Saturday B Roll 7/13

Episode Summary

This is a "Saturday B-Roll" episode — the raw, unedited pre-show footage from A Cigar Hustler's Podcast crew before the cameras officially roll. Rather than a structured cigar review or interview, it's an unfiltered look at how the show actually gets made: gain levels set to dB, mics that don't match, a crooked tripod leg, lighting that flatters one host more than another, and the running argument over who is or isn't centered in frame.

Cigar content surfaces in passing. The crew notes that a new Supreme Leaf shipment is coming but that the international release now carries a red-and-blue band instead of the familiar purple one — and that they won't be getting that version. There's also mention of Greg unpacking a La Flor Dominicana box, with the Carbon Fiber release called out, plus a debate about whether it's appropriate to hold up a cigar on camera at all.

A recurring thread is the business of podcasting itself: why the show's Instagram Reels don't get the engagement of other channels like Creekside, the risk of YouTube demonetization for smoking on air, and the rule that you can't quote cigar prices on social platforms without running afoul of tobacco advertising policies. There's also talk of a possible appearance on Epicurean Smokes, follow-up on a Facebook group impersonation/scam invite, and plans for event lighting and (banned) fireworks in the studio.

Expect mask jokes, bleeped profanity, headache complaints, breakfast quesadilla recipes and the "famous Saturday morning crotch shot." This one is for regular listeners who enjoy the crew's chemistry — not a cigar primer.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Supreme Leaf's New Red-and-Blue Band
   The crew notices the international Supreme Leaf release has swapped the familiar purple band for red and blue — and that they won't be carrying it.
2. 02
   Mic Checks and Gain Settings
   Endless 'check, check, check' as the team sets gain from auto to dB so each host's volume matches.
3. 03
   Camera, Tripod and Lighting Battles
   A crooked tripod leg, an off-center frame and lighting that reads differently on each host's skin tone derail the start time.
4. 04
   La Flor Dominicana Carbon Fiber Delivery
   Greg unpacks an LFD box including the Carbon Fiber, sparking a debate over whether the show should hold cigars up on camera.
5. 05
   Social Media Rules for Cigar Content
   Why YouTube flags smoking on air and why you can't post cigar prices in Facebook groups without getting hit.
6. 06
   Reels Engagement and Other Cigar Shows
   The guys compare their Instagram Reels numbers to Creekside's setup and audience, and mention an invite from Epicurean Smokes.
7. 07
   Fireworks, Confetti Cannons and Studio Chaos
   Greg is officially banned from the fireworks, and there's talk of buying $500-a-unit outdoor lighting units for events.

Brands & Cigars Discussed

Linked items are in our shop. Mentions without a link aren’t currently stocked or couldn’t be matched with confidence.

Transcript

The Ender of the Day. And I'm on -45. Minus 45? Yeah.

I don't know, you sound great, leave it alone. Another Supreme Leaf is coming. Oh, I'll have the Supreme Leaf. Oh, go, go.

Supreme Leaf International. Oh, we're not getting it. Oh, it's red and blue. It's not the purple band anymore.

Yeah. Oh yeah, we're not getting that. Red and blue? Red and blue.

What is that? I don't know what that stands for. Red and blue. I don't know.

" Mm-hmm. Oh, I won't mock the racial tension then. Oh, yeah. Florida targets General Mills over controversial, now there's something in the flower.

There goes the bread. No vegetables, no bread, and it's cow day. Oh, and it's on me. Look at that.

Well, I had it on Mikey's chair, but no one's there. No one's in his chair. Interesting. How's the baby?

A baby good? Were you good? Uh, good. Yeah.

Yeah. Sounds good. Something wrong with your sliding glass door? At my house?

No. Mikey's? I don't know. Is there?

I don't know. I was hearing the TikTok. Oh. His TikTok?

Brittany's TikTok? He doesn't make TikTok. Whatever that is on right now. Oh.

Who knows? It's Instagram Reels, probably. Is that like what he does to get in the mode? He does listen to that quite often.

I don't know what's going on over there. He's trying to refrain from pooping. Maybe. Yeah.

Oh, that's a great idea. What else are they putting in there? Watch that cooking video. I'm making a breakfast, something, vegetables, ruin it, oh there you go, oh neat, you ever have an egg with the middle cut out, do you know what that is?

Poached egg? You take a piece of bread, you put a hole in the middle, and then you cook the egg in the middle, and it sort of goes... Yeah, toe in a hole, toe in a hole, toe in a hole, what do you call it? Toe in a hole.

My grandmother called it egg with the middle cut out, but here this guy's making it with a tortilla. Oh yeah. So he ends up, so he cuts the hole out of the bottom tortilla. Cheese, bacon, vegetables, tortilla on top, flip it over, and now you have a breakfast quesadilla.

You chose the right one, fool. Apparently. I remember having my appointment at 12, so. Right, yeah, he's got an appointment at 12, I have work to do.

Yeah, it is. We will be leaving at 11. Michael, we need to start, buddy. Boots is on a clock today.

I like the tuna, no crust. Is that the appointment? You gotta go get your sandwich? Boots so stupid, we had to bleep him out again.

Hey, hey. Oh, sorry. We're on b-roll though. It doesn't matter.

They still hear it. You better not do that. I was just quoting the movie. I know you were.

That movie was recorded in a different time. What'd you put in that sandwich? You said that first. They had to go drop the f-word.

The other f-word. I got to cut that out today. No way I'll remember by the end of the week. Let's just be honest.

You're not gonna cut it out. I'm gonna bleep it. It's a lot easier to bleep. No, you're gonna fuck it up.

Yeah. Okay. When you go to bleep it, can you like do your own stuff? Can you go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, I can. Yeah, there you go. Food too stupid. Wow.

Get a tan with this light. I can't adjust the light for you. Your skin tone's different than Greg. Greg doesn't see the sun.

Yeah. Creekside's got this beautiful light. Greg's more like Dracula. Here it comes.

Here comes all the stuff. Now we have to get it. Creekside's got this beautiful light. Creekside has this beautiful light.

They have this amazing microphone system. You're just going to see a minus 200 in the bank account. Minus 200, that light was probably like 5 G's. Oh.

How is their show so popular? They're nice. We're nice. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You said popular. You said the people in the place didn't even know they had a show. They crushed, dude. Their Instagram, they had 450 likes on it.

I don't know. We don't get much likes on our reels. No. I think it's cause we're just so spread.

Too many? Too many places they can see it? Yeah, we're in like so many areas. Yeah, it practically fills my feed.

I was asked to join Cigar Hoser Podcast the other day, I figured I was already in it. You should probably join it. Don't touch it, it could be a scam. Yeah, it doesn't really matter, it shows it to me anyway.

When you click on it, is it like one of those guys in Cuba with all those cigar boxes and stuff? They ask me for my credit card information? Alright, you ready? Yeah, turn the B-roll.

I hope so. You feel better? Me? Yeah.

He's gonna bring it. He's gonna bring it. Don't you worry. Come on.

Turn this bad boy on. Daddy will deliver. Daddy. Now we're calling him Daddy.

Are we on? Are we going? No, you gotta do the thing so Team Money's not mad. Oh, you gotta kill that and you gotta kill the B-roll.

Well, I was going to B-Roll, but you guys were saying some sensitive things. I don't want to repeat them as we're recording. Your thing has the zoom on the front, I thought. No, that's good, because you're going to, you're going to eventually, yeah, you're going to eventually go down anyways.

The homo. Put on the mask again. Yeah, I feel like it's too dark on me. What are you asking?

Oh, your mask. How did you get your mask? Because you're down here in the ditch. I'm here earlier than anybody I've heard of you.

There's only one other person! Exactly. What do you have to drink? One mic.

Oh! Sorry, I got an order there at the last minute. We might actually start on time today. Well, that was, no, I was here, Greg was upstairs, he was finishing.

Yes, the one with the broken thing? It's the one he likes to use. I don't have my mic on either. Greg had to finish unpacking the LFD box.

Oh, is it the carbon flowers? Yeah, I told them to bring one down so you can show it. No, we can't show it. We don't do that on this show.

Because it's selling cigars. No, no, we were just going to show it because we talked about it. You don't have to sell it. We're just going to hold it up.

Yeah, look, this is the carbon fire. My brother shows cigars that he's smoking all the time. Yeah, we did a show, the show we did the other night, the guy said he got hit by YouTube for smoking on the air. We didn't correct that.

" You can't say the price. Right. " Yeah. Oh, that's wrong.

Poop. Poop. No thank you. Poop.

Not with the microphone. Poop. Pooping. Got it pooping.

Check check. One two check check. Check check check. Yeah yeah.

You're good now. You're good. Crotch shot. Check.

Gotta put this on. Crotch shot. The famous Saturday morning crotch shot. Switch to me.

Oh listen to him now. Yeah. Can't get away from it. If it's not one step on cabbage it's the other.

Oh that's the big thing. Am I setting it? Am I centered, am I bright, am I dark? Am I centered?

Am I centered, am I bright? No, move your camera to the right a little. Did your wife mention your trip to Egypt last night? Other way.

Other way, Greg. The other right. The day before? There you go.

That's good. Okay, you're now messaging people, asking them to put you on their podcast, I saw? Greg? You.

You said, not what I do that. You sent a message to Epicurean Smokes, I saw it. No, he commented, and that's where you guys were talking about someone sent me a message on Instagram. He didn't send me a message.

He did on Instagram. He said he did. No, he sent a comment. " Oh, you didn't see it anyway.

Whatever. So now you're asking him to email you? " Apparently, you're a big deal. Apparently.

Apparently, he thinks he's a big deal. I always knew I was a big deal, but they just hide me. They keep me in the closet, you know? How, so let me ask you this, like, the first time they had you put on the mask, what was it that they said that you were like, "Yeah, okay, I'll do that"?

It'll be funny. And now six years later. Um, okay, hold on, uh, Palmer, on your microphone, it says Gain Auto. That has to go to DB, right?

No, no, no. Mine you don't touch. Okay, yours don't touch. His you touch.

14. So you got to go to DB17. 17. Until we get the other mic, and then that'll be the same as this.

Check, check, check, check, check, check. Testes, testes, one, two, three. Hello? No, cut out a different minute, that earpiece.

Yeah, I was changing. I was changing Greg's thing. Oh, he was changing it, three. All right, talk now, Greg.

Check, check, check, testes, testes. Talk now. Talk, talk, talk, check, check, check. Check, check, check.

talk normal talk normal say the dog went to the beach exactly how is it they got you to wear that mask there you go there you go i just want to make sure it was hitting the thing hitting the thing hitting the thing yeah it's important it hits the thing hit the thing i gotta make sure your voice matches his voice right the volume matchy matchy matchy matchy so we should go to the white square yep yeah i gotta know are we good to go everybody goes to the white square yep Ready to stop and then start? Yeah, you guys ready? Okay, now you know when he records? See how it's red there on the screen, Greg?

Yeah, make sure it's red on the screen. That's my job. Yesterday, we had to start over. I'm aware of my job.

Are the fireworks set up? No. You're not going to win anyways. He's not here.

We don't get fireworks when he's not here. Fuck, are the fireworks not set up when he's not here? We're not allowed to use the fireworks. Yeah, he actually specifically said Greg's not allowed to use the fireworks.

I will go spend another $700 for another round of fireworks. Get your own set of fireworks. Just have it behind me. Get lights, like one of those things that spin.

I'm actually looking at one of those right now. Are you? Yeah, the guy wants like 500 per unit, he's got four, and they're bright enough to like go outside waterproof and do like the in the sky thing. I think that'll be good for events.

Oh, here? Oh, I thought it was at your house again. No, I'm, yeah, for the fucking bedroom. You don't put a back?

Actually, you know what, you've got a point, I have set up fireworks. Yeah, I don't think we're as far-fetched. But I meant for just, you know, when you have your parties, you don't invite me to. Did I tell you about the one time that she thought I shot her?

Like I literally shot her with a gun? Yes. Oh, my God. All right, let's move on.

It was, uh, he took the, the pipe thing. Confetti pipe. Yeah. Don't explain why on the show.

It's a family show. Yeah. I would have to check three boxes on that thing. This is just the B-roll.

It's still Saturday morning and we monetize Saturday morning. Oh, yeah. All right, you ready? Yeah, yeah, let's stop.

It's working now. That's why I said I checked it the other day, and it seemed to be working. I think it's your ears. Whenever you're ready there, CB, we're running out of time.

Oh, now you're doing it. Stop. That's the way you eat all the time anyway. Telling your mother.

Did she go home? Mother? Yeah. Yeah.

Not that she remembers where she is. You guys ready? We're waiting on you, CB. Okay.

Oh, it would probably be good if I put the camera on one of us, since we're doing the beep. It's good on Google. Oh, is that, that one? The cord is, oh, because it's hanging.

I forgot. Yeah, when you said one, I started eating two. Well, you said 12:30, but at 12:20, you said you're on your way, so. Mm-hmm.

Are you too bright? No, I think it looks good. Maybe it's a little bright. I'm crooked.

There, now I'm in the middle. You look crooked. Your whole camera's crooked. Is it really?

" Don't do it like that. You can break it. That's how you break it. The legs aren't all the way down.

Still not straight. It looks straight. Is it not straight? I mean, the teleprompter looks crooked, but the camera looks straight.

Oh, it looks crooked to me. Like, that leg is up too high. Which leg? That leg.

Put one closer to you. They're all the way down. The front one might be up slightly, but it's not too high that way. Yep, it's down all the way.

Is it something under here? I can see it. It's perfect. Well, you can see it from the front.

That's what he said. I'm gonna bring these two up a little bit. That one? No, those two.

The other side. This one and this one. Oh, that even looks straight on the screen. Wow, now you're just slightly gone.

I'm off? What do you mean, too far away? You just have to move it so that you're perfectly centered, you're not perfectly centered. Oh, left and right, which way do I need to go?

I mean, look at it! No, now you're leaning. No, I'm sitting straight, but I'm too far over here, too much background that way. I'm getting a headache.

I'm gonna mic up and we're just gonna roll. Alright, mic up, where is he? This is terrible B-Roll. We just go with the double.

You look taller. It's alright, every day can't be a winner. It's a B-Roll. You could eat more.

I could grab food you need. I still have food left. We don't have time. We have a tumor.

A tumor? Think I have a tumor? It's not a tumor. It's a tumor.

Boys have a vagina, girls have a... Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina. Boys have a vagina? Well, they all want one.

What school did you go to? They all want a vagina. The headache's in this left eye. I'm just going to do the pirate show.

Oh, you're getting migraines. No, it's just headaches. This is headaches, I don't think my, oh great, I'm going to add that to the list, I'm going to have migraine. Alright, you ready?

Because we've got to show, we've got to deliver here. Oh, wow. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready.

Want me to kill it and start it again? Sure, kill it and start it again so I don't have to get up because of my tumor. Okay. What if it's like a colon or a prostate tumor but it's hitting my eye?

It would be really big. Am I too bright? No. It might get brighter for Alex.

He's apparently paler than I am. Oh. Oh. Nope.

Okay, bye-bye.

Show Notes

Go behind the scenes with A Cigar Hustlers Podcast as we take you through an entire week of the daily grind. From pre-show setup and off-camera conversations to unexpected moments, laughs, and everything that never makes the main episode, this is an unfiltered look at what happens behind the mic. If you've ever wondered what goes into producing the show every day, this is your backstage pass.