Carlos Garcia Unfiltered: Cigars, Bourbon & Military Stories

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Welcome back, everybody, to the Ash Chat Podcast. We are live once again at
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Mickey Blake's Cigar Lounge in Orange.
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That is Connecticut, for anyone wondering.
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Yeah, we've got a hell of a show lined up today. This is going to be,
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it might be a long one. It might be interesting. It might get a little weird.
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So it should be right on par for us.
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We've got a really special guest with us today, Mr. Carlos Garcia.
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Hello hello how are you sir let's go welcome welcome let's go we got a lot to
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dive into and yeah boys so how's everyone doing awesome good good good with
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us with me today of course i have,
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cappy and jay and our esteemed guest carlos so what's up gentlemen how are we
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doing today fucking great yeah yeah on the last we'll just get into this real
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quick before getting into carlos's stuff on the last episode we were talking
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about how we had a couple events coming up here at the lounge.
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And this past weekend, we did have the chili cook off. Did we? Cappy!
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Let's go, let's go, let's go. I believe we have a two-time champion on our hands.
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Two-time champion. We have two. I can't figure out how to do more collider, but you can cook a chili.
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Well, you know. Yeah, we got two two-time champions.
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Yeah. And number one and number two right here.
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It was a hell of a time, man. There was a lot of good chilies out there. That was a great day.
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We had like 12 chilies. Yeah. And at least 40 to 50 tasters,
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something like that. Yeah. We had some cheaters there, too, but we're not going to talk about it.
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I'm gaslight mother. Are they in the other room? Oh, yeah. They're in the other
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room. You can't pay $150 for a chili and lose. What the fuck is going on? That's crazy.
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I'm just saying, though. Well, that was a stew. Because it was ox.
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Because it was ox. Tell me I give a fuck.
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Oh shit anyway go ahead so yeah
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so that's how that went but coast welcome man how
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are you doing fantastic all right awesome i
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noticed uh you brought in a a few bottles with
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you so we'll get into that and obviously we've got a cigar
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that we're going to smoke and probably pair up with all
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these but for our listeners that have not seen your your channel give us a little
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bit background on you and what you what you do all right so i have a youtube
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channel called carlos garcia very right with my name so it's about my life really
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it's about a lot about whiskey there is some cigar content on there but youtube
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doesn't like it so much so i try to stay away,
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there's some travel videos and i finally got one gun video
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up there i went out
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to the range or i went out to the desert with my buddy in arizona and
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we just shot up the mountain like arizona's a
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whole different life yeah love it love not like
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connecticut so but yeah but mostly it's
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whiskey content so i brought four whiskeys that are cigar based to pair with
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some cigars nice cool perfect awesome man so yeah decided excited to get into
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that kind of stuff what got what started your whole your channel like what what
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made you dive into so i watch crapload a whiskey tube.
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30 to 40 different channels or more probably and i'm
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really into that community especially sob i
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don't know if you guys watch any other whiskey tubers or any at
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all but sob is like a father-son duo been watching
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them for a long time and i've been involved in that community for
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a while and a lot of people are like you know you got close to
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2,000 bottles of whiskey you should probably do something with it
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and since i watch so much youtube i was like maybe i'll
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do youtube and i started the channel earlier this year it's been
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good you know some of my best of videos have to
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do with like reviews of whiskey or bourbon events like in kentucky basically
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me bad-mouthing the kentucky bourbon festival that video blew up everyone wants
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to hear you talk about something that is true negative stuff so that worked
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out really well but it's been good it's a lot of fun.
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That's good. Very cool. And you said you started that just earlier this year,
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huh? Yeah, I started this year. January 6th of this year.
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How much content do you normally do, like per week or month?
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Yep. Every week I post a video Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
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I've only missed one upload. It was a Friday a while ago.
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I almost missed last night. I posted it at 2 o'clock this morning,
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Wednesday's video. Oh, shit. On the West Coast, it's still counted.
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Maybe on the East Coast, but it worked out on the West Coast. Yeah,
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I watched that video this afternoon, and I was just like, he got that
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he got that yeah he got that how the
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fuck did he get that yeah the whole videos get
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a lot of that bro so for people
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that want to know what the hell jay's talking about where do
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they find how do they find you obviously it channels under your name is
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there you you can uh just search in youtube
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carlos garcia whiskey it should pop up right away or cgs
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yt channel carlos garcia's youtube channel and
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that should pop it up too but carlos garcia whiskey is now popping it up
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so nice awesome which is very cool so yeah
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if you're listening to this make sure to head over to his youtube channel and
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give a subscribe and like and you know all that fun shit
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that the influencers say did you watch that latest video
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i have not you should tell him which bottles broke oh well broke stag jr batch
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two what and elijah craig barrel proof rye the new one i wasn't too sad about
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that one because i feel like i get that again the stag jr batch two though yeah
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i lost I saw that stag, and I'm like, oh, Cappy's going to cry.
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Damn it. No, no, it's okay. It's all, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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The Georgie stag made it, though.
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There you go. It was a crazy month. Sounds like a good month.
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So, so where were you on your last trip? I went to Dallas for a few days to
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hang out with my army buddies for veterans day. Okay.
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And then we also visited, actually I'm wearing the bracelet.
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Sergeant Shanks is buried in Bonham, Texas, about like an hour and a half north of Dallas.
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So we went up to the gravesite, hung out with his daughters.
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And then a couple of days later, I went to Phoenix to hang out with my Air Force buddy.
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And that's where I like shot up in the desert and everything like that.
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We went to Whiskey Row and Prescott.
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So that's where I spent a lot of my money. was up in that area cool cool so
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when you went there did they have like a lot of the new stuff so they had the
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older stuff just a mix of everything like at the bars in prescott,
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so they had depending on the bar because it's like a whole like western type
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thing like everything is there like a built in 1900 which i'm sure some of your
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houses are like my house built in 1904 So I'm like, okay, this isn't that old.
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Like, I don't know why everything's haunted here.
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Like, my home street is haunted. You don't realize how old the East Coast is. Yeah.
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So, you know, that's the whole thing is like, you know, Doc Holliday and all
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these cowboys were in that area back in the day. And so there was a bunch of bars.
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And to answer your question, there was some nice stuff, some newer stuff,
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but they cater to more like not the biggest vendors, but depends on what bar
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you go into. Gotcha. Okay.
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You know, I got a poor William Lou Weller while I was up there.
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No. So, you know, they have places that have crazy bottles. What's your take on that?
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Willem Willer? We got a guy here that he just loves it. It's delicious.
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It's delicious. I just got my very first bottle in Prescott.
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Nice. It's in my video. Awesome.
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Very cool. So obviously we're, you know, cigars, bourbon, all that kind of stuff.
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A little, always like to get a little bit of history of our guests.
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Like what, what got you started into the cigar community first?
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Like we'll start there. So I've been smoking cigars since I was deployed to Afghanistan back in 06.
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Off and on, like, you know, there's definitely when I was in Germany,
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I wasn't really smoking that many cigars, but when Fort Drum smoked cigars.
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But I would say I got really back into it maybe eight-ish years ago.
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You know, I got one of those nice electric humidors with like a thousand cigars in it.
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So, you know, once I go into something, I go full board in it.
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That's why I have 2,000 bottles of whiskey in my house. A lot of cigars and a lot of guns.
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I fucking like this guy. Sounds like a fun time. I decided to bring him. I fucking love this guy.
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It's amazing. You know, the DEA or whatever or ATF would love to come to my house.
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I got all their stuff that they're looking for.
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Oh, shit. That was great. That's awesome. So do you remember like your first cigar experience?
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I want to say it was a brick house in Afghanistan just because I think that's
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what like we were smoking back then.
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Right. Because I think that's the only thing people were able to get back then,
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at least in where we were at.
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But, yeah, even before that, I smoked, like, black and milds in high school
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and stuff like that. Obviously, that's not the same thing.
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I'm trying to say that. But, you know, I had a little bit of experience smoking
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before that. But, basically, that's where it kind of started with Afghanistan.
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It's also where I started reading and ended reading books there.
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So, you know, things are coming down.
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Pretty sure it's the last time I read a full book. There you go. There you go.
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And you know what? Here we go. Because now, let's just, I know we got a shit
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ton of questions for them. But you have $10, right?
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You walk into a humidor, has everything you can imagine, but you have $10. What are you buying?
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Is the price of the cigar $10? Yes. Okay, so a Melanio.
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Okay. Yeah. I was going to say I put drone if I had $20. See that?
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Right there. Right there with my man, Jay.
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A Melanio. You're fucking great. That's great. That's like my favorite cigar
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under $10. Under $10 is great.
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Can't go wrong. Can't go wrong. Yeah, Melanio is one of my favorite smokes.
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Now, when it comes to cigars, are you like someone that just sticks to a certain
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region? Like, are you all Nicaraguan, all Dominican?
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Absolutely not. Okay. Just like my whiskey, I love variety. I love trying different things.
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I went to Cuba earlier this year for a week, and then I was in Cuba a couple
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years ago as well. So I brought back a lot of Cuban cigars.
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There you go, ATF. More information for you.
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It's still legal to bring them back, I think. Don't care.
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I did. No one yelled at me, so there we are. I've been smoking some of the ones
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from three years ago because I like to keep stuff on my humidor for a little while. Okay.
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Because, again, you have so many, I kind of just, like, rotate them through.
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Sure. But, yeah, my favorite cigar that I have is the Monocrystal No.
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2s. Those are my favorites.
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I got another box of that this year. That was, like, one of the things I told
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our, like, we had, like, a little guy that was with us the whole time,
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and he's a cigar Somali, a master cigar Somali-
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working under like the masters of master guy we
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met him too i was like it was really cool like our tour
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guy we had a couple years ago was really
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cool because more about the history this guy was all about the
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cigar stuff and that's what we really wanted to do because all the guys went
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with her just it was a guy's trip yeah we're all cigar cigar guys so we went
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out to the fields and the farms we stayed there out overnight so we went to
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a couple farms so it was a good time love going out there you know we donate
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a lot of clothes to the farm people farm people.
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That sounds like a really cool trip. Yeah, it does. So before we get too far
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down the rabbit hole, I just took a sip of this, the first pour that we've got.
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So I do want to get kind of just an introduction into the whiskey side of things, too.
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Because obviously we have a few here and we're going to start drinking. And this was tasty.
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Right. So this, Panopi came out with their first cigar batch.
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This is Cigar Sessions. I think you guys all had this already, right? Yes.
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Okay. So you guys are familiar with this. a lot this it was made to be peered
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with a medium cigar which these are i'm guessing.
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Yeah it's on that it's on the spectrum okay so perfect medium
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or full yeah now right i would think it's a little bit more full now do
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you guys know i'm sure you guys know you guys are way more in cigars than
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i am but do you guys know sin cobert of
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dissident cigars or lee marshall's stolen throne cigars
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or those cigars no no i had to
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look them up too it's not a cigar brands i'm familiar with i
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actually met them at the kentucky bourbon festival they're in the penelope area
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giving out free cigars so actually filing got cigars from
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those brands okay but they worked with penelope to create
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this oh no kidding to be paired with a medium uh
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cigar okay okay their master you know rollers or
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blenders whatever terms they are for those companies but
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they created this but this is unlike any other
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really cigar batch on the market because it's
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a blend of american single malt rye and bourbon where
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most of it's you know bourbon finished in 50
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different things and now anything that says cigar blend
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or cigar malt there's no legal definition for that it
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could just right you could just put that on any label and just try to it's a
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marketing that's all it is but i do buy everything that says cigar blend or
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something on a bottle so marketing really works for me there's a reason they
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do it yeah for people like this guy very cool yeah this i mean it's it's really good.
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I have not had this before, so this is my first taste of it. It's really nice.
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It's got a little bit of a kick, a little bit of a spice in the back end, just on the finish.
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It's really smooth off the rip, though. It's nice.
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I did a lot of reviews on cigar bourbons this year, and this is one of the lower reviewed ones.
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But people just say it's a lot better with a cigar.
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I mean, so far, so good. I feel good about it. It's definitely a good pour.
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I do think that cigar we're smoking is a little strong for it.
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Yeah, it overpowers it. Yeah, it definitely overpowers it. But it's well balanced.
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I don't think the proof's too high. It's got a lot of good fragrance.
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So to that point, I went to the Florida barn smoker.
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So I did the 20-acre cigar with this one because they were just abundantly handing those out. Yep.
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And the flavor of this came out way more than it's coming out now.
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Like you're saying, this overpowers it a million percent.
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Yeah. But at the same time, I think it complements the reverse way because some
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of that heat and that edge on the cigar is smoothed out by the bourbon.
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Yeah, a million. So I don't know if you've tried to smoke yourself.
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Cigar after the bourbon yeah there's a little more nuance retrohale everything
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so i retrohale everything you're gonna get a little different profile i'm that
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dead dude i don't want to choke,
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when i do i just cry all the time so i don't even do it i'm like fuck that i
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don't want to choke and die and yeah i'll do it once in a while but every puff
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i retrohale yeah and it's just part of my routine i'm good for like once or
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twice a cigar that's because this guy's a savage that's right that's why i got a backup on the.
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So while we're talking about whiskey and bourbon it's kind
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of the same question like where where did you get started in your collection
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and getting into the whiskey community and okay so i have a few friends that
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were definitely into whiskey before i was into whiskey i was you know me and
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my wife were into wines for a while then the craft beer you know ipa stronger the better,
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you know i have a excel spreadsheet on my phone with like a thousand different
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ipas that i review yeah yeah that's what i do spreadsheets.
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Don't use any spreadsheets at my job and then my friends you know slowly got
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me into whiskey and then once i got into it you know once i get into something
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it's full throttle all the way in so that's kind of what happened but i have
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a couple friends i could definitely like point to,
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that'd be like, yeah, you definitely got me to whiskey because you were always
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like pushing it over the years.
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Good no no go for
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it oh i was gonna say when it comes to your whiskeys you know now that you've done
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it a few years you have definitely a developed
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palate do you find that you're more of
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a weeded guy you like your stuff a little more aged do
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you like the secondary aging on like
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different casts like a wine cask or an armagnac or you
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know what's your what are your thoughts on that so i like everything except
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for dickle and whistle pig wow here we
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go all right all right has and it's mainly because
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dickle has a minerally note like uh the
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flintstones vitamin note yeah and that's not my favorite so people
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do obviously they sell them they have them all over the stores but
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that's one of my lines i don't like whistle pig
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also never i've had a bunch of
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whistle pigs that i haven't really enjoyed but basically
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everything else i will drink but the
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things i tend to are higher proof higher age okay so like a georgie stag sounds
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oh he sounds like who that boy sound like i mean i think that's kind of a natural
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progression you kind of chase the game in just about everything starting cigars
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you tend to start mild and move up and then pretty soon you're just smoking strong stuff,
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I don't know the last time. You
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guys were talking about this is the higher proof. This is the one-on-one.
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This might be the lowest proof thing I have drank in the past a month.
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To me, this is apple juice.
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I just say it. Everything else here is higher proof.
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I mean, I think the minimum he'll drink usually is 120 or something.
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Yeah, I'm a savage. I mean, if he can't set it on fire, he probably won't. But you know what?
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He just spoke to my exactly what. The higher proof, to me, the better the taste. It's richer.
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That's why I love it. And it just gives you that real flavor that you want.
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Like, I mean, one-on-one, it tastes good.
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I'm not going to take anything away from it. But the higher the proof for me is like, shit, you know?
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Yeah, when you're not watering it down, you get all the flavor.
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Yeah, I do no ice. Some people here do ice. I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
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But anyways, we're not going to tell you. That's a whole different thing. Sosa.
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Even the bottles themselves, though, to get the lower proof,
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if they add water to lower the proof.
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To lower, yeah. You're already, yeah. Like, Ego Rare right out of the barrel is delicious.
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And at 90 proof, you know, it's okay, but it's not what it is out of the barrel.
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Right. Which you can hopefully try one day at the Buffalo Trace,
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but it's a whole different thing. Can we do that?
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Just go down to Kentucky and just start drinking out of the barrel?
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Let's make it happen. You can do anything. Let's do it.
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You can do anything. Hey, we did it at Makers. Well, yeah, Makers.
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We did a single barrel of Makers. It was fucking great. That was a,
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that was a great trip, but, but with the little pucks, like switching out the
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different, uh, blends. Yep. Yeah.
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Yeah. It was great. I did one of those earlier this year too, with Conte.
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Cause I know the reason I even know you guys is cause Conte was doing the alcohol for a party.
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With Ryan. It was Ryan here. I was helping Ryan. Right.
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That was a good night. Yeah, we have one of those here. I mean,
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we're not big fans of Rabbit Hole.
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Rabbit Hole. At least a couple of us are not. Rabbit Hole sucks.
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Rabbit Hole always. He hates us. He hates everyone.
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So there's, SLB did a pick of Rabbit Hole Dengengar. It tastes like pecan pie.
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It is delicious. If you like pecan pie, that's what, pecan pie sucks. Okay.
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Holy shit. Well, there you go. and Kathy has struck again we got some shit to
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unpack with that one fuck I'm agreeing with you I don't like pecan pie.
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So, when you're sitting at home, obviously for your channel,
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you're going to pick something certain to drink or review or smoke or whatever.
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But if you're just sitting at home having a cigar or having a drink,
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do you try and pair things together or do you just kind of go with it?
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I like this. I like this. So, if I'm at home because I have a little cigar lounge
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on my house, if I'm out there smoking, I'm grabbing a scotch.
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I like pairing scotches with cigars. My man. Okay.
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That's my go-to all the time. Like, I'll take a Lafroig 10 or a nicer Lafroig
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or a Lagavulin 16 and just go out there and pair that.
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But I do grab some of these cigar ones just to kind of see what cigars pair better.
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But I'll just grab a random bottle. Maybe it's like, you know,
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if I have a bottle that's close to dying.
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That's the one you're grabbing? I'll grab that. I can't space on my shelves.
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I have a lot of my friends that come over and try to drink my whiskey.
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They just don't do a good enough job. So if you need more friends, let us know.
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So that's interesting. So you would lean towards a scotch.
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Obviously, you drink a lot of bourbon. How do you feel about Rise and maybe
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like your Tennessee whiskey or Colorado whiskey?
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Like where are they like in a hierarchy for you? So Jack Daniels,
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you said Tennessee whiskey.
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I call that bourbon because I don't care what marketing they throw out there.
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That's my distillery of the year. Jack Daniels has put absolute bangers out
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there this year at an affordable price for what they are.
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Right now, Jack Daniels 14 is one of my favorite bottles of the year.
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I still haven't found something that came out this year that beat it.
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Now, I haven't compared the George C.
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Stagg from this year versus head-to-head yet, but...
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It probably will, because I do a, I'll, I will do a top 25 of 2025 tournament.
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So it'd be like every, it'd be like five bottles over, over like a few videos.
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I did it early this year for 24.
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And so the George Shies, I will definitely be in there. The Jack Daniels 14
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will definitely be there.
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So they might eventually go against each other, but I just did Jack Daniels
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versus Wild Turkey for distillery of the year.
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Cause Wild Turkey also came out with a lot of good bottles this year.
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Yes, they did. But their pricing is double what Jack Daniels did.
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So, you know, Jack Daniels is doing it a lot cheaper.
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Wild Turkey is owned by a big corporation and they like to push the money for profits.
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Jack Daniels actually read an article today. They lost money this quarter.
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So, you know, I don't know if they're going to try to push up the pricing just
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to kind of get some of that revenue, but we'll see.
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Might be time to snatch up some Jack Daniels bottles. Oh, yeah.
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Now, I'm not talking about Jack Daniels 7, specifically. No.
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But that is obviously their moneymaker. But, you know, Jack Daniels 14,
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Jack Daniels 12, Jack Daniels 10 this year.
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They came out with the rye, the something hill. I can't think of it. Koi Hill? No.
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So the Koi Hill is the bourbon. They came out with the rye, it's like...
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Tanager Hill or something with a T-Hill. I can't believe I can't think of it
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right now. But that just came out.
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I haven't had it, but I've heard it's fantastic.
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But, you know, they've come out with a few different bottles.
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They came out with a toasted, the Blue Label one that came out earlier.
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I have had that. That's delicious. All over Connecticut.
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Apparently no one else in America is getting it. We're getting it all in Connecticut.
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So I shipped out probably 20 of those bottles to people.
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Keep it here. Keep it here. That was delicious. Yeah. But that's like,
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you know, a $70 bottle and it's supposed to be a shelfer.
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And Jack Daniels just put it out there and it was a special release a few years
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ago. Is it the Tanured? Tanured, yes. Tanured.
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Tanured Hill. Fuck, I love Google. Let's go.
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Keep saying that. Maybe we'll get a sponsorship. I know. Come on,
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baby, let's go. Fuck, I was getting confused with a Tanager from Still Austin,
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but I knew it wasn't that.
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But, yeah. Jack Tan, it was a great distillery. But, yeah, I drink everything.
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Rye, I got a bunch of Rye's, too.
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This year hasn't been that good, at least for me, with the Rye's.
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The last year I thought was like the year of the rye.
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This year is more, it started off like the year of the wheat whiskey.
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Cause Heaven Hill came out with their,
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batch 19 or 20 that was wheat whiskey makers mark
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came out with their wheat whiskey and it was good star hill farm yeah
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star hill farm that's such a home run and that's
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a pain in the ass talking about things that are allocated or whatever come on
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bro it's like i was able to get actually i was able
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to get two bottles this year yeah you fucker yeah it was
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good though thank god for he cheered and you know
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but it's like i haven't seen it or if i do see
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it you know guys are playing the game you know it's like
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yeah they want to go up yeah it's like 100 bucks on
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that bottle all right i'll play with you but i'm not paying three
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or four hundred no i don't know and in connecticut you
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know we have the misfortune of like 90 of our liquor
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stores are shit yes so you just have to go to the 10 that are msrp and just
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become really loyal and then they'll text you like i woke up today to two text
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messages from two different stores like hey we got this in today nice so If
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you spend enough money at the one store or two stores, they'll,
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they'll definitely hook you up.
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That's, that's a secret in Connecticut. Don't do it.
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Save all the bottles for me.
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I mean, you know, you say that, but I think it kind of plays into kind of what
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we talk about all the time here.
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And like, that's, you know, community and that goes for cigars, that goes for bourbon.
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Like that shit's good. you develop friendships and
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relationships in the community and yeah
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you're gonna get insider tips you're gonna you know all that kind of stuff it
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just comes down to relationships and community yeah not the cigar one we don't
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have that one i have a buddy at cigar cut from old elk so old elk has done three
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different cigar batches and cigar this is a cigar cut one if you notice the
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top comes like way off too easy. Yeah.
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That is a problem with old elk. Old elk bottles are notorious for like their tops. Yeah. Flimsily.
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One time I took off the top and it was still in the plastic on it.
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And it just came off with the plastic all together. Oh, shit.
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But they're notorious. So I'll just let you guys know. Old Elk bottles switch
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off the tops. I just noticed that today. I was like, damn it.
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Cool. So yeah, so we did just pour another Old Elk cigar cut.
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It's fucking delicious. Let's proof I not.
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Talk while I try and read. Do you want to make glasses? I think I do.
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It's on the bottom. It's more of your typical cigar blend. It has four different
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finishes on it. Light in here sucks.
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Can you see that? I think it's a 110, 55%.
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Please hold while we... This is just fun watching this. He got it.
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He got it. He got it. He got it. Yeah, 110.
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Nailed it. And what's the MSRP on that? That one, I think, is about 120.
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Right, because... Oh, shit. A little store near me had a bottle on the shelf,
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and I asked the guy, you know, what does this run?
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And he took it to the back, and I thought he was going to ask the manager.
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So he looks it up on the computer, and then, you know, he goes to his phone,
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and he's like, yeah, that's 150.
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What the fuck? Oh, come on. It's
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a big... Like, scan it in the fucking POS and see what it comes up as.
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They're just checking the secondary websites to see the price. Yeah.
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Again, there's good stores. You start knowing people. If you guys are from West
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Haven area, I'm from West Haven, Yield and West Haven is the best store in this little area.
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Then Wines and More and Milford, that's a really good store. Yeah.
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I'm just thinking of stores around. That's Corey's, right? Corey. That's Corey, yeah.
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Corey's good to me. He's hooked me up. Yeah, Corey's good. Yeah,
00:27:05.564 --> 00:27:08.184
we've had him on the show. Yes. A couple times, I think.
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Yeah, I'm not too far from the police department, so I'll swing at the York Package.
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And their prices are great. Selection, so-so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But they occasionally get a nice bottle like this in there.
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That's where I got my Jack Daniels 12. Paid a little bit up for it,
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only because he said, oh, I'll get the Jack Daniels 14 for you the next day.
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He never got it, so I was like, damn it.
00:27:29.064 --> 00:27:32.684
I was competing with you. I don't go there that often, though.
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I stick to yield over there. Because there was also the liquor store on the beach.
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His pricing is all over the place. Sometimes he'll put something up there that's
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allocated for MSRP, then he'll, he'll want like 300 for something that doesn't
00:27:45.044 --> 00:27:47.284
even get that on second. Yeah. I'm like, what are you doing?
00:27:47.584 --> 00:27:50.264
Jesus. Yeah. Maybe the wifi was down that day.
00:27:52.964 --> 00:27:54.944
He misspelled something. I was looking up something different.
00:27:55.244 --> 00:27:58.724
So, so Carlos, you've been to a couple bourbon events. You mentioned that you
00:27:58.724 --> 00:27:59.984
were at the Kentucky bourbon festival.
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Do you have any other events on your list that you maybe want to hit next year in 26?
00:28:06.348 --> 00:28:09.968
So this year I went to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, which is like the big, big one.
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And then like a month later, I went to Bourbon on the Banks,
00:28:13.568 --> 00:28:18.288
which LF Heritage, used to be Limestone Farms Distillery.
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They actually got me the ticket to go. I had to pay for my flight and everything,
00:28:21.628 --> 00:28:24.628
but they took care of my ticket. So I appreciate them for doing that.
00:28:24.748 --> 00:28:27.248
But that was way better than Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
00:28:27.528 --> 00:28:31.228
Really? I go over both of them in multiple videos about why.
00:28:31.468 --> 00:28:34.548
Okay. The Kentucky Bourbon Festival was basically a clown show.
00:28:34.728 --> 00:28:36.708
It was definitely a money grab.
00:28:37.148 --> 00:28:42.948
And I explained all the problems and solutions to it. It's easy when you're a clown.
00:28:44.288 --> 00:28:48.248
I'm laughing because I saw this video and I, you know, there were portions I
00:28:48.248 --> 00:28:50.548
literally had to pause because I was giggling so much.
00:28:50.748 --> 00:28:54.288
And I was like, yeah, get them, get them. No, I went there with 10 guys.
00:28:54.488 --> 00:28:57.188
They're all whiskey, crazy people like me. we stayed at
00:28:57.188 --> 00:29:00.268
airbnb so like hanging out at the airbnb after at
00:29:00.268 --> 00:29:03.408
night and stuff like that with like you know this the table sides like this
00:29:03.408 --> 00:29:07.828
full of just crazy bourbons and whiskeys that was a good part but like waiting
00:29:07.828 --> 00:29:13.388
in line all day yeah that was bullshit now were you going there to drink or
00:29:13.388 --> 00:29:18.648
were you going there to hunt both i go everywhere to drink it's what i do,
00:29:19.948 --> 00:29:23.128
you know if i can pick up some good bottles while i'm out there yeah yeah you
00:29:23.128 --> 00:29:27.308
know two birds one I don't have these crazy haul videos just because I sit on my ass.
00:29:29.148 --> 00:29:32.568
I'm always out there looking. I don't go hunting in Connecticut like I used
00:29:32.568 --> 00:29:36.068
to. I used to do a whole circuit across the whole state looking for stuff.
00:29:36.308 --> 00:29:41.128
You know, I'm now at a point where I have the stores texting me when stuff comes in.
00:29:41.728 --> 00:29:45.748
And so that's, you know, years of spending a lot of money. That's kind of what
00:29:45.748 --> 00:29:48.528
you get to. But just knock over the camera. That's fine.
00:29:50.248 --> 00:29:53.768
No, no, you're good. You're good. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:56.738 --> 00:30:01.478
Don't pump it again. That's not what I got. That's a small YouTuber.
00:30:03.418 --> 00:30:06.878
I can't afford another one. Live TV. I love it. We edit that.
00:30:08.238 --> 00:30:10.898
Now we don't. Just don't. Leave that shit in there.
00:30:11.918 --> 00:30:15.178
Well, it's funny because I know that when you were here last time,
00:30:15.318 --> 00:30:17.078
you were talking about preparing that video. No.
00:30:17.278 --> 00:30:21.178
And we were eager to see what you were going to say because we had gone to the previous two.
00:30:21.418 --> 00:30:24.798
Right. I remember you guys talking about that. And we went there with a totally
00:30:24.798 --> 00:30:26.698
different mindset. Like, we weren't going to go hunting.
00:30:26.958 --> 00:30:28.858
We were going to go. Yeah, we weren't hunting. If something cool popped up,
00:30:28.918 --> 00:30:31.918
we would get it. Yeah. So we were basically part of the clown show,
00:30:32.078 --> 00:30:33.078
just drinking and trying.
00:30:33.438 --> 00:30:36.958
Oh, that's not the clown show. The clown show was waiting in line and didn't be disappointed.
00:30:37.518 --> 00:30:39.058
Oh, yeah. Because they ran out. You wait in line for an hour,
00:30:39.098 --> 00:30:40.958
then nothing. So, you know.
00:30:41.278 --> 00:30:45.678
But Burbank on the Banks is perfect for that. So Kentucky Burbank Festival basically
00:30:45.678 --> 00:30:49.178
had the one side that you could just go from one place to one place and drink.
00:30:49.418 --> 00:30:54.878
Burbank on the Banks was basically that. It was just a bunch of places all in
00:30:54.878 --> 00:30:56.718
one row. You just go back to back.
00:30:56.758 --> 00:31:00.458
There were no lines at all. See, we got to do that. That's the next one.
00:31:00.618 --> 00:31:03.398
Yeah. Check it up. That's the one I'm definitely going to next year.
00:31:03.898 --> 00:31:08.298
We might join you. Yeah. The people from Burma Banks said that they'll actually
00:31:08.298 --> 00:31:10.758
give me a ticket this time because they saw my review.
00:31:10.838 --> 00:31:14.578
They're using me in their marketing already for next year. Oh, wow.
00:31:15.038 --> 00:31:18.478
All right. Well, that's cool, I guess. That's great. That's awesome, bro.
00:31:19.818 --> 00:31:24.218
A couple years ago, I went to Cigar Aficionado and Whiskey Advocate.
00:31:24.398 --> 00:31:27.538
They did a combined event down in Miami.
00:31:27.778 --> 00:31:29.878
Have you been to the Whiskey Advocate one? No.
00:31:30.418 --> 00:31:34.138
That one was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. It wasn't as big as...
00:31:35.178 --> 00:31:39.018
I mean, there was representation there. They had definitely had some good hooch
00:31:39.018 --> 00:31:41.078
there. Pretty ladies. But.
00:31:42.518 --> 00:31:46.218
God damn you. But it was not like the festival.
00:31:46.598 --> 00:31:51.838
You know, indoor, a lot of cigars. It was cool. But yeah, that definitely was worth going.
00:31:52.358 --> 00:31:55.698
I don't know if they, I don't know if they, I know they did it in Miami.
00:31:55.698 --> 00:31:58.278
I think they did another one in Vegas. I got to check.
00:31:58.658 --> 00:32:01.478
But yeah, that might be. Something to just check out.
00:32:01.738 --> 00:32:05.078
There's festivals all the time. Right. So, but.
00:32:05.178 --> 00:32:08.398
I never actually went to Kentucky ever before this year. And I went there three
00:32:08.398 --> 00:32:11.138
times there this year. So much. Shit.
00:32:11.898 --> 00:32:15.598
You started a channel and now you're just, yeah, now he's all over the place.
00:32:15.738 --> 00:32:19.438
I went there in May, around May at least, with Conte to do a bunch of picks.
00:32:19.678 --> 00:32:23.958
And that was like my first time. And going to all the distilleries and Louisville
00:32:23.958 --> 00:32:28.478
and all that stuff with someone that goes there all the time and shows you the
00:32:28.478 --> 00:32:30.078
ropes and everything was amazing.
00:32:30.198 --> 00:32:32.918
That was great. because he has like locker like
00:32:32.918 --> 00:32:38.138
you know lockers like this at whiskey bars wow and like you can go in and there's
00:32:38.138 --> 00:32:41.398
you know places completely reserved out for months in advance and he's like
00:32:41.398 --> 00:32:45.038
oh yeah like there's a table for like eight of us over in the back for us i'm
00:32:45.038 --> 00:32:49.578
like what is going on yeah that's it was like he was like a vip in that area
00:32:49.578 --> 00:32:52.658
that's definitely a good travel partner yeah yeah,
00:32:53.238 --> 00:32:57.498
it's like traveling with lou in the dr it's like a rock star yeah it's like
00:32:57.498 --> 00:33:05.838
you think this guy's cool you know it's like damn bro sorry wow love you he's right here,
00:33:06.798 --> 00:33:08.138
i can hear you.
00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:15.199
Oh, man. This old elk is good, though. Oh, this old elk. I finally got a step
00:33:15.199 --> 00:33:17.219
of it. A little bit more spice on this one.
00:33:17.419 --> 00:33:22.399
Right? A little bit, but it's still, I'd almost say smoother than the Penelope.
00:33:22.659 --> 00:33:24.479
But you got the spice on it, which is great.
00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:28.679
I love it. It doesn't kick you as hard. I would say that still,
00:33:29.179 --> 00:33:34.679
this is probably still a little heavy for that, but we're coming to a better blend.
00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:39.219
We're building up. Uh-oh. So everything I always do is in proof order.
00:33:39.219 --> 00:33:43.719
Like i i host a monthly whiskey cigar club we just did it this past sunday and
00:33:43.719 --> 00:33:49.519
i just find 12 bottles that i want to open up because they're my crack crack
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:50.839
crack baby i was about to say crack babies,
00:33:53.259 --> 00:33:58.359
your crack open bottles fresh crack guinea pigs oh that's crack guinea pigs
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.319
so i i open them that still sounds bad.
00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:08.299
So i usually crack open bottles for them and then i get to review them on the
00:34:08.299 --> 00:34:10.619
checks i don't i try I try not to do any fresh crack reviews.
00:34:10.859 --> 00:34:13.879
I let a little air into the bottles, give it a little bit of air. Yep.
00:34:14.339 --> 00:34:18.379
But sometimes like the George C. Stag I reviewed on the channel and they didn't get to try it.
00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:21.619
And so I let them try it. You know, that was the last one out of the 12,
00:34:21.839 --> 00:34:23.619
but it's always in proof order.
00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:26.939
So I just put them in proof order and that's how that goes.
00:34:27.814 --> 00:34:31.014
All right. Well, so far, so good. Hell yeah, man.
00:34:32.414 --> 00:34:36.334
So transition a little bit back to cigars, and we actually do the same thing for bourbons.
00:34:36.834 --> 00:34:42.494
We'd like to ask this pretty much on every guest. What is like your go-to cigar?
00:34:42.494 --> 00:34:43.854
Do you have a go-to cigar?
00:34:43.994 --> 00:34:50.014
If you did, what is it? And what's the one that you would smoke if money was not an object?
00:34:50.574 --> 00:34:54.714
It'd probably be like Patron 19, was it 24? 26.
00:34:55.414 --> 00:35:01.194
26 and 64, right? 26 and 64. Those two are like the ones I would smoke all the
00:35:01.194 --> 00:35:03.294
time if they were a dollar. Yeah.
00:35:04.154 --> 00:35:08.374
But if I just have a box of something, that's usually what I'll smoke more of
00:35:08.374 --> 00:35:09.674
just because I have a lot of them.
00:35:10.294 --> 00:35:12.934
Again, it's just like the whiskey where like. It changes all the time.
00:35:13.034 --> 00:35:15.674
I open up the thing and I see what I have a bunch of. I'm like,
00:35:15.754 --> 00:35:18.374
okay, I'll grab that. So I don't feel so bad if it's like the last one. Right.
00:35:19.994 --> 00:35:22.954
That's kind of how I open it and see what's a lot of.
00:35:22.954 --> 00:35:29.034
Is there like a a manufacturer or a region that you tend to skew more towards
00:35:29.034 --> 00:35:33.434
like are you more Nicaraguan do you like my fathers or yeah my fathers are good
00:35:33.434 --> 00:35:36.754
Nicaraguan for sure I would I'll buy any like New World,
00:35:37.354 --> 00:35:41.954
drone JJ Fernandez Fuente Oliva,
00:35:42.695 --> 00:35:46.875
okay so so all all over the place i'm i
00:35:46.875 --> 00:35:49.735
am not again picky on anything i get
00:35:49.735 --> 00:35:54.355
it i'm the same way i'm i don't think i've bought the same thing twice in a
00:35:54.355 --> 00:36:01.115
week yeah i gotta take a break go take a break but no stop me back you know
00:36:01.115 --> 00:36:05.795
why okay there's one cigar that i don't think a lot people know about but i
00:36:05.795 --> 00:36:09.395
i bought a whole box of it just because it said breakfast in portugal,
00:36:09.955 --> 00:36:12.715
i think it's coa i'm not 100 sure on
00:36:12.715 --> 00:36:15.395
that but i think it is but it's breakfast in portugal i'm
00:36:15.395 --> 00:36:20.135
portuguese i was like oh i gotta get the cigar portugal on it i absolutely it's
00:36:20.135 --> 00:36:24.455
you know it's a light very light cigar but it's perfect with like a sweeter
00:36:24.455 --> 00:36:28.295
coffee in the morning it's literally what i would have for breakfast yeah yeah
00:36:28.295 --> 00:36:32.095
i would have it for breakfast in portugal i'd bring it with me when i got it
00:36:32.095 --> 00:36:34.655
and i'm like this you know those aren't instructions.
00:36:38.655 --> 00:36:44.375
But yeah that's like my favorite uh breakfast cigar but is there something that
00:36:44.375 --> 00:36:49.115
you know kind of your unicorn like something you've wanted to try can't find or,
00:36:50.915 --> 00:36:53.895
i was gonna say amazon basement but i got a bunch this year,
00:36:54.575 --> 00:36:57.515
so it's not like whiskey where i definitely have a unicorn
00:36:57.515 --> 00:37:00.655
list i'm not because usually the
00:37:00.655 --> 00:37:03.675
cigars they're not as rare like you can find them almost
00:37:03.675 --> 00:37:06.695
or they're just stupid expensive because
00:37:06.695 --> 00:37:09.655
there's one cigar i saw was like 75 and i was like i
00:37:09.655 --> 00:37:13.235
don't know if i want to buy the cigar yeah now
00:37:13.235 --> 00:37:17.635
meanwhile i spent like three thousand dollars on double ego rare freaking bottle
00:37:17.635 --> 00:37:24.015
and completely justify that in my head so whatever that tends to last a little
00:37:24.015 --> 00:37:27.395
bit longer than a cigar yeah well especially because that's in a box it's out
00:37:27.395 --> 00:37:31.095
of a box like my friends have to go through a lot of layers of security get to it.
00:37:33.297 --> 00:37:37.017
I got a question for you. So we all know like the big boys, you know,
00:37:37.137 --> 00:37:40.957
like Makers, Buffalo Trace, you know, Jack Daniels.
00:37:41.157 --> 00:37:44.357
But there are a lot of smaller distilleries out there as well.
00:37:44.497 --> 00:37:47.697
An example, just locally, would be Litchfield in Connecticut.
00:37:48.097 --> 00:37:51.597
Do you try those or look for like the smaller distillers?
00:37:52.077 --> 00:37:57.377
100%. So at Birmingham and the Banks, most of the distilleries there were small,
00:37:57.377 --> 00:38:01.077
tiny places that had like whiskey that are under like five years old.
00:38:01.357 --> 00:38:02.997
So I went to every single one.
00:38:04.097 --> 00:38:08.497
Now, the goal of Burl of Banks is not to go to every single stop and drink at
00:38:08.497 --> 00:38:11.537
every single stop, but that was my mission. That sounds like the goal everywhere.
00:38:12.337 --> 00:38:13.877
Apparently, that's frowned upon if you do it.
00:38:15.217 --> 00:38:18.317
But that's what I did. I went to every single place. I tried stuff.
00:38:18.597 --> 00:38:24.837
And, you know, you get to try stuff that's straight from their stuff and not sourced.
00:38:24.957 --> 00:38:27.197
Right. Because everywhere can source. Like Penelope sourced it.
00:38:27.197 --> 00:38:30.297
Now they're owned by MGP. So they're basically MGP at this point. In-house, yeah.
00:38:30.637 --> 00:38:33.497
But a lot of places source and, you know, it's whatever. people
00:38:33.497 --> 00:38:36.937
are blending whatever they want to do but if they're like
00:38:36.937 --> 00:38:39.877
13th colony they were
00:38:39.877 --> 00:38:42.797
sourcing now they're putting out their own stuff but
00:38:42.797 --> 00:38:45.737
there's a bunch of other stuff i mean that's probably a really bad example but
00:38:45.737 --> 00:38:50.317
like cedar ridge is a smaller place and they put out really good like single
00:38:50.317 --> 00:38:53.437
malts and now they're doing like bourbons and stuff like that even in texas
00:38:53.437 --> 00:38:56.857
like still austin's putting out good stuff they are and they don't have to age
00:38:56.857 --> 00:39:00.677
as long because the weather down there george i'm thinking of a place in georgia
00:39:00.677 --> 00:39:04.237
oh asw that's what i'm trying to think of fiddler They're out of Atlanta, Georgia,
00:39:04.497 --> 00:39:08.697
they put out their own stuff, that's pretty good stuff and it's younger or not,
00:39:08.777 --> 00:39:10.257
I mean, you know, smaller place.
00:39:11.782 --> 00:39:15.562
Would you consider Augusta one of those? Augusta Buckner's? Yeah.
00:39:16.082 --> 00:39:21.142
So their price, that's their biggest problem. But yeah, I have all of them.
00:39:21.382 --> 00:39:26.042
8, 10, 13, 15, freaking hazmat bottles, picks and everything.
00:39:26.642 --> 00:39:30.922
But yeah, their pricing is a little elevated. Did you guys get into the buff
00:39:30.922 --> 00:39:32.382
turkey craze that happened this year?
00:39:32.842 --> 00:39:35.842
No. You guys know what I'm talking about? I do. Nope. You do?
00:39:37.742 --> 00:39:40.582
I did not get into that craze, but my buddy Jerry bought
00:39:40.582 --> 00:39:43.442
like every single one of those bottles and so
00:39:43.442 --> 00:39:46.322
i got to try them and those are really really good those again
00:39:46.322 --> 00:39:52.302
stupid expensive and you're hoping that they are above turkey bottle right because
00:39:52.302 --> 00:39:57.982
that's the reason i really get into it it's like i mean that's one of those
00:39:57.982 --> 00:40:03.242
things that could be really good or really bad i don't see where a mix like
00:40:03.242 --> 00:40:06.042
that could be like it's okay you know what i mean,
00:40:07.047 --> 00:40:11.327
You're either going to win big or lose big. And for like $500 to $700,
00:40:11.567 --> 00:40:13.347
I don't want to take that gamble. No, I'm not guessing.
00:40:13.447 --> 00:40:17.207
So not for me, but more for the listeners that might not know what you're talking about. What is this?
00:40:17.887 --> 00:40:22.127
So like 15-ish years ago. That's for me. Wild Turkey. That's for me.
00:40:23.407 --> 00:40:29.247
For me, exactly. Wild Turkey used Buffalo Trace to distill their mash bill.
00:40:29.627 --> 00:40:32.767
So that's what they call it, Buff Turkey, because it was like a joint effort.
00:40:32.887 --> 00:40:35.787
Nice. and for years people have been blending
00:40:35.787 --> 00:40:38.787
these barrels into other things and also this year everyone's
00:40:38.787 --> 00:40:41.927
put them out put them out like 15 year old single barrels of
00:40:41.927 --> 00:40:45.647
buff turkey juice and they're distillers no one's ever heard of like elkoid
00:40:45.647 --> 00:40:50.567
reserve and new era and all these things they put out bottles or barrels of
00:40:50.567 --> 00:40:56.247
this and like nobody but buckner's also put out that's what made me think about
00:40:56.247 --> 00:41:01.827
it the buckner's put out stuff dark arts which is the only buff turkey bottle I have,
00:41:01.967 --> 00:41:04.427
because at Kentucky Bourbon Festival, they had three,
00:41:05.287 --> 00:41:08.467
single barrels of it, and each day they put out a different one.
00:41:08.607 --> 00:41:12.627
Okay. So I got two, but I gave one to Jerry because he's my buff turkey whore.
00:41:14.367 --> 00:41:18.547
Nice. B-dub. There was another one. That sounds like a nickname we have to give somebody.
00:41:19.387 --> 00:41:22.847
Like, not for that reason, just, I don't know. Yeah, M-A-Dish only. Okay.
00:41:23.207 --> 00:41:26.887
And I don't know if it was B-S, but people were claiming that there were some... And you're whore.
00:41:27.107 --> 00:41:30.407
I don't know if it was Overflow or whatever, but Some of the Russell's 10s were
00:41:30.407 --> 00:41:32.907
actually Russell 13s. The 15s. There's certain.
00:41:33.127 --> 00:41:37.287
The Emmy. The 15s. Yeah, for last year. If you find the, yeah, the Emmy on it. Yeah.
00:41:37.707 --> 00:41:41.087
I remember looking at a couple of those, like, feeling like I was looking creepy
00:41:41.087 --> 00:41:43.787
in a store picking up the box. Oh, no. I think I was doing that, too.
00:41:45.387 --> 00:41:46.547
Looking creepy, like, just like you.
00:41:47.566 --> 00:41:51.706
But yeah, that was a rumor that came out last year where the reject barrels
00:41:51.706 --> 00:41:57.086
from the Russells 15 got put into the Russells 10, and it was like that label.
00:41:57.506 --> 00:42:00.826
But there has been myth debunking on that or not.
00:42:01.746 --> 00:42:05.766
That one does taste better than the regular Russells 10. Oh, shit.
00:42:06.246 --> 00:42:10.186
By the way, Russells 10, if you're talking about price point.
00:42:10.186 --> 00:42:13.086
We'll get there. We'll get there. Russells 10 at that price point is a great pour.
00:42:13.566 --> 00:42:16.986
It's a great pour. A hundred percent agree. A few years ago,
00:42:17.066 --> 00:42:20.306
I did a battle with 10-year-olds, and that one won.
00:42:20.626 --> 00:42:22.706
That sounds like a bad YouTube channel.
00:42:25.266 --> 00:42:29.126
One of 10-year-olds? It's like bum fights, but for kids.
00:42:31.106 --> 00:42:36.866
Just about all the 10-year-olds. I don't know if you like Don Carlos Special Reserve.
00:42:37.386 --> 00:42:40.126
I'm going to have dinner. It's one of my favorite cigars, so we want to gift
00:42:40.126 --> 00:42:42.466
that to you right now. I appreciate it, man. You ever had it?
00:42:43.926 --> 00:42:51.446
I don't believe so the bottom part I don't the special reserve oh my god it's not a big stick but,
00:42:51.995 --> 00:42:55.995
Ah, man, that flavor is ridiculous. That's what she said. I just want to,
00:42:56.135 --> 00:42:57.795
you smoke it, you let me know what you think.
00:42:58.275 --> 00:43:02.375
It's great. We want to gift that to you. I appreciate it. Absolutely, man.
00:43:02.635 --> 00:43:06.615
So on the heels of that, we are pouring another bottle here,
00:43:06.675 --> 00:43:09.675
which I think is going to help us actually transition to another subject I wanted
00:43:09.675 --> 00:43:11.135
to touch on with you. Yep.
00:43:11.635 --> 00:43:13.575
But tell us a little bit about what we're pouring now. Okay,
00:43:13.595 --> 00:43:15.475
so this is Art of the Spirit.
00:43:15.875 --> 00:43:19.515
So this is out of Colorado. I think Colorado is from Colorado.
00:43:19.515 --> 00:43:22.815
They have the best labels in
00:43:22.815 --> 00:43:25.795
the game yeah every single one of the bottles the labels
00:43:25.795 --> 00:43:29.415
are crazy because they actually have artists that
00:43:29.415 --> 00:43:32.155
draw all the labels they sell like the art and
00:43:32.155 --> 00:43:35.375
everything oh that's cool that is cool that is cool they're
00:43:35.375 --> 00:43:39.015
all about oh there's a top oh that is bad it's badass but
00:43:39.015 --> 00:43:42.015
yeah so i have a buddy out there josh that's in was
00:43:42.015 --> 00:43:45.015
in the navy and he has a job out there and he's always
00:43:45.015 --> 00:43:48.755
out there like helping put the labels on and everything so
00:43:48.755 --> 00:43:51.835
anytime they come him all the new bottle he's like hey you guys want this and
00:43:51.835 --> 00:43:55.955
i'm like yes so they have a lot of like military ones they have police ones
00:43:55.955 --> 00:44:01.495
all different kinds even have a tequila they had like a really like a 15 year
00:44:01.495 --> 00:44:05.935
old nejo tequila they had well basically looked like a whiskey when i pulled
00:44:05.935 --> 00:44:08.455
it off the shelf the other day i thought it was a whiskey it was that dark oh shit.
00:44:09.919 --> 00:44:13.879
Speaking of Colorado whiskey, you ever have, well, I'm sure you have Laws?
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:16.379
Laws, yep. I thought you were going to say Breckenridge, but yep.
00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:21.079
Well, I think Breckenridge, well, I did say whiskey, but I think Breckenridge
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:23.239
is more whiskey than bourbon.
00:44:23.339 --> 00:44:27.719
But Laws, I thought was really good, especially when it came out. Good job.
00:44:29.699 --> 00:44:30.979
Someone sneaking by the camera.
00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:39.259
Yeah, because they had the six grain. Yeah, they had a six grain that was really good.
00:44:39.659 --> 00:44:42.379
That was a couple years ago. A six grain? I don't think I had that one.
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:47.019
I know I have two, and one's, I think the regular bourbon and one's a cash rent bourbon.
00:44:47.659 --> 00:44:51.639
But I think they're just four grains, the one I have. Maybe it was four. I'm not good at math.
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.619
Numbers. I didn't go to math school. We know. Really? Okay.
00:45:00.431 --> 00:45:04.891
But your loss was good. And then they also did a rye, too. That surprised me
00:45:04.891 --> 00:45:07.011
because I usually don't like rye. Funny.
00:45:07.651 --> 00:45:12.191
So that is Stacy. I can tell we're getting a little bit up in the proof.
00:45:12.351 --> 00:45:15.491
This one, when we get to it, I got a whole story about this one.
00:45:16.331 --> 00:45:21.711
What is the proof on this one? This one is 118.6 proof. Okay,
00:45:21.791 --> 00:45:23.371
so we're getting into your world.
00:45:23.951 --> 00:45:27.391
You're coming, Papa. You're coming. This one's big. Let me look back. Look.
00:45:28.831 --> 00:45:34.471
I love it. This is 7.62 years old. Oh, wow. If you're gun guys,
00:45:34.831 --> 00:45:35.811
you know that's around. Yeah.
00:45:36.171 --> 00:45:39.691
So, but that's kind of stuff that they do, like little things like that.
00:45:39.891 --> 00:45:41.111
Yeah, little cookies that are in there.
00:45:41.651 --> 00:45:44.671
So that's actually going to help me transition into another topic I want to talk to you about.
00:45:44.831 --> 00:45:47.491
Because, you know, you mentioned at the beginning that you do,
00:45:47.771 --> 00:45:49.871
I guess, a little bit of gun content.
00:45:50.291 --> 00:45:52.711
Just because, you know, it's hard to get out there. Yeah.
00:45:53.171 --> 00:45:57.551
Actually, that video got a green circle. So there you go. I'm not sure how that happened.
00:45:57.671 --> 00:46:00.771
All right. do you do do you find yourself doing a lot
00:46:00.771 --> 00:46:03.551
of gun content obviously you know you hinted i think at the
00:46:03.551 --> 00:46:06.451
at the beginning that you you served first of all thank you
00:46:06.451 --> 00:46:09.111
thank you much appreciated it was a
00:46:09.111 --> 00:46:11.851
great 20 years that was gonna be my
00:46:11.851 --> 00:46:14.531
next question how long damn 20 years i retired a couple
00:46:14.531 --> 00:46:17.331
years ago so i did awesome i did six years active
00:46:17.331 --> 00:46:20.031
duty army then i got out and i joined the air
00:46:20.031 --> 00:46:22.831
force national guard out of syracuse new york was there for a couple years did
00:46:22.831 --> 00:46:25.611
not like that unit then i switched over to the one
00:46:25.611 --> 00:46:31.391
down the street orange okay and i was in that unit for from 11 till i retired
00:46:31.391 --> 00:46:36.131
a couple years ago 23 air force yeah right down the street oh mike yeah mike
00:46:36.131 --> 00:46:39.331
mccleary yeah i got a bottle for him i know i got a bottle for him he called
00:46:39.331 --> 00:46:45.351
me earlier i was like i got you mike is awesome.
00:46:46.711 --> 00:46:50.651
He retired with, like, I think maybe three or four years I was into it.
00:46:50.731 --> 00:46:53.691
But we have a very close mutual friend, Gabe Garcia.
00:46:54.011 --> 00:46:57.031
Gabe. Yeah. Fucking great dude. Yeah. Hamden Detective. Hamden Detective.
00:46:57.031 --> 00:47:00.231
He just finally retired out of there. So good, man. What's a good dude?
00:47:00.431 --> 00:47:04.111
Yeah. He's one of my- Small fucking world. I love this. World gets smaller every day.
00:47:04.711 --> 00:47:07.231
Yeah, he can't come out. He's like, oh, I can maybe get out there by like nine
00:47:07.231 --> 00:47:09.491
o'clock. I was like- What the fuck? We'll be sleeping by then.
00:47:10.091 --> 00:47:13.451
I'm like, let me fucking do it. I gotta get recorded my own video after this.
00:47:16.231 --> 00:47:20.771
So but yeah i was trying to convince him to come out here so so going back to
00:47:20.771 --> 00:47:26.351
your gun content like what which do you prefer handguns rifles long guns pccs
00:47:26.351 --> 00:47:32.591
i love the little fancy pistol caliber carbine like little like i got one of those,
00:47:34.131 --> 00:47:38.391
shut the fuck up i like to buy all the stuff that's illegal in kinetic.
00:47:40.171 --> 00:47:44.971
I'm moving to Florida so I'm gonna be fucking great the I used to always shop
00:47:44.971 --> 00:47:49.731
at the gun store not the gun store in Waterbury Connecticut what's it called.
00:47:50.529 --> 00:47:53.189
I can't remember it's in portland the connect is a gun store in
00:47:53.189 --> 00:47:55.869
portland but okay they would have a wall that was
00:47:55.869 --> 00:47:58.769
just the exempt wall and i would just walk straight there as
00:47:58.769 --> 00:48:01.609
soon as i walked in this is when i was still in the military so you could just buy whatever you
00:48:01.609 --> 00:48:07.269
wanted there's no rules yeah no rules yeah so that's that was i would just go
00:48:07.269 --> 00:48:11.549
there and i'm like what do i need today i'm like i kind of want this i kind
00:48:11.549 --> 00:48:14.669
of want this oh i need this so i just grabbed the one i needed and all the one
00:48:14.669 --> 00:48:19.329
i wanted because when you call the state for carlos garcia it takes a long
00:48:19.389 --> 00:48:22.109
time to clear my name so i was like if we're
00:48:22.109 --> 00:48:25.749
gonna waste all this time i got it
00:48:25.749 --> 00:48:28.689
i mean it's just that's just efficiency at that point yeah
00:48:28.689 --> 00:48:31.709
helping out everybody yeah so the
00:48:31.709 --> 00:48:34.909
were you were you a gun guy like a collector
00:48:34.909 --> 00:48:37.589
and into guns before the military or did you
00:48:37.589 --> 00:48:40.409
absolutely not the only time i ever shot a gun before i joined the army
00:48:40.409 --> 00:48:43.509
was like black powder with my dad like one
00:48:43.509 --> 00:48:46.289
time oh shit wow i went to basic training not
00:48:46.289 --> 00:48:49.129
knowing how to shoot anything i learned how to shoot and basic training which they
00:48:49.129 --> 00:48:51.809
love by the way because then you don't have any bad habits right
00:48:51.809 --> 00:48:57.229
no bad habits yeah it did take me a little extra time to shoot but i'm pretty
00:48:57.229 --> 00:49:01.609
good shot nowadays i think so anyways so with my current job we just went to
00:49:01.609 --> 00:49:07.509
the range last week and we just got a new pistol and you know qualified perfectly
00:49:07.509 --> 00:49:09.249
scored perfect awesome whatever.
00:49:10.609 --> 00:49:14.529
That's cool so i mean did you find your your kind
00:49:14.529 --> 00:49:17.189
of i don't want to say love for guns because that sounds a
00:49:17.189 --> 00:49:20.169
little weird but i guess i mean i guess it would be yeah i guess
00:49:20.169 --> 00:49:23.409
it would be love for guns that sounds like a connecticut thing don't worry about
00:49:23.409 --> 00:49:30.469
that fair enough but i mean did you find that that kind of did it grow over
00:49:30.469 --> 00:49:35.049
time or were you when you got there and you started shooting were you like oh
00:49:35.049 --> 00:49:37.469
this is this is cool this i like this.
00:49:38.745 --> 00:49:41.765
Shooting a lot of cool stuff in
00:49:41.765 --> 00:49:44.425
the army definitely made me appreciate it a lot
00:49:44.425 --> 00:49:47.445
more but i didn't really get into buying guns until
00:49:47.445 --> 00:49:51.305
about six seven years ago and went
00:49:51.305 --> 00:49:54.125
all in for like two years spent a shit little
00:49:54.125 --> 00:50:02.285
money and i have a lot of guns um and the armory of the garcia so i lived in
00:50:02.285 --> 00:50:05.965
farmington for five years and i had like a walking secret room that was just
00:50:05.965 --> 00:50:11.445
like an arsenal and now i don't have that in west haven anymore so i have just a bunch of safes,
00:50:12.065 --> 00:50:15.005
but my wife basically cut me off from that and then
00:50:15.005 --> 00:50:17.765
that's where i transitioned into bourbon so i'm
00:50:17.765 --> 00:50:20.965
spending my money somewhere else okay and she's
00:50:20.965 --> 00:50:23.665
an enabler because she'll be at costco sending me pictures like hey do you want
00:50:23.665 --> 00:50:26.285
this bottle you want this bottle like you literally yelled at me yesterday for having
00:50:26.285 --> 00:50:30.045
too many bottles that's that's
00:50:30.045 --> 00:50:33.265
the double standard they try and trap you i don't yet meanwhile she's
00:50:33.265 --> 00:50:36.185
like you have shelves in our living room at this point i was like it's
00:50:36.185 --> 00:50:41.405
flowing in everywhere if it's your idea it's a bad idea yeah that's funny because
00:50:41.405 --> 00:50:44.285
i don't have a lot of bottles at home i might have like 15 and my wife will
00:50:44.285 --> 00:50:46.925
look at them and just give me a cross look but she won't say anything right
00:50:46.925 --> 00:50:49.785
but if we're traveling somewhere and i'm like oh let me check out this liquor
00:50:49.785 --> 00:50:53.585
store and i'll see a bottle and it's like say 120 bucks and i'm like look at
00:50:53.585 --> 00:50:56.085
that i never see that anywhere and she's like i want you to buy it.
00:50:59.145 --> 00:51:03.025
I don't think my wife ever said go ahead and buy it but it's a trap it's like
00:51:03.025 --> 00:51:04.965
when you're They're in shopping mode. They're okay with anything.
00:51:07.945 --> 00:51:12.325
Yes, they're in shopping mode. It just pushes it for them. That's funny.
00:51:13.116 --> 00:51:18.716
Do you have a favorite firearm? So I usually carry the M&P, nope,
00:51:18.836 --> 00:51:20.316
nope, Springfield Hellcat.
00:51:20.356 --> 00:51:23.076
That's what I carry just because it gives me a little extra rounds.
00:51:23.196 --> 00:51:25.796
But the gun I have is the MP5.
00:51:26.436 --> 00:51:30.696
That's like really cool. And I really enjoy shooting that one.
00:51:31.316 --> 00:51:35.056
And, you know, I got the ARs and I have AKs and stuff like that.
00:51:35.276 --> 00:51:39.816
I have, what's it called? I always have to look this up, but I call it my alien gun.
00:51:39.816 --> 00:51:43.136
It's i have a lot of bullpup guns
00:51:43.136 --> 00:51:45.936
and so they're shorter but all the stuff's in the back like
00:51:45.936 --> 00:51:48.556
right and i have one i can't think of
00:51:48.556 --> 00:51:51.796
it but i have an uzi too that's pretty cool but it
00:51:51.796 --> 00:51:55.436
has it looks like an alien gun and the rounds on top is a weird rounds like
00:51:55.436 --> 00:52:02.136
5.72 i can't think of name but it goes like this the rounds like the opposite
00:52:02.136 --> 00:52:06.876
of the barrel and then they spin to get into the barrel at the end holy i gotta
00:52:06.876 --> 00:52:09.696
ask weird let me you guys talk while i look at this,
00:52:11.696 --> 00:52:13.356
yes you're not supposed to take a break.
00:52:15.596 --> 00:52:19.836
Fuck it let me do it let me do it of course he does it's fair he has a spreadsheet
00:52:19.836 --> 00:52:23.676
when the zombie apocalypse happens we're going to carlos,
00:52:24.996 --> 00:52:27.956
you can come to me i mean i mean where you are because you're probably right
00:52:27.956 --> 00:52:34.456
down i mean bourbon vermin sticks and guns I mean yeah hello ugh don't even
00:52:34.456 --> 00:52:37.596
have it on my spreadsheet it was on my newer gun that I put on my spreadsheet
00:52:37.596 --> 00:52:39.796
of course that's a don't that's a.
00:52:41.212 --> 00:52:45.792
Oh, Jesus. You know, I don't even think we mentioned what cigar we were smoking.
00:52:45.932 --> 00:52:49.092
We did it. So you waved that away. Where are you with Glocks?
00:52:49.452 --> 00:52:52.692
Glocks, I like Glocks. I shot my first 10 millimeter Glock the other day.
00:52:52.832 --> 00:52:54.972
The 40. I'll tell you my Glock story.
00:52:56.292 --> 00:52:59.372
Then let's tell everybody what we're smoking. I just retired,
00:52:59.412 --> 00:53:08.192
but we were on the berm, and they're like, they doused us in fucking water, mud.
00:53:08.592 --> 00:53:13.152
And there was six hours. There was Glocks. So it was everything you can imagine on there. HK?
00:53:13.992 --> 00:53:18.292
Everybody. HK was on there. So they were like, fuck it. They were hitting those
00:53:18.292 --> 00:53:19.912
with batons. They were like, get up.
00:53:20.392 --> 00:53:22.052
Fire. And the only people that
00:53:22.052 --> 00:53:24.212
were firing was the people that were the Glock. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:53:25.112 --> 00:53:29.132
Right on. So that's why I love Glock. So I have like four or five Glocks.
00:53:29.332 --> 00:53:33.612
I have my ARs. I have the pistols. I have all that shit. But it was like...
00:53:34.451 --> 00:53:40.451
It was eye-opening to know that mud, dirt, grime, everything didn't matter.
00:53:40.691 --> 00:53:45.551
And the guys with the six hours were like, and we're just, we're popping off.
00:53:45.851 --> 00:53:49.511
It was great. Yeah, that's a common thing. Even like when I was in the Army,
00:53:49.731 --> 00:53:53.191
like we had the grenade launchers, Mark 19s. Oh, nice.
00:53:53.531 --> 00:53:57.531
That gets any dirt in it. Just anything would stop that thing from shooting.
00:53:57.631 --> 00:54:01.151
It's like, what the fuck? We're in the desert. Whose idea was this to bring it up here?
00:54:02.031 --> 00:54:05.751
You stupid fuck? What are you doing? Stupid. The links in the rounds,
00:54:05.771 --> 00:54:09.991
they get rusty, and as soon as they get rusty, they don't go through.
00:54:10.111 --> 00:54:12.931
Oh, my God. What a piece of crap those are. But you looked really cool.
00:54:15.411 --> 00:54:20.571
The 50 cals that we got from, like, Vietnam era, those shits will last.
00:54:20.691 --> 00:54:23.751
Those would shoot anything and be fine. And those are from Vietnam,
00:54:23.871 --> 00:54:25.351
but the newer, shinier stuff.
00:54:25.791 --> 00:54:28.611
I mean, I think that's just a, that's with anything.
00:54:29.771 --> 00:54:33.331
TVs, refrigerators, like, anything old is going to last through a fucking.
00:54:33.331 --> 00:54:40.451
Right through any nuclear bomb yeah anything new is meant to fucking be replaced in three years,
00:54:41.451 --> 00:54:46.371
land obsolescence yeah god damn he's already opened the next one i'm not fucking
00:54:46.371 --> 00:54:53.211
right this is good i'm just i'm sitting here i'm sitting here enjoying this plus i didn't eat dinner,
00:54:54.371 --> 00:54:57.591
i ate breakfast today that means you're fucked drink your dinner,
00:54:58.451 --> 00:55:01.411
All right, so this one. Hopefully Jamie comes down and can be right home.
00:55:02.931 --> 00:55:09.091
Joseph Magnus. So this is Joseph Magnus Cigar Blend batch 57 from 2021.
00:55:10.971 --> 00:55:14.411
I've actually had this. I've had that. This batch?
00:55:14.951 --> 00:55:20.991
I haven't had that. This batch is number 57. I had 23.
00:55:21.811 --> 00:55:25.971
Okay, so you had an older batch too. Yeah. so when this batch came out it was
00:55:25.971 --> 00:55:29.511
one of the highest proof Joseph Magnus cigar blends they ever had,
00:55:29.991 --> 00:55:33.211
and they call this one the charcuterie board because
00:55:33.211 --> 00:55:36.631
a lot of the notes were cheeses and meats and stuff like that it's not necessarily
00:55:36.631 --> 00:55:40.571
what I get out of it but that's what Nancy Fraley Nancy the nose Fraley who's
00:55:40.571 --> 00:55:43.571
the master blender when she was doing this now she works I think like still
00:55:43.571 --> 00:55:47.831
Austin or whatever but it's one of the older ones because I know four years
00:55:47.831 --> 00:55:48.731
old already but it was one of
00:55:48.731 --> 00:55:52.951
the highest proof ones that line I forget which ones but it was like Oh,
00:55:53.111 --> 00:55:58.491
batches 53 to 58 were like the highest proof ones. And they're all, oh shoot.
00:55:59.151 --> 00:56:03.271
They're all between 14 to 20 years old. A bunch of barrels. Oh, geez. Older.
00:56:03.551 --> 00:56:06.431
So, and it's, you know, finished in all the stuff that they're usually finished
00:56:06.431 --> 00:56:09.711
in. But an older Joseph Magnus, the VR blend, had a highest proof.
00:56:09.931 --> 00:56:13.491
I mean, if you look at it in the light, I mean, how dark it is.
00:56:13.571 --> 00:56:16.631
It's beautiful. So there's a lot of age in there, a lot of character.
00:56:17.391 --> 00:56:21.351
One of the videos i did earlier this year was comparing under
00:56:21.351 --> 00:56:24.691
100 over 100 over 200 over 300 batch
00:56:24.691 --> 00:56:28.971
this one won okay didn't shock anyone it's
00:56:28.971 --> 00:56:34.671
ridiculous holy shit yeah that's i mean honestly like yeah i'm a design guy
00:56:34.671 --> 00:56:39.931
so like this label is just sick too i love the look of that wait till you taste
00:56:39.931 --> 00:56:45.931
it yeah this is so i got a lot of cherry like i actually pick up notes even through the cigar,
00:56:46.431 --> 00:56:52.071
smells fucking but this is what made like cigar ridiculous I bet you this one matches the best.
00:56:53.536 --> 00:56:54.196
What is the cigar?
00:56:56.216 --> 00:57:01.356
We usually say at the beginning, but while I'm finishing the cigar. It's right there, Papa.
00:57:02.096 --> 00:57:05.536
Yeah. What are we smoking today? You picked it, Richard? Arturo Fuente.
00:57:06.316 --> 00:57:10.076
I mean, AJ Fernandez. Sorry, because I was thinking about what I just gave him.
00:57:10.276 --> 00:57:12.736
Yeah, we're smoking one of the New Worlds, right? New Worlds.
00:57:13.396 --> 00:57:16.876
AJ Fernandez, he doesn't make anything bad. They don't make anything bad.
00:57:17.576 --> 00:57:20.976
Decenio? Decencio? Yeah. Oh, the decenio. Decenio.
00:57:21.336 --> 00:57:23.376
Whatever you call it. It's been a little while since I've had one.
00:57:23.376 --> 00:57:29.436
These are great sticks they are this is relatively new too it is came out this
00:57:29.436 --> 00:57:38.596
year that guy is on a tear he's like great AJ's like there's nothing that AJ does that's like not.
00:57:39.664 --> 00:57:44.864
To my opinion, everybody has a different palate, but let me tell you something.
00:57:45.064 --> 00:57:47.824
AJ is on point when he does his stuff.
00:57:48.124 --> 00:57:53.584
Same. I'm a subscriber to the Provada Cigar Club, and one of the main reasons
00:57:53.584 --> 00:57:57.544
is that AJ is so involved with them.
00:57:58.544 --> 00:58:03.904
I get a test blend every month of a new AJ cigar that he's just like,
00:58:04.424 --> 00:58:06.324
never been a bad one. He's great.
00:58:06.464 --> 00:58:11.304
Never been a bad one. It's like a cigar genius. Yeah, the dude is a genius. And you know what?
00:58:11.604 --> 00:58:16.724
And Billy and Gus, they did the best thing when they sold their... Oh, yeah.
00:58:16.824 --> 00:58:19.084
Just think about it. Oh, with Arvisano del Tabaco, yeah. Just think about it.
00:58:19.124 --> 00:58:23.104
When they did the New World for him, when they came in with the New World and
00:58:23.104 --> 00:58:25.864
he sold it to them and they were like, yeah, we'll sell you New World.
00:58:26.004 --> 00:58:30.924
And they sold a bunch of them and then they sold their cigar. What was it? Cigar Inn?
00:58:31.504 --> 00:58:36.344
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the cigar in New York. So they sold Cigar Inn and then AJ
00:58:36.344 --> 00:58:39.984
said, well, I'll rock with you guys. And then he did the El Pupo,
00:58:40.144 --> 00:58:41.724
which was fucking amazing.
00:58:42.064 --> 00:58:46.864
And then everything took off from there. I mean, AJ is, everything he puts his
00:58:46.864 --> 00:58:48.404
hands on is great. It's like sipping chocolate.
00:58:48.584 --> 00:58:51.584
It's like sipping chocolate. Yeah, you're right. It's just rich and thick,
00:58:51.664 --> 00:58:55.424
and you get that weight that's on your tongue.
00:58:55.484 --> 00:58:57.624
Bro, that guy is. Yeah, I described it as deep.
00:58:58.244 --> 00:59:00.444
It's just deep. You know what? It is a deep cigar.
00:59:01.624 --> 00:59:04.004
We're talking the bourbon. Yeah, we were talking the bourbon,
00:59:04.064 --> 00:59:07.824
but the cigar is too. It's the same thing. Yeah. Imagine. That bourbon is ridiculous.
00:59:09.704 --> 00:59:11.044
This is the best one,
00:59:11.901 --> 00:59:17.461
Right off the rip, you get that little spicy tingle right on your lips. It's nice.
00:59:17.981 --> 00:59:20.841
Oh, shit. Yeah, and then it gets into a nice, like, rich, almost,
00:59:20.981 --> 00:59:23.441
like, toasted, like, caramel flavor. Yeah, yeah.
00:59:23.981 --> 00:59:27.121
And it sticks. You want to give me a... It's a long finish. Yeah,
00:59:27.141 --> 00:59:28.501
it's a long finish. It's a good finish.
00:59:28.761 --> 00:59:33.021
Not a lot of bite. You get that warm hug, you know, back here.
00:59:33.061 --> 00:59:34.881
Like this? No, not like that.
00:59:35.441 --> 00:59:38.101
Not like that. Like that. No, not like that.
00:59:38.121 --> 00:59:41.401
Like that. But I can see where you're going with the cherry,
00:59:41.661 --> 00:59:44.181
the sweet, dark. A hundred percent. Yeah.
00:59:44.621 --> 00:59:47.421
Yeah. No, it's good. This is the best. For me, this is the best one I'll do
00:59:47.421 --> 00:59:49.361
with this cigar specifically.
00:59:49.701 --> 00:59:53.621
Yes. But overall, it would be my favorite anyways. No, it's very good.
00:59:54.441 --> 00:59:57.661
Now, I am going to a cigar lounge on Tuesday.
00:59:58.461 --> 01:00:02.281
Okay. SLV. It's called Gold Leaf. Gold Leaf. It's in Indiana.
01:00:02.281 --> 01:00:03.201
Where is that? It's in Indiana.
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I don't know why I just said it out of my words, but I've come to Indiana. So good.
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To help SLB, there's rollers, like fourth generation rollers that own Gold Leaf out there. Oh, shit.
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And they're going to do a line of cigars for SLB.
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Now, SLB guys don't smoke, so they're actually inviting me to fly out there.
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I'm really flying out there for one day to help them with this.
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I don't know exactly what's going to pertain or whatever.
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I love it. I know I'm doing three.
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One's a Connecticut, one's Habano, one's a Madero. and they're basically labeling
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like, you know, 80 proof, 100 proof, 120 proof, you know, kind of link in like
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a whiskey with and everything.
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So any advice for me going there and advising other people?
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You're going high, right? So you have to be that. So are you going to be tasting?
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That cigar has to be rich. Yeah.
01:00:54.741 --> 01:00:57.721
It can't be, it can't be a mild cigar. It has to be rich.
01:00:59.429 --> 01:01:03.349
It sounds like they're doing a mild, medium, full. Right, mild,
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medium, full. But if you're going that high.
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Did they give you the binder? Right, like the 120's got to be a full binder.
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That's a Maduro one, is a 120 binder proof one. Okay, so that's the hammer.
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Yeah, the Maduro one. Yeah, so you got to be up there. So that one's going to
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be darker, heavier, hit you harder on your palate. Very rich.
01:01:24.529 --> 01:01:27.029
Yeah, it's got to be a rich cigar. Yeah. To me.
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To me anyways. No, I can't disagree. Yeah.
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I'm hoping to smoke all three while we're out there. They said at 5 o'clock,
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I don't know what time we're ending this whole thing, but, you know,
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if we have time, I want to smoke all three,
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kind of see how they're escalating because the Maduro's got to be strong.
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It's interesting. Definitely starting a mile. It's interesting.
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Where do you lie with foundation cigars?
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What have you tried? What have you not tried? You had to have at least one when
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we were here. Right. I know. I've had a few of them.
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I can't name them off the top of my head, though. Have you done a 10-year?
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No. Dude, that thing is so good. I don't think so. We'll hook you up before
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you leave. That thing. Or right now. Give me. Right.
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Goddamn. Damn. I'm very bad at remembering anything. Give me notice.
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I can mute you. That's why I write everything down. You don't like that to get me a cigar. I know.
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You better bring back five of them. The reason I started my YouTube channel,
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it was so that I could record myself so I know what I'm talking about.
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I don't remember anything.
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I was like there's evidence that I said this so I could go look at myself yeah
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the proof the proof's in the bottom Mike said tell Conos from here I said yeah I already know.
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Yeah, but I mean, that's another brand like AJ where everything he does is awesome.
01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:45.240
Dude, I love foundation.
01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:49.720
I think he puts so much attention into every detail. Oh, yeah. Right. That's cool.
01:02:49.980 --> 01:02:54.980
And not only that, I think his cigars are probably one of the most beautiful cigars on the market.
01:02:55.060 --> 01:02:58.120
You picked them up and the wrappers. Oh, it just looks good. Yeah.
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:03.680
They look crafted. It speaks to how meticulous he is to detail where he takes
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that extra step to make sure the cigar not only tastes good,
01:03:07.740 --> 01:03:08.940
it's balanced, well blended.
01:03:09.080 --> 01:03:11.840
But the construction is there even the artwork that
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goes on the band itself there's nothing there's nothing
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left to chance you know no i would i would love to get nick
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on a uh on a podcast i know we try i gotta email his people and figure it out
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there was a there was a foundation event here we were gonna try and it just
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didn't work out it's a process but i think okay to it yeah because this was
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the one that like was the hardest one to buy when they were we just had it right now Yeah.
01:03:36.580 --> 01:03:38.500
Right. But I'm saying, like, when they were here doing that event,
01:03:38.660 --> 01:03:41.960
that was, like, the one that, like, you had to buy a box to basically buy it. No, no, no.
01:03:42.260 --> 01:03:46.360
So the 1410 was the one you had to buy the box. This is the actual box that
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:49.780
we bought. Okay. Okay. So smoke it. Let me know what you think.
01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:53.560
It's a great cigar. I love it. It is. I mean.
01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:56.660
Yeah, I love all that. Listen, we're not going to talk crazy.
01:03:56.700 --> 01:04:00.380
I mean, a lot of cigars, they put the price up there.
01:04:00.820 --> 01:04:04.300
Is it a $30 cigar? Eh, maybe not.
01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:08.080
But I'm telling you it's a great cigar there aren't many cigars that are $30
01:04:08.080 --> 01:04:12.500
it's a great cigar though and I think that's the problem right now smoke it
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with whatever you want like you can get so many good cigars for $15,
01:04:19.100 --> 01:04:22.500
$16 and under $12 to $16 is like the sweet spot.
01:04:23.180 --> 01:04:28.220
You're right 100% that's like a whiskey world where everyone's like why are
01:04:28.220 --> 01:04:32.700
you spending $200 on a whiskey when there's $35, $45 bottles,
01:04:33.560 --> 01:04:36.540
Honestly, for me, if we're talking price point when it comes to hoots,
01:04:36.640 --> 01:04:39.040
right? I think between like...
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You can find a decent bottle of 40. I would say like 40 to 80 is a good range. It's a great range.
01:04:46.107 --> 01:04:48.567
A lot of good stuff. Oh, yeah. A hundred percent.
01:04:49.450 --> 01:04:54.810
Yeah, that's the same. That's kind of like the $12 to $18 cigar range.
01:04:55.530 --> 01:04:59.890
Not to disparage the cigar industry, though, some of those higher-priced bourbons
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are just knock you out awesome.
01:05:02.890 --> 01:05:05.870
Some of them are shit. Yeah, I mean, a lot of them are shit.
01:05:06.030 --> 01:05:09.910
But sometimes you can nail a $150 bottle of bourbon, and it's just incredible.
01:05:10.390 --> 01:05:13.490
How many times have you had a cigar that's over $50 where you thought,
01:05:13.630 --> 01:05:16.270
oh, my God, I would buy this three, four, five times?
01:05:16.430 --> 01:05:20.170
Right. I mean, it's tricky, I think, with cigars. Yeah, I haven't.
01:05:20.790 --> 01:05:23.410
I mean, not to disparage those guys, because I'm sure they put a lot of work.
01:05:23.510 --> 01:05:26.850
There's a lot of factors that go into the growing and things like that.
01:05:26.850 --> 01:05:32.250
Part of that might be because we love our cigars, but we're probably more bourbon than cigar.
01:05:32.890 --> 01:05:35.670
Yeah, right. You're right. Yeah. Because you want that match.
01:05:35.970 --> 01:05:39.590
Right. You want that, I'm drinking this, and I want the cigar to match it.
01:05:39.930 --> 01:05:43.270
And sometimes it's hard because you're like, this is not there.
01:05:43.510 --> 01:05:47.170
You know, sometimes it is, but a lot of times it's not. And it might just be
01:05:47.170 --> 01:05:49.630
me because my catalog in cigars is huge.
01:05:50.170 --> 01:05:54.750
So if I were to go and pick up like $80 cigar, I'm going to compare it to the
01:05:54.750 --> 01:05:57.070
100 cigars that I've tried that are less than 20 bucks.
01:05:57.410 --> 01:06:00.410
Whereas my bourbon experience is only about four years.
01:06:00.830 --> 01:06:05.870
So if I pick up a $200 bottle of bourbon, I've only got about 30 that I can compare it to.
01:06:06.030 --> 01:06:08.910
Well, that's a $200 bottle of bourbon right there. That's ridiculous.
01:06:09.530 --> 01:06:12.610
And this is a winner. That's the best one up here. No, no, it's the best one.
01:06:12.830 --> 01:06:18.150
100%. I've had more oh shit moments with bourbon Than I've had with cigars And
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I've been smoking cigars 25 years And I'm with you Because there's a lot of cigars out there that.
01:06:24.310 --> 01:06:30.010
Overpriced it You're like this is a good $40 cigar But it's probably like a
01:06:30.010 --> 01:06:35.810
$15 cigar But I could spend $15 and get something Right Or you'll say this is a $40 cigar,
01:06:36.490 --> 01:06:41.690
But I'm not sure I'm not running out to buy this again Exactly My point You're
01:06:41.690 --> 01:06:46.550
great with that Honestly, the fact that you can get a cigar for $10,
01:06:46.710 --> 01:06:49.570
$12, $14 is fucking insane in itself.
01:06:50.522 --> 01:06:52.882
When you think about the work that goes into it and all that kind of stuff,
01:06:53.102 --> 01:06:55.502
the fact that it's not more is insane. Especially when you've been to the farms
01:06:55.502 --> 01:06:59.142
and you actually saw these people really produce it.
01:06:59.342 --> 01:07:03.122
Oh, yeah. And I've been to the factory and field. I've done three times.
01:07:03.342 --> 01:07:06.522
I've done two times in Nicaragua, one time in Dominican Republic,
01:07:06.542 --> 01:07:09.402
and I've done my own blend in each one.
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And it's like, shit, all these fucking people literally touched this cigar.
01:07:13.662 --> 01:07:18.062
Yeah, it's a million times. And it's a $10 cigar, but it should be fucking a $30 cigar.
01:07:18.122 --> 01:07:22.442
But I'm like, you know, it's crazy. Think about it, like this cigar that we're
01:07:22.442 --> 01:07:26.942
smoking now, right? We got it now, but I mean, it was probably in the ground
01:07:26.942 --> 01:07:31.562
five, seven years ago. Right, five, seven years ago. You know what I'm saying?
01:07:31.862 --> 01:07:35.342
Between growing, aging, rolling, that whole process.
01:07:35.982 --> 01:07:44.342
I'm more apt to buy a $50 cigar for someone than myself. I'll take a gun. A hundred percent.
01:07:44.622 --> 01:07:47.262
But I will buy a $50 bottle for me. Oh, you did it for me.
01:07:48.433 --> 01:07:51.573
It more money i know you do no 100 like
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i i'm way more willing to to spend that money
01:07:54.273 --> 01:07:57.253
on somebody else yes than myself because i know like
01:07:57.253 --> 01:08:02.873
i just love and i love people enjoying the art yeah and it is that's me it's
01:08:02.873 --> 01:08:07.093
really not it's an art just like this this is an art blend drink up coaches
01:08:07.093 --> 01:08:11.613
well i think that's where like all of it i have a lot of work at home drink
01:08:11.613 --> 01:08:16.413
i think that's where All of it goes hand in hand, too, because it's all in art form.
01:08:16.553 --> 01:08:19.493
It's all just, yeah. It's all experience.
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And one of the things that, you know, we were talking about scotch earlier.
01:08:23.353 --> 01:08:27.773
And I'm running low on this. I was at a McAllen's tasting probably like 20 years ago.
01:08:28.313 --> 01:08:32.773
And he was talking to us about how they taste their blends, the Terminum.
01:08:33.993 --> 01:08:40.073
And he was like, you know, the blenders, you know, they'll try like 200 scotches a day.
01:08:40.453 --> 01:08:43.693
And we're like, how the fuck is that person still alive? And they're like,
01:08:43.753 --> 01:08:44.953
well, they use their nose.
01:08:45.693 --> 01:08:49.133
They just sniff it, and then they know. And when you had mentioned the woman
01:08:49.133 --> 01:08:52.073
who's working for Austin, the nose, right.
01:08:53.024 --> 01:08:58.024
They could just smell the alcohol and they know exactly what's going on.
01:08:58.124 --> 01:09:02.784
So when I review the whiskeys, I always do nosing, all the nosing first.
01:09:02.864 --> 01:09:06.864
I usually do like four-way blinds. I almost do exclusively blinds on my channel
01:09:06.864 --> 01:09:09.584
because I think that's the best way to keep out the bias. Yeah.
01:09:10.004 --> 01:09:14.944
But I nose them first and then I taste them all. And sometimes the nose translates
01:09:14.944 --> 01:09:16.404
to the palate and sometimes it doesn't.
01:09:16.604 --> 01:09:20.624
So like for the professionals that do that is like mind-blowing to me.
01:09:20.624 --> 01:09:24.084
Because sometimes I'll smell something and doesn't taste anything like it.
01:09:24.224 --> 01:09:27.724
Yeah, and I try to train myself to that by smelling a new bourbon.
01:09:27.964 --> 01:09:31.324
And it just... You can pick up some of that. Sometimes I pick up some things
01:09:31.324 --> 01:09:35.384
and then I don't. Have you ever thought about going to get your certification?
01:09:35.904 --> 01:09:37.644
Oh, like a sommelier type? Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:38.364 --> 01:09:41.384
Have I thought about it? The bourbon steward, I think they call it.
01:09:41.404 --> 01:09:45.904
And I'm going to tell you right now, I've only watched three of your shows and you need to be on that.
01:09:46.684 --> 01:09:50.504
100%. I'm telling you right now because I love bourbon and I love cigars.
01:09:50.624 --> 01:09:53.304
But i've watched they told me you guys
01:09:53.304 --> 01:09:56.564
were coming on so i said let me watch some of his shit and i'm like this fucking
01:09:56.564 --> 01:09:59.604
guy's for real because you love it so listen
01:09:59.604 --> 01:10:02.864
get that because i'm telling you right now bro you are
01:10:02.864 --> 01:10:06.804
fucking eons ahead of everybody else well there's there's a picture about that
01:10:06.804 --> 01:10:10.744
right no it's like you know your your bourbon steward your certification right
01:10:10.744 --> 01:10:16.004
you can get it right anybody can get it right but it's but is that a marketing
01:10:16.004 --> 01:10:20.624
thing is it it does it is it truly a designated... Nowadays, yes.
01:10:21.164 --> 01:10:25.004
Nowadays, yes, but he's still on that point where he could fucking...
01:10:25.004 --> 01:10:27.924
But the point is, he's there without it. Without it.
01:10:28.384 --> 01:10:33.344
You got people inviting you to different spots without even doing that.
01:10:33.424 --> 01:10:37.124
So if you do that, I'm telling you right now, listen, to me...
01:10:37.613 --> 01:10:40.553
I look at it like I love bourbon, right?
01:10:40.713 --> 01:10:44.073
But then I said, they were like, he's coming out. I said, let me watch some of his shit.
01:10:44.133 --> 01:10:47.913
And I'm like, this fucking guy knows what he's talking about because you're
01:10:47.913 --> 01:10:49.293
really fucking doing it.
01:10:49.373 --> 01:10:53.013
And some people just don't. They just drink bourbon. They smoke cigars.
01:10:53.533 --> 01:10:58.333
But you're actually really doing it. So go get that certification because you're
01:10:58.333 --> 01:11:00.633
going to be on top of the fucking world.
01:11:00.833 --> 01:11:03.853
Well, I mean, I think another point that gets overlooked is it couldn't hurt.
01:11:04.173 --> 01:11:06.853
It couldn't hurt. There's always something new to learn, right?
01:11:06.913 --> 01:11:10.013
Yeah. There's always some little nugget because I remember when I went through
01:11:10.013 --> 01:11:13.513
a beer phase too, and I was looking at beer has one for that too.
01:11:13.653 --> 01:11:17.533
And I started actually reading the material and one of the sections went over
01:11:17.533 --> 01:11:22.133
what are the flaws in your tap lines that cause different flavors to come out in your beer?
01:11:22.293 --> 01:11:25.933
Yeah, right. And it's like, shit, I never, like I've experienced bad beer from
01:11:25.933 --> 01:11:27.773
a bad tap line. You're a real builder.
01:11:27.993 --> 01:11:32.573
You know what's funny is like when I was bartending, right, that was something
01:11:32.573 --> 01:11:35.053
that we figured out working behind there.
01:11:35.053 --> 01:11:39.453
It's like okay when's the last time we cleaned the lines because we could do
01:11:39.453 --> 01:11:44.533
that is one of my that is one of my experience yeah it all comes out to experience
01:11:44.533 --> 01:11:48.953
and that's where and i've talked to cory about this wines and more love the
01:11:48.953 --> 01:11:50.013
place no for connecticut.
01:11:51.053 --> 01:11:54.333
Talking with Corey about the whole, should I get the bourbon steward or not
01:11:54.333 --> 01:11:58.233
bourbon steward? And he's like, bottom line is, you need to drink the juice, right? Right.
01:11:58.753 --> 01:12:02.213
And like anything else, the more you do it, the better at it you get.
01:12:02.353 --> 01:12:06.353
Right. Right? So obviously you had more than one or two. I just like to drink.
01:12:06.613 --> 01:12:09.473
And that's not a bad thing. I love it. No, I do that, bro.
01:12:09.773 --> 01:12:15.353
But the thing is, there's drinking, and then there's drinking to taste and enjoy.
01:12:15.613 --> 01:12:19.273
And you taste and enjoy, and it's a distinction with a difference. Some days.
01:12:19.573 --> 01:12:22.493
Yeah. Well, you know, you're with us today, so sorry.
01:12:23.353 --> 01:12:26.633
I was like, when we had the beer podcast, like, we talked about,
01:12:26.653 --> 01:12:29.633
you know, becoming, like, a beer Somali and, like, all that kind of stuff.
01:12:29.753 --> 01:12:33.033
But, I mean, you know, we were called the Heavy Drinking Podcast for a reason.
01:12:34.693 --> 01:12:38.613
And it didn't really pan out. But, yeah, I mean, the more you do something,
01:12:38.713 --> 01:12:42.373
the more you just kind of get, yeah, the more you just kind of get into it.
01:12:42.373 --> 01:12:47.973
And Dave, on your point, right, a lot of people don't like to see other people,
01:12:47.973 --> 01:12:51.993
like, go forward in what's going on, right?
01:12:52.173 --> 01:12:57.633
So if you're that person, like, to me, no, no, I'm going to tell you, right?
01:12:59.253 --> 01:13:03.193
That is 100%. A lot of people, like, say, oh, this fucking guy,
01:13:03.213 --> 01:13:07.233
he gets on there, he does bourbon, he does cigars. Fuck that dude.
01:13:07.713 --> 01:13:11.973
But you know what? But he came on today, and I love it, and I want to see him
01:13:11.973 --> 01:13:16.973
go forward because I love bourbon, I love cigars, but I'm not on the point that he is.
01:13:17.493 --> 01:13:21.713
So I'm going to pay homage to him because if he can do that sommelier,
01:13:22.493 --> 01:13:24.093
fuck, I'm going to be like, you know what?
01:13:24.213 --> 01:13:28.733
I had him on a podcast with fucking Dave Brown and my bros, and we're in there.
01:13:29.173 --> 01:13:32.833
Let's do it. Well, that's where I think, you know? I mean, I don't want to speak for you.
01:13:32.933 --> 01:13:37.773
I mean, I assume you probably have some, quote, unquote, haters in the community.
01:13:37.773 --> 01:13:42.033
Of course you have As far as your channel You're fairly new,
01:13:43.087 --> 01:13:47.867
And you've obviously had a lot of success, rightfully so, because you know what
01:13:47.867 --> 01:13:51.027
the hell you're talking about. I get a free giveaways on my YouTube channels.
01:13:51.987 --> 01:13:54.707
A free giveaways. No one's there for my tape.
01:13:56.147 --> 01:13:58.887
No, but I'm sure there's people that are like, oh, this motherfucker thinks
01:13:58.887 --> 01:14:01.487
he knows what he's talking about. He's only been doing this for a while.
01:14:01.807 --> 01:14:06.527
I don't actually get too many negative comments, which is shocking to me. Which is great.
01:14:07.787 --> 01:14:11.107
The community is actually really good. and
01:14:11.107 --> 01:14:14.727
I think the bigger you get you definitely get more haters just because you get
01:14:14.727 --> 01:14:19.207
more views right because I know there's like the biggest whiskey tuber is Bruzel
01:14:19.207 --> 01:14:23.747
and like the community split on him so there's definitely some haters on him
01:14:23.747 --> 01:14:27.207
right and he's the biggest one you know what I mean do I is there people that
01:14:27.207 --> 01:14:30.387
hate my channel sure do they say it to my face no,
01:14:31.327 --> 01:14:36.567
fuck that they'd be stupid to yeah fuck those guys well I mean you know in the
01:14:36.567 --> 01:14:39.467
world of social media you're always going to have that right yeah Yeah,
01:14:39.927 --> 01:14:41.667
you'd hide behind a keyboard all day. Exactly.
01:14:41.987 --> 01:14:45.447
Put yourself out there. Keyboard worries. Like, you can't hate Matt at ADHD.
01:14:45.827 --> 01:14:48.567
I mean, that guy's just a charming dude. So I was going to bring him up earlier.
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We talked about the Sam Ali thing.
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He basically, his whole thing is that he won whiskey tasting a few years ago,
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and he's the world's best whiskey taster.
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He did that like in 2020 or 2020. He's still holding that on.
01:14:59.947 --> 01:15:01.827
You know, they can never take it away.
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Oh, I will tell you, if I won anything, no one will hear the end of it.
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It's a good show. Yeah, ADHD whiskey. He's awesome. I love Matt. Yeah, that's cool.
01:15:09.847 --> 01:15:14.527
So I mean, so going back to your channel too, like you also say that you do a lot of travel.
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What's one of the coolest places you've been to? What's your travel content
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like? So I went to, I didn't do any videos on Cuba.
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There's a specific reason why, but now I can put it out.
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But I've been on a plane every single month this year, which has never happened in my life ever.
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And I didn't think December was going to be one, and now I'm going to Indiana next on Tuesday.
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So check December off the list.
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So I went to Portugal, I think, twice this year. I went to Puerto Rico twice this year, DR this year.
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But cuba was definitely like the best trip of the year and i do i did a lot of content from that but,
01:15:52.474 --> 01:15:56.134
someone didn't want me to post you know like he's in the videos and stuff he
01:15:56.134 --> 01:15:59.674
doesn't want to be on social media and stuff yeah so i was like okay i'll i'll
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wait until you're out of your job,
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so that i can post this cuba stuff but yeah cuba was definitely my funnest trip
01:16:06.914 --> 01:16:09.994
this year but i went to brazil last year that was pretty cool too all right
01:16:09.994 --> 01:16:16.514
now i got the questions go so you've had And you do, you drink bourbon, you sip,
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where's the bottom like i know you had something that's like oh my god this
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is microwave dog piss you don't have to say what it was say what it was but
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like what's what's like something you had and i mean it could be rabbit hole
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i mean it could be something else but like so if you go to my channel i did
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a whole series called worse whiskey wednesdays.
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Again people love negative content baby boys so
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i i basically grabbed all the bottles that i didn't like and just
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to re-review them to see maybe ear in the bottle open them
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up a little bit or are they just still shit so i
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did a whole series on that but again i would just always point to
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dickle and whistle pig as like two brands that i
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don't personally like anything from see even a 17 year old that i got i was
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hoping that was gonna be good because a little older still came i think last
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place in my whiskey cigar club so it wasn't even just me whistle pig 12 year
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old world for me That's the one, right?
01:17:17.511 --> 01:17:21.311
The 10, the 15. So you're saying that's the one that's like good.
01:17:21.671 --> 01:17:24.371
Yes. Okay. Yeah, that's my sweet spot.
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I have way too much Whistlepig in my house for a brain I don't like.
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I don't understand how I have been. So then why?
01:17:30.971 --> 01:17:33.511
Well, I mean, at least you keep trying. There's a difference between a Whistlepig
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12 and a 12-old world. Okay.
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12-old world. Old world. Old world. Old world.
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That's for me because all Whistlepigs are rye, so I'm not a rye guy, but that's like the one.
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The best rye that keeps winning since they've come out with it is a Jack Daniels
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single barrel proof ryes, like the gold and green labels. Yeah. It's like 65 bucks.
01:17:57.391 --> 01:18:00.491
Those are phenomenal. And they just sit on shelves.
01:18:00.691 --> 01:18:04.471
That's like my favorite rye that's easy to get.
01:18:04.651 --> 01:18:07.451
All right. So I'm going to grab one. I always keep it on my shelf.
01:18:07.471 --> 01:18:10.991
Yeah. I'm going to grab one. I see that green label and I'm like, uh.
01:18:11.411 --> 01:18:15.931
Yeah. What the fuck? I don't got a rye. Actually, I had a rare character rye. Okay.
01:18:17.111 --> 01:18:20.471
Which it's the craziest thing when Brad was here, right? So,
01:18:20.931 --> 01:18:25.471
you know, Brad's here, he got all kinds of stuff, right? And Brad is AJ Fernandez's rep.
01:18:25.651 --> 01:18:30.691
Yeah, AJ Fernandez's rep. So we, we cracked open that rye and I drank it and
01:18:30.691 --> 01:18:33.391
I'm like, oh my God, why'd you bring this dog piss in here?
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It was like, and I think part of that might've been neck pouring air.
01:18:38.751 --> 01:18:43.191
So once we cleared the neck and then we put it to the side and we were drinking other stuff, right?
01:18:43.861 --> 01:18:48.761
So probably 45 minutes to an hour later, we're like, all right,
01:18:48.861 --> 01:18:50.261
well, let's have this again.
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It tasted like a different bottle.
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Is that because you were drunk? No. And everything tasted good.
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No, it was not. No, it was not.
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But I mean, neck pour is a real thing. Yeah.
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Right. I agree with that. And then when air comes in, it can change.
01:19:08.301 --> 01:19:12.621
So that's an example of maybe
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i had it today and once it's open i come back
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and look at it later and it's like wow
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now that was the biggest wow i ever got because that was like i was ready to
01:19:23.581 --> 01:19:27.861
throw a bottle at somebody versus drinking it well i love our character because
01:19:27.861 --> 01:19:32.301
i've had that experience that was it was great well hold off i'm buying a bottle
01:19:32.301 --> 01:19:37.021
because i have one and i'll Bring it in on Saturday for our bottle swap. All right. Oh, fine.
01:19:37.941 --> 01:19:42.461
I'm going to miss that. So speaking of events, right, we're more than welcome
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to come and hang out or join or participate.
01:19:44.981 --> 01:19:47.621
So we do a Christmas bottle swap here. Okay.
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So what we do is we set a floor at like 40 bucks. You bring in a bottle, right?
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We provide plain brown paper bags. You put your bottle in a bag with a cigar. You get a number.
01:20:03.873 --> 01:20:08.333
Once everybody's here, everybody's got a number. Last year, I think we had 28. 28, yep.
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And then we randomly pick numbers, and then you come up and you grab a bottle off the table.
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Okay. And then that's what you got. So we kind of bring in food,
01:20:17.373 --> 01:20:18.493
and we hang out, we play music.
01:20:18.753 --> 01:20:23.093
We're going to add a twist this year, festive, holiday shirt.
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If you want to do it, you know, you want to wear your ugly sweater,
01:20:26.273 --> 01:20:28.493
put on a hat with sparklers.
01:20:28.593 --> 01:20:31.253
Who cares, right? But that's something that we do.
01:20:32.053 --> 01:20:34.313
Now, I don't have a hat with sparklers, but I do have a shirt.
01:20:34.673 --> 01:20:38.053
So, not this shirt. I got a lot of Christmas shirts.
01:20:38.553 --> 01:20:41.653
But you're more than welcome. I probably should have threw it out.
01:20:41.733 --> 01:20:44.073
I don't know if you have something going on. Six o'clock. Six o'clock.
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Right when I go to work. Got it. I got it.
01:20:47.493 --> 01:20:51.493
Shit. I'm coming in earlier, dropping off a bottle, and then I got to bounce,
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too. If you want to do that, that's fine, too.
01:20:53.393 --> 01:20:56.113
Well, I'm pretty sure that's why Mike asked me to bring a bottle,
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because I'm pretty sure that's the bottle he's putting in.
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I won't tell you what bottle I brought but
01:21:04.773 --> 01:21:08.273
yeah we do that and you know we obviously we
01:21:08.273 --> 01:21:11.613
would love to have you back before we even said anything but absolutely yeah
01:21:11.613 --> 01:21:17.573
this has been this has been awesome this has been great and I mean we're about
01:21:17.573 --> 01:21:22.393
an hour and a half in this podcast which I think is a record on this one but
01:21:22.393 --> 01:21:24.813
that's what I do no it's awesome I love it man,
01:21:25.333 --> 01:21:31.013
I think before we go out what's been your favorite I'm going to jump pretty
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much try and jumble everything that you do into one answer,
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Best experience traveling with cigars and bourbon.
01:21:41.051 --> 01:21:45.011
Oh, nice. With bourbon. That let me use Cuba immediately.
01:21:45.651 --> 01:21:50.131
All right. That's awesome. Yeah, because there's rum. Yeah, there's rum. So you got it.
01:21:52.171 --> 01:21:55.431
I almost want to say, actually, I'm going to go with this. So when I went to
01:21:55.431 --> 01:21:58.791
the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, because there you got the bourbon 100% there.
01:21:58.791 --> 01:22:02.811
You have a festival that was whatever I shit on it, but still an okay time.
01:22:02.811 --> 01:22:05.651
But at night you know i brought a bunch of
01:22:05.651 --> 01:22:08.811
cuban cigars with me and a bunch of cigars because a lot of guys aren't
01:22:08.811 --> 01:22:12.031
the biggest cigar guys right so i brought some shittier cigars
01:22:12.031 --> 01:22:16.931
for the people that aren't gonna enjoy the cubans that i smuggled into the country
01:22:16.931 --> 01:22:24.671
yes so you know i love giving cuban cigars to people who enjoy cigars but i've
01:22:24.671 --> 01:22:29.731
never got to try cuban cigar just so they can say that they have had one,
01:22:29.831 --> 01:22:30.411
you know what I mean? Right.
01:22:30.631 --> 01:22:36.031
So that was probably my great experience. It was like with 11 of us guys there,
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and it was just a good time, so.
01:22:37.811 --> 01:22:40.791
I wonder if he met my future ex-wife. He probably did.
01:22:42.111 --> 01:22:44.931
He probably did. He definitely met your future ex-wife.
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In Kentucky? Yeah. Yeah. It was a VIP.
01:22:50.391 --> 01:22:57.651
VIP. She ran a show, Madrina. Hi, Madrina. Hi, Madrina. Hi, Madrina. Let's go, Madrina. Hey.
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If you're listening, write us. Get a hold of Cappy.
01:23:03.951 --> 01:23:09.551
Cappy's still thinking about you. You can find us at asschatpodcast at gmail.com. Just saying.
01:23:11.922 --> 01:23:15.502
We just became a matchmaker podcast, dude. Done deal. I'll tell her.
01:23:15.582 --> 01:23:16.642
Dip your toe into everything.
01:23:17.582 --> 01:23:22.682
No, that's cool. That's cool as hell, man. I think we're ready to kind of wrap this up, man. Let's go.
01:23:23.122 --> 01:23:26.882
Listen, Carlos, thank you for being here, man. This has been awesome.
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I think we're going to continue talking and smoking and drinking.
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Definitely drinking. All that kind of stuff. I'm in a rush to go home.
01:23:35.322 --> 01:23:37.542
I'm always at a Christmas party. I got the night.
01:23:38.022 --> 01:23:44.502
Who's got tomorrow off? That's Madrina. Me. I'll be sorry I wish man I got tomorrow,
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well thank you everybody for listening this has been a hell of a fucking podcast
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thank you Carlos for being here thank you guys for joining us great stuff we
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will talk to everyone very soon.