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Turnbuckles & Stogies-We are back live!! With alot to talk about · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Turnbuckles and stogies. Yo, what is up?
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  What is up? Yo, Happy Sunday.
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  Another Sunday with your favorite Hostess with the
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  mostess. Oh my God.
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  I'm doing a rest of. My I like that I.
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  Said hey. On the Brooklyn Wheel.
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  We're not in Brooklyn, so we're in upstate New York in Dutchess
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  County. I'm originally from.
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  Raucous. I guess you guys don't know each
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  other that well. Yo, what is up?
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  What is up? Happy Sunday, Happy fun day.
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  It's another beautiful sunny day here in upstate New York.
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  We are chilling, we are just relaxing and maxing, waiting for
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  our guests to come on. He knows we're live.
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  I told them you. Know so we just like to say
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  welcome to another show and. We're back live this week guys,
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  don't worry. We took a week off.
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  We might take another week off, depends on how we feel.
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  Yeah, but you know what, if we take a week off, it's not going
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  to be without content or something.
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  So because last week we didn't put nothing out for you guys.
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  Yeah, we didn't do nothing last week.
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  We were tired. We were shot this weekend.
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  Oh, on the 10th we have. What's your name coming up?
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  Yours. Yeah, should be coming to hang
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  out. I don't know if we're going to
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  film anything, but we'll see. We'll see.
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  I do want to get the tent up here because I'm going to put
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  the tent up. We'll see.
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  Well, if we don't need it, though, we don't.
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  We don't have to put the tent up.
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  We may not even need it. So I got to bring up the other
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  chair. So what's going on, everybody?
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  Let's talk about some wrestling. What?
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  Are what are we going to talk about?
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  Let's talk about some wrestling. What are we going to talk about?
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  Or should I say, what do you want to talk about?
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  Because there was a. Lot of shit this week there.
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  Was a lot that went on just last night.
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  Actually, just all day yesterday you had Worlds Collide at 3:00,
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  Money in the Bank at 7:00, MLW War Chamber at 10:00.
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  GCW we were watching just now that.
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  Was at 5:00. Yesterday was a busy day for
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  wrestling. Very, very busy.
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  Especially if you were in New York and New Jersey, you had GCW
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  from 5:00 on. You had House of Glory, Mike
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  Santana's Puerto Rican weekend. Yeah.
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  I think that was it, but GCW went all day from 5:00 on, I'm
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  going to say till like 10 or 12. And then today they have Cage of
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  survival and that starts at 5:00 and that's a two or three hour
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  affair. Oh, hello.
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  Who's that's? Just me sharing it out.
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  Nope, that's our guest. Can't get on, so our guest today
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  is Elgalan Cigars. So when he comes on, we'll get
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  him in here. But I do got to say I do like
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  that WWE brought back Ron Truth Killings, AKA Ron Killings.
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  That's what he's going by now. Well.
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  He's going by his actual name, which is Ron Killings.
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  Well, that's not as real, man. Yeah, it is.
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  So, you know, it's been a busy week for us.
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  We actually Friday night we went to a event with Fred from
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  Espanol Pure Cigars. We actually got Fred booked for
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  that event and then we went there.
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  Guy throws a big event every year and he has everybody under
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  the sun there. Now he wants to do, he wants to
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  do micro wrestling, micro wrestling and mini kiss and
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  micro kiss, mini kiss. So, you know, so we'll wait and
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  see what happens there. I'm sorry guys, I'm trying to
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  help our guests get on, you know?
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  I guess as a translator, because he doesn't speak English when he
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  talks to Joey, they both got to use Google Translate.
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  So, you know, but I smoked one of his cigars.
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  This is the other one. I'm getting ready to smoke the
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  sentimental. When he gets on, I'll light it
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  up. I think it's a Bono, I think.
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  I actually have all that information that we can actually
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  pull up I. Think it's a Bono so.
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  So, yeah, so last night was Worldwide AAA and WWE.
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  That is the first time in 31 years since the first event.
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  And it's been 31 years since that event.
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  And Rey Mysterio is a part of the first one and this one, and
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  I don't think it's the last we see of this one.
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  Nope, Nope. Because.
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  It it was. The OT from Mexico came on and
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  said this is 31 years old and Rey Mysterio said I was 16 when
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  I started. Yep, that was a good event.
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  That was from start to finish. That event was absolutely
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  phenomenal. Oh, he's got his translator.
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  We, we had a blast watching that event.
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  That was fantastic to finally see somebody like myself who's a
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  fan of that type of wrestling, the lucha libre style and you
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  know, the fast-paced action that was that was big for me to watch
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  on on, even though it was on YouTube.
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  To see them get that national exposure right that they so well
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  deserved for how many years now, correct.
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  I mean, really look at all the products that came out of there.
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  You know, as much as people don't like to mention his name,
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  you had Del Rio come out of there.
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  You had Rey Mysterio, Pentagon, Ray, Phoenix, Conan, Eddie, Art,
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  Bar Negro, Casas. I mean, you got everybody come
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  out of there. Just about everybody who has
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  come from that style has either come through that system or
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  trained in that system. And always remember lucha libre.
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  They all work. They do they.
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  Do they all work The left they? Work the left side.
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  That's just how they're taught. Like we all work in in the
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  American style, you work the right side.
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  Correct. You work with the right side,
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  correct? Lucha libre, you work with the
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  left side. Japan, they just work with
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  everything. Yeah, Japan just breaks you down
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  from top to bottom, and that's too bad if you don't like it.
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  We're just being serious now that that was that World's
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  Collide show was, I mean, the reception they got, you know,
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  from the, the lucha libre wrestler, it's from the from the
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  AAA wrestlers to the to the WWE guys to the NXT kids that were a
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  part of it. You know, that shows that a lot
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  of those guys can hang on the mainstage, right?
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  You know, especially with Lola Vice and and Javon Evans, you
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  know, going out and showing out like that with, you know,
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  Stephanie Vacair dollies, Chica Tormenta, you know, to to be
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  able to do that and hang with them was insane, you know, and
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  then V Kingo to come out and get the reception.
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  He got wrestling Chad Gable, which was awesome.
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  You know, that was an absolutely fantastic show from top to
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  bottom. And actually you got a match out
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  of that show because in the first match with Octagon,
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  Dominic Mysterio and him attacked each other and they got
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  a match on Money in the Bank, right?
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  So that's, that's your, that's what I mean by the national
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  exposure nationwide. Worldwide exposure is, you know,
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  he went from that to AAA and now he went from AAA earlier in the
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  day, which a lot of the guys did from AAA.
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  What's collide? They went to Money in the Bank.
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  You had Stephanie who competed earlier El Grande Americano,
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  which is sounds like a latte. Grande Americano, We all know
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  what CB means. No CG is Chad Gable.
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  CG is Chad Gable. But that'll be that'll be
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  released at a later date, I'm sure.
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  Again, Money in the Bank was another show that was top to
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  bottom really good. They had five matches, six
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  matches. And that show from top to bottom
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  was good. The men, the men's Money in the
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  Bank obviously, as always, shows out.
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  The women showed out like they should have for that match.
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  John Cena and Logan Paul and Jay and Cody.
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  Obviously it was a show to begin with.
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  And then you have Ron and truth killings and.
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  Then Ron Killings came back and laid out John Cena.
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  Now where you go with that? I think you go with that and the
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  next event they run that. They run that back and let Ron
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  be Ron. Correct.
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  They let him be the star that he can be, the N.W.A champion, you
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  know, that former championship lineage that he has.
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  They should just let him be that.
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  What? Are both fields.
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  No, that. Yeah, I think so.
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  So, you know, I'm. I'm curious to see where they go
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  with Ron now. I don't.
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  Know. I I'm not that our truth wasn't
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  good, but I kind of, I think the R truth gimmick itself ran its
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  course. You know what?
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  I forgot, I forgot my new hat. I have a new hat for you people.
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  I'm going to go get it when we take this commercial, you know.
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  What I mean, I think I think that ran its course at this
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  point, the R truth gimmick and it's not it wasn't wasn't a bad
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  gimmick. But now I think it's time he he
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  drops the R truth and he comes out as Ron killings or Ron the
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  truth killings, however you want to do it.
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  But it's going forward that Ron Killings is the name he's going
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  to go by. We'll see what they do with
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  that. And let's give a shout out to
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  MBR Radio. Let's give a shout out to BAMF
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  Cigars. Espinaputo cigars, which by the
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  way, Speaking of Espinaputo, when we were with him on Friday,
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  he gave us a taste or two, actually two of his new
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  unreleased cigars that are coming out soon called The
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  Little Beast. And it is.
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  It is fantastic. Y'all better have a fucking
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  sandwich. It's going to be.
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  It's not a. Y'all better have a sandwich
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  before you eat it. It's going to be a fantastic
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  show. Actually, what's going on?
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  Right, That's him. So that'll be that's going to be
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  a fantastic cigar for when you guys come out.
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  We'll have him back on the show with that one.
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  Yes, he's going to come back. Already spoke to him, that's a
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  done deal. He's going to be back.
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  So you know, that's something you guys are going to look
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  forward to. But I mean, listen, if you
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  didn't go watch Worlds Collide yesterday then.
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  You're fucked up if. You didn't watch Money in the
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  Bank yesterday. I suggest that you go back
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  today. Not even watch now.
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  It's falling today. Right today, today on Sunday
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  after the show at 12:30. I suggest you guys I.
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  Was falling asleep. Go on.
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  YouTube watch Worlds Collide and I suggest you go to Peacock and
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  you watch Money in the Bank. Money in the bank was slim.
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  And when you're done on with Money in the Bank and What's
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  Collide, what you can do is you can go to YouTube and you can
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  watch Major League Wrestling's War Chamber because that again,
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  was a great show. And then obviously you guys
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  don't have Thriller. Most of you might not.
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  If you do, I suggest you go watch Thriller if you're a A
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  well, Thriller has a little bit of everything for everybody, not
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  just GCW, not just all the other shows.
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  They have another show as well. You can go back and watch their
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  their first two shows, right? ACW, you could go watch the
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  Poughkeepsie Rumble and you could go watch Oh my God, what's
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  the name of the second show? I forget.
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  I don't know, but the third show is coming up in the third.
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  Show Fallout is coming up July 18th, so you should definitely
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  go watch those as well on their awesome Championship Wrestling
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  shows were phenomenal. I mean, you watch both shows,
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  they were awesome. They were very good.
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  They were good, they were fantastic.
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  They were good shows. For a new company starting out
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  to have those two shows back-to-back within a couple of
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  months of each other? And then to bring Raven in.
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  Raven Dreamer. Dreamer.
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  Crowbar. I mean, this guy's outrageous.
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  They're they're doing Joe Gertner.
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  Who turned on him, by the way? Yeah.
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  But you know that those shows were were phenomenal.
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  If you're a deathmatch fan or appreciate that art of
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  wrestling, that's that's on there as well with GCW and Game
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  Changer Wrestling. I was in the middle of actually
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  watching Tournament Survival 10 before I came on here, and now
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  tonight at 5:00 is Cage's Survival.
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  So it's going to be, I think the main event is Joey Janella and
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  Atticus Kogar in a dog collar match inside the cage.
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  That's going to be fun. That's going to be interesting.
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  That's going to be very fun, so. Guys, we got to take a
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  commercial break. Yep.
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  Our guest is here, so we're going to take a break.
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  We're going. To take a break and we'll be
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  right back. See you.
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  And I got to show you guys the new updated logo too when we
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  come back that I worked on and revamped.
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  Yo, what is up? What is up?
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  We are back. I am the big dog, he is the
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  vanilla gorilla and we are the best podcast on the Internet.
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  directly from what I got, 'cause I I didn't get this somebody it
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  also appears as #53 for cigar brands and 74 for special
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  appearances. So that's what we do.
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  So now ladies and gentlemen, we bringing on our guest, Mr. Felix
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  Messer and El Galan. Cigars.
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  Oh my gosh, give me a second. There we go.
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  The interview of the week is brought to you by Jersey Mikes,
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  a sub above. And we are here guys.
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  We are here 1 and 2. Welcome, welcome.
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  Bueno Dia. Bueno Dia, how you?
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  Doing good morning. So basically he's telling the
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  audience that I'll be translating for him at no
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  charge. Well, I.
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  Appreciate you taking your time out of your busy schedule to
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  come on. He's a he's a great friend of
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  mine. It's a pleasure, pleasure.
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  It's a pleasure joining you guys.
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  So basically his name is Felix Mesa from El Gallant Cigars and
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  he'll be and you guys will take over and I'll just be the the
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  middleman in a good way. So.
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  So how long have you been doing cigars, Felix?
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  Felix EO queren savel por cuanto tiempo utea
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  in the cigar industry in the United States.
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  He started it in 2010 with El Gallant Cigars.
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  But if you trace his roots back to Cuba, his family, he's
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  actually a fourth generation cigar grower and cigar maker.
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  So he's actually the he's the 4th generation.
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  Wow, You know, we, we've had people like that on here and we
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  appreciate them. Again, like I said, and I
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  appreciate him sending us cigars because the other box is still
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  the other box is still the. Other box is still somewhere.
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  In the post office. We have no idea where.
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  It is the one that he sent overnight.
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  We got the next day. The other one is still floating
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  around somewhere because I, I, I filed A complaint with the post
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  office and I still haven't seen it.
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  So, you know, just let him know that, that you know, it's still
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  floating around. As soon as I get it, I'll let
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  him know. Yeah, the important thing is
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  that at least you have something that you can try
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  today. Enjoy SO.
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  I'm smoking the sentimento. The big one, The big one, Toro.
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  Sizes. Yeah.
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  So is this Albano or Connecticut?
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  Check this out guys, I have my own so El queresa re SE
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  sentimento E la capa ES albano or siete Connecticut.
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  No. Did I get one capa ET una capa
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  guano pero E Clara? He says that it the wrapper is a
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  Havano, but it's a lighter Havano, but it is definitely a
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  Havano wrapper. I told you that.
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  One's in my box. I don't I didn't smoke that one
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  yet. I'm.
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  Sweating, I said to my son, when I took it out, I said this looks
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  like a very light Habano and I'm not a big Connecticut fan, so
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  I'm like, this is a Habano and I didn't taste it until I brought
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  you guys on. But I got to say, when we got
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  his cigars the other day, I smoked a small one.
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  What was it, Joe? I saw, yes.
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  The the small one. Oh my God, man, I was like blown
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  away. I was like, whoa.
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  It's that that's the one. I have a picture as well.
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  That is a flavor bomb. Yeah.
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  He says those cigars, the smaller one that's like a
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  special edition and the what he uses for the blend, especially
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  for the wrapper, it's his own special edition, limited edition
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  from Nicaraguan by him in Nicaragua.
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  Wow, So, so let me ask you this. What's up, man?
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  So tell us a little bit about yourself and, and, and you know,
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  tell us how you already said how you got in it, but tell us what
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  made you want to put out your own cigars.
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  In 2000, what was it 2002, 1000? 10 yo vengo dona cuarta heracion
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  de una familia cuana por parte madre Y parte Padre Y entonce
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  aradia Y como de jasa amente no trope en cua de cread Marca
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  propia El saline de cua tu ES initiative opera El savel El
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  Mundo El nombre MI familia is representa MI familia.
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  So he states that he actually his general, his mom and dad,
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  both those generations on both his father's side and his
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  mother's sides are both the both the tobacco growers and cigar
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  makers. But unfortunately in Cuba, you
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  cannot create your own personal brand.
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  Everything is government controlled.
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  So when he came to the United States, he wanted to pay homage
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  to his family and to that history.
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  So he created the company which is called El Galan Cigars.
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  And it's, even though he didn't mention, I can mention real
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  quick, El Galan is like a gentleman that dresses extremely
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  well, very, you know, and in the cigar industry in Cuba, they're
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  they're known the oldest generation for always dressing
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  very nice when they do the events.
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  And that name was what they used to call his grandfather El
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  Galan, the Handsome 1. So that's the name and he'll
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  tell you about other things, but other names are also family
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  related. But I'll let it come up to that.
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  But yes, that's what happens. So as an honor on homage to his
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  family, he created his own brand here where he could in the
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  United States, where he was free to have his own brand.
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  OK. So has he, has he gotten to any
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  stores in in the United States? Has is he in any stores or you
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  know? Yes, but I'll let him.
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  In New Jersey, Florida. In Colorado, In Connectico.
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  Yeah, so I'm sure the states you you recognize, but he's in
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  Georgia. He's in Florida, Colorado,
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  Connecticut, and in the state of New Jersey.
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  He has three upcoming events. And if you allow me to on
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  Thursday, yes, on Thursday, June 12th, he'll be at the Cigar
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  Emporium and that's at Six O 7 Ridge Rd. and that it's in
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  Lindhurst, New Jersey. On the 13th he has another event
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  coming up which is at the the Cigar Shop and that's at 568
• 30:50
  Bergen Blvd. that's in Richfield, NJ.
• 30:54
  And the third one coming up will be Saturday, June 14th and it's
• 30:58
  called Oroguano and that's at 744 N Delsey Dr., which is in
• 31:03
  Vilnon, also New Jersey. So those three events coming up
• 31:07
  in the state are coming up, but he is definitely in in lots of
• 31:11
  stores in here in Florida and other States and he'll be grown.
• 31:14
  Wow, you know that that that's amazing because you know Joey,
• 31:19
  Joey's seen him on like we have a friend of ours he.
• 31:23
  I've seen I've seen a few people post his cigars all over
• 31:27
  Instagram. That.
• 31:29
  Somebody hit me up and was like, hey, you should try to have him
• 31:31
  on. I had his cigars or you know, I
• 31:34
  tried one of his cigars that he had sent me and they were really
• 31:36
  good. You should reach out and and you
• 31:39
  know, see if you can have them on the show go.
• 31:43
  Ahead we. Try, we try to, we try to do
• 31:49
  like a lot of the boutiques of companies and and I say boutique
• 31:53
  because you know, we try to promote like you guys, like all
• 31:57
  the up and coming people. That's what we do.
• 32:00
  So, you know, so when Joey seen that, I was like, oh, let's
• 32:03
  research and. And honestly, the the bands for
• 32:07
  his cigars were very intriguing. Yes, the bands are very
• 32:10
  intriguing and I, you know, most people say how do you buy a
• 32:14
  cigar? I say look at the bands.
• 32:17
  You see you? I'm going to deviate.
• 32:18
  I'm going to let him. Well, first I'm going to let him
• 32:20
  know what you just said. Feli Elindika.
• 32:29
  The photos, the tobaccos and Instagram and social, et cetera.
• 33:07
  None. He says, So basically, before I
• 33:27
  give you the answer, you're like me.
• 33:29
  I tell people men are visual women filled with a heart.
• 33:31
  So I look at bands myself. So anyways, we have that in
• 33:34
  common. He also wanted me to let you
• 33:37
  know that he has his bands. Actually, they're the bands are
• 33:40
  also, if you look at the one you're smoking, which is I'm
• 33:42
  looking at it right now. That is, believe it or not, it's
• 33:45
  called Dona Nieves. OK.
• 33:47
  That is, that is his grandmother in the picture.
• 33:51
  Really. Yeah, she.
• 33:52
  Was they were all cigar growers, so.
• 33:54
  Wow, that is an actual. Picture of his grandmother yes,
• 33:57
  he sentimiento me his feelings and that one too.
• 34:01
  Yes, yes, so that one is yes, and the bands are designed by
• 34:07
  Mani Diarte. He's very I mean, if you haven't
• 34:10
  heard the name, he's super well known in history as a great
• 34:13
  designer and he's a personal friend of his and he's designed
• 34:16
  all his bands etcetera. But that's the I wanted to let
• 34:20
  you know eventually I was going to bring that up.
• 34:22
  That is his his grandmother. In the picture has a homage to
• 34:48
  her. He says the same that I told you
• 34:53
  that is a picture of your grandma.
• 34:54
  If you look at the picture, a lot of people say because of the
• 34:57
  way she dressed to protect from the sun, some people say, oh, it
• 35:00
  looks like an older man, but it actually says his grandmother.
• 35:03
  And so, like I said, it was homage to her.
• 35:07
  Somebody said the. One that.
• 35:09
  Several of Saddam's Cuban or several of Saddam's Cohibas and
• 35:13
  Monte Cristos. That's fun.
• 35:18
  I'm I'm sure they've been aged properly, but the one that I
• 35:26
  would like OK, the the other one that yes, that is.
• 35:32
  Yeah, that's the one. That that one is a limited
• 35:40
  edition, so trust me, you're it's a great cigar.
• 35:43
  I smoked them all, but that one is his that that that is just a
• 35:47
  special edition. He only makes certain amounts
• 35:49
  and that it's over. But it's really good.
• 35:52
  It's they're both showing me they're all excellent.
• 35:55
  So let me ask you this, excuse me, So the Grand Reserve, how
• 36:01
  many did he put out? And you can't buy them no more
• 36:04
  once they're done, right? El El Gran Reserve, Balquera.
• 36:17
  Cuantos si Sierra me. OK.
• 36:39
  In that particular cigar, it's H Pitola had 8000 cigars.
• 36:44
  He says the process of aging is, I mean, he's very picky.
• 36:48
  I know that it's the process of aging is very delicate for him.
• 36:53
  So he'll only do a certain amount and then in order for him
• 36:56
  to put him out in the market, he needs to make sure that the
• 36:58
  aging is again, properly done to put out the the the limited
• 37:03
  edition once again, it'll come out, but he waits for the right
• 37:07
  time. Otherwise, he's not going to put
• 37:08
  it out. So I like the.
• 37:13
  Fact that he takes a lot of pride in always and, and the
• 37:17
  blending of the cigars and, and all that because you get a lot
• 37:22
  of these, these companies that you see on on social media or
• 37:25
  wherever they're either white labeling projects like buying
• 37:29
  from somebody and putting their own stuff on it or, you know,
• 37:33
  they're they're blending, they're blending it, so to say,
• 37:36
  but then they're rushing it out. They're not taking the time to
• 37:39
  let it properly age and sit and, and, you know, let everything
• 37:44
  kind of, I guess, mixed together, so to say.
• 37:52
  Correct. El quad represent 2 number.
• 38:43
  So basically it's more or less he's telling me what you said
• 38:47
  yourself. He says that first of all, he
• 38:48
  has a lot of pride because it's his family name and he will not
• 38:51
  put a product out there that hasn't been aged properly,
• 38:54
  blended properly. Just like you said, he goes, I
• 38:56
  know a lot of people wait one 2-3 years and they put it on and
• 38:59
  they claim it's 10 years. He goes, I don't do that.
• 39:02
  If I put something in the market, I know it will be
• 39:04
  detected. But those that know, like you
• 39:06
  guys, so when you smoke you're going to say wow, this is the
• 39:09
  real deal, not something that was rushed.
• 39:11
  So he'll never do that because it represents his family name.
• 39:14
  And he will not, he will not, you know, make them do that.
• 39:19
  So how many years? How many years does he let the
• 39:22
  leaf age before you put? It.
• 40:11
  Siamo siamo Siam parte de MI familia SEM parte de MI de MI de
• 40:16
  MI trabajo do it. So for the limited editions, at
• 40:26
  least at least four years. Nothing.
• 40:28
  It has to be at least four years, if not a little more.
• 40:31
  But he goes, otherwise he'll not put it out.
• 40:32
  Why? Because when you smoke cigars,
• 40:35
  you become part of his family, part of his legacy and you he
• 40:38
  wants the public to enjoy it and not feel that they were, I'm
• 40:42
  going to use my own word like cheated, you know, by by selling
• 40:45
  something that it was not so those the limited minimum for
• 40:49
  years and and otherwise he'll not he will not put them in the
• 40:53
  market. OK.
• 40:54
  So we have a question here from somebody.
• 40:57
  It says How will the tariffs affect the cigar market?
• 41:28
  Yeah. He says that they're going to
• 41:36
  have to wait till everything settles down as far as like how
• 41:38
  much exactly the tariffs are going to be beat to see how it's
• 41:41
  going to change the game and if the the customer will be passed
• 41:45
  on, you know the cost of the tears.
• 41:49
  But he goes, it's a waiting game.
• 41:51
  It's still up and down. They don't know really yet, but
• 41:54
  he'll deal with it when it comes down.
• 41:57
  On a side note, and I know I'm deviating talking about somebody
• 42:01
  else, but Steve Saka did a really good thing of explanation
• 42:06
  of the tariffs. Yes, I was just going to say, I,
• 42:09
  I was just going to say if you go to Steve Saka's page, whether
• 42:13
  I think it's the Dunbarton page, he did like and he wrote up a
• 42:16
  great explanation of how it's going.
• 42:19
  That's why I hate Yeah the. Tariffs.
• 42:21
  So go ahead and tell everybody, I couldn't remember any of that
• 42:24
  if you tried. His.
• 42:25
  His. Explanation was so detailed and
• 42:27
  broke down really that he said you're not going to know, I
• 42:30
  think until like 2026 or something like that when it
• 42:33
  finally settles down, right? It was crazy.
• 42:37
  But you're not right now, I know like for example, in the
• 42:39
  industry, pretty much everything that's here already, some of
• 42:42
  them are down here in the warehouses.
• 42:44
  That's the regular price, let's call it that.
• 42:47
  OK. So new products that maybe
• 42:49
  they're making and ones it takes effect, those are the ones
• 42:52
  that'll be affected. So everybody's doing OK.
• 42:54
  If you want to be fair, whatever you have already pre tariffs,
• 42:57
  you sell them at that cost. And then when things change,
• 43:00
  then you deal with it. You you do your math and and and
• 43:03
  you deal with. It so the brand name for him is
• 43:09
  El Galan Cigars. Correct.
• 43:14
  Yes. Can people order directly from
• 43:16
  him? E OK, so he stays out of if
• 43:42
  anybody wants to buy wholesale, this company will.
• 43:56
  Sell wholesale, but in this case it's for a customer.
• 44:03
  And I forgot about there is a, a store down in here in Florida.
• 44:07
  It's in, in Broward County. It's called Cuenca cigars.
• 44:10
  They carry, I mean tons of cigars there and they have
• 44:13
  great, great prices. They do have free cigars and
• 44:15
  they do sell online. Anything they have in store they
• 44:18
  do sell online. So it's called Cuenca cigars,
• 44:22
  CUENCA Cuenca cigars and they do sell online.
• 44:27
  Yes, it'll. Post it up when we're done.
• 44:29
  This way, it's on it. So, people.
• 44:31
  Oh, when they go back 45 minute mark.
• 44:32
  Oh, got it. We got a commercial break.
• 44:35
  Commercial break to pay the bills and then we'll be back.
• 44:37
  We'll be right back, all. Right.
• 44:47
  Like I said, I don't know, OK? Yo, we are back.
• 49:25
  We are back. I am your host, the big dog, the
• 49:29
  vanilla gorilla, and this is turnbuckles is totally spot top
• 49:32
  100 on the Internet. So check us out.
• 49:35
  And today we have we have my man with us who owns El El.
• 49:42
  El. Galan cigars, Felix and his
• 49:45
  interpreter. So if you all don't understand,
• 49:49
  that's why we have him in there, because he doesn't speak
• 49:52
  English. So that's why we.
• 49:53
  Have that, but it's. OK.
• 49:54
  But it's OK because we bring everybody on.
• 49:57
  So now let's go. Oh, that's what I was pulling
• 50:01
  up. What?
• 50:04
  Somebody asks a question. No, no, no.
• 50:06
  Well, no. But where are they?
• 50:12
  So he's got a very big catalog for, as I say, a smaller
• 50:19
  company. He's got a very wide catalog of
• 50:24
  cigars and I noticed he's got a lot of ratings on his cigars as
• 50:30
  well. Right.
• 50:33
  I was just going. To say, tell us a little more
• 50:37
  about all of that stuff. He goes the the one that he just
• 51:21
  showed you is by Galang. It's called Semia Cuana, which
• 51:24
  means Cuban seed. He goes that was the first one
• 51:27
  he put out in the market. And that's the only those are
• 51:29
  the only bands that designed by Field.
• 51:41
  I mean by Riarte. A.
• 52:16
  OK, so he's telling me I'll go with the last one because before
• 52:20
  I forget, so he did one, it's called Vegas del Puria.
• 52:23
  Vegas means that's the name of their farm in Cuba.
• 52:26
  So he did that in honor of his grandparents.
• 52:28
  If whenever you can get a hold of that one that that is an
• 52:32
  amazing, amazing cigar. The other one that you don't
• 52:37
  have, maybe it's coming up with what he's sending you.
• 52:40
  It's it's got a red band. And that's the one with the
• 52:43
  silhouette of El Galan. You know, the handsome man that
• 52:45
  was his in order for his grandfather that is also
• 52:48
  exquisite. But it's a red, it's a red band.
• 52:51
  It's a red band. And the ones that he showed.
• 52:55
  That's not that one, right? Correct, that's the one.
• 52:57
  Yes, that's the. One Yeah, I.
• 53:00
  Don't know, I've seen. Red, you're on point.
• 53:04
  That is, you know what I've seen I've.
• 53:07
  Seen a red band and I he's. On point because I asked him
• 53:13
  about Semia Cuana because I know so Semia Cuana, yes they're all
• 53:17
  rated. He also wants to let you guys
• 53:20
  know that he is they he's sold in in Germany in Spain, in the
• 53:26
  Caribbean, but in in the reason I asked him if I could say is
• 53:29
  Semia Cuana, especially he's got a huge following the market in
• 53:34
  Spain. I said Mia Kuwana is super
• 53:36
  popular over there. You'll smoke and he's that 1 is
• 53:38
  really, really good. That was the first one he came
• 53:41
  up with. But in Spain it's a day it's
• 53:42
  it's got a great following in Europe also.
• 53:44
  He just wanted to let you know. Let me ask you this.
• 53:48
  So I've been smoking cigars 30 years he's been smoking.
• 53:51
  Cigars since he's. 18 He's only told 6.
• 53:54
  Hold it strong and even. So so my thing is.
• 53:58
  Beautiful rings you make. So everybody says that all
• 54:03
  cigars are Cuban, are Cuban seed.
• 54:06
  Is that true? They're they're adaptations of
• 54:08
  the Cuban seed. Ecuador heblo muchos mucho
• 54:14
  cigarro lo promueve en como que tienen producto de semia cubana.
• 54:48
  Nicaragua and Dominicana. OK.
• 55:13
  He says, yes. What happens is those are all
• 55:15
  varietal seeds from the original Cuban seeds and they're they're
• 55:20
  planted in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and other countries.
• 55:24
  There are varietal seeds from the Cuban seeds, including he
• 55:28
  has his own varietal seeds that he grows himself for his own,
• 55:32
  for his company and it's a variety.
• 55:34
  And there are other cigar makers that have made their own
• 55:36
  varietal seeds originating from the Cuban seeds.
• 55:41
  So yes. OK, OK.
• 55:44
  That's what I want to know. Because, you know, like people
• 55:47
  say, oh, have you smoked a Cuban?
• 55:49
  I'm like every cigar has a Cuban seed in it and I just want to
• 55:53
  make sure I'm correct. Yes.
• 55:57
  And for the most yes, because a lot of them came or brought from
• 56:01
  Cuba, what have you, especially when they they went to Nicaragua
• 56:04
  and stuff like that. So but they've now they have
• 56:06
  their own varietals. What you also have to know is
• 56:10
  that whatever seeds you have, they're they're going to be
• 56:13
  complemented by the soil they're grown in.
• 56:14
  But so they're the rattle from Cuban seeds.
• 56:17
  But now they've they've. They've grown.
• 56:21
  Their own character, their own, yeah, their own character.
• 56:24
  And they become their own variety.
• 56:26
  But yes, they're they've made their own variety.
• 56:28
  I've also heard Puerto Rico started growing.
• 56:31
  I've also heard Puerto Rico started growing their own lease.
• 56:35
  Elisa que tamienga uido que Puerto Rico TE tan crescendo de
• 56:39
  tobacco. See.
• 57:08
  Yes, so he says that actually Puerto Rico had his own history
• 57:13
  of of, of growing cigars. They had they have great soil.
• 57:18
  He had the honor. He was invited.
• 57:19
  He sells his product in Puerto Rico and he made two young
• 57:21
  gentlemen that have their own farm and they asked them to
• 57:24
  visit the farm. And so he gave them some some
• 57:26
  tips on the growing of the cigars and what have you,
• 57:29
  because he even though he hasn't mentioned, I'll mention it for
• 57:31
  you guys, Felix. I mean, this is the the the true
• 57:34
  guy that is from when they say from seed soup box, that's him.
• 57:39
  He is the one in charge of creating the bridal seeds.
• 57:43
  He is doing the planting, the irrigation.
• 57:46
  He's recommend all this to me in detail that he's like what
• 57:48
  because each part of the soil of the area that he grows the soil,
• 57:52
  it doesn't require the same amount of water that at the time
• 57:55
  he know. He's like an encyclopedia.
• 57:57
  I just shut my mouth up when he talks about I'll.
• 57:59
  So he's from from the seeds to the planting to the pruning to
• 58:04
  the aging. So the blending, he's the from
• 58:08
  from point A to point Z. He doesn't run it.
• 58:11
  All. Yes, so a lot of people
• 58:13
  contacted him. He's got a great part, I'm
• 58:15
  saying this from from myself and he will help anybody.
• 58:18
  Sometimes in this industry, a lot of people will not thinking,
• 58:22
  Oh no, I'm not going to be there's no secret.
• 58:23
  OK, there's techniques, but there's no secret.
• 58:26
  But if you ask for his help, trust me, these gentlemen,
• 58:28
  we'll, we'll give you his advice and, and, and, and he's great.
• 58:32
  So I love him like a brother. So I deviated.
• 58:35
  But I just want to say he's a great guy and you know.
• 58:37
  No, that's really good. That's good because you know
• 58:39
  what, like him and I like, we know Jonathan Drew, we know
• 58:44
  Willie Herrera, Pedro, we know all of them guys and they tell
• 58:48
  us the same thing. But then you get guys that start
• 58:52
  their own cigar company and and they send you cigars to come on
• 58:57
  a podcast and you ask them what's in it and they go, I
• 58:59
  can't tell you because I signed the NDA.
• 59:02
  So then why are you on the podcast?
• 59:04
  If you can't, yeah, they're like, oh, you know, I signed
• 59:06
  this. I said then you can't really
• 59:07
  talk about your cigars. You can only sell them right?
• 59:10
  There you go, you know. What I mean, so it's like it's
• 59:13
  like and me and Joey were just talking on a break that Felix is
• 59:19
  besides Rick and Mike Giannini. Oh my God, he's very.
• 59:23
  Knowledgeable when it comes. Very, very knowledgeable.
• 59:25
  When it comes everything from you know the knowledge finish.
• 59:30
  EEO El El cetera, Yeah.
• 1:00:33
  So he appreciates what you what you said and I explained to him
• 1:00:36
  that what you said about his knowledge and things like that.
• 1:00:39
  And then he said the same thing I told you that he goes, there
• 1:00:41
  are no secrets here. I mean, there are no secrets in
• 1:00:44
  the industry. It's just what you're willing to
• 1:00:47
  help people with, right? Right.
• 1:00:49
  That's the bottom line with you. You know our podcast, when we
• 1:00:52
  started this two years ago, I never thought it would be so
• 1:00:56
  big. I only started because of my
• 1:00:57
  son. He wanted to do a cigar podcast,
• 1:00:59
  so I used to start out as wrestling.
• 1:01:01
  Originally. I used to do wrestling, so him
• 1:01:04
  and another him and another guy used to do like they used to
• 1:01:08
  just talk on Instagram. Then they said, why don't we do
• 1:01:12
  a podcast? So then I'm sitting there just
• 1:01:14
  minding my business, having a having a drink and a cigar.
• 1:01:18
  And they're like his his other friend goes, bring your dad on.
• 1:01:22
  He can get the wrestlers on. We've had wrestlers on here too.
• 1:01:25
  And so this is how it all started.
• 1:01:28
  And you know, being that we go to so many events, we've met so
• 1:01:33
  many people in the cigar world and the wrestling world, they're
• 1:01:38
  like, yo, your podcast. And we had a, what's his name?
• 1:01:42
  Doctor GTO We. Haven't had him on yet, no.
• 1:01:46
  But what's his name? Oscar Rodriguez.
• 1:01:49
  Oscar Rodriguez Doctor Oscar from GTO Cigars so.
• 1:01:53
  Joey was on, Joey was on one day and he goes, part of me, he
• 1:01:57
  goes, I got to tell you, Turnbuckles and Stogies is is a
• 1:02:01
  good podcast. You know, you don't realize who
• 1:02:03
  watches your stuff when you're not paying attention.
• 1:02:07
  You know, like he. They, they, you're a point right
• 1:02:09
  there. There's a lot of people that
• 1:02:11
  watch and don't want to admit that they watch.
• 1:02:13
  Yeah. He, well, he, and it was in the
• 1:02:14
  middle of like a, a meeting for one of the organizations we're a
• 1:02:18
  part of and he was driving and he, he hopped on.
• 1:02:21
  He's like, I just want to say, you know, I listen to
• 1:02:23
  turnbuckles and stogies and it's really good.
• 1:02:25
  I was like, oh, wow, OK. You know, 'cause like you said,
• 1:02:29
  you don't know who's listening or who's trying your stuff or
• 1:02:32
  whatever you're doing. You don't.
• 1:02:33
  You don't know who's paying attention to it.
• 1:02:56
  Hey. Once again, he.
• 1:03:11
  Just wanted. To close with saying yeah like
• 1:03:25
  there is no secrets, it's your knowledge and then it's what you
• 1:03:28
  want to part with, but there are no secrets, it's just knowledge.
• 1:03:31
  Well, that's a good. Thing man, that's a good thing
• 1:03:33
  because you know a lot of people, like I said to you
• 1:03:36
  before he's enjoying this he's enjoying that thing nice.
• 1:03:43
  The ash is just. It's holding.
• 1:03:52
  He also wanted to make. Sure that he tells you and the
• 1:04:15
  public, Yeah, even though he does grow on his own product.
• 1:04:17
  But he does purchase from friends of his that have either
• 1:04:21
  boutique small, you know, lands or sometimes a bigger lamp to
• 1:04:25
  support friends. So sometimes you'll buy their
• 1:04:27
  product to to make certain some of his plans.
• 1:04:30
  As well. And that's, that's something you
• 1:04:32
  don't get sometimes a lot in this industry is people helping
• 1:04:36
  each other by buying their products.
• 1:04:38
  Or, you know, whether it's it's their full cigar that they see
• 1:04:41
  in the shop or like, like he does with the, with the seeds or
• 1:04:45
  the tobacco itself to, to be able to help them and make
• 1:04:50
  their, their products go up by saying, Hey, I got this tobacco
• 1:04:54
  from whoever you know now that drives people to try their
• 1:04:58
  cigars too. So you know, here, here's the
• 1:05:01
  thing, we belong to TPA, which is Tobacco Products Association,
• 1:05:10
  BAMF, which is Ishmael Alavan. He started that and if he wants
• 1:05:17
  to join, he can join. Just tell him I sent you.
• 1:05:20
  And Ish has his own cigar lounge now and he only puts boutique
• 1:05:26
  cigars in there. So if he's joins, I think it's
• 1:05:29
  like 50 bucks and he puts his cigars in there and he sells the
• 1:05:33
  cigars. OK, so number.
• 1:06:50
  One he says, yeah, I don't know if you can send him or me.
• 1:06:54
  I'll send it to him. The information on the TPA, he's
• 1:06:57
  interested. OK.
• 1:06:59
  Oh yeah. Oh, OK, perfect.
• 1:07:01
  And then the other thing, he wants to make sure he goes, he
• 1:07:04
  goes. I have pride where I come from,
• 1:07:06
  but there's other countries that he wants to mention that are
• 1:07:08
  making great products and we should let leave.
• 1:07:11
  Behind. The in Mexico there, I mean, we
• 1:07:15
  all know the they're freaking San Andres.
• 1:07:17
  Madura is amazing. Also Matafina, Yes.
• 1:07:20
  San Andreas, Mados. Oh God, Jesus, yes.
• 1:07:24
  I'll be talking to you guys. I got something for you.
• 1:07:26
  And also definitely Brazil with Matafina and even Peru.
• 1:07:30
  A lot of people don't know, but Peru makes outstanding Harmano
• 1:07:35
  rap rappers. Really.
• 1:07:38
  Yes, I didn't know that. I know Brazil makes the the
• 1:07:42
  Matafina rappers. The Matafina, that's what he
• 1:07:44
  mentioned. And of course Mexico with
• 1:07:46
  acandres. But Peru le mencioro, que Peru
• 1:07:49
  Tema capa muibe a que. En la Peru, Peru.
• 1:07:52
  No, Peru. Oh OK.
• 1:07:57
  So in Peru is mainly for fillers.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah, for fillers. But it's a good so a lot for
• 1:08:25
  fillers and they're up and coming now in Peru wow yes,
• 1:08:30
  Colombia and even Colombia has their own cigars yes I had a
• 1:08:35
  friend really well then you guys I don't know he goes to the
• 1:08:40
  United States obviously in Connecticut, but.
• 1:08:43
  Also. Down here in Florida and
• 1:08:45
  Pennsylvania, of course, the Pennsylvania, yeah, he goes in
• 1:08:50
  Florida also. So, so in Florida they're
• 1:08:53
  they're they are making they are.
• 1:08:56
  We have there. There are tobacco fields here in
• 1:08:58
  Florida with Jeff Borowitz from Corona Cigars.
• 1:09:05
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:09:07
  Yes. But he wants to give credit to
• 1:09:10
  everybody. Yes, Corona Cigar Company,
• 1:09:12
  that's that's one of the big retailers down in in Florida.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah, well. He grows his own cigars.
• 1:09:19
  Yeah, that's his. Grown, Florida.
• 1:09:21
  Grown. Yeah.
• 1:09:28
  Wow, that's. Interesting.
• 1:09:51
  No, your second law. He wants to know, give credit.
• 1:09:54
  Yeah. Jeff grows his own cigars.
• 1:09:57
  It's Florida grown and he goes. I think there's a company that
• 1:09:59
  supports the app, but it's through true state.
• 1:10:04
  He did like the the Florida sun grown.
• 1:10:10
  And stuff like that. He's still going.
• 1:10:17
  Like this? So.
• 1:10:27
  This. Is the way I feel.
• 1:10:33
  I just let it drop. I say it's for good luck.
• 1:10:35
  So then, but unfortunately a lot of times we come to an option.
• 1:10:39
  Damn it. Do I lose the ash because I got
• 1:10:41
  to take the bat real carefully or just.
• 1:10:44
  I know I usually. Try to do it carefully.
• 1:10:47
  I just want. To see how long I can.
• 1:10:52
  This is very.
• 1:11:17
  Good. You know, just going to fall or
• 1:11:31
  also maybe you know, and then it'll keep.
• 1:11:35
  But you guys are you're getting to that.
• 1:11:37
  Yeah, you get into the decision time soon.
• 1:11:40
  That's OK, Now is this. This is a Habano as well.
• 1:11:43
  The Grand. OK.
• 1:12:01
  So the rapper is. So he wants to get credit to.
• 1:12:39
  Where credit is due and he wants to mention the gentleman's last
• 1:12:43
  name is Vivaldo. He's Cuban born.
• 1:12:45
  He lives in Nicaragua. All the Corolla Variados from
• 1:12:47
  there are his. And he also wants to mention
• 1:12:50
  that that before he left Cuba, he left him with one of his own
• 1:12:54
  Corojo varietals. But those varietals are from the
• 1:12:58
  purchases from Vivaldo, a gentleman in Nicaragua that is
• 1:13:02
  like, I guess the father of the Corojo varietals.
• 1:13:05
  He just wants to give him credit.
• 1:13:06
  That one in particular is the Corojo 99.
• 1:13:09
  This is, and this cigar is, you know, it's got the, it's got the
• 1:13:13
  flavor, it's got a little bit of that.
• 1:13:15
  I say the pepper for that punch, but it's not.
• 1:13:19
  It's not overpowering it all. Complements each other well.
• 1:13:48
  Thank. You.
• 1:13:54
  He says much appreciated. Thank you.
• 1:13:57
  Thank you so much. Wow.
• 1:13:58
  This is all. Right, guys.
• 1:14:01
  So listen, we're going to take our break.
• 1:14:02
  If you guys want to come back, that's cool.
• 1:14:04
  If not, listen, I take my hat off to you guys.
• 1:14:07
  Thank. You.
• 1:14:09
  Thank you for coming on muchos Gracias I.
• 1:14:11
  Had a blast. Learned.
• 1:14:13
  Yes, I learned a lot. About his brand and I'm going to
• 1:14:18
  promote it every time. I smoke.
• 1:14:24
  Yeah, that's for sure. He says that after the break, if
• 1:14:39
  you want to continue, he'll continue with your eyes.
• 1:14:41
  He'll leave it up to you guys, OK?
• 1:14:43
  He's he's here for you guys, so whatever, if you have anything.
• 1:14:47
  No. We can keep going, sure.
• 1:14:48
  Yeah, we can keep going. That's fine.
• 1:14:50
  Let's take a break. We'll.
• 1:14:53
  Take a break, OK? Your microphone's over there.
• 1:18:01
  Yo, we are back. We are back.
• 1:18:04
  It is I, the big dog, the vanilla gorilla, and we are here
• 1:18:09
  with Felix Messer, the owner of the cigar company El Galan.
• 1:18:20
  Yeah, I was going to say you're you try very hard, you're trying
• 1:18:23
  I. Try I try very you're.
• 1:18:25
  Doing. Great.
• 1:18:26
  You're doing good. Trust me.
• 1:18:28
  He doesn't his his words sometimes don't make sense.
• 1:18:32
  It's OK then. I'm in trouble.
• 1:18:34
  He's been making sense to me. Oh boy.
• 1:18:40
  So you can only order from the the place in Florida.
• 1:18:46
  Quanka cigar shop, right? Well, that one in particular he
• 1:18:50
  mentioned because definitely they do take orders like e-mail
• 1:18:54
  orders and what have you. She said there's other shops
• 1:18:56
  that will do it that he's at, but that one in particular,
• 1:18:58
  trust me guys, if you contact them, they're great.
• 1:19:00
  That's why if you want something that will get to you safely and
• 1:19:04
  they have good prices, definitely use them.
• 1:19:07
  So now let me ask about this one because I'm curious which. 1.
• 1:19:11
  Well, because I I noticed you have the the box pressed Toro
• 1:19:15
  size I guess of this one. And then?
• 1:19:34
  You have that. Size.
• 1:19:37
  That's yes. What made him do both sizes?
• 1:20:05
  So he and the robusto, and that's what he used to call his
• 1:20:08
  grandmother. Then he.
• 1:20:20
  And that's his regular box. So it he's got that's the Dona
• 1:20:35
  Nieres and then Dona Nieres Sentimento in the Dona Nieres he
• 1:20:39
  has the robusto name Nievita after his grandmother.
• 1:20:42
  And then Minga, they used to call his mom Minga.
• 1:20:44
  That was her nickname. And that's 58 by by 55118.
• 1:20:54
  They were both really. So her nickname also came up
• 1:21:10
  like tomboy, masculine female and that was also named after
• 1:21:14
  his grandma. So now what's the count on the
• 1:21:20
  boxes? The Dona Nieves is 24.
• 1:21:32
  Count the Sentimientos is a 21 count.
• 1:21:37
  Wow. OK.
• 1:21:39
  And what's the price range on that?
• 1:21:41
  Imohomeno en cual El rango de precios.
• 1:21:45
  He goes. Florida and stays like.
• 1:22:00
  Pennsylvania, where there's no. Taxes per.
• 1:22:02
  Southeast for the tobacco they they go for about $9.
• 1:22:06
  Wow, that's not bad. Yeah, it's the other.
• 1:22:10
  That's why for a Cuenca buyer in Florida, he.
• 1:22:13
  Won't get those the only. One that will surpass that price
• 1:22:22
  range. We only comes out once in a.
• 1:22:23
  Year is the one that the gentleman smoking, which is the.
• 1:22:26
  Yeah, that one. That one.
• 1:22:31
  Yep. That's the one.
• 1:22:33
  It comes out once a. Year the Grand Reservoir.
• 1:22:36
  He's enjoying that too, by the way.
• 1:22:37
  He said no, I. Can see that he goes now it's.
• 1:22:40
  Decision time. It's.
• 1:22:51
  Gone. I'm.
• 1:22:53
  Getting to the end of it, he says there's no bigger joy for a
• 1:23:03
  cigar. Maker that see that people are
• 1:23:05
  enjoying and and smoking his products so he's he's enjoying
• 1:23:09
  this I'm enjoying this cigar I'm thoroughly enjoying this one So
• 1:23:12
  listen guys we're going to. Take you guys off now because.
• 1:23:16
  We got like 4 minutes to wrap it up here.
• 1:23:18
  We got to wrap it up and we got to do some other commercial
• 1:23:21
  breaks. So guys, thank you.
• 1:23:23
  I take your hat off. Thank you guys, Gracias and.
• 1:23:28
  I will let. You know if I get the other.
• 1:23:30
  Package OK, he. Says.
• 1:23:44
  Thank you to guys for the invitation and much more also.
• 1:23:47
  To your audience for having him present to explain about
• 1:23:49
  himself. Thank you guys.
• 1:23:51
  Have a blessed weekend. Thank you.
• 1:23:57
  Take care guys. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:24:01
  That's what we do. We have.
• 1:24:02
  Everybody. On here that's how we do it you
• 1:24:05
  heard that's how we do it you heard there we go that's how we
• 1:24:09
  do it so we have everybody on y'all better go and order
• 1:24:13
  yourself some of these yes you need to go order some for sure
• 1:24:17
  Joey's going to post it up in the in the.
• 1:24:19
  Comments I thoroughly enjoyed. These cigars.
• 1:24:24
  Show that's been another. Great, fantastic episode, very
• 1:24:32
  knowledgeable. Of turnbuckles and stogies with
• 1:24:35
  another very. Knowledgeable person.
• 1:24:38
  In the cigar industry for Dec for four decades and you.
• 1:24:43
  Will be seeing a lot. More of his cigars posted
• 1:24:46
  because. I'm sure we're not the only ones
• 1:24:50
  that are enjoying them. So this one I'm smoking.
• 1:24:55
  When it's when it's gone, it's. Gone.
• 1:24:58
  Say it again. Say it again.
• 1:25:00
  What say I think it what is every four years, he said.
• 1:25:03
  It comes out four. Years.
• 1:25:04
  Every every year. Because he's not.
• 1:25:05
  Every four years, but once they're gone, they're gone until
• 1:25:08
  they come back out again. So.
• 1:25:11
  This is what turnbuckles and stogies do.
• 1:25:14
  I keep telling y'all we know people.
• 1:25:16
  Y'all don't know people we know? People.
• 1:25:18
  Y'all want to hang out with us? Y'all know where we are?
• 1:25:23
  So on that note, it's 12:25. We'll talk to y'all next
• 1:25:29
  weekend. Enjoy your day.
• 1:25:32
  Have a blessed day. Yo, This has been turnbuckle
• 1:25:36
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• 1:25:38
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• 1:25:43
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