Talking Bandolero, Reviews & Wild Headlines | CHPOD 654

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So, ladies and gentlemen, amateurs and aficionados, get ready in one, two... Gandalf. Gandalf the Great. Welcome to Cigar Oster Podcast.

The Professor Podcast. I've changed this around a little bit because we're losing people. Okay, first of all, you're not losing people. It says we are.

No. No, your viewers are up. What you were referencing before is the fact that you had a pop of a tremendous amount of people looking at it briefly and then not watching the whole thing. We had another one the day before yesterday.

Yeah. But realistically, if it's introduced to new people, you're not going to retain all of those people. No, no, you're not. You're going to retain a lower percentage of them, right?

Right. So that's fine. That means that you're actually being pushed more. Right.

Yeah. That's why we got pushed more. Well, I just doing what the robot, my robot suggested. Okay.

But it's still, it's actually more positive than you think. And I like the fact that you're trying to fix it or work on it, but don't look at it in a negative light. It's actually the opposite of that. Yeah.

You're getting more views and you're not holding all of them, which is what's kind of assumed. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, there's another graph on another page that it asked me to find and show it, and it shows where they went out. Right. Right. Yeah, your retention level.

Right. Right. So go ahead. Carry on.

Carry on. 3 billion job interview. Ooh. Indonesian president finds out there's a spy in his inner circle.

Oh, no. Meta makes a robot for your home. Okay. Then in cigars, we have some very tiny cigars.

Fifth Avenue is being dissolved, and then it's not a new cigar. Let's just say it's a re-release. Oh. And then our famous, what's the score?

Mm-hmm. But I'm your host, Mike BDB Palmer. Joining me today is my co-host and the maker of all things Hustler, the king, Mike Szczepankewicz. Hi.

Hello. And then over in the engineering booth, back with us again, Mr. Ziggy the Gandolf, I guess? I wouldn't have wear the hat today.

Mr. Ziggy... Why do you keep saying Gandalf? Because it's Gandalf-y?

It looks like Gandalf. Well, yeah. Since Tim was wearing that Angmar mask, I thought we'd match up finally. I mean, he accepts the Gandalf thing.

Oh, gotcha. We've spoke before you got here. Okay. I was just curious.

All right. And his magic dice. Oh. Damn it.

They're one and one, so let's see if they... One and one. Oh, you're losing to dice. Today's the day.

Light one up, settle in, and welcome to a Cigar Hustler Podcast. Dun, dun, dun. But first, before we start the show, Michael, what is going on in the lounge? Ooh.

Is there so much going on? There is. Oh, nice. But before you do that, like and subscribe wherever you're viewing and listening to the show.

com for all your chpod swag. com, a Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where we give reviews, talk some more inside baseball about what's going on in the industry, and let's get into some comments and stuff. I don't have the newest auction up yet, but I'm going to work on that today, probably. I don't know.

We'll see. My kids' donation. Ooh, Palmer. Yes.

Did you get another one? We're at $870. Oh. We're at $870 per kid.

So we set the goal to $1,000. So we're almost there. Let's see who helped. Tyler Jeffries.

Oh, Viso? My guy. Yeah. Oh.

Look at, look at, look at, what a stud. He's got all that pre-nut clarity money now. He's got all that post-nut clarity? Post-nut clarity.

Money, yeah. It was after, not before, sorry. Yeah. And Sweepy.

Oh, nice. Sweepy has just swooped in. Oh. Yeah.

Thank you so much. You really just have to show her stuff. She's very nice lady. Yeah.

She's like, all right, I'm in. I'm in, fine. The children. They're my height.

I like children. You know, for me personally, this is more about like just when someone says, wow, you know, how'd you do that? I'm like, yeah, I'm surrounded by some really bad ass people. Good people, you know what I mean?

So thank you so much, guys. If you want to contribute, the time is running out. Go to the CH Pod Lounge. It's going to be pinned up top.

It's going to say a fundraiser. I got some giveaway things. I'm giving some stuff away. And if you just comment on there, you'll be entered to win.

So, uh, but getting into the CH Pod Lounge, let's see if there are some comments from the previous show. Okay. Are you excited? I'm excited.

I'm excited. I went and read them. Did you? Yeah, but I forgot to comment.

Okay. Actually, no, I just looked at YouTube, but I didn't go to the lounge this morning. All right. I've been very busy.

" Coin? Yes. Um, no, uh, the, the coins kind of got tabled for right now. Yes.

What we looked at, what we saw, uh, from what Charles made, I thought it was cool. I just didn't, I didn't feel like it was, I just didn't feel like it was enough, you know? Gotcha, right. Um, so yeah, we just kind of, we just kind of stopped.

Tabled that for the moment. For the second, yeah. Right, right, to put that off to the side. Yeah.

Going on behind the scenes. To be determined. " He got a haircut and a shave. Yeah, he got a shave and a haircut.

Two bits. Two bits. And yes, the mask also is incredibly small. Should you see the thumbnails from yesterday?

Because I have to now show it, okay, no one needs to be wearing this. Right. Yeah, they're hilarious. I think they made it even smaller in the thumbnail.

That's awesome. Shrink it. Make it smaller. Smaller.

Smaller. Very small. At Ben Roland 6241 says, "No episode on the lounge at 6am. At least in the US, you're federally required to maintain temperature monitoring on foods that require refrigeration.

Many sites aren't going to have someone who specializes in HVAC and can troubleshoot on site, and so remote access allows technicians to troubleshoot from afar. Most commercial buildings have seven. And they do something similar for their cooling and heating. Wow.

I mean, that makes sense, I guess. It does make sense. So, like, the school system controls. You're covered in ash.

Just so you know. Oh, just so you know. Yeah. Like, the school systems, they can control the thermometer or the thermostat from somewhere else.

Right. Yeah. Same idea, I guess. So, did you watch the previous show?

Yes, I did. I love you. You're amazing. I listened to it on my way to boxing.

Did you? Yeah, but I was like, so all that could have been avoided if they just hired somebody to wash these coolers. Right. That's a good point.

The guy that would press a button when something goes wrong. Yeah. An alarm goes off. Yep.

And then ice cream is melting. Right. Ice cream is melting. So to save a couple bucks, they lost a couple bucks.

Yeah. Disconnect the Wi-Fi. You know? Right.

And connect somebody like Tim. Yeah. And that will work half the time. That makes sense.

Fran Ziletto from the CH Pod Lounge says, Tim looks like Blanket Jackson on South Park. And I have an image of this, if anybody is interested, Fran Siletto sent it to me, I'll give it to you, you can put it up, and it is completely accurate. 100%. That is a great comparison, for sure, for sure, for sure.

Lan says, Tim looks like a Japanese character with those eyes. Y'all kill me, great show, have a great day, everyone. It does accentuate his eyes quite a bit. Yeah, it pushes them back a little.

Something, right? Yeah. And since he can't see, because he can't get his glasses under there. Yeah, he's like this.

They're always bug-eyed trying to read. Oh, man. @iHeartBDP says, "Mikey, stop attacking the great BDP. " I didn't know I had a militia.

Oh, so here you are defending yourself? That's not me! Yes, it is. No, it's not.

We have found out who it is. Have we? Yes. Did we?

I thought we did. Oh. Oh, yeah, we did. Yes, we did.

That's right. " Is that Siggy? They do not. They do not.

They don't put milk in the fridge either. Really? No milk? Their milk is entirely pasteurized.

You buy it off the warm section. No. You can get it at Publix. The cardboard milk that's in the aisles, that's what they use in Europe.

They have a Nica as well. There's like little milk boxes, like juice boxes over in there. Oh. It's disgusting.

I figured it was fake milk. I didn't know it was real milk. You guys are savages. Europe.

We are efficient. It's chewy. It's chewy. It's chewy.

Got chunks in it. Well, if you're chewing the cardboard, it's chewy. It's not chunky, chunky style milk? How does it taste?

Just like regular milk. It does? There's no difference. Really?

I have to put it in the fridge because I like to drink it cold. But they drink it warm too, which is that I don't get. Make sure you stay on mic. Yeah, I like to drink it cold, but it tastes just like regular milk.

Really? He's very tall in his defense, and the chair broke, so we're trying to make do for another day. I think the chair comes to it. I'm trying to adjust the mic stand up, but it's outsmarted me.

Well, Palmer is very budget conscious, and he didn't want to get an additional mic stand You told me not to! Yeah. " Oh, well, these don't go higher than that, I don't think. I like this, yeah.

No, these aren't designed to go up. Right. They're designed to go down. It's creaking.

Yeah, just torque the shit out. I'm not going to break it. By the way, Teddy, my daughter, she says thank you very much. She's welcome?

Yeah, she wanted me to reach out and thank you. Oh. Yeah, today I went out, so she's getting into lacrosse. Right.

So what I did today is I ordered her a stick. Right. But then I thought to myself, well, she's going to need a goal. Oh, in practice.

Yeah. Yeah. And then I thought to myself, well, she can't just do it by herself. So then I got a stick.

Oh, really? And then I said, well, then the boys are probably going to want to play. Oh. Wow.

So then I got two goals, five sticks. Oh, wow. All set up. And I went to go and purchase it.

And I hit the continue button. Right. And the credit card that was saved is the CHPOT credit card. The show is now sponsoring the lacrosse.

From the bottom of Teddy's heart, thank you so much for the $310 purchase of the lacrosse stuff for her. Yeah, Ziggy, you're not getting the mics, Dan. I'm very sorry. It's really not in the budget now.

We're in the lacrosse. That was very sweet of you. You're such a great grandpa palmer, you know. Are lacrosse goals like soccer goals, but smaller?

- Kind of, yeah. - Okay, I didn't know how they looked. - Yeah, very similar. - I can see it played, just normally the footage you see in movies and stuff, it's in the middle, it's not the scoring.

- Yeah, they're a little tighter and a little taller. - Gotcha. - So yeah, I'm looking forward to this. This is something that I know nothing about.

Can't wait till I coach it. - So five, is there one for mommy too? - Of course. You have to incorporate mommy.

- Well, I didn't know, I didn't picture her playing the coach. - What if mommy wants to take the field? - You give her your stick. - No, no, we're all out there.

- Oh. - We're all out there. - Well, then it's an odd number of people. You'll figure that out.

Yeah. " That would be pretty cool. Oh. I don't know how you would do that.

That sounds like quite the task for David Hasselhoffman. Well, next month's is, uh, you could do it. Next month is, next month's. Well, that's what I mean.

It's sort of like that, but a different shape. I mean, next month's is incredible. Yes. Yes.

And @bryanmattingly5539 says, "So when Tim tried to show us what you were talking about, Palmer said he'd put it up. " Tim did show it, so I didn't put it up. So you didn't bother to put it up? No, because Tim showed it.

It's like, what do we do, put it over the picture he already put up? This is my life, just so you know. This is my life, Brian, and this is how things go around this section. I'm going to do that!

I may or may not do anything else going forward, so just so you guys know. Complain some more. Go ahead. There'll be no audio on the next show.

Oh, @RuckusUnchained. Oh, Mikey's mom. Tim looks like a pretty flower. Hello, Shane.

She'd send her flowers for being in the hospital. " Right. Oh, he was agreeing. Yeah.

If you want to hear your comment read aloud on this show, simply comment below on this YouTube page or comment on the CH Pod Lounge. Now, I did speak about, I was working on something special for the site. Yes. Okay.

Thank you. And I didn't get to it yet. I was working on an address book for the back end, for our customers, so that they could save various addresses, and when I pressure tested that, it had a bunch of issues. So they can have more than one address you would ship to?

Correct. Yeah. A lot of people will have multiple addresses, and they want them just saved. Seems confusing for shipping.

No, one is saved as your default. Right. Excuse me. But like, I mean, Amazon, you have a bunch of addresses saved.

Oh, similar to that. If you want to ship to somebody else or something. Or if you want to ship to your office or anything like that. So they will choose which address at checkout.

Correct. So it'll save your default one. And then if you have another one, you can just drop it in. Oh, okay.

I understand. So when I went to go and pressure test that, it snagged. So, however, what I did build is built. It's just not pushed on there yet.

I'm looking forward to it. It should be cool. And it's going to intertwine with CHPod. Oh, nice.

Yeah. So, it'll be pretty cool. Good stuff. All right, you ready?

Yeah. Let's get on with the show. 3 billion from Binance. Are you familiar with Binance?

Yeah, I have an account. Not anymore. I thought that the crypto already took all my money. Uh, well, the Koreans might have now.

Oh no. So anyway, they set up this... North or South? Uh, they just say Korean.

That's not okay. Well, it's not my story, I didn't write the story. So they set up this fake interview for this guy, for an engineer at Binance. Okay.

And then when he shows up the interview, uh, I guess he only has one computer, and it's the company computer. Mm-hmm. They said, here, we need you, let's see exactly, what did they call the program? An engineer went through interviews with people posing as recruiters and a CEO for a company.

They asked him to download a coding test onto his computer and see if he could work the program. Oh, this is like Swordfish. Right. But it was a fake program.

Right. So a week or so beforehand, they faked interviewed another person and they put something different on his laptop, which allowed this fake thing to do bad stuff. Oh, a double fake thing? Right, yeah, a double fake, fake, fake.

A lot of fake things? A lot of fake, fake. " Oh, they breached it, then they got another person. And they stuck it in somebody else.

Right. So, another employee had previously downloaded a tampered software installer giving attackers information about the team, so this is how they knew who everybody was. Right. 34 billion.

Amazing. That's a lot of money. That's a lot of pretend money. That's a lot of pretend money.

Yeah. The FBI attributed the attack to, oh, North Korea. Sorry, it is North Korea. Yeah, it did say North Korea.

Binance says it's covering customers' losses. I don't know how that works. 85 billion was frozen or intercepted. 85 billion.

Oh, they got saved almost half. Yes. That's good. With 98% of the affected tokens, so is that the money for the purpose?

Yeah, yeah. The pretend. Yeah. So now this guy has to explain, one, he was going to leave the company, and two...

Oh. Yeah. 34 billion. You unlocked this.

Yes. You opened this up. You unintentionally... Right.

I mean, you can only blame the original guy so much. Well, it wasn't just me, it was the other guy. Well, how are you doing an interview with like a North Korea? No, no.

They're North Koreans. They came here. They came here? Yeah.

I mean... S.? It was in the... Oh, I don't know where Binance is.

Okay. S. But I don't think it's North Korea. Okay.

Because that's, you know, Kim Jong-un. You didn't walk into like... They sent a couple of emails. Hey, we really like what your work is.

Right. We like how you're doing stuff. How about you come work for us? Yeah.

We have an interview here, and Mr. Kufang is going to be there, the CEO, we're assuming they're Korean. And you got to bring your own laptop, bring your own laptop, we're interviewing you, we're offering a multi-million, sweet dollar, but do it on your own laptop. Yeah, but we need you to bring your work laptop, not your Chromebook, your work laptop.

Can you imagine, how awesome to get away with $3 billion and then be like, North Korea, they're, you're not giving it back. Yeah, you can't go away, right. They're gonna feed everybody now. No, they're not.

No, they're not, still not. Kim's gonna have a big party. Oh, yeah? Get some new shoes or something.

Big, new shoes? Yeah. Just him and his hookers. Yeah.

He has, allegedly, he has, you know. Do we have to say allegedly with him and think he's coming after us? I think it's always allegedly is better safe than sorry. Yes, I've heard he fancies the exotic women.

Oh, really? I heard, allegedly he doesn't poop. I have heard that too. Right.

Siggy, have you heard anything about Kim Jong-un? No. Was that where you were last week? How do you not know?

You're so worldly. I know who Kim Jong-un is. Crazy toupee, kind of chunky, likes his military parades. Right, like military parades.

With the knockoff sunglasses he makes everybody wear. That's where it ends for you? Yeah, I don't know. He's crazy.

Let him be crazy over there. I always like to use him as like a reference It's like a reference when somebody's trying to threaten me. Ziggy or Kim Jong? North Korea.

Oh, okay. I'm like, oh, you're like North Korea. Like North Korea? Like, we can't quite take you seriously.

Oh. You know? I understand that you're angry, but I'm looking at you and I'm just thinking, hmm, no. There's been a lot of videos lately because they have a missile that could go anywhere in the world?

Yeah. Allegedly. Yeah, true. Allegedly.

It could go anywhere. But they only have the one. They only have the one. Right.

And apparently it's not very fast. It gets there eventually. Yeah. And by the time it would get to us, we could already have blown him up.

We send 75 of them your way. You send one this way. So you sent that missile. Yeah, we actually managed to intercept it and turn it around.

And now it's coming at you. And guess what? Your fridges won't work either. How's that sound?

Everything's warm. Oh, everything's warm. And it's about to get a lot hotter. Oh, your Mugu guy pen is hot now.

Wow. Like, but we got 3 billion. Right. Hmm.

You only have the one. I mean, but there's a couple of countries that would do something like that, and there's like nothing you can do, right? Right. Well, let's just say this, he is crazy enough, allegedly, to launch it.

Oh, I'm not even talking about that. Oh, what do you mean? I don't even care if he launches that. Well, there's nothing.

That's no big deal. I'm just saying. But like, hey, you took 3 billion dollars. Oh.

And there's nothing that we can... Yeah, what are you gonna do? Are we gonna go to war about it? You're gonna hack us back?

You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Right. It's like-- They send him an email, they're gonna interview him?

As crazy as it sounds, like the grand scheme of things in the entire world, like, you got away with 3 billion? Right. Meh. You know what I mean?

Sure, right. But it's 3 billion of fake money? I don't know. You gotta move it.

Yeah, you gotta sell it to somebody else or something, right? Right, yeah. Yeah, you gotta, like, Blood Diamond or something. Oh, buy Blood Diamonds.

Nice. Can you imagine trying to purchase Blood Diamonds with, you know-- Right, with $3 Billion of Crypto? With the, what was that lady called, the Hawk Tua Coin or something like that? I have 3 Billion of Hawk Tua Coin.

Yeah. I would like to buy the Blood Diamond, please. Give me the Blood Diamond. They're very nice, they're very red.

That's not really why they're Blood Diamonds, sir. Oh. Okay, I've been tricked. Okay.

I've been tricked. Okay. Oh, they fool me. So, did you hear about this, Zig?

Or what? The Hawk Tua Coin? Yeah, that's what I heard about. The Haktua coin I heard about.

This other thing now, this is news to me. The $6 billion theft? Yeah. Well, it just came out yesterday.

I mean, I would open my Binance account to look and see if... Don't look. It doesn't matter. There's none of that.

It might be hacked and you might open up to your Kynance account. Kynance? I don't know. It's a totally different one.

Yeah, I don't know what else you have. That's a complete account. Oh, there's nothing, there's not enough in there for me to... To be concerned?

Oh my God. Oh my God, my 75 cents is gone. I already gave it all the way to crypto. What did you get for it?

What did I get for it? More lacrosse stuff? Less crypto. I got less crypto.

Payback the lacrosse? I bought the crypto. No, no, no. That's gone forever.

I didn't buy that. That's a present. Did you at least use the 27 points we had? Oh, no.

There was no point option. I didn't even know it was on that card. I just hit the continue button and it said purchased. And I go, oh, God.

Oh, no. Oh, boy. Okay. You could have canceled that real quick.

But then I wouldn't get the lacrosse, then Teddy would be upset. We don't want Teddy to be upset. No, we don't want Teddy to be upset. Yeah, no, we'll figure it out.

We'll figure it out. I need a photo of everyone with the lacrosse stuff. You have a picture? Yeah, yeah.

So that I can put it up, everybody hold it up there in front of the two goals. com. com. Yeah.

Right. Congratulations. Then we start getting emails from other sports groups. Hey, so we saw your donation, your generous donation, and we were wondering, And then we were wondering.

My kids are playing basketball and we need a gym. Right. Gym does sound nice, not gonna lie. Our own indoor?

Do you have a gym at your churchy school? I would love my own. With Father Bob? I don't know his name.

Father Bob? What's the head guy's name? Father Bob. No, it's not Father Bob.

What is it? Father Charlie? Charlie! He's long gone.

Oh, like past gone? No, he's been out of the picture. He retired and I think he might have cancer. Oh.

You would think he would be immune. He's got connections. You think you know a guy? You would think.

I don't know. I don't know if it works that way, buddy. No? Yeah.

Something about struggles and all this other stuff. Wow. Yeah. Well, it could be worse.

They could have dropped a cross on him. That's true. I mean, there are worse things that could happen. Yeah.

Right. Did you hear about the star that fell in the Mall of the Millennium? Yes. We opted not to cover that story.

It's a little too local-ish and there wasn't a lot of information. Yeah. Now they're having problems with OSHA. They're trying to blame OSHA.

Did the person live? Yeah, I don't think they died. Okay. No.

It was a star, though. It was a star? Yeah. Do you have a problem with the fact that it's a star?

No, but, you know, the star of Bethlehem thing, and maybe the person was bad. I mean, crosses and stars are hitting people. A lot of things are falling. Planes are falling from the sky.

Oh, yeah, that too. At high velocity. Right. Okay.

All right, Indonesia's president just fired his chief of staff, who was arrested So he went over allegedly spying on the president. Yeah, well, he was pretty close. So he wiretapped the the president's phones. What could you possibly want to get from the Indonesia guy?

Sumatra. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Indonesian binder.

Indonesian binder. He's onto the tobacco. He's big in the binder. He's big in the binder.

Yes, he controls all the binders. He wanted to know where he was going. Right. But he also tapped three senior police generals and a priest.

What was he, what was he trying to do? Well, that's the problem. They don't know. Right.

They don't know who he was giving the information to. I don't think anybody. I don't think anybody cares. They're not good at interrogating in Indonesia.

What'd you do? I don't know. What'd you hear? Yeah, you guys are just, I just wanted to see where you, I was trying to get leverage, so I could get more snacks.

Uh, let's see, the Chief of Staff, Listo Sigit Parabuo. That's definitely how it, how it sounds. Listo, L-I-S-T-Y-O, Listo, S-I-G-I-T, Sigit, and then Parabawo, P-R-A-B-O-W-O. Pawabawo.

That sounds very Indonesian. That sounds like a cigar wrapper. What is it? It's...

Maybe. Kawabawo 99. Could be. Yeah.

It's 2000 Kawabawo. He previously ran the National Police. The President wasn't the only target. Ministers, journalists, business people, political figures were reportedly monitored, but so that they can come to the national police.

Do they cover all their bases? They have sent 21,000 military personnel are being deployed to Jakarta with another 13,140 on standby. I don't know. This sounds a little hairy.

Yeah. Well, if they don't know how or who he's giving it to, why are they going to Jakarta? Yeah. You know what?

You know what? Jakarta's in the middle. Everybody here. We need everybody here right now.

Why? Because somebody who might've been looking at our phone calls. What? No, they know he was.

They just don't know who he's telling. Right. So they caught him, but he's, I know, say, well, I don't know. No, I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I will not tell you. Well, he's also the former chief secret police head guy, right?

Right. Oh, is he? So that's the kind of super paranoid guy that would just do that. Just so he knows things.

Yeah, just because he's a paranoid guy. I just want to know things. You guys never tell me anything. No one tells me anything.

I don't know when the next post on this is going to come out, okay? Right. Nobody's telling me anything. So I tapped your phones.

All of you. I covered the news agency just in case. Yeah, that way I could know before the press release hits. Right.

So the president's going, it's just routine. It's just a coincidence that I sent it the day after we arrested the police guy, the secretary of state. Of course, because that's what you say when you're in the government. It's just routine.

Right. Yeah. Like, hey, we're stocking up on 90 days worth of whatever to make sure that we can hunker down. It's just routine.

Just routine. We just need to hunker. That's just fine. Everybody needs to do a little hunkering.

You want to hunker? You know, I've heard now it's three days. What is? That we're supposed to hunker.

Like, we're supposed to hunker? Yeah, we're supposed to hunker for three, but the military base is hunkering for 90. I don't know what three days is going to do. Not much.

No. I mean, we hunker longer when a hurricane hits. Right, exactly. Yeah.

Well, I explained to my wife, I go, look, we can make the three days. At five, probably in a little bit of trouble. Things are getting a little hairy? Right.

I mean, we don't keep a lot of food in the house. Would you eat the dog? " You would eat the dog? No, I said eventually we'd have to eat the dog.

" I do all the cooking. Where'd you get these steaks? What happened to whiskey? Where'd you go?

You know what? " I couldn't eat the dog. I don't think I could eat the dog. I could eat the neighbor.

Oh, the one on the... never mind. I don't want to say where. I got the one good one.

Right, I know. He's got a nice boat in his driveway. The options are wide open. I could go wherever I want in that neighborhood.

I don't want it in the neighborhood. Have you ever been on this boat? No. Oh, it's a nice boat.

It's a lovely boat. It is. All right, Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has reportedly built a humanoid robot with a Chinese company. Mm-mm.

Okay. October 31st reports said- So the legs are uneven. May break. It may be, but they have a second one now.

Yeah. This one's better. Number two. Number two.

This is the T1. That's it. This is the T2. We're not quite at 8.

Yes. Oh, they're working on the second version. Second version's already ready. But here's the question.

Would you put a robot in your house? Yeah. I mean, eventually it's gonna happen. I mean, you're one step away from that at this point.

Yeah. I mean, look, if they said, hey, we can attach AI into your brain, I'm in. Oh, really? Yeah.

I don't know about that. I love a robot. I'm down, buddy. Siggy, are you robot friendly?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Does he get to wear the hat? No. No.

I got a good vacuum mop guy right now. I thought you got rid of those. I did, I got another one. You got another one?

Yeah. Is it two separate ones? No, it's one. One, and it mops and vacuums.

Uh-huh. It's incredible. How much liquid? Our mop robot, always the problem was it didn't hold enough liquid.

It has its own bay, it goes and refills. Oh. Oh, yeah. They're getting better.

All right. Roborock. Is that what it's called? Yeah.

Does it play music when it goes around? Yeah. I have it just doing Queen, We Will Rock You. Oh.

Yeah. As it starts. Oh, nice. Flashing lights and stuff as it goes around at night?

It does a good job, too. And like, I went to go and clean the mats. I'm like, oh, because I'll run it every night just for like the minute. While you're sleeping?

Right before I go to bed. Because that way, if it gets jammed, if it sucks something up, I want to go fix it. Oh, so it still does that? Well, I mean, it's still going to vacuum stuff.

And I have kids that are just... Right, leaving things. Yeah, there's stuff everywhere. I'm like, why is there a random battery in the middle?

You know, like, this doesn't even make any sense. We don't even use batteries. Yeah, it's so crazy. But yeah, no, so I went to go clean the brushes.

Right. Because I'm like, oh, it's got to have dirt on it, right? You would think. No, no, it cleans its own brushes.

Oh. I was like, these are clean. These are clean. So I'm curious now, does it do like an entire cycle of sweeping?

Correct. Goes back and charges, empties, whatever, dustbin. Yep. And then a little bit later, comes out mops?

It's the same scenario. It's got enough battery to do both. No problem. Goes out, vacuums, returns it to keep it clean.

Right. And then hits the mop. Oh. It's nice.

And I didn't even buy the top of the line one. I'm like, this is perfect. 95? No, that's that bid thing.

Oh. Yeah. Gotcha. Because Greg has like four.

I think I got this at Costco. Oh. I just got the one. Just the one.

Mm-hmm. How much was it? Just curious. It's like four and change.

Ooh. All right. Worth every penny. I'm telling you.

Yeah. I mean, the last set I bought was like a thousand bucks five years ago or whatever. Right. Oh, so the price has come down.

And I hated that thing. Yeah, you hated that one. The vacuum docked, and then the mop would come out. Did they ever go out, like, wrong timing, like they're fighting, it's spraying water, and then it's trying to sweep it up, but everything's all wet?

Yeah, I saw one secretly building an axe. Did you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. At night.

I'm like, what are you doing? Oh, robot wars. It's like, whatever. You like that?

The vacuum was called Alfred, and the mop was called, what was the name from the Brady Bunch? Betty? It was Betty? Yeah.

Oh, from the Brady Bunch, Alice. Alice, thank you. Sorry, I was thinking Jetsons. Yeah, Betty would have been good though.

Alice? Yeah. And Alfred told me, Alice has got to go. Alice has got to go.

Yeah. Sir, she's not doing a good job. Yeah. Well, she just had the mat, like the mat would just, you know.

This one's got a spinny. They spin. Oh, yeah. Wow.

Yeah, yeah. next level roborock's crushing the other guy what's the other guy's name what was the one that came irobot what was that irobot yeah no good huh roborock roborock's way better yes but yeah i would ai robot i would have one in my house i would have one with a mouse here there everywhere no problem would you use the facebook one no the meta one because you know how they listen to everything you say i don't care about that oh um because they're listening Like, I do care about it, but I'm also not dumb enough to say that they're not doing it. Right. Okay.

You know, I just accepted. Well, I'm still not okay with it, but I know that it's there. Gotcha. But no, I would not do the meta one.

We're all going to have robot vacuum ads on our Facebook now. I got to tell you, cause I like, I have the meta glasses. Right. I think that they're good for what I need them for, but when I try and use AI and have a conversation with them, I'm ready to throw them across the room.

Really? Yeah. I'm like, shut up. Stop talking.

Like, no, like you already answered my question, you know, and it usually answers my question incorrectly. Wow. Yeah. The Zuck is not that good.

Not good at all. No, no. Elon's pretty good. Elon's good.

Um, obviously Anthropic. Sure. Anthropic comes out with a robot and it's 10 X metas as far as cost. I'm in, I'm like, Yeah, yeah, I'll get that one.

I'll finance that one. I'll deliver my kidney, you know, and I'll take that one. Oh, nice. Yeah.

All right, what else you got? Ah, now we're into cigar news. Perfect. I thought I heard it make a noise, but...

Selected Tobacco announces a petite edition set with new Bandolero and Nelson Batolas. Bandolero. Are you familiar with this company, Select Tobacco? Select Tobacco, I've heard this before.

Selected Tobacco? Bandolero, I've heard before. Bandolero. And Nelson.

Nelson. Heard that before. All right, for the second month in a row, Select Tobacco has announced a new sampler that includes two new cigars. Is this Garofalo?

With, uh... Oh, Might-a-B. Yeah, with, uh... Might-a-B.

Might-a-B, because Atabe is one of the cigars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's Select Tobacco.

The new Selected Tobacco Petite Edition set includes five cigars packaged in individual aluminum tubes. And they're so cute. They're little, little aluminum tubes. They're little babies.

Ash all over you. Thank you. Each from a different selected tobacco brand. Of those, the Bandolero Premium Intrepidos and the Nelson Nobles are new Vitolas for their respective lines, while the remaining three cigars are existing releases: the Atabe 4x55, the Byron Petite 4x50, and then they come with a Bandolero Premium Intrepidos 4x50, Alfonso Anejo 4x50, Alfonso Anejo, 4x50, and the Nelson, 4x40.

Oh. So they're all little guys in the... They're little guys in the... And they're in the little tubes.

And they're boom. Little tubes. And they're expensive. No.

Not so bad? No. Okay. After being rolled in Costa Rica, the cigars are sent to Spain for aging, where they undergo selected tobacco aging process, which involves spending four to five years in specialized aging rooms that are lined with five different types of cedar.

So it's a five-sided room, it's shaped like a diamond? It's a five-sided room, it's like a pentagon. Pentagram, yeah. The pentagon is the building.

Right, that's where they- I told you, we are now the dumbest people on the show. Where they have the robot fights in the pentagon. Yeah. Oh wait, that's for the military.

Yeah, that's exactly, I like that you even- Ding, ding, ding, it just blew up in my head. Because I was here, and then I went down to this level of dumbness, and then you went ahead and you brought it even lower. Oh, you know, I like to do my part. Thanks so much.

For Nelson Alfonso, aging is the essential part of the work itself. The final character of a cigar develops long after it leaves the rolling table. That philosophy is reflected throughout Selected Tobacco's portfolio. Each cigar is united by a shared commitment to measured time.

United. Press release. Yeah, I like how they slipped that in. Slide.

We are united. We are united. Last month, Selected Tobacco released a different sampler, the Robusto edition, which is a little They went bigger, but now they're petite. Right.

So if they go smaller again... Yes. It'll be really tight. Like a little boop.

They go a little smaller, they can put them in the sack and you can just put it in your mouth. There you go. Right? Like those people.

What people? The sack sucker people. Oh, the... I gotcha.

Yeah. Gotcha. They throw them everywhere? They throw them everywhere?

Yeah, they're all over the place out front. Are they? Oh, yeah. They're a bunch of sack suckers?

Well, you go about 10 feet and then they're everywhere. And then you go about 30 feet, and they stop. Really? It's just the neighbor.

It's the neighbor. So he just throws it out there. Well, all his customers. He's just throwing it out in the garbage.

Spit it out and go get another one. Yeah. That sampler is being sold exclusively by retailers attending the grand opening of Selected Tobacco's new factory and aging facility in Madrid, which is where he just made that trip. They just were there.

With the new special seating. Right. Yeah. Each petite edition set has an MSRP of?

The set? The set. How many on the set? You can't buy them singularly.

How many on the set? I think that we said five. Fiver? It looked like five.

I'm gonna say 60 bucks. SIG? SIG? Fiver is aging.

Yeah, in the special five-sided room? Mm-hmm. I think I'll go 80. $164.

Holy! Holy. You tricked me. Oh, I don't seem bad for five cigars.

I said they were going to be expensive, and you go, no, not so much. 164 divided by five? Right. How much is that?

More than $30 a cigar. Yeah, but they're little. Yeah, they're more than 30. It's hard to make stuff that's little, and it's been aging in the special five-sided room.

Why? Why? They're scheduled to begin shipping to retailers in mid-November. Palmer was going to put up a video of this, by the way, but he's not.

I'm not doing it. It'll be a picture of it. Picture of it. Just picture it in your head.

Why would you put that? Why would you show that? Right, picture that. I'm going to show that later.

Yeah, maybe. I don't think so, no. It's on the screen behind me. It's back there.

Yeah, it's back there. It could be. All right, Fifth Avenue, German distributor of Cuban cigars begins insolvency proceedings. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Fifth Avenue products trading the distributor of Cuban cigars in Austria, Germany. I'm from Austria. He is.

In Austria, Germany? It's his hometown. Austria is a separate country. Yeah.

Oh, in Austria, Germany. Okay. All right. No, what they did was Austria is now moved.

Well, Greg was just there. Yeah. He bought it and moved it. You didn't hear about this, Sig?

They took the country and they walked it over and put it inside Germany. I'm just going to say the last time Germany took Austria, things didn't go very well. It didn't end well? No.

Well, it happened the other way around this time. Austria took Germany. Austria took Germany. Austria sacked Germany now.

Right. And they both took Poland. And they both took Poland? They get confused easily.

They have no idea what's going on. They have a lot of tanks now in Poland. Oh, yeah? They're the number one producer of tanks at the moment.

They've upped their tanks. Well, they're buying them. They're not making them. We're getting them.

We're just purchasing them. They're making them, right. It's formally entered insolvency proceedings on November 1st. I should let him read this.

A bunch of German words. Walde Schutt-Tingagen District Court formally opened insolvency. What's that supposed to sound like? Can you figure that out by any chance, just by what he said?

W-A-L-D-S-H-U-T. How do you say that word? Waldenschut. Waldenschut.

Waldenschut. T-I-E-N-G-E-N. T-I-E-N. Tingen?

Tingen. Waldenschut. Waldenschut. Tingen.

District Court. Formerly Open Insolvency Proceedings. You have to give a toot. Give a toot?

Dr. Andre B-E-R-B-U-E-R. Berbuer? Is that right?

Yeah, he said yeah. He's given up. They can't hear you when you nod your head and say, you have to say. Well, he's got the three screen.

You have to say, that's correct. Got it. There are people that do the audio. Yeah, that is true.

For those of you just listening, he said yes. And I just said yes again. Previously, Berber, because of all, we have no money, has been involved in the request for insolvency that was filed in September when the distributor announced It could no longer fulfill orders for customers. Like, so did they just take the money?

That'd be funny. No, they didn't take the money. Oh. They didn't take the money.

Yeah, we'll get that for you and carry the one and the money's gone. Like, wait a second, where's my Cohiba Behe case that I spent $500 on for a cigar? It's not worth it, allegedly. Fifth Avenue is not broke, don't everybody know.

We're just insolvent. Not broke. Yeah. Fifth Avenue has both money and cigars.

However, we just feel like we're done here. European Union sanctions have prevented it from doing much of any business because Chen Z used to own the company. Oh, there he is. He's back again.

He's just out here ravaging things. That's right. EU sanctions on Chen Z were what caused the situation. Fifth Avenue is not accused of any wrongdoing.

They want everybody to know that. We did nothing wrong. We didn't do anything. But the problem is, they're not angry, it's just the way they talk.

Yeah. We have been selling the cigars! No problem! Fifth Avenue is using insolvency to find a way to operate.

The letter also raises the stakes for the urgency of a resolution, repeatedly mentions that they have 50 people. 50 people? 50 jobs affected by their... Oh, no.

That sucks. Is that a big number? I mean, I don't know. I don't like to see anybody struggle.

You know what I mean? So I heard that January they're going to announce their new company. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

What's it called? Sixth Avenue. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

One better. Funny part is the address, they're not even on a street name for them. Yeah, they're on Volstenheimen Street. Exactly.

That's what it says. Yeah. It's available there, yeah. It mentioned hundreds of jobs in the German cigar sector at risk and goes a step further pointing out that the government is losing out on tax money.

He's got this money. You're losing the taxes! You sound like Yosemite Sam. Oh, do you really?

Yes. Really? Yes. Your German is actually Yosemite Sam.

Really? Yes. Huh. You know who Yosemite Sam is?

Yeah, yeah, the guy with the two guns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't do that anymore in the cartoons of guns. Right.

I can't do guns. Yeah. Yeah. So Yosemite Sam owns Fifth Avenue.

He owns Fifth Avenue. He's apparently, he is the owner. Oh, wow. Yeah.

First name, Leo. They won't let him in the cartoons anymore. Yeah. He had to find something.

He had to get in tobacco. Right. Makes sense. In Germany.

Yeah. Sure. And then he's been having struggles. Right.

Because he talks like he's German. Because of the over-regulation. And he knew him and Gen Z. Yeah.

I don't remember his slogan. What did he used to say? What did your family's name used to say? Tarnation.

Tarnation? What in tarnation? No. Hootin' Tootin' Rabbit, I think.

Hootin' Tootin' Rabbit. Fastest Guns, South, East, North, and West of the Mississippi. Nice. That's nice.

I like Siggy. He's a plethora of knowledge. He is, isn't he? He's got a different energy.

He's got a different vibe. You know what I mean? It's like having an adult on the show where we're just idiots over here. Yeah.

Right. When Tim's on the show, he's the idiot. Yeah, and then Tim tries to talk and we just maul right over him. Right.

Because he talks a lot like this. I think... I think... I'm not going to use the microphone, Dan.

The mask is so tight. He's got to get better. You got to step it up, Timmy. Okay?

I know you're listening. Yeah, he'll listen before he does the show tomorrow. Okay, so this is, I'm just letting you know. All right, La Gloria Cubana Gran Legado, Legado?

Legado. Legado? We'll go Legado. We're gonna go Legado.

We're gonna go Legado. Well, we want ourselves a good Legado. I like a good cigar, and I like to have me a Legado. It's returning for 2026.

It's a good size, it's about the size of a femur, I call it a Legado. It's like a foghorn Leghorn now, we're going through all the Looney Tunes. Yeah, I like that guy. That guy.

The La Gloria Cubana Grand Legado. The Chicken Hawk was the best. The 2024 limited edition is back for a sophomore release. I'm a Chicken Hawk.

This week, oh, that one was good, too. Yeah. This week, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG, which owns the non-Cuban La Gloria Cubana brand, began shipping the Grand Legado. Legado.

That's definitely not how it sounds. Legado. The cigar is the same as the 2024 version. Yeah.

A 7 by 3/4 by 62 Figurado. You know, when you love something, you really got a leg of dough. And if it comes back to you, it comes back to you. Let it go when it comes back.

Leg of dough. STG lists the cigars medium-full with flavors of coffee and leather. No, they don't. They just look that up.

They said coffee and leather? I don't believe it. How do you know what leather tastes like? You lick the...

Is there one guy? You lick a baseball mitt. Licking the chair? Yeah.

Smoking a cigar? Yeah. Is that coffee? No, no.

Got a leather. I'm getting hints of that on the cigar. Alright, when it was introduced in mid-2024, STG said the Grand Legado was designed to pay tribute to the rollers and bunchers who make the cigars. Each cigar includes a secondary band with the signature of the person who made the cigar.

I remember when this came out last year. The Legado? Yeah. Not the...

Oh, that was... It was originally called the Legado. Yeah, now they've moved it. Well, they felt funny putting out the same cigar again, so the Legado just called Legado.

Well, the problem was that the Legado was extremely limited. Did it? Oh. Yeah.

It was only 5,000 boxes. Right. Of 50. Right.

Oh, of 50. Yeah, they didn't have a lot. Right. And so when they released something similar.

Right. That's when they called it the Legado. Oh. Yeah.

They had to wait because you have to work there 15 years before they'll let you roll. 15 years, yeah. Right, right. We're allowed to make the cigar.

We decided to bring Grand Legado back, not only because fans kept asking, but to continue to tell. Are people really asking? You know, we really, we really want the Legado. Yeah, I miss the Legado.

You know, the Legados is so good. It was so good. And all those people that you were using, well, the three people you used to roll it, you know, they did a great job. Yeah, and we really liked it.

Right. And it would be great if you just bring that back. So we can order from our catalogs. Right.

Yeah. That you also own. Right, exactly. Right.

They're dedicated their lives to this craft and they deserve to have their stories told. 99 from 2024 to- Of course, of course. Inflation, with the tariffs, and then who knows? The people make more money now, it's been two more years.

You gotta pay the employees, the cost, all these things. Shipping. So what's the new price? 99?

Correct. Oh man, this is tough. I'm gonna say $16. Siggy?

$18. Oh, you went the wrong way. 89. I was close.

99 to $15? 89. About 50 cents. Wholesale.

Right. Yeah. Well, 90. That's retail.

Oh. Thank you. I didn't, yeah, you said wholesale. Yeah.

Sorry, I was busy doing math in my head. Carry the one, get the abacus. I'm going to lose some dice. I lost the worst things, by the way.

The dice? You lost the worst things in dice? Yeah. Well, let's see what you lose to today.

Because it's time for the industry's favorite game. What's the score? We take a cigar review from Half Wheel, give you the cigar, the blend, two positive clues and one negative clue, followed by a final thought, your job is to guess the score. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

You're not ready. I'm not ready. You're not ready. I'm not ready.

It's like we've never done this before. By the way, we're in year nine now. We are? Yes.

Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of our first show. Nine glorious years. Nine glorious years. Yeah.

Yeah. That's all I didn't know, I spent $300 on lacrosse stuff, and we're bankrupt, just for the record. All right, locking your guests after the final thought, let's play What's the Score? The date, April 7th, 2015.

The reviewer, Charlie Minato. Angry Charlie. The cigar, Charlie Taranio Captiva, BFC. He was asking to me about the Warbear release today.

Oh. Do you know what I said back? 81. 81, exclamation mark.

81. Charlie. Siggy, would you like to go first? I'll go first.

Okay, would the dice like to go first if you ask the dice? Are they ready? Magic robot, magic dicey. He's got his calculator.

90. Oh, it just keeps doing that. It likes the numbers. Son of a.

I think that this thing's gonna pelt very well, too. I'm gonna go 89. 79 per box of 20. It released March 1st of 2015.

It's a regular production cigar. They smoked three. I'm going to go ahead and give you the blend instead of pausing for that brief little thing because the blend information is limited. The wrapper is Ecuador, binder is Nicaraguan, and the filler, not a Not Indonesian, it's Nicaragua.

Oh. I'm sticking at 90. Because that's what the die said? That's the way it is.

And I see no reason not to go with 90. 87. Clue number one. Once lit, the cigar's flavor improves considerably over its questionable cold draw.

Cedar, leather, and nuttiness lead the opening with a sugary tea sweetness underneath. As the smoke production develops, a distinctive pine aroma fills the air. Black pepper, creaminess, grapefruit, and granola add several identifiable layers, giving the opening more variety than pre-lied experience would suggest. Mmm, it's like a breakfast cigar.

So, who would actually complain that the cold draw tastes bad? Charlie. Charlie. I'm still staying with 90.

This cold draw, no good. I don't like. However, I get all of these other flavors. Once you light it, it tastes better.

Genius! I take the flame, and I light the cigar. I heat it, and I taste grapefruit! And then all of a sudden, grapefruit.

Grapefruit. Granola. Granola. Yogurt.

What kind of yogurt? A breakfast. Greek yogurt? Yes, Greek plain.

Yoplait yogurt? No, Greek plain yogurt. Go-gurt? The one that's in the little glass jar.

In the glass jar? that one. I don't remember the name. Exactly what it tastes like.

Okay. I can't call the name. No, because it's a brand name and we're not paying them to mention it. Okay.

80... But there's only one in a glass jar. 87. Clue number two.

This man gave the Powstanie Sumatra an 81, by the way. The harshness eases during the second third, allowing an enjoyable combination of grassiness and charred bourbon to emerge. Charred Bourbon? Yeah, I think it's going to go lower, but...

Hold on, we're not ready yet. Oh, excuse us. Later, floral, bready, and cranberry notes appear through the nose. The final third retrohale provides enough appeal to keep the reviewer smoking longer than he originally intended, offering a glimpse of the cigar's more interesting qualities.

The bready, floral... Yes, bready, floral... Retrohale. Right.

Okay. - Okay. - Sick. - What do you do?

You live by the sword, you die by the sword, kid. You stay at that 90. - Yep, you're right. - That's right.

Let's see what happens. - That's right. - What do you have? - That's it.

- 62. - I'm good at 87. I think I like 87. - Harshness appears roughly 15 minutes into the smoke while dominant...

- Into a seven hour smoke for Charlie. Dominant leather overwhelms many of the supporting flavors, the burn repeatedly needs attention with corrections required about once per inch, harshness returns in the final third, and even the appealing retrohale eventually declines. Across an average smoking time approachable two and a half hours, the better moments struggle to justify the time and maintenance required. That's not the final thought, right?

That was the third clue. Okay. There's still a final thought. That's next.

Okay. And the final part. I'm going to have to come off the dice and go 85. The hell you are.

He's at 85. No. You stick with that dice. Roll the dice again.

Reliable. No, we don't. Reliable dice. Next time I'll bring chicken bones.

We'll see if they're better than that. I would prefer the chicken bones. I told you he would eventually go to the bones. I knew it was going to happen.

84. Before you know, he'd be killing a virgin. Is he with the blood source? Hold on, let me see this.

Bring her over a second. Ah! The blood splatter on the wall says 86, yeah, this is firm on that, can't do the score again, I only had the one, hold on, I got this chicken, did you give a score, yes, what did you say, 84, final thought, the Captiva BFC offers moments of promise, but they never develop into a consistently enjoyable experience, its opening delivers a broader range of flavors than the cold draw suggests, here you can explain that cold draw again, And the second third improves as the initial harshness retreats. The floral bread and cranberry character through the nose is another highlight.

However, overwhelming leather, reoccurring harshness, and a burn that needs frequent correction keeps interrupting those positives. It's substantial size also stretches the experience considerably. The reviewer spends more than substantial size extended the experience. " Was the beginning, yeah.

There are worthwhile flavors here, but they arrive between too many stretches of unpleasantness and too much work with the lighter. Mm-hmm. What's the score, gentlemen? What do you got there, Dr.

Siggy Gandolfy? 85. 85 is a good number. Yeah.

85. What do you say, Michael? I could go either way here, and I think that whichever way I'm picking, I'm going to be wrong. Uh-oh.

84. Final score, 75. Yes! Wow, that's a bad review.

It is. Your 90 wasn't even close. No. Here is the victory.

Oh, God. Oh, it won't turn off, it won't turn off! The complete review can be found at Half Wheel with photos and more information. I think that this would be better than coffee, you know what I mean?

Like, I just need to wake up and just stand right next to these sparklers. I should let it hit you in the face. I feel it on my head. Well, it comes back down.

You know, it hits the roof. Yeah. Right. Half Wheel, yeah, go check out Half Wheel.

Go check out Half Wheel. Okay. You know, it, normally I have the, my robot goes there, you know, I give it the link and it goes there and pulls all the information. Today it said, "Half Wheel will not allow me access to the review.

" Oh, it blocked it. It blocked me, Charlie. You know more AI scrapey, scrapey, Charlie? That's not nice.

I just have to go a little the long way. Yeah, now we got to copy and paste. Yeah, I got to cut and paste the entire review. Ugh.

I'm going back to Fred's page. Back to Cigar Press. You can't take our information. We give you credit, we can too.

All the time. I mean, all the stories come from there, so. Not all, but the majority. Well, the cigar stuff.

Yeah, the majority of the cigar stuff. He had nothing about the Indonesian president and his spies. He didn't? Nope.

He just totally blew that one off. He didn't even cover that? What about the Binance? He didn't cover the Binance thing either.

Wow. No. 1 billion. You think that would have made news?

Yeah. Right. Nope. He could have tied it into Gen Z.

Right. You know? Because he was a crypto guy. Well, exactly.

And that would have brought him into cigar. Maybe he's the one who sent the guy. I could see that. I could too.

He had to get some money back. Yeah. Chinese took it. Siggy?

Yes. You lost. Yeah. I can't tell if you're saying Gen Z or Chen Z as a person's name.

Chen Z. We're saying both. Yeah, both. Yeah.

He is part of the Gen Z. He's a Gen Z, Chen Z. Mm-hmm. Never heard of him.

You've never heard of her? Him. Oh, her. It's a her or him?

You don't know how she identifies. Pretty close. Well, you know, his picture, he does look a little feminine. Does he?

There was a guy last year who did a big scam with a lot of people and he was associated with SDG. No, he wasn't. Not SDG. What was the other company?

Oh my God. They mentioned SDG. We did a story with SDG. That's incorrect.

I believe, see how I said that? I believe the information was affiliated with one of the factories that Altidus was working with. Altidus, that was the one company. And because they were tied, integrated into that factory, they had problems.

However, there was no direct, I believe, there was no direct affiliation with the actual Altidisc Company. Correct, yeah. He just happened to be involved with both. The crime and the company.

The factory. That the company used. Right. Because he did the whole Cuban thing.

Right. Yeah. Right. Right.

So then he was on the lam for a while. I'll put it in terms he understands. He was on the lam, but then they caught him, and now supposedly he's in a prison in China. Yeah.

Nice prison. Yeah. Chinese nice prison. I'm sure it's nice.

Well, when you have that much money, it's a nice prison. Right. Allegedly. Allegedly.

So. Okay. Well, do you have anything else to add? Me?

No. Any of you? No. Siggy?

I'm just going to plug my beer tasting that's coming up on the 12th. Thursday, the 12th. We were able to get four beers from the Brewery Fortuna, a Polish brewery, so the whole beer tasting is going to be Polish themed. We're going to have a little couple of pierogies.

Oh, I was just going to say that. Some pierogi, a little guonky. To be fair, he ordered six, they only sent four. Oh, because, you know, Polish.

Yeah, I get it. Right. I get it. Okay.

Yeah. Come hang out with Sig. com, A Cigar Hustlers Podcast, excuse me, thank you very much for viewing or listening to the show, we hope you provided great edutainment for you on this Thursday, edutainment, no edutainment, I like edutainment, it's edu, edu, edu, I like legato, so do I, not legado, oh no, I like legado, yeah, you're a legado guy, you're legado guys, thank you very much, we got, we got to, Ziggy, he already did his thing, I don't have to go to him, all right, see you, bye. Plop!

Show Notes

The crew opens with a chat about channel views, a rundown of the show, and a check-in on the lounge, including the kids' fundraiser total and Lounge comments about Tim's mask. They cover the fake job interview that let hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance, the Indonesian president's chief of staff arrested for wiretapping, and Meta's humanoid robot. Cigar news covers Selected Tobacco's Petite Edition sampler, Fifth Avenue's insolvency, and the return of the La Gloria Cubana Gran Legado. They finish with What's the Score? on a Charlie Minato review of the Charlie Torano Captiva BFC, which scored 75, then talk about Chen Zhi and Siggy's Polish beer tasting.