April 3, 2026· 1h 16m

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

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score because that's the only

one we wanted to listen.

To That's a pretty good idea,

but go live for What's the

score?

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 that

we're going to do it tomorrow,

yeah.

And pick a time.

What time are we?

Are we getting so they will

know?

You need to do it like 2 days in

advance.

Yeah, it's just a day.

Yeah, yeah.

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 yeah,

it'll be on Monday show so

they'll have the weekend before

they forget the.

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't.

Yeah, we got to do it two days

in advance.

He's right.

Yeah.

So let's let's talk this through

on the show.

Oh, we're already talking it

through.

Oh, we're recording.

Let's do it on Monday.

I'll just like, I will go

Facebook Live on Monday.

All right?

OK, so nervous.

I'm not nervous.

Because you're going live.

Yeah.

Oh, you're nervous because

you're going live.

Yeah.

People don't want us to do a

live here we go.

It's.

Going to be on Facebook though.

That's it.

Well.

Facebook live, is that the only

one that we connect to?

I don't know.

You want me to ask?

Sure, why now?

Let's talk.

Talk artificial intelligence.

Why don't you do the

announcement?

What's what's the name of your

artificial intelligence?

Is it William Cooper?

No.

Got to be intelligent.

Welcome to a Cigar Hustler

podcast, episode 5, O1.

Hello.

I'm Mike Bomer, 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

Stefankevich.

What's the hit new Russian TV

show?

As the show goes on, maybe you

will find out.

OK.

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 them, it said.

Facebook or Instagram?

So probably one or the other.

That's the 4th member of the

show medal.

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, well

you're fucked out of here, AI,

what are you talking about?

Giving you attitude?

Yeah, like.

Like I'm an idiot, you know?

Hey, you dumb.

Hey, can we go live on both of

them?

No.

What's?

What's that?

Can you change the voice?

Yeah, I think you can, because

she's got to go.

Yeah, I don't like a woman

telling me what to do.

I got enough of that.

That's my wife's job.

I ain't my sunglasses job.

All my things talk as men except

Alexa, because Alexa has a new a

new voice, that is.

I forgot what they call it, but

she's a little more light

hearted.

Yeah.

And.

And less.

No, she's not transgender.

Less intimidating, you know?

Yeah.

Less intimidating.

I like that one.

Do you find women intimidating?

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.

Look at Servant.

Well, not a servant, a nice

person.

I'm going to look for.

OK, you you look for that over

there on today's shows.

Servant Voices.

We can go back to the moon, but

we forgot to check out a pee in

the space drive.

Oh dude, John Cena is an AI

voice.

Done.

Absolutely.

All right, 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, a new budget

cigar, PCA wants us all back to

school, And finally, a horse

driven.

What's the score?

But before we get started, when

Mikey talks to his sunglasses,

how do we get some of that

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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 6 to 9 at any given

time.

They all had something on.

Yeah, those are they're solid

dudes, man.

And one guy had hung his war

bear thing on his fireplace.

Outdoor fireplace.

Have you seen that one?

Where it's lit up.

Yeah, where the lights up.

Yeah, yeah.

He's he's Rick.

He's a good guy.

I thought you gonna say he's

rich, but that's what.

They kept saying he's VOTL.

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 close Tonya

Greatness hat that'll be

shipping today?

Meta's voice has not changed

yet.

So.

We got to 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 it's going to, it's going

to be John Cena momentarily.

Karen.

They 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 how to.

Make no, not even close.

Like and subscribe wherever

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the 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.

You sneezed so much.

Yeah, I went on.

Like those allergies?

It was very hard to put that

together as you you saw there

was a lot of technical things

going on that day with different

things we were testing and

trying.

Yeah.

So yeah, that's, 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.

Well, apparently I had a lot

going on last night.

Maybe it was just a loud bang

from the the confetti cannon.

That's what should have went up.

Yeah, that's great, I added.

When it when I launch the thing,

500 comes up on the screen,

they're shaking out the camera

and stuff.

Oh, that must have looked nice.

You know what's really cool?

What's really cool is there a

listeners of the show that

listen on Spotify but then go

and comment on YouTube?

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Because some of the people that

were on that I took screenshots.

I don't want, you know, they're

they're good guys.

They're like, they're good

listeners.

Like they're big supporters.

So I thought 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?

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 I replied I.

Dude, there was like when I

finally got my hands on this

thing for like doing this 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 last night.

But normally comments are like I

really like this or this was

funny.

So everything gets a, Everything

gets a response now.

As I say, hey man, thanks so

much for your support.

Like, you know, let let

everybody know we appreciate

them.

Because we do.

We tell them that every week on

the show.

I know, but we 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

unless you want to.

Maybe Phil should respond on the

Patreon.

No, no, no.

It's like a once a week thing.

Yeah, but there's money there to

give him access.

To his money there.

Wow.

You're always showing I'm not

getting paid.

I'm not getting paid.

All of a sudden he stops

complaining, right?

We have no Patreon money so it's

just new account on Patreon.

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.

He's so angry.

I don't, I mean, I don't think I

was angry, but you know.

What?

What do you mean to start it

over?

Did.

He not listen to the show.

Did you, 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 there's

very complicated and I didn't

attack him.

I just let it go.

OK, See I.

Was very busy last night, Super.

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 going to 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?

Like can you schedule that

earlier like?

Because I was trying to build it

up, it took me a couple of days

to put it together.

Got it, got it.

OK, yeah, Nope.

You're not going to hear shit

from me.

But it was a 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 500.

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.

OK, Oh 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 2:00

in.

The morning I changed it too

when on the 2 days ago when I

saw it because when I went to

put up 499, I'm like oh wait,

there's two of these 498

whatever.

One No, I fixed it last night.

I'm going to go into some of the

comments that got deleted.

I took a picture, yes, CW6383

says happy 500th episode,

gentlemen.

And then later on, about about

an hour later, he said.

I don't think this was episode

500.

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 did check it.

So it said it.

What's the right one?

And then that, Stephen Wells

says.

I don't understand why Palmer

would would be upset if his

neighbor was was killed and then

turned daylight on at his house.

He would probably be awake by

then anyhow.

It's the wife and the dogs that

it would wake up.

Yeah, you're correct.

I would already be up, but then

I it's nice and quiet at 3:00 in

the morning when I'm the only

one up.

Oh, and you don't want.

You don't want that messed up.

Yeah, I don't want to have to

explain why you know this.

We've been hit by the solar

laser.

We're fine.

Everything's fine.

Fine, everything's fine.

Go back to sleep.

So if you want to hear your

comment, oh a Vistaprint ad.

My wife would be complaining.

Did you leave the light on in

the backyard?

Like no, it's the solar laser.

And now it looks fine.

Did you leave the light on the

microwave?

However, I'm 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 5000.

He's watching yesterday.

Just making sure it's good, bro.

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 to I'm

just going to say whatever you

want.

Make sure you read Mitch's too.

I love Mitch's comments.

I 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?

Is he southpaw?

Who?

Which one is he?

He's Mitchie Maduro, I think.

You know it's TX southpaw, he

messaged.

Me this morning complaining to

look so Nah, that I gave in

trouble.

That I gave in trouble.

Not that you did it, but Gee,

thanks.

I got you the poop.

Coke all the way.

From Japan.

Yeah, that's right.

You did.

You can't.

You went a little hard on the

paint model.

We worked it out.

If you're a retailer and you're

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We want to talk to you about

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We have the number disregard of

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Don't be a fool.

Take care of your customers if

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We have the number one cast.

We have the number, we have the

number one cast.

Yes, Boots is walking around in

a cast and it's #1.

Oh wow.

Phil.

I mean, Phil.

It's hard, I know.

Yeah, like a big guy.

Look.

At him they asked me last night

what his real name was and I

went Boots who?

How?

What is that?

I don't know who you're talking

about.

Oh well, they had already

mentioned what is, what is, what

is Phil's real name?

Yeah.

Boots.

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, yeah.

Well, we never say you're real

real.

You know, no.

I know I find it.

You want to know what I like?

What's really funny for me is

like when somebody locks in or

when I'm doing an interview on

the show and they're like, yeah,

man, you and Palmer are

hilarious and I don't say

anything.

I was like.

Jerks.

Yeah, we are really funny, those

guys.

Are jerks.

And I know that you won't hear

it because you won't see it now

if but he may see it and be

like, you didn't talk about me

at all.

He just said, ah, it's mine show

and blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah.

I'm like, no, that's not what

happened and that's not what I

meant to do.

I would just expect you guys to

go well, you know, Phil's great.

Phil provides great value as

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Yeah, I'll do better for you.

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Should never put that a in, but

you can't change that one.

You can't change it, but you

change the Spotify.

Yep, you did.

Good job.

OK.

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,

but.

You do want the rocket didn't

take.

Off Did you guys go out and

watch a rocket take off I.

Was doing basketball, yes.

Well, though you were already

outside, all you do was look up.

Basketball's inside, yeah.

But you sit there when I look.

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.

Light came on inside during take

off and the toilet malfunction.

The toilet malfunction.

Toilet malfunction lit up.

Oh, it's like spirit.

That's not good.

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, that I mean, the, the

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.

It's about.

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 when airliners where you

had like the bigger chairs with

the ashtrays and stuff on the

side.

Yeah, it's not like a 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.

That doesn't work.

No, the light came on.

There's a problem with the

evacuation system for liquid

fluids.

You could still poop, you just

can't pee.

How?

What are we doing?

We're just.

Going to collect in the bags.

Well, they just step outside and

find a tree.

Yeah, no, but they they have pee

bags.

Yeah, OK.

But there's not like, you know,

privacy, not like you go behind

the curtain or something.

I think that when you signed up

for this, you're well aware.

You expect that?

Yeah.

Well, I mean the things 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

pee.

Was there a girl on this crew?

There is a female on the crew.

Yeah, I think that.

Look, there's a code there, you

know what I mean?

Definitely a code with guys.

There's a code.

Right, but they didn't check to

make sure this was not going to

happen.

We didn't check the toilet.

Like they check everything, you

know, they check 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 Bayesa?

This is.

NASA, this is NASA Artemis 2.

Yeah.

OK, so big shocker there, right?

If we lean on the government to

do it, we're not going to do it

all the way.

Is that what you're telling me?

$4 billion and you can't pee

like you're supposed.

To yeah, I want that to be in

the first interview when they're

up there.

Like really got to pee and I

have to do this back.

Right, All 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.

But then, you know, the lights

flash and light.

What is it here?

Bad news, guys.

We can't pee.

There'll be no peeing.

Imagine the woman's going.

Oh no, no peeing.

Did you?

Imagine if it was me.

Imagine if you were there.

That's right, they're not going

to have enough bags.

At liftoff, you're like, hold

on, I got to pee.

Will you pee in your shoe?

I got to be honest, they would

have known there was something

wrong instantly before liftoff

because checked.

You would have had to have peed.

Before liftoff.

Before liftoff and you said,

hey, this isn't working right

and we would have scrubbed the

whole thing.

You know they have two different

bags, like one for pee, one for

poop.

There is a different poop

evacuation system, but it works.

Oh, oh damn, They could have,

man.

They had poop bags.

They could have found like a

alien house, you know, put it on

the doorstep.

Who's got the light?

Up does the poop knock?

On.

The door.

Does the poop just float around

in space?

No, no.

It it goes into a evacuation

system which it's imagine it

stores it till you get back.

Yes, it floats in space.

Yeah, it floats.

Yeah, I like that a door in the

back comes out and it just.

I like, I like to think I'm

going to believe.

Dick's on the window.

I'm going to believe in my mind

that we just eject the poop out.

Poop out into space.

Of course they do did.

You see the movie Martian where

the guy got stuck on Mars.

No, you didn't.

Any groued potatoes?

No.

It's a good movie.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, What is that guy's name

though?

Not Wahlberg, but the other one.

No, not Wahlberg.

It's not.

It's not the guy that played

Batman.

It's not Ben Affleck.

It's the other one.

Yeah, yeah, it's, 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?

We get clues.

You know who Matt Damon is?

Couldn't think of his name, I

could picture his face.

Wow.

Holy shit it's born do.

You like apples?

So anyway, he uses the astronaut

poop.

Your mic is so sideways right

now.

Yeah, well, your heart monitor,

no trying to.

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, it's too far that way, all

right.

And it's not like Dum Dum's

going to help you fix it.

I didn't know anything about it

being inside.

I mean yours looks.

There you go.

I'm not.

Even going to say anything?

You don't think it's better?

Feel like it's the same.

It's definitely not.

Well, his is more upright now,

yours is more.

Now yours is more turned the way

mine was.

Diamond is.

Talk.

I did talk, I said.

Yours has turned.

More Does he sound better or

more or less?

He doesn't have those, kind of.

Just for us to Fast forward

through this, it sounds great.

It sounds so much better.

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 they get stored

somewhere until they take it off

when it lands.

I'm going to believe that they

eject the poop out into space

and it's going to run into

somebody like, Oh my God.

You watch this movie.

Yeah.

Martian.

Yeah.

Matt Dooman.

Yeah, I like it.

I've seen him more than once.

Really.

Yeah.

Why?

It's about a lonely guy, but

it's just on Mars.

Yeah, but I like the movie.

He's looking forward to that.

He's wants that part in his life

where he just goes to another

planet and he's just left alone.

It's literally castaway in

space.

You're right it.

Is, yeah.

Except he can record videos.

Kind of like kind of like the

new, the new Alan Richardson

movie on Netflix is like a

modernized predator.

You see that?

No.

Yeah.

So they're like Rangers, but

they're about to become Rangers

and and there's this.

Army Rangers.

Yeah, there's this alien.

Oh, the Alan Rickman movie.

Oh, OK, got you.

Sorry.

I I was thinking of somebody

else.

Who you said the name?

The Alan Richinson movie.

Oh, whatever his name, I don't.

Know who Rickman is.

I've never seen it so please

explain.

Yeah, so there there's about.

To be Rangers keep going.

Yeah, and they're doing like

their last field test or

whatever, and they come across

this like alien spaceship thing

that just kills them.

Do they look like like, like you

said, it's like Predator?

Yeah, and the concept of alien

comes down.

Kill, kill people.

Oh so.

It's really, I'm enjoying it.

Oh.

You haven't finished it.

No, I don't really like the

movie.

You don't know.

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.

A lot.

I'm sure.

I mean, there's only so many

ideas I guess.

You're very Cutty off you today.

Sorry, try not to.

Slow down.

You were doing so good.

Like now you're going back to

that.

Who's stressed out?

No, I mean like most like

there's 5 or 6 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.

I 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 want to watch that one.

I finished.

I did finish speaking blinders.

Oh, I had to.

You were giving yourself 2 days.

Yeah, I was apparently I didn't

want to sleep last night, so so

I finished that and then I was

like a war machine.

I guess I'll just start this.

And then at that point, it was

like it's 4:00 in the morning.

Was War Machine good?

I haven't finished it yet, but

yeah, so far so good.

So you get up at you go to bed

at four.

Are we like tagging in and out?

Because I get up at 4:00.

Today, yeah.

I'm like, OK dude, alright.

Palmer's up, I can go to bed

now.

You know, my problem is that

like if I start thinking about

all of it, weather is what I'm

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's turn on the show.

It'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 till 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 tik

toks or something until 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 till you

pass out?

Yes.

More like my wrist gets tired or

something or I have dropped the

phone a couple of.

Times nice, OK.

And it smacked you in the face.

Did you see that the CNB on

CNBC?

There is a kid that said they're

like, why are you so excited

about this?

He was at the he was at the

Kennedy Space Center and he goes

because we're going back to the

effing moon and he's like a 10

year old kid.

Or did.

He say the word or you say

effing.

He said the whole thing.

It was hilarious.

I was looking for the clip, but

there is like background CNBC

music.

I'm like, you can't play it.

Yeah.

Yeah, probably because 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 ship,

what would are you guys

claustrophobic at all?

Not like right away.

I don't think I do as small as

yet, but they say but they get

to go out and do space walks.

So then it's the opposite

effect.

So you're in this tight little

cramped space, then you step

outside and it's just as big as

big, 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 got to be big enough

for four people.

Yeah, but it's not like 4 people

in a place to run around well.

They're probably not running,

but they they can move.

I don't know if I could do it.

Doesn't look that big.

That'd probably drive me nuts.

I'm not built to sit still,

right?

You know what I mean?

And I got to sit still for 10

days.

Right.

Exactly.

Man, in a long time, yeah.

That's a bit much.

This is the wrong cigar, by the

way.

Well, thank you.

Well, it's a delicious one.

So that leads to the next one,

leads to the next question.

But I usually go Habano first.

Would you rather die in space or

in the depths of the ocean?

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 1000.

Alex Expanding sounds miserable.

Why would it matter if you're

dead?

I've been fighting this so long,

trying not my best not to

expand, you know?

And I love food so much.

And then you're going.

To start eating as you're and.

Then you're going to make me

expand, you know?

I would do the space.

What would you would?

Drowning seems claustrophobic.

I think I think drowning is a

miserable way to go.

Have you been in space before,

Palmer?

No, but I see movies.

But we're not talking about

drowning.

You're talking about just

overall compression, Just.

Yeah, but I mean, you're going

to drown.

Yeah, You know, So you go out in

space, take your helmet off, or

you go down in the water and

take your mask off.

I don't think I'm doing either

one of those.

Sounds silly.

Well.

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.

Like the helmet?

Yeah.

That's the.

Movie show.

Yeah.

That's how they put it.

On they go.

It's just that I'm.

Locking in a place.

No, I'm pretty sure.

Like a bottle cap.

I've seen like 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.

Yeah, you know when they land,

he's got to get all the poop

out.

So, you know, due to budget

cuts, he's no longer the

bathroom guy, so.

You know they.

Don't need that.

You know what when they announce

that that the the poop thing

didn't work, You know that guy

that has that job to get the

suits off?

Man, he was cussing of a star I

bet.

Can I?

Clean these suits after 10 days.

You're sitting in your own pee

for 10 days.

He looked back at Frank.

He's like, man, you told me.

You said you jacked.

That thing was.

I don't understand how they

don't have the technologies to

get pictures of the dark side of

the moon there's.

No.

No lights, night vision,

whatever there's.

We just green.

I still want to see it.

Well, there's no Doesn't night

vision work off of reflectivity

or whatever?

Yeah, something like that.

I don't know.

Shouldn't they figure that out

though?

We're no magic.

Listen.

Didn't anybody put the magic

green glasses on the spaceship?

It is magic.

But all I'm saying is we're

going all the way out there.

We should have the ability to

take some pictures.

Meta light this place up.

Yeah, we can't do that.

Stupid classes.

I'm sorry, you can either.

No, you can Facebook Live or

Instagram, but you can't do

both.

OK, this is a brand new toilet

they put on the on the spaceship

of.

Course.

It includes upgrades such as

privacy, door hand holds for

zero gravity use, and the

ability to handle both urine and

solid waste.

Well then, only one Now.

Apparently it marks a step up

from the Apollo era plastic bags

and funnels, which astronauts

described 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 solid 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 a massive logo on.

It yeah, like they're like poop

outfits.

Here's in the pajamas.

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 over now 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 in.

Let's go, let's go.

They have different special

specialties.

We're 28 deep at this point and

we're on the first things.

It doesn't like to put the space

there.

Was a lot of comment the 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 out

and we're like, where, where?

And then there it was, all

right, The biggest TV show in

Russia is bigger than Games of

Thrones.

It pulls an impressive 8.6 share

every week. 8.6 Share.

Yes.

So 8,000,006, apparently that's

a big deal.

Yes, I know what it is.

It's called heated rivalry.

OK, it's a gay hockey drama.

OK.

Wait, did you say Mikey was

going to be a part of this?

That's a, that's a, That's a

show on HBO.

Yes, but in in Russia it is the

number one show.

OK.

But they have strict laws

against gay TV and.

We got them right.

We integrated through Macs.

Got them.

That's right, underground word

of mouth hit in Russia, with

fans risking potential fines or

imprisonment due to strict anti.

Gay propaganda.

I love it.

I love this they're.

Watching it, even if they might

end up in a gulag.

That's.

A gulag that's amazing, that's.

Where they used to send people

to Russia.

We sent 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.

You watch the you like rubbing

the sticks together.

You like the hockey love.

You must go so.

So to punish the gay people in

Russia.

Wait a second.

Or whoever watching the.

Gay.

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, ma'am.

Is that a good show Mega?

It's a great show.

There you go, Boots.

I'm not watching.

I'm at it.

Apparently he's getting you.

Guys are.

Oh God.

That's right.

No, but but so my time it was

going to be is to punish the

people watching this gay show,

which may or may not be gay.

No, the show is definitely gay.

No, no, I mean the people

watching.

It oh got you.

They're going to put them all in

one room.

One prison, apparently.

Right.

Hey, you guys play nice in

there, you can't you?

Can't the reward?

What he's saying is the reward

for watching the new gay HBO

show on Russian black market TV.

Yeah, is they send you to a

vacation up north with many

other gay.

People.

Yeah, it's like a 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.

Sorry, you know what?

Listen, I know that we're making

a fun joke out of it.

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, which

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 it's to see that it's such a

problem for them and that it's

are you fucking kidding me?

Do we see a shot again?

Is that Chinese?

Do you want to?

Why don't you bring it right up

to your mic like I'm in the

middle of a fucking sentence

here.

You got to bleed out how many FS

today?

Like that's like 4 for me.

Doesn't our program

automatically do?

That no.

That's that's what you guys.

Said you are allowed a minimum

number.

I don't know what it is.

We've exceeded the time limit on

this one.

Nah, probably.

Not probably not 4.

It'll run in a little tummy and

then if it's then I get the

opportunity to fix it if I so

choose.

OK, so my point is that that

it's awesome that that this that

they're having this issue

because I the one thing that I

absolutely despise is over

regulation.

Period.

It doesn't matter where it comes

from.

Like you're out of line.

You, you like a government that

tries to stop you from viewing

something that's perfectly

acceptable.

There's no 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.

Like I don't think that I

disagree with that.

So it's awesome to see that it's

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.

Let's get 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.

Food.

We have food Lions here.

There's lions.

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.

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 would like I don't know

whether Russian food.

Yeah.

It's not Schnitzel.

That's German.

Want clothes?

It's on the new Russian

platform.

Russia faces a significant food

affordability problem in 2026,

driven by sharp price increases,

but it does not suffer from

widespread shortage, shortages

or famine like conditions.

The country remains a major

global food producer and

exporter, particularly of grain.

Yet everyday consumers,

especially lower income

households, feel the strain from

inflation and rising costs.

So they have food.

Sounds like us over here.

Yeah, like, OK.

I can't afford it.

Yeah.

So what else is new?

Like sounds sounds exactly

exactly I think.

We're a little better off.

First of all, we're 100% better.

Yeah, we're definitely not

getting thrown into jail for

watching gay hockey.

Yeah, I mean, it's available.

It's available on Max on HBO Go.

What do you want to?

Call it on Max and 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, their

stuff that from the clip I saw

looks like a lot of texting

going on.

One's Russians 1 Canadian.

Yeah, I'm not understanding the

correlation.

I'm trying to.

One guy's on the Russian team,

one guy's on the Canadian team.

They somehow have met.

And the the trailer showed a

couple of random connections and

then a lot of, you know, texting

and smiling like, you know,

here's, here's a picture of my

hockey stick.

Oh yeah, picture of my hockey

stick.

I don't know what they're

saying.

Phil, I'm really going to need

you to deep dive into this.

I'm not deep diving.

Enough.

I need you to.

I know, 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.

Not watching anything.

And then get back to us.

Especially if it's on Max.

I feel 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?

2 guys.

I wasn't picturing anything.

I 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 Grok, is

there any nude scenes in the

show?

Heated rivalry.

And now Grok is going to ask me

specifically.

Of course it is people being

thrown in jail, Mikey.

Is it like?

Why do you wanna know?

Yes, the answer is yes.

Multiple nude scenes and a large

number of explicit sex scenes.

Yeah, boot tester Phil has.

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 come in and tell us

specifically who's on top, who's

the pitcher, who's the catcher.

Well, there's no pitcher

catcher.

There's just a goalie and

forward.

Power forward, power forward.

And it's and it's a power play,

baby.

All right, I know how the price

of oil has gone up all.

Right.

You know the oil is going up.

Oil has gone up 40% since the

start of the war.

Yeah. 40. 4040% OK, 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.

Put in a metal tin.

Can't put it in a metal

container.

It would cost more because that

cost more than the.

Plastic.

So guess what?

Now we're saving the

environment.

Yay.

I don't know.

I'm just kidding.

How?

Much did water go up?

It went up 5%, so from $1.50 to

$1.60 currently just after two

weeks of war.

Is that 5%?

That's what it says.

I don't know.

OK.

I didn't do the math, I'm just

reading the article.

Good.

There's taxes.

So now you drink bottled water.

It cost you more money.

An extra $0.10.

An extra $0.10 a bottle.

OK.

Man, you got me.

And if you buy the fancy water,

if it's a percentage, it's gonna

be higher.

Well, if you're buying the

fancy, you really care.

Well, maybe right there the line

like I like fancy water.

It tastes better the Fiji water,

but maybe it's.

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 affect you maybe when the

children leave the half drank

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 cost

me.

I'm like.

However, they usually do like

the metal cups.

Yeah, and those yetis well then

knock off ones and they're and

they're and they're spread

across vehicles and car, you

know.

Fill them up.

You have filtered water, I

think, don't you?

At your house.

Is this a regular fridge Water,

Yeah.

I didn't know if the kids pour

the bottles into the cups.

That's why I was.

Asking 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.

You know, 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 OK.

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 I'll take his

water.

Yeah, I'm always like, you're

just going to have to deal with

it.

And then I'm just like,

whatever, dude, just take this.

But it's usually Pellegrino.

I'm like spicy water.

Spicy water.

They don't like that you.

Don't have spicy water.

Yeah, so.

All right, gambling on the fact

that that story would have not

done well.

The plastics.

Yeah, the plastic water

increase, OK, I would, sure

would.

So I have a backup story.

Normally it's 3:00 and 3:00 we

have. 4:00 and 3:00 today.

All right.

Well, 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

you're you're, we're people are

there that articles obviously

pinned towards trying to get you

to be outraged about the price

of water.

Or the war in general.

Yeah, 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.

It doesn't.

But I'm going to say this.

If it, 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.

I like if I got to pay $0.10

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 OK, 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 I'm not really a fan of

anybody.

So.

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.

It was a given since right 2020,

right?

You know.

Like like the ghosts.

I don't know, like here, 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 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 and 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.

Things sales are definitely up

and I think that it's a

testament from all the hard

work.

So if you look at if I, 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 going to be

perfect.

There's 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.

I think the slant of the article

was it's at $1.60 now, but as

the price of oil goes up, price

of water is going to go.

Up.

So let's fear monger a little

bit.

Well that's that's what the

article goes into.

That's the problem now, people

going to start hoarding water

because if you buy it now at

$1.60 when it's 2 bucks, you've

saved $0.40 above.

I don't believe that for a

second.

Maybe there's a couple of

handful of crazy people like

yourself, you know, because you

probably still have toilet paper

that you salvage that you saved

from COVID.

I have the emergency toilet

paper that I bought.

Well exactly.

It doesn't have a hole in it, so

it doesn't fit on the roll

right?

So I mean there's no no way to

put it in 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, yeah.

Well, it does say in the package

tissue paper.

Yeah, right.

Would you go and and and buy a

bunch of cases of water right

now because you're going to save

2 bucks on the case?

No, this and this reminds me of

this TikTok I just saw.

It's like this.

They were talking about like

wartime, people's wartime.

Hockey players.

No, no, like when people freak

out about stuff and they go and

buy everything, it's like what

it says me when I walk into the

grocery store and then when he

walks in there's like 3 people

with foil things on their head

like foil little hats.

I'm like yeah that's people are

nuts man.

Like they believe the Kool-aid.

They bleed the kool.

Aid, they believe it like this

is like somebody freaking out

and saying that I'd like to see

what company they own.

Yeah, bro, keep it 100 man.

I don't, they're like, I'm not,

I'm not fazed.

Go buy all my water, especially

Nestle.

Right.

Yeah.

Hey, you know what?

Hey, hey.

Release.

Exactly.

It's the Sandy that tastes

terrible.

Dasani.

Whatever it said.

Potato.

Potato, Mike.

It's Pepsi.

Tastes like the bottle.

Tastes like the bottle, OK.

All right, Japanese McDonald's

has announced a new dessert.

Yeah.

The poop dessert.

The adult cream pie.

Oh my God, are you?

Kidding.

The adult cream pie.

Adult Cream Pie Wow comes in two

flavors, A yellowish white and a

dark brown.

They don't give it names.

Jesus.

There's a video, the video is

funny.

The lady's going the new

Japanese dessert and then the

name comes up and it stops.

She sort of looks again and goes

I'm sorry but it 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 though.

The billionaire cream pie.

So their desserts are better

cream pies than a regular cream

pie.

Wait, their word adult means

something different.

Yeah, when it translates, it

translates into luxury.

So it'll be like the adult

travel agency 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.

A slang that gets them with

America, they can't.

They can't understand the slang,

right?

Well, it's not the real English

language.

You know it's funny.

It does though you.

Know, it'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 just didn't remember

one of the first times I went to

Esta Lee and I was working on, I

was asking when something was

going to ship, like when is it

gonna ship?

So when I translated in Spanish,

the word was barco.

Barco translates to ship like a

boat.

I thought you were gonna go, so

you were making.

When is it gonna boat?

Yeah, so when is it gonna boat?

And this person looked at me

like the hell is this guy

talking about they.

Couldn't have figured that out.

I mean, that seems reasonable if

you would ask him if something's

gonna boat.

I would assume you meant when is

it gonna transport on a boat.

When is it gonna transport on a

boat?

I guess.

I guess you got a point there.

But like, yeah, I mean, that's

kind of a good.

Yeah, they're taking you

literally.

This guy wants to know when

we're gonna boat.

He wants.

You want to see cigars?

The boat?

What is that?

We're going to make a boat out

of them.

We have loco Gringo loco.

Loco and like a beta.

Grab the medelos, we're going on

a boat.

No, it's it's something far

worse in in what is it called in

in the beer in Nicaragua?

I don't.

Know yeah, it was something

weird.

I don't know.

I've never been manga, never

been something.

Hey, you got a video for us?

Michael of.

Course I have a video all.

Right, he broke the streak.

Can I just another picture?

You're not very nice, M&M.

OK, 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.

You give me a little more

specific.

Where did you send that?

Oh, I didn't crop that out

completely.

This thing's so blurry.

I don't have it.

You don't have it.

No.

Where did you send it?

M&M Productions.

Last thing I got there is I

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 it?

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

not.

Even close, the mountains are

different.

Yeah, they're brown.

Well, they're a lot.

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 sound

stage, You.

Thought it was on a sound stage.

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 I didn't listen to that

part.

Where's Where's this guy's full

hat at?

Yeah, I mean, he puts up a

picture and goes, look, it's

exactly the same.

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 now I start

getting other stuff now.

You get a bunch of.

Stuff so it's like, hey, it's

like look up satellites and then

the guy's like it's all just

like kind of images, not actual

pictures of satellites in space

it's.

Like the stuff you sent?

It's like pictures.

It's not.

Yeah, it's pictures, not videos.

Yeah, it's pictures.

It's pictures.

He's a tagger.

I'm not a tagger.

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.

And yeah, and they like when I

counter well.

Touché, he says.

Well, at that point, he's

contemplating.

Right.

So that was like, oh, are there

satellites?

Because, you know, like that's

the, that's one of the things

that, 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 star

link from the sky.

Freaked me out.

Wait, how did you?

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.

OK.

So yeah, OK.

When you said saw it, I thought

like you were in a plane or.

Something.

No.

It looked like moving stars in

life.

I mean, you could like if you

had a telescope, one of those

telescopes.

Telescope things.

Yeah, yeah.

But the high-powered ones,

right, That you can buy.

Maybe you had like a telescope

thing?

You can see them.

When I lived in Eustis, 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're

ready to see them.

They're faster, fast moving

lights that go across, right?

Yeah.

No, those those same people that

think there's no satellites,

those are actually UFOs that

you're saying.

So like the funny part is that

the the, the conspiracies, they

go on and on and on.

And what's funny about them is

they probably get the most views

on social media.

Oh, I'm sure people dig that

stuff.

I mean, you know, we're still,

we're still tracking about the

black hole ending in August.

We're over 3 million views on

Instagram.

Down to Herf has a segment for

conspiracies, Yeah where Caleb

puts on a foil hat.

Yeah, it's just, it's too much.

Well, he's Mr. Conspiracy.

Conspiracy theorist?

Yeah, anyways.

All right, on the cigar news,

everybody paying attention.

There we go, all.

Right, Happy birthday to show

friend Mr. Scott Pearce of the

CAA.

Today is his birthday as we

record the show.

Happy birthday.

I thought about calling him, but

I don't know, we just Nah, it's

kind of hard to do with the new

system.

We have a new equipment.

I like to like this one.

We just.

All right, PCA acquires the

Cigar Academy from Oliva Cigars

OK, the Premium Cigar

Association has announced that

it has acquired the Cigar

Academy from Oliva 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.

Ricardo Coralini and Thomas

Greeson launched the Cigar

Academy in early 2024.

So this is the guy that we just

brought on is not we, but we as

a PCA brought on to be in charge

of the education program of the

PCA.

Yeah, 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 a little self.

Well, they said.

Was he part of a Yeah.

He he launched the Academy in

2024 for Aleva.

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 buy.

Yes, well, at the end there is a

statement that the 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.

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.

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 who we

gave eggs.

And Fuente gave eggs.

No, I think it was like a lot.

Of eggs we gave.

The Alec Bradley or something

who were who knows.

We don't factor so.

Anyway, Ricardo Chili Chili,

whatever his name is, Chili

Chili.

He worked for the parent company

of Oliva and started this

program for them.

That's so smart. $50.00 for

level 1 Course 250 that is just

well hold on, one hour option

for $50 and a level 1 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 for a month?

These are cigars.

Right, exactly.

These is how you puff.

You know, one thing that that I

saw in the yesterday or or maybe

last night I said somebody

marked on the Skip Martin

interview, our most recent one.

Yeah, I mentioned that it's a

very long coming.

No, no, 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 when he's working a

Pallone, 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 small

AP loan 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.

I like I no one has ever really

said anything about that, right?

Believe it was Ben.

He put up 2530, which is where

that conversation starts.

I think that's what he was

saying.

This is something that maybe

should have been picked up on.

You think so?

It's.

Very interesting.

Yeah, so.

You get a pay 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 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, Accordione or and to

borrow, we let them sit so that

the vapors evaporate and then

cigar.

I don't think the that is the

person 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, you know, Fuente to

take.

A So not retailers.

There might be some retailer

information, but I don't think

so much manufacturers to where

you know, somebody needs to know

that you can pull the Pallone

apart and do 303030 sections of

it and this is how you age it.

Why wouldn't it be free?

Well, maybe the level 1 is in

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