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- 1:07having fun and enjoying the ride, turnbuckles and stogies.
- 2:16What is up? Look for the crowd to settle
- 2:22down here. What's going on?
- 2:24And it's me, the OG. I'm here with the big dog.
- 2:28What up people? Gorilla, we are turnbuckles and
- 2:31so we welcome back to what are you calling this Sunday Slam,
- 2:35Sunday Slam. Sunday morning wind down.
- 2:37There you go. Sunday morning, White down.
- 2:39Here we are. Hey, listen, we got a guest
- 2:41coming on around, what, 1130 from 11:30?
- 2:44What do we got? We have my man Mr., Keith
- 2:48Moskowitz, Kiki Momo Saigon Baby.
- 2:53Keekimomo. You mean Keekimomo?
- 2:57Keekimomo. Baby, it's what we got.
- 2:59It's what we got. What you got, my brother?
- 3:02I got Stars and Stripes. Got the Maduro Gordo 6 by 60.
- 3:07And I've got. One of his sublime cigars.
- 3:14I have the catalog somewhere. All right.
- 3:17And I cut mine with the true Cut.
- 3:19Legal provider. True Cut.
- 3:21And I'm going to be light in mine with this.
- 3:23Actually, my one of my favorite light is that car.
- 3:26What do you guys cut the light with?
- 3:27I'm. Going to cut mine with a
- 3:30straight cut because I'm a straight cut guy.
- 3:36I may save mine till he comes on Bubba, then I'm going to smoke.
- 3:41But other than that, I'm smoking Odyssey right now.
- 3:43Connecticut. I'm not a big fan of it, but
- 3:46I'll smoke it. So let's talk about, you know,
- 3:51I'm not a big fan of WWE as everybody knows, but I watched a
- 3:55clip of Mr. Randy Orton. I watched it this morning on my
- 4:02way to work. Obviously when he was in the
- 4:06ring, it was him. It was the General Manager, Roar
- 4:12General Manager Smackdown. Which was Adam Pearson?
- 4:15Nick Aldis. Yes, they were giving him an
- 4:17opportunity and I'm going to let Joey do it because I'm not sure
- 4:21exactly what was set. Well, I'm not really sure, but I
- 4:23just know on RAW they offered him the winner of Seth and Jay
- 4:27USO, so he had a shot at the title and then smack down offer
- 4:30him a shot at the bloodline. Obviously that's what he took
- 4:34because of the storyline of Matthew put him out for over a
- 4:39year and a half. Right.
- 4:41And he made it very clear. Right.
- 4:43He made it very clear when he came back, Correct.
- 4:46And he also made it clear during War Games 2J.
- 4:48Yeah, in the ring. Yes.
- 4:53Speaking of War Games, we briefly touched on on The Last
- 4:56show. I think from top to bottom, I
- 5:00think War Games was. A.
- 5:02Fantastic. Was.
- 5:04My opinion. It absolutely was from top to
- 5:07bottom. I I enjoyed every bit of it.
- 5:10What was your favorite moment? Listen, I got, not going to lie,
- 5:15my favorite moment. I mean, there was a lot of them
- 5:18I have to put at the top. Is the RKO from the top of the
- 5:22cage. Oh.
- 5:22That was. That was tremendous.
- 5:25That was. That was tremendous.
- 5:27I mean the timing on that, you know, I mean you're off on the
- 5:30timing and somebody's going to get hurt.
- 5:33Well, yeah, very true. But if you've seen what he did,
- 5:40he went over there and he went like this, put his foot across
- 5:43and said right here. And that was the baddest RKO he
- 5:48ever did. But here's here's what I was
- 5:51getting to about what he what he did and it.
- 5:54And it was on last Monday night, War 2 with Ria Ripley.
- 5:59He's standing in the ring and he's going, he's going, you
- 6:03know, I was sitting home while I was out and I was watching raw
- 6:06and all I hear is mommy. Mommy.
- 6:08Mommy. Mommy.
- 6:09Mommy. Mommy.
- 6:10Mommy, Mommy. He goes, well, guess what,
- 6:12Mommy? Daddy's back.
- 6:15No, he said. Daddy's.
- 6:17Home. Oh, daddy.
- 6:18OK, OK, see, I'm not a big fan. But then last night on RAW, or
- 6:23whenever the Raw was just recently, whatever he did smack
- 6:25down, whatever. After he did that, he leaned
- 6:28over to Paul Heyman and he goes, why man, call Roman Reigns and
- 6:34tell him Daddy's back. So I think that's, I think
- 6:38that's the greatest catch line he's had lately.
- 6:42You know what I mean? He's he's just, he's a beast.
- 6:47He's a beast. What's going on everybody?
- 6:51What are you guys smoking out there?
- 6:52Put it in the comments here and tell us what you're what you're
- 6:54smoking, what your thoughts are in the pay-per-view.
- 6:57We want to hear from you. You can also call us or text us
- 7:00at 720-619-0627 calling the show.
- 7:06Love to hear from you. Talk Texas, say hi, see what's
- 7:10going on. What else, New fellas?
- 7:13Nothing much, man. I just had to work this morning,
- 7:15you know, a little Overtime never hurt.
- 7:16Nobody went in there and dealt with the bosses because, you
- 7:20know, they always messing things up, you know what I mean?
- 7:23So. Absolutely.
- 7:24Has that been any good? Any good lounges around here?
- 7:28No, I haven't been anywhere. No, I haven't been in a lounge.
- 7:30We haven't been to a lounge in a while and this week we're a
- 7:33little tied up. We got to go to cemetery on on
- 7:37Tuesday for my mother-in-law and then Friday night we got a
- 7:39wedding and then Saturday Joey's going to.
- 7:42Not on the road again. He's out on the road again and
- 7:44came back Friday. Tell us about your Friday night
- 7:46with ISPW and the the Now. That was that was a good night.
- 7:50We had fun. It was a good show, tells me.
- 7:54If you can make it out to those shows I highly suggested,
- 7:57they're a whole lot of fun. I enjoyed it from top to bottom.
- 8:02The the last two shows I've been to were absolutely fantastic.
- 8:08His next show actually is in January.
- 8:11That was the last show I have is for the year.
- 8:14His next show is January 20th in Barnegat.
- 8:19Barnegat, NJ. Out in Barnegat, NJ on the 20th.
- 8:23Down by the shore. Yeah.
- 8:26Down by Seaside Heights, NJ. It's about 20 minutes from SEA,
- 8:3130 minutes from seaside, 40 minutes from AC.
- 8:33It's kind of like right in the middle.
- 8:34For you all, I don't know. That's a home away from home for
- 8:37the summer. We go down there and we stay
- 8:40into we stay at the Sunburst Inn on the Boulevard.
- 8:43If y'all ever need a hotel room for the summer you got to book
- 8:46it now. Call the Sunburst Inn asks for
- 8:50Butch tell them Big Dog sent you.
- 8:52He'll know. And it's very family orientated
- 8:57and they it's one of the best motels I stayed at.
- 9:00He has that one, and he has one right next door at Sunburst too.
- 9:04They do pizza parties during the week on Tuesday.
- 9:07Bagels and breakfast every day. Swimming pool.
- 9:10You can grill there. You can smoke outside.
- 9:13Just got to keep the noise down Again.
- 9:15Trouble three years ago. Fact, because I was cursed.
- 9:19What else is new? So.
- 9:20So tell us about the promotion that you went and saw the show
- 9:23that you went and saw. What is about?
- 9:24Who are they? Tell us.
- 9:26Give us somebody. I used to.
- 9:27Run. If I remember correctly, they
- 9:30ran a long time ago. The guy who owns it also owns
- 9:34the rock and wrestling collector in New Jersey.
- 9:38He used to be the wrestling collector.
- 9:39He rebranded to rock and wrestling.
- 9:42I've been there to great store. If you haven't been there, go
- 9:45check it out a. Lot of lot of lot.
- 9:50Of old wrestling action figures out from the the LJNS you know
- 9:54all the way up until I think even current stuff.
- 9:57Not very much the current stuff A.
- 9:58Lot of old magazines. Magazines, videotapes, DV, DS,
- 10:04pictures, just all kinds of memorabilia you can think of.
- 10:10And he he primarily runs think he's primarily just runs a lot
- 10:15of jersey shows. Yes.
- 10:17He doesn't go anywhere. Else he doesn't really travel
- 10:19too much. We were in Patterson Friday and
- 10:23then the week before that, two weeks before that I was in West
- 10:28Milford at one of the the school, the churches over there.
- 10:35This week we're at. I was at Saint Bonaventure in
- 10:40Patterson. That was a that's a nice little
- 10:42place. Venue was great.
- 10:45Turn out was great. Could have fit more people but
- 10:48you know weather and stuff like that.
- 10:50I understand. I mean the car from top to
- 10:54bottom was was great. There was guys that I've never
- 10:56heard of before that can actually wrestle.
- 11:01You know that are not not actually wrestle but guys that
- 11:03are fantastic, you know they from top to bottom and he he can
- 11:08really put a a card together from top to bottom.
- 11:12The owner. Now, is there anybody on the
- 11:15card that we should be looking out for?
- 11:17Like a name that we should look for.
- 11:19Well, I mean, they had a few guys on there that were, yeah,
- 11:23no, Maven, wasn't there. La Greca actually is.
- 11:26He's going to be going away for a little while.
- 11:28The host of Busted Open, Dave La Greca was there, actually.
- 11:32They just brought in and if I remember correctly, he worked
- 11:35for MCW. Yes.
- 11:38He also is no Andy Weinberg. Yes, he, he was big for Maryland
- 11:43Championship Wrestling, if I'm correct.
- 11:47So he was he just actually he was there Dave Le Grec is going
- 11:51away for a little while I I think it's got to do.
- 11:54I I don't know if it's something with busted open that he can't
- 11:57do appearances or anything like that.
- 11:59I'm not really sure what's I don't know what it is.
- 12:01I just know it's going away for a little while.
- 12:06Then you had Leo Farrow there who was trained I believe in
- 12:11create a pro down on Long Island.
- 12:14He wrestled. You had who else was there?
- 12:21There was there was so many people there that I I can't
- 12:24remember because I don't have it in front of me, but he had a few
- 12:28N.W.A guys there. Two of them are the guys that I
- 12:33was traveling with that are his tag champs.
- 12:38Then you have another guy, Joe Joe Stump and I forget his name
- 12:46but he he looks like a super he, he looks like a superstar.
- 12:49I mean you know muscled up, you know can move, can can work the
- 12:55crowd. I mean he's just, he's good.
- 12:57I I enjoyed his match there. There was quite a few guys that
- 13:00I, you know, I don't have the whole thing in front of me
- 13:05because it did. The card obviously, as always is
- 13:08subject to change. We all know that, so, so.
- 13:15What's the name of the promotion again?
- 13:17ISCW it's called Inter International Superstars or Pro
- 13:22Wrestling. Maybe our producer can slap that
- 13:24button on the screen for everybody so we can we can
- 13:27follow them. I'm sure they would appreciate
- 13:29us following them. Get to know they're superstars
- 13:33and what else is going on. Guys?
- 13:36What else you guys got coming up?
- 13:38I know we're talking about the told you guys.
- 13:41I got, well I got Albany next week I got Captain Lawrence
- 13:45Brewing I believe the 29th of December for Outlaw.
- 13:49I'll be down there and then after that I got February, we
- 13:56got a show, I don't know the location yet.
- 14:00That'll be up as soon as it goes live.
- 14:04And then we're in talks to go to Carolina in just in November or
- 14:08not November next. Sorry.
- 14:10Really. We're in talks to go down to the
- 14:12Carolinas. Wow.
- 14:13Maybe I'll. Have to go.
- 14:15Down to down to the Crockett territory.
- 14:17We're also we're also supposed to we'll see how things work
- 14:22out. Turnbuckles and stogies are
- 14:24supposed to be a destination Earth.
- 14:27What January? Destination.
- 14:29Earth, get out of here. Yes.
- 14:31And that is hosted by that is hosted by the one and only who
- 14:41who's the sponsor for it. Well, there's a few of them.
- 14:44The big sponsor. Well, there's a few big ones.
- 14:46You have Caldwell, You have Aventura, Caldwell.
- 14:48Is the main man. You have Ivan thorough with
- 14:51Henderson. I forget there's so many
- 14:55sponsors going to be there. How?
- 14:59About. That many.
- 15:01Looking forward to that, absolutely.
- 15:02Hopefully we can make it happen and.
- 15:05You know if we. Can make it happen.
- 15:07Hey, listen, then we're golden. All right, now that we, we've
- 15:11started, we've got some people on here.
- 15:13Let's What the hell? Let's announce a contest.
- 15:17What do you think? Sure.
- 15:19Want to announce it? Sure.
- 15:20All right, so here's what Turnbuckles and Sogey's going to
- 15:23do. The three of us.
- 15:25Oh, man. And the next paper.
- 15:28Well, actually, paper views throughout the whole entire
- 15:31year. We're going to have a contest
- 15:32among each other. What we're going to do is we're
- 15:35going to pick one contest and one pay-per-view, and we're
- 15:38going to keep total throughout the entire year.
- 15:40We have a championship balcony being made-up, and the person
- 15:43that wins this contest is going to get that belt.
- 15:46But where you come in is you get to participate along.
- 15:50And if you can beat all three of us, we're going to make our
- 15:55picks. And then you make your picks.
- 15:57And if you beat all three of us and you, whoever the winner is
- 16:01at the end of the season, from the fans, from you, we're going
- 16:05to issue you. What A5 pack?
- 16:095 pack of our. Choice 5 pack.
- 16:13I'm also going to throw in some cigar tender swag.
- 16:17Swag. What do you mean swag?
- 16:19Oh, I don't know. Like hatches and hat and shirts.
- 16:26We're going to give a bunch of stuff away, but all you got to
- 16:29do is you have to go up against the three of us.
- 16:31We're going to compete against each other and so we're going to
- 16:37get the championship belt, we're going to get the turnbuckle
- 16:39belt. You all will win A5 pack of
- 16:42cigars and some swag and some other stuff will do like
- 16:47throughout the year that will be yours for the grand prize
- 16:49winner. Whoever beats the three of us,
- 16:51we'll keep tally of it. And the only way you follow
- 16:53that, it's going to be on turnbuckles on Instagram.
- 16:57That's where you got to keep track of the tally.
- 16:59We're going to keep that pin to the top of the page.
- 17:02What does that? You could probably check for
- 17:06what monthly updates maybe? Monthly updates.
- 17:08Anytime there's a pay-per-view out, we're going to list the
- 17:11contest that we're we are competing against each other
- 17:14with. Again, we're only we're not
- 17:15picking every match on the card, we're just picking one match
- 17:20each. Each going to pick a match,
- 17:24going head to head against each other, right.
- 17:27You come in those same matches, you have to beat us.
- 17:33If you beat us, you accumulate throughout the year.
- 17:36You accumulate points throughout the year.
- 17:37You'll be the grand prize winner at the end.
- 17:40So we'll be on WrestleMania. We're going to debut our belt,
- 17:44our championship belt, and we'll update the prize as soon as we
- 17:48go along. You're going to accumulate
- 17:50throughout the entire year. It's going to be more than just
- 17:53a 5 pack. It's going to be more than just
- 17:54a T-shirt, a hat and a patch. We're going to accumulate
- 17:58throughout the entire year. A prize package for the winner
- 18:01who beats all three of us and you will be deemed the
- 18:05Turnbuckles Heavyweight champion.
- 18:08But you don't get the belt. Though we don't get the belt, we
- 18:10get the belt. We keep the.
- 18:11Belt. One of us wins that belt.
- 18:13Well, that'd be me. Interesting one of I.
- 18:15Wouldn't say that probably be me.
- 18:17We're probably drawing. Yeah, it'd probably be my son.
- 18:21But so that's a concept coming up.
- 18:23So stay tuned for that and what else we got here today, guys?
- 18:29What else we're going? To talk about while.
- 18:30We're waiting for, we're waiting for our guest here today.
- 18:33He's going to be on. Just a little bit about let's
- 18:35announcements. Let's announce our December 10th
- 18:38guest and our December 17th. So December.
- 18:41So I'll so December 10th will be the owner of APEX Championship
- 18:49Wrestling Jesse. Jesse based out of Florida, not
- 18:55Florida. I apologize, North Carolina.
- 18:57He's a veteran. He's a new upstart company.
- 18:59He's a veteran. He's got a GoFundMe for a ring.
- 19:03He had some promotions back out of letting him use it.
- 19:06So when he comes on next week, we'll have his GoFundMe pinned
- 19:08in the comments. You know anybody that knows?
- 19:11Anyone maybe you know could could help him out?
- 19:14Hey, every bit matters. I mean.
- 19:16Or even if you know somebody with a ring that's willing to
- 19:18rent it to him. I mean, you know, hey, listen,
- 19:21you know, let us know. We'll we'll get him in contact
- 19:24with them. And then December 17th, we have
- 19:30my good friend and my brother. Yeah, he's in Florida.
- 19:36I'm sure everybody knows who he is.
- 19:39He's all over. He's all over.
- 19:42He's all over Instagram. He's all over Facebook.
- 19:47And all of that Mister Kevin Shanahan, AKA Cigar Prop, AKA
- 19:55the owner of Panda Trash Panda Cigars.
- 20:02That is fantastic. Awesome.
- 20:05We've got quite the lineup coming up, huh?
- 20:07Yes. Then we're going to be taking a
- 20:08little bit break around Christmas, obviously we'll.
- 20:10Probably pre record your Christmas episode.
- 20:12Give us a break might depending on how it works, might have to
- 20:15record one or two episodes. Take a break from Christmas and
- 20:18the New Year's. And listen, just so everybody
- 20:20knows, New Year's Eve is my birthday.
- 20:24I accept all kind of gifts, liquor and cigars.
- 20:27Chris Benson, go. Ahead, make sure you're saying,
- 20:31Joe? So we'll probably pre record one
- 20:33or two episodes maybe to get us through the first week of the
- 20:35new year and then come back at 2nd Sunday with a bang.
- 20:40You know, we're trying to line up this way.
- 20:43It'll give us time to line up a guest, set up a time, get some
- 20:47cigars and advertise it, promote it the right way, you know, this
- 20:51way you guys know who's coming, who's not coming, We'll try to
- 20:54lock in. We we do have some, we do have a
- 20:58few guests that are are we're getting ready to lock in after
- 21:02the New Year. We've already been in talks with
- 21:05them. One of them is a very good
- 21:05friend of mine I've already reached.
- 21:08We both reached out to him. We're just waiting on a
- 21:11confirmation date for him to come on because that's going to
- 21:14be a big one. So it takes time.
- 21:16What What people need to understand too.
- 21:18It takes time. Working around all these guys.
- 21:20The wrestling pro, what we have, we got to work around their
- 21:23schedules and sometimes we might have to record because.
- 21:26Might have to record, they might have.
- 21:28Line up with us, but they're coming and that's why we're kind
- 21:31of being a little reserved. We want to put a little out
- 21:33there, but we don't want to get. I won't give you the guests for
- 21:36the new year because I want to leave that up to a surprise.
- 21:41And don't worry about the contest.
- 21:42It's still going to go on. Even though these are going to
- 21:44be recorded, we're still going to do the contest again.
- 21:49All you have to do to recap that real quick for the folks that
- 21:51just joined in, I see a couple more people popped on.
- 21:54So what we're doing here, turnbuckles and soggies, we got
- 21:56a championship belt. We're going to go for the
- 21:59turnbuckle championship. Myself, big dog Joey Bean, we
- 22:04got a championship belt coming, but you can win 2.
- 22:07All you have to do is beat all three of them.
- 22:10You can win cigar swag. Not two of three, Not one of
- 22:14three. You got to beat all three of us
- 22:17and right now the pack is at a 5 pack of cigar Cigar Tender
- 22:24T-shirt. I'm just going to say swag.
- 22:26It's going to be multiple stuff. Yeah, it's going to be multiple
- 22:29stuff. And this is going to accumulate
- 22:32throughout the entire year. It begins here at Royal Rumble
- 22:35and it ends. It ends.
- 22:36Next year at the Royal Rumble. And that way, whoever the
- 22:39champion is goes into WrestleMania, is guaranteed to
- 22:43walk into WrestleMania champion and guaranteed to walk.
- 22:45Out now. Now here's here's my thinking,
- 22:48right, here's my thinking with that challenge.
- 22:52Just because we're starting at the Royal Rumble, I think the
- 23:00match that we should pick it all should be one of the Rumble
- 23:08matches, women or. Men.
- 23:13One of them should be, yeah. It means you let me know when
- 23:20you guys are ready for the first segment.
- 23:22We got, we got some, we got, we got a question of the day and we
- 23:26have turning point of the week, so OK.
- 23:31Let's do a question of the day. Let's let's start again.
- 23:33Let's do a question of the day first.
- 23:35Alright, question. Of the day, that's.
- 23:38Right. If anybody else know who that
- 23:40is, that's our Forget it. That's the man behind the
- 23:42current age. Shout out to H this morning.
- 23:43Good morning, buddy. Question of the week What do we
- 23:59got? Question of the week from a
- 24:02listener off of TikTok. With all the changes since WW
- 24:09ES, been with like UFC and all these, you know, partnerships
- 24:12and stuff, is ECW going to eventually be a part of WWE?
- 24:23They already technically own the rights.
- 24:25They've done this once before. I don't see them bringing that
- 24:29back because right now, if they didn't, ECW would have to go on
- 24:36its own as an independent company in order to thrive.
- 24:40And. WWE wouldn't give it the just do
- 24:43that it. It should have.
- 24:45They tried it. It wasn't that good.
- 24:47I know. We're just being honest.
- 24:49I don't see it coming back because the Wizard, the
- 24:53Grandmaster, the Grand Wizard, the.
- 24:56Evil. The Angel genius is now what
- 25:00they call part of the bloodline he is called.
- 25:04Not only that, he's also, he's got a lot of roles backstage and
- 25:09that. Is who?
- 25:10Paul Hayman. Paul E Dancing.
- 25:13Yeah, I agree. I don't see that taking any.
- 25:16I don't see the WWE really spearheading the effort for that
- 25:21and I. I wish they would.
- 25:23I agree with you. I don't think they got the legs.
- 25:25But they would. They would have to do just like
- 25:27they did back in the the 90s, and they would have to run by
- 25:31themselves on their own, with an evil genius at the helm.
- 25:37And they would have to run it separately by themselves,
- 25:41because there's no way they would get their just due under
- 25:45the the Endeavour TKOWWE banner. They wouldn't get that.
- 25:50They wouldn't get that same, the same outcome, They wouldn't get
- 25:57the same anything because it would be toned down quite a bit.
- 26:04Yeah, yeah, I I agree. I just don't.
- 26:09I don't see it happening. I mean, there is a company out
- 26:12there that kind of took the place of ECW, yes.
- 26:16And that's. GCW that's game chain and
- 26:19wrestling they're they have kind of taken that spot of ECW with
- 26:25the they call them death matches.
- 26:27I mean it's it's it's it's a death match company.
- 26:30But they lucha libre. I mean regular tag team,
- 26:34singles, women's, you know, like they do everything so.
- 26:39Go call him, he's having a problem on.
- 26:41Monday. So he was waiting.
- 26:43For a call, so I got. Since we're doing Question of
- 26:46the Week, I did. I did get an inbox a couple
- 26:48weeks. Ago.
- 26:48Excuse me, can you go ahead and speech and tell him he needs a
- 26:52code to log in? You guys want to go on the,
- 27:00yeah, if you want to finish that statement, you can go ahead and
- 27:02finish that statement OG or we can go on break and then when we
- 27:07come back you can talk about the turning point of the week.
- 27:12Yeah, let's take. Let's just take a quick break so
- 27:15we can we can. Help our guests get on here.
- 27:18Help our guests. We have a guest trying to get
- 27:20on. Hey, it's Michelle from Park
- 27:51Lane on Tobacconist. Come on down for a great
- 27:53selection of pipe, tobaccos, cigars, accessories, you name
- 27:57it, come on down, check us out. I want to thank Turnbuckles and
- 28:00Stogies for promoting us on their program.
- 28:03And back to them at NBR Radio. Well that's you know that's his
- 28:20guide you know hey our guest is is trying to get here we're
- 28:23trying to get him on real quick here.
- 28:25So let me let me address the couple questions that were inbox
- 28:30to me while we're waiting for our guest to come on #1.
- 28:35There's one right here for big dog.
- 28:37Big Dog I got an inbox from. It's actually addressed to all
- 28:41three of us, but the question was if you could back go back
- 28:45and do it again. Wrestling.
- 28:47I assume they mean would you keep your persona or find a
- 28:52different persona? So 20 years ago when I started
- 29:00with my partner, God rest his soul, 25 years ago me and my
- 29:04partner started The Untouchables and we used to wear.
- 29:09I used to wear vest. I used to wear a pair of jeans,
- 29:13a pair of boots and AT shirt with my picture on it.
- 29:17Then after me and my partner, because my partner got sick, I
- 29:20had to go on my own. I went on my own and I joined
- 29:25N.W.A New England and the promoter of N.W.A New England
- 29:31came to me and he said I have the best gimmick for you.
- 29:34And I said but I have a gimmick. He goes, no, no, no, no, we're
- 29:37going to change that up. And that's when he took my jeans
- 29:41out of my out of my suitcase, grabbed a razor knife and just
- 29:47cut them, cut them, cut them, cut them.
- 29:49Sent one of the kids to the store.
- 29:52He got me some rope, my lumberjack shirt he cut and he
- 29:57got me a bone. And he said your new name is
- 30:01just Big Dog. You are now going by Big Dog
- 30:05Merino. He goes, you are now part of the
- 30:08Moon Dogs. So I've changed my persona
- 30:12twice. And now I changed it again just
- 30:16recently when I tagged up with my son, I came out in a
- 30:20different persona with my cigar, with my hat, with my jeans on,
- 30:25you know, with a pair of gym shorts on and a pair of a pair
- 30:30of Nikes, like the platinum Nikes, red and black.
- 30:33So I've changed my persona a lot.
- 30:35And you know in this business you have to change with the
- 30:38times. I mean look at the look at the
- 30:40Undertaker. When he first came out, he was
- 30:43the undertaker. Then he became American badass.
- 30:47Then he became the Brothers of Destruction.
- 30:49Then he went back to the to the Undertaker gimmick.
- 30:52Then he changed it again. So yes, you have to change with
- 30:56the with the times. Look at Chris Jericho.
- 30:59Chris Jericho changed. I mean Daniel Bryan changed.
- 31:03You know you have to change with the times in order to stay on
- 31:06top of the the production and and to sell yourself to the
- 31:12crowd. Basically what you're doing is
- 31:14you're selling yourself to the crowd.
- 31:16That's basically what you're doing.
- 31:19You you want the crowd to come back and say, hey man, I love
- 31:24that guy, Big Dog, I love that guy OGI, love that guy, Vanilla
- 31:27Gorilla. I you know, you want them to
- 31:29come back to you. You want them to buy your
- 31:32merchandise, You want them to buy pictures.
- 31:34You want to be talked about so much that when that when that
- 31:39when that Booker or that that guy that owns that federation
- 31:43when they hear, oh man, that team was great, that guy was
- 31:47great, that guy's going to say, wow, this guy's making me sell
- 31:51tickets, you know, So you have to change with the times.
- 31:54I mean, you know, you get some guys and I'm going to shout out
- 31:58to my brother, Low Key and my brother, my brother Homicide and
- 32:02Eddie Kingston, because I know them all.
- 32:05Low Key changed. He went from just being low key
- 32:09when wearing a, you know, I call it a fucking bathing suit.
- 32:18But he went from that. He went to WWE, he, he became, I
- 32:22forget his name in WWE. He became the karate guy.
- 32:25Then he went to T&A and he became like a bodyguard with a
- 32:29suit and tie and A and A and a strap, like a gun, you know.
- 32:33So yes, you have to change with the times.
- 32:36You know, if you don't change with the times, you're never
- 32:39going to make it in this business.
- 32:41So the other part of the question on there, there was one
- 32:45for me along the same lines I they asked if I wrestled.
- 32:49No, I've never been a wrestler. I've been a huge wrestling fan
- 32:52all my life and the question was, did I ever want to be a
- 32:55wrestler? No, I never wanted to be a
- 32:57wrestler. But I will always, always,
- 33:00always wanted to be a manager. I love guys like Mouth of the
- 33:05South. I love Bobby Heenan, Mr. Fuji.
- 33:10I love those guys. Yeah.
- 33:13I mean, I just. I just love the manager aspect
- 33:16of it and I always wanted to be a manager.
- 33:18So no, I never wanted to be a wrestler, but I want to be a
- 33:24manager. Scott asked.
- 33:26Who was your idol in the wrestling world?
- 33:28For each of you. For me, you know, I'm 51 years
- 33:34old. I remember guys like superstar
- 33:36Billy Graham really got me into wrestling.
- 33:39I just loved his persona. I love this character.
- 33:42I loved just the way he commanded respect.
- 33:46I love superstar Billy Graham. And then, you know, that kind of
- 33:49morphed into obviously the immortal Hulk Hogan.
- 33:53But then Undertaker came on the scene and Undertaker to the day
- 33:56is my my guy. How about you?
- 34:00Well you know I I go a little further back.
- 34:03Antonio Inoki you know captain Lou Antonio Lulaka, guys like
- 34:15that. You know I I honestly, I don't
- 34:20have an idol. What made me get into wrestling
- 34:23was just watching these guys. I'm sitting at home one day with
- 34:26my mom and I said I'm going to do that one day.
- 34:29And you know, like I said, my, I don't know.
- 34:32You know, I like the old times like Jimmy Snooker, guys like
- 34:36that. I met Jimmy Snooker, Johnny
- 34:39Jocks after a while smoking, you know, pops and and and and his
- 34:47brother Sika, you know, guys like that.
- 34:50I mean, I could go on and on. Johnny Valiant, the boogie
- 34:55woogie man, you know, I'm a old timer.
- 35:00I like the old guys. You know, it's it's just and I
- 35:04don't, I really don't have one. I mean, I love them all because
- 35:08everybody has a different style, everybody has a different
- 35:11charisma, you know what I mean? So, you know, and you take that,
- 35:16you take, you take. You can always combine different
- 35:20people's. Like let's say you know, you can
- 35:24combine Hulk Hogan, you can combine Jimmy Boogie Woogie man,
- 35:28you can combine Eddie Kingston all in one, but you're going to
- 35:31make it your own style. So me, I don't have it.
- 35:34I don't. I have people I like.
- 35:37So yeah, so that's just that's my answer.
- 35:40So Joey, the the part of question for you that I got
- 35:43texted was if you could tag team with any wrestler, any, any
- 35:52company, who is the number one guy or girl that you would like
- 35:58to tag with number one? Hands down, who would who would
- 36:01you love to tag? Team There's.
- 36:03So many he's waiting on a code from Facebook.
- 36:07And we'll we'll get an update on the guest in just one time.
- 36:09I'm working on the guest. Don't worry guys.
- 36:12I mean, there's so many. There's, there's so many.
- 36:18So that's a tough question. I mean, number one can change
- 36:22all the time. See, that's the thing, number
- 36:25one. Number one can change all the
- 36:27time because of the fact that you may find somebody else that
- 36:31you like more than your original #1.
- 36:34If you would have asked 10 year old me, I probably would have
- 36:40told you AJ Styles. If you ask me now, I'm probably
- 36:48going to tell you any Kingston, and that's only because I think
- 36:52that would be a very interestingly fun tag team to
- 36:59give a live microphone to. Nice, nice.
- 37:03So Coop Rich Cooper ask a question on here What is your
- 37:08Mount Rushmore Progressors 4 Mount Rushmore.
- 37:16Well, number one on that list and everybody's going to say
- 37:20it's a typical number one, but number one is Ric Flair, without
- 37:23a doubt, no questions asked. Flair's #1 Blair has to be #1.
- 37:28There's nobody, there's nobody that was like him.
- 37:32There was nobody like him. Since there's nobody that that
- 37:37had that same, I hate to use this, the term, but Flair as
- 37:47him, nobody had that same drive, that thing.
- 37:51Yeah, nobody. That's something that's not very
- 37:55common anymore is that bravado, that confidence that you know
- 38:02I'm the guy and if you don't like it, that's too bad.
- 38:05There, there is none of that anymore.
- 38:06Well, shouldn't say that. The only one that's coming
- 38:10really fucking close is Max. Now he's got really close.
- 38:15LA Knight's working it up pretty good.
- 38:17He is. I'm curious to see if it if it
- 38:19gets. If he would have.
- 38:20Taken absolutely you're. Number one is flair.
- 38:28Number one has to be flair. OK, so you're #2, but it's
- 38:37harder than when. I know that it's.
- 38:39Hard. It's hard because.
- 38:41But let's go off the cuff and immediately rapid fire so we
- 38:45know one is flared. Now, now the question.
- 38:48Here's here's the question. Are you talking overall
- 38:50presentation or just? I'm going to, you know what I'm
- 38:55saying? I'm interpreting when you say
- 38:57Mount Rushmore, it is the top, the best of the best, like as a
- 39:04whole, as the persona, as wrestling.
- 39:09You know, as a wrestler, I mean personally an entertainer.
- 39:12This guy's wrestling wasn't the greatest, but his gimmick and
- 39:15his presentation were just phenomenal and they transcended
- 39:18everything. That's Warrior.
- 39:21Warrior would have to be #2 his. Online one.
- 39:24Gimmick wise, like his wrestling wasn't, you know, very
- 39:27technical, but his presentation and he made you believe in
- 39:33everything and he would have to be #2 all.
- 39:40Right. So Rapid Fighter three and four,
- 39:42our guest is in the studio. So give me your three and four
- 39:45and then we'll finish ours off after our guest is so. 3:00 and
- 39:504:00 I'm going to have to go. I'm going to go Snuka oh.
- 39:54I like him. And then I'm going to go out
- 39:57there. Fantastic.
- 39:59On that note, hey, introduce his brother.
- 40:02So, ladies and gentlemen, we want to bring in our guest the
- 40:07man, the myth, the legend himself of Kiki Momo Cigars.
- 40:17What's up, bro? And thanks for having me on.
- 40:20I apologize for being late, I'm not a tech savvy guy yet.
- 40:29Listen, these are absolutely fantastic.
- 40:34And I'm not just saying it because you're on here.
- 40:36I mean it. Ask any of these guys.
- 40:38I don't. By the way, nice to meet you.
- 40:41I'm the OG. Listen, I don't.
- 40:46I don't promote something less. I actually like it if I don't
- 40:48like it. Listen, I'm old school.
- 40:50My parents taught me not to say anything at all.
- 40:53So if I say something and I say I like it, listen, you take my
- 40:56word for it. It's good.
- 40:57So why are you talking? I love it.
- 40:59If they turn you not to say nothing, why are you talking?
- 41:01Funny man. Your turn.
- 41:04So Keith, we're looking for a new Co host.
- 41:06I'm. Smoking.
- 41:08I'm smoking the the Spires and stripes.
- 41:12So, so tell us a little bit about of of your background and
- 41:20how you went from your career job into getting cigars?
- 41:27You guys can hear me OK. Now is that correct?
- 41:30Yes, perfect. And that was the great.
- 41:34So good that I woke up. But the fact that I could get on
- 41:37the line, It's the 2nd grade bed now.
- 41:40I'm done for the day. OK?
- 41:47I grew up on cigars. My old man was a cigar guy.
- 41:50Started smoking cigars when I was 12 years old.
- 41:53Always loved 5. Always Life gets object Five.
- 42:00Yeah, I was a bit guy about 6K. It was getting expensive.
- 42:13I had a big company before this one and I knew I was I was going
- 42:18to be selling. I wanted to, I'm getting older.
- 42:20I wanted to like downsize and get sort of semi retired and I'm
- 42:26looking down. I'm like what can I do?
- 42:27And I look down at the cigar and I'm like, this shit's costing me
- 42:30almost a mortgage payment every month, 1100 bucks a month on
- 42:37cigars. I was like, shit, it's
- 42:39expensive. So I'm like, I'm going to start
- 42:43my own cigar company. It was a lot more.
- 42:48I said I don't regret it. It's just it's a lot to do, a
- 42:54lot, and it takes years. It's not like you have an idea.
- 42:58The next day you go, you start it and you're up and running.
- 43:01It's used to tackle properly. It's happened to me three times.
- 43:06So I was trying to like get into lounge stuff.
- 43:09Guys that have been 40 years, I'm like Brian, I'm like April,
- 43:22not good. Not everyone.
- 43:25I've been very these cigars and and three times said to me that
- 43:31have been in this industry they're like it's a real but
- 43:34it's young and I knew they talking about people rolled up
- 43:42cigars and thinking oh, before I even produced I would get a few
- 43:49dozen, maybe 5050 cigars and I'd give them to my friends and I'm
- 43:54like guys, you got to be straight with me.
- 43:55If it sucks you got I'm cool with.
- 44:00But if I and and they come back like he's a really, really good
- 44:08and I'm like man don't jerk me off he's straight.
- 44:11So I was going to originally start out with 38 faces and as I
- 44:20usually do things that go crazy and I, I we currently have about
- 44:24189 faces. Wow it's a lot.
- 44:29It's a real where I'm fine. I could see whittling it down to
- 44:33about a 4000 and 45 and I'll give you the three.
- 44:38Why? Let's say etiquette.
- 44:40I could have a Connecticut that's 6 by 60 and a Connecticut
- 44:45that's 6 1/2 by 60. You sort of don't.
- 44:50Fill that down to 1:00 and then I have about 11 Solomon's and
- 44:55people say you love all your cigarettes.
- 44:58I think all my cigars are really good.
- 45:00They're some I like better than others, and the Solomon is one
- 45:03that I'm not really fond of personally.
- 45:07But people love them. Like every time I think I'm
- 45:09going to like eliminate some of them, someone will order 4
- 45:12bundles and I'm like, wow, what the hell am I thinking?
- 45:15You know, we went live about a little bit over a year ago where
- 45:23we were on the Internet and selling.
- 45:26We ship all around the world. We just shipped to Portugal for
- 45:30the very first time we have. I love doing that because I have
- 45:35a map with those. Pins just pin this.
- 45:41We have dealers around the around the world, St.
- 45:45Martin, Bermuda, UK, Asia thousand dealers selling cigars
- 45:55and when I first came out and went on online and on yeah that
- 46:00was what I said you're down we which is good a good start, not
- 46:08as good as I want slow and steady and guys you just
- 46:14compliment my support. I I get compliments all the time
- 46:19and it's for a variety of reasons.
- 46:23When I first started I thought oh you oh tobacco you're how
- 46:28hard could this be. But I first, first I got Cuban
- 46:32seeds and then I went to three places, Honduras, Dominican
- 46:37Republic and Nicaragua. And the reason I bought the farm
- 46:42AGUA was because it's between two very large large amount of
- 46:46fact and and so now I have let me let me.
- 46:53Stop it for a second. Let me stop you for one second,
- 46:57Keith. So you said you bought a farm in
- 47:00Nicaragua, right? OK, so now I remember, I don't
- 47:07know, maybe 2 summers ago, he and Joe was sitting outside and
- 47:12you jumped on my live and you were in a swimming pool smoking
- 47:16your cigars. I think that's the first time
- 47:19I've heard of them. And I said to you, man, those
- 47:23look so tasty. And you were sitting outside
- 47:26with your little nice, beautiful tan that you have, you know, and
- 47:29you're like, yeah, they are. Next thing I know, I get a
- 47:32little care package. And let me tell you, ever since
- 47:35I got that care package, man, I listen, I've never had a bad
- 47:39cigar from you. And you know, you know, and I'm
- 47:43glad that you're doing very well and I'm glad you bought a farm.
- 47:47And we want to hear what made you instead of going to somebody
- 47:56else on their farm, what made you want to buy the farm and do
- 48:00your own thing? Oh, it's all about control,
- 48:10right? And and when you're someone
- 48:14else's second call, it's never. That's why it's very hard to
- 48:19have partners when you're in business.
- 48:24These guys that I do that want to do myself like you got to do
- 48:31what you guys are doing. A podcast about cigar smoking
- 48:34and got to tell people how to light a cigar when you group but
- 48:4019,000,000 have googled how to light a cigar.
- 48:44It's sort of surprise that they have that many that need to know
- 48:48what technique to light a cigar, but.
- 48:51You said 19,000,000. 19 million people at Google How to light a
- 48:56cigar. Whoa 1,000,000.
- 48:58People. Gee.
- 49:00Wow. Wow.
- 49:01That's what I said. Wow.
- 49:02Wow. So like I go.
- 49:07I could talk about this cigar. I don't know, 5 minutes top how
- 49:10great it is. What we did, what we did.
- 49:14Talk for an hour about a cigar. I can't.
- 49:17I could tell you about what it smells like, how it burns.
- 49:21Well, I'm getting the aromas. I'm getting the cost of.
- 49:25I can tell you all, Oh my God, like, what do you got to talk
- 49:28about? So you can't talk about politics
- 49:31anymore because we're a fucked up world and it's not just whole
- 49:37world. And I'm a conservative type of
- 49:40guy. I'm not a Republican.
- 49:42I'm not. I am a conservative guy.
- 49:46I've traveled all over the world and people around the world are
- 49:49good. It's our governments that a
- 49:52ruin, shit upright for everybody and it really bothered but you.
- 49:56But the best thing I ever heard was Michael Jordan.
- 49:59And they said, well, why don't you ever talk about politics?
- 50:01It's the best answer I ever heard.
- 50:03He's a billionaire, right? He says.
- 50:05The last time I looked, both Republicans and Democrats buy my
- 50:08sneakers. What a smart thing to say,
- 50:10right? Well, that's like, that's like,
- 50:16I'm sure. I'm sure Republicans,
- 50:18Republicans and Democrats buy your cigars.
- 50:21Exactly. Exactly.
- 50:23So it's hard to talk about politics.
- 50:25So what can I do? I know a lot about cars.
- 50:27I know a lot about businesses. I have a gift for that stuff.
- 50:31I could walk into a business and tell you if you're making the
- 50:33money or if you're losing money, what it'll take to turn it
- 50:36around within minutes. Like I'm just, I'm wired that
- 50:41way. And this, this of our business
- 50:44is supposed to be my semi retirement job.
- 50:48And it's crazy. It really is.
- 50:50I feel really blessed. I just got an.
- 50:53It became a full time job. I just got an unbelievable
- 50:58endorsement 2 days ago from from the porn star Porn star show in
- 51:08in Detroit One. Hardcore porn.
- 51:14The guy got on and he reached out to me a month ago.
- 51:18I never sent him a cigar. He reached out to me and he's
- 51:23like, this is let's go. I thought it was one of my
- 51:24friends screwing around. Like, yeah, sure, let's call
- 51:27this texting me. Right.
- 51:29And he goes, your cigars are really excellent.
- 51:31I'm like, thank you. You know, like I said to you,
- 51:33thank you. And he's like, no, he goes,
- 51:35they're really excellent. He goes, I want to do a video.
- 51:39I'm like, that would be great. He got on yesterday's video.
- 51:42He's done about two or three and I do not pay him, which it
- 51:48sounds like I'm paying the way he's, but he spoke about he
- 51:53goes. So who is that Les Gold, Les?
- 51:58I on TV and. Yeah, that's the owner.
- 52:02That's the owner of hardcore corn.
- 52:05They did an episode. They did an episode where he got
- 52:09like an old 19 or 1850s, like cigar humidor that he couldn't
- 52:14buy. And he said if I buy it, he goes
- 52:18because I'd store my cigars in it.
- 52:19He goes because I'm a big cigar guy, he said.
- 52:21But I have nowhere to put it, he said.
- 52:23Otherwise I'd buy it. And it was like it almost, It
- 52:26almost looked like an entertainment center like
- 52:29humidor that wraps around like ATV and everything and it was
- 52:32just fully locked in as a humidor.
- 52:34He goes, I would have bought it. He goes because I'm a big cigar
- 52:36guy. He goes, but I have nowhere to
- 52:38put it. And you know.
- 52:39It wasn't the right price. And his son, you know, his son
- 52:42and his daughter is like, yeah, you're always buying this stuff
- 52:45about he goes, you forget I own this business.
- 52:49I was doing this before you were around.
- 52:52This is my company. You work for me.
- 52:55So now let's get back to the gentleman here who's also an
- 52:59Army vet. So tell us what you do for the
- 53:03veterans because I hear through the Grapevine on the in the
- 53:07cigar world that you do a lot for vets.
- 53:10So let's go to that. I'll I'll give to vets every day
- 53:16of the week guys. I I think everyone should.
- 53:20I think it's a disgrace that we have active members of our Armed
- 53:26Services that are I I think that's absolutely for our
- 53:35country and all people in America should be ashamed of
- 53:38that. So anytime for our armed force
- 53:43guys I always send cigars always send swag for nothing like I'm
- 53:49just a big supporter of that and I will be to the day I die.
- 53:53It's just it's just who I am. You know, I I believe in, I
- 53:58believe in a lot of do it. Well, I appreciate that because
- 54:04my dad and my brother, my other brother, my cousin, my nephew,
- 54:09my uncle, my other nephew, he's he's active now and we
- 54:13appreciate that. OG appreciates that my best.
- 54:16Friend you know. So we appreciate that and you
- 54:20know there are some cigar companies that do that and OG
- 54:24agree with me and then there are some that you know, that's so
- 54:29big for the britches, they don't want to give nothing up.
- 54:31Yeah. I That's not home.
- 54:35I don't care how. Big so, so Keith, I'm going to,
- 54:37I'm going to switch gears a little bit.
- 54:39I got a question for you that you're a businessman so I got a
- 54:43question for you. So like you know I, I, I can't
- 54:48even I just started a business in May You know there's
- 54:53struggles when you're an entrepreneur and new
- 54:54entrepreneurs there's all the kind of struggles.
- 54:56What advice do you have for me as a new entrepreneur and other
- 55:01entrepreneurs that are thinking the start of any bit, not just
- 55:03cigars or cigar, et cetera. Just in general, what's your
- 55:08advice when failure jumps upon them, like everybody's going to
- 55:14fail at some point in time in their endeavour.
- 55:16What's your advice to overcome that adversity and that and
- 55:20those experiences? You really good morning.
- 55:25Talking about the business that you just opened, what what?
- 55:29Yeah, just like. Yeah, just like what?
- 55:32Like you're a successful businessman.
- 55:34How did you become successful? What was that adversity?
- 55:38Like what what advice do you have to get over those bumps in
- 55:41the road that you're going to face as you as you like?
- 55:45I said I started a business like there's always bumps in the
- 55:47road. How do you keep that drive to
- 55:49keep going? Like, what advice do you have
- 55:51for those folks? Someone whether you're going to
- 55:57or break it, like I think that's the person you are growing up,
- 56:03but to look for in businesses business, is there any.
- 56:10So for example, if you were going to tell me you're going to
- 56:13start getting into the contracting Business Today, I
- 56:17would say I would probably put what's happening.
- 56:21House prices are coming down find good and they're going
- 56:30through the roof. It could still be done and you
- 56:37could still make a profit but you have to look at the area
- 56:42that you're doing it and what you're selling to that area.
- 56:45I had to call the other day. This guy was a deputy sheriff
- 56:49down here. He he he left early, took out
- 56:52his savings for his retirement, and he bought this equipment for
- 56:57grading spoils for 150 grand. And now he's holding.
- 57:01His packet? He's holding his packet because
- 57:05he's not getting work. And fuck that I You've got to
- 57:10look like money with that machine and put it now.
- 57:16The people that already have that machine and have now you go
- 57:19and you have to undercut them in order to get just so you can
- 57:22take off that machine. There's always a way to do
- 57:26things. You just have to or and figure
- 57:29out advertising. I've done in all my business
- 57:33life I've done every type of advertising guys radio, TV,
- 57:38newspaper, mailings, banners, over in the planes, billboards,
- 57:45everything you can ask. I've done with advertising and
- 57:51the way I when they come in to sell me advertising, I say if it
- 57:55works, I'm going to love and you're going to be my best
- 57:58friend and if it doesn't work, I'm going to hate you and I'll
- 58:02never do business with you but a time frame you.
- 58:07See what? I do is cover the cost of the
- 58:13product and the ad. That's all I'm looking to do.
- 58:17I'm not even looking to make a profit because this is this is
- 58:21the way I let's say I do a cigar ad and I sell 10 customers. 10
- 58:29customers buy my 10 bundle surprise for whatever I'm doing
- 58:34and I make no more of as the cost of the product I'm making
- 58:40zero. The way I think I have the
- 58:43possibility of those people reordering and become good
- 58:48customers. So one of the I don't know
- 58:52shipment. I always write a handwritten
- 58:55note that always that I have 160.
- 59:01I'm writing 160. And it's not just thank you.
- 59:07I throw in a lot of my boxes. I'm doing it for a few reasons.
- 59:11Number one, I personally love getting free.
- 59:15I do. That's just who I am.
- 59:16When someone I enjoy it I but I sent out the swag for example an
- 59:24air freshener with my logo on it.
- 59:26Well be honest, it's a two tiered freak and it makes your
- 59:31car smell good because it actually does smell good.
- 59:33Smells like Cologne but you're looking at when you get in the
- 59:38car you're like got me some Kiki momo service so I'm always in
- 59:41front of you. So that's how I think about
- 59:43that. Right.
- 59:46OK. OK.
- 59:47So now we, I'm going to tell you right now, Keith, I'm smoking.
- 59:53I'm smoking your Stars and Stripes and not because you're
- 59:55here. And you know, I've always been
- 59:57up front with you, even when you sent this to pack two years ago.
- 1:00:01This is an awesome cigar. So on that note, we have a
- 1:00:06question for you. So Joey still has a code for
- 1:00:10you, so we want to. With that I have views and
- 1:00:15actually send people to because I've had people ask me about
- 1:00:19your stuff and I said, listen, I've had his cigars.
- 1:00:21I can't tell you how many times over I said you're not.
- 1:00:24Just like I've always told you, Keith, I said you're never going
- 1:00:26to be disappointed with his stuff.
- 1:00:29So I'm like, so go get him. I said even even here I said I
- 1:00:32even have a code. I said use that, get yourself a
- 1:00:35little bit of a discount. I said order whatever you want.
- 1:00:37I said and just I said and I always, I always refer them like
- 1:00:41I did, you know, to your your sample packs that have a little
- 1:00:45bit of everything. I said if you want to try a
- 1:00:47little bit of everything always I say get one or two different
- 1:00:51samplers and you can get different sizes, you know,
- 1:00:54different wrappers. And I said there's a Maduro, a
- 1:00:56Connecticut, a Habano just exclusive sampler.
- 1:00:58I said then you get you know the Barber poles and the the Tri
- 1:01:02wraps and all this other stuff. I said just go on and explore.
- 1:01:05I said you might wind up with, you know, 30 cigars before you
- 1:01:07realize it. So Joey, how about we put that
- 1:01:11out there right now while Keith is out on?
- 1:01:13Him. So actually it's already it's
- 1:01:14already in the comments on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch,
- 1:01:20everywhere. If you go on his website and you
- 1:01:22use code, the one Joey VTHAONE, Joey V, you get yourself a
- 1:01:28discount, you know, and and you're going to get great cigars
- 1:01:32for the pricing. I mean, you can't beat it at
- 1:01:33all. There's not really anything out
- 1:01:36there that that compares. The endorsement I had the other
- 1:01:41day said my my one, my screw #175 was as good as the Cohiba.
- 1:01:48The Hickey I've had other oh really blows me away.
- 1:01:54When I hear stuff like that, I've gotten compared and I'm
- 1:01:57just as good as own. Gurkha let me.
- 1:02:01See if. I can find the cat a lot of.
- 1:02:05That is a that is a blessing that that you are you are that
- 1:02:10high up as and I and I say this with respect as a boutique cigar
- 1:02:15company and I say that because you know you're not Arturo
- 1:02:19Fuente, you're not Gurkha, you're not Cohiba.
- 1:02:23You're not shits. What what the hell am I?
- 1:02:28I don't know. Whatever it is you're you're
- 1:02:30just a boutique cigar company and you know, you started it
- 1:02:34with your retirement. This was supposed to be
- 1:02:37retirement for you. And it's supposed to be fun.
- 1:02:39And it turned into a full time job, you know and I'm sure, and
- 1:02:44you. Know.
- 1:02:44Smiling. Yes, he did.
- 1:02:46Enjoying it? So, you know, and The thing is
- 1:02:49the reason we're on so late today because my brother Keith
- 1:02:54plays tennis. And guess what, I'm not going to
- 1:02:57interfere with a guy playing tennis because I used to play
- 1:02:59golf until I injured my shoulder.
- 1:03:01So, you know, he wanted to come on.
- 1:03:03So we got him on. So you know, Keith, I got to
- 1:03:06tell you, man, and I'm always going to tell you this, your
- 1:03:10cigars are so good. And I and you know, I tell
- 1:03:15people, you know, order them. I said if you shoot an e-mail,
- 1:03:21Big Talk sent you, Boss Talk sent you, he'll know.
- 1:03:24I said I'm not going to tell you he's going to give you a
- 1:03:25discount, but just tell him I sent you.
- 1:03:28And you know, whatever he sends you, he sends you.
- 1:03:30I said I don't know what he's going to send you.
- 1:03:32He's going. To send you.
- 1:03:33I air freshener. I said, listen, I got an air
- 1:03:36freshener hat. I said.
- 1:03:37When I first spoke to him, it was on a whim.
- 1:03:40We were sitting outside having a couple pops and he jumped on my
- 1:03:44life and we had a great conversation.
- 1:03:46And to this day, Keith, I will always promote your cigars
- 1:03:50because you do a lot for the industry, you do a lot for vets
- 1:03:55and you know I hear a lot of good stuff.
- 1:03:59And you know somebody said to me, oh, as a matter of fact I
- 1:04:03was on a live the other day with cigar vets that had a Buffalo
- 1:04:07and I told him about you. I said reach out to Kiki Momo.
- 1:04:13I said I'm going to have him on tomorrow.
- 1:04:15I said reach out to Kiki Momo and just tell him I sent you and
- 1:04:18explain to them what you do, what they do.
- 1:04:21Cassange Patel also gives out like this month he's doing, this
- 1:04:26month he's doing, he's doing a whole a whole month of first
- 1:04:31responders and and vets. They pay what he pays for them.
- 1:04:38So I said to them, reach out to Kiki Momo, explain to him what
- 1:04:41you do, what they do, their little cigar group out of
- 1:04:45Buffalo. And what they do is they sent
- 1:04:48the cigars to everybody. That's active duty all over the
- 1:04:52world that cannot make it home for the holidays, you know?
- 1:04:56And I said reach out to him, tell him I sent you.
- 1:04:59I said he's a great dude. And I said, listen, I said he's
- 1:05:03not going to give you a hard time, just explain to him and
- 1:05:05you know he'll help you out. But like I said to you, you know
- 1:05:09I'm smoking stars and stripes. And let me tell you Keith, I
- 1:05:12didn't have this one before. I saved this just for today.
- 1:05:17This one is on the money, On the money Makes me happy to hear
- 1:05:22that stuff it. Does.
- 1:05:28You know, and we appreciate you coming on here, my brother.
- 1:05:31Yeah. Thanks for joining us, ma'am.
- 1:05:33We appreciate you. You know, it was like, you know,
- 1:05:36we were sitting here the other day and you know, beyond our
- 1:05:43control something happened and I said let me heat Keith up and
- 1:05:46and then timeslot just happened in the fall and I said well, you
- 1:05:51know, Keith plays tennis at like 10:10 and we.
- 1:05:53Did tell everybody that we were eventually going to have you on.
- 1:05:56We just had to line everything up and here we go, everything
- 1:05:59aligned and here we go. So you know, so if you guys
- 1:06:04order, make sure you heard it from here.
- 1:06:06Tell him you heard our turnbuckles and stogies, The one
- 1:06:10Joey VTHATHA, Joey V for a discount.
- 1:06:15Tell him you heard our turnbuckles and stogies and I'm
- 1:06:18sure if you're a vet first responder Heath will take care
- 1:06:23of you. He always takes care of you,
- 1:06:25even if you're a regular customer.
- 1:06:26You know what I mean? I will say I will be ordering.
- 1:06:31Again, I will be ordering from you again.
- 1:06:32By the way, thank. You I just have to figure out
- 1:06:35what I'm going to order. You got so many cigars.
- 1:06:39I'm like, it's like, you know, I'm sitting here listening to
- 1:06:42you saying that you had all them cigars.
- 1:06:44It's like Hell's Kitchen I. Know.
- 1:06:47Right when? When they go into Hell's Kitchen
- 1:06:49and he and they have the menu, it's like 40 pages, it goes,
- 1:06:53what the hell is this? How you going to order 40 pages
- 1:06:58of food? Nightmares.
- 1:07:01Some of the things that have happened that have have caused
- 1:07:04problems. When I send out an order, now
- 1:07:08every single order gets a catalog and and This is why
- 1:07:14people were coming up to fitting and they're like, oh, I had to
- 1:07:17watch the best cigar I ever had. Which is it?
- 1:07:22How do I remember right? Every single cell of fame, we
- 1:07:30put a skew number. Right.
- 1:07:34Yeah. So if everybody wants what I
- 1:07:38have, the one I have is skew one O 8, which is the Maduro 6 by
- 1:07:4260. Let me see what find is.
- 1:07:46Hold on, I got. I'm looking, so look at that.
- 1:07:48I can't see. Oh, it doesn't.
- 1:07:50It's faded a 137. You got one 37130?
- 1:07:547. Garbage strands are very
- 1:07:56distinctive. You can probably find it 30.
- 1:08:00Seven. Very good.
- 1:08:01Very. Honestly, Like I said, I don't
- 1:08:04say it if I don't mean it. And this is a fantastic cigar.
- 1:08:07I enjoyed it very much and I'll be ordering myself as well.
- 1:08:12Oh. Molly.
- 1:08:14I listen. I powerhouse mine.
- 1:08:15Holy moly. Keep looking at it.
- 1:08:19She powerhoused it. Look, he he's a he's a
- 1:08:21powerhouse. He's a powerhouse.
- 1:08:23I'm still smoking it. Look.
- 1:08:27So. Keith, we appreciate you coming
- 1:08:29on my brother. Thanks.
- 1:08:32So much and hopefully you'll have me on.
- 1:08:37Thanks for having me on We'll. Finish what you were going to
- 1:08:39say. No.
- 1:08:42Finish. Finish what you were saying.
- 1:08:45People is when they see this people that they should mark it
- 1:08:48in the catalog, whether they like it, whether they and I tell
- 1:08:52them to grade it because when they go on, hey, they don't have
- 1:08:57to ask what do they try? They could look at their
- 1:09:00catalog. Oh, this one.
- 1:09:01I rated it. I know I love it When I rated it
- 1:09:04as seven. I don't and things like that.
- 1:09:08Just try to making it easier for me.
- 1:09:11No, that's a good. Idea.
- 1:09:12That's a great idea, Keith. I like that idea.
- 1:09:14And some some of you boutique cigar owners should take some
- 1:09:17notes from my brother right there.
- 1:09:19Because you know what? Listen, like Joey does, we have
- 1:09:23sandwich bags of of labels all over the house.
- 1:09:29Lighters, cutters, everything. All over the house we have
- 1:09:32sandwich bags. And I'm like, no, don't get rid
- 1:09:35of that. It has this special label.
- 1:09:37What label? I don't know what's in there.
- 1:09:39So, yeah, so Joey over here collects labels.
- 1:09:42Because I'm I'm going to eventually use it for something
- 1:09:44I just have to figure. Out what?
- 1:09:45So Keith, we appreciate you coming on my brother.
- 1:09:48Thank you. And make sure your order for my
- 1:09:50man kikimomo.com. Tell him that Joey the one.
- 1:09:54Joey V Central, get your discount.
- 1:09:56Code and check out. Tell him you heard it on
- 1:09:58Turnbuckles and Stogies. Do it on a discount on he will
- 1:10:01be. Back, by the way.
- 1:10:03We're going to, we're going to come back.
- 1:10:04We're going to have you back on. Indeed, if it's OK, I'd like to
- 1:10:07pick your brain sometime and chat with you another time as
- 1:10:10well, if that's OK and cool with you your schedule when you're
- 1:10:14free. All right, brother.
- 1:10:16What time you want? Thank you guys.
- 1:10:20My heart talk to you, my brother.
- 1:10:21Thank you for everything. We.
- 1:10:22Appreciate. Have a great day.
- 1:10:23Enjoy your weekend. That was fantastic, dude.
- 1:10:29Now I love that guy. I love that the first time he's.
- 1:10:32Met him. He's such a.
- 1:10:33Man, I love that we got to get him back on again.
- 1:10:37Soon. Like I said, I'd love to pick
- 1:10:40his brain sometime. Just in general, just about
- 1:10:43cigar or the back. Whatever.
- 1:10:45It's like a fascinating guy. It's like I said OG as.
- 1:10:48Our producer. Me and Joey.
- 1:10:50Me and Joey was sitting outside one day.
- 1:10:53We were sitting outside one day and keep was in my comments and
- 1:10:56I said to him, why don't you jump on.
- 1:10:58So he jumps on and he's in the pool like this.
- 1:11:01Like let's say you're under the pool, he's in the pool like
- 1:11:03this. He's got his little tan on and
- 1:11:06I'm like, what do you smoke? And he goes Kiki momo, I said,
- 1:11:09and what is that? He goes, it's my own cigars.
- 1:11:11I go, where do I find him? He goes DME address he.
- 1:11:15Sent us 3 cigars. He sent us 3 cigars.
- 1:11:17And they were the best 3 cigars I smoked that summer.
- 1:11:22Fantastic. All right, guys.
- 1:11:23I got brought on board as an ambassador and, you know, here
- 1:11:27we are. So there are a few other
- 1:11:28ambassadors. This is a great show.
- 1:11:30Let's recap real quick for everybody.
- 1:11:33Oh, we. Still, we still got one more
- 1:11:37thing left to touch on. We still got it turning point of
- 1:11:44the week. You want I got to finish that up
- 1:11:49in the. Screen.
- 1:11:50Oh, we got it through there. We'll do the turning.
- 1:11:53Point and then we'll head on there.
- 1:11:54Now brush. More and then we're out.
- 1:11:56We'll be out for the day, guys. So let's do the.
- 1:11:59Turning point, turning point. Hit Job for this All right,
- 1:12:12Turning. Point Yeah, we got what do.
- 1:12:14We got. What do we got?
- 1:12:21Are you waiting for a question or to the turning point of the
- 1:12:27week? What was the turning point of
- 1:12:29the week for this week? Turning point of the week.
- 1:12:32I have to go with my turning point of the week.
- 1:12:34It has to be. I got to go back to to war
- 1:12:38games, man. I I am just.
- 1:12:41Yes, See I I I. Thought the end was fantastic.
- 1:12:44I thought they blew it up with raining and then you see them
- 1:12:46punk on top of that, you know, That's my turning.
- 1:12:48Point my My turning point of the league would have to be dynamite
- 1:12:52from Wednesday. I did not catch that one day,
- 1:12:55but I was working so I couldn't well this.
- 1:12:57Wednesday night. I'm working again.
- 1:13:00I think it's Wednesday, yeah, because they didn't do it
- 1:13:01yesterday or Friday. Some mojo.
- 1:13:08Well, I don't watch grass swing. I don't.
- 1:13:11Watch You know it. Oh yeah, I mean.
- 1:13:14But there there's. There's and I think.
- 1:13:20Streamier's having issues so AW, you got dynamite rampage and
- 1:13:24collision. It's Wednesday, Friday and
- 1:13:26Saturday. On Wednesday night, the Devil's
- 1:13:29Hedgeman came out and tried to beat up MJF.
- 1:13:35Joe came out, made the save the Devil, then popped on the screen
- 1:13:39after ATW lost video for about 30 seconds.
- 1:13:43Yeah. Oh wow.
- 1:13:45Big big hit on the production people for that one.
- 1:13:48I know things happened, but I'm sure that wasn't happy because
- 1:13:52the devil came on the screen as soon as they got back.
- 1:13:54But it was already over and. Nobody knows who the devil is
- 1:13:57still. And he came on the screen and
- 1:13:59there was, you know, 3 teleprompter prompts that were
- 1:14:02put up and you know it said you think you're a hero.
- 1:14:07Max, Are you ready? And it said, Are you ready to
- 1:14:10face your fears and face the unknown in A tag team match?
- 1:14:15Wednesday on. Dynamite.
- 1:14:17So it's two of it's two of the masked Hench men, Devil's
- 1:14:23advocates, whatever you want to call them versus MJF and Samoa
- 1:14:28Joe. Oh wow.
- 1:14:30I I think that was the turning point for.
- 1:14:33DVR that. So who will be that?
- 1:14:35Because they're going into we. Know it's not.
- 1:14:37Actually December. What is it December 30th or
- 1:14:41December 27th? Well, December 30th is a Sunday,
- 1:14:44so it's. Probably the 30th.
- 1:14:45December 30th is a Saturday. Then it's got to be December
- 1:14:4830th. My birthday's on a Sunday.
- 1:14:50Is World's End and it's going to be Samoa Joe versus MJF.
- 1:14:56So they're, they're. I mean, would I like to see the
- 1:14:59devil unmasked then? Yes.
- 1:15:01Do I think they're going to probably drag this out to full
- 1:15:03gear? Probably.
- 1:15:05Most likely. But then again, I I don't know.
- 1:15:08I mean, could Samoa Joe be the man that's controlling the devil
- 1:15:12and everybody? It could be, you know, like a
- 1:15:14higher power, so to say. But.
- 1:15:16Now let's do our Mount Rushmore as per Coupe.
- 1:15:20All right, let's finish off. Who do you got?
- 1:15:22My Mount Rushmore is the boogie woogie man Johnny Valley.
- 1:15:27Jimmy Valley, OK. OK, then we have the wild
- 1:15:34Samoans, OK. OK.
- 1:15:40Then we're going to have, obviously, my brother, Jimmy
- 1:15:45Snooker. OK.
- 1:15:47What? I got two more.
- 1:15:49No, technically you would have one more because you usually put
- 1:15:53the wild Samoans on the tag team.
- 1:15:56But that you can do. That you could put them together
- 1:15:57as one because there was, there was obviously there was a lot of
- 1:16:00Wild, there was a lot of different incarnations of the
- 1:16:01Wild. Smoke.
- 1:16:02Yeah, there was. And then we got.
- 1:16:04So you got two more technically. Then we're going to do Can't
- 1:16:11forget my brother, SD Jones. All right.
- 1:16:15I'll put him pretty good. Put him up there.
- 1:16:19So what's that? For and that's it.
- 1:16:21So that's it. OK, so I'm going to go
- 1:16:24backwards. My number 4, I'm going to start
- 1:16:26at four, my #4. And you're going to you're going
- 1:16:32to give me the eyebrow on this one.
- 1:16:33But my number four is Rick Flair.
- 1:16:38Whoa. That's my #4.
- 1:16:40My #3 is. Is a rock.
- 1:16:44Oh, sugar. My #2 is superstar Billy Graham
- 1:16:47number. One is probably.
- 1:16:48And my number one is the Undertaker.
- 1:16:52That's my brother. That's my Mount Rochmore.
- 1:16:54There it is folks. That's the end of our show.
- 1:16:56Listen, make sure you tune in next week turnbuckles and
- 1:16:59stogies. Don't forget about our contest.
- 1:17:03Make sure you more detail for that And thank you again to
- 1:17:07Keith. Thanks, Keith.
- 1:17:09We appreciate that too. Thanks.
- 1:17:10Thank you to H and Turnbuckles, Let's ring that bell.
- 1:17:14Ring that bell, Hit that. Be good, everybody.
- 1:17:24That's the show for today, everyone.
- 1:17:25Thanks for listening. We'll be back next week with an
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- 1:17:41And thanks for joining us today. I'd like to take a moment to
- 1:17:45talk.