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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The Firecracker is a cigar unto itself from United Cigars,
the people who bring you the Ada Bay, the people
who bring you Bandolero, a whole series of really interesting
and very very good cigars. It's called the Firecracker because
of this fuse it runs down the side of the cigar.
It's something they've been doing, I think since two thousand
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and seven. Well in a very weird way of working
with other cigar manufacturers. They've been licensing the shape and J. C.
Newman they took the challenge.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's eat, drink, smoke. I'm Tony Katzen.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That right there is America's favorite amateur drinker, Fingers molloy.
This is the l button Firecracker. Cameroon rapper. The Newman's
will tell you that at Stanford Newman, who brought the
cameroon into existence, made this a part of cigar lore
and full disclosure. Sucker for a cameroon there they're Jason
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Newman does once a year. There's this like three pack
of cigars that comes out. I don't even know the
name of it right now, but there's a cameroon that's
part of this as a Julius Caesar cameroon.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And this and something else.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I buy that every chance I get, I'll put in
the comments what exactly the name of the three pack is.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But I love a cameraon wrapper and saw this.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But this is a three and a half by fifty
fingers molloy, which means are you ready? It's three and
a half inches long. That's always makes fingers molloy laugh.
And the ring age is the fifty at the diameter
of the cigar or how thick it is around again
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with the laughter. I do not do cigars, this, moll
This is known as a dog walker ladies and gentlemen.
Something quick, something simple, in and out and done. But
it's like stripes and it's like going to Wisconsin. That's
what this cigar is. I never ever am that guy.
I smoke when I want to smoke, as I want
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to smoke. I don't smoke for time.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So would you say, in a lot of ways, when
you refer to a dog walker, it's almost like a
cigarette lifestyle and a cigar.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, that's the correct I just hate the analysis, the analogy.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I hear it, but you're not wrong, right, I mean,
that's that's the part.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But that's how I feel others This is exactly what
they need as they need it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
They've got, you know, forty five.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Minutes for lunch or whatever it is, and they're just
gonna have a cigar. It's an early morning thing. And
then they gotta go to work, or they're going to church,
or they're going to here, or they're going to there,
the kid's soccer game, all those things. This is what
you've got in between. I hear you. It has a purpose.
I am not a fan. I do not like these
these smaller length cigars. But since we try everything, since
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it's J. C. Newman, and since it's Cameroon, I'm like, yeah,
we're gonna do that. I if you could see and
take a look, the wick of the firecracker goes all
the way down. It's actually wrapped up in the band
from the al button. I will take that if I
could get it, good Lord, get it off there, and
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so you can see exactly how far down this thing goes.
It goes down like two inches of the cigar. It's
a three and a half inch cigar, maybe a little
bit longer or right there.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The weird part is you can pull this off, man.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You can pull it off if you want and just
be like, there it is, you're gonna cut, or you're
gonna be cut if I oddly enough, my V cut
is totally gone. I looked everywhere. Maybe I never even
I used to have one. I don't have anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So I'm straight cutting this.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
As shallow as humanly possible, very very shallow cut.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I went on a little bit of an angle there to.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Give me as much surface as I can get without
taking away from the cigar. I would have V cut
into this to ensure I had better mouthfeel on it.
If I had the vcut wall so intensify the draw.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But I wasn't doing it for that. I was doing
it to save actual cigar.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I wouldn't call any of our cigar resources of a liar.
This doesn't seem like it's three and a half inches
to me, Good lord, what it seems like it's shorter
than that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, they're telling me it's a three and a half
by fifty And it's not my job to argue with
the fine people at JC Newman, so I won't. The
question is does this fit your lifestyle?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Fingers more?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Listen, there are plenty of times not so much this year,
because I don't know if you heard this or not, Tony,
I've been moving but what right. But when it's a nice,
cool summer evening and I'm getting ready to throw some
steaks on the grill, I do like to have something
like this where I only have half hour. I want
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a cigar. It's my only chance of the day to
be able to smoke a cigar. I do like something
like this.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So the the el.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But tone is I'm gonna say this crudely of Jacon Newman.
Please don't yell at me, Drew. Uh, this is the
value line of of Jcon Newman. This pearladl Mar, a
baby pearlo Dulmar. More so, Uh, these are the lower
cost on the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Jason Newman side.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Then you can graduate into you know, uh, the Julius
Caesar and the Diamond the Maximus, and and go go
down that road Diamond crown, uh again a lot of
things and then a little bit above this brick house,
things like that. It is a very pretty wrapper, uh brown,
nice brown, not a saddle, brown, not too orange, with
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with flex of black in there. Certainly the construction is fine.
I would expect nothing less. And there is a pepper
hit on the word go fingers Maloy on this cameroon,
which is kind of interesting. A pepper hit right from
the very beginning. That lets you know that it's there. Pepper,
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and I'm gonna say wood cedar right.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Off the bat That's exactly what I was gonna say,
pepper and cedar. Also, for it being only three and
a half inches, there is, oddly enough a little bit
of haf to this cigar.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, it's not gonna fly away, it's not gonna just
fall right out of your hand. The three and a
half by fifty this is the Elbaton firecracker from J. C.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Newman.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
The firecracker design from United Cigars has a lot of
flavor right off the hit. Now, in most cigars, we
tell you take it and you break it into third's first, third, second, third,
final third, and you grab your notebook.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What you eat today, what'd you drink today?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
All those things still apply, except you can't think of
a cigar three and a half like it'd be like
a nub.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
There's just no there's no way to do that in
the third.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So just write down the notes of the flavors, what
you're getting out of the cigar when you tried a
month from now, six months from now. Whatever that is,
You go back, you do it again, and then you
compare your notes to really get a through line, an idea.
What flavors you got out of this cigar and spicier
than I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, we've only well, we lit this up a minute ago.
We're already in the second third.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And that's just it. I want to see how far
it goes.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I have a backup if we go through these and
we want to keep smoking.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I do have some backups.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But this is just one of those great examples of
I smoke the way I smoke. I am not here
to tell people that they have to smoke the way
I do it. You guys gotta do what's best for you.
You gotta you gotta feel the moment. You gotta know
your moment and know when you have time. And there
are times where you're like, man, if I just had
a cigar with me right now, that's a that is
a universal and there's not a person's like if I
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had a cigar with me right now, but me, I
wouldn't care. If it was a Toro, I wouldn't care.
If it was a Robusta, I wouldn't care, And I
don't really do rabustos. I wouldn't care if it was
a Churchill if I had, if I was there the
moment hits I do it. This might be perfect for
some people. The question will be, fingers maloy, is this
in your humidor for ten bucks?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
That's interesting, right, because it's three and a half inches
and I if I had known it was ten dollars,
I won't lie.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I would have done it for the show.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I would have been like nah, because for me, that's
a valueless proposition. But now we're asking the question of
does it fit your life your lifestyle? Is that forty
five minutes worth the ten bucks? And the answer might
be maybe this is the elbatone cameroon wrapper from JC Newman.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We are going to be smoking this and giving.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
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Speaker 3 (08:51):
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Speaker 3 (08:59):
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Speaker 2 (09:03):
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Speaker 1 (09:04):
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Speaker 1 (09:46):
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Speaker 2 (09:50):
To sign them.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh, listen to Johnny Amazon over here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's just an expert on everything Amazon. They call me
Johnny Amazon is what they do. Maxwell House is changing
its name. Now. You, of course, are a guy who
loves your coffee. You wake up in the morning and
you're like, how do.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I get me a big cup of stemen cup of
hot super love and Joe.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's what you call it, right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So I like to start my morning with folgers in
my cup.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But what if you could have Maxwell House? Oh no,
I wouldn't touch that with a temper. What if? There?
But what if? Now? You do it with the name change?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Because Maxwell House will now be known as Duncan Maxwell Apartment.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh is this a thing? No, it's stick. It is.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They are trying Tony to relate with the people, the folks,
Oh tell me more so, they announced that the name
will be changing for the first time one hundred and
thirty three years because you know, there is a problem nowadays,
Tony with affordable housing.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh is that right? Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So, since nearly a third of Americans are now renting
smaller places rather than purchasing full size homes, the coffee
giant wants to reflect that stat with a temporary rebrand.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know what else would be a great name for
Maxwell House if you wanted a rebrand new coke?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
This is this?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It admittedly is dumb, right, yes, But having said that,
I do have a question for you, because you are
much more of a I'm not going to say, a
coffee snob, but.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Snob in general. Now, I can go with that. I
can live with that. I sleep fine. As you know.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
When I have my cup of coffee, I put a
lot of schmuts in it. Yeah, I put a lot
of creamer, a lot of sugar, and top that with
a lot of creamer. So it isn't as important to
me to have the finest coffee bean in my coffee
cups because I'm putting all the schmuds in it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You, on the other hand.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
No, no, I go little schmutzee, But I do think
it matters. So so you you joke about the Folgers.
A quick story, and for the Folgers people who are listening,
my mother lives in the villages.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
For the record, owns no pineapples. Oh my god, I
almost got the coffee out of fingers nose. Oh ah,
oh god, this could have been the greatest show ever.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I am so sorry, guys, I tried, I had the timing.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I was, Oh, that's disappointing.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now did you laugh because it was funny or did
you laugh because your mother totally has.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
A pine My mother?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oh, I think you're talking about my mom talking about
your mother.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, I'm talking about my mom.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So she lives in the villages and in the independent
living facility which she lives, which she refers to as
the club. God, what a woman. There's coffee twenty four
to seveny You go down any time you want and
get and get coffee, and they use soldiers and I've
been there numerous times. She's drinking more coffee now than
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she has in her entire life. The coffee is fantastic.
The coffee is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So don't let's not mock the Maxwell house, apartment, condo, townhouse,
Airbnb that's going on here.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But there are a lot of things that go into
a fine cup of coffee. And it's not just the grounds.
So first, I mean, it starts where it starts. You
do start with the coffee.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
The real story.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We can speak to some experts about it because there
are people who do this. They're like really focused on this.
They can you know, they do the cuppings and they
can really get an idea where these beans are from,
and they can really get the notes.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's about the heat of the water. The problem is
not always your coffee, right.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It takes people who have talent and real palettes to
be able to get that level of discerning, certainly if
you're already buying ground, right, it's the heat of the water.
It's whether or not you're keeping your coffee maker clean
or you're descaling it coffee. Oh crap, I have a Technoborm.
(14:19):
I'm sorry, Technovorm, you're making No, it's the Mocha Master
from Technovorm, and the heat on that thing is perfect.
I'm telling you, the coffee is sensational. Now, before that,
I had a Ninja. I thought it did brilliant with coffee.
I thought I did an excellent cup of coffee. But
the problem is, if you live your life in a
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world of currig I'm not gonna be anti curig here.
If you live your life in the world of coffee pods,
I don't actually think there is a way for you
to get good coffee.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
See, my machine is made by a gentleman by the
name of mister Coffee. Oh right, And if you are
a mister Coffee, I would assume you're a coffee act.
But you bring up an interesting point about tempera if.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
It was Professor Coffee, maybe you bring up an interesting
point about temperature because it got me thinking to some
of these places that they have to have their coffee
be the temperature of molten lava?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Right? Is that on purpose?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Because they know that maybe their coffee grounds are not
the best in the world, and they think, you know what,
if I scald this person's tongue, it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
About how good our coffee. I think two things are true.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Number One, the reason they engage such heat is that
you get far less complaints than if the coffee is
too cold, So that's number one. Number Two, I think
it's because they may know that the average age of
their coffee drinker is older, and the older you get,
for some reason, you want things at about fourteen thousand degrees.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You are not kidding.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Did my father rests his soul before he died, Everything
got sent back, Everything was in a microwave. It was
It was ridiculous to the point of to the point
of ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I've never met someone in my entire life that is
so obsessed with the temperature and the heat of his
food than Fingers Moloi, Senior. I'm convinced if he could,
he would actually eat his dinner inside of an oven,
just to make sure that that that that food stays hot.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It is amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
There is some kind of weird thing that happens. I
am not old enough to know this, that's right, young
and vibrant, but it happens, and it happens all the time,
and it's just it's it's super weird. So that's why
I think it happens that way, because you also have
more time to work it. You can let it cool
down a little bit cold. You're not going hot enough.
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That's that's the absolute worst.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And when it comes to heat, it really activates those
foltures crystals.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's very good. But yes, the coffee matters, The bean matters.
The grind matters.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
If you're using beans, you're grinding them right, how coarse
or how fine you're going Again, your coffee maker is
gonna be able to decide that. And then it's really
about It is about the machine. It is about the
heat of the water. I mean, that's a huge part
of it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I would like to know why I would want my
grounds more coarse.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
What about the idea of surface area? Oh, there you go,
that's what I did.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, eat, drink smoking is your cigar, bourbon foody extravaganza.
I'm Tony Katz. That is Fingers molloy smoking the Elbatone
from J. C.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Newman.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
This is the Firecracker, which is a style of cigar
license from United Cigars.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
With that wick looks like a fuse.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
This is a three and a half by fifty your
dog walker something a quick smoke, an easy smoke comes
in at ten dollars. There is a fair amount of
spice going on in this cigar. There's definitely some cedar
going on in the cigar. There's a little bit of
making salive, a little bit of sweetness going on with
this as well as a black pepper. You know, it's
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not hitting the roof, it's more in the tongue and
in the cheek there, but it's it's smoking lovely fingers.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I was going to add that you mentioned a sweetness.
It was kind of like a nuttiness for me. But
that cedar is there, that pepper is definitely there. Really
a nice easy draw, a great hand feel. I could
totally see having one of these when you're throwing some
steaks on the grill. You only got a half hour
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to smoke a cigar. This this, this would definitely scratch that itch.
I'm just still tossing around whether I would buy it
at that price.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Point ten dollars. It's three dollars too much, right, Yeah,
that's how it feels. For a three and a half
inch cigar, that ten dollars gets you into the Wait
a second, Wait a second, Do I realize my on
this or could I spend it on a robusto five
inches toro six inches and get more bang for the buck.
And that's really a question of who are you, what
is your time? What kind of flavors are you looking for?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Et cetera.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Is it about the dollar to the to the time
or is it about the dollar to the quality of
the moment you have? And that's and that really something
only you can decide. What you said, scratch an inch,
which you did earlier today. So Fingers Maloy in the
midst of the moving that has taken him nine years
to move, Fingers Maloy had uh had had?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What surgery did you have? Did you have the glaucoma? No?
The gout? What is yes?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I had eye go out? This is what I had? Yes, No,
I had cataract surgery. Right, because you're pretty blind. I
will in my right eye. Yes, well not anymore, though
they did an outstanding job. They put in a lens
that will let me see both a far away and
close up.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I had a choice of just getting a lens where
I could see far away, but then I'd always have
to carry readers around, which sounded like a big pain
in the neck. So I bumped up and got the
the deluxe lens with the with the the wax and
the and the one hour martinizing.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And now I can see the fire.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yes, I got the clear coat too, and so I
can see far away and close up. But I itched
my eye today and it's only two days out from surgery.
I rubbed it, I rubbed it, and h my eye
got angry. And what's even worse is so you have
a one day follow up. You go in the next day,
you go see your eye doctor. And you know, I
have glasses on now because both eyes have problems, but
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the left eye isn't nearly as bad. So what they
do when you have cataract surgery is once the.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
They do fix put it right back in. Yes, just
like that.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
With also's fresh car, new car smell in the eye.
But they they took the prescription lens out of my
right eye and my eyeglasses, and they put in a
clear lens that lasted seven hours. So if you're watching
us on YouTube right now, you'll be able to see
me with glasses on with only one lens.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, the lens is missing in his right eye, but
he's still wearing the glasses because his left eye isn't
great and they only do one eye at a time.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yes, but you can see. I mean, it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It was unreal, Like right now, I took my glasses off,
and it takes your brain a little while to adjust,
Like right now, you're really blurry. But if I get
two minutes without my glasses on, I can easily read
the computer screen in front of me, just a little
bit blurry. Simply amazing what they can do nowadays. And
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I'm really grateful because it was really bothering me that
I couldn't see.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The real story though, when you're doing this, is that
you don't get knocked out. You're awake, and they put
a bunch of goo in your eyes, yes, and then
they go in there and they slice you up, and
you see it, don't you. You see the knife coming
at you at the end of days. You know, did
you did you wish your children?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Well, no, it wasn't that bad. But it's really interesting.
They get you in the pre op area, and you're
in the pre op area with like seven other patients,
and it feels like they just zip right through you,
all seven people in no time flat. So they give
you an antiseptic eye drop to prevent infection, and then
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they put this goop in your eye that numbs the eye,
and it's like they put Elmer's glue in your eyes.
You can't see, you can still see, you still see, yeah,
And then they put an IV in you and then
they top you off just to make you feel a
little happy, just a little edge off, a little edge off.
And then they wheeled me into the room. I'm in
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the surgery center there. I'm in the operating room and
the nurses are talking, you know, about the kids whatever,
not mine, talking about their kids. And for about like
ten minutes, the surgeon came in. They tape my head
down too. They tape your head down to the table.
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Now I have two reasons why I'm out. This is
this is I listen. I saw a clockwork orange. This
isn't gonna work. Yeah, they also said that the safety
word was pineapple. But they they take.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Twice in one show.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
So they they they tape your head, they tie your
head down so you can't move, and then they've got
a very bright light in your eye so you can't
see anything.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So I'm just looking to my right. It was my
right eye.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
My my head was tilted to the side, and you
just got this big bright light in there and you
can't feel anything. Tony, I'm not exactly no, nothing, nothing,
I'm not buying. I'm telling you right now. Maybe three
minutes he was done, went in. They do a two
to three millimeter incision into your eye. They they vacuum
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the old lens out and then they slip a new
lens in. They pass you on your head, they will
you out. They wheel the next person in and I'm
I'm assuming it's the same surgeon because it is boom, boom, boom,
one right after another.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's crazy. Three minutes. No chance that sounds.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
There is no medieval torture I can think of that
could be worse.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But listen to me when I when I say you
say no chance. Now, when I took my glasses off
and did the eye test before I had this done.
They gave me the eye chart. I couldn't. It was
just a big blob. And the doctor said to me
at that point, he said, this is the time when
I can't improve your eyesight with lenses. Your cataract surgery
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has to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I can.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I can read the chart down to little tiny letters. Now,
so you say not a chance, But there's no chance.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I can be awake for to be out out. I
can't know what's happening. I can't. There's just I'm telling
you right now.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Have you ever been put in that situation where they
give you just a taste, just a taste of that anesthesia.
I don't even know if it's it was technically anesthesia.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
It just had the surgery on my arm when I
tore my bicep.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yes, and I basically got anesthesia twice, once for the
nerve block and then once for the surgery.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And I got the Michael Jackson propofol. Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Wow, oh my god, I felt I felt nothing but
the warm embrace of the Lord.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Because you do, they do the nerve block and you
wake back up and I'm there, I'm in, I'm not
I'm in the pre op and I was like I
just I was down and I was back up and
I'm like, oh okay.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But it wasn't a situation where it was like the
one video in Metallica where you're just.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
No, no, no, no, no no. It was it was beautiful.
And then and then I felt a small press on
my forehead and it was a smooch, and I knew
everything was going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's the way I have to feel.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
If there are gonna be any surgeries, anything that involves
cutting of this glorious body, there is going to have
to be me knocked out.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I can tell you right now. The worst part of
the procedure was the antiseptic drops in the eye. It
was like they put battery acid in my eyes. The
actual procedure itself, I if I felt light pressure. I
don't even remember it. That was a breeze. And like
I said, two to three minutes done. And then I
could see and you weren't blinking. Now I held your eye.
(26:43):
They hold your eye open, Yeah, they used you could
feel them. They used players. Were they talking to you, yes?
Are you talking back?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
No? No?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I was not talking back, But I was wearing a
lovely Detroit Lion shirt and they started singing the fight song.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You didn't go, you didn't change into the smock, no
full close.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I even have my shoes on.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Honestly, this can't be legal, no way. So much discussion
of Fingers Malloy's eye, which it does look a.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Little red, but are your eyes blue green? I never
noticed some people get lost in my eyes?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah? Yeah, is that right?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's what I was told once. Huh, pity for.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Them, tea drink smoke. I'm Tony Katz. That is Fingers malloy.
We we were so into his eyes. We did not
discuss the news of the week, Tony.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So this is exciting news for people who like ninety sitcoms.
CBS has announced that they are going to air and
Everybody Loves Raymond Reunion in November. CBS is calling it
it's a thirtieth anniversary spat, even though apparently they're turning
this into their own dental lives. It's a bit early.
(28:05):
It's gonna make it that Actually it would be the
twenty ninth anniversary, but they're calling it the thirtieth anniversary. Tony,
Peter Boyle is dead, yes, Doris Roberts is dead, Yes,
and they're doing a reunion. Well, yeah, because listen, Peter
Boyle and Doris Roberts, in many ways stole the show
(28:26):
almost every week. Sure, so it is sad that they
are no longer with us. I mean it's it would
have been sad even if they weren't part of Everybody
Loves Raymond, because nobody wants to see anyone die, right,
I would hope not.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So that's sad.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
But it's even sadder that they're going to be doing
this reunion without the two of them.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But Brod Garrett needed the money that bad.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Wow, did you see the Brad Garrett Ray Romano kind
of Everybody Loves Raymond reunion at the h what was
it the Cable Ace Awards?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think I may have seen something.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, I mean they had a little bit going back
and forth, and Brad Garrett was was commenting about his
career much like you just mentioned there. He's like he
was wondering if he would make it into the in
memoriam cut he when he leaves us.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So they had that much funny.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Do you think Brad Garrett sitting on from Everybody Loves
fourteen million dollars?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You think it's only fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I think there's a zero there that you're miss one
hundred and forty he if he is not one hundred
million from that show after all those years, I don't
know which end is up.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
That's impossible.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's you don't think Jason Alexander as George Costanzo was
one hundred mill.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well it was in earlier now that wasn't necessarily an
earlier time. At least fifty million. At least fifty million.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
According to AI ailies AI. When you ask what Brad
Garrett's net worth is, it's estimated to be fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Okay, not bad. Stop complaining. Who's complaining?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Brad Garrett was complaining, you're the one that just trashed God.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Forbid I trash Brad Garrett.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Brad Garrett is an American treasure who made that show,
and Ray and Romano was lucky to have him.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I'm not gonna argue it's till want to get sued
by Brad Garrett.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But I'm just saying that the idea of are you
gonna be in the in Memoriam?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
What do you care? What do you care?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Fifty million dollars? Have your own in memoriam. Make your
own in memoriam, right now, that's the thing they play
when people have died in the air we remember and
just say uh and here now Brad Garrett paid for
this in an installment plan before he died, Brad Garrett,
and just you make your own video of how great
you are if that's what you need. Okay, are you
(30:58):
gonna watch this thing?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
You don't want?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I actually really enjoyed the show, did you?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah? Did you? We have big everybody? So that I
didn't enjoy it, just it wasn't in my rotation.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It wasn't my So what was in your rotation back then? I?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Wait? So what year was this that we're talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Well, the thirtieth anniversary. It's twenty twenty five, nineteen ninety five,
ninety six six.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So I have absolutely no idea. Oh, I have no idea.
What in the world I could have been watching in
nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Melrose Place, right, followed by Small Wonder Yes, and The
Peach Pitch Show.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
What was the name of that would be? Wait, the
Peach Pitch Show. What's the name? That was that? Carl
Sagan thing? Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah, no, the Beverly Hills nine O two one Hill
Billies nine two Yes, which I think was off the
air by ninety six. But then they had nine o
two one oh nights. I think they called it.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Was there a nine two nights? There was not.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It was a gay Watch Night getting it mixed up
with Baywatch. It was a bay Watch Nights, which was
on for what two years?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
If it lasted that long. It competed with VIP What VIP?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
That was the other show with Pamela Anderson VIP. I
think she was some sort of private investigator or something.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You know a lot about Pamela Anderson.
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh, Sean Baker loves Sean Baker. What else you got
news of the lead?
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So, apparently Starbucks is losing hundreds of North American stores
as they continue to restructure their business.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Tony, it's going.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
They announced they're going to close one percent of their
locations in North America.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
One percent of the location it in uh.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Business Insider has a list and of the locations, and
it's it's pretty much all around the country. And I
thought I saw somewhere where I mean, I don't want
to That must have been another piece. I believe Starbucks
has thirty two thousand locations worldwide. That's a lot, isn't
that crazy?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So they're closing them?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Why?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
What is the what is the issue?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Well, they are restructuring the business, trying to become more profitable.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
And we've we've.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Heard since COVID, you know, people are making business decisions
about their coffee because they're looking at the economy, they're
looking at their current economic situation, and they're saying, I
don't know if I can afford seven dollar cups of
coffee every day.
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Speaker 1 (35:57):
I I I wish that was the case. I wish
that people said, what am I doing spending this money
day in and day out, make your own den coffee.
You would save so much. I have seen nothing that
proves that true. And it but if you're telling me
(36:18):
they're closing for this purpose, they must feel it somehow.
If they could also while they're restructuring, get the baristas
not to share their politics with me, I would be
most appreciative. You believe what you want to believe. I'm
not here to tell you that. I just don't want
you to tell me what it is you believe. I
want my latte, and then I would like to leave. Please,
(36:39):
that's not too much to ask.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Is it too much to ask?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Especially when you're spending nine dollars on that latte?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Right, I'm buying silence. Let's make that happen