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  oh, my way. Yo, what is up?
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  Good morning, Good morning. Happy Sunday morning here in the
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  Big Apple. It's -10 degrees, 1/4 to the
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  weatherman, but other than that, hope everybody had a great
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  weekend. Me and my son did.
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  We're just chilling out. Well, I'm just getting over
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  being sick. He's.
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  Just getting over being sick. I'm just being a lazy person
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  this weekend, but right now we I'm smoking the David Blanco
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  Prince Hall Maduro and he has the.
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  I have the Habano version. So we are going to sit here and
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  talk about let's talk about some wrestling.
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  First, let's talk about Nick Nemeth.
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  What did he showed up in Puerto Rico last night?
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  Showed up in Puerto Rico. What?
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  That's the most wanted free agent, right?
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  Now basically what he is. I mean, the guy was in New
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  Japan. Well, he's.
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  He's not done with Japan. He's not done with TNAI.
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  Don't think right now he's just enjoying the ability to be able
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  to go where he wants. So I was watching a podcast with
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  him the other day and he said he came right out of school and
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  went right to the WWE, he said. And being on the independence,
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  it's giving him like free reign of whatever he wants.
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  It's. Giving him creative freedom is
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  what it is. Right, he said.
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  Not that he didn't like the WWE, he said.
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  But now he picks and chooses where he wants to go and what he
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  wants to do and who he wants to wrestle.
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  But that's the hottest free. Agent going, you know, I mean
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  look at his brother, him and his brother teaming up.
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  I mean, you know, So what do you think of this?
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  So right now you have in the WWE, you have Seth Rollins out.
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  Betsy Lynch just came out with her.
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  Her first children's book, Roman Reigns and The Rock, are going.
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  Out of the well, Roman is going to wind up, I think, giving the
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  title up. But you have Rollins out, you
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  have Cora, Jade out, you have Charlotte out.
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  So far there's no news on Austin Theory from the other night.
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  I mean, there's the the injury bug has plagued them quite a bit
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  over the last month or two, so it'd be interesting to see what
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  they do let. Me introduce my buddy here.
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  So this is my buddy. Check him out.
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  Do we look alike? This is my buddy right here.
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  My brother-in-law gave me this. I had it made in South Carolina
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  for us. For me actually.
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  See the glasses, the cigar, the beard, the hat?
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  It's my brother. So, so now with that being said
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  on on some of the wrestling points, let's talk about
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  football, man. I'll tell you, man, some of
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  these teams just morning, Coop, some of these teams just ain't
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  what they're cut out to be. Oh, and another thing because I
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  forgot about that. He's doing good though.
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  But you know, prayers go out to to pops in the family and
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  everybody. He's doing great, so.
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  Yes, family, yes, all the all the Samoans pops was in a
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  hospital, you know, so you know. Actually, I believe we have one
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  of the family members coming on in April.
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  Yes, we do. So stay tuned for that.
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  That'll be a fun podcast. So I think the 49ers won, yes?
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  They did. And the Reagan's won, so now
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  it's between. The Ravens are actually hosting
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  the the championship game. They beat the Packers, the 49ers
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  and now it's the Buccaneers and the Lions.
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  I'm going to go with the Buccaneers on that.
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  And then you got the Chief and the Bills.
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  I'm going to go with the Bills. Nah, I'd go Chiefs.
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  I think it's going to be. I think this year it's going to
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  be the Chiefs and the Ravens. I don't know, man.
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  Or no, the Chiefs and Oh my God, it's too early for me to do this
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  right now. So I think the Bills are going
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  to win more than. You can't say those words.
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  You know, I'm not going to, I'm not even going to put that
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  comment on the screen. We're just going to let that one
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  go. I don't know.
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  He's got the link. We'll see what happens.
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  So what else? What else we got to?
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  Talk about today. I mean there's there's a lot to.
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  Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
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  I mean, I know ISPW just had their show last night in Bark It
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  at the high school. You had, I believe headlining
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  was the now versus sent to Slaughter, which was Dan Moff
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  and Shaun Donovan. Well, don't forget, don't forget
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  May 25th. So that should be interesting.
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  Boss Dog, AKA Big Dog in the wrestling world are going to be
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  down in new. What is it?
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  Brennan, New Bern, NC, making their debut for a new federation
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  and we also are the bookers, so stay tuned for that.
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  We're going to put that up here. That's going to be one of our
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  shout out to our sponsors this morning.
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  So you know we just want to give them a shout out.
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  So now it is now 710. So what else do we got to talk
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  about, son? I mean, like I said there's
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  there's a lot going on to talk about.
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  I mean Will Osprey starts as a a regular for AW on TV next month.
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  It's it's very interesting to see.
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  I know. Well, no, another big free agent
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  from New Japan is Okada, the Rainmaker.
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  So I'll be interested to see where he goes.
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  So far he's been in TNA. I know he's talked about signing
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  with the WWE and possibly, AW, we'll see what happens there.
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  I mean, I know where I'd like to see him.
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  I think now in WWE with Triple H in charge, he would do great.
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  It'll be very interesting to see where that goes.
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  I would love to see him and him and Austin theory go at it.
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  You know, Austin's not I I think you'd have a better shot at.
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  Austin's not on that level. Yet, no, it's not that he's not
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  on that level. If you want to draw that main
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  event style from Japan, you could put him and AJ together in
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  the main event there. You could put him in Nakamura,
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  you could put I I mean, there's there's endless amounts over
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  there, but AW, is everybody he's ever wrestled.
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  In Japan, you have Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley, Brian
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  Danielson or Daniel Bryan, whatever his name is.
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  You have Yuda, you have the Bucks, you have.
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  I mean, there's just, there's endless over on both sides of
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  the street. There's endless amounts of
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  possibilities. But Okada said he's a Okada's
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  always talked about wrestling at WrestleMania, so it'll be very
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  interesting to see where this goes.
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  Well, I just think that my brother guy that I trained Eddie
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  Kingston, well deserved, he even bought a new outfit.
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  Guy ain't bought an outfit in 20 years.
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  He bought a new He bought new boots.
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  He bought new singlet. He bought new pants.
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  His gear is also modeled after Kawada.
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  So you know, the guy hasn't bought gear in over 20 years
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  since I've known him. So for him to do that, the man
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  is, well, the man is good right now.
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  WWE has star power going on with everybody.
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  That's made a comeback and they're going to have a hard
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  time with storylines with all of these guys.
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  Correct. Mr. Cooper?
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  Correct. We have a question says right
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  now WWE has too much star power going on with everybody.
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  That's made a comeback. So they're going to have a hard
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  time with storylines with all of these guys.
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  You're correct. You know what?
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  Me being in the wrestling world, when you have too much star
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  power, there is everybody wants to be put over, per SE.
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  Well, me, I I could care less being put over.
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  Just pay me my money. I'll take the fall.
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  I'll, I'll lay on the mat. Look at the stars.
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  It don't matter. But you got to remember now too
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  that they also, they have a lot of star power, but you go into
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  Rumble and Mania season, so it's kind of their their end of the
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  year. So you'll see.
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  You'll see feuds wrap up. You'll see new feud start.
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  Right. And you know, you'll see new
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  feud start, you'll see feuds end.
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  Some feuds might go all the way to the chamber.
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  We'll see. I mean it's it's very
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  interesting. So it is 7:15.
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  We are here, Boss Dog. The Vanilla gorilla.
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  Yes, Sir. So on that note, we are going to
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  go and take a commercial break and say hi to our our, our
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  people and then we'll come back and we will have the man
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  himself, Mr. David Blanco of Blanco Cigars.
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  So we are now back here. Turnbuckles and stogies on
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  So now we are going to bring in our special guest today.
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  Because it's time. Mr. Mr. David Blanco himself.
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  It's time for the interview of. An interview of the Week.
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  Good morning, David. How are you?
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  Good morning, Sir. Good morning.
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  This is, for the record, the earliest interview I have ever
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  done. Well, thank.
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  You. Blanco, We appreciate that, Sir.
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  You're. Welcome.
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  You're welcome. Thank you for when we when we
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  had a spot because of a cancellation, because the person
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  had surgery. We appreciate you reaching out
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  to us and wanting to come on. That means a lot.
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  And you know so. Just so everybody can see that's
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  that's that's the lighter. And this is the the Maduro.
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  You have. We got to be.
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  We got to be careful what we show.
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  I forgot we're on TikTok. 'Cause we're on TikTok too, so
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  TikTok. You can't.
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  You got to. You got to do this.
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  Yeah. Oh, can't smoke.
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  That's one of the things you're violating the community
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  standards of your smoke. I I guess so, yeah.
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  Meanwhile, you can show boobs and butts.
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  TikTok is Tik Tok's a little more.
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  So, David, again, thanks for coming on.
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  Yes. Pleasure's fine, guys.
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  Pleasure to be here. Nice to talk to you.
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  God, no. That's it.
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  So what made you get into cigars and become this big?
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  And I want to say conglomerate, but as big as you are in the
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  cigar world. OK, so interesting story and we
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  got some time. I don't know how much time we
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  have. By the way, how much time do we
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  have? You got about 40 minutes.
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  OK. All right.
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  I'll make it the abridged version.
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  I'll condense 5 generations of information into a shorter time
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  than that. We, my family, my family's been
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  in the industry since 1886. Wow.
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  The family came from Spain to Cuba and started growing tobacco
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  there. And the Vuelta Bajo, which is
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  the Pinar Del Rio area where all of the Cuban tobacco is going
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  even to today. And like most other Cuban
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  families, we lost everything in the revolution.
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  My family actually took part in the revolution, but then was
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  betrayed like everybody else was by Castro and had to flee, and
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  my family escaped. In 196162 to the United States
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  with the clothes on their back and all of the businesses and
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  everything else were lost. Everything was nationalized.
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  Cuba owns everything to this day, everybody's businesses
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  pretty much. So I was born here in the United
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  States. I was the first one of my family
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  born here and I was born in Chicago, which is why you
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  probably hear the accent. And as I became, you know, older
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  in age and became an adult, I was always aware of the family's
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  legacy of the cigar business that they had in in Cuba.
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  And, you know, I was told the, you know, the full length story
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  as I became a little older. And my father handed me a cigar
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  and said, let me tell you, you know, you know, the coming of
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  age story when you guys are father and son, right Hand your
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  son a cigar and you, you know, tell him about life.
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  And my story was here, here's a cigar.
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  Let me tell you about what cigars are to our family and
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  what they mean. And I got the whole legacy
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  story. And so I was a young man smoking
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  cigars and I always had this, you know, this thought of what
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  the family business must have been like and what it was like
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  and generations forged. My father was the 4th generation
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  in the business, you know, and lost.
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  It was lost. So in the 90s, as I hit my 20s
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  and I was the only guy at my age smoking, right young, 20, in my
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  20s, in the 90s, early 90s. I was like that now.
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  I was the only guy smoking cigars in my at 1819 years old
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  and you know, nobody else. Everybody else was doing all
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  kinds of other stuff. I'm.
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  Smoking cigars. I want you to ask him what was
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  the first cigar he smoked at 18? So I'll So the first cigar at 18
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  that I smoked was the Acid Blondie.
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  I was going to say Cuba, Cuba or Blondie, which no, it was.
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  It was a Blondie. I haven't.
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  I've heard now, I've heard that the the Cuba, Cuba is pretty
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  good. I've heard that.
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  If you like that kind of thing, yeah, it's very popular.
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  People that that smoke it I I've, I haven't ventured back
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  into that line yet there's there's been a few that oh
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  that's that is actually. That is our producer.
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  One of the people from the network on Roku.
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  OK. Thank you.
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  Thank you for having us Linda. We're glad we can start the day
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  off this story for. Back in the 90s you were smoking
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  when? Everybody playing games.
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  So here's how it changed a little bit from what your his
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  story is to My story is that back then nobody was really
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  smoking cigars until 92 Ish. And it was the advent of Cigar
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  Aficionado magazine. And so suddenly everybody
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  started, all my friends suddenly started coming to me because I
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  was the only guy they knew that smoked cigars.
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  So they wanted to be part of the cool guy thing, right?
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  So is hey, how do you cut a cigar?
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  How do you light a cigar? What's a good cigar?
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  Go, let's go ask Dave. So I I became the subject matter
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  expert for everybody. Anything cigar.
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  And so it became a very faddish thing.
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  Everybody smoking the magazine created this lifestyle thing.
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  Cigar shops even started changing and developing into
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  lounges as we know them today, because cigar shops back then
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  used to be a place where you bought a cigar and left.
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  And left correct. That was it.
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  It was like a bodega or something like that, right?
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  It was a bodega. Yeah, when you get when you get
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  your your Lucy's for like $0.05 apiece.
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  Now because of the the popularity as because of the
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  magazine, which I got to give him credit, Marvin Schenken, the
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  guy who created Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator and a few
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  other things. Because of that, the industry
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  started changing and adapting and evolving into places to
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  smoke. So moving right along, they're
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  like, hey Dave, we don't know anything about cigars.
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  What's a good cigar? What are you smoking?
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  Can I get one of what you're smoking?
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  And I was getting cigars from my family and I was like, sure,
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  here I have a cigar. And then it was, hey, can I get
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  another one? OK, here you have another cigar.
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  And then it was. Can I get it, you know?
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  How do I get some more from you? Can I?
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  You got bundles? Can I get a bundle?
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  I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, these are my purse.
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  Like, whoa, let me, let me. This is my own personal let.
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  Me start charging you for the bundles.
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  That's what I started scratching my head, going.
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  I think there's a business here. So I approached my father and my
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  uncle and I said, you know what, I think there might be a way for
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  for us to get back into the cigar business so that I can
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  continue the family legacy. And we had, they said bring us a
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  plan and a model and see if you really want to do this, give us
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  more information or create a business plan, blah blah.
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  I said, OK, I can't do this by myself, but if you might, you
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  know, my father and my uncle, brothers, they were brothers.
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  You know, we've come my partners, we can do this.
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  We can open a factory and create cigars again.
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  My uncle was a retired Vietnam veteran at the time.
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  He had done 20 years of service and so he was already retired.
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  And my father and I were still working in Chicago.
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  My uncle was down here in the in the Tampa Bay area.
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  Very nice. So they said if you invest
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  everything you own, we'll do it. It was a it was a test, right?
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  To make sure that I was really in this, because you got to
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  remember, how old are you, by the way?
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  25 going to be 26. OK.
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  I was 25. I was 25 S, 25 years old.
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  They wanted to make sure that I was serious and they said if you
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  invest everything you own, we'll be a partner.
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  But OK, I'm all in, Put it all in.
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  And we opened up the factory. Ybor City.
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  My uncle ran the day-to-day operation.
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  I was in charge of design, marketing, blending the cigars
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  because I I was the one that was going to sell them.
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  My uncle was then going to run the day-to-day operation, but I
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  was the one that had to put things together as to what I
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  wanted the cigars to be. My father had ran administrative
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  issues and everything else. So boom, 1998 is actually when
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  we opened the doors we had done 95 research. 9697 I was still
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  messing around trying to figure things out and then 98 we opened
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  the doors in Ybor City. That lasted 2 years.
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  The reason it lasted 2 years is my uncle Francisco, he did 20
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  years of service in in the military but it when as a young
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  man he was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
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  Very low dosage. We want to, we want to thank
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  your uncle for his service, bro. You know, like like my dad, my
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  uncle, my brother, my cousin. Listen, without them guys, man,
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  listen, we wouldn't be safe where we are today, man.
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  Because, you know, a lot of people listen.
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  A lot of people don't think enough to our service men and
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  women, and I want to thank your uncle and everybody for their
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  services here in the Army, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the
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  National Guard, whatever. You're in the Coast Guard,
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  whatever, so. OK, cool.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  So it turns out that as he got older, which was around that
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  time, it's did start affecting his central nervous system.
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  He was diagnosed with Ms. and ended up in a wheelchair.
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  He couldn't. He was because he was numbness
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  in his legs. He's like, what the Hell's
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  wrong? They couldn't figure it out and
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  that's what they attributed it to.
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  And it came on like that. And so he ended up in a
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  wheelchair and he couldn't run the factory anymore.
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  So we were like, what are we going to do?
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  Well, we called our cousins up who are in Nicaragua and asked
• 28:00
  them if we could shift production over to their
• 28:02
  facility in 2000. And they said, absolutely, come
• 28:04
  on now, this is very early days of, you know, there weren't a
• 28:07
  lot of boutiques like we have all over the place and different
• 28:10
  brands. So they said, yeah, absolutely
• 28:13
  come on down. So we moved.
• 28:14
  We're buying material from them anyway and assembling it here in
• 28:17
  the United States. We have some cousins that had
• 28:18
  come over from Cuba that were rollers.
• 28:20
  So we're employing them here. So that entire thing shifted to
• 28:24
  the Nicaragua operation in Estelit in 2000.
• 28:27
  So there weren't too many guys like that looked like me.
• 28:30
  And although I'm Cuban, I'm, I'm very Anglo.
• 28:34
  Look, you look white. I'm not doing funny look white.
• 28:37
  Well, it matches my name, so that's how that works.
• 28:40
  So, so Dave, let me ask you this question And and it was brought
• 28:44
  to me by like several people at different lounges.
• 28:47
  So are you related to Placentia cigars?
• 28:51
  So when I was when when we moved to Nicaragua and that family
• 28:55
  location, that family factory that we asked our family if we
• 29:00
  could produce it, it's the Placentius Nestor and Nestor
• 29:05
  senior and my father, that's the phone call that was made because
• 29:09
  they're cousins. And so yes, we're cousins with
• 29:14
  the Placentias. Now.
• 29:16
  I didn't grow up with the Placentias because again they
• 29:19
  had a similar story as we losing everything and then fled the
• 29:23
  country. But they didn't come to the
• 29:25
  United States. They went directly to Nicaragua
• 29:27
  because they needed to continue growing material.
• 29:30
  My family, we we lost all of that and just fled.
• 29:34
  So we didn't grow up, but cigars brought us back together.
• 29:40
  You know, we lost a generation of familiarity there, of growing
• 29:44
  up together and and familiarity there.
• 29:46
  But yeah, so I it brought me back to family heritage that
• 29:53
  otherwise would have been lost, that I would, you know, like all
• 29:56
  Cuban stories also, so many families were torn apart never
• 30:00
  to see each other again. This was our way for us to come
• 30:03
  back. So yes, all of our cigars to
• 30:05
  this day are made at the Placencia factory.
• 30:09
  I've been working there since 2000.
• 30:12
  And so if I had to have a term other than, you know, Blanco
• 30:18
  cigars with my, my, I'm actually considered a blender in
• 30:22
  residency there. So a master blender at the
• 30:25
  Placencia factory in residency in residence, right.
• 30:29
  So because it's not my factory, it's their factory and and so
• 30:34
  I've been working there blending.
• 30:36
  We have six different brands that we own to now.
• 30:39
  So our portfolio has developed and I've heard for about 12
• 30:43
  other companies. So yeah all around the world
• 30:47
  we're in 30 plus countries right now Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa
• 30:58
  Middle East. So yeah we're we continue to
• 31:02
  grow I mean by no means am IA huge you use the word
• 31:06
  conglomerate. I'll never be that There's never
• 31:09
  going to be there's never going to be publicly traded shares and
• 31:14
  corporate mentality here. This will always be a family
• 31:16
  business, which is why I brought it back to life because I I
• 31:19
  didn't want the family's legacy to die like that.
• 31:23
  Too many years. I think of over all in over 100
• 31:25
  years of people in our family working in cigars to just let it
• 31:30
  die. With my father, I felt I had an
• 31:32
  obligation and this is where service comes in.
• 31:36
  I get that obligation from service.
• 31:38
  I also served in the military. I have about 3232 plus years in
• 31:44
  the military. My my father has also done 40
• 31:48
  plus years in the military. So Dave, on that note, we're
• 31:54
  going to pay tribute to our, our, our commercials and we'll
• 31:59
  be back with you and hold that door.
• 34:59
  All right guys. And we are back, back from our
• 35:02
  quick commercial break. We're here with the man himself,
• 35:05
  Mr. David Blanco, owner of Blanco Cigars, been in the
• 35:10
  business. For 100 years.
• 35:13
  Generations, the family. So let's let's talk about, let's
• 35:18
  talk about this, this little beauty right here.
• 35:22
  I'm happy. To I'm happy to give me one
• 35:24
  second. I'm digesting what I was just
• 35:26
  watching there. That video, that music video.
• 35:30
  Who is that? That is Mitch Russell.
• 35:35
  It's called the Soldiers Memoir. That is, shout out to our
• 35:38
  producer A that. Comes from the radio station
• 35:43
  that we're a part of, MBR radio, military brand radio.
• 35:48
  I I believe that's one of their followers.
• 35:52
  Or maybe maybe H can jump on and tell us who that is.
• 35:55
  I don't know. H Jump on and tell us who.
• 35:57
  It is just just curious 'cause I was a little close to home for
• 36:02
  me at I, so I'm I'm that was mentioning it to you guys.
• 36:07
  I have over 3 decades of service.
• 36:10
  I was Army Special Operations for 16 of those 32 years and
• 36:15
  watching that video was kind of like out of nowhere for me.
• 36:18
  I was kind of very reminiscent of.
• 36:21
  He's a he's a veteran music artist.
• 36:25
  His name is Mitch Russell. I almost brought my helmet out
• 36:28
  and put it on when the thing back came back out.
• 36:32
  So David, so let me ask you this.
• 36:34
  So you know I follow you on Instagram and all that other
• 36:38
  stuff and I see you do the Blanco Blanco tours.
• 36:45
  Give us a little insight on the Blanco tours, what that consists
• 36:49
  of and how we can go back. Well, I'm glad you brought that
• 36:53
  up because I was probably going to mention it because I have 4
• 36:55
  slots available for my next tour.
• 36:57
  We only take 10 people at a time.
• 37:00
  I have 4 openings. It's a five day, four night all
• 37:03
  inclusive tour to Nicaragua. It is $1500 all inclusive for on
• 37:08
  the ground. That doesn't include your
• 37:10
  airfare, but you can get down there for 500 bucks or less.
• 37:13
  So it's about two grand if you add it all up or less.
• 37:15
  Is that now that's per person, right?
• 37:17
  Correct. That includes everything,
• 37:19
  though. Hotel, transportation, food,
• 37:21
  beverage, with meals, cigars. You get about $450 worth of
• 37:25
  cigars alone. I am.
• 37:29
  I'm not trying to brag or have a big head about this, but I am
• 37:34
  the only one that does a tour like this in the entire
• 37:37
  industry. Not that anybody else couldn't
• 37:39
  do it, but they just don't. Predomo does tours and Rocky
• 37:43
  does tours and Drew State does tours and there are a lot of
• 37:47
  companies that do tours. I'm the only one that tours
• 37:50
  showing the entire country. I I love to show Nicaragua and
• 37:54
  the people and the culture and where you got.
• 37:57
  Money. Where your money goes from your
• 38:01
  side all the way to the other side, where people are living.
• 38:03
  At. So it's not we take you to the
• 38:06
  factory, we take you to the farm, and we take you back to
• 38:08
  the airport. We stay in Granada for an
• 38:11
  evening and we do boat tour. And we show you the oldest
• 38:14
  colonial city in Central America where Captain Morgan in the
• 38:17
  Pirates is staying out. Then we go to, then we go to
• 38:20
  Estelle and we do everything. Cigar.
• 38:22
  We stay in a boutique hotels with three different hotels.
• 38:27
  We go in the mountains. We've done volcano surfing in
• 38:30
  the past. We've done horseback riding.
• 38:32
  We've done. I'll show you the time.
• 38:34
  We go to the markets. I want to immerse you in the
• 38:36
  culture. We eat at local restaurants and
• 38:39
  diners and stuff like that and bars and clubs like nightlife.
• 38:43
  We participate and then we take you to, you know, some of the
• 38:47
  mountainous areas and you know, see waterfalls and and then we
• 38:51
  go down to the beach and we stay at night in the Pacific Ocean.
• 38:55
  We have another hotel. We stay over there and then we
• 38:58
  go to Lyon. Lyon City is one of the oldest
• 39:01
  cities in Central America as well.
• 39:03
  It used to be the former capital of of Nicaragua when the
• 39:05
  Spaniards had it as a colony before it moved to Managua.
• 39:09
  And so there's a lot of history to see that we've done the floor
• 39:11
  of the Kanye factory tour, which is the national realm of
• 39:14
  Nicaragua. We've done factory tours there.
• 39:15
  So I mean, we do all kinds of stuff, boat rides and stuff like
• 39:19
  that and nobody, nobody's doing that.
• 39:23
  I kind of, I wish he wasn't dead.
• 39:25
  But if you guys remember Anthony Bourdain, great show.
• 39:28
  I don't know if you ever watched this show.
• 39:31
  I I'm like the Anthony Bourdain of the cigar business with
• 39:34
  regard to the tours because I I take you all around.
• 39:37
  So, I mean, you have cigars all the time, but it's not just
• 39:40
  about cigars. It's about the people.
• 39:41
  It's about the the scenery, about the culture.
• 39:44
  It's about the food. It's about all of it.
• 39:46
  I'm just going to say about learning about the the place
• 39:50
  itself. Yeah, absolutely.
• 39:51
  And nobody does this. I don't know why, but most of
• 39:55
  their tours are three days because they take you to the
• 39:57
  farms one day, they take you to the factories one day and they
• 39:59
  throw some food in you and make sure you drink a lot and take
• 40:01
  you back to the airport. We do five days, four nights,
• 40:04
  all inclusive. So that's where the money is and
• 40:07
  it's a it's a deal. I give the bargains to the
• 40:10
  people with regard to the cost because I get deals with regard
• 40:13
  to the people I work with. So I go to certain hotels,
• 40:16
  certain restaurants, and because I bring groups and everything,
• 40:18
  they give me discounted breaks on prices.
• 40:20
  So I pass that along to you guys.
• 40:22
  If anybody was to do this tour on their own, it'd be like 2530
• 40:26
  to three $3000. So, right.
• 40:28
  So now what's the dates that you have available for everybody
• 40:34
  that's watching? So I.
• 40:35
  Have one tour this year left with four seats and it's the 5th
• 40:39
  of March. You would leave the United
• 40:42
  States to head to to Nicaragua and you would return on the 9th.
• 40:46
  So it's the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 5 days, four nights.
• 40:51
  All you got to do is get to Managua Airport, we pick you up
• 40:53
  and the rest is all on us and you just enjoy yourself.
• 40:56
  That's really much. That's pretty much what it is.
• 40:59
  So real. Time.
• 41:01
  If you're interested in contacting us to to do that, you
• 41:05
  can go ahead and get a hold of us.
• 41:07
  You can get sent us an e-mail, send us your name obviously, and
• 41:10
  a good phone number that we can reach you and call back in case
• 41:13
  we have to talk about any information.
• 41:15
  You do need a passport for this of course.
• 41:18
  I can always caveat that because I've had people say but I don't
• 41:20
  have a passport. Well, it's getting kind of
• 41:22
  tight. I'm.
• 41:23
  Sorry. So the e-mail would be customer
• 41:26
  service at Blanco cigars.com, Customer service at Blanco like
• 41:32
  my last name cigarscigars.com. That's it.
• 41:37
  Well I can't pin it up here, but when I when I post this, I'll
• 41:40
  make sure I post up the the link.
• 41:42
  And. The, the, the e-mail with it and
• 41:45
  I'll make sure we put it out there for everybody.
• 41:47
  Here's here's here's my thing so I'm smoking your Maduro Prince
• 41:53
  hall. So the Prince Hall shout out to
• 41:59
  all us Masons I'm traveling. So how did you come up with
• 42:04
  Prince Hall? So for a number of years, first
• 42:10
  of all, I'm a Master Mason. I'm also a fifth generation
• 42:13
  Master Mason. My family, we're Masons in Cuba.
• 42:16
  Wow. That's how long this goes back.
• 42:18
  Yeah. And I'm also a Shriner.
• 42:21
  My father's a Shriner. Yeah.
• 42:24
  My, my grandfather was a 33rd degree honorary, of course.
• 42:29
  And so masonry was heavy in our family.
• 42:32
  I was actually contacted years ago by another Mason up north in
• 42:39
  New Jersey in your neck of the woods that basically smoked
• 42:46
  cigars in his lodge with his buddies.
• 42:47
  And he was gas station and quickie Mart owner and was like,
• 42:51
  man, it'd be great to make a Masonic cigar.
• 42:54
  And so he contacted me for some help because, you know, he's
• 42:59
  like Dave. I love cigars, but I don't know
• 43:01
  anything about cigars. I'd like to do this is this is
• 43:04
  what I'd like to do and you're a Mason brother to could you help
• 43:07
  me? So I did.
• 43:10
  I did that for about 6 1/2 years and built this Masonic brand
• 43:13
  called Ironman Salon. With regard to all the blending,
• 43:19
  I was I. Was just going to say that.
• 43:22
  So I was just going to say, you know, there's another brand out.
• 43:26
  That I'm the man. I'm the man behind the curtain,
• 43:28
  as they say. There he.
• 43:30
  Was Jersey great cigars by the way.
• 43:34
  I love those cigars. We.
• 43:35
  Went no more me. I don't do them anymore.
• 43:37
  So. Yeah, we went to the Legends
• 43:39
  Lounge and it's hired when Salomon and when we went there,
• 43:44
  you know, I'm like that was. About four or five years ago.
• 43:46
  Yeah. So I'm like your basin.
• 43:49
  He goes, well, I said you're traveling and he couldn't answer
• 43:52
  it. And I'm like.
• 43:55
  If it was just a random guy behind the counter, it wasn't.
• 43:57
  Actually. OK, it was just it wasn't the
• 44:00
  owner is what you're. Saying no, no, no.
• 44:01
  It was just one of his, one of his guys.
• 44:03
  OK, so there were two guys, there were two partners and one
• 44:07
  of them is but no longer part of the company.
• 44:11
  I am no longer working with with them.
• 44:14
  I stopped about two years ago. Now I think I'm.
• 44:18
  So you you would have been making them when I first started
• 44:20
  finding them and smoking them? Probably, probably.
• 44:23
  So again it was one of those issues of you know help us out.
• 44:28
  And so as a Masonic brother, I try, I I did with my best and
• 44:32
  you can see the fruits of that labor and how that brand grew.
• 44:37
  Things happen in business and sometimes.
• 44:39
  I will work out for a certain. While And then they don't.
• 44:42
  And then we we split up. But I wanted to honor Prince
• 44:47
  Hall. And for those that don't know
• 44:49
  who Prince Hall is, I I see him as one of the founding fathers
• 44:54
  of our country that has been lost to history.
• 44:58
  He was, for those of you don't don't know, he was a gentleman
• 45:01
  that lived in Boston in the colonial period.
• 45:05
  He was a business owner. He was thought to be one of the
• 45:08
  first men to join the Continental Army in fighting the
• 45:10
  Revolutionary War. So he's an original Army
• 45:13
  veteran. And for all these things, I felt
• 45:15
  his story was something to be told.
• 45:18
  Now what anybody ever remembers him for only is if they do know
• 45:21
  him is masonry. But the reality is, is that all
• 45:24
  of those things, he went to joint masonry and he was denied.
• 45:28
  And the reason he was denied, for those of you who are
• 45:30
  watching it, don't know anything about who we're talking about.
• 45:32
  The reason he was denied is because he was black.
• 45:36
  So yes, there were free black men, business owners living in
• 45:39
  Boston during the Colonial period.
• 45:42
  Yeah, rare. Very rare.
• 45:44
  But yes, it is very rare, but it seems the thing.
• 45:47
  Yeah. And he was fighting for equal
• 45:49
  rights and education of of of blacks at the time, which was
• 45:53
  like 80 to 100 years before the Civil War.
• 45:56
  This guy was way before his time.
• 45:58
  He found a way to become a Mason and then ended up becoming the
• 46:02
  founding father of African American masonry in the United
• 46:05
  States as we know it today. And that was done.
• 46:07
  And as you can see on the band, there's a number that says 1787
• 46:13
  around the side. If your band is a small, yeah,
• 46:15
  1780. There you go.
• 46:17
  He's 87. There you go.
• 46:19
  Perfect. That was the year that the he
• 46:21
  was actually allowed to open up his own lodge.
• 46:25
  And they had to pick a name because there were the other
• 46:28
  Masons, you know, the Washingtons and Jeffersons and
• 46:30
  all these guys. They were free and accepted
• 46:32
  Masons. Well, they had to come up with a
• 46:33
  name, so they took his name. They renamed the lodge African
• 46:36
  Lodge #1, and they became known as Prince Hall Masons.
• 46:41
  To this day, they're called Prince Hall Masons.
• 46:43
  So this was my homage to that man's legacy.
• 46:46
  If anybody ever wants to go find out more about Prince Hall
• 46:49
  masonry, now you can't. You can be white, black,
• 46:52
  Hispanic and join Prince Hall masonry today as well as free
• 46:56
  and accepted masonry. We are together today with
• 46:59
  regard to, we recognize each other.
• 47:01
  There's, you know, we all believe in the same things.
• 47:04
  But he's buried on in the on top of the hill in the North End of
• 47:09
  Boston in the old cemetery. I mean we're talking five blocks
• 47:12
  from Paul Revere's house. He was.
• 47:14
  That's the time period he lived in.
• 47:16
  That's where he lived. So he contributed mightily to
• 47:20
  the founding of our country and his story deserved to be told.
• 47:24
  And I was lucky enough through my art, which is my blending and
• 47:28
  my cigars to be able to to do that.
• 47:31
  So that's why we we created the Prince Hall cigar.
• 47:34
  OK, now I I did notice 'cause I was reading the the little
• 47:38
  pamphlet you sent with with these What made you do boxes of
• 47:43
  50? So I'm also a smoker.
• 47:48
  I think that's. Kind of.
• 47:49
  That's kind of unheard of in the in the industry, yeah.
• 47:52
  Well, there's a few people that do it.
• 47:53
  There's a few. There's a there's a few people
• 47:55
  who do boxes of 100, believe it or not.
• 47:59
  So the reason I did that is because I'm a smoker and a
• 48:01
  consumer as well as a cigar maker.
• 48:04
  So the the reasoning behind that for me was easy.
• 48:08
  It's economics. So for me to be able to bring
• 48:11
  this cigar to you as an MSRP as a retail price of in Robusto,
• 48:17
  which we call the square or square, this is a retail price.
• 48:21
  Of course every state is different with your tobacco.
• 48:23
  So take into consideration, right in the Robusto size, it's
• 48:28
  8:00-ish eight in change, in the Toro size it's nine in change,
• 48:32
  in the 6 by 60, it's 1211 in change and the 7 by 70 is 14
• 48:38
  ish. The reason?
• 48:39
  Those prices. Exist.
• 48:41
  It's like 10 twelve 1520 bucks. Where's that?
• 48:47
  Up here in New York. Yeah.
• 48:48
  Oh, yeah. Because of the tax.
• 48:49
  Yeah. So imagine what it would be.
• 48:51
  All right. So here's why there are those
• 48:53
  prices. There are those prices because I
• 48:54
  don't have to create as many boxes and and all the packaging
• 48:57
  for. So if I could put 50 cigars in
• 48:59
  one box rather than 20, I don't have to create as much as many
• 49:03
  boxes, as much packaging. And it keeps the cost down,
• 49:06
  which means I can do not have to charge as much for these cigars
• 49:10
  to make it more affordable. So for me it was about
• 49:13
  affordability and the only way I could do that was to minimize
• 49:19
  packaging. And by by that I mean make
• 49:21
  bigger boxes to put more cigars rather than.
• 49:25
  So for every one box I make, I don't have to make 2 1/2 boxes
• 49:29
  that would drive up the cost. This cigar would be more
• 49:31
  expensive and I didn't want to do that, so I wanted to be as
• 49:34
  affordable as possible. So it was a simple economics.
• 49:36
  And I'm a smoker myself, so I appreciate, you know, value in a
• 49:40
  cigar. It's very absolutely so.
• 49:43
  Absolutely. Now now I will say I did have
• 49:48
  one of your cigars once before and that I got it from the the
• 49:52
  smoking cigar, the month club, the Blanco #9.
• 49:56
  Oh, good cigar. That was, that was, yeah that
• 49:59
  was one of my cigar, my first ventures into your, your brand
• 50:05
  specifically and that had to be probably three or four years
• 50:09
  ago. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:12
  We don't. I don't do business with smoke
• 50:14
  in anymore. OK.
• 50:17
  So yeah. It's going to be around that
• 50:19
  time. Yeah, it was.
• 50:21
  It was a great cigar though. I loved it.
• 50:23
  Thank you. It was.
• 50:24
  It was actually. It was actually a #1 rated Cigar
• 50:26
  of the Year in 2018 on our as voted by consumers, which means
• 50:31
  a lot to me. When you get a #1 rated cigar
• 50:33
  and it's voted by consumers over the world, that's a much more
• 50:38
  important issue to me than one or two guys that own a magazine.
• 50:40
  You know, 'cause that's how that goes.
• 50:43
  But I also got a 95 in CAA, 93 in Smoke Magazine, a 90 in Cigar
• 50:48
  Snob, Best Buy in Cigar Journal. So we've done very well.
• 50:51
  It's my highest rated cigar. That cigar is a Dark Corojo
• 50:55
  rapper, AAA Hero in the filler early prime in the Hero.
• 50:58
  So it's not AS I punch you in the mouth, but it's it's three
• 51:01
  quarter body. That's that Lee Herro is is
• 51:04
  right up my my alley. The the company that I I used to
• 51:08
  work for who's the guy's still a good friend of mine.
• 51:11
  He actually made a cigar for somebody that was an all Lee
• 51:14
  Herro cigar. And he was like, he said he
• 51:19
  goes, oh man, he goes, I don't smoke it.
• 51:21
  I'm like, he goes, oh, it's too strong for you.
• 51:23
  I'm like, are you kidding me bro?
• 51:25
  I'm like, I was like, dude, he might just send them to me.
• 51:28
  He goes, you like that? I'm like, bro, I smoked that for
• 51:30
  breakfast. I would, I would get on and I'd
• 51:34
  get up in the morning. He goes, what are you smoking
• 51:35
  today? I'm like, what do you think?
• 51:36
  I'm smoking? And I do the video and I'm like,
• 51:39
  Oh yeah, it's an Ollie hair. He goes, dude, how do you smoke
• 51:41
  that first thing in the morning? I said You got to be used to
• 51:44
  that really strong punch. It depends on what you like.
• 51:47
  So we. That's all.
• 51:49
  By the way, it's all Nicaraguan tobacco.
• 51:51
  It's a Nicaraguan poodle, all plus tobacco as well.
• 51:55
  We do have a limited edition version of that cigar.
• 51:57
  It's called the Blanco 9JT Limitato.
• 52:00
  And that cigar is all Lahiro I'm.
• 52:04
  Gonna have to look for that. Six different lahiros.
• 52:06
  It takes me two years to make it because.
• 52:09
  And here's why I say that is because first fermentation time
• 52:15
  is is extremely long. It's almost two years to ferment
• 52:18
  all the six different lahiros to get it to burn correctly because
• 52:22
  Lahiro has a very poor combustion rate.
• 52:25
  So unless we ferment it completely and totally which
• 52:28
  takes that amount of time, it'll canoe and and all kinds of burn
• 52:32
  problems and everything. So we've figured out the time it
• 52:35
  takes about two years. The other issue is, is that we
• 52:37
  don't, it's limited because we can only make as much of it as
• 52:41
  we have wrapper for. And the reason it's very limited
• 52:44
  with wrapper is because la Hero isn't generally used as wrapper.
• 52:48
  So as a result we have to look through the yield of the crop
• 52:53
  and you know we look through 800 lbs of material, maybe we find
• 52:56
  20 lbs that are wrapper grade. So we can only make as much of
• 53:00
  that cigar as we have wrapper for.
• 53:03
  So I only make it in one size 6 1/4 by 58.
• 53:06
  I would make them in boxes at 10.
• 53:08
  That cigar is much more expensive because of the time it
• 53:11
  takes. It's about retails for about 18
• 53:13
  and change. But for a cigar like that, if
• 53:17
  that's what you like and you like to smoke that like me, I
• 53:20
  wouldn't mind paying that kind of price for that because I know
• 53:23
  I'm going to enjoy it, Yeah. And it's a long smoke.
• 53:25
  It burns very slowly because of the hero.
• 53:27
  Like I said, the combustion rate is much slower, so it's
• 53:30
  definitely a long smoke. For the size of cigar it is.
• 53:33
  You get your money into that one.
• 53:35
  Absolutely. But yeah, I'm glad you like the
• 53:38
  nine. That is definitely my my
• 53:40
  heaviest hitter. I own 6 brands.
• 53:41
  As I mentioned, the Blanco Nine is 1 Ligas.
• 53:44
  Kusiva is another. It comes in a Connecticut shade
• 53:46
  and a Pennsylvania Broadleaf Maduro.
• 53:48
  That record use from them is grown by the Amish in Lancaster,
• 53:51
  PA, all Nicaraguan. So that was I got a #2 rated
• 53:55
  cigar the year with that. So I got a number one with the 9
• 53:57
  and #2 with that one. Another brand I own is called
• 54:00
  Primos Estate Selection. Primos was rated one of the best
• 54:03
  value cigars of the year in Cigar Aficionado when we brought
• 54:05
  it out. That comes in a Habana Rosado
• 54:07
  and Habana Maduro. I own another brand called Cigar
• 54:11
  Obsession, has four different brand blends in there.
• 54:16
  I know I've heard of that one. I know I've.
• 54:17
  I've heard that one. Another brand called Above and
• 54:20
  Beyond, which is an homage. Above and Beyond is the Heroes
• 54:24
  line. That's an homage and pays honor
• 54:27
  to fire, EMS, law enforcement, military, fallen heroes.
• 54:30
  And we do some stuff with that one.
• 54:33
  That one got a 91 in cigar and spirits magazine and we sell
• 54:35
  that overseas. Very proud of that cigar because
• 54:38
  it means a lot to my family personally to to make that
• 54:41
  somewhere and I think that's it. Let's just see above and beyond
• 54:46
  Liga 9, Co Primos Estate and Prince Hall.
• 54:52
  That's it. There's a six right now.
• 54:55
  I do make some yards, like I mentioned, for other people, but
• 54:57
  those are the six that I own right now.
• 54:59
  OK, cool. So I'm going to tell you the
• 55:01
  Prince hall that I'm smoking right now got the door the off
• 55:06
  the rack. I'm going to tell you this.
• 55:09
  I am going to look for this. I got to find a shop that
• 55:11
  carries your cigars, cause not a lot of shack shops carry David
• 55:16
  Blanco. Well, a lot of shops don't carry
• 55:19
  boutiques either. So it's very, it's very hard to
• 55:22
  get boutiques into some of these shops.
• 55:24
  It is and especially in New York.
• 55:26
  I will tell you that we used to do a lot more business in New
• 55:28
  York than we do now because they the taxes up there has have
• 55:34
  caused a lot. There's a lot of shrinkage.
• 55:37
  We do do business in Jersey and Pennsylvania of course.
• 55:40
  What's the closest shop or to you in New York?
• 55:45
  There's a there's a few different ones.
• 55:48
  You have Middletown Cigar Lounge, which is like 30 to 45
• 55:52
  minutes from me. There's a smoke shop by my house
• 55:58
  that has a walk in humidor that actually is looking for new
• 56:01
  brands. After this, give me a call,
• 56:04
  we'll talk and I'll see if I can ping them.
• 56:06
  Yeah, absolutely. He's he's looking for stuff to
• 56:08
  up his humidor. So I'm I'm, I'm helping him on
• 56:11
  that. I'm working on helping another
• 56:13
  lounge, he's a smoke shop, but he wants to open a lounge next
• 56:16
  door. So we're helping him with that.
• 56:18
  So we'll obviously we'll be in touch for that too.
• 56:21
  If you can't find Blanco cigars near you, by the way, guys that
• 56:24
  are out there watching, there are some people online that sell
• 56:27
  our stuff. We basically sell.
• 56:29
  The guys that sell our stuff online are brick and mortar
• 56:32
  shops that also sell online. So for example, and ourselves by
• 56:38
  the way, we have an MSRP store for guys like you that don't
• 56:42
  have a shop around you. Because the guys that sell
• 56:44
  online for us, that brick and mortars, they may have select
• 56:46
  sizes, they may not carry all six brands that I own or the
• 56:50
  full line of everything that I own.
• 56:53
  So what we've done and we've had for a long time is we have at
• 56:57
  Blanco cigars.com, we have an MSRP web store.
• 57:01
  So you can buy 5 packs or boxes or bundles depending on the
• 57:05
  cigar of all of our stuff. So that's always a place that
• 57:09
  you know you can get it from the source.
• 57:11
  You know it's going to be properly humidified, properly
• 57:13
  stored, and we have every size of everything as long as it's in
• 57:16
  stock. We we want to come to your tour,
• 57:23
  so how about turnbuckles and stogies come to your tour and we
• 57:27
  do a live event right there. With this.
• 57:30
  And with all the other consumers and the people on the tour.
• 57:36
  If you guys want to come on the tour, like I said, we got four
• 57:40
  seats available. I'm not, I'm, I'm down with it.
• 57:43
  I will tell you that it is still a third world country.
• 57:46
  And what I mean by that is, is that I have done interviews like
• 57:49
  this from there and sometimes the Internet speed is not.
• 57:54
  Exactly. Yeah, I've heard that.
• 57:57
  I've heard it's it's nice to it's it's good to go there, but
• 58:01
  I've heard it's not. It's not pleasing to do that
• 58:04
  unless you like. We sit down together and record
• 58:07
  the interview and then upload it when we get back.
• 58:10
  It would be a better quality. I have done it live like this,
• 58:13
  but it comes in a little choppy. Right.
• 58:18
  But now as we're as we're winding down, let me let me ask
• 58:21
  you, are you going to PCA this year?
• 58:24
  Not only am I going to PCA, I'm also going to TPE in about two
• 58:27
  weeks. So yes, I'm doing both.
• 58:29
  OK. So we'll we'll also see you at
• 58:31
  PCA. We'll see you at PCA.
• 58:35
  He meant to say PCA. OK.
• 58:38
  We'll see you at PCA, obviously. Perfect.
• 58:40
  Perfect where I'm at because PCA is that is right before my
• 58:44
  birthday. Actually my birthday Is that
• 58:45
  Monday the 25th. Oh, nice.
• 58:48
  So I'll be out there from like that the 21st till about the
• 58:53
  24th and I'll fly out the 24th. OK, cool, man.
• 58:56
  Where are you guys staying? You know?
• 58:57
  Yet you know where you're staying.
• 58:59
  The South South Point S hotel or something right off the Strip.
• 59:05
  That one, I don't know. Yeah, Johnny and Tamiro.
• 59:09
  I know you follow. One of our one of our buddies
• 59:11
  stays there. Gotcha, he told us.
• 59:14
  He's like, that's probably the the cheapest place you'll find,
• 59:18
  unless you stay farther out. I do.
• 59:22
  I would like, if you could, would give me the opportunity I
• 59:24
  do. I do would like to make one
• 59:25
  plug. One plug.
• 59:27
  I have is that we just started our annual Cigars for Warriors
• 59:32
  donation drive and I do this in conjunction with my buddy Brian
• 59:36
  Glenn from Cigar Obsession. And then we bring all the cigars
• 59:39
  together and then we the they come collect them on our
• 59:44
  website, which I think one of you guys are might be on right
• 59:46
  now. We have.
• 59:48
  We have a cigars for Warriors donation bag that we prorate, we
• 59:52
  subsidized since we're not able to give direct donations for
• 59:56
  free anymore tobacco samples as a from a manufacturer.
• 1:00:00
  So what we've done is we have these bags of 10 cigars and you
• 1:00:05
  guys are people are allowed to go ahead and purchase them for
• 1:00:08
  25 bucks. We're given 10 cigars and then
• 1:00:12
  we'll we we keep them at our warehouse, we collect them,
• 1:00:15
  continue to consolidate them. And then at the IT goes to the
• 1:00:19
  end of February, we give them over to Brian Glenn, we
• 1:00:23
  consolidate all the cigars that we get and then cigars for us
• 1:00:26
  comes and picks them up. So if you guys would be so
• 1:00:29
  honored as to your viewership be interested in in participating
• 1:00:36
  in our donation drive, it would be highly appreciated.
• 1:00:39
  I can tell you I was one of those guys over there in the in
• 1:00:42
  the foxholes and cigar meant a lot.
• 1:00:44
  It it brings a little bit of home back to you gives you a
• 1:00:48
  respite for a second time. Not have to think about what
• 1:00:51
  we're doing and how how bad. You're in the suck, right?
• 1:00:55
  It's not so fun all the time, but block of cigars.com.
• 1:00:59
  Just check out Cigars for Warriors Bag 25 bucks we.
• 1:01:01
  Take we will make sure that we we plug all that on all of our
• 1:01:04
  our social. Medias, David.
• 1:01:05
  And so y'all, David, we want to thank you for coming.
• 1:01:10
  On thank you, thank you. For we appreciate it,
• 1:01:13
  absolutely. Thanks.
• 1:01:15
  Guys, everybody that that tuned in, that tuned in and if y'all
• 1:01:21
  got your Blanco cigars and and David, I'm going to give you,
• 1:01:26
  I'm going to give you like I do everybody else, 10% off.
• 1:01:29
  If you order within the next week, we're going to give you
• 1:01:33
  10% off turnbuckles and stogies. If you don't order after the
• 1:01:37
  week, it's a wrap. You got to pay full price.
• 1:01:42
  I will definitely be ordering again or I'll be ordering from
• 1:01:45
  the website now that I know that that's there, but we want to
• 1:01:48
  thank everybody for tuning in. I'll make sure the website gets
• 1:01:51
  posted up along with our podcast so that you guys can check it
• 1:01:56
  out and go look around. On that note, guys, that has
• 1:01:58
  been another fun Sunday, David, another fun episode.
• 1:02:02
  Thank you. My pleasure.
• 1:02:03
  Stay smoky, guys. Stay smoky.
• 1:02:05
  Stay smoky, bro. That's the show for today
• 1:02:09
  everyone. Thanks for listening.
• 1:02:11
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• 1:02:13
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• 1:02:16
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• 1:02:20
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• 1:02:24
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• 1:02:27
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• 1:02:31
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