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What’s in the box Kevin · Sips, Suds, & Smokes

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  >> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin smokes.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>The cigars we'll be reviewing today are the artista midnight, the harvest, the rugged country series, Cimarron, and the polita 60 anniversario.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And there's another one at the end that I didn't tell you until you get to your notes.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > >Yee ha.
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  > >The Artista series is a novel approach to blending tobaccos, representing years of hard work, development, and learning from failure and capitalizing on success. To bring you our best work yet. The artista harvest features a supple. I can't speak that word without laughing. Supple, top grade Srimatra wrapper, a flavorful Cameroon binder, and a filler blend that is unlike anything we've ever offered.
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  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Cause that's where the good stuff is. It sips, suds, and smokes with your smokin host, the good old boys.
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  > >Hey, man, got a light? It's time for smokes.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Welcome to smokes episode, where everything good in life is worth discussing. I'm your host, good ol boy barter. And to my left is good ol boy rich.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Good to have you, man. Good old boy Benjamin.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Yes, sir.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And good old boy Mike.
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  > >Yeah. I'm here to bring wrath upon everything once again.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Yeah, we nailed it for that one, didn't we? We were the best
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  thing on at 02: 00 a.m. um, right before how to lose friends and alienate yourself. And just after, does this rag smell like chlorophyll?
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  thing on at 02: >> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>As you know, and I hope you know, our smoke segments are about all about cigars and, well, anything that is smoked. As for today's segment. Drumroll, please. We will be hanging out with our buddies at artistic cigars.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So strap on and hang in tight. We're gonna have fun today. But don't worry, if you miss anything. You can download the full episode from anywhere. You download podcasts from Apple Music, Spotify, ah, yeah. You name it, we're there. We're all there.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Yeah.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>But before we dive into the shallow end of the pool, remember the buddy system. Where is your buddy, Lars? Shouldn't you be watching the kids? Don't worry. I have them on the body system. Body system?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Have a look.
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  > >Buddy, buddy, buddy.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I love it. Every single time I, uh, hear that, it just makes me laugh.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>If you're a cigar newbie, fret not. We got you covered in our cigar 101 episode, where all the cigar speak will be decoded. Just search for sip suds and smokes cigar. One hundred one s. And that episode should pop right up right in front of you and follow the link in our show notes.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Good old boy barger, which is me, gets the honor of going over our smokes ratings today.
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  > >Like how he can read his own.
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  > >You read such a great moment of accomplishment.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm really learning here.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin That's right. You just put it in front of me.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All, uh, right. We'll be smoking and discussing these cigar ratings and rating them with our sip suds and smokes. Smokes ratings.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Plus our signature sounds. Here are those ratings now. One. This sucked before it was even lit. Or as we like to call it, Mike's rating.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Two. At least I lit it.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Three. I would smoke this again.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Four. How much you up for him?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Magnificent.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I got it. I forget that one every time.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Five. Where are they? I need a box.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So, Benjamin, why don't you go over the lineup today?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Yeah. The cigars we'll be reviewing today are the artist at midnight, the harvest, the rugged country series, Cimarron, and the Polita 60 anniversario.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And there's another one at the end that I didn't tell you until you get to your notes.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Surprise.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Surprise.
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  > >Surprise.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Surprise.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Surprise.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. I'm surprised. All right.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Good old boy. Mike's gonna take it away with the artista harvest.
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  > >Hey, one thing I wanted to mention was another episode that we actually got to talk with Kevin Newman from Artista.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What up, Kevin?
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  > >Definitely. Take a look at, uh, that episode. It's actually a video episode, one of our rare ones called the California Pickle tickle.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Is that what that is?
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  > >Um, it's called cooking with Kevin. And it's a really great conversation that we had with Kevin. Very, um, interesting background. A lot of the way that he approaches cigars, the way that he approaches cooking.
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  > >That's kind of his frame of reference, how it kind of charges into, um, managing this product line.
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  > >And so we actually talked about his background actually cooking. So that's why it's called cooking with Kevin.
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  > >And, um, so it's. It's a. It's a great episode. Great conversation.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um, speaking of sirens, huge shout out to Juan with artistic cigars.
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  > >Okay.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Makes the best espresso at the PCA.
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  > >Oh, yeah. That's right. That was good.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>He kept me going, bro. Kept me going. Love him. Love you, Juan, uh, barger and Kevin.
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  > >Are on the first part of that episode, and then I joined them for the, uh, online episode, which is audio only, um, for another extended discussion. So definitely if you enjoy our discussion about artista and you're gonna come and actually learn a little bit more about the person behind this brand.
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  > >Definitely check that out.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Definitely check it out. It's a good, it's a fun time, for sure.
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  > >Yeah.
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  > >So, uh, the first cigar we're gonna talk about from artista is called harvest. The artista series is a novel approach to blending tobaccos, representing years of hard work, development, and learning from failure and capitalizing on success. To bring you our best work yet. The artista harvest features a supple. I can't speak that word without laughing. Top grade Sumatra wrapper, a flavorful Cameroon Cameroon binder and a filler blend that is unlike anything we've ever offered. Uh, there is the wrapper, which is top grade sumatu sumatra. The binder is marif el camarone, and Benjamin's going to talk about that in just a second. And the filler is a dominican proprietary blend.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I would have butchered the hell out of that binder.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Top secret.
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  > >Yeah. So, um, Benjamin actually did a little bit of hustle. We were sitting here, and I'm like, well, who's Mirafel? I'm like, so you figured?
• 7:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Well, you know, actually, I think the.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Conversation went, what's mirror?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And Benjamin was like, I've seen that my refrial before.
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  > >That was the way you said it. I didn't say it that way.
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  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's exactly right.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Uh, but super cool, uh, piece of cigar history, right? The Cameroon wrapper, um, being, for me, one of the more sought after hours.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I tend to enjoy a lot of things wrapped in Cameroon. The original Cameroon leaf, though, does, uh, come from, uh, central Africa. Uh, and in the Merritt fell, Cameroon is actually, um, a specific grower of this Cameroon wrapper. Um, so Rick Mirafel and his family have been growing the Cameroon, uh, tobacco wrapper for over 140 years, um, in central Africa. It's, uh, priced for its flavor. And the more impressive part of this wrapper for, uh, tobacco is that it's grown in some of the most dangerous and corrupt areas of central Africa. Um, um, so not only, you know, is you, you get to utilize this beautiful product right out of a, ah, very, um, you know, dangerous and chaotic place.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, that's awesome.
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  > >Uh, here are some of my notes on the artista harvest. This, I did not mention the size. Um, which is, uh, what's the girth?
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  > >54 by five.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Today we're going to be demonstrating how to measure girth.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Girth is a very important measurement when determining sizes. First, take your tape measure, place it at the center of the shoulder, bring it down through the crotch and back up again, making sure it's going over the widest part.
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  > >M again, I'll give you the widest part. Uh, you know, here are some of my notes. After fighting tons of construction issues. Bad draw. It went out twice. And then there were burn line issues. Um, yeah, I was, like, bobbing and weaving through it all. Uh, it's kind of spicy up front with, uh, cedar and pecan nuts. Um, and then it kind of moved to a mild profile with some stone fruit kind of thing going on. So, um, definitely not the favorite of my, of, ah, this product line for me.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Really?
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  > >Yeah. I, um.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So you gave it, you know, your good old mic rating.
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  > >I did. And, uh, you know, I am just not a fan of construction issues. It's just too easy to hit the mark and do it right, you know, and I just. When I'm having to fight through something like that, I just wasn't a fan.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So what were the issues?
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  > >Uh, everything. Um, so, yeah, um, bad draw, you know, burn line issues, you know, just general construction. And actually went out twice, you know, so.
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  > >And then, you know, the. The one we're going to talk about later, you know, had some similar problems.
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  > >Rich, what'd you think, man?
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  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin little bit, I think. I didn't have any construction issues on, on mine, so maybe that has a lot to do with it. But, um, it burnt nice. Um, I thought it was, uh, full flavor, but I didn't feel like it was real complex.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I wonder how your humidifier at home is.
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  > >I had this in a fully humidified bag. I am not going to take any grief. I had stored it the whole time.
• 11:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Is it a ziploc with a hole in it or something?
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  > >Yeah, that's exactly how I keep things regulated. No, it was with the boveda bags, man.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I loved the harvest, huh?
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  > >Ah.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I mean, I've smoked. I have probably smoked half a box.
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  > >Of, say you like them, because you probably smoke, like, eight of them.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. I mean, well, the thing is, is like, you know, I'm, um. I'm a little biased to people that I like and, you know, love and appreciate. So, like, I've smoked quite a bit of the artista line, but even before I got to know them, like, I was smoking the buffalo tins.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I was smoking a lot of, like, the paper boys. The paper boys is my jam. Like, it's that dog walker sized cigar that, you know, we all love. That paper boy is so good.
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  > >Yeah, I panned it.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, absolutely.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So, so. But the, but the thing is, is, like, with, with the harvest series, um, like, I really enjoyed. It's a very middle of the road for me. Like, it's.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's mild, not overly complex, but that. That little bit of that cameroon pops out in, in the flavor profile, and. And I think that it gives it that really good kind of little bit of spicy wash to it. Does that make sense?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>100%. This one, for me, especially being, uh, more familiar with the, uh, like, buffalo tin, uh, experience, and then that being my introduction to artista, getting into the harvest series, uh, this one. This one was a step up for me. This is the one that actually kind of, you know, you know, elevated m mod.
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  > >Definitely better than the buffalo ten opinion of it.
• 12:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I was okay. You know, like, they're doing some things here.
• 12:56
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>It's still, you know, a great purchase.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Right. Like, the price point on these things is solid.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You know, box press is, ah, $10.
• 13:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>That's for sure. We could have all episode about why I don't like box press.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So. So let's give it a rating here.
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  > >Uh, yeah, yeah.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We'll go three across the board.
• 13:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I say across the board. That's because it's the first thing that pops into my mind.
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  > >Yeah.
• 13:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>But, you know, we all know you.
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  > >Give it a one, I think. Ho's, Mike.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 13:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So we just rated the artist a harvest cigar. Thank you for coming back from the ads, and I hope you buy all of the things from them. We rated the artist harvest a three.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Now, next up, good old boy Benjamin has the glorious pleasure of telling us all about the artista midnight, which is another harvest series.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Embrace the Dark.
• 13:52
  > >Embrace the dark.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>The Artista Midnight series is a novel approach to blending tobaccos, representing years of hard work, development, and learning from failure and capitalizing on success. To bring you our best work yet, Artista Midnight is our first premium full bodied cigar featuring a dark ecuadorian habana wrapper, a Connecticut shade binder offers sweetness, and the filler tobaccos from three countries impart an incredible flavor profile. Uh, those three countries on the filler are nicaraguan, dominican, and USA blend. Cannot, uh, say enough wonderful things about the artist at midnight. This thing, uh, even, you know, obviously from the branding perspective, it looks in line with the harvest.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Um, so just thinking originally holding it in my hand. Just originally thinking that this was just gonna be a darker, shade wrapped version of the harvest.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>This thing is a completely different animal. Right upon, upon further investigation, completely, um, different blend, uh, big, chocolatey coffee notes, subtle, uh, spice. The retro hell on this thing, it's a little bit more spicy.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I really like the retro.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And it was, it very, very. It's one of those cigars where, uh, uh, you know, you're not supposed to retro hell too many times. Right. It'll. It'll definitely mess up the old factory.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>There, the whole thing.
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  > >Uh, uh.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>But I caught myself, like, trying not to retro hell this cigar because I enjoy it so much.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What I really like is how the Connecticut shade blended with the ecuadorian habano. And I think that the subtlety of the spice that's in it with the, the cocoa notes of the habano is, uh, uh, with that Maduro shade, man.
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  > >I think it was going to be a doormat, you know, to the rapper. And it was not. No. Uh, you know, I was. I was like, wow, okay, this thing's kind of like, standing up to it.
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  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Oh, totally.
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  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin fuller than it was. So it was a little surprising to me that I, um, felt like it was a bit smoother than I had anticipated. Um, but again, it, um, had a lot of good, like a spice flavor. Yeah, that left, kind of left that flavor.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin you kind of take around with you. But, yeah, it was really good and I think, enjoyable.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You know, I think rich nailed it. Right. Expected it to be maybe like a little more fuller, a little more punchy. Um, um, then, you know, because of its shade. Right. And have a little bit more power and, uh, artista rates at the same way.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Right. Like, this is full on, uh, uh, you know, top end spectrum of body and strength. And because it was so smooth and well constructed and blended, this thing was an easy sips. And, you know, this, this, it was very, very, uh, uh, enjoyable from a smoking perspective.
• 16:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, well, I mean, I think it was awesome. And like I said, I'm a big fan because I've smoked quite a few. Uh, so I may be a little biased. Let's just throw that out there. Um, you know, full transparency here, folks. I'm. I really like all the things that they do in their profiles so best.
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  > >You like the lineup for me, hands down.
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  > >And, you know, I'm reading through my notes and I don't get to type this very often. Oh, my.
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  > >Such great flavor.
• 17:20
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That was the same thing he said about me the first time.
• 17:22
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin leather? I'm shocked.
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  > >You know, a little subtle spice. Really great construction, you know, around this. Um, I remember that I was about a third away through this stick and I was like, um, I was just enjoying some water with it initially. Uh, and I'm like, hmm, I really want to see, you know, I don't know, I want to try something different. And I went and grabbed a spanish gin, one of my favorites. Van againder is the name of it.
• 17:51
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Say that three times.
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  > >Yeah, um, really fabulous spanish gin. And just had, it was straight up with, uh, you know, a gin and tonic. And, wow. I just was ready to put up a sign, you know, um, by me that says, go away.
• 18:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
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  > >Wow. I think probably the only thing that I didn't like about this is I wanted another stick and I didn't have another one.
• 18:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And I was like, wow, I can make that happen.
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  > >Yeah, it, uh, definitely was a game changer. Probably one of the better Maduros that I've had. And again, you know, my comment about, I really thought the ecuadorian Connecticut was just literally going to be nothing experience. And I'm like, well, this is just going to be, you know, all smoke and, you know, this heavy overtone from the Maduro wrapper and the, you know, the rest of the cigars is going to sit there and go, whatever, man. You know, and I, I liked how it was a really elegant cigar. I loved it all the way.
• 18:56
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, let's give it a rating here, boys. That's a five across the board. Uh, and I mean across the board.
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  > >See, I can say nice.
• 19:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You just gave a cigar a five. I don't know. It's a great stick, man. Is this what a stroke feels like?
• 19:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I think I'm having a stroke.
• 19:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > >Here's some new personal lube for you.
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  > >Enjoy the moment.
• 19:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>This is spearmint flavor.
• 19:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, well, rugged country series, uh, Cimarron. Is that Cimarron, is that what. Rich is going to go over that with us right now? Tell us about it.
• 19:35
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin craggy, snow packed peaks, raging rapids slash through sparkling granite shores dotted with tall pine trees, flowing to a landscape with saturated riverbed.
• 19:49
  > >Is this a movie something in Switzerland or. What's going on?
• 19:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I think it's the process of making that gin.
• 19:56
  > >You were just waiting for Julie Andrews to hop out and go. The hills are alive. Go ahead.
• 20:03
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, keep going.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin All right, these are the regions of America, and the inspiration for Cimarron cigars. One is. One is a spicy Maduro complimented with hints of earthy sweetness. The other is a mellow Connecticut shade that enhances notes of cedar leather and earth. Hmm. We've selected rare and exclusive select tobaccos for a smoking experience like no other.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And we're going over the Maduro.
• 20:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Andreas. The binder is a Dominican rare, uh, negrito. Yes, Negrito. And the filler is a colombian, dominican, and USA blend.
• 20:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's awesome. Well, this is actually one of those cigars where it kind of feels like, ah. Um, it's very deceiving. The banding is very deceiving because it's banded as a, like a budget, like a cigar. M almost all their cigars are under. Almost all their cigars are under$10. So. So that's, that's a good price point for me. So this, this banding is a little plain, um, for me. So it's like a green, a green and white banding with cimarron on the label.
• 21:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Yeah, I mean, I'm in. I'm into subtle, simplistic, uh, labeling. Right. I think that there's a lot of brands out there that really try to go over the top with the band and really trying to sell you with, with window dressing.
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  > >You know, it covers up, uh, half the rap.
• 21:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And, and I think that, you know, what they're doing here for Martista is really just keeping it simple.
• 21:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 21:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Right. Keep, you know, keeping the.
• 21:51
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>They're. They're putting their money into the cigars and the blends and. And the tobacco. Right.
• 21:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And then, you know, obviously putting. Yeah, they're banned on it, you know, so that you know what you're smoking, but. But not trying to beat you up with it.
• 22:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>No, I get that. I, uh, wholeheartedly understand what you're saying. Like, I, uh.
• 22:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The. The way that they keep their price point down is to keep it simple, for sure. A hundred percent.
• 22:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And it's a country series, but, like.
• 22:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I don't know, like a four x four on it or something. Like a monster truck or something, you know, some mud.
• 22:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, I don't know. It's not from Murray, Kentucky, but anyway, like, uh, it's very deceiving as well.
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  > >Completely underdressed.
• 22:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Right.
• 22:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>In a second, just for me. Uh, and we've. We've had this discussion multiple times in. In here, in this room and in other rooms that I can say, mike is right again.
• 22:50
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>No. Well, maybe. I don't know.
• 22:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>But I'm a sucker for branding, and, and we all know that I'm a sucker for branding. And I love their, their branding on their harvest series, how they do their labels, and they, they're color coding on that. And then it's just hard for me to go from that to a simpler band. But what I have found is that, man, that product really speaks for itself.
• 23:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That Cimarron cigar. It's fantastic.
• 23:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Fan tastic.
• 23:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And I, uh, uh, when I first started, I really wanted to be like, okay, it's a budget stick. Let me just see what it's about. But, dude, I was wrong. And you could put that in writing and tell my wife.
• 23:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>What did you say?
• 23:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's fine. I was wrong. That cigar was freaking awesome.
• 23:47
  > >Um, my comments here about the, uh, artist, Cimarron, um, a bit spicy up front, kind of rather mild, um, for this particular wrapper, um, some off flavor thing that was going on in the middle of this. Um, your fingers just kind of a average, you know, um, dominican, you know, colombian thing going on. I just. I don't know. It, um, it was just. Okay.
• 24:16
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Anyone?
• 24:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I did. I smoked it.
• 24:20
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin fuller flavor than the Maduro.
• 24:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I, uh, concur.
• 24:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 24:27
  > Announcer>Yes.
• 24:27
  > Announcer>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 24:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>100%, I think you're saying. Well, I just think that's one of the cool things. And that's. That was gonna be my talking point about this, is that even though the Maduro leans to be or would make one think that because it's a darker shade that it's gonna have, I, uh, am here. That's exactly right. It's gonna have more body or strength or what have you, I felt like this was more of, like, the dessert spectrum m of Maduro. It does have that depth of flavor profile.
• 24:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 24:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I thought that the strength of the cigar was very medium, um, very approachable.
• 25:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So it's like having Kevin Westbrook. I'm not gonna hit you.
• 25:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And, and the Connecticut, for me had a bit more body.
• 25:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin It had a bit more strength to it, which I think is also.
• 25:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>It's just that juxtaposition. So shade versus strength.
• 25:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin and the band and the color.
• 25:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Don't judge. So some of their other brands are kind of simplistic as well, like the Buffalo ten, like we talked about. The paper boy.
• 25:29
  > >Yeah.
• 25:30
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Like those. Those kind of our simplistic bands, but the. Their whole packaging and motif is what they go for with that. So those comes in five packs, you know, that are.
• 25:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Brown paper wrapped and. Yeah, you don't really see what's in it. And so it's. It's. It's definitely interesting what you. I agree with what you're saying, and I think.
• 25:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I think the other thing that rich is trying to get to is that don't judge a cigar by its wrapper.
• 25:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>No, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 25:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Just. Just because you maybe a boulder, full strength, full, deeper flavor smoker doesn't mean that there's not a Connecticut out there.
• 26:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Sure.
• 26:06
  > >I'll smoke half of this stick and then walk back in and say, can I have another midnight instead?
• 26:11
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, for sure.
• 26:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, well, let's give it a rating, fellas. What do we got? Uh, that's going to be a five across the board.
• 26:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I think you need to work on how averages happen.
• 26:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What do you mean? It was.
• 26:24
  > >You have to look beyond your own hand, Barker.
• 26:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's majority rules.
• 26:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Okay.
• 26:29
  > >It's all right.
• 26:30
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, it was two to one, for sure.
• 26:33
  > >It's all right.
• 26:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Anyway, good. Uh, old boy Barker is gonna have the, uh, polita. Yeah.
• 26:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Speaking of myself, in the third person, I'm gonna talk about the polita, the 60th anniversario, uh, series.
• 26:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>In 1956, a humble cigar roller in the Dominican Republic, Ramon polita Rodriguez, established tabacalera el artista.
• 26:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Beginning with a single blend and a dream to build a factory, Don Pulita launched a legend.
• 27:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>In 2016, we revisited the original blend that made Don Pulita famous. Sparing no expense, we sought out the original tobaccos for a true vintage smoking experience.
• 27:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We developed a true to the original blend of six exceptional tobaccos, including tobacco grown in the aged by our own skilled craftsmen. For an unmatched smoking experience. The polita 60th anniversario features a rare negrito wrapper with a velvety, smooth dominican cacao finish.
• 27:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So on. Um, that I got a wrapper of a rare dominican negrito. I got a binder of dominican criollo, 98 criolo, and a filler of nicaraguan, dominican, colombian, and a USA blend.
• 27:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin out to recreate the original blend.
• 28:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 28:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin original, uh, tobaccos. They just were going.
• 28:05
  > >Original branding? Uh, I think.
• 28:08
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin flavor. Right.
• 28:11
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So, basically, to my understanding, and I could be wrong, and if I'm wrong, then just tell us in the comments. Um, what, what happened was they probably had some of the older stuff still available, right?
• 28:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Ah. Or some of the older already rolled cigars, maybe still hiding. And they smoke them and say, well, we want something like this.
• 28:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>They were just saving them. They're not hiding.
• 28:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Sure.
• 28:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I had this conversation with someone. I was at an event today, and they were talking about, how do you have some of those super secret special releases in the back? Or, like, did this come out of a special barrel that somebody forgot? Like, nobody forgot about the barrel. Nobody. Nobody forgot about these cigars, man. They just been saving them.
• 28:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, the federal government won't let us forget.
• 28:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Uh, we know it's there. We pay taxes on it.
• 28:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>That's exactly right.
• 28:54
  > >Right.
• 28:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Dude, that was my. So I said, you, you don't forget things that you pay taxes on. Yeah.
• 28:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, that's right.
• 29:00
  > >I don't think I've walked into a cigar shop and go, hey, man, what do you got in the back?
• 29:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Everywhere I go, uh, just to see people's faces.
• 29:10
  > >You got some bland.
• 29:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>The best french truck all the way here.
• 29:14
  > >That's where we got any cigars from.
• 29:17
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 29:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Where's happy at? Over there.
• 29:22
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So I. You, uh, know, this is my favorite cigar of the.
• 29:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Of the.
• 29:29
  > >Are you guys keeping track?
• 29:30
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's his third.
• 29:31
  > >That's his third favorite.
• 29:32
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 29:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Okay. That's not my third favorite.
• 29:34
  > >I just want to make sure that.
• 29:35
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 29:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You know all of them.
• 29:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. You're welcome.
• 29:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Such a sweet man barter, man.
• 29:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm telling you, I have smoked this cigar in the morning, I've smoked a cigar in the evening, and it's supper.
• 29:50
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin That's right. Uh, if I could have a shower cigar on a train.
• 29:56
  > >He does it with a house. He does it in a mouth.
• 29:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's right. That's right. That's right.
• 30:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I do care. That's right. But I, uh, mean, what, you guys are gonna, you know, laugh at me? So what do you guys think?
• 30:10
  > >I wouldn't do that. I would not laugh at you here or there. I would not laugh with you anywhere.
• 30:16
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 30:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yes, for sure.
• 30:18
  > >Sure. So what do you think, rich?
• 30:21
  > >Fire away, buddy.
• 30:22
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin It's. It's a solid smoke all the way through. I didn't have any problems with it.
• 30:30
  > >So that's all I got, uh, you.
• 30:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Know, I would have been. I would have liked to have the opportunity to, like, smoke an original. Right?
• 30:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Uh, right.
• 30:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Just for conversation sake, just.
• 30:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I've gotten to taste, um, rim send us some, some point in my life, like some older whiskeys and stuff like that. Right. And it's. It's that effect of drinking in a time machine. Right. Or getting to experience in something in a time machine. And so to, to be able to know what they were shooting for versus what this, you know, new product was, this anniversary edition was, I think would be super cool.
• 31:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin You know, this is something I would, I would buy again. Right. I would keep a couple in the humidor because I enjoyed it. It did, uh, have a little bit of, like, nice, ah, spice to it, some. Some cool, like, toasty hay notes, a little bit of that, like that nice kind of classic leather. Um, but it, you know.
• 31:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It would.
• 31:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>It would also have to be at the right price point for me, like anniversary edition. As long as it's not, I mean, they're crazy out of its price point.
• 31:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Price point on these are under $15.
• 31:36
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin tastes like the original if you haven't had one?
• 31:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Marketing works.
• 31:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I mean, you know, they'll send us some original.
• 31:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I got a best friend somewhere.
• 31:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 31:48
  > >Yeah. You know, I think that's always the difficulty, uh, when you're choosing to show homage to a past element of, of something that if people don't have that frame of reference to know what things taste, you know, what that was like before, you know, uh, I just. They could have said, well, this wasn't really about anniversary. And I think the way they kind of spun it up was that, you know, they were saying that they were trying to, you know, strike gold, you know, once again. So let's read it after we come back.
• 32:21
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin mind.
• 32:26
  > >Hey, welcome back to Sip Suds and smokes. Today on our Smokes episode, we are going over a product line from Artista cigars.
• 32:33
  > >Artista, previously known as El Artist Artista. So, uh, we're going through a series of cigars, and we were in the middle of discussion for the artista pulito, 60th anniversario. And, um, I was going to talk, uh, about a little of, um, my notes, uh, about this particular cigar. I wrote down really good, great, uh, balance, kind of touch, ah, of spice, and there's kind of a bit of cement you know, in the middle of this that, uh, I kind of picked up probably on the retrohill. I know myself.
• 33:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Definitely some herbaceous vibes.
• 33:09
  > >Yeah. Um, kind of a fair finish to this.
• 33:11
  > >So I thought it was kind of good and average. Once again, I, you know, I. Going back to our, you know, our discussion, I really wish that I'd had that compare and contrast moment. I, um, was just kind of judging the cigar for what it is, not. How well did they strike gold and reproduce something that they had done in the past?
• 33:31
  > >And so, for all I know, this was, you know, uh, ten times better than the original. Well, I know. Or they may have completely missed the mark, and it was ten times worse.
• 33:41
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin what. How's the taste of a smoker changed over the years? What were they smoking back then? Was it as complex as we're smoking today? I don't know. I mean.
• 33:53
  > >Yeah.
• 33:54
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin know.
• 33:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Uh, there's really no telling. I mean, unless you've got a vault.
• 34:02
  > >With a, uh, lot more chemicals that you don't want to know.
• 34:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. A lot more Agent Orange in there, maybe. You know, who knows?
• 34:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>That would. That would be a fun episode to get into. Would be like the farming practices or something like that, because we've drawn the lines for, like, vintage whiskey versus, uh, new age whiskey. And we know that those have completely commercialized vintage cigar. Right.
• 34:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>So everything that you ever see about cigars is. It's still hand picked, hand grown, like from. From seed to sprout to full grown plant.
• 34:35
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>These things are cultivated by hand.
• 34:38
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So I think that the practices have not changed. The production facilities have changed.
• 34:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, for the most part, they have in the aging process, which a lot of the tobaccos that are grown and age now.
• 34:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin pull, uh, tobaccos from different parts of the world and blend them.
• 35:01
  > >And fermentation process is definitely.
• 35:03
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Yeah. This flat earth gets pretty big.
• 35:06
  > >I would say that they're definitely using, you know, the use of herbicide and pesticides has dramatically changed and altered in a. In a broad range of, you know, agricultural products. But, you know, I'm thinking of the two things that are side by side, you know, in the Dominican Republic, which are, uh, coffee and tobacco are going to have a very shared space, you know, together.
• 35:29
  > >And there are more pesticides that are used on coffee than any other agricultural product.
• 35:35
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 35:35
  > >I mean, you know, I. If you've listened to any of our copy episodes. I've warned you. I've told you. Listen, if you're not staring at the one that says organic on it, you know, you are kind of rolling the dice, you know, about exactly what you're getting. At the end of the day, a lot of that stuff is washed off. I mean, when you really kind of look at what is a coffee bean, at the end of the day, it's a fruit, it's a cherry. You know, there's a bean inside of it that's been protected from a lot of those elements that, uh, actually have not leached on it directly. Plus, you know, you look at the finishing process for beans, where it's washed, there's a ton of water that's gone over it, which could be also full of pesticides as well, you know. Um, but, you know, tobacco, uh, you know, has gone through some of the changes, you know, in cultivation as well, and the use of, you know, both herbicides and pesticides as well. Even the way in which, you know, coffee or not coffee, but tobacco varieties are actually managed. Now, I think to your point, rich, which is tobacco was a very locally produced, locally grown, locally, you know, consumed product because it was not shipped all over the place. And it wasn't really until a lot of colonial pirates, pirates.
• 36:48
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Until a lot of, uh, you know, colonists from the old really, uh, occurred where, you know, that tobacco was actually moving, you know, across any large body of water or landmass. And so today it's just all a matter of, you know, a cargo container and, you know, dropping stuff on a pallet and away you go, you know. So, um, you know, I, um. Again, I, uh, thought this was a good cigar. It was just a good average, you know, product. Uh, at the end of the day, I was waiting for some wow bang thing to happen, you know, Don Palito. I mean, super famous. But, you know, I didn't get the. There were no laser show or fireworks shooting out of this thing, so.
• 37:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, there were on my.
• 37:30
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You had to pay for premium for that.
• 37:32
  > >And I hated the banning on this.
• 37:35
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Sorry.
• 37:40
  > >Little bit about.
• 37:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I will say this. Um, you know, the banding on this is pretty basic as well. And for when I first got these, I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna like that. Okay, whatever. And then I actually got a hold of one of the boxes.
• 37:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And the box is beautiful.
• 37:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The box is absolutely beautiful for the cigar.
• 38:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The banding is basic. But again, to Benjamin's point, they're keeping costs down to keep the consumer cost down by, by doing things like that. And it really shows. And, but the, the product speaks for itself, in my opinion.
• 38:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I think the other thing, too is, you know, it, it's, it's not, it's not basic. I think it's classic.
• 38:22
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, sure.
• 38:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And I think there's a big difference there, especially if you're looking at the box like, like, this is a pretty classic example of a cigar box. And if you're doing something that's a 60th anniversary. Right.
• 38:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>It's not going to be the WWE championship belt that a lot of, you know, brands and manufacturers want to slap over three quarters of a cigar before you, you know, try to figure out how you're going to get the thing off, you know, and, and light and actually enjoy the stick.
• 38:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You know, I've actually held that belt in my hands.
• 38:51
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I don't doubt that, bro.
• 38:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, I don't doubt that that belt.
• 38:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Is heavy as crap, but, yeah, I think this is a really, when I think of a box of cigars, this is what I think of really 100% and pretty, uh, pretty classic wooden box. Um, you know, has the, you know.
• 39:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 39:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Palm trees and, uh, you know, doctor, it's brandy.
• 39:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, it's a very, it's a very vintage style box. Yeah, classic. Very classic. Oh, like, very, uh, man, the. And when you open it up, there's, there's stuff on the inside of the box that's just beautiful as well.
• 39:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>The cigars. What?
• 39:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, the cigars. And there's a little mural or whatever.
• 39:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 39:33
  > >Well, pop up cigar. Let's rate this up.
• 39:36
  > >And stop looking at your own hand first.
• 39:38
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm not. We're gonna give it, we're gonna give it a three.
• 39:42
  > >Some semblance.
• 39:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Majority rules.
• 39:46
  > >I would had a quick story here about, uh, so I was trying to find some sound effects for us to use during this episode.
• 39:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, lord.
• 39:54
  > >And I was, you know, it's interesting when you sit down and you're like, well, I want someone to welcome me to Dominican.
• 40:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Roman, you gotta stop getting your sound effects off adult websites.
• 40:04
  > >And, uh, yeah. Um, so, uh, then you run into people that are teaching you, like, slang words and teaching you how to cuss.
• 40:12
  > >And I'm telling you, the doctor, there are a lot of people very passionate about cussing, you know, really well, you know, in Dominican. And, um, so the art, uh, yeah, but I ran across this, uh, one as, uh, one person, and it was talking about elements of dialect and, you know, if you're listening to me at any point in time, you're like, wow, that's a really good fake british accent, Mike.
• 40:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, that's exactly what they're thinking.
• 40:36
  > >Exactly what you're thinking, right? And so. So this guy was actually talking about tone, and I love this conversation, the tone.
• 40:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>So you want to make your last.
• 40:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Your second to last syllable of, like.
• 40:50
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Whatever kind of phrase you're saying.
• 40:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You want to make that kind of elongated, that kind of tone. Okay.
• 41:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Not every single person talks like that, and they don't.
• 41:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Doing every single sentence. But you will notice listening to them speak, that. That's a way that they will talk. What. What's so funny about that is me, my Kevin Newman. Every time I get around Kevin, he's, you know, he talks a little bit of Spanish, too. And it's funny because I'll start saying something. He'll be like, that's. That's.
• 41:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's dumb. Um, don't say, that's not how they talk. But they should correct me. And I'll be like, oh, can we.
• 41:31
  > >Just apply it to English? Like, binge on bargain?
• 41:36
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, that's right.
• 41:38
  > >You know, I wouldn't even call that long tone. I just call that dragging the middle.
• 41:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 41:42
  > >What I want to call it.
• 41:43
  > >Tell us about an exigot.
• 41:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Okay, I got you. So this is actually a surprise addition to the.
• 41:50
  > >Oh, I'm doing this.
• 41:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, this is a surprise edition. So I kind of give this one to these guys today, and, uh, they, or I, uh, gave it to Mike a couple days ago, and Benjamin got it today, and me and Rich had one at the PCA, so they are fantastic. And Mike's going to tell you about artista Faloo.
• 42:10
  > >Yes. Artista's cigar faloo. The faloo is a novel approach to blending tobaccos, representing years of sourcing and development to bring you our best work yet. Artista Faloo is so named for the red barns of northern Europe. Europe and the United States stand out in rich contrast to their pastoral soundings. I have, like, this, you know, flute in my head as this thing is playing in the background, waiting for Bami to get her brains blown out. Anyway, so Faloo features a toothy and rich broadleaf wrapper sourced from generations old family farm. For the binder, we selected an indonesian leaf, which adds a. To, uh, a touch of sweetness with the filler blend that balances flavor and strength. Those binder, filler, and wrapper are. The binder is indonesian sumatra. Again, the filler is dominican proprietary blend.
• 43:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Proprietary.
• 43:05
  > >We can't tell you what it is, man.
• 43:06
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Uh, roll broadleaf.
• 43:10
  > >So, um. Yeah, kind of interesting. Um, I actually smoked this right before we recorded today.
• 43:15
  > >And, um. Yeah, that the branding on this has a red stripe on the band itself. So, you know, it's pretty evident that.
• 43:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The harvest is yellow right off.
• 43:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Red.
• 43:28
  > >Yeah. So I had, uh, several construction issues that happened with this, you know.
• 43:34
  > >Of course, it kept on canoeing on me. You know, I kept on having to check the burn line quite, uh, a bit. And then Barger said, you're smoking it too fast.
• 43:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>No, you're smoking it like a high schooler.
• 43:47
  > >Because then I said, well, it went out twice on me. And I was sitting there having to screw around with it. He's like, you're smoking it too slow, too fast. I think I know exactly the pace, how he should smoke and can't do.
• 43:59
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah, you know, it's like, seriously, can you hold up cue cards for me? I don't know if I can do this on my own accord, the way you're breathing. Is there a video I can watch? I'm learning how to do this, you know, at this point in time in my life. Life. So, um, maybe I need to go back and listen to our own cigar 101 show.
• 44:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I could teach you a thing or two if you listen.
• 44:21
  > >Yeah. Um, you know, the. I don't know.
• 44:24
  > >It just was very nondescript. Uh, you know, at the end of the day, I was like, oh. Um, you know, I was like, wow. You know, um, what's next?
• 44:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>So a lot of those construction issues that you talk about. And I don't know if it's just my luck, right, or the myriad of other things that it could be, but it's probably not because I'm pretty keen about cigar storage and lighting. And, you know, I think I have a pretty solid pace.
• 44:52
  > >But you were not getting coaching from.
• 44:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Barker in real time. You did.
• 44:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Um, but I have that issue with box press cigars on a pretty consistent basis. And it's one of the top reasons that they're not my favorite type, uh, of cigar vitolo cigar to smoke is because, number one, I think that they feel a little odd to actually smoke. Right. They don't.
• 45:15
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You like them round in your mouth?
• 45:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Hundred percent. Right. Uh, but then also, too, I tend to have the canoeing issues, uh, on a pretty consistent basis, so.
• 45:25
  > >See?
• 45:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So I'll see. Look, I'm just gonna say this on a box press cigar.
• 45:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I consistently, every draw all rotated in my hand. And I it's very rare that I have a canoeing issue on a box press cigar.
• 45:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>They should put those type of instructions in the box.
• 45:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>But I understand too much work. Yeah, but trying to enjoy myself. If it's a subconscious thing, like, oh, the band's facing up. Uh, let's turn it around. The bands facing down. Let's turn it around, like, in my brain. So, like, I consistently keep my hotspot moving because, yes, if, uh, and this is just me and, uh, it's not science, it's pseudoscience science, but this is, uh. I mean, this is just the way that my brain works.
• 46:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 46:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I think the person that made the cigar that you're smoking is cringing right now.
• 46:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Hang on a second. That's fine.
• 46:19
  > >I really have to pick up my hip waiters. It's just getting so deep and thick.
• 46:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm just saying there's heat distribution across, uh, a square is way different than heat distribution across the circle. That's science.
• 46:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So at the same time, like, there are things you can do to stop and prevent these, only you can prevent canoeing.
• 46:38
  > >Circle, meet the square.
• 46:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's right.
• 46:41
  > >If I had a square mouth, it's where.
• 46:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's right.
• 46:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Think about it. When a cigar canoes on you, what do you do? You lick your finger and you put it on the cigar. If it's a round cigar, you lick your finger, you put it on the cigar, and you keep smelling smoking.
• 46:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Right.
• 46:57
  > >I burn it even. I, uh, keep on moving.
• 47:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And that's fine. And that's fine. But there are things you can do to prevent those things. Now, the speed in which you smoke a cigar can prevent or cause a canoeing issue.
• 47:11
  > >Yes.
• 47:11
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Can so and so at the same time, if we're just out here, you know, in just shooting the crap and hanging out, and you're not paying attention to your cigar, and you're sitting here puffing and puffing and puffing.
• 47:23
  > >Negative.
• 47:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, you might have a canoe. I didn't say you were doing that.
• 47:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You did.
• 47:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Here, I said it. You just said it.
• 47:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Outside in privacy.
• 47:32
  > >Do you want me to run the tape back?
• 47:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, run the tape back. Yeah. So, anyway, I I mean, I think.
• 47:38
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>There'S maybe one day we'll all ascend to the level of cigar etiquette and, uh, smoking techniques.
• 47:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You get on board with these conspiracy theories, and then we'll talk about it.
• 47:48
  > >I, uh, had a couple more comments I forgot to add, which was, yeah, I was kind of woody cedar, mild, uh, uh, in the middle of it, I actually paired this really well with the Delmore cigar.
• 47:59
  > >Cigar malt. It was the perfect thing.
• 48:02
  > >And actually tried a, um, little book, chapter three, uh, from beam. Uh, and it actually did not work very well. So, um, well, my, uh, that's.
• 48:15
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's a three.
• 48:16
  > >All right.
• 48:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I disagree with that, but, you know, it's okay. Can't win them all.
• 48:21
  > >Sorry. It's alright.
• 48:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's okay. And that's what we find out about on these episodes.
• 48:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Not everyone wins. And we're not always the.
• 48:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The right one in the room.
• 48:32
  > >Uh, it was really cool to have the whole product line. And, um, you know, I would definitely go back for that. Midnight all day long.
• 48:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, I will definitely revisit a lot of these cigars. What about you guys?
• 48:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Artista's in the wheelhouse.
• 48:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 48:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, listen, listen, you guys have been wonderful tonight. I appreciate you. We have done three episodes.
• 48:54
  > >You just called me wonderful.
• 48:55
  > >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 48:56
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I did. It's fine. We can talk about.
• 48:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Listen, we'll jump in the canoe when we get done. It's fine.
• 49:03
  > >Uh, too fast.
• 49:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Too slow. That's right, that's right.
• 49:05
  > >I have the wrong stroke.
• 49:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Stroke, stroke, stroke.
• 49:11
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I want to thank our guest for coming on today. Thank you.
• 49:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Good old boy rich.
• 49:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Is that a good one, ganks? Good old boy Benjamin.
• 49:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Smug him if you got him.
• 49:20
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Thanks. Good old boy Mike.
• 49:21
  > >Hey, come back. Enjoy another exciting episode of Sip suds and smokes. I'll ask you to keep on seeping.
• 49:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And I'm good old boy barger. And thanks for everything and keep on smoking. And don't forget to, like, subscribe and share. Tell your friends about us. Will it be the best thing you laugh at all night?
• 49:39
  > >Maybe it was like, you know, rowing on the wrong side of the canoe.
• 49:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's left, it's left, right?
• 49:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 49:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Uh, you got a j paddle.
• 49:50
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• 51:00
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