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November 2, 2025 38 mins

Step into the world of premium cigars, nostalgic candy debates, and surprising holiday revelations with Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy. Their casual, witty banter creates an atmosphere that feels like sharing drinks with old friends as they explore the HVC Hotcake cigar – a beautifully crafted Connecticut broadleaf with a Nicaraguan binder and filler that delivers rich chocolate and coffee notes, accompanied by a surprising pepper finish.

The hosts dive into America's candy preferences just in time for Halloween, debating the merits of everything from Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to the controversial Sour Patch Kids (which Tony insists "are not candy"). Their passionate candy rankings and Halloween memories create a nostalgic journey that will have you reconsidering your own trick-or-treat favorites and neighborhood candy distribution strategies.

Key Takeaways:

HVC Hotcake cigar introduction and initial impressions
Tony's mysterious back injury story
America's most popular Halloween candies by state
The definitive list of worst Halloween candies (circus peanuts, candy corn)
Mid-smoke cigar review with emerging cedar notes
Surprising survey reveals Americans aren't taking vacation days
Why Halloween is actually the loneliest holiday for singles
The controversial topic of age-gap relationships

Whether you're a cigar aficionado looking for your next smoke, a candy enthusiast preparing for Halloween, or just someone who enjoys authentic conversation with plenty of laughs, this episode delivers premium entertainment with every puff. Grab your notebook to track those cigar flavors and listen now to experience the full flavor profile of both the HVC Hotcake and this delightfully engaging podcast.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hot cake fingers molloy, Yes, please, hot cake, not to
be confused with hot tuna, completely different.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's true t drink smoke.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm Tony Kantz, and that is America's favorite amateur drinker
fingers maloy.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
And this from HVC is Hotcake. That's the name of
the cigar. And I gotta admit it's beautiful. I do
appreciate a band, a cigar band that isn't trying to
be more than it is. It's a gold band, a
little bit of filigree, and then it's a black dot.
And with right writing it says hotcake. They're not trying

(00:41):
to be something they're not. This is a beauty. A
six and seven eighths by fifty, which means it's six
and seven eights inches.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Long, always makes fingers with looy laugh. And the ring
gauge is a fifty.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's the diameter of the cigar or how thick it
is around tea, again with the laughter.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is a.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Connecticut broadleaf, for which I am a sucker. Nicaraguan in
the binder and the filler. This comes out of Nicaragua.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
And there are big stories right now about Nicaragua, specifically
with tariffs and man, if you think it's hard to
get a cigar now, or if you think there's a
cost increase now, you ain't seen nothing yet. If these
tariffs go through, remind me to talk about the tariffs.
Fingers only in a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
They only did three hundred and fifty boxes of this,
so it's a nice size run six and seven eight,
So by fifty you gotta you gotta absolutely love that
size a little smaller than a Churchill fingers noy. And
the look of this thing, it is. It is brown
with like this splattered black almost.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Like like a like a like a I don't like
a filigree on top of it.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's just beautiful and oil for days, kid.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah it is. And you know it's got a nice
bit of hef to it, that oil on the wrapper
along with a little bit would you call that?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, no, that's correct. Right. There's definitely some veining there.
You see where the.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Leaf really is, and the leaf is truly pronounced on
this it's actually it almost looks like a fossil.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
It is a beautiful, beautiful. I happen to love this
kind of stuff. I think it's just a beautiful representation
of a cigar. I don't know about beefy, but I
do think it feels good in the hand at six
and seven eighths, a little bit looser of a draw
than I was expecting. Oh, it absolutely moves. But I

(02:46):
know zero about this stick, zero about the cigar. We
did some looking drive to find some things. When I
know about Connecticut broad Leaf, for sure, is that you
can definitely get a really really solid tobacco flavor.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Out of something like this.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You can get a lot of richness out of something
like this. You could definitely get an opportunity for a
fair amount of mocha or coffee. Really dependent, Like sometimes
you'll get more chocolate, sometimes you get more coffee. Sometimes
if you feel if it's more of a split, you'll
get that moca.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Where are you.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
As we just started smoking well, I mean we just
started smoking this. We just lit it up three minutes ago,
and at the light I got a little bit of
chocolate right off the bat and then it morphed into
At this point, I'm getting a nice bit of spice.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, Like there's a really cool black pepper resting on
the tongue right. It's not dispersed, it's just right there,
but it's not it's not I don't want to go
with spicy.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's a richness. It's a rich pepper.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
There's there's a lot of like like this depth going
on with both the bit of coffee moke. I'm not
sure where I'm at yet and with that pepper.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
And what's interesting about it is it settles right at
the front of your mouth right, absolutely, it does. This
is all first quarter of the tongue. Yeah, yeah, it
really is. That's that's interesting that you say that. I
totally agree with you on that it I'm not getting
that loose straw. I'm wondering how you feel about your cut.

(04:26):
I'm a world class cutter. I'm a world cause I
don't know if you're allowed to say that. I don't
know what the rules are there. You say a world
class on the radio, you can yeah to get a dog,
lookn be. No, I think my cut is fine. I'm
not gonna mess with it. Hopefully things will loosen up
a little bit. Maybe I'll give it the old pension roll. Oh,
the old pension roll. I thought you said it was

(04:47):
too loose. No, if I have an issue with it,
if things change, I give it the old pension roll.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, you're right. I know that.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
My issue is that I feel it's a little bit loose.
It's moving a little bit quickly through. But things do change.
It might just be it could be anything.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
It could be me.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I could be totally wrong. It's never you Ton. Oh
my god, I'm having the weird day.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
How so I two days ago it's mine in my
own business.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I woke up feeling dandy, not just dandy, a guy
by the name of Jim Dandy nice. That's how I
was feeling, fingers only. And I made the coffee in
the morning. I was gonna do my morning radio show.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
And I'm doing the show and I'm being hilarious and
I'm sitting there and I'm doing stuff, and I we
get to a break and all of a sudden, I said,
my back hurts.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh, and now I have a cane. I have no
idea what I did how I did it.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
As you have often said, you could be tying your shoe, sneezing,
whatever the case may be. I don't know what ridiculous ridiculous.
And then uh, yeah, that was yeah, so yeah, that
was a couple of days ago.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was super bad. And then the last two day's
a little bit better. Today's just been annoyed.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
So do you have a chiropractor or some sort of
massusee you can go to to get this taken care
of you? Do you have a person?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I don't have a person.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I don't have a purse, one of those homeometics whatever
machines that take the knots out of your back, you
put it on your got a little heating pad with
a little massagery, you have one, would I just.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Give you fifty bucks and I'll get much more enjoyment.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Out of it, be hell of a lot more than
fifty bucks.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't have anybody, and I'm not yet prepared to
go to a chiropractor because I don't know what I'm
dealing with yet.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
And the answer is.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Not, well, get up on the table. That is, I'm
not anti chiropractor by any measure. I want to just seek.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Sometimes things happen and you just got to be a
human being and just let it work itself out, and
it'll be fine if this progresses.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
If I get, you know, well into the weekend. You know,
we record before the weekend in case people don't know
and this is still happening. Then the first thing I
want to see is an X ray.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I want to take a look at it because it's
possible that I twisted my sacraliact. That's true, but you
are correct at all costs. It's always good to try
to avoid the table. Just avoid the table.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is that like keep my baby off the pole?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yes, kind of right, when it doesn't matter what the situation,
just avoid the table.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
I used to go to a chiropractor back in the day. Really, yeah,
it's been a long time. Did you.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Did they ever say to you this may hurt a little.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't recall.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh, but I had twisted my sacroli act, so that's what.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I think I did. Again.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Did they go by their first name? Doctor Matt, doctor Steve,
doctor Janet. No, I happen to know their first name,
but no, that I would find that creepy.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah right, Hi, doctor Nick, No, I know.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
I don't want to My eye doctor goes by first name.
Really yeah, because his his uh, he's got a family
member that is also works out of the same office.
So rather than going by doctor Smith and then they
have to go, oh which doctor Smith, it's doctor Steve
and doctor Carroll. I'm changing their names. No one needs

(08:11):
no one needs to know who my eye doctor.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Is from HBC. This is the hotcake six and seven
eighths by fifty. Interesting so far. I'm curious to smoke this. Really.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Get into the second third and see if this is
in the humid art. We will get to the price
on this, and of course how to start thinking about
this and get your notebooks because you want to write
down what you're experiencing in each third. Find everything we
do at eat drinksmokeshow dot com.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Just that easy, people. Halloween is right around the corner.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Are you excited?

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Fingers best holiday of the year.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Eat, drink, smoke. I'm Tony Katz. That's fingers below. I
find everything at Eat drinksmokeshow dot com. But you are
in the new house, the new neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
You are now in a possibly full sized candy bar neighborhood.
Oh no, I'm not. I'm in a turn your porch
light off and pretend you're not home kind of neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'm going to do that.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
No, I think we're going to get a new fire pit,
put it out in the driveway. Halloween is on a
Friday this year, and going to experience the whole thing
and you know what, we probably will buy the full
sized candy bar. And you know, if there are some
left over, I'll find them a good home.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Is there.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
We often discuss candy around this time of year, getting
ready for.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
The Halloween.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
And of course we've got our list of what states
are doing what like what is the most.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Popular candy in each state?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Of course we're in Indiana here it's a Reese's Peanut
butter cup recess.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Just say it right, if.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
You're down in Texas, If you're down in Texas, according
to this where I get all my candy news, this
is aol oh. This is the most popular candy of
nineteen ninety seven. Yes, correct, correct, you have to dial
up and get this candy if.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'm down in Texas.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
The most popular candy sour Patch Kids, which I want
to say again for the record, I want to help
people through this.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Sour Patch kids are not candy.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Chocolate is candy, Skittles are evil, and TUTSI rolls are
devil scat Oh, I'm Tony Katz with this public service announcement. Okay,
so what do you call sour Patch kids if they
are not candy?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, I mean it is.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's technically candy, but it's just so depressing.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
But kids love that.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I'm gonna say, you're you're coming from this my adult perspective, Yes, right,
somebody who has a palette just it's just so gross.
I agree with you, especially the blue raspberry sour patch.
Kids are just disgusting, especially if you get a whole
bag and eat them than a half an hour.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Have you done that? How? How are you still alive?
Look at me? Have I?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Have I done that? I had a fruit smoothie today
and threw your back out.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I did not have a fruit smoothie. Throw my backup.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Arkansas they're just flat up Hershey's milk chocolate according to
this list, Arizona and and I think that's I think
that's Wyoming. Uh they are TUTSI rolls shameful. But Oklahoma
is tootsy pops. Now that's a lollipop.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
It's a sucker. Isn't it a lolli? Isn't that the
flat one that you know you got the swirls? Isn't
that all on a second?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Stop? Is that the legitimate difference between a lollipop and
a sucker.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's what I learned the first year at candy you.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I swear to you, I'm about to have a moment
because I'll buy into that. I will so buy I
will allow that.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
I just know that in the really seven years of
doing this show, it's the first time I've said, Lolly,
I'm very proud of that. Oddly enough, won't be the last,
because once you're starting, it's right, you cannot stop.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Washington State, it's twigs. In Oregon, Idaho and Utah it
is Peano and M and M's, which are exceptional.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
By the way, there is no way some of these states,
it's like, okay, I don't know. Maybe like in Texas
you mentioned Sour Patch kids. Maybe they go very well
with the doctor Pepper, so the kids like it. Also
in Colorado, also in New York, also in Vermont, also
in Massachusetts, but Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Life Savers.

(12:51):
When you were a kid and you went trick or treating.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
This list is fall crap.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Seriously, if you got life Savers thrown in your bag,
you would be angry. You would be returning later with
a trick, and it usually involved rotten eggs.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
So the top ten candies most popular in the United States.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Number ten is the gold Bears from Harribo' that's the Gummies.
Number nine is the Twigs. Number eight.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Milky Way, You big Milky Way guy. I do like
a Milky Way. I like a three Musketeer more. I'm
not a big fan of nugat. You're an anti nugate you.
If you categorize it that way, then yes, I guess
I am. Number seven is Hershy's Milk chocolate. All right,
It's always gonna be on the list. It's a classic

(13:43):
sour patch kids are Number six. Number five is Snickers.
I love a Snickers.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I understand Snickers does have nugat in it as well,
if I'm not mistaken, But the nugat in a Snickers,
if there is any nugit caramel. It's caramel chocolate. Maybe
just camel Chocolate's no nugat. There's no Marzapan. I know
that number.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Four is KitKat. Is a fantastic candy. Kitkat's world class.
That's true, right, Number.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
I think I have you know you bought candy last year.
We haven't eate it yet. I think somewhere in the
studio Yerald candy.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
And number three is Eminem's number two is peanut m
and M's, which are superior in every way.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
I would agree with that every way. And then number
one Reese's peanut butter cups.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's pretty perfect.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
So on my way over here, I did have a
fun sized bag of caramel Eminem's, which are my new
favorite Eminem flavor.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
You had a bag of ms on the ride over
to the studio. Yes.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
I looked at my fuel gauge in the car and
I noticed I only had an eighth of a tank
of gas, so I had to stop petrol. And when
I did, I walked into the gas station. I said,
shop keep, give me your finest piece of cheese pizza
and I need some Eminem chasers, and I went for

(15:08):
peanut Eminems and he said, oh no, no, no, no, no. What
we do here is we pair the cheese pizza with
caramel Eminem's. They did not say that in my mind.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
They did.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
You got gas and said while I'm here pizza and
caramel eminem Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
It had been like three hours since I had eaten lunch,
and lunch was it was a Reese or not?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
It was?

Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know how they prepackaged the Rice Krispy treats against
individual signs the brick of rice Krispy treats at the
vending machine. Yeah, I got that. I got some.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh my god, you're so embarrassed.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Reese's pieces with that to chase it, and then a
Pepsi zero because who needs empty calories.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I have no idea how you I have no idea
how you function. Don't understand. It blows my mind.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
But this Halloween, I mean, this is a big one
for you in the New neighborhood, because not only do
we have the list of the popular, we have the list,
of course of the least popular.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
And it starts with the circus peanut. Do not fingers blow?
I be the guy who gives out the circus peanut?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I think was was it last year? I brought circus
peanuts in for us to try.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Finally got the last bit out of my teeth two
weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's a true story. Candy corn because it sucks like.
There's something called the nickel nip, which I'm pretty sure
I'm not allowed to stand radio.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, don't google that.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, oh, don't urban dictionary that. Whatever you do.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Good in plenty, which it's slickerice raisins and raisinets. Are
these are very different things. Raisins no Raisinet, I know
I'm not a fan of because I think it's I
think it's just a lie. If you're handing out a
box of Raisins for Halloween, you're asking to get your
house toilet paper.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
You have to be eighty. Those are the rules. Smart parties,
which I don't mind. Necka wafers, which don't get made anymore.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I don't believe. I think I've seen them at the
gas station recently, but apparently this list is from nineteen
seventy seven. Right, and then, of course, don't get any
chocolate from the dollar Tree to hand out no off
brands Halloween.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
He goes all of our halloweens. Economy's rough.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Eat drink smoking is your cigar bourbon pooty extravaganza. I'm
Tony Katz. That handsome devil right there is fingers. Oh
oh no, I'm sorry, that's fingers boy. The handsome devil
is Troy McClure.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
You may remember me from such get Oh what does
it get confident stupid self health videos is get confident
stupid and smoke your way thin.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
We should have really rehearsed this.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Find everything we do at Eat Drinks, Smoke show dot Com.
Smoking from HVC. This is hotcake. This is six and
seven eighths. Buy fifty cigar Ecuador not Ecuadorian, Connecticut, broadleaf
a wrapper right there, Nicaraguan, and the binder and the filler.
You want to get your notebooks out and you want

(18:13):
to write down the flavors first third, second, third, final third.
Just break the cigar up right first their second, third,
final third. What did you eat today? What did you
drink today? What is the weatherman like? We've got actual
fall chill weather here in Indianapolis, Indiana, but the sun
shining as we're recording this. And then write down the
flavors in each third. Doesn't matter how esoteric or how
simple you write it, what you're experiencing, just write them down.

(18:37):
When you try that cigar a month from now, six
months from now, whatever it is, you do it again,
and then you kind of get an idea of your
through line. What are the flavors you really got out
of the cigar and compare your notes to be like, okay,
that's what I got out the cigar, and then decide
whether it's something you're gonna smoke or not smoke.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
In the future.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
And by the way, the Hotcake comes in a series, right,
you can actually get this as a Connecticut there's a torpedo,
uh hotcake. HVC stands for Havana City. By the way,
hvcsigars dot com. So there's a bunch of ways that
this comes. I like what I'm experiencing here. This is
first of all, never mind, it's a fun name. It's

(19:15):
a beautiful look. Really really like the rapper. I think
your pepper conversation is right right court first first, really,
quarter of the tongue is where it is.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's it's nice and rich, and I think that that
mocha thing has really taken over.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
There's a little chocolate, there's a little coffee.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
I wonder if if somebody else would see it as
a a little bit milkshake going on, just just a little.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's because I to me it's a little creamier, is
is this one?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
They do a Maduro, which is actually San Andreas, a
Mexican San Andreas Maduro garagu one of the binder offiller.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's gonna give you different flavors.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
But there is a nice, nice, rich coming out of
this that I am just.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Very very happy with this has been. This has been
very enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, I agree with you about that. That
and that pepper has subsided a little bit for me,
and then you get more of that that that cocoa
note to me, there's a little bit of what you
would call tobacco forward as well. It has been very
low maintenance. Haven't had to touch it up at all.

(20:37):
It's just been it's been very solid so far.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
And this one, the name of this is the fresh
out of the oven, Fresh out of the oven, broad belief.
This is the Coronas Giganteste, which is six and seven
eighths by fifty fingers bologne.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Is this in your humidor for sixteen bucks?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yes, yeah, but yeah, I think for a second I
would have much preferred you said thirteen bucks. But the
fact that you know we're the size we're probably we
could easily get if we take our time two hours
out of the cigar, and you know, with the new
economy that we're in sixteen dollars. Yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I think that right now, by the way, a head
of wood, a hit of cedar is starting to hit
the cigar. There's a lot happening going on here, which
is which is really interesting?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I just I the answer.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I don't know why I'm on a maybe by the
way the draw has worked itself out, it's much better now.
I don't know why it worked itself out, but maybe
I'm just more used to whatever the case may be.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's it's that I like the coffees, I like the chuck.
I like this kind of.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Milk shaky thing that's kind of of happening here.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
But I don't know, like even the pepper is rich,
but I don't know if I like all of it.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
I I like, like even with this added wood note,
I'm like, all right, now, you're taking away from some
things I more wanted, and so I just wish those
things were happening in less measure and give me wood
or give me pepper, don't don't give me a uniqueness
of both.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
That make me challenge the other things. And I think
that's it.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Uh, sixteen, I do start to ask questions sixteen dollars.
I absolutely ask questions thirteen dollars. I would ask many
less questions. Yeah, and we're talking about three bucks. But
it's it's just in the head. But this is it
is nice. I'm looking forward to the second third here,
So let me let me hold off on my official decision.
That's all right, fingers moll fair enough, if that's okay

(22:57):
with you, that's okay if you don't mind, Fingers moill
on the way. Yeah, Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You. You
may remember me from such medical films as Alice Doesn't
live here anymore? And mommy, what's wrong with that man's face?

Speaker 2 (23:14):
That's all? Oh gosh, good for you looked it up.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Mommy, what's wrong with that man's face?

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Do you still watch the sim Is this like their
final season? Are they still going?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
They're still going, but they've they've dropped some characters, you know,
they dropped a Pooh and uh so I think they No,
I'm thinking a Family Guy. They killed off a character,
a long running character on Family Guy. Well, they killed
off the chicken. Oh, they may have killed the chicken.
They killed off oh what's what's his name? Muriel Miriam.

(23:53):
They killed off the wife of what's his name? Oh,
Simps already did that when they killed off Ned Flanders wife.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Maybe that's the one they killed off. Yeah, of course
they copied off.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
The They're not even shy about it, but it's time Fingers.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
When I can't remember the name, that's gonna kill me,
it's time for News of the.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Week, Tony. Nearly a quarter of a I'm looking up
the name right. Nearly a quarter of American workers didn't
take any of their vacation days this year, according to
a new survey reported by CNBC. New Yorkers didn't take
more Goldman, more Goldman. New Yorkers didn't take their time

(24:39):
off American American, Yes, not New Yorkers. I mean they
don't have a state by state breakdown in this piece.
Nearly a quarter of American workers did not take any
of their vacation days this year, according to a new survey.
Why Well. According to survey, twenty three percent of employees

(25:02):
didn't take a single day of vacation in the past year,
many of them because they felt like they had too
much work to leave. Twenty nine percent feel guilty or
pressure to appear committed at their jobs. Twenty five percent
of workers say their manager would likely respond in a

(25:23):
discouraging manner if they asked to take a full week off.
That's where we are.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
So a couple things.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
For the amount of people who have been involved in
the quiet quitting and this, that and the other, and
are barely doing their job anyway.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
You're already taking the days off, so shut up, You're stupid.
You already did it, You already got your deal. Your
manager has a problem with it. What is that? What
does that matter?

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Isn't it amazing? Though? That's where we are now because
you've taught you've heard of the job market softening a
little bit. Where before people were digging their heels in
and saying, I'm not returning to the offer to Now
you've got forty three percent feel that they have too
much work to justify taking vacations, and thirty percent are
worried about falling behind.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Maybe that's it.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I don't know if I believe this, because it doesn't
jive with what we're seeing, doesn't jive.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
With and.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm in favor of taking some time off.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
I am, And admittedly, this year twenty twenty five, I've
taken more time off than the first eleven years of
my professional radio career.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Really, oh god, yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Absolutely have first year where I'm like, yeah, I'm taking
the time. I absolutely put in every effort in the
verse ten. I allowed myself a little bit more more time.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
But I.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Just I just wonder whether or not this is an
accurate representation considering the amount of not working that takes
place and people still want to get paid.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Could be I just feel like people are worried about
their job status.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
We have to discuss this more. Fingers. Are you lonely?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Of course not. You know why I eat drink Smoke
Nation to keep me company.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's adorable. But you wouldn't go out of your way
to actually go meet them, would you?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Of course I would. You would eat drink Smoke Nation.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Absolutely, So if we said you are at a certain
place at a certain time, you'd be you'd be fine
with people coming and saying hey, Fingers, of course. Really, yes,
It's just I don't want a conversation in line at
a grocery store with a complete stranger. When they turn
around and say hot enough for you, That's when the
soul gets sucked out of my body.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Tea drink smoke Come, Tony Kats.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
That is America's favorite amateur drinker, Fingers, molloy, Uh, it's
two for on relationships.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Fingers. What is the loneliest day of the year for singles?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
I would assume it's either Sweetest Day or Valentine's Day?

Speaker 2 (28:02):
What's the first one?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Sweetest day? What is sweetest It's like the fall version
of Valentine's Day. You can't have just one holiday. What
are you been talking about? You've never heard of sweetest Day? Now,
I've got to get on ask jeeves to find out
what's sweetest day?

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Like like, it's a day for your sweetie.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
We just missed it.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
This was a thing.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Saturday, October eighteenth was sweetest Day? The hell yes, yeah,
but it's not either one of those. It's Halloween, according
to this dating dot com. They surveyed one thousand signals
and they found that Halloween is a lonely day for many.

(28:47):
Fifty nine percent of the single participants in the study
revealed that the Spooky Day Spooky is one of the
most emotionally difficult holidays of the year. Fifty seven percent
say it's worse.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Than Valentine's Day. Teventy nine percent of singles.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Seventy nine percent of singles feel lonely on the last
day of October over and over half of the participants
admitted to crying when they open the door to family's
trick or treating.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Now it all makes sense. It all makes sense if
you are alone and you were longing to have a
significant other, maybe start a family. You can kind of
avoid some of that when it's Valentine's Day, but when
seventy five to one hundred families show up at your

(29:33):
front door yelling trick or treat the kids, the couple,
and then on top of it, the other thing too
is the amount of Halloween parties that people go to.
It's dominated by couples, makes sense.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
But they're coming to your door. So this is an
opportunity to find single guys or guys single ladies. This
is an opportunity.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
You see, your costume is you're single, you wear a
little sciences, I'm single, and then somewhere there's a single
dad or a single mom. They'd be like, oh yeah,
me too. I shared twigs. You want to check out
a babe ruth. No matter what candy, you gotta end
of it. That's the key. Always, that's the key. So

(30:23):
you don't find that that would be creepy at all.
If say, a little uh, little Cindy and little Bobby
come up and say trick or tree and you look
out and see that there's only a woman there and you.
You turn to Cindy and say, is your mom available?
You don't think that kids? You just wear a little
where's daddy?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Dad, Daddy's not around anymore. Oh, I feel so badly
for you, Cindy's mom. Why don't you come here? And?

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
I have an adult beverage. I'm having one right now.
Is that how it works? Ah?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
How did you ever get married? It's a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
So smooth you are. I'm just saying there's an opportunity.
They're coming to you. There might be someone single in
the mix. You gotta it's about attitude. Well, I guess
there's one way to There are two ways to attack
Halloween as a single. You can either sit back and
feel sorry for yourself and handle the candy, or approach
it the way you're approaching it. And if you are

(31:22):
a man looking for a single mom out there, she's
already scoping out your house right, Sorry, you're looking up
not Yeah, She's like I could live there now.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
This is the opposite of the people who are dating
just for money. Florida, Nevada. These are the states where
people are most likely to marry for money. These are
the gold digger states. Wait A minute. Okay, I have

(31:56):
to know.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
So the New York Post has the story, yeah, that
there was a study done. You click on the link
to the study and it just opens up a Google
drive spreadsheet.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Who did this study?

Speaker 1 (32:15):
And was it government funded? That's what I want to know.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
It's amazing, it's got it's got the number of billionaires,
and then it's it's got the number of millionaires, annual
cost of living, average hourly wage.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Keep scrolling to the right, sugar daddy.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
It talks about how the trends and increases of these searches.
Sugar daddy, sugar mommy, sugar baby, marry.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Rich and then pay for sex. Right there it says
pay for stop. It does not. You ruin everything?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Am I the only person who has no issue with
relationships that are based on this exchange?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
As long as everybody's on the up and up.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
I'm glad you bring that up because you know Bill
Belichick right there continues to be controversy about Bill Belichick.
It's not going well at the University of North Carolina.
Former coach of the New England Patriots, now the coach
college the University of North Carolina, where he probably won't
finish out the year. He's in his seventies. He's dating
a young lady. I'm guessing she's in her twenties, think

(33:29):
he's twenty four. And there has been a lot of
criticism about this, saying she's a gold digger, she's only
using him for his money. And I say to myself,
you know what, these people are absolutely right. He should
be dating someone closer to his age that's using him
for his money. What are we talking about here? Of

(33:52):
course it's ridiculous. Of course she's using him for his money,
there's no question. And what this is, This is standard
operating procedure. She is an adult who's making a decision
about how to spend her time and with whom. What's
the issue, the guys, the issue is that you can't

(34:15):
afford her?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Is this the issue? Look, I'm not saying you should
marry the girl.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I am saying they entered into a contract. They've got
a deal.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Contract. It is, it is, it all is.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Look it doesn't look ridiculous, of course it does, But
who cares? Who cares? I don't understand. Just like I said,
we're gonna feel better if he's dating someone in their
sixties that's using him for his money. That's gonna make
everyone feel better.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't know why, but I get your point.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Somehow that visual is more acceptable acceptable too.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
You're not the one of the relationship.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm just amazed that the study was done. And by
the way, if you are a gold digger, apparently don't
go to Vermont. That's the worst place for gold diggers.
But I feel like this is a really, really, really
controversial topic when it comes to, you know, social media.

(35:22):
The social media outrage over the old rich guy dating
the young girl, it seems to really push a lot
of people's buttons.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Why.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I don't get it. Did I say it? Was it
Martha Stewart or maybe Cher who's dating someone that's like
thirty years younger than her. It's like, God, bless you
can do it. What's the problem?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I don't know. I do not have a problem with this.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
They I'm so not interested in Bill Belichick's life. There's
nothing about Bill Belichick where I'm like, man, that that's
a guy.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
I want to know nothing. I never thought about it.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
I don't care. I think that he would actually you
hear it that he's a good storyteller behind without a
camera in front of him. I'm sure he's got some
great stories about the Giants and Lawrence Taylor and all
that stuff. I don't want to talk to him about romance.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
No, oh god no.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
But yes, people get worked up because there's some visual
that's supposed to be acceptable.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
This is not a child. Everybody knew the deal going
in and.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's it's it's a tail as old as time, and
it's not it's not even interesting.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I just want the gold digger to be honest about it.

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That's the key, honest gold Diggers.

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