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Premium Cigar Association Trade Show 2025 · Sips, Suds, & Smokes

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  >> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin smokes.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>For today's segment, drumroll, please.
• 0:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We're doing PCA 2025 coverage. We went to the PCA in New Orleans this year, not Vegas, sadly, but actually had a good time in New Orleans, which was strange.
• 0:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So, okay, as you know, we like to do our top five cigars from pca, from all of us. And usually we have four people in here, so these episodes are usually a couple hours long. But because we just started doing a new time signature this week, and moving forward, we're going to talk about, uh, we're just going to take a small second to go over three cigars each, and there's only three of us this time, but we are going to talk about some honorable mentions, and we're going to go over the booths and what we liked and how we had fun.
• 0:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. It sips, suds and smokes with your smokin host, the good old boys.
• 1:51
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Hey, man, got a light? It's time for smokes.
• 1:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, everybody, welcome to the smokes episode where everything good in life is worth discussing. Our hosts today are gonna be good old boy Benjamin on the ones and twos.
• 2:08
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>He's off the microphone, but he says, hi, everybody.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Good, uh, old boy Barger myself. And way down next to me is good old boy Rich.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And then pulling up the rear, we got good old boy Justin down in Fort Lauderdale.
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  > Bob>Good morning, everybody.
• 2:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>How's the weather down there?
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  > Bob>It's hot.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, I know it. I know it. Well, we are the best thing at 2am on right. Right before you hear that strange noise from under your bed and just after it gets you. As you know, and I hope you know, our smoke segments are all about cigars and, well, anything that smoked. And for today's segment, drum roll, please.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We are doing PCA 2025 coverage. We went to the PCA in New Orleans this year, not Vegas, sadly, but actually had a good time in New Orleans, which was strange.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So we'll talk about that in a little bit. So just strap on and hang in tight. We're gonna have fun today. But don't worry if you miss anything.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You could download the full episode from wherever you get your podcast. But before we dive into the shallow end of the pool, remember the buddy system. Where's your buddy?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right. If you're a cigar newbie, fret not we got you covered on Cigar 101 episode where all this cigar speak will be decoded. Just search for sip suds and smoked cigars 101. And that episode should pop right up in the link in the show notes. All right, well, good old boy Rich gets the honors of going over our smokes rating today. Take it away, Rich.
• 3:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin them with our sips suds and smokes smokes ratings plus our signature sounds.
• 3:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Here are those ratings now.
• 3:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>One, this sucked even before it was lit.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, a two, at least I lit it.
• 3:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Three, I would smoke this again.
• 4:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Four, how much you want for them?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Magnificent.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin box.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's right. So, okay, as you know, we like to do our top five cigars from pca, from all of us.
• 4:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And usually we have four people in here. So these episodes are usually a couple hours long. But because we just started doing a new time signature this week and moving forward, we're going to talk about, uh, we're just going to take a, uh, small second to go over three cigars each and there's only three of us this, this time.
• 4:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, but we are going to talk about some honorable mentions and we're going to go over the booths and what we liked and how we had fun.
• 4:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So Justin's up first with his line. Justin, tell us what you, what you liked about, uh, pca.
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  > Bob>Oh, uh, pca. It was so well run. It was huge.
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  > Bob>The, um, booths were crazy. They had like a whole Mayflower reconstructed for Mayflower Cigars.
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  > Bob>All the great people that make the cigars were there, you know, all the personalities you want from the League of fat Bastards. Adam Levine, um, you got Rocky Patel. It was insane. Insane.
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  > Bob>So first cigar, um, that was my favorite was the Oz family cigar. Caritoba was a robusto extra 5 1/2 inch by 55, crafted at Nasca, Nicaragua. This box press line features an Ecuadorian grown Sumatra seed wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and carefree carefully selected filler blend of Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos. Was medium bodied, was complex.
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  > Bob>Um, it was like amazing with cocoa nibs and the dark black pepper.
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  > Bob>It was just pretty crazy and uh, never went out when I lit it. It was well constructed.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, I got dark chocolate off of that.
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  > Bob>Oh, yeah. Cocoa nibs.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
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  > Bob>Uh, it's like chocolate beans. You know, it's intense. Intense chocolate.
• 6:20
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin got that cigar on day three or uh, four.
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  > Bob>Yeah.
• 6:27
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin and it blew me away. It totally blew me away.
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  > Bob>As soon as I lit it up, I was like, this is the best cigar that I've had. And I had smoked a lot of.
• 6:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And for a robusto, it was, it packs full of flavor.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Oh, yeah, yeah. So what, uh, what, what are your guys thoughts on this? Obviously, uh, we all love it, but what about a rating? What, what are we going to do here? We're going to go fives across the board there.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin First five of the day.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin that's definitely. Where's a box? I'm ready for a box.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, well, yeah, Tim, you know, we're local here too.
• 7:06
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Tim. You send us a box, we'll take them.
• 7:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, well, what's your second pick?
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  > Bob>My second favorite cigar, PCA was Illusione Group of 5 Robusto, 5 by 52 ring gauge.
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  > Bob>Um. Dion utilizes tobaccos that he set aside over three years to create the first size in this line to be offered to the public.
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  > Bob>Plucked from the cradle by a secret society, eventually becomes the leader. A world in which few know the group of five hides in the shadows, but in the public eye at the same time. Tasting notes.
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  > Bob>It was, um, peppery, um, lightly fruity, and it had a great draw. Um, it was really nice, uh, retronasal exhale on this one. I did that like four or five times. Um, we'll never really know what's in it, but I really know that I want to have another one sometime.
• 8:11
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin hooded robes, like plucking the, uh, tobacco leaves secretly in the middle of the night.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. You know the cigar monks. Yeah, yeah. Coming out there. Yeah, yeah. Only in full or blood moons. Yeah, yeah, no, I. So this cigar actually was released last year, but they re released it again this year. And, uh, was my one of my top five cigars last year?
• 8:38
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 8:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Absolutely. A good cigar. So what, what are you guys going to think about rating it? We're going fives.
• 8:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I'm, I, I have bought two boxes of these. So.
• 8:52
  > Bob>Nice.
• 8:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. So we are they. It is awesome. It's a great cigar and I encourage everyone to go try it. All right.
• 8:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What's your third cigar? Nova.
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  > Bob>Ah, Mirage.
• 9:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What's up, Leo?
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > Bob>Six sixteen by six. Uh, medium to full body. The rappers from Sumatra. The filler was Dominican. The binder Pollotto. It's a big ring gauge cigar comprised of smooth Dominican filler surrounded by a dark Sumatra wrapper. Impeccably. Rolled and full of flavor, this earthy to medium full body cigar unleashes notes of leather, white pepper, and dark chocolate. Um, the flavor in this was great. The construction, what had, like, pockets where it'd be just air and I'd have to relight, um, at a hot spot in the middle.
• 9:48
  > Bob>But the flavor was great. I mean, it just took my rating down just a little bit, but I enjoyed it. What did you guys think of this one?
• 9:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I've liked the Mirage. Um, you know, Leo is just salt of the earth. She's awesome.
• 10:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And a lot of her tobacco is 10 plus aged years, you know, age.
• 10:06
  > Bob>So that's why the flavor is so good.
• 10:08
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, that's. And that's. Sometimes, you know, it's construction. These are all handcrafted, so you might get one with a pocket of air.
• 10:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin anything from Nova, I'm. I'm on board with.
• 10:20
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um, they're just wonderful people, Real sweet, real kind, and just make a high quality, uh, product. So.
• 10:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, absolutely. So what are we going to give that rating? We're gonna go with a four.
• 10:35
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, well, we're about to take a break, and when we come back from our break, what's going to happen is we're going to go over honorable, uh, mentions for Justin, and then we're going to talk a little bit about what riches got going on with pca. But other than that, what was your favorite booth? The Mayflower, you said.
• 10:52
  > Bob>Yeah, I would say the Mayflower.
• 10:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, well, we'll be right back after this commercial.
• 11:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, we just got back and hope, uh, you guys bought all those things that we're talking about there. Uh, we just got going over the Nova Mirage and we rated it a four. And so we're going to talk about Justin's honorable mentions, uh, cigars that he enjoyed from PCA 2025 in New Orleans.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Justin, what were your honorable mentions?
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  > Bob>So I met this cool guy named Adam Levine who's not a rock star, but he might be in the cigar world.
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  > Bob>Yeah, M. He creates something called a League of Fat Bastards. And, uh, Series O is really fun. And 40% of their profits go to men's mental health. And I know a lot of crazy dudes, so I think it's a really good cause.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, absolutely.
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  > Bob>Rocky Patel year, the Snake. If you got a lot of money to throw at a cigar, you can make a pretty good cigar.
• 11:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 11:52
  > Bob>Prove that.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's true. That's true that you're the Snake. I Haven't smoked mine yet, but I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, I've smoked the League of Fat Bastards and they've got a bunch of good cigars they're putting out right now. I mean, they've only got three core lines. The El, the O and the Bandita.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Do L, O, F, B. Yeah, yeah. Lo, F, F and B are to come. So, rich, what are your, uh, top three there? Oh.
• 12:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Broadway. And this is a, um. This is a new. This is the first cigar of, uh, Crownhead's new branding.
• 12:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And so, um, looks a lot better. It does look a lot better. The colors are great. They pop.
• 12:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 12:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin most famous neighborhood.
• 12:38
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 12:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. I wouldn't call it a neighborhood. It stain.
• 12:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin cigar, you know, just kind of up there, uh, you know, with the, uh, Oz family, you know, same. Yeah, same. Same level there.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Really good. Um, rapper is a usa, Connecticut broadleaf binder, Nicaragua, Um, jalapa filler. Uh, Estelle Yalapa. And if I can pronounce this right, I'd be great. Omatape.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Omatape.
• 13:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin burnt real well. Just really enjoyed it from front to back.
• 13:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. So, uh, I smoked that cigar as well, and I actually love that cigar. It's a great.
• 13:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So we got the robusto size there, right?
• 13:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin So the 5 by 50 or 52 or whatever it is.
• 13:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, yeah.
• 13:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin to sit down and enjoy it, and I really did.
• 13:38
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Uh, did you smoke the Broadway Justin?
• 13:40
  > Bob>I have not smoked that yet.
• 13:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What's in your bag? I'm sure.
• 13:43
  > Bob>Oh, I'm sure.
• 13:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, what do we got for a rating there? We're gonna give it five.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin definitely. Get a box of those. Um, yeah. So my second was the Bentley Rare Rosetta Green label. Um, the Bentley Green was great. The Bentley Green rare Rosetta blend is a celebration of the exquisite Rosado God rapper. Known for its subtle complexity.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Rosado, okay. Known for its subtle complexity and rich, earthy undertones. This blend is crafted with precision, enveloping a core of hand selected leaves, aged for three years, a process that embows each cigar with depth and character. The risotto wrapper, with its unique reddish hue, imparts A balanced sweetness, perfectly complementing the nutty and spicy notes that unfold with each draw. Rolled in the oldest cigar factory in Nicaragua, this blend is a tribute to traditions and the art of cigar making, offering a luxurious smoking experience that is both smooth and satisfying.
• 14:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So I didn't see the.
• 14:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I couldn't quite remember the size that they give us, but I think it was, uh, five by 48, something like that.
• 15:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's a smaller. It's a smaller ring gauge. And I'm going to tell you that was on my list. And when I saw it was on your list, I took it off my list because I knew we'd talk about it. Yeah, but that. That cigar.
• 15:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Really good. Justin, you remember smoking them?
• 15:23
  > Bob>No, I remember the booth.
• 15:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 15:26
  > Bob>I remember wondering if this was involved with the Bentley car brand, but they're not.
• 15:30
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I, uh, know that was. The whole stick was like.
• 15:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Kind of the same. Kind of saying. Not the same.
• 15:39
  > Bob>I kind of got to the end of it. Not involved.
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  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 15:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I smoked it there.
• 15:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah, I liked it. Yeah.
• 15:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin It reminded me of an old Davidoff.
• 15:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > Bob>Oh, nice.
• 15:54
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin with a cup of coffee.
• 15:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 15:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Well, what you giving it? We're going fives.
• 16:06
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's going to be a nothing but banger episode.
• 16:08
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Right? That's right. That's right. Well, what's your third?
• 16:12
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin which is, uh, Hermanos de Armas, which, uh, means, um, um, brothers in arms. This is a 100 veteran, um, owned company, about a year or so old, I think.
• 16:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, that was a young company. Freaking awesome, people.
• 16:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Uh, we are going to do an episode with them.
• 16:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Shadow, which is a Toro 6x54 um catechism. The features a fusion of. I don't think this is the right one. The catechism is a different one. Um, but it's a Nicaraguan, uh, tobacco and, um, wrapped in a commanding presence of, uh, Ecuadorian habano wrapper. With each draw, it conjures a storm of flavors, blending the earthy richness of, uh, um, um. Ome with the fiery intensity of Kiga, invoked in a dark and powerful symphony on the palate. Um, so, yeah.
• 17:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Ecuadorian habano wrapper, Nicaraguan binder filler. Um, it was. It was probably my closest second.
• 17:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 17:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin a really good, solid smoke. Had a great structure.
• 17:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 17:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I think, uh, I really enjoyed it, personally. I want to smoke a couple more, um, to see what I really like about it, you know? And I think that. That when we do an episode with them, that's going to really help. Yeah, for sure. But what. What are you. What are you going to give it?
• 17:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, we're going to give it four.
• 17:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I love your honorable mentions.
• 17:50
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. Uh, tell the folks what I got to go with.
• 17:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin a while. I think we got some, uh, last year for my daughter's wedding, and I just forgot how much I like a comancho. You know, the triple Maduro is my favorite. Maduro out there. It's so good, it's smooth, it's rich. And, um, we got, uh. We went to the Camacho party, which I have to say, honorable mention, man. Those guys put on a good party.
• 18:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That was such a fun party, having them play Slayer.
• 18:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin was rocking it. People were dancing, putting some metal out there. Yeah.
• 18:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Everyone was looking around like, what the hell's happening?
• 18:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We're all like, six of us.
• 18:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Raining Blood. They had, um. They had this, uh. This.
• 18:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
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  > Bob>Oh, yeah.
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  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin All the steak you can eat.
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  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Comancho. You guys are just killing it. The constructions are solid and consistent, and, um, I've smoked a few since I've been back, and, um, just. Yeah, just remember how good I like them.
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  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. The triple Maduro was one of the boxes of cigars I got for my wedding, but it was the OG with the. With the double band, and it was in a different box, and, like, they're old. Their old branding. It's like. I remember their old Scorpion was so good.
• 19:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Oh, uh, man, that cigar was so good. Uh, so what was your favorite booth?
• 19:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin don't know if I have a favorite booth. I think, um. It was such a blur.
• 19:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. So, um, you really like that Kikimomo booth, huh?
• 19:36
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin interesting. It was a fun booth. That's definitely.
• 19:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Those guys were right.
• 19:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin throne the whole time. Yeah.
• 19:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And then they had the leopard print.
• 19:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin with the pink stripes. I mean, it was crazy.
• 19:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It was awesome.
• 19:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Well, we'll be right back after these commercials.
• 20:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right, welcome back. I hope those commercials were everything that you needed. Uh, looks like I'm up next, folks. And let's just say I found some pretty obscure brands this year that actually turned out to have some hitters.
• 20:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I was very impressed with some of the smaller boutique brands. Um, my number one actually was one that I smoked when I got home, and it was Imami cigars, a Komodo triple Lijero Connecticut. Churchill.
• 20:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, he, um, Armin, I believe is his name, handed me, uh, two of these Komodos and was like, take these home. Smoke them. Tell me what you think. And I was like, okay. Didn't really expect to, you know, expect them to be hitters. But as soon as I got home and was starting to smoke that, I was like, good Lord. Um, there's not much available on their website for these cigars, but It's a Churchill 7 by 50. The wrapper is Ecuadorian Connecticut.
• 20:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The filler is Estelle Condega, and the seco is Jalapa. Um, did you guys happen to get any of them?
• 21:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin not get the. I do not know that I got the Komodo.
• 21:11
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Okay. Did you. So you probably didn't get the.
• 21:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Okay, well, no, it was a Maduro and a Connecticut.
• 21:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah, I don't take your cigars, buddy. I wish to register a complete. That's right.
• 21:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, I'm gonna. I'm gonna give it a five. I mean, that was literally my favorite cigar from pca.
• 21:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 21:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I don't know what factory he's getting his cigars in or what, but he's. He's getting some decent cigars. Did you try any of them?
• 21:42
  > Bob>No, but I'm a. Look for him in the bag.
• 21:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, you should have some Imami cigars.
• 21:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Check it out. Yeah. And then, uh, my number two is the Natura Cigar Company Second harvest. I don't know if you guys remember, but the first harvest was My top cigar last year.
• 22:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, this year they came out with a second harvest and only made 3,000 boxes. Now, what I did learn about natural cigars this year was that they are grown in greenhouses above 4,500ft sea level. 4,500ft above sea level. Now, there's another company that claims they have the Highest production at 3,300. 3,500. But actually, Natura is the higher. Higher.
• 22:30
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>They're higher by a thousand feet. And these guys are. The guy was a vegetable farmer, and during COVID he was like, well, what are we gonna do? And so he started doing.
• 22:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Making tobacco.
• 22:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin social. So you guys go look for it. It's a great interview.
• 22:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The guy was just solid and just a sweetie. Just loved him, man. You felt like a grandfather.
• 22:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, he got some. He had some really good answers to some questions, and. And it was a good interview all around.
• 23:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. So that's. Most of their cigars are named after horses.
• 23:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. Cowboy movies. Yeah. So it's a Dominican puro, and, uh, I'm gonna give it a five.
• 23:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. Solid. Yeah.
• 23:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. So, such good flavor.
• 23:22
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um, so my third, and I'm kind of in. In all that this is actually on my list.
• 23:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, it is, uh, Zejimun engineered cigars. Yes, it's the, uh. Let me see if I say this right. Yeah, the Hrom Zeit. And the way if you. Yeah, now we do have an interview with him. Is it posted up yet?
• 23:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Okay, well, when it comes out, you guys will see this guy, very eclectic, very nice guy.
• 23:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um, he explains that this cigar is like. You are traveling at the speed of light far beyond the next galaxy when your friendly Android serves you a slice of cake.
• 24:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And that's how he introduces it. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, what?
• 24:12
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And so I lit it and started smoking it.
• 24:15
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And what's funny is it is a. It almost tastes like an older Davidoff, which is extremely strange because it's none of it. There's only one leaf from the Doctor in it. So you've got. The wrapper is Nika. Uh, Nicaragua and Connecticut. Your binder is Indonesian and Sumatra. Your filler is from Jalapa. And your, uh, the second filler is a Dominican Republic Poloto.
• 24:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And I was like, wow.
• 24:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin the German engineering.
• 24:51
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 24:51
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin of the cigars, the construction and the.
• 24:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The.
• 24:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Pride themselves.
• 25:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. They create an experience.
• 25:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Was that this one or the West Mine? The Western Heimer or something.
• 25:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I could never say it. He'd have to. He'd probably scold me for getting it wrong.
• 25:14
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. But it glows in the dark, and that's pretty cool.
• 25:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Uh, so what do you guys.
• 25:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm gonna give us a. Ah, four.
• 25:26
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 25:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Magnificent.
• 25:35
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin they'll send us some that we can. We can do an episode.
• 25:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, I'd like to do an episode with them too, also. We're gonna try this, uh, coming year, going to, um. Oh, it's not tpe. It's, uh, Inner tobac, and Inner TOBAC is actually one of the biggest. Um, it's like the pca, but in Germany.
• 25:56
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. So. So we're trying to get. Get us.
• 26:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>If anyone's got an in, let me know. Um, so for my honorable mentions, for me, it's gonna be the Big Sky. Uh, I think that's who it is.
• 26:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Big Sky Cigars. Yeah.
• 26:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin From Montana.
• 26:12
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Socials. Great, guys.
• 26:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 26:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin some history of, uh, uh, cigars coming out of Montana. They're kind of, you know, trying to.
• 26:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Rebirthing. Yeah. And so their cigar called the Cryptid, which they didn't want to give me at the time, but they gave me one reluctantly. And now you guys are on the episode. Thank you for that. Interrupt this program to annoy you and.
• 26:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Now I am going to mention those Kiki Momo guys.
• 26:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin They were just a blast.
• 26:44
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Like, they were fun. And a couple cigars. A couple of cigars I got from them were really good, too. He just has such a huge portfolio.
• 26:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin company.
• 26:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>And they're a new company. He's got believable. Every different cigar. I don't know how he's doing it.
• 26:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 27:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. Which was.
• 27:05
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin uh, you know. But it was good.
• 27:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, it was good.
• 27:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin for it. Yeah, because we were smoking it when we weren't supposed.
• 27:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, we were smoking it before, uh.
• 27:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin smoking inside while they were setting up.
• 27:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We didn't get that memo, so.
• 27:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. Yeah. Um, also, I want to bring up the lure.
• 27:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Cigars.
• 27:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Um, small mom and pop companies centered around fishing.
• 27:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And, uh, you know, he just talked about how him and his dad, you know, love to go fishing and smoke cigars.
• 27:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 27:42
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 27:44
  > Bob>I smoked their Dumpster fire one.
• 27:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It was great. Dumpster fire. That was War Fighter, wasn't it?
• 27:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 27:50
  > Bob>Dumpster fire is all a mix of everything.
• 27:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's War Fighter.
• 27:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Cigar.
• 27:54
  > Bob>Oh, okay.
• 27:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. No, no, no. You. But that's also a good cigar, and that was a good.
• 27:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>You know, we did our. Our episode aired with Warfighter just before we left for pca.
• 28:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin too.
• 28:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. And then I like this corojo. That's the one. I've smoked that one. And then I think it's the fish sticks. I think it's the fish sticks.
• 28:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah, yeah, those are the small, little, like, dog walkers.
• 28:20
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And those little things are solid. Are they? I'd love to pick up a little pack of them.
• 28:24
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Uh, another one that's interesting that. That. That I got to try was the.
• 28:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>The Bamp Cigars. And it's badass Mother.
• 28:34
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Efforts. And the guy is very, very eclectic guy. Another nice guy.
• 28:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah. Veteran owned and operated company. And that's where he got his, you know, BAMF logo from. It's like, well, what do we do? Well, we're all this. So let's just call it this.
• 28:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin friends about bamf. They knew what that meant, by the way.
• 28:59
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, yeah, we know that one.
• 29:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. So he. He gave me a Vlad the Impaler, and it was pretty good.
• 29:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Uh, the Impaler because in the tobacco from, like, I think so, you know.
• 29:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'd have to do a little bit of research. Yeah, yeah. Transylvanian Tobacco. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow.
• 29:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. So, um, what. Some honorable mentions? What do we not talk about, guys? What have we not.
• 29:25
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Because we got another section and another section we're going to come up. We're going to talk after the break. We're going to talk about our booths.
• 29:31
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>What we liked about the booths and the conversations that we had or we didn't have because we did get blown off by a few people.
• 29:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin recognized us from last year and they invited, uh, us in.
• 29:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So that was, I'm excited that we got to, got to interview Nick.
• 29:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin With a foundation.
• 29:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Hopefully we got it. We're gonna do an episode with foundation coming up, but we'll be back right after the break, folks.
• 30:01
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Welcome back, folks. We were just talking about some of my honorable mentions from PCA 2025.
• 30:07
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>But I want to take this little bit of section here and this last portion and let's talk about how much fun we had.
• 30:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Was a good time. I want to thank, uh, the PCA for letting us come back this year. Um, I mean we've been back, this is our third year and uh, we've just enjoyed every bit of it and had a good time. Like I said, a lot of the relationships that we've built, we've been being able to come back and, and they're, we recognized and they're, hey, yeah, come here. And we've got this. Let's talk about this. Let's have an interview. And then, you know, my interview style is a lot different than everyone else's.
• 30:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm not going to sit there.
• 30:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin on the interview style. I think people enjoyed, you know, the five questions. You don't know what the five questions are?
• 30:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Go to the socials. You'll find out what the five questions are.
• 30:52
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's right. Uh, go. Follow us on Instagram. Rich is doing a really good bang up job on them videos.
• 30:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin He's putting out some bangers.
• 31:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Justin, what was your favorite thing at, uh, pca?
• 31:04
  > Bob>My favorite thing at PCA was other than hanging out with me, just the amazing booth construction.
• 31:13
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 31:13
  > Bob>How they can put these things together in a day or two.
• 31:20
  > Bob>Some of them were multi level.
• 31:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 31:21
  > Bob>You could like go upstairs and um, and then they had to take them down in a day. What was fun was watching the, the guy from uh, Batman, uh, walk around the set trying to score boxes right before everything closed.
• 31:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, Captain America.
• 31:40
  > Bob>Captain America.
• 31:41
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anthony Mackie.
• 31:44
  > Bob>So that was interesting.
• 31:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I wanted to take a picture with him and he wouldn't let me.
• 31:47
  > Bob>He wouldn't let you?
• 31:48
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>He was like, no pictures. Yeah.
• 31:53
  > Bob>And he was really cool. The veterans that were talking to him.
• 31:56
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um, yeah, yeah, he's, he's. Yeah. Robert ended up Giving him a knife.
• 32:00
  > Bob>Tv. What's that?
• 32:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>We ended up giving him a cigar cutter knife that he made to Guy Fieri. That was pretty cool.
• 32:06
  > Bob>Yeah, very cool.
• 32:08
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin The pre. Events and the events throughout the, uh. The, uh, post, uh, events were great. Food was great.
• 32:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, yeah.
• 32:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah, that Camacho event was a lot of fun with the brisket.
• 32:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I know, right?
• 32:27
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Listen, folks, there was these grilled oysters at this place that I'm. I'm not a huge oyster fan, but, like, I, uh, bet I ate 30 of them things.
• 32:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin know it.
• 32:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Was there, so garlic butter. Oh. In.
• 32:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, my goodness.
• 32:44
  > Bob>So no lines, huh?
• 32:45
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin So good.
• 32:50
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. So what else? What else, Rich?
• 32:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um.
• 32:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin was Tatawahe sponsored the Cafe Dumont breakfast, or kind of.
• 33:01
  > Bob>They had a, uh.
• 33:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I just got a note from the side here. I guess pregos was the people who got the, uh, oysters.
• 33:08
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, Dragos.
• 33:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin That's a P, bro. Well known, like, you're spelling English is hard. Yeah. Dragos.
• 33:16
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>That if you guys get a chance to go to Dragos down there, or even. We got to go to Koshan Butcher.
• 33:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin They used to have one here in Nashville, and I loved it, and we went to one. Uh, like, you went and brought. Brought us back some treats.
• 33:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 33:30
  > Bob>Bacon pralines.
• 33:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So good.
• 33:32
  > Bob>What's wrong with either one of those words?
• 33:35
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, nothing.
• 33:36
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin shrimp po.
• 33:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Boys. Yeah. Huh? Uh-huh.
• 33:43
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So those were good, too, man. Everything was good. There.
• 33:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Was so interesting is I was really worried about New Orleans because I, you know, been pre Katrina, and I hadn't been back since.
• 33:53
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And it was just not a great place.
• 33:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin The bus line needs to run right next to the convention center.
• 34:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 34:03
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin convention center?
• 34:06
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I don't know. Maybe we can get a hotel closer next time.
• 34:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 34:11
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin at least we got to experience the, uh, drunk bachelor, uh, party guy.
• 34:18
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, my gosh. We come back from our, uh. From one of the night nights, and there's this drunk dude laying sprawled out on the floor.
• 34:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin I took. I had to take his phone from him. And FaceTime, his friends and I said, come get your boy.
• 34:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 34:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin This not my hotel. They're like, no, no, no. That was fun.
• 34:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin always does a great job. You know, you talk about the size of.
• 34:46
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>But it's like, you know, it's like going to an Iron Maiden concert. I mean, they come in and their crew comes in and sets these things up. And I mean, they're elaborate. The booths are elaborate, and everybody's booths.
• 34:57
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I mean, it's. It's like a, uh, the best cigar bar. What was that for? The best cigar bar. Uh, you know, and there's 50 of.
• 35:05
  > Bob>Them, so, uh, you know, that's a good description.
• 35:08
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
• 35:09
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. No, it was definitely. This was a lot larger of a floor this year than. Than Vegas, it seems like.
• 35:17
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin interested, you know, getting not too political here. But, you know, talking about the tariffs, people were kind of, you know, like, how's business going? I think there was a little apprehension going into it that the manufacturers were not expecting a huge turnout or that people were gonna, um, you know, order as much. And everyone I talked to said, oh, no, we've. We're. We've exceeded expectations in. In orders and how much, you know, what people are buying, what they're spending. So I think it was a pleasant surprise for it, for everyone. Um, you know, that that was there and that it was definitely worth the time and effort.
• 35:54
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>So it was definitely a good time for sure.
• 35:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 35:58
  > Bob>J.C. newman was really nice.
• 36:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 36:01
  > Bob>All those guys over there, their booth was incredible.
• 36:04
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Sydney was over there from. From them.
• 36:08
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Great hospitality.
• 36:09
  > Bob>Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Remember, we went down to J.C. newman, and she took us around there, and that was a good time.
• 36:15
  > Bob>Great tour, American cigar factory. Uh, and they even have a cigar where all the cigar. The Americans are made here and grown here.
• 36:23
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yep. That's awesome. And it's really good, too. If you haven't had it, it's a good. It's a great cigar.
• 36:29
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Um, but. So what are you guys looking forward to next year?
• 36:32
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Pca?
• 36:33
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin It's going to be in New Orleans again.
• 36:36
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin some people were like, most. Like, maybe some of the West Coast. Um, you know, a lot of the.
• 36:45
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>West coast people are like that. We don't want if it's not New Orleans, we're not going.
• 36:48
  > Bob>Because it's not during a Jewish holiday too. They kept some people out.
• 36:52
  > Bob>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin so.
• 36:55
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Ah, you know, some people get in their head that they've only one place that, you know.
• 37:00
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Yeah.
• 37:02
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Absolutely.
• 37:06
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Absolutely. Well, guys, every. Just like everything and worth, you know, everything in life is worth discussing. Did you guys do any fun pairings with any of this. With any of these cigars?
• 37:19
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin um, my wife bought this, um, this, uh, it was like a peach juice.
• 37:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh-huh.
• 37:28
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin sort of tea for an event. We did. And I had some leftover and it was so good.
• 37:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah.
• 37:37
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin my new thing.
• 37:40
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Wow. Well, listen, guys, we had a good time at pca. I want to thank the pca. So the, you know, premiere the Cigar association. Pca.
• 37:49
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>I want to thank you all for having us out again. Um, but just. Yeah. If you guys have any thoughts, just feel, feel.
• 37:58
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Words are hard today. Just feel free to leave us some comments, folks, and also go check out.
• 38:03
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin That's right. But I want to thank our co host today. I want to thank good old boy Justin.
• 38:08
  > Bob>Thank you so much. Pleasure to be here.
• 38:10
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Thank, uh, good old boy Rich.
• 38:12
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin And this is good old boy Barger telling you to keep on smoking.
• 38:18
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• 38:27
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• 38:30
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• 39:13
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• 39:21
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Sam.
• 39:39
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>Mhm. Mhm.
• 39:47
  > Good ol’ Boy Barker>It, um.
• 40:25
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• 40:36
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