The New Cigar Hustlers Podcast - Reviews and Wild Headlines | CHPOD 651

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Welcome to a Cigar Hoster Podcast, premium cigars, unfiltered opinions and conversations that can go anywhere. Anywhere. P. Palmer, and joining me today is my co-host, Reinhardt, Global Vice President of Marifel Cigars.

Global VP. That's what it says online. That's nice. That's a good term.

How'd you get that term? Did you go in like, you started yelling at somebody? Yeah, no freaking idea. No?

Usually when people ask me, I like to say that I'm the janitor. I'm just a janitor, you know? Yeah. Cleaning up shit.

Move that microphone a little bit closer. Yeah, you're a little, it's like a direct. Gotta be right on top. Should I turn him up a smidge?

Close. I can also talk louder if you want to. I mean, I'm a little soft-spoken. You're very gentle.

In general. Well, he's been gentle. Traveling with a loud partner. How's that?

He's better now. Well, if you turn him up, you turn me up. No, I don't. You guys are two different combos now.

No, we're not. Microphone still goes in the same place because I'm peaking. We'll make it work. All right.

You just tell me what you need from me. I'll make it work. He sounds good now. You're doing great.

Moving closer. I still turn to them. All right. Then in engineering, the man who's been in the industry for 18 years.

18 years. It knows Habano from Connecticut Broadleaf, Mike Szczepankewicz. I hate you. I hate you so much.

Would you like to tell our guests the backstory? It's still fresh, so we can still make fun of you. Yeah. So, listen, Drew Estate made Nicarustica, and it was a Habano, I swear to God, it was a Habano, it was a Habano, and they said it was a broadleaf, and I was like, "No, you're wrong," and then I looked it up.

Yelled at us. Yeah, well, they were nasty to me, like, they cut me off, they kept cutting me off as I was talking, it's kind of standard on this show, and so then I looked it up, and I was wrong, and that sucked, so then I went ahead and I reached out to Nick Melillo. Wait, wait, wait, you said, well, they started Habano, it might be Connecticut Broadleaf now. Happens, sometimes.

Okay, now you can go ahead. Thank you, Reinhardt, thank you. Now go ahead. He's still wrong.

And, I hate him. So I called Nick, or I text Nick to confirm. Nick Bellillo, the original maker of the cigar. Thanks, thanks Palmer.

You want to just tell the story? I'll just shut the hell up right now. No, no, I was just helping Reinhardt. No, that's fine, go ahead, I'll just shut up.

Thank you. No, no, go ahead. Whenever you're ready, you guys go ahead. I'll just hit the buttons.

I'll just hit the buttons. I'll just be the board monkey. You can be Siggy. Yeah.

You have to wear the pepper. Guys, I missed you. I have to tell you. This is fabulous.

So go ahead, Michael. I could be here any week. I love it. Finish your wrong story.

So make a long story short, it's always been broadleaf, even though it doesn't look like broadleaf to me. It wasn't broadleaf. I still don't believe it's broadleaf, but whatever. Even Nick made fun of you.

Nick didn't make fun of me. He called me later and made fun of you. He doesn't know your number? Yes, he does.

He does. He doesn't even like you. Oh, he loves me. No, he told me.

" No, he just tells you that to make you feel better because you were so wrong. No, he doesn't make me feel better at all. Well, I don't know who does or not. No, he just doesn't like you.

All right, on with the show. Didn't you guys do these wonderful call-ins during the podcast? Yeah. It would be great to call Nick, huh?

Call Nick right now. There's like an 80% chance that he won't answer, just for the record. But you know what? I'm going to pair it to the roadcaster and we'll entertain that in one second.

From cigars sports and business to pop culture and the wildest headlines, if it's worth discussing, we're talking about it, no safe spaces, just real perspectives, big laughs, and the chance for everything to go off the rails at any moment, light one up, settle in, and welcome to a Cigar Hustlers Podcast, on today's show, Department of Education hacked and social security numbers are at risk, a ghost attack, I saw this in a movie, then in cigars, Davidoff calls it what they want, and then two new cigars and a Halloween. What's the score? This is our Halloween show. It's the last show.

It's amazing. It'll actually be the first show after Halloween. Okay. All right, but first, Michael, what's going on in the lounge?

Well, let's see what's happening here. First of all, by the time this show aired, the mask, we have no idea, would have expired. But currently, it's at 127 with Charles in the lead. No additional comments, I believe.

Oh, Chris Weiss says, and I'm bowing out. The money would be better off going to the kids this time around. Enjoy, Charles, or whoever makes the final bid. And yes, C-Dub also did bid or did enter into the fundraiser for my kids.

Thank you very much for that, dude. I really appreciate it. If you want to help contribute to that, there are three giveaway items that we're doing in the lounge. Go to the lounge, and it's pinned.

It'll say fundraiser giveaway, and you can donate right there. And it's going well, man, let me see, I think, but there's no additional comments, let me see, on that, oh god, I don't know where I am, comments on that, Steve Wells, yep, yeah, so C-Dub was the last donator, so thanks again, we have a, I think there's like one week left for that, so if you want a chance to win some cool giveaway items, check that out. And then some comments from the CHPod Lounge. Is it still a disaster?

Oh, oh, I got YouTube and the comments. Oh, it's working again. Yeah. Yeah, so let's jump to this.

All right, so some comments from the lounge. " Listen, your name's in the spinny-spinny, okay? It is. If you-- I'll go in and I'll verify, but just because you didn't see it when that random pic-- It doesn't have to touch every name before it selects its person, but if you want, I'll make sure that it does that.

Can you make it slower so everybody sees their name? Yeah, I'll make it slow so it shows every name, okay? All right. Lance says, "Congratulations to the winner of the Skull.

Great show. Looks like CW is out too, but we will see if he actually gives up. Hope everyone has a great weekend. " See you Monday.

See you Monday. Yeah. And here we are. Mike Dalton Wolstenholme.

How do you say that, Reinhard? How do you say it? His last name is W-O-L-L-S-T-E-N-H-U-L-M-E. L-O-M-N-O-P?

Yeah. I basically lost you after W. Damn it. Right, exactly.

I thought it was going to be like five or six letters. I need one of those teleprompters. We count on you for this sort of thing. Well, it doesn't show here.

He's just reading it over there. Yeah. But 17 letters, just Wolfen something. I like it.

He's close to mine. How many has he got? How many has he got? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

He's got 14. Oh, one last. Almost like volcanoes on Iceland or something. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. He says, would we all not plead guilty for a box of cigars? I would also accept chicken wings. Yeah.

I mean. Oh, yeah. So we had a person, we had a story yesterday where, excuse me, where last week where. Yesterday.

Oh, yeah, it would have been last week. I love that you correct me. Sorry. It's amazing.

Yeah, go ahead. No, it was yesterday. No, you're fine. No, go ahead.

Yeah. Screw me, right? Right. Yeah.

Perfect. You know, I got one broadleaf thing, and look at you now. I just want you to know, you're going to be wrong 99% of the time. Okay?

99. You got your one. So for the next 99 comments, I'm going to ride this one as long as I can. Well, it's already over because you just corrected me and you were wrong.

It's not over? Yeah. It's not over, Johnny. It is very much over.

No, it's not. Tell him it's over, Reinhard. Thank God you brought me in. This is, without a doubt, a Cameroon wrapper, so we're good on that.

Yes, this is authentic Cameroon, right? And it's a Lancero. That's a really good... Sexy cigar.

Like the most underappreciated size in the cigar industry, for sure. So we had an episode, we covered something last week where a person said that they would plead guilty for Or a Philly cheesesteak or something, they're already in jail for murder or something like that, right? Right, Palmer? I'm not coming.

Okay, perfect. But yes. So yeah, I think that you're right. You could probably get a lot of people to kind of cave for a box scar, especially a box of Mirafels, you know what I mean?

That's premium. So, Lance says, Ziggy's, Dice, and Outfits for the Win. Yeah, so we got a couple new people on the board as well. I know that you're an avid watcher, obviously, but I just want you to know we uh we got a few new people on the board and um one of them it's the guys from upstairs so siggy is he's he brings on like little pieces like attire he wears like bunny rabbit ears and chili head and stuff so not just on halloween i guess no just stand this just keeps him in his car apparently yeah every day he's a retired police officer so you better have a big car then It's contraband is what it is.

Oh yes, evidence from the evidence logger. At Jared Harper from the CH Pod Lounge says: "Tremendous episode, fellows. It's Friday night here, and an entertaining way to kick off the weekend. A few thoughts.

Is Phil's absent from ACHP related to a new job as a roller from Bombay? Yeah, from Bombay? Tobac's limited editions? " That's correct.

That is correct. Two, the Placencia Capibara Cigar sounds interesting, and number three, episode 651 definitely should be named Ziggy's Cigar Hustleer Podcasts. I agree. Also, Jared Harper, Lance Dalton, they were all comments from the CH Pod Lounge, so thank you very much for commenting there.

@cw6383 says, "Write Data Cash" and Sig, man, where did you go halfway through the podcast? Brother, you gotta bring the swinger swagger stronger. Dude, I just want you to know, there is a, there is a, you know how we used to have the one for Phil here, where it said like household name? Yeah.

There may be some tags coming for our new edition. Oh, for the new guys. Yeah. Nice.

And they're pretty funny. They're pretty funny. At Brian Mattingly5539 says, the tingle comment was quoting you when you won what's the score and fired if the sparklers, you said it was raining down all over you, and then you said it was a fresh load. I would have thought the swingers would remember those kinds of references.

That is very fair. Yeah, so what you have behind you, Reinhardt, is actually a sparkler set, we're gonna play a game, we're gonna play a game later, for what's the score, and if you get it right, you may die. So, this could be the end. It's like, I just want you to know, it's, what was that game?

Squid Games. This is like Squid Games. I mean, still, there's worse places to take your last breath with an Ernst Lancero in hand. Yeah, you go, right.

It could be worse. It's a good day to die. You're so optimistic. I love that about you, dude.

Yeah, Brian Mattingly also said happy 650th show. Anyway, I guess we did that. Yeah, last week. So that was cool.

" Any idea? I had no idea. If not friend, then why friend shaped? Nothing?

I have no, don't know what it means. Okay. Is that in the lounge? That was on the, on the, on YouTube.

Is it the episode or a clip? Yeah, it's on the, it's on this episode. No idea. Hmm.

All right, well get back to us on that one, buddy. They pay closer attention than we do. Ben Rowland from the CH Pod Lounge says, "Believe the fresh load raining down on you was a reference to your discussion It's not about the sparklers, but with Mike and Ziggy's swinger tendencies, they may have a different interpretation. Yep, okay, well that makes sense.

How do you feel about that, with the fresh load and the tingling? Did you guys talk about when he was at your house last night? No. We did, we did.

For the swapping. Yeah, we did. Okay. But that worked out well for you.

No, I'm not jealous. It's okay to be a little jealous. I'm not jealous at all. It happens, man.

I get it. Did he get the wine right? You're still my number one. Okay.

Did he bring the right wine? I don't know. I didn't even look. Oh.

I helped him with the selection. You're very sweet. At Brett Mercurio says, "Let Palmer roll the dice. " Do you understand that?

No. Well, I'll roll the dice when Ziggy's not here, and then there'll be a third guess, but it's not an actual guess. It's the dice plane. Got it.

Got it. " He also just redid, go check out his media page, Chi-Town, he just revamped it, so, and it's looking pretty good. Good deal. If you want to hear your comment right a lot on the show, simply comment below on this YouTube page or on the CHPod Lounge.

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Officials confirmed that personally identifiable information, including social security numbers, were exposed. The full scope remains under investigation. Like, what the hell's going on with all this? Seems to be a lot of hacking going on.

Yeah. Because it's an election period or something? Like, Binance got hacked? There was another story I didn't pull that several of our military bases, The freezers were attacked and turned off, and the food spoiled like in France.

Oh, like the French thing? Yeah, so they've contacted France, their investigators to see what they have learned, to see if it's the same. What we did was, we unplugged the Wi-Fi. We just reset the Wi-Fi.

You really think they have smart fridges in France now? Yeah. Yeah, we took that story last week. Apparently so.

Apparently, they're connected to the internet for some strange reason. Like on a commercial level. Yeah, not like, maybe not in their houses. No, no, it was...

I think that's like a third world country over there or something. France? Yeah. That's what I heard.

Just a lot of cigarettes and... Croissants. Croissants. Yeah, do you have to refrigerate croissants?

Croissants. I don't think you'd have to refrigerate that. What do you think's going on with all the hacking, Reinhard? What do you got?

Any perspective? Have you been into this lately? No? Is your hacking going on?

I just read the whole Binance thing this morning. The Binance is a big one. I have a Binance account. I was curious.

I was like, maybe they took my 50 bucks. Do you still have it? Did you check? I didn't even bother to look, to be honest.

You didn't even look and see, huh? No. " Yeah, I didn't even check. The one time you started dabbling with crypto...

Yeah, like... We're getting the Bitcoin. Two cents worth of Bitcoin. Yeah, well, what I did was...

See, when I buy crypto, I have this strategy I like to buy when it's really, really expensive. Like at like $110,000. And then ride it all the way down. And then ride it all the way to the bottom.

And doesn't give up. Good for you. Yeah, that's my strategy on that. And it seems to be effective.

Is it like stocks? If you don't sell it, you technically lose the money? That's correct. That's exactly how that works.

Yeah. So my 50 is now worth like $22, $23? Well, only if you sell it. Yeah.

It's current market value. Leave it to your children. Well, in Europe, they'd probably start taxing you on unrealized losses. Right.

Oh, wow. Yeah, we're looking at the math here, and you're down about 50%, we're gonna need the other 50%, you know, it's the best for everybody. So yeah, there's some taxation. We're gonna take that last 22, just to cover your taxes.

Yeah, so if we were to shave that off, that'd be fantastic. Right, now you're back at zero. Congratulations. Yeah.

Okay, so yeah, Binance is screwed. All of these things are screwed. And what else do you have? They activated cybersecurity protocols to stop unauthorized access.

Seems a little too late because it's already happened. Officials say the breach will not delay department financial aid, disbursement, tuition payments, and in fact, availability, so they just have your information. Perfect. Not your money.

They're gonna go get a boat in your name. That's what's gonna happen. Something. Something.

Check your credit reports considering a fraud alert or credit freeze, it says. There you go. Okay. Great.

Did you check your credit report before you got here? Me? Reinhardt? Oh.

Do I have a credit report? Do you have it? Did you check it? I certainly didn't.

You didn't? Okay. Maybe I should. Yeah, it might be a problem, dude.

I'll do that on Halloween. Could be a nice little surprise. A nice little trick-or-treat. Trick-or-treat.

Boop. Oh, it's a trick, not a treat. Apparently, I bought this home. I don't know.

In France. In France. No freezer. Without the Wi-Fi fridge.

Well, Paris is kind of icy at the moment, I hear. Oh, yeah, man. Things are popping off. I love those pictures of the French couples and people sitting somewhere on the sidewalk having a cigar and a glass of wine, though.

Just unfazed by it. Did you see that freaking commercial from a Chinese manufacturer when people were trying to slam that freaking window and they just couldn't get through, for the love of God, and then the Chinese turned that whole scene and that video into a commercial because they just couldn't get their glass to shatter. It was hilarious. We have on breakable glass.

It's good for you. We're not break. Save your stuff. There's a viral video of these two ladies.

One's got a pink puffy jacket on, one's got a blue puffy jacket on, and they're pushing their luggage, and they're just going through a riot, trying to get to the other side. Just like I said, not phased at all. Just, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, we're on vacation. Yeah, no, this is weird times.

May you live in interesting times. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

All right, vacationers call the police claiming a ghost attack them. Uh-oh. This is for Halloween. The case reaches Malta's parliament.

Okay. Where's that? Guess at a farmhouse in, it's an island, Malta's Island of Gozo, G-O-Z-O. Rhino, do you know where this is?

Where's Malta? Where's Malta? We don't know. We're Americans.

Yeah. Somewhere over there. I know where Canada and Mexico is. That's where we stop.

Pretty much. m. on October 23rd, claiming a ghost was attacking them. Okay.

Police responded and found four adults and a minor outside the property, according to local reporting. Priest Marcelo Giraldo confirmed he had been contacted to visit the residence, but offered no further details. That's the end of the story? No, no.

By yesterday, the incident had reached a parliament where a member of parliament The government asked the Home Affairs Minister about the ghost. Okay. So apparently he's in charge. The Home Minister is the guy they call the ghost.

They asked the guy? Yes, he's the guy. Do you believe in ghosts, Reinhard? Well, not necessarily, but I guess that depends on your definition of ghost.

Okay. Is there something else out there? Most likely. These people were apparently attacked somehow by this ghost, enough to it scared them out of the house.

Well, that's not usually how I would see that. Like in the movies. I believe that some spirit could come in and like rearrange your utensils in your house or something, you know? That's usually my wife.

Yeah, that's her move. Like, the forks are gone. Like, you know, they're in the- She goes, "I don't know why I did it. " Yeah, it could have been anybody.

Could have been a ghost. Who knows? Yeah, we'll ask Malta. We'll ask Malta.

I can call that the priest. Alright, so not to that level. Holy Spirit, something like that, possibly, but ghosts, nah, not so much. The alleged paranormal attack remains unsolved.

Are you done? You're out? You're leaving? Sorry, you guys are the professionals.

He likes suggesting things during the show. I'm just a peasant. Just a peasant. You're the only guy with the jacket on.

Much appreciated. A casino allegedly handed two scammers $150,000 because someone called and said The boss approved it. I love this. So, you own a casino.

Okay. Actually, this one's in St. Louis. The guy gets a phone rings, you answer the phone.

Hello? Yeah, hi, this is the big boss. There's two people coming in, I need to give them a check for $150,000. Okay, big boss.

All right, thank you very much. You got it. Who do I make that payable to? The two people whose names I will text you.

Okay, perfect. I don't have their names at the moment. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, that sounds good to me. What's the problem? The second call, security supervisor then heard from someone identifying himself as Matthew Martinez, who claimed the general manager had authorized releasing $150,000. Okay.

So the two people show up, they show their ID, they give a check for $150,000. After they leave, they find out, nobody called. It was fraud? It was fraud.

Apparently, this is a thing going on now at casinos. Well, we had a wonderful story. I believe it was in Austria. There were two young guys trying to withdraw.

If you could throw 150 bucks from an ATM, well, lucky for them, the ATM spit out 150 grand. Wow. That's just found money. That's not their fault.

You know, usually I thought it's the other way around, right? You're trying to get your 150 grand and it only spits out 150 bucks. Right, or you want 150 and a go. Apparently, they brought it back and as a very generous sign of appreciation, they were handed a peg of gummy bears.

No. Oh, no. If that happened to you, would you turn that in? For a pack of gummy bears?

For sure. No, seriously. No gummy bears, just, you know, like, if 150 grand spewed out of a machine, are you calling somebody? Honestly?

You better should. Yeah, I mean, there's cameras on those things. Cameras, and the whole nine yards. Well, you didn't steal anything.

Plus, I'm just way too freaking honest, and like, I couldn't sleep at night. Really? Really? " Exactly right.

You didn't do anything wrong. Somebody ate the door. Maybe they went forks. I'd sleep like a baby.

I'd take that $150,000 without hesitation. They're going to know you did it. That's fine. Come and get me.

They will. They'll just show up at your house. " Well, we're going to want that back. Well, it's gone.

I'm sorry, sir. We're taking you to jail now. Why? I didn't steal anything.

I kept the money, you did too. So what? Sitting in my Binance account. Or not anymore.

I've turned it right to Bitcoin. It's my Bitcoin purchasing. So it's gone. I don't think that's the way that works, Michael.

How does it work? If you find drugs on the beach, you can't just go sell them. Why not? Because that's not the way that works either.

It's illegal to sell the drugs. It's not theirs. It's somebody's. But it's not the government's.

So? I'm not turning it in. You're going to jail. No, I won't.

Yes, you will. If I get caught selling it... Well, that's what I mean. There's cameras on the beach.

All right, so you find a thousand dollars on the ground. Okay, just find it randomly. I must find the owner of this thousand dollars? That's the same thing.

You just found it. It didn't pop out of the ATM. I just found it because it just popped out of the ATM. There's a receipt that shows...

Not from my account for 150 G's. Well, I obviously, you know, we don't have that kind of money. Yeah. But still.

Still gonna know you did it. Would you do it? You got 150k pulled out of an ATM? Me?

Yeah, sure, you go back the next morning. You hope for better than gummy bears. You turn it in? Sure.

I think that you guys are both full of sh*t because you're on a podcast and you're both like... No, you're on camera. So what? They know you have it.

It's illegal. Dude, I would take the camera and I'd be like this. You know, this is where we need our police officer on the show. " Take, like, you wave and you go...

Give him the finger. " Screw you. Got it. This is great.

Thank you so much. I won. I'd go back and act like it was an act of God. I prayed for $150,000 and it showed up.

So I don't know what to tell you. You're going to fight against God? What are we doing? Father, what's his name from Malta prayed with me.

Yeah, my Malta guy. It was the ghost in Malta. The ghost in Malta. Wild.

Okay. About two hours later, deputies located the black Jeep on Highway 36. The search reported recovered the money. But you see, it took them all of two hours.

Right, it doesn't take a long time to find people. Here it goes, try and test the ATM, we've got two hours left. Isn't that amazing? Like, you can find the guy who pulled the 150k, not intentionally, out of the machine, but you know, it took us 20 years to figure out who shot Tupac.

Well, the guy that ate the diamonds last week, he got caught in six hours and he went to the panhandle. Yeah. From Orlando. But he was legitimately stealing.

Yes. This guy just found 150K. Well, yeah, but you know, like he said, you can't, it's not a crime, it's in my belly. It is still a crime.

Can't convict me for something I ate? We can convict you. Well, apparently. Yeah, because now he's in jail.

Yeah. Right. Okay. All right, on to Cigar News.

Cigar News. Davidoff Limited, 2027, year of the sheep. Oh, not the goat? They're calling it the sheep.

Screw this, we're not calling it the goat. They're calling it the goat. Scheduled for November 19th. So it's not the right thing then?

No, no, it's the same thing. That doesn't make any sense. They're calling it the sheep. Their has these big round horns on it.

Seriously? Yes. " Davidoff, the company that started the trend of limited edition cigars in honor of the 12 symbols of the Chinese Zodiac calendar, has announced its release for the upcoming Chinese New Year. While there is a new blend and a new variety of new items, the basics are as they've been for many years.

There are three different cigars, there's a variety of complementing accessories, and they will go on sale in November ahead of Chinese New Year. Many other companies have opted to name the Zodiac calendar-inspired release after the GOAT, but Davidoff, as it did a dozen years ago, has gone with the Year of the Sheep. This is the most ridiculous piece of news I've heard all week. Yeah, why are they just calling it the goat?

You know, we're gonna, yeah, we're gonna call it something, a totally different animal. It's a related animal, I would imagine, but not the same thing. What else is related to a goat? A sheep.

Other than a sheep. Oh. It actually looks more like a ram, because it's got the big curled ones. Ooh, the ram, the year of the ram.

You're the ram. You know what I mean? That'd be a first, huh? The year of the ram.

You'd think they'd call it ram instead of goat, it just sounds better. Yeah, it's like a goat, but not. But bigger. Yeah.

Davidoff says that for the first time in his Zodiac series, which dates back to 2011, all three Vitolas or Figurados, a nod to the shape of the sheep's horn. The sheep's horn? No, the sheep's horn is curled. It is on the box.

This is silly. Figurado would be a goat horn. The marketing department's not talking to everybody else. They're just doing their own thing.

Something's wrong here. I think the marketing department's micro-dosing or something. You know what I mean? You know what?

We don't want Gurkha to sue us, so we're not calling it goat, we're gonna call it sheep. Hey, the goat's trademarked, so we've got to go with something else. We've got to go with the sheep. You know what I mean?

Can't wait until we get to the monkey. Guess what name we have for that. Yeah. I'd still go for the ram.

Yeah, the ram sounds good. Yeah, the ram sounds good. That's cool. Yeah, you're the ram.

If we're going to do it, if we're going to screw this up, I mean, go big or go home. Yeah, sheep, you picture like the thing you'd shave the wool off of. Yeah. Yeah.

Let me see if there's other cool names for goats. You're googling? I'm curious what the packaging is going to look like. Are they going to wrap it in wool or something?

It's red and gold like everybody else. Listed with the same blend in Ecuador. Like red and gold wool, at least? Yeah.

Red and gold wool? It's very, very fuzzy. Did you find something, Michael? Well, it says the year of the sheep is the ace sign in the...

I have a production company helping me in the background. So it's the ace sign in a 12-year cycle, the Chinese zodiac. But it doesn't say anything about the goat, I guess. Is there a ram already on there?

It seems like that would be something they would have. Well, but the sheep now, the sheep kind of lines up with it. So, everybody else is wrong? Everybody else is wrong.

Oh. Wow. The sheep is accurate. Oh.

Wow, Davidoff had a great idea. They're calling it the right name. Completely redo the show. Also referred to as the year of the goat or ram.

Oh, could be any one of the three. I should have went ram. Yeah, ram was a better name. The sheep sounds so mild.

So mild. Yeah. Farm. Farm-like.

Not manly. Right. Ram is a wild animal. Yeah.

So we have to wait and see what the blend is like? And then... I have the blend here, but we just jump through it. What's related to a goat?

Let's see. Sheep. Oh, wild goat. Broader family members.

The Bovedae family include antelopes, cattle, and bison. Oh. Or could you say bison? Bison?

Bison is, I guess, linked. Like buffalo. Similar in the family. Cattle?

Long stretch. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? It's not even the right color. Antelopes.

Antelopes. The year of the antelope. That's what I'm talking about. That would have been dope.

Yeah, or they could have done, like, the scientific name. You know? The Latin. Yeah, exactly.

The scientific and descriptive adjacent use for anything related to goats is a caprine. Oh, that Capricorn. The year of the Caprine. Sounds confusing.

Alright, what is this cigar priced at? Now I have no idea. The Davidoff? What do you got, Reinhardt?

How much is this cigar? How much is this beautiful goat-shaped bison cigar? Per piece? Yeah, singles.

$150? American? Yeah. Yeah, it's American.

Freedom dollars. Okay, I'm gonna say... $60. $62 per cigar.

18 years, Reinhardt. For 18 years. Yeah. Doesn't know Habano from Connecticut Broadway.

Limited to 17,500 boxes of 10, which will be sold at stores worldwide. I will end this podcast right now. I'm going to hit the button, and you'll be done. A normal red and gold color scheme for the boxes.

Sorry, no wool, Reinhardt, that has been used for these releases. This year, oh, the color is purple. They don't even have the right color. Which can be found inside the box, as well as the sides of the secondary band.

Dari Band. Davidoff says the interior is lined with, oh, a wool-like material. There you go. Hallelujah.

Wow, he's so smart. He's so smart. That's why he's global vice president. He's a big deal.

Yeah. Global vice president. Prestige worldwide. I mean, look at that outfit.

It's beautiful. He always is dressed so nice, isn't he? Yeah. Just for you guys.

Appreciate that. Do you sleep? I feel your pajamas look like that. I certainly do.

Yes. Because these are awfully comfy. Yeah. It's like a second skin.

Do you have like a pajama tux or something to kind of roll into? That's what I'm picturing. That's awesome. For Christmas.

For Christmas. Do you want to get me a gift? Is it? Guys, I'll make a promise right here.

If somebody gets me like a tux pajama, I'll come on the show here and I'll freaking rock it. And we'll do one of these again in a tux pajama. You don't want to tempt our listeners. I was going to say.

Bring it on. That is a wild. All day every day. That is a wild statement.

That's a wild statement to her. It would be a size small though, guys, just so you know. What's going to happen is we're going to show up to the office one day, to the shop, and it's going to be here. You know what I mean?

I'll be here. No questions asked. Hold it for Reinhardt. Yeah, and I'm going to send you a picture.

You'll send me the picture, I'll be on the next plane over, I promise you. Oh, there we go. That's a deal. Okay, we'll see.

I have to say that for a Christmas episode. To be determined, we'll find that out. All right, the Aladino 85 Anniversario Reserva Elegante is shipping in November. They couldn't have done one more word on that?

No, it's a lot of words. It better be a 70 ring gauge so you can fit everything on the ring. Fit everything on the bank. During the 2026 PCA Convention and Trade Show, JRE Tobacco showed off a new Lancero.

That's going to be tough. It's going to be tough to get that around there, huh? It's going to have the 85. It's going to have to go long ways.

Yeah. Plan to add it's Aladino 85 Anniversario Reserva line. Now we are just weeks away from the release. the release the aladino 85 anniversario reserva elegante is a 7 by 38 lancero it's the third vitola for the 85 anniversary reserva line a lot of a lot of cigars for this uh which debuted last year a belated 85th birthday see julio to the guy julio era yeah it's his 85th birthday the dude For this blend, Iroa wanted to show off the Panerero seed.

Okay. I'm not even sure. The Panerero? Panerero.

Your big Panerero guy? Panerero. Okay. While Iroa is best known for his use of the Corojo, the Panerero seed has brought over from Cuba to Central America around the same time as the Corojo.

Does anybody else find it funny that like a lot of these tobacco guys, these tobacco farmer guys, they live an extremely long life? He's 85 years old. That's incredible. And I bet you he's rolling strong.

Yeah, not like a weaker 85. Yeah, like not even close. Right. Still throwing bales of tobacco.

Yeah, it's not. Right. Just zero bullshit. Just whatever.

And then, you know, he just kind of got around to making a cigar. Like, whatever, 85. Yeah, 85. I'll see 86.

We should probably declare all of these tobacco growing countries or areas as like blue zones. Blue Zones. Blue Zones, yeah. I like that.

Isn't that what they used to call them? I have no idea. We're not otherworldly. We just live in this box.

We live in America, remember? What is a Blue Zones? There's even a Netflix show about it. Like, people in those, what they call Blue Zones living to a hundred and beyond.

Really? Oh. Yeah, absolutely. We should move.

We could become farmers. I don't know. They talk about the Mediterranean diet and all that kind of stuff. Oh, really?

Yeah, absolutely. Check it out. Blue Zones. They have McDonald's in the Blue Zone?

I love McDonald's. Most likely not. No, no McDonald's. It's really good.

All right. However, due to the- I'm not making it out of 65. I think that's, you know, 62 is when my life insurance expires, so I'll probably go- Does it really? I'll probably go with 63.

Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I don't think mine has an end date.

Yeah, I have a term policy. Oh, you do? Yeah. Oh, gotcha.

All right. However, due to Corojo's disease resistance and yield, which helps the people that farm it live The lighter Pinarero Seed fell out of favor. Recently, both JRE Tobacco, which Iroa owns, and his son, Justo, and CLE Cigar Company, which is owned by Iroa's son, Christian, have released cigars with Pinarero Seed Tobacco. Pinarero.

Pinarero. While the Aladino 85 Anniversary Reserva Elegante will be an ongoing production cigar, the company says that it will only be offered to stores that carry both the 85 Anniversary Reservo Robusto and Toro. So you can't get the Lancero unless you carry the other two. Okay.

In addition, the stores will be limited to just, you only get two boxes. Just the two? Just the two boxes? Per month.

Per month. Per month. So like ongoing? Yes.

Every month I can get two boxes? As long as you still order the Toro and the Robusto. How are they going to? How are they going to know?

Because you'll call them to get them. What if I still have the other two in stock? Sorry, you got to buy them and you can't get the others. You have to take on.

You got to take six. You got to take six to get the two? Six to get the two. Well, four to get the two, you get a total of six.

Is that true? That's what it says. Allegedly? Assumed.

Assumed? Assumed. It's another word, assumed. Elegante is scheduled to ship during the week of November 9th, so it'll be next week, so you better start selling your Toros and your Robustos.

Okay. All right, my father's releasing the limited edition, a lot of limited edition cigars, the La Bajou 1922 Connecticut. Oh. Okay.

Oh, I thought there was something else coming after that. I didn't know if that was good or bad, would you say? I don't know. I don't know.

Like, the La Bayou is such a good cigar. The Torpedo? I thought that thing was money. Oh, they've announced...

And it's a bold cigar. Next month, they're doing a limited edition version of its La Bayou 1922 that uses a Connecticut Seed wrapper, but full details of the blend. That's all we're saying. We're not saying anything.

Yeah, this is going to be tough. Like, I don't know. I mean, what do I know? But...

18 years. 18 years of what the hell do I know? Right. It's kind of like, if you have a cigar, and it's named something specific, and that cigar does really well in that space.

Right. Like, and it's a bolder cigar, it's got, you know, a lot of body, and you kind of offset it with the opposite of it. I don't know, I don't know if that'll track well. You know?

Yeah, the original uses a dark Nicaraguan Habano Oscuro wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler. Also Habano, see? Yeah, also Habano. But they're not releasing any photos of the new cigar and they're not telling you what's in it.

But they just announced its release. Yes. Yeah. Okay.

If mentioned of the Connecticut Seed wrapper, Labajou 1922 sounds familiar. 5x42 Lonsdale, called the My Father Labajou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st... Holy crap, there's no way it fits on this cigar. That was it?

You're done? You just gave up on it? No, it's the Labajou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st Cervantes, Connecticut. Thank you.

Now at least I know if I want to go look for the cigar, I can say, hi, I'm looking for the one with the longest name, 1922, Federalist, Connecticut, Cervantes, 91st, Banana, Hammock, Yada Yada. Oh, and it's a Corona Gorda, so there's no way. I thought it was Alonzo. Oh, the new one's a Corona Gorda?

Yeah, the new one. And now they, oh no, they've made others in the past. Everything's got the, but they've made a Corona, they made a Petit Robusto. A Petit Robusto, a Grand Robusto, a Bellicoso, all sorts of different sizes of the same cigar.

It sounds like they really cranked the cigar out. Have you had any of these, Reinhard? No, I absolutely haven't. You only smoke Cubans, bro?

I don't smoke Cubans. Only Cubans. Yeah, okay. Only Cameroon.

Yeah, and the price is so low. They're just so cheap, those Cubans. And the draw is exquisite on all of them. Love this.

None of them have any issues. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la The Eyes Wide Shut party, the fishbowl party, all these things they do. I missed that one. You weren't invited.

Were you at TAA? Be happy you didn't get it. Did you go to TAA? Did you bring your mask?

No? No. You didn't bring your mask. You didn't bring the mask.

Yeah, you need your tux pajamas and your mask for the Eyes Wide Shut. I would like to think when you check into your condominium that everything's there for you. They're like, yes. Here's your mask.

Here's your lube. And have a great day. Have a great time. Here, don't forget to use protection.

Take this blue pill, so we don't know how to clean anybody. Take this blue pill, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. It's Blue Rhino, gas station ready, convenience store quality.

We got it from Greg. From Greg. Greg's out there just doling them out. Yeah, so many extra.

It's only slightly past its expiration date. Expiration date. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It means it's a little slower to react.

It's still good. It'll kick in, give it about 15 to 20. You'll be fine. No problems.

No problems. No problems. All right? You okay there, buddy?

Yeah, I'm all right. Sorry. If you find that your erection last past three hours, you need to call somebody. Just give it a free note of the front of the party.

Claude will solve that problem as well. Yeah. We'll be fine. 5 or higher.

If you go Sonnet, it's going to tell you, hey, put it in ice or something. You know what I mean? Is Fable still around? Fable's still hanging in there.

Fable's moving strong. You know, I don't really talk to Fable, I don't talk to Fable that much. I talk to Opus 5-5. Because you don't have enough tokens or what?

No, dude, I can't afford Fable tokens. Dude, you gotta upgrade. Dude, that thing takes all my money. Yeah, I am, I am on the max plan.

It cranks 24/7 for me. All day and night. My wife hates it. Oh yeah, he leaves it running next to the bed now, he has told us.

Yeah, I do. It has its own little nightstand that it sits on. Yeah, it's crazy. And when he says nightstand, it's like a TV dinner tray.

You know what I mean? Like, I just slide that thing over. Fancy. If you're going to be upset, you need to upgrade him.

Silver? It's black, it's black, and it's dirty, like it's scraped up and stuff, it's old. But what I do is I slide into my tuxedo pajamas before I start working with my Claude, and then I lay down and I work on it. Well, see, you already got some.

Yeah, I'm already there, yeah, yeah. Of course I have a pair. You don't have a pair? He only wears the black t-shirt at work.

Yeah, at home he's formal. Yeah, as soon as I get home, I get out of this outfit. Take his t-shirt off, get my jacket and my shirt back on. My standard black t-shirt attire, and I put on my pajama tux.

It's amazing. All right, it's time for the industry's favorite game. What's the score? Atta boy.

There you go. Can you predict a cigar score from a half-wheel review before it's revealed? We'll give you clues. You make the guess as the review unfolds.

Where are you going? Where are you going? Turn his sparklers. I'm doing that.

All right. Don't yell at me. As the review unfolds, the answer gets closer, or does it? Mine's fine.

Do I need to get closer to the mic? No, no, you're fine. No, turn them on. I'm going to.

Not with the remote, with the switch. Oh, you didn't turn them on? No, you don't let people use your sparklers normally. I'm such a dick.

Are you going to set this whole thing on fire here? Maybe, might have, right. All right, you want the pause? As review unfolds, the answer gets closer, or does it?

Did you hit the button already? Yeah. All right. The closest guest wins.

Are you familiar with the game? I do. Okay. Who knows the game?

All right. Today's cigar, the Viaje Full Moon Edition Limitada 2015. Came out December 24th, 2015. The reviewer is Brooks Whittington.

So is this considered a vintage cigar now? So this is an old review, so it's from 2015 or whatever, so it was reviewed at that time. We do like new ones and old ones, kind of mix it up. You can go first if you'd like, or I will go first.

You're the guest, so it's entirely up to you. Do you want to pick a number, or you want me to pick a number first? 89, it's a good number. It's a good first number.

I'm gonna go 87. Alright, the size is 5x58, Robusto Gorda, Factories, Fabrica de Tobacco, Recis Cubanas, in Honduras. 75, a box of $24, $354. They smoke three cigars for the review.

Reinhardt? 89. 87. The blend.

The blend's the Mexican San Andres wrapper over a Nicotaraguan binder and Nicotaraguan fillers. Still 89. Holding fast at 87. All right, clue number one.

Raisin sweetness increases through the first half, complementing oak, leather, and black pepper, creamy wood, hay, licorice, and an occasional espresso note, adding supporting detail. 90. Crank it up a notch. I wasn't listening, I'm going to hold fast at 87.

Are you yawning, sleeping? No, I'm texting the audience. Clue number two. The draw stays excellent throughout delivering abundant and dense smoke.

The burn straightens out in the final third. Strength finishes at medium and smoking time averages just under two hours. Stick with 90. 88.

Clue number three, Gritty Earth dominates all three-thirds, limiting the sense of progression. Sweetness fades after its midpoint peak, while an uneven burn requires several corrections before improving. 88. Ooh, it came down to 88.

I'm going to pivot then to 87. Alright final thought The reviewer prefers the wrapper Variation to the original and considers It worth comparing but finds The overall experience too repetitive To generate much excitement That's it Yes gentlemen what is The final score 87 He keeps Pushing me down I'm gonna go 86 Oh I won but we're gonna hit the sparklers anyways all right so brace yourself you ready you ready don't lean back don't lean back that's just the one oh there it is i know can you feel it on your head exactly exactly exactly i live that every day just so you know did you feel you felt it You got the sparkles on you, you got like the burning on your head, right? I hope that jacket's not flammable. Yeah.

Probably. Stop, drop, and roll, Reinhardt. All right, are you going to be anywhere else during the upcoming week where you want to give a shout-out, Reinhardt? This is it.

S. tour. Okay. So I'm going to be headed back to Austria.

Awesome. For a change of pace. And then next stop is Brussels at the Maison Merapfel. We have visitors coming from Monaco.

Oh, very nice. From Italy, Switzerland, so yeah, we're in for a ride and then I'll be in Switzerland myself, touring with our fellows and friends over there. Very nice. And then I'll be right back here for my tux pajamas, I guess.

There you go. Do you settle down coming into like the holiday season or are you gonna keep going? A little bit of both, I would say. There's still a lot of ground to be covered before the end of the year.

Right. So holidays are family time. Absolutely. I'll be home with it.

The ground is never going away. You know what I mean? Exactly right. Okay, cool.

The matter is the family, hopefully. Yeah. We got to cherish those moments, man, because time flies. Amen to that.

You know? All right, Palmer, what about you? Anything else? Nope.

Got nothing. Okay. Well, hey, thank you, everybody, for watching or viewing. Why did I say that now?

What the hell is wrong? I don't know what even you're talking about. Thank you for viewing or listening to the show. Check out.

Did you have a stroke or something? I did. Every day. I'm at...

That's actually not fun. I'm at peak over here. I'm... Well, you didn't even touch that Red Bull in front of you, did you?

Yeah. A little bit. Oh, you did? Yeah.

Yeah. Sparkle of Austria. Is that what this is? Dude, don't tell me you don't know that Red Bull is Austrian.

I had no idea. You're kidding. I swear to God. He doesn't know things.

Well, that's why you bring me on the show. See, that's why. Yeah. Before, Phil was the dumbest person on the show, and now, we are officially the dumbest people on the show.

We? I knew it was from Oscar. No, you didn't. I did, too.

Well, you still beat me on the score, so. That's true. Well, 18 years. Yeah.

Well, 18 years. 18 years. The Marifolds have only been around for 400 years, and we're still trying to figure it out. Yeah, any day now, you guys are going to get there.

Just hang in there. Any day. It'll happen. I believe in you guys.

We'll check this and you'll see that we're not far off. There you go. Attaboy. All right.

Well, hey, like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to this show. com for all your chpod swag. com, us, Cigar Hustlers podcast. Thank you very much, everybody.

We hope you have a wonderful Monday. All right, guys. Thanks. We got to go.

Thanks for having me. Yeah. Thanks for being on. Of course.

Thanks. I didn't do that. Anytime. I'm going to bring that back.

Thanks for coming on the show, Reinhard. You're amazing, dude. Oh, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for having me.

It was great to be with you guys. You were the Thank you, you were a great guest. Wow, you said it with such conviction, Palmer. Well, at least I didn't have to have the show cut back in because I just ignored him completely.

I just never turned it off. Still, though, I have to cut it back in. No, you don't. You can just do it right now.

Well, I'm trying to make you not look as bad. Obviously, I have no issue looking bad. 18 years. Go ahead, Palmer.

What am I doing now? Take care of everybody. What? I already did.

Do it again. All right, thank you very much. You're going to turn it off again.

Show Notes

The crew opened with a guest, Reinhardt of Mirafel Cigars, and the story of Mike's wrong call on whether a Drew Estate Nicarustica wrapper was Habano or Connecticut Broadleaf. They read Lounge comments about the fundraiser giveaway, Siggy's outfits and the sparklers. News covered the Florida student financial aid breach, a ghost attack reported in Malta, and a St. Louis casino that handed $150,000 to scammers. Cigar news covered the Davidoff Year of the Sheep release, the Aladino 85 Aniversario Reserva Elegante Lancero and a limited My Father La Bajou 1922 Connecticut. A game of What's the Score? followed, featuring the Viaje Full Moon Edition Limitada 2015, and ended with sparklers and a goodbye to the guest.