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Turnbuckles & Stogies - The Island Heel Turn With Caribe Bliss Cigars · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Fighter version of his mask. That was dope, wasn't?
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  It look at all look. Guys, just so y'all know, we
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  have a flyer a thing out, it's me and Joey Turnbuckles and
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  Stowe's pod. We're going to order one with
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  Dennis on it soon. So we're working on things.
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  Our cigars will be here this week for us to test and if.
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  That's exciting if we you guys psyched for that.
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  Yes, if we love them they'll be out by the end of August.
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  We have to prepay your cigars is $55 for a 5 pack shipped and
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  delivered so. That's a good price.
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  That's a nice price. I like that.
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  That's a lot better price point. You would send us the money and
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  we paid for them and could put to this.
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  And how how do they send you the money?
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  Can they cash app you PayPal? What, how, how they going to do
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  that? Apple Pay Cash app however you
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  want to send it. However, Joey has it, I don't.
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  Know close. That until I need the money and
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  then I take care of it. But yes, so it's Apple Cash.
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  I got Apple Cash, so I don't know.
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  If you want to pay by Apple Cash V Mobile, however you want to
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  pay us, that's fine. But once we test them, they
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  should be out by the end of August.
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  All right. You Apple cash us or Zemo us we
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  going from there. Nice.
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  So our guest is here. I am about to light up cigar
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  number 7 and it's a Carrillo encore using my select select
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  draw our. Guest.
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  We're. Going to bring in our guest.
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  I don't even know how to say turned it on.
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  What'd you get? New mics?
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  Will you change them? What is up?
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  What is up? Happy Sunday, Happy fun day.
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  I am the big dog. That's the vanilla gorilla.
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  We got the OG in the house. Wherever he is, I see you.
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  And today we have a special guest with us today from Caribe
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  Bliss. The interview
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  and there he is, everybody. What is up, Mr. Ellis?
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  How are you, Sir? Great.
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  How are you doing? I'm doing well, Sir.
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  So you know I have a lot of questions, right, Of course.
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  So my question to you is, I see your cigar company has been
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  established since 2024. So you've only been out going on
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  a year and a half for two years. So what did you do before you
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  got into the cigars? Well.
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  I was in New York City top for 23 years.
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  I did that and just before I retired, I wanted to open a
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  cigar lounge here. I'm back in my country where I
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  am in Barbados, and another allowance, another allowance
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  moved 5 minutes from where I was looking at, and I made a trip to
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  Dr. shortly after that. So I went to the factory, made a
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  deal. Of course, then it came back to
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  New York and just started doing all the necessary paperwork and
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  stuff like that, and that's what got me into the business.
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  So. Before that, you didn't know
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  nothing about the business except smoking, correct?
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  OK, so how does your your wife feel about you putting out
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  cigars? Oh yes, I.
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  Understand that's what I want to do, that's what I like doing and
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  she's being very supportive, so which is good.
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  OK. So how did you come up with the
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  name Caribe Blitz? What is that lineage to you?
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  What does that have to do with you?
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  That has to do with Barbados and things like that?
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  Yes. Caribbean islands, Caribbean
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  theme, you know, you trying, you trying to bring all the cultures
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  of the Caribbean into one. So that's where the Carib comes
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  from. And you know, yeah.
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  So it's been, you know, it's been a good, good success so
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  far. Actually this month, next two
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  years, the 31st, I'm in business.
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  OK, well, congratulations on that.
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  Not a lot of people can say that.
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  Thank you. Appreciate that.
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  A. Lot of a lot of people come on
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  and you know, they've been in a business a year and then you get
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  them to come back on and they can't come back on because they
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  stopped making cigars. They said it's too much work,
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  you know? Going to pass this by, yeah?
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  So anybody want to jump in here? Help me out.
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  Like, tell us about your cigars. How about that?
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  Tell us about your cigars. I'm smoking a beach life, that's
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  what. I'm smoking right now.
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  So so when I first started, started with two cigars in from
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  Dr. the most based cigars are from DRI.
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  Have one supplier in Brooklyn as well, all handmade cigars.
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  So I started with Hubano and Nicaragua when it first started
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  and almost two years later I'm up to I'm up to 9 cigars.
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  Wow. Wow.
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  OK, so the beach life. What is that?
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  What kind of cigar? Long filler.
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  Strong filler. The rapper.
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  Is San Andreas Maduro leaf the filler?
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  I mean the binder is Dominican and Cuban seed and the tobacco
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  is Indonesia, Sumatra. Wow.
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  OK. And Joey, what are you smoking?
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  We're all smoking, so everybody but OG is smoking the beach life
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  because I didn't have a chance to send him isn't enough time.
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  Yes, I have it with me. That's on me now.
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  I know you had sent me a a sampler pack of your cigars as
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  well before that. And it was the the Habano.
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  I forgot I had the list. Nicaragua albino, I think it was
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  a perfecto in there. Yes.
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  And a Bayville, which is Bayville special Edition.
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  So that one is actually made in Brooklyn.
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  It's not. It's not flavored, but it's a
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  mixture of dark chocolate, black pepper notes, Nicaragua binary
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  filler and North Carolina tobacco.
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  OK, that was, no, that cigar was fantastic.
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  That was actually probably out of what you had sent me.
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  That was probably one of the favorites that I had actually
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  smoked that I enjoyed. That little Perfecto was very
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  good as well. What Now let's go into kind of
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  'cause I noticed each of your cigars, like you said, you have
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  the Habano, the Nicaragua, the Father's Day special, which was
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  your, your Bayville special edition, the beach, right?
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  How did you come up with the names for each of these cigars?
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  So again, I the Bayville special edition is actually the
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  neighborhood I grew up in, where I'm actually right now.
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  I actually went across across the street here.
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  I went to school here. I'll give you a quick video
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  here. Yeah, so I'm in the
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  neighborhood. Yeah.
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  I'm in the neighborhood where I grew up in and at Bayville was
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  the name after this neighborhood I grew up in.
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  It was actually called a different name.
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  But you know, like I said, I wanted to use my own.
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  Big Island Gold is actually, again, just keeping the theme of
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  the islands. So Island Gold to me because of
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  the colors, the shade. So the other ones, they have
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  vinyl Nicaragua, those are standard.
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  So I didn't really want to touch those, but you know, the ones
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  that I actually got custom made for me, that's why I come up
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  with the names. OK.
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  Now, do they all come in different sizes or are the sizes
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  that you sent me kind of what you have out there?
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  I also have a Churchill. The Bayville special edition is
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  actually the Churchill as well. So that's actually the largest
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  one I have in my collection. I actually have now make, I
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  started making Coronas, but they asked me flavored.
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  They're not done yet. It's still in the factory in New
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  York. So I had a lot of requests from
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  when I do events from mostly female smokers.
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  So I have like a honey and bourbon and I have a great
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  flavor cigar, but those are for people who like to smoke flavor
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  cigars. So I'm trying to, you know, try
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  to cater to everyone, you know, do events and so stuff like
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  that. So I'm trying to be fit.
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  But I would say in my in my world, I try to be scared to
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  everyone. So so now.
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  Let me ask you this question because we've asked everybody.
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  Listen, OG can can jump in if he wants.
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  So do you cater to what the people want or do you make what
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  you feel that you want to smoke that you think the people are
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  smoking? Am I correct?
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  OG So what you're what you're referring to is when he's
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  blending the cigars with the with the factory, right?
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  You're referring to when he blends the OG?
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  When he blends the. Cigars.
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  I'm sorry you broke up. Isn't a question you asked about
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  them. Do they cater to their cigars or
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  do they cater to what the? So yeah, I think what you're
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  asking is kind of what he would ask normally is if you when you
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  make cigars, when you blend your cigars, do you cater to your
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  palate and what you like or do you try to blend for everybody
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  well? Most of the blend that I'm doing
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  is actually cater to. Most people would like request,
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  for example, had a guy at the lounge, she said, do you have a
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  short cigar? You know, like I'm on break from
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  work and they wanted a short smoke per SE, right?
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  And he has maybe 30 minutes or something like that.
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  So that's why he came up with the Perfecto cigar, which is a
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  very small cigar, kind of a quick, not as fast as a quick
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  smoke, but the general idea was to have something for someone to
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  smoke, you know, in a short space of time, so to speak,
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  right? So that's how the Perfecto came
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  about, right? And it's actually been very
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  good, good reception. So the blame was actually made
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  in the air with another. I have 3 suppliers now.
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  So that was actually made. There you go.
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  Nope, can't hear you, can't hear you.
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  Well, Cycle Blend was asking me by a factory Dr. and I just went
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  with it. I didn't change anything.
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  I just wanted that short smoke and I just went with the the
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  blend for that. So I didn't, I didn't really
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  touch anything on that one, but the idea was just to have a
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  short smoke for some, you know, people who have a short space of
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  time, you know, so that's why I went about that.
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  So sometimes they do care to customers that want, you know,
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  particular cigar or something that is generally for everyone.
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  So sometimes I do trial basis in my cigars and that's how I
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  continue. So I do like a trial basis and
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  then and then it goes and then it goes from there.
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  So that's basically how I do it. So you know.
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  I'm going to ask you this because Joey told me that you
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  reached out to him that. I think it was something.
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  I think he reached out to me or I reached out to him.
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  Well, whomever. So what made you reach out to us
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  and send us your cigars? To me, I have reached out to the
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  gentleman that do the ACT report and then I got a request from
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  Joe here and then I sent the request out to him because I
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  like, I like to actually get different.
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  What do you call criticism, so to speak, on my brand?
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  Because that makes me better to have a different opinion from
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  different people. So that's that's all that went
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  about and that's all we out here you.
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  Had smoked the habano out of that pack.
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  I did. You had smoked and what did you
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  think of that? Because I didn't smoke that I.
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  Smoked your Habano. I thought it was really good.
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  Actually I I'm not a big Habano fan.
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  I'm a straight up fan. Patty Maduro and it's a really
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  great cigar. You know, I'm not a Maduro, I'm
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  not a a Habano fan but I'd probably buy it just because I
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  like it it you know? But other than that, if you got
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  full maduros but you can make it a 5 pack.
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  This is what? Full Maduro.
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  This is what this is, is a full body Maduro Now is this a is
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  this a 4 by 60 or a 5 by 60 or a 5 by 58?
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  Something like that, right? 5 by 60.
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  OK, now what? What made you come up with this
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  size? Actually my cigar sodium
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  Barbados are the of two places here and sort of I actually like
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  the gauge itself for as a personally, but here in the
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  islands they tend to want bigger gauge cigars for some reason.
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  I don't know what it is, but I tried it again.
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  I tried to cater to the market here.
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  So they want a big gay cigar. So that's why it came about
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  this, this gauge. And I also like it on a personal
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  level as well. And, and honestly, it's been
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  doing very, it has a very good, very good reception.
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  It's been doing very well. So I'm very happy with the this
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  choice actually in this gauge. OK, so.
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  You. Have you have 9 cigars?
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  Out definitely fits this game. Are you going to Vegas next next
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  year for the PCA? I would try to because like I
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  said, I I would try to next year because the first year doing
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  this, it was very hard getting into the to the cigar game.
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  So this my second year I started going and branching out,
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  traveling a lot more. I did notice Cigar Fest was
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  actually one of the sponsors in New Orleans.
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  So I'm starting to branch out a little more now now that I have
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  a good client out of the market. So now I'm branching out a
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  little bit. So yeah, so I might be there
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  next year. You.
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  Should join TPA which is what me and Joey are in and we were.
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  And OG is a part of it and. OG is a part of it as well.
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  It's a Tobacco and pipe association, Tobacco Product
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  Association. What it is is it's Mel Olivano's
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  ROCF, and when they went to New Orleans, you weren't able to
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  smoke there, so. Originally that was the.
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  Plan. That was the original plan.
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  So what he did, him and the other three partners rented a, a
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  warehouse and the only way you can get in there is if you know
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  me or Joey or anybody that's in the TPA.
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  If you don't know him, you're not going to be able to get in.
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  So you know. So guys, on that note, we're
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  going to take a 5 minute break and we'll be right back with our
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  guests, Mr. Wayne Ellis. What is up?
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  What is up? Happy Sunday, Happy fun day.
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  I am the big dog. Just the vanilla gorilla and the
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  OG. Also sporting the shirts from
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  poorjohnsapparel.com. Go get yours.
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  Go get your turnbuckles and stogies merchandise all over
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  there. We're all over there.
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  We got hats, we got shirts. We got.
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  We might even have a couple of flags, some flags coming soon.
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  Maybe we'll see. OG how you?
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  Feeling good, how are you guys doing?
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  Just wonderful. I know you had a bad migraine
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  last night, so I'm just making sure you're doing all right.
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  Oh yeah, much better today. Thank you for asking.
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  OK, so jeez, where am I going to start?
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  I don't even know where to start.
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  I mean, he's answered every question he's got.
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  So it's, it's kind of hard for you.
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  It's. Kind of hard for.
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  Me and I, we, we do love the fact that you know you, you are
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  able to answer the questions and you have a, a wealth of
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  knowledge behind you working with the factories and you know
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  the brand and stuff like that. And for people who don't know,
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  you said you came back to New York and filed the necessary
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  paperwork. Kind of take us through that
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  process. What was that like?
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  Because I've heard it's a a big like red tape kind of deal and
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  it takes a long time. After I made the cigar, DMDR
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  came back and I did my, I did my regular business license.
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  I did my EIN, which is my tax taxes.
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  And then I filed for my tobacco license.
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  And actually it wasn't a very long process.
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  It was actually pretty smooth, surprisingly.
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  And that was pretty much, yeah, that was pretty much it.
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  And, and now kind of if, if you want to, what was the, how much
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  did all of that wind up costing you to, you know, get all of
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  your licenses, your wholesale and distributor license?
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  Do you have your retail license as well?
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  Well. A license.
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  I don't have a distributor license, I just have a retail
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  tobacco license. OK, OK.
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  Now what was how much did that? Yeah.
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  I always like knowing when people say they're in, you know,
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  they're from whether it's California, Florida, NY, kind of
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  the different price ranging between, you know, the states.
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  On cigars. Cigars.
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  Yeah, we have a 75% tax and that that's the worst.
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  So. What's the?
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  Each one of your cigars cost. So my cigars start up 14 and go
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  to the most expensive is 18. I don't go no higher than that.
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  And that's the Churchill, correct?
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  That's the Churchill, yes. And where can they pick them up?
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  Can they order directly from you?
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  They got to go to a store. You can order on Caribe list
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  cigars.com.com or you can always DM me on Instagram.
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  Caribe list cigars on Instagram. OK.
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  If you are in Brooklyn you can order from Havana dreams.
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  No sorry Queens Havana dreams cigar lounge.
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  If you are in Brooklyn, NY, vape on Cloud on Washington Ave.
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  which is 619 Washington. OK.
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  If you're in Barbados, you can get it from Platinum Core Cigar
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  Lounge in Lion Girl Saint James. OK.
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  Christchurch here in Barbados. Memories of Barbados gift shop.
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  That's one of my new locations, and there's a bar called Flaming
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  Pelican Bar and Grill in Barbados as well.
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  OK, so let me ask you this question.
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  When somebody places an order with you, is there a minimum on
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  how many boxes they have to order or can they just as?
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  Far as like a a retail location. Can they order just one box from
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  you and see if it sells or do they got to order all nine?
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  No, they could do one or two. I don't.
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  I don't push for that. I welcome the idea of they doing
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  a sample of one or two boxes and working to see how it goes.
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  I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that.
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  And do you, let's say they run out, can they order a bundle
• 35:36
  from you and put it back into the box?
• 35:39
  Or they got to order a whole new box?
• 35:49
  Can't hear you, can't hear you, can't hear you.
• 35:54
  We can't hear you. You cut out.
• 35:58
  Cut. Out, cut out, we can't hear.
• 36:14
  Giving me a hard time Hearing Wi-Fi is giving me a hard time.
• 36:17
  Can you hear me now? Can you?
• 36:19
  Hear me now. Yeah, now say it again.
• 36:20
  I'm sorry. What happened?
• 36:27
  Can you hear us? Hear us.
• 36:29
  Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
• 36:31
  Yes, yes. So now you were saying that can
• 36:36
  they order a box or do they have to?
• 36:39
  Can they just replace it with a bundle?
• 36:42
  Can you guys see me at all? Yes, I can hear you.
• 36:46
  Yes, yes, I. Don't know what happened here?
• 36:52
  Let's. See.
• 37:01
  Can you hear me? Yes.
• 37:03
  Can you hear us? We can hear.
• 37:10
  Us. We can hear you.
• 37:11
  He can't hear us. He can't hear us.
• 37:16
  Sorry, exit and rejoin again. Exit and come back in.
• 37:22
  So OG, let's get back to wrestling.
• 37:26
  What are you watching? What are you watching?
• 37:28
  Alright, it's over now. Summer slam Summer.
• 37:32
  Slam. So what did you think?
• 37:34
  There we go. What did you think of the first
• 37:40
  match? I'm just bringing this down so I
• 37:41
  can see when he jumps back in. I got to remember what the first
• 37:46
  match was. That was the the ladies started
• 37:48
  off the show right? The opening match was EO and
• 37:52
  Liv. Oh, I thought that was a
• 37:54
  fantastic match. I did too, but.
• 37:57
  I'm going to be honest, I, I have to say, I thought.
• 38:00
  Liv was. I thought EO was going.
• 38:02
  To no. I like that match.
• 38:03
  My favorite match besides obviously Punk and hold on, he's
• 38:09
  back. Hold on, hold on.
• 38:11
  Can you hear us now? There we go.
• 38:16
  I can hear him I. Can hear you.
• 38:18
  I can hear you now. Again, let's ask a question.
• 38:22
  Can they reorder a bundle and put it in the box or do you want
• 38:26
  them to order a whole new box? I have no problem with that.
• 38:32
  So they can, they can refill the boxes because a lot of companies
• 38:35
  now are going to like you can buy the boxes to start with and
• 38:39
  then you can order bundles from there.
• 38:42
  So the pricing is a little cheaper on the retailer's end so
• 38:46
  that they don't, if they don't want to charge as much, they
• 38:49
  don't have to because you're cut.
• 38:51
  You remember, you know, like a lot of people don't understand
• 38:53
  is you're making up for the price of the box and everything
• 38:56
  else when you charge per cigar. And especially in New York, you
• 39:00
  know, you know, obviously it's a 75% tax.
• 39:03
  So every little bit that the retailer can save to kind of not
• 39:07
  pass off to the consumer is a big win in your book, in our
• 39:11
  book, in the retailer's book, because that business keeps
• 39:14
  coming back. Well, let's ask Dennis about
• 39:16
  that. Oh Gee, tell us about that part
• 39:18
  when you had a when you were working in a shop and that that
• 39:23
  happened. Yeah, it was pretty much their
• 39:28
  goal was to be able to just reorder bundles.
• 39:30
  They're bigger companies that make you order brand new boxes.
• 39:36
  You know, the major brands like David off you, you couldn't
• 39:39
  order bundles. You had to keep reordering
• 39:41
  boxes. So that was a little more
• 39:43
  expensive. But whenever we could, we just
• 39:45
  try to order bundles and replenish the boxes we already
• 39:48
  have in stock, you know? What I normally do is I just
• 39:55
  like I said, I do wholesale anyway to a a retail location.
• 40:00
  So I don't actually charge the full price on my cigars.
• 40:03
  It's like you say you are a retailer so you're selling my
• 40:07
  brand. I do a wholesale price for that
• 40:10
  for that person that's doing the retailing.
• 40:14
  So bundle doing a bundle to refill is not a problem.
• 40:20
  OK. So now let me ask you this
• 40:22
  question. So let's say we, Joe and OG
• 40:25
  wanted to order from you. Do we get the wholesale price or
• 40:30
  do we get a retail price? I'm just curious.
• 40:32
  We ask everybody this. Well, I, I mean, it depends on
• 40:36
  if it well, it just depends if you're, if you are, if you are
• 40:41
  retailing, let's say you're retailing to a location or doing
• 40:44
  something like that, I can do that.
• 40:46
  But if you doing like a special event or something like that,
• 40:50
  yeah, I could do that for you as well.
• 40:52
  OK. OK.
• 40:56
  I had something. I had something in my head.
• 40:58
  Oh Gee, we need some questions. Here I lost my question.
• 41:01
  I had it and then I oh, OK, now I remember took me a second.
• 41:05
  So I know you said you working, you're working with a factory in
• 41:08
  the Dr. and now you're working with a factory in Nicaragua as
• 41:12
  well, correct? No, I'm just.
• 41:20
  OK. Just working with GR in Brooklyn
• 41:22
  now. Is it a?
• 41:24
  Is it a big factory in the Dr. or a smaller factory?
• 41:29
  Big factory. Oh, this one, the second one
• 41:32
  that makes Perfecto is a smaller factory that I just started
• 41:36
  working with because I actually met the owner person here in
• 41:38
  Brooklyn, here in Brooklyn, and I actually agreed to work with
• 41:42
  him. But yeah, so the biggest
• 41:45
  factory, that's the one that makes the Habino, the beach
• 41:48
  life, the Nicaragua, Yeah. OK.
• 41:56
  Now, have you been to the to the factories in the Dr. at all?
• 41:59
  Dr. at. All I actually picked the blends
• 42:03
  out, sit down and talk with them.
• 42:06
  I actually learned to roll as well, but I don't really have
• 42:08
  the time and space, right, Right.
• 42:11
  But I actually go there. I'm actually going back in a
• 42:13
  couple weeks. Now, now let me, I, I love
• 42:18
  asking everybody this when they say they've gone to the factory,
• 42:21
  they've picked their blends. What was that process like?
• 42:24
  And kind of how, how many did you smoke throughout the days
• 42:27
  you were there? Did you smoke full size?
• 42:30
  Did you smoke little parejos? How did you kind of do that?
• 42:35
  Well, when I first started, I actually had to smoke like 7
• 42:38
  different cigars. I didn't actually smoke them all
• 42:40
  the way through to get an idea of what I was looking for, to
• 42:47
  get the idea of the blend that I wanted and the particular taste.
• 42:53
  So the process really is you go there first, you do a walk
• 42:58
  around the factory to smell all the different aromas, a
• 43:02
  different type of tobacco leaves to get an idea.
• 43:07
  And like I said, I was kind of doing the field, so he was
• 43:09
  teaching me how to do that. But that's basically the
• 43:12
  process. You go, you go on the different
• 43:15
  leaves, different aromas, right? And then you go in the office
• 43:20
  and then you, he lays out all these cigars, about 10 different
• 43:25
  cigars and you just sit there and you smoke.
• 43:28
  So do you like this one? Do you like this one?
• 43:31
  Do you like that one? So you don't actually smoke all
• 43:33
  the way through, but you try to get an idea of, you know what
• 43:37
  you're looking for, the plan you're looking for, the case
• 43:40
  you're looking for that. That's basically the process
• 43:43
  when you go to the factory. Now what?
• 43:47
  What was your favorite part of that process?
• 43:51
  From, like you said, from walking around, smelling the
• 43:53
  aromas, looking at the field, looking at the plants, learning,
• 43:57
  and then to kind of smoking and blending your cigars.
• 44:00
  What was your favorite part of that experience?
• 44:09
  Process. Because remember, I was just a
• 44:10
  smoker before I got into the game, so I actually enjoyed the
• 44:15
  entire process because they actually teach me about what
• 44:19
  cigars really are and what it takes to make a cigar.
• 44:23
  Because when you're just smoking, you don't really care
• 44:25
  about that. But when you ask me in the
• 44:27
  business, you actually appreciate the whole process.
• 44:32
  You know the main, you know the truth of the lands.
• 44:38
  Yes, yes, that's the word. I'm looking for more
• 44:40
  appreciation for the business. That's like when me, Joey and OG
• 44:45
  went to barn smoker. OG has never been a barn smoker.
• 44:49
  In in Connecticut, but drew a state.
• 44:51
  OG had a blast with us. Yeah.
• 44:54
  Oh yeah, barn smoker. And it's, it's very, you know,
• 44:58
  and it's, it's funny, like we said, you know, they, they take
• 45:00
  you to the field and you see the field, you know, where the
• 45:04
  tobacco is grown. They show you a Mason jar that
• 45:06
  has like maybe that much of feeds and how it plants like,
• 45:10
  you know, 10,000 tobacco plants. They take you to the curing
• 45:14
  barn. They show you the leaves on the
• 45:16
  curing barn. You know, stuff like obviously
• 45:19
  you don't see the rolling process because that's done in
• 45:22
  their factory, but like you see, like you said, all of the
• 45:25
  process leading up to that you get to, they had a station that
• 45:29
  you can put your own wrapper on the cigar, you know, like it
• 45:32
  was. Joey put his wrapper.
• 45:34
  On did it perfectly. And it fell apart.
• 45:37
  And then I forgot to put the glue on and then I had to unwrap
• 45:39
  it and put it back together and it didn't come back the same.
• 45:42
  But you know, it's, it's like you said, it gives you more of
• 45:46
  an appreciation for what they do and, and what you're smoking
• 45:50
  because you've seen the, the scenes, the fields and
• 45:54
  everything else. So what what can people look
• 46:02
  forward to seeing from you in the in the coming year?
• 46:07
  Do you have any more releases coming out?
• 46:10
  What is? What is next for you and your
• 46:12
  brand? So I'm trying to do, I'm going
• 46:17
  to make the potential in Maduro. I'm not paying to listen, no,
• 46:23
  but I'm going to put the I'm going to try to do it with a San
• 46:26
  Andreas and do his trap, yeah. So that's the that's the little
• 46:31
  perfecto that I. Smoked.
• 46:32
  Gee, what? Do you suggest?
• 46:34
  He does with a cigar. Yes.
• 46:35
  He smokes 7 cigars a day. 7 is a a warm up for him.
• 46:44
  What do you suggest he does OG? Hey, man, I, I, I really don't.
• 46:51
  I can't answer that. I don't know.
• 46:55
  He's got a lot of blends out there.
• 46:57
  He's got a lot of cigars out there.
• 46:58
  I don't know what else he can make.
• 47:02
  I kind of agree. With all the oh, OK, I see.
• 47:05
  So the beach life, you're going to make into the beach life,
• 47:07
  Perfecto, you're going to make into a a Maduro.
• 47:12
  Yep, yeah. That's one of my new ideas
• 47:15
  already. That one, yes.
• 47:17
  I OK, I mean, if it's anything, you know, if it's anything like
• 47:21
  this cigar, I I can definitely see that being a a big hit
• 47:27
  because it's that that small size that people are looking
• 47:31
  for. It's going to pack that punch
• 47:33
  for the fuller body smoker and it's going to give you all of
• 47:38
  that richness of that San Andreas rapper.
• 47:45
  Now, what is besides your own brand?
• 47:49
  And we like to ask this question, besides your own
• 47:53
  brand, what are what is your go to brand or what's the other
• 47:58
  cigars do you like to smoke? My father judge Grand Robusto,
• 48:11
  that's the what, 5 1/2 by 60 I think it is or something like
• 48:14
  that. It's.
• 48:16
  It's actually 5 by 60, but it's built more square so you can't
• 48:20
  really tell. Right.
• 48:21
  It's it's kind of a square weight, I guess what you call
• 48:24
  box press cigar. Yeah.
• 48:27
  Yeah, but it's an amazing cigar. I I love that cigar.
• 48:31
  That's one of my goal tools. Another brand brand I like is H.
• 48:40
  So yeah, I'm going to ask you this question.
• 48:43
  Have you ever smoked Jonathan Juice cigar?
• 48:46
  Drew Estate? Drew Estate.
• 48:48
  Yes I have. When I first started smoking I
• 48:52
  was smoking flavored. I like the Javas.
• 48:55
  I like the the Betty's. Like I say, it's been a minute
• 49:06
  so I can't remember all of them, but like those are whites.
• 49:10
  That's what I used to like for Jewish state.
• 49:13
  I like some of their regular brands as well, but then they I
• 49:17
  like Jewish State. That's fine.
• 49:23
  No. And you know, we, we always like
• 49:25
  asking those questions because a lot of people, and, and this is
• 49:29
  something we've learned talking to other brand and business
• 49:32
  owners of cigar companies and OG can tell you this.
• 49:37
  People think a lot of brand owners only smoke their stuff.
• 49:41
  But a lot of every brand owner we've spoke to will tell you in
• 49:44
  order to be a good, be good at what you're doing in the cigar
• 49:50
  industry, you have to smoke everything that's out there.
• 49:54
  And Jonathan Jewell, smoke, whatever.
• 49:56
  He and and that's, that's kind of what we've learned is, you
• 49:59
  know, while you may have your own brand, you still have to go
• 50:02
  out there and see what's new on the market, see what's been out
• 50:07
  and to be able to either not make something that's out
• 50:12
  already or kind of replicated, but put your own twist on it.
• 50:16
  And I, and I think that's what a lot of people don't understand
• 50:19
  as well. So it's like the box press
• 50:23
  cigars. Like nobody realizes why they
• 50:27
  made a box press cigar. A box press cigar was made
• 50:33
  because when you puff on a cigar, you get the air in
• 50:38
  between your lips. The two sides of your mouth 2.
• 50:41
  Sides of your mouth and it extends.
• 50:43
  It cools the smoke off. It extends the taste and it
• 50:46
  cools off the smoke, where when you smoke a round cigar, it
• 50:50
  doesn't do that because all you're doing is puffing and
• 50:52
  letting go. You know, nobody realizes that.
• 50:58
  And I found that out to our buddy Rick Rodriguez, who has
• 51:03
  his own cigars out West Ham, so. Now, have you, have you
• 51:07
  considered making a box for a cigar?
• 51:09
  Is that something you're you're eventually going to do down the
• 51:12
  line? But I tried to be very the
• 51:17
  reason why I like handmade. I tried to be unique and
• 51:21
  appreciate the culture of the cigars of being handmade out.
• 51:25
  That was my real purpose and theme behind my brand.
• 51:30
  OK, no. And you know, that's that's what
• 51:33
  we like as well. We know we like people who take
• 51:36
  pride in their product, who take pride in, you know, working with
• 51:39
  people who want you to have the best product you can possibly
• 51:44
  have. I mean, we've had people on here
• 51:47
  that, you know, put their cigars out and they were they they
• 51:53
  didn't really take their time with it.
• 51:56
  And you could tell it showed in the product where you can see
• 52:01
  through what you've learned and what you know and the way you're
• 52:04
  telling us all about your stuff, that you not only take pride in
• 52:08
  your product, but you want to make sure that the best possible
• 52:12
  product gets in the hands of the consumers.
• 52:18
  Correct. It takes a lot because you have
• 52:20
  to to really get better at this. You have to actually sit with
• 52:24
  your customers, smoke with them, have a conversation with them,
• 52:29
  listen to the criticism of the customer.
• 52:32
  All right, so I have, I have customers in Abu Dhabi, loves my
• 52:37
  Nicaragua. I sat there with another guy and
• 52:41
  he said to me, I love it, but they want it stronger.
• 52:43
  So these things you have to listen to and you have to take
• 52:47
  in and that makes you better. So now you can improve your
• 52:51
  product. So it's very important so you
• 52:56
  know, to listen to your customers, have a conversation
• 52:59
  with them and that makes you but again, like you say, you smoke
• 53:03
  other cigar brands and you get you get ideas like, you know,
• 53:08
  like the reason for my 5 by 60, this actually does the gauge
• 53:13
  actually came about flocking the inch brand.
• 53:15
  I don't know if you've heard of inch brand, but like they have a
• 53:19
  5 by 60, which I'm in love with and that's what inspired me to
• 53:23
  make this 5 by 60 as well. So you know, smoking brands
• 53:27
  gives you ideas. It makes you better watching,
• 53:34
  right? So you always have to maintain
• 53:37
  quality and freshness. That's very important because
• 53:40
  your brand is always at stake. Now I'm going to, I'm going to
• 53:46
  turn it over to the OG so that he can ask his favorite question
• 53:50
  that he loves to ask and find out from everybody that we
• 53:54
  interview. And I, I think it's a great
• 53:56
  question. So I'm going to, I'm going to
• 53:58
  turn it over to him to go ahead and ask away about that question
• 54:03
  and, you know, let him do his thing.
• 54:08
  All right, so you, you, you can get one hour of unrepted time,
• 54:14
  no phone calls, no business, no interruptions whatsoever.
• 54:20
  Who would you spend that time with that one hour to smoke a
• 54:24
  cigar with? It could be passed.
• 54:29
  OK with a friend of mine. Well, well, the friend I have
• 54:35
  now, it's a guy that I grew up with him or actually school
• 54:39
  together. His name is Reynolds.
• 54:42
  We are friends for 30 years. He is one of the few people in
• 54:47
  my life that I can be what you call be myself where like the
• 54:53
  jokes, the memories, stuff like that, that that's one of the few
• 54:58
  people that I can say that I can spend an uneractive hour and and
• 55:02
  just have fun. Like it's like being back as a
• 55:05
  kid growing up, growing up. So that's one of my view people
• 55:09
  that I was spread that interrupted R with because it's
• 55:12
  like, it's like growing up again with him.
• 55:15
  It's so it's just fun, yeah. So being that you're down there
• 55:24
  Barbados now, have you ran into the rentals guy and have you
• 55:28
  guys smoked or what he's? Actually, back in New York, he's
• 55:33
  not here right now. Right now so I didn't talk to
• 55:39
  him on the phone. Has he tried your brand yet?
• 55:41
  Has he sat down and smoked with you?
• 55:44
  Yes, he has. Yes, he has.
• 55:46
  And, and what does, what does he think about you guys being
• 55:50
  friends for so long, starting your own brand and kind of what
• 55:54
  you've done? He loves it, he appreciates it.
• 56:00
  You know, he compliment me all the time.
• 56:02
  He's very happy for me that I went that route.
• 56:06
  Yeah. So we, we talk all the time.
• 56:09
  He's very happy with that with. That and you said you were
• 56:12
  retired from where again? NYPD, New York, NY.
• 56:17
  OK. Well, thank you for your sorry.
• 56:20
  Sorry you got out so soon, but I'm right behind you.
• 56:23
  I got out last year so I'm good. Awesome.
• 56:27
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 56:28
  Thank you for your service as well.
• 56:30
  You know, I guess I'm covered. With them, yeah.
• 56:34
  I, you, you are for being so new in the business.
• 56:41
  I, I will say your knowledge is very, you have a lot of
• 56:47
  knowledge behind you, which to me is a very big thing because
• 56:52
  you don't hear a whole lot about brands like yours where you're
• 56:57
  only a couple years old that have such vast knowledge of
• 57:01
  cigars behind them. Correct.
• 57:06
  Now I don't I think we touched on it a little bit.
• 57:10
  I know you said this is a 5 by 60 San Andreas rapper.
• 57:14
  What is the the blend inside? I you might have touched on it
• 57:18
  and I I might have missed it. Oh, so it's rapper San Andreas.
• 57:30
  They to filler is Dominican and Cuban seed and the binder is
• 57:39
  Indonesia, Sumatra. And now this is made in your
• 57:44
  your factory in Dr. Yes, it is. OK, now I know you said it's a
• 57:52
  bigger factory. Do you, are you allowed to share
• 57:55
  the name or or would you prefer not to?
• 57:56
  It's totally up to you. I could share it.
• 58:00
  The company's called Essentia. OK, OK.
• 58:06
  They make they make a lot of different, a lot of that.
• 58:09
  That company probably makes a whole lot of different brands.
• 58:12
  I. I wouldn't be surprised if
• 58:15
  there's brands out there that we've smoked that, you know, we
• 58:19
  don't even know that that's where it's made.
• 58:23
  Right. Yeah.
• 58:25
  I mean, you any, any questions for us being that we've, you've
• 58:30
  kind of covered a whole lot about your brand and kind of
• 58:35
  what you do and you got any, any questions for us?
• 58:41
  Anything we can, anything we can also do to help you as well,
• 58:47
  Just reach out to us and let us know, you know, we'll help you
• 58:51
  out any way we can, whether it's, you know, you want to have
• 58:54
  us try whatever new stuff you have coming out.
• 58:57
  You want to come on and and film it like a little interview while
• 59:01
  we're smoking it and kind of do like a a live, a live or
• 59:07
  recorded like raw kind of taste test, you know, tasting panel
• 59:11
  that's always open to you as well.
• 59:16
  Now, do you guys have I know you have the cigars and stuff.
• 59:19
  Do you have shirts and hats or anything like that that people
• 59:22
  can order or is that? I have shirts, hats, lighters,
• 59:28
  sweatshirts, hats, moms, you name it, I have it.
• 59:31
  OK, no, you know, and that's a big thing because we had sat
• 59:35
  down with another company, Revere.
• 59:38
  We had actually just interviewed him as well.
• 59:40
  He had reached out to us because he had seen our content pop up
• 59:43
  in his Instagram feed. All right, And he's the same.
• 59:48
  He's the same way. He said, you know, I, I sent you
• 59:51
  guy, I reached out to you guys. He's like, and I sent you
• 59:54
  lighters, whiskey glasses, pins. He said, because I'm a, he said
• 1:00:00
  I'm a, I'm a swag Corp, as he calls it when it comes to cigar
• 1:00:03
  companies. He said he likes to collect swag
• 1:00:05
  or you know, what he can get his hands on.
• 1:00:08
  So that's why we, I, I like to ask that question because there
• 1:00:11
  are people that do like to collect cigar stuff.
• 1:00:14
  Whether it's lighter hat cutter shirts, mugs, you know, that's
• 1:00:19
  that's why I ask because it's always an interesting concept to
• 1:00:22
  hear what different companies have.
• 1:00:25
  And OG can tell you we've seen all kinds of swag from cigar
• 1:00:29
  companies on this show. I mean it, it gets very
• 1:00:35
  interesting when you get people who are very creative.
• 1:00:37
  They, they get very creative with what they put their stuff
• 1:00:43
  on. So it's always, it always
• 1:00:45
  interests me to see what companies offer.
• 1:00:48
  Cause I've seen beach falls, I've seen frisbees, I've seen
• 1:00:52
  footballs, lighters, cutters, I've seen napkins.
• 1:00:57
  I, I mean, you name it. Well, for me, I.
• 1:01:01
  Have I actually made those for my personal?
• 1:01:03
  I made, I made blankets. So to be on the airplane with, I
• 1:01:07
  have beach towels. I've made these slippers, but
• 1:01:12
  those are for me. But like if someone wants them,
• 1:01:17
  I, I can have it. That's not a problem.
• 1:01:21
  I just try to be creative because like I said, when you
• 1:01:24
  are a small guy in this big tobacco market, it's like you
• 1:01:29
  have to market your, you have to market yourself.
• 1:01:31
  So you always have to be creative, put interesting things
• 1:01:35
  out there. So, but I don't know when I
• 1:01:40
  first started this cigar game until I really start using like
• 1:01:45
  I mean, I feel that normally personally that I smoke with in
• 1:01:47
  the lounge. I knew I had cigars but didn't
• 1:01:52
  know that I actually go to the factory and do the leg work.
• 1:01:55
  They thought it was just one of those guys that was just buying
• 1:01:57
  cigars and putting a label on it until I actually post my videos
• 1:02:02
  of me being in the factory, you know?
• 1:02:06
  So that taught me a lot with the Instagram that you have to that
• 1:02:11
  constant content makes people look at you.
• 1:02:14
  Different. Different.
• 1:02:15
  Correct. You know, so Instagram has been
• 1:02:20
  really great for me and my business because it gives me a
• 1:02:24
  lot of exposure, you know, you know, just see what I do and
• 1:02:29
  what I have. Like I said, I have a little bit
• 1:02:31
  of everything and like I said, in the business, your brain is
• 1:02:34
  constantly going. So sometimes you have to see
• 1:02:37
  this night square. You just thinking, well, there's
• 1:02:39
  no idea this new cigar where you would like to be.
• 1:02:43
  So that's that's for me. That's how it's been.
• 1:02:47
  No, and that's good and you know a lot.
• 1:02:48
  We've interviewed a couple of companies who even started their
• 1:02:51
  own YouTube channel content about their cigars.
• 1:02:56
  Like, you know, they'll do like a 10 minute, you know, kind of
• 1:03:01
  breakdown of their cigar and what's in it.
• 1:03:03
  And then, you know, sometimes they'll smoke it and kind of
• 1:03:07
  walk you through the, the transitions in the cigars and
• 1:03:11
  the flavour notes and, and profiles and stuff like that.
• 1:03:14
  It's, it's actually an interesting concept, you know,
• 1:03:17
  that a lot of companies are starting to do now as well.
• 1:03:21
  And even though YouTube can sometimes be somewhat of a
• 1:03:29
  What's up Uncle Hector, Uncle Hector's watching OG.
• 1:03:37
  A long time friend of the show. Yes, very long time friend of
• 1:03:40
  the show and a guy who is very good friends with our our
• 1:03:45
  blender that we're working with in Florida.
• 1:03:47
  So I'm excited for that as well. But yeah, I, I mean, I
• 1:03:53
  appreciate you coming on. I look forward to having you
• 1:03:56
  back again for sure and just tell people again where they
• 1:04:01
  can, where they can follow you, where they can order your stuff.
• 1:04:05
  This way, if they want to get it, they can go get it and try
• 1:04:08
  it. So.
• 1:04:10
  Caribe. Blisscigars.com is the actual
• 1:04:12
  website to order from. If you want to follow me, go
• 1:04:15
  follow me on Caribe Bliss Cigars on Instagram.
• 1:04:19
  OK, so there you have it guys. Caribe Bliss cigars.com.
• 1:04:24
  Follow him on Instagram at Caribe Bliss Cigars.
• 1:04:28
  Go pick up your cigars. I can tell you you won't be
• 1:04:30
  disappointed. This one so far out of out of
• 1:04:33
  what you sent besides the the Bayville one that you had sent
• 1:04:36
  me. This right here is probably my
• 1:04:39
  favorite because I just I enjoy this 5 by 60 size.
• 1:04:43
  There's I don't I don't do a whole lot of big ring gauges,
• 1:04:45
  but I do like those those shorter, bigger ring gauge
• 1:04:50
  smokes every once in a while. So it's it's good for me to
• 1:04:53
  have. But yeah, I appreciate you
• 1:04:57
  coming on. Thank you.
• 1:04:58
  We would love to have you back again.
• 1:05:02
  You know, if you if you release something new and you want to
• 1:05:04
  come on or like I said, you want to do a, you know, a, a raw
• 1:05:08
  testing panel, you let us know and we'll make it happen.
• 1:05:12
  And we appreciate you and hope to talk to you again soon.
• 1:05:17
  OK, I. Will look.
• 1:05:21
  For that, yes, so. And I want, I want to thank you
• 1:05:25
  guys as well for allowing me to be here in the platform.
• 1:05:30
  Absolutely. And like I said, you're always
• 1:05:32
  welcome back. Anything we can do to help you,
• 1:05:34
  you let us know. Between myself, OG and my dad,
• 1:05:40
  we will, you know, do what we can to help get your brand out
• 1:05:43
  there and make sure people know about it because the cigars are
• 1:05:46
  fantastic. Thank you so much.
• 1:05:54
  Appreciate that as well. No problem and thank you.
• 1:05:57
  So on that note, guys, we're going to take a quick break and
• 1:06:00
  we will see you on the other side.
• 1:06:02
  All right. So we are back, We are winding
• 1:10:31
  down here. Like I said, want to thank Mr.
• 1:10:35
  Ellis for jumping on with us and letting us smoke his cigars with
• 1:10:39
  him. And now I just want to I'm going
• 1:10:44
  to put you down and then we're going to wrap up here with our
• 1:10:49
  last few minutes of covering from wrestling.
• 1:10:52
  If you want to hang around for a few minutes.
• 1:10:56
  If not, then you can go. It is OK.
• 1:11:02
  And then we will finish wrapping up here and go from there.
• 1:11:10
  So I'm going to drop you down and then me and OG are going to
• 1:11:14
  get back to a little bit of Summer Slam and talk about some
• 1:11:17
  night too and get back with you guys again next week all.
• 1:11:25
  Right, I'll send you. A Yes.
• 1:11:32
  Shirt sizes. I'll send some shirts over TA.
• 1:11:36
  Most definitely we will. Thank you.
• 1:11:40
  OK. Appreciate that.
• 1:11:46
  Yes, thank you again for coming on and we appreciate you jumping
• 1:11:49
  on with us. So OG, we are back to our
• 1:11:59
  wrestling, our wrestling talk. I thought, let's let's just
• 1:12:05
  start with the fact I just read it again.
• 1:12:08
  I forgot about this, totally forgot to touch on this.
• 1:12:10
  The return of Haku to WWE programming.
• 1:12:14
  That was. I didn't.
• 1:12:16
  You didn't know about it, did you?
• 1:12:19
  I had. I did not, Haku.
• 1:12:21
  I had heard rikishi coming back. I saw the cane and I went, Oh,
• 1:12:27
  no way. Well, my my favorite part of
• 1:12:31
  that whole thing was not even him calling them the Sons of
• 1:12:34
  Haku. Nothing.
• 1:12:35
  It was what MFT now stands for. You know what it stands for?
• 1:12:41
  No. What does it stand for?
• 1:12:43
  Motherfucking Tongan, and I'm going to say it.
• 1:12:45
  I don't care. That's what it stands for.
• 1:12:48
  That's been confirmed that it now stands for that.
• 1:12:51
  And it doesn't stand for my family tree or my family tribe.
• 1:12:54
  It stands for the motherfucking Congans.
• 1:12:58
  That's unbelievable. That was a great surprise.
• 1:13:03
  Oh my God, that was awesome. I thought it was great.
• 1:13:06
  Yeah. Now, you watched all of last
• 1:13:10
  night, correct? I just, I just finished the last
• 1:13:13
  match with Oban Brock. What a great finish.
• 1:13:17
  I mean, I, I thought that match, people hated it.
• 1:13:20
  I thought it was great. What what popped me more out of
• 1:13:23
  that entire match was when Brock hit the tombstone and through
• 1:13:28
  the Oba like like Taker and and threw the tongue out.
• 1:13:33
  And I just to me, he did. If you watch that match, he did
• 1:13:36
  a lot of odes to Undertaker threw out.
• 1:13:38
  And it was little one that people didn't catch like when
• 1:13:41
  Oba sat up, when Brock sat up and looked at Oba and he started
• 1:13:44
  laughing. If people don't remember, Taker
• 1:13:48
  did that to Brock when they fought at WrestleMania.
• 1:13:52
  So it it's kind of a flashback to that.
• 1:13:54
  And then the tombstone on the boards and then the way Obel won
• 1:13:58
  by putting literally, as ARN Anderson and everybody would
• 1:14:02
  say, spine on the pine. And that's exactly how he won.
• 1:14:06
  Incredible. It was was incredible.
• 1:14:10
  I mean, there was another great man.
• 1:14:12
  People hated night one. I thought night 1 was great.
• 1:14:15
  What a lot of people didn't like was night one throughout all of
• 1:14:18
  the matches if you watched was a slow build.
• 1:14:22
  The automatic started out slow, which is a how how it's supposed
• 1:14:27
  to be. I I think they're going to find
• 1:14:30
  the people that didn't like night one will appreciate it
• 1:14:33
  more after night 2. I don't anticipating night 2
• 1:14:37
  being a dramatic at night one because the headline should have
• 1:14:42
  been Ober Brock night 2 and instead we're going to get Roman
• 1:14:47
  Reigns and Seth Rollins and I think that's not going to live
• 1:14:50
  up to it. I mean, it's, it's what match
• 1:14:53
  #5003. But I, I will say each time they
• 1:14:58
  do deliver, I can't knock that they deliver.
• 1:15:01
  I'm not saying that, no. No, no.
• 1:15:03
  I'm not saying to. I'm not saying that.
• 1:15:05
  It might be match number, however many in their, you know,
• 1:15:08
  rivalry, but man, they deliver every single time and I can't be
• 1:15:12
  mad at that. No, I, I, I'm not.
• 1:15:15
  I don't want to poo poo the match.
• 1:15:17
  I'm just saying in my mind, I don't think it's going to live
• 1:15:21
  up to Brock Oba, you know, you know, the Unstone hero in that
• 1:15:27
  match was Paul Heyman. His reaction throughout the
• 1:15:30
  entire match. Were.
• 1:15:34
  So spot on in they come across genuine and.
• 1:15:39
  Yes. And, and my favorite commentary
• 1:15:43
  line of that match was the very opening match, the very opening
• 1:15:48
  comment by Michael Cole when Brock came through the curtain.
• 1:15:53
  And that was to steal a line from my old favorite broadcast
• 1:15:58
  partner, Taz. Here comes the pain.
• 1:16:01
  And that was absolutely, that was poetic.
• 1:16:05
  That was beautiful because it literally sums up the entirety
• 1:16:09
  of Brock's career. I thought he was going to say
• 1:16:13
  when he stood up on the on the on the desk, the announcer desk,
• 1:16:16
  I thought the line was going to be the freak that beat the
• 1:16:21
  streak and he twisted a little bit.
• 1:16:24
  It wasn't quite exact, but I think if he said the freak that
• 1:16:27
  beat the streak it would have just slammed that home like.
• 1:16:33
  You know, Oba Brock was a once in a generation athlete.
• 1:16:39
  Let's just start there. Oh yeah, once in a generation
• 1:16:42
  athlete, you'll never see something like that ever again.
• 1:16:46
  The only one that might come close?
• 1:16:48
  Potential. Is over, is over.
• 1:16:51
  Is Ron Breaker? I they got to pick it up with
• 1:16:57
  him, man, they got to pick it up with him.
• 1:16:59
  Leave me I could do a whole another episode I.
• 1:17:01
  Love that alone. I love Breaker.
• 1:17:03
  I love you. Have you have Scott Steiner's
• 1:17:05
  kid who's in the NFL, who went his country?
• 1:17:08
  He said. When he's done in the NFL and
• 1:17:10
  he's done playing, he's going with his cousin.
• 1:17:14
  Oh, that what a what a team that will be.
• 1:17:17
  Again, if he's anything like his father and his uncle and his
• 1:17:21
  cousin, you can strap a rocket to him and send him to the moon
• 1:17:28
  now. Night 1, the highlight of the
• 1:17:35
  night to me, forget and not in a bad way, forget Oba Brock,
• 1:17:39
  forget Punk and and Cody and the return of Randy.
• 1:17:45
  And I'm not knocking any of that because I was excited to see
• 1:17:47
  Randy come back. I didn't see that either coming.
• 1:17:51
  Favorite, favorite, favorite part of the night, And I told
• 1:17:56
  you this from the beginning, was going to be the show stealer of
• 1:18:00
  the night, and that was the national treasure, Nick.
• 1:18:07
  All this versus that was by far my favorite match of the night
• 1:18:13
  because it delivered on every single level.
• 1:18:18
  Nick Nick showed up. He performed beyond my
• 1:18:23
  expectations and looked in in in Gunther.
• 1:18:28
  He sold it like I've never seen Gunther sell anything because in
• 1:18:33
  all of his matches. When you're getting in brilliant
• 1:18:36
  guy with all those accolades, right?
• 1:18:38
  And that's not a knock on the WWE guys, it's not a knock on AJ
• 1:18:42
  Goldberg, whatever. But you're getting in a ring
• 1:18:45
  with a guy who's been champion all over the world numerous
• 1:18:50
  times. He has held the most coveted
• 1:18:54
  title in the industry today and probably ever in the N.W.A
• 1:18:59
  championship. And the fact that, you know,
• 1:19:04
  having Wade Baradon commentary who started with Nick Aldis,
• 1:19:09
  sold it Even so much more as a not an underdog story, but a,
• 1:19:19
  you know, a life story. Yeah.
• 1:19:22
  You know, and, and to me that delivered on every level that I
• 1:19:27
  knew Nick, all this could deliver on.
• 1:19:29
  Do you know what more popped me for that match was at the very
• 1:19:33
  end when they went off the air and Nick is in front of Hunter
• 1:19:38
  and he hands his resignation and then when the moment Hunter
• 1:19:42
  started tearing that I'm like boom, Nick is not going
• 1:19:46
  anywhere. You.
• 1:19:49
  You did what a man has to do. You went out there and settled
• 1:19:52
  it like we do in WWE. You fought for what you believed
• 1:19:56
  in. Now it's time to get back to
• 1:19:58
  work. Yep, I loved it.
• 1:20:00
  I loved it. I'm going to say what everybody
• 1:20:03
  don't want to say. That's not the end of Nick Aldus
• 1:20:05
  in the WWE ring. Not even fucking close.
• 1:20:11
  I think. I think that match was huge for
• 1:20:14
  Nick Aldis to prove himself. And.
• 1:20:17
  To keep him in the ring. To keep him in the.
• 1:20:19
  Ring that, Nick tells you. You know, when I started and I
• 1:20:25
  got the call, he goes. I wasn't ready, he tells you.
• 1:20:28
  He wasn't ready for WWE that young.
• 1:20:30
  Yeah. He said I wasn't ready.
• 1:20:33
  Now he's ready, and you know his.
• 1:20:37
  His success came young, especially in TNA and they they
• 1:20:40
  shot him to the moon. I was a big fan of Nick back
• 1:20:43
  then British Invasion team with Doug Williams.
• 1:20:47
  I mean that was a great pairing. Nick is another one who is just
• 1:20:52
  a stellar fucking athlete. Stellar.
• 1:20:55
  And, and he, the, the GM role allowed him to refine his mic
• 1:21:01
  skills. Cuz I'll be honest with you, I
• 1:21:03
  was not a fan of his mic skills before, even in other companies.
• 1:21:08
  And that role allowed him to really develop the ability to
• 1:21:14
  speak and to sell without getting in the ring.
• 1:21:18
  And that's a huge, that's huge part of wrestling for wrestlers,
• 1:21:22
  right is the mic. And, and I think that also
• 1:21:25
  proved to WWE and TKO. And that I got a bone to pick
• 1:21:30
  with you. I do have a bone to pick with
• 1:21:32
  you. I didn't.
• 1:21:34
  I didn't know this. How come you didn't tell me?
• 1:21:37
  Nicky James was his wife. Yeah, I've said that numerous
• 1:21:42
  times. No, I've never heard you say
• 1:21:45
  that. Yeah, I didn't think, I thought
• 1:21:47
  you knew that already. No, I was stunned when they were
• 1:21:50
  like, Nicky James comes in with their son and I'm like, what the
• 1:21:52
  hell is she doing there? And then and then and then
• 1:21:56
  Michael Kohler or Barrett, one of them says his wife Nicky
• 1:21:59
  James. And I'm like, yeah, wait a
• 1:22:01
  minute, what the he's been? Married.
• 1:22:03
  They've been married since TNA. I did not know that.
• 1:22:07
  Yeah, they, they've been married a very long time.
• 1:22:10
  But I, I mean, I think to me by him having that match, getting
• 1:22:16
  the pop he got from the crowd. Yeah.
• 1:22:20
  Yeah, shows that number one, he's over with their audience #2
• 1:22:26
  people know who he is, regardless of him being the GM
• 1:22:31
  of Smackdown, right? Right.
• 1:22:35
  So I think that shows TKO that you can make money with him.
• 1:22:43
  It was huge. His performance was huge.
• 1:22:45
  The one that I really I wish they would let lace up the boots
• 1:22:50
  and he may not even want to is Adam Pierce.
• 1:22:55
  Adam Pierce is another multi time N.W.A champion across the
• 1:22:59
  board. I wouldn't be surprised now that
• 1:23:02
  Nick was in the ring that you could see those two.
• 1:23:06
  I could see those two as GMs having a tiff with people and
• 1:23:11
  getting in the ring with them as AGM.
• 1:23:13
  See that handled by like Nick Dudd, like Nick did, But Adam
• 1:23:20
  Pierce? If anybody doesn't know what
• 1:23:23
  he's done, go look up Adam Pierce's career and his matches
• 1:23:32
  because that dude was on another level when he wrestled.
• 1:23:38
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They, I mean, he was the Iron
• 1:23:41
  Man, he was the scrap daddy Adam Pierce.
• 1:23:45
  I mean he, that dude has done Ring of Honor N.W.A.
• 1:23:50
  He was big in N.W.A, multi time champion, multi time Ring of
• 1:23:54
  Honor champion. He's been all over Japan,
• 1:23:58
  Europe, you name it. Oh yeah.
• 1:24:00
  So I, I'm not surprised. I feel like Adam it, it might be
• 1:24:05
  a little past the time Adam's got to get in the ring, but who
• 1:24:10
  knows? I mean, Adam's been doing it,
• 1:24:12
  what, almost five years now, Like Nick's been doing it 3 or
• 1:24:15
  4. I mean, it's possible.
• 1:24:21
  It's possible that you see Adam Pierce in the ring.
• 1:24:27
  I I think you're going to see more of Nick Aldis in the ring.
• 1:24:32
  Knight 2 is shaping up to be fantastic with the ladder match.
• 1:24:37
  I think it's going to be great. That women's ladder match, you
• 1:24:39
  have Dan Housing and Dominic Mysterio for the human monies on
• 1:24:43
  a pole. I mean, this whole Knight 2 card
• 1:24:49
  is shaping up to be absolutely fantastic.
• 1:24:53
  I'm excited. I made it through the I made it
• 1:24:54
  through the whole show with no one calling me and just now
• 1:24:57
  someone called knocked my audio out.
• 1:24:59
  I just got it back. Can you?
• 1:25:00
  Hear me now. Yeah, I I got it back.
• 1:25:02
  OK, so I'm Knight 2 is shaping up to be great with that woman's
• 1:25:06
  match that I'm excited for that ladder match.
• 1:25:09
  I can't lie personally, that latter match I think is going to
• 1:25:13
  be fantastic. You got Dan wrestling.
• 1:25:16
  Tonight I I don't I again, I'm not pooing night 2.
• 1:25:20
  I think it's going to be very entertaining, but I think people
• 1:25:22
  will look back after Night 2 is done and say night one was
• 1:25:26
  better. Now I will tell you, I feel like
• 1:25:30
  they can't ever turn solo heel again because solo the way he is
• 1:25:36
  now is absolutely hilarious. Completely entertaining now.
• 1:25:42
  I, I, I don't think you can. I don't think you can turn him
• 1:25:46
  heel again. I don't think you can.
• 1:25:48
  There's no way. I feel like that's not a thing.
• 1:25:55
  Yeah, and he's gonna. I love the dynamics now with
• 1:25:58
  Haku being back. I, I the, the tribal wars.
• 1:26:02
  The tribal wars have just now I. Would love to see them bring
• 1:26:08
  back. As much as people are going to
• 1:26:10
  hate me, I'd love to see them bring back Tongaloa and put the
• 1:26:14
  three brothers together. Yeah.
• 1:26:17
  Because I feel like that's got to happen.
• 1:26:20
  And I'd love to see him bring Rikishi back.
• 1:26:22
  I'd love to see him bring Rikishi back.
• 1:26:24
  They. Talked about bringing Rikishi
• 1:26:25
  back for the bloodline. Well now will they?
• 1:26:29
  Will they because of that fuck up with ROH?
• 1:26:32
  What do? You mean?
• 1:26:35
  It wasn't an ROH that he had to fuck up with the they.
• 1:26:39
  They staged that beating and then it turned real.
• 1:26:43
  No, they didn't. Oh no, they didn't stay.
• 1:26:45
  They didn't. So that was his company.
• 1:26:46
  That was Knox Pro. They didn't stage that.
• 1:26:50
  They thought that he knew it wasn't.
• 1:26:54
  They thought Raja knew. But Raja should have made,
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  shouldn't have done what he did regardless.
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  That's a whole another. Oh yeah, no, I'm not saying I'm
• 1:27:03
  not saying that, but he but Rakishi took a lot of heat for
• 1:27:06
  that. He did, and he stepped away from
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  Knox Pro since he has some stuff he had to take care of.
• 1:27:11
  I'd love to see him brought back to be the tribal chief of the
• 1:27:14
  bloodline, the Elder. There's talk Zilla might show
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  up. I mean, to me, if you bring
• 1:27:23
  Zilla in, you have to put him and Jacob together.
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  Yeah, as A tag team only because I've seen what they've done on
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  the Independence together and separately.
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  They both can go either way regardless.
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  Separate together, it doesn't matter.
• 1:27:43
  I think if you bring Zilla in, you add another dynamic into the
• 1:27:46
  tag team division. Yep, But Zilla's also one you
• 1:27:51
  can shoot out on his own right away.
• 1:27:54
  Yeah. It's it's very interesting Night
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  2. There's talks Kevin Owens was
• 1:27:59
  supposed to come back as. A might be tonight for.
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  Cody Randy came back last night. Kevin should be on his way,
• 1:28:08
  hopefully. I mean, there's a lot of stuff
• 1:28:12
  that can come out at night 2. I don't know I'm.
• 1:28:14
  Very. I would like to.
• 1:28:15
  I'd like. What I would love to see is
• 1:28:17
  Randy coming back, make an appearance again tonight and
• 1:28:20
  then KO come to his rescue. That would blow the roof off and
• 1:28:27
  be a great starting block maybe. Maybe KO, Maybe Sammy wrestles
• 1:28:33
  Finn for the title tonight. Oh yeah, that's.
• 1:28:37
  True. I mean, I personally want to see
• 1:28:39
  Finn win because it's been 10 years since he's held the title
• 1:28:41
  and I think he's well deserving of it.
• 1:28:44
  Sammy being a former champion, who knows KO could come back and
• 1:28:47
  help his old buddy win the title.
• 1:28:50
  So on that note guys. Or betray him.
• 1:28:54
  Could be, we don't know. Stay tuned.
• 1:28:57
  Next week we'll find out what happens.
• 1:28:59
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