cigars that the company developed as an approachable, everyday, premium line that delivers strong value while maintaining the construction, balance, and complexity of both the company and its customers expect. Okay.

So there's three cigars, they're not saying what the cigars are, but there's a Goliad, a Colossus, and an Omega. Okay, so they're all 660, they're all three different blends. Um, 5x50 Robusto, no, there's three sizes. Oh, really?

5x50 Robusto, priced at? Anybody? Anybody? This is gonna be interesting here.

Uh, 16 bucks. No, it's way less. This is a value-blended cigar. Oh, nine dollars.

The whole idea of the, uh... Okay, so like, you're not telling me if it's Cuban sandwich or if it's full long filler? I'm gonna assume that it's Cuban sandwich, so I'm gonna say six bucks. 99.

Yes. He was right. I believe it is long filler. You said like 16 months.

No, I said nine. No, no, then he went down to nine. Oh. When I said, it's value-based cigars, he goes, oh, okay, nine.

Oh. That's stupid. I mean, that's... Toro is...

See, you Mr. Magood me again. The Toro is 10. Okay.

They're offered to retailers in 30-count display trays that feature 10 of each cigar. The cigars are made at the Tablacalera San Geronimo in Donnelly, Honduras. Geronimo. Okay.

Where they have moved all their production to. Got it. Well, it's long filler. You see the difference in the price point there?

Yeah. When did we talk about McAuliffe? Was that on Patreon? No, no, that was yesterday.

Yesterday, yeah. Okay. Where I didn't have any information because it was... Coops only.

Yeah. But I got it from Halfwell. Who got it from Coop? Right.

Right, that's what I said. So we've acknowledged everybody. What... does it have like any of the weird designs like Jake White always does?

No, it's a value-based cigar. They're not putting extra work into it. It just barely has a band. Actually, it's a very prolific, obvious band.

It's kind of nice-looking. This cigar is a clear 91. Yeah, I'm smoking it, too. What, did you just drop your wallet?

That was a hat. Oh, that's Rick's hat. Down on the floor. Okay.

All right, we got some TPE news. Uh-oh. From Charlie Minato at Half Wheel. Yeah.

Oh, really? Yes, he did a little thing on... C. Newman, Oliva, Perdomo, Rocky Patel, and SCG are all there, though almost all of them have drastically scaled back the size of the So they're there, but very smaller.

JC Newman, they don't have the whole tower now, just half. They never had the tower there. Not the cardboard tower? No, I don't think so.

They always had a PCA. I know they always had a PCA, I thought maybe they were taking it there too, because they don't know more. Yeah. And the number of employees they brought, so smaller area, less peoples.

Okay. All right. He would argue the reduction in booth presence is unnoticeable as a decline in exhibitors, though it's tough because the non-cigar side of the show has also shrunk. So the show as a whole is shrinking.

Oh, really? Oh. Meaning the density of the trade show feels pretty similar to how I recall last year. So yeah, the trade show as a whole is smaller.

I almost feel like this is kind of a natural process for conventions. Like, I remember there was a time when PCA was big, so big. So big. That it was, you know, you couldn't cover all of it.

Right. And then eventually it started to shrink down a little bit. And then you saw some sustainability in where it's at, so that's probably what's going on here at TB. You don't think it's going to shrink to the point where they just, ah, nobody goes anymore, it just goes away?

No, I don't think so. Well, the other side is mostly like, it's all weed type stuff, right? So like Delta 9 gummies and all that kind of stuff, right? Yeah.

Well, a lot of that stuff is going away because a lot of states are going to legalization, right? I don't know. He's got a point. Medical guards.

Well, I also heard yesterday I was talking to a gentleman, I think up here at the cigar shop, he was saying that somebody got arrested, he knows somebody that got arrested that was doing Delta 9 gummies because of the THC in it. Yeah. The Delta 9 gummies aren't illegal. He got arrested for Delta 9?

Delta 9 THC gummies. Because there was THC in it. Okay. Like, I need some more information about this.

This is a guy, you heard from this guy, like, but like, was this guy driving? Was he messed up? Did he slam into something? Well, no, I think he was driving, he got pulled over.

Okay. So that's called, that's called driving under the influence. It doesn't matter what it is. Oh, I thought he got arrested selling them or something.

No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, that's exactly my point. Yeah, I mean, look, anything that's going to alter you is considered driving under the influence. I mean, no matter if it's legal to purchase or not, I mean, you can legally purchase beer, right, like, you have alcohol in your system when you're driving, you're going to jail, if it's X, if it has a specific amount, right?

Yeah, I don't know, I think because of the legalization, though. I don't think that's the case. I think that there's only so many Delta-9 gummies that you can purchase, there doesn't have to be 700 vendors, right? Eventually, they're going to die out and you're going to have a couple big dogs, you're going to have a couple innovators, somebody that's doing something different and new and bringing that to the table, but at the end of the day, how many water pipes do I need?

What are we doing? A lot of them get them probably from the same manufacturer in China or whatever. Now, you'll find some of these artsier guys, these guys that are doing individual pieces or whatever, they'll exist, but yeah, when it has ballooned too big, it's going to come back down. I don't think that it goes away, I just think that it becomes at this level of sustainability.

I think that the scar part's probably cooked. Yeah, I don't understand why people still go to that, because it's so close to, you know, PCA. Well, it's progressive, it's progressively getting smaller every year. PCA has been moved over to this time of the year, what, for three years now?

Yeah. Not even? Two. Well, this will be the third year.

This will be the third year. Yeah, sorry. Right, so, there's that. And didn't they do that to get a shot at TPE?

I don't think that it was designed specifically to attack TPE. I think that they looked at and said, is the summertime the ideal time for us to be doing this? And I think the answer is no. I think that it wasn't the ideal time.

I think that this is a better time to do the PCA. April, right? A lot of, you know, a lot of retailers complain that it's too cold out and they weren't making a lot of money in Q1 of the year, right? So you're getting right into springtime, where you have more consumers, right?

So yeah, it would make sense to touch on what's new, what's going on in the industry at that point. Not in the summertime, when people are traveling and vacations. So like, the reality is, as a retailer, you can complain about something, right? It's too cold, it's too hot, nobody here, somebody here, like whatever.

- It's always something. - Yeah, always, somebody's gonna complain. - No shelf space, I have too much shelf space, no money, right, whatever. But I think that, like, I like what PCA did as far as the date and time.

I don't think it was to take on TPE. The only thing that I think that they should do differently is move it to the middle of the week. They should have moved it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, three days, and then that way, if you want to parlay the weekend and spend time with your family or whatever in that destination, that town, now you can. Now you have a reason to stay there for three days instead of coming on, swooping on Saturday, handling your orders, maybe finishing a couple other things up.

on day two, whenever that is, if it's Friday, Saturday, and then flying out on Sunday, and then back to work on Monday. Crunch time. Yeah, say, oh, I got to go. So that's why we got to figure something out to do on day three to keep it entertaining.

Do you think TPE maybe would move to August or September? Maybe that would help them? No. No?

No, I can't see them maneuvering it around at all. I don't think that it's a help. I don't think that the timing is indifferent for them. Okay.

I don't think it affects them as much as it affects us. I think that realistically, look, there's too many vendors in that other realm and there's gonna be less of them. Right. You know, it's just kind of like cigars too, to some degree.

Brand owners, they come in, they make a cigar, They think it's going to be the best thing ever. They realize that it's not the best thing ever, but they say, you know what? It is the best thing ever. They spent all this time and money and energy and product, and then it goes sideways.

They realize that they're not making any money. Hey, we're about to finish up on podcast. Can I call you right back? All right.

Love you, bye. My wife called me. On time. The batteries just went dead in the remote for the teleprompter.

Oh, God. Oh, yeah? That's okay. We're at, uh, what's the score?

I'll just go find it on my phone here real quick. Okay. Just find it on your phone. All right, so now it's time for the industry's favorite game.

What's the score? Today's first cigar is from April 1st, 2026. Brooks Whittington is the reviewer. It's a Dominican Republic cigar, La Galleria, limited edition reviews.

The La Galleria's Year of the Horse, limited edition, 2026. Is it La Galera? La Galera, sorry, yes. Okay, sorry.

Sorry, on my glasses, I'm reading a blurry text. 88. 82. Does it really make a difference to you, the Galeria, or the, whatever you said the real word was?

I don't know, maybe there's a weird cigar out there. I mean, I don't, I don't know all the cigars, but I do know what a La Galera is. That's what I mean. All right.

Dave Origins, Dominican Republic, Factory, Tapacolera, Palma, it's got a Brazilian Araparaca wrapper, didn't I say that right? No. How do you say it? Araparaca.

That's what I said. Araparaca. I said the English version. Araparaca.

Yeah, but it could mean like luxury or something. No, that's the cream pies. The wrapper, I said, the Dominican Republic is the binder, filler, Dominican Republic, and it's a six by seven. By 56, they smoked 3.

86. 82. Clue number one, the flavor profile is impressively layered right out of the gate with creamy oak and slightly sweet dark chocolate leading the way before transitioning into coffee beans, almonds, and subtle spice. The retro health stays smooth with a nice balance of light pepper and sweetness, making it an enjoyable and dynamic smoking experience through the first half.

88. 82. He didn't hear anything you said. I've smoked La Galera.

I do not like that. Have you smoked the horse one? He doesn't like Dominicans. He only likes Dominicans.

I think I have. I haven't smoked one yet that I like. Yeah, but maybe Brooks does. It's not yours?

No, it's his. It's his. Stop helping him, Mr. Magoomer.

82. All right, clue number two, despite minor touch-ups, the overall construction holds up well with thick smoke production and a draw that tightens into a comfortable resistance as the cigar progresses. The cigar delivers full flavor with a steady climb in strength to medium plus, keeping it interesting without overpowering the palate. 88.

82. Yeah, what score would you give it? Yeah, I'm putting it back the other way now. clue number three there are some noticeable construction and quality control concerns including soft spots visible veins and a draw that starts off looser than ideal like russian hockey on the top of that excessive glue on the band can damage the wrapper when removing items which take away from an otherwise smoking a solid smoking 85.

82. Final thought. He is not ashamed to admit that I get excited about visually interesting uniquely designed packaging and the La Galera Year of the Horse Limited Edition 2026 has it in spades. We're such children.

I know, exactly. Having said that, the actual cigars are not quite as interesting that the profiles of the two of the cigars I smoked for the review were nicely balanced, We're nicely balanced but the flavors were fairly straightforward the second cigar was noticeably better with a more nuanced complex profile that stood out from the other two in the end it the blend is enjoyable but the packaging might be the best thing about this release 84 oh yeah he's trying to create a little distance 82. Ooh, you went the wrong way. Is it 83?

It's 88. Really? I was right! From the jump.

You had it at one point. That's why you would do whatever you just said. I'm like, where did he go the hell? Well, here's why.

Because he was hell-bent on 82. So if I move down to 84, if I move down to 84, not only am I protected by going above, I'm also protected if it's an 83. I would have went higher than 84 if I didn't know the answer. Really?

Yeah. Have you smoked one? I play my opponent. I can't afford these.

I play my opponent sometimes. Okay, anything else to add? No, I have no more events. Okay.

The event last night went well. Everybody was really nice. T-Money did this thing called Crack the Beer. You have to ask him to crack.

Have you seen the Crack the Beer? Yes. Okay. Oh, T-Money's on this?

Yeah. It's his thing, I believe. Yes. Oh, I didn't know that.

I would have joined you. Oh, I put up the link. I know. I just thought it was like somebody, you know, we didn't know.

Oh, no. I got Paul on for a few minutes. Well, he was there when I had to leave. Nice.

" Everybody ask Paul questions. All right. I apologize for skating out last night, guys. I had a little bit of emergency, as you know.

A slight emergency. I told T-Money in a month or so we could reschedule another one. Okay. Make sure you like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to the show.

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Show Notes

Moon Have To Pee, Russian Love, Japanese Pie and TPE news

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