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- 0:00> Announcer>On the next episode of Sips, Suds and smokes.
- 0:04> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Since this is our best of season 13, we won't be rating them as we would be rating everything else to 5 anyway, because these are all fives in our book. Our plan for this smoke segment is to go over our top five and discuss @ least one of those in a bit more detail. Let me kick this off with Rich's top five. He had the Oz family cigar, Caritoba. A great cigar. Crownheads Broadway great cigar. And the Natura second. Second harvest.
- 0:33> Good ol’ Boy Barker>These are all great cigars. The war.
- 0:36> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Works. The war fighter cigar, Night shift. Uh, now tell me about your.
- 0:41> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Hornet. That's right. That's your number one. Uno.
- 0:46> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Oh, my God. Get it off. Get.
- 0:50> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>It. Hold.
- 0:51> Announcer>Still. We'll be right back after this break.
- 1:17> Announcer>Brought to you almost live from the, uh, dude in the basement.
- 1:20> Announcer>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 1:21> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Why? Because that's where the good stuff.
- 1:24> Announcer>Is. It sips, suds and smokes with your smokin host, the good old boys. Hey, man, got a light?
- 1:53> Announcer>It's time for.
- 1:54> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Smokes. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the best of season 1313 wow. Of the smokes episode where everything good in life is worth.
- 2:09> >Discussing. Wow, he actually nailed.
- 2:11> >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Did. What did it take him, like 4 everything.
- 2:14> >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 2:17> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Seasons. Yeah, it took 13 seasons to get me to say that.
- 2:20> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Right? Late.
- 2:21> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Rumor. Yeah, I guess so. Uh, to my left, I got good old boy Rich. Welcome.
- 2:25> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Coach. Good old boy Benjamin was supposed to be on the ones and twos, but he's not.
- 2:30> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Today. How.
- 2:30> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Neighbor? And then, uh, back, due to judges orders, is required to be here for a minimum of 50 hours a month for his community services. Good old boy.
- 2:39> >Mike.
- 2:41> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yes, we are the best thing on your car radio right now. So keep both hands on the wheel, don't drink and drive, and remember, it's 50 points for pedestrian. So send us an email, let us know what your high score is. And as you know, and I hope you know, smoke segments are all about cigars and soon to be everything that is smoked. And I can't wait to do that episode. And as you, uh, also know, since this is our best of season 13, we won't be rating them as we would be rating everything else to 5 anyway, because these are all fives in our book. Our plan for this smoke segment is to go over our top five and discuss @ least one of those in a bit more detail. We also have a full episode where we'll discuss More of these five top notches. A bit more. Uh, let me kick this off with Rich's top five. He had the Oz Family cigar, Caritoba. A great cigar, Crown Heads, Broadway Great Cigar, and the Natura Second Harvest. These are all.
- 3:50> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Great.
- 3:50> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Cigars. The. The.
- 3:52> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin That works. The War Fighter cigar, Night Shift.
- 3:56> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Now tell me about your.
- 3:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Studio, Hornet. That's right. That's your.
- 4:01> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Number one. Uno. Yeah. Oh, my God. Get it.
- 4:05> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Off. Get.
- 4:07> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Hold still. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. That's right. Yeah. Tell us.
- 4:14> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin was released in 2023 by Black Works Studio.
- 4:19> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Obviously, the Hornet is a pumped up version of its robust cousin, the.
- 4:23> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Killer Beef. It was originally released as a Habano, if I'm not mistaken. Oh.
- 4:29> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin imposing. Ecuadorian Maduro wrapper is supported by a Nicaraguan binder and filler. The wrapper is accented with a closed foot and swirled cap made from a candela wrapper. The Hornet is known for its strength that is balanced out with a complexity of flavors. Like its namesake, the Hornet will leave a lasting but pleasant stain in your pallet that you will not.
- 4:55> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Soon forget. Benjamin's got close feet.
- 4:57> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Too close.
- 4:59> Good ol’ Boy Barker>They're web. They fit in them shoes pretty good.
- 5:06> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Help.
- 5:06> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin A cloven. That's right. Right. That's right. So tell us about it. The binder.
- 5:15> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Nicaraguan. Nicaraguan. Oh, a little bit of candela on.
- 5:20> Good ol’ Boy Barker>That rapper. Now. They do a pretty cool little jaunt with their.
- 5:23> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 5:24> >Swirly.
- 5:25> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Swirl. Yeah.
- 5:26> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Jake Wyatt. Yeah, that's right. That's right.
- 5:28> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Jake.
- 5:28> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Little.
- 5:30> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Do much. I do like.
- 5:32> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin it really makes it interesting as a. I, uh, think a. A boost to.
- 5:38> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Your lighting. Do you think that candela on the.
- 5:42> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The cap, do you think that that adds a flavor or is it just for looks?
- 5:49> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 5:53> >If it. Hang on just.
- 5:54> Good ol’ Boy Barker>One second. I wish to register.
- 5:56> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 5:59> >Right, Mike. No, what.
- 6:00> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Is it? Doesn't add anything. All it does is you look at it, you go, I can cut that off. I don't know how much.
- 6:07> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Of this candela would I like to cut off.
- 6:11> Good ol’ Boy Barker>You know? Well, well, I. I Mean, I think that's a great cigar, and I actually love that cigar as well. Why did you.
- 6:17> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin me, I like a bold smoke. I like a bold cigar with a lot of flavor, a lot of spice. Uh, something that can kind of smack me upside the head. I like this one because the intensity of it grew as I.
- 6:32> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Smoked it. Yeah. Ah, yeah. Okay, so it's a grower, not a.
- 6:36> Announcer>Shower.
- 6:36> Announcer>Yeah. Wow. Banned.
- 6:40> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Once again. And we were the.
- 6:44> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 6:44> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Thing. Yeah. Not driving through Iowa again.
- 6:50> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Listen, I absolutely love that cigar, too. It's a great cigar. Have you guys tried them?
- 6:55> >Mike, Benjamin. I've had some other Black Works, but I don't recall.
- 6:59> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Having that. You don't got a lie to be on.
- 7:00> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Here. No. All right, well, up next, we're gonna go through, uh, Benjamin's top five list. He also has the Oz Family Caritoba, the Crown Heads, Belgian Blue, the El Titan D Bronze, the Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin. If you haven't had that, try that, folks. It's so good. But, Benjamin, I need you to tell us what your favorite cigar was.
- 7:28> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>This year. My favorite also, uh, came from Black.
- 7:31> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Works Studio. Yes, sir. Prepare ship for.
- 7:35> Announcer>Light speed. No, no, no.
- 7:36> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Light speed. Speed is too slow. Light speed too slow. Yes. We're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed. Ludicrous. I knew it. I'm surrounded by. I don't know. All right, well, tell us what you tell us about.
- 7:50> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>This cigar. Yeah. So the Black Works Studio, Intergalactic Event Horizon. Uh, it's a limited edition, um, re release from Black Work Studios.
- 8:00> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Originally, uh, released in 2022. Um, re released, uh, in 24, and then obviously hit shops in 25. Um, but it was one of those things where I had been kind of branching out a little bit, looking for.
- 8:12> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Something different. Rich. I was wrong. Oh. Yours wasn't originally released as a Habano. The Intergalactic.
- 8:19> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Was originally. Wrong again, Barger. Yep. Uh, so the original release in 22 of the Intergalactic was a.
- 8:28> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Sumatra wrapped. I thought this was the.
- 8:30> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Sumatra. Nope. Ah.
- 8:32> >Wrong again.
- 8:33> Good ol’ Boy Barker>All right.
- 8:34> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Crushing it. Oh, hey, this one.
- 8:35> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Is.
- 8:36> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Broadleaf. Okay. Um, but it's a darker shade of the broadleaf. Right. Great. Um, spice complexity all the way through this thing. Same, uh, kind of profile is rich. I do like big, uh, punchy cigars.
- 8:51> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>This one had some, like, really cool dark fruits on it as well. And then once I found out it was a limited edition, uh, I just sought out as many as I could.
- 8:59> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Possibly find. I'm still waiting for one.
- 9:01> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>That's right. Good.
- 9:02> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Luck, dude.
- 9:03> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>I'm. I'm. I might have one. We know people in.
- 9:06> Good ol’ Boy Barker>A human. Yeah. Black Works needs to send me somebody I know. Send us.
- 9:10> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>A box. Send us two.
- 9:12> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Or.
- 9:12> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Five. Yeah. Or you know, each. We'll have as many as you heard. Was. I want a lot of.
- 9:18> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin A lot. I said ah was I'll take all the intergalactic event. Yeah.
- 9:27> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Duke Silver, best.
- 9:31> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Underrated show. But yeah, man, this was just one that um, you know, desert island for me. Uh, and really, you know, lit my fire, if you will about uh, Black Work Studios, um, and the things that are coming out of.
- 9:44> Good ol’ Boy Barker>That factory. Yeah. I've really been surprised by Black Work Studio this year. Um, they, they have a vast portfolio and a lot of their le stuff. Even the poison dart. Like that was a.
- 9:58> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Great cigar. I'll do those.
- 9:59> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Coffin nails. Oh.
- 10:00> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>100. 100. Keep that in your.
- 10:02> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Front pocket. Keep it up, guys. Just keep up coming out with all these things and you'll keep being on our list if.
- 10:07> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You like. Uh, and then they was uh, the.
- 10:10> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The bishop. Or if we like. Not if.
- 10:12> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You like. I think they re released the Bishop this year which is a Lancero that.
- 10:15> Good ol’ Boy Barker>They produce. They had a Lancero girl and I missed it.
- 10:19> Announcer>Hey.
- 10:19> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Girl.
- 10:20> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 10:23> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Come on. Yeah, well, I'm gonna go find.
- 10:25> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Those tonight. Yeah. If you're looking for something, you know, big.
- 10:30> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Full bodied.
- 10:31> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Right? Yeah.
- 10:32> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Beautiful spice. Um, reminds me of my.
- 10:35> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>First girlfriend. Subtle notes of over stewed.
- 10:38> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Fruits. Yeah. Nothing like steeping fruit like.
- 10:43> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Putting a pinch of pie in between you chicken gum.
- 10:47> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You know.
- 10:50> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh my. All right. We'll be right back, folks.
- 10:58> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Listen, I was wrong once in this last segment and that's all we need to know, okay? And it wasn't about Rich's cigar. It was about Benjamin's cigar. The intergalactic. Anyway, thank you and welcome back folks to a wonderful episode of Our best of 2025 for Sip Suds.
- 11:16> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And smokes. Also found a sasquatch during.
- 11:18> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The break. Did you? No. Oh, man. I was like, where? Where my.
- 11:25> >Heady friends? That was funny. It was.
- 11:29> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Really good. All right. Where man? Yeah. As I light.
- 11:33> >The.
- 11:34> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Bong. Yeah. All right. So Mike, conspiracy theory number 14.8. Hey, Bigfoot's real. Don't.
- 11:40> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin All right. I'm telling you.
- 11:41> >Where's that? There.
- 11:42> Good ol’ Boy Barker>We go. Yeah. All right. Mike's. Mike's top five lift is here. We're gonn throw it away. If he keeps on antagonizing me, uh, he starts with the Imami Petra Maduro. That's a great cigar. The Cao Amazon Bays and Dagger 2025, which is not on anyone else's list ever. Um, the Adventura La Lorana, the Cohiba.
- 12:05> >Beheki 56. Because you can't hide money well.
- 12:08> Good ol’ Boy Barker>You know. Now let's talk about, tell us about.
- 12:11> >Your favorite. So, uh, my favorite is the Macanudo, uh, French oak.
- 12:16> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Release three. Ooh wee.
- 12:18> >Wee. Bond for the third and final release, Macanudo's collaboration with Flint Knoll Winery, the Macanudo estate reserve release 3 uses tobacco aged in the prestigious French oak barrels that produce Flint Knowles Award winning 2021 Royal Appointment Cabernet Sauvignon. To complete the Macanudo Estate Reserve trifecta, we returned to our friends at the Flintanol Winery in Napa Valley to create a cigar representative of our boundary breaking, uh, partnership. 2021 was a remarkable year for Napa Valley wine. It really was. Um, a lack of rain, lower temperatures resulted in an ultra rare vintage that led to multiple awards including Flint Knowles 2021 Royal Appointment Cabernet Sauvignon. To craft the estate reserve release number three, we aged the tobacco in the very same French oak barrels that perfected the wine. Leading the cigar a, uh, unique elegance and smooth smoking experience. Notes of cedar, vanilla nuts are balanced by a sophisticated nod to the region by which the cigar was so heavily influenced. The binder was Connecticut broadleaf.
- 13:31> >The filler was Brazilian mata Fina, Dominican Alar, Nicaraguan jalapa and the Dominican palato Cubano. A lot going.
- 13:40> Good ol’ Boy Barker>On there. There's a lot.
- 13:42> >Going on. Uh, the rapper is Ecuadorian, Connecticut shade, really fantastic stick. Um, you know, I think the thing that caught me about that particular cigar was, was not really expecting a whole lot. And I just uh, I picked it up thinking it was just going to be a Connecticut, you know, run of the mill Macanudo. And it just absolutely blew me away. I'm not much for. I really do not like cigars that are aged. You don't like cigars in a whiskey barrel, a wine barrel or in some other, you know, secondary? No, I just, I generally just don't like all of that gimmickry at all. But this really worked exceptionally well and I really, really like this a lot. I would go back.
- 14:31> >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Smoking it? Uh, you know, the thing that caught me is elegant was absolutely the uh, the word. I just remember, uh, you know, it was like, wow, you know, do. Do I get to be invited to the cotillion.
- 14:45> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Or something? So. So I've actually smoked this one too. And the banding is, uh, beautiful. Like, they've got their whole, like, flint and all kind of aspect on the band, the same way they do their bottles. And it's actually. It's just a beautiful band. It's good to look at, you know? Uh, uh, so I think that's a great cigar.
- 15:09> >On there. Let's hear about.
- 15:11> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Your list. Which is interesting because I'm.
- 15:13> >Not a fan of most macanudos, but I am usually.
- 15:15> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Not either. The last couple that I've had for macanudo has been the emissary, and a couple have been pretty decent. All right, so here's my list, folks. Uh, I'm gonna go with the Rocky Patel year of the snake, which is absolutely.
- 15:31> >Fantastic. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.
- 15:35> Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's wrong. Yeah. The Crownhead MIL DS Limited Edition 2025. The Maduro version. Oh, I didn't get one of those. Yeah, well, because you got to buy them because, you know, John doesn't like to send us things sometimes. John, send us some cigars.
- 15:49> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. And the imami kimono, Connecticut. Which, if you guys have not listened to our imami episode, go listen to.
- 15:58> >That episode. That's two sticks from that.
- 16:01> Good ol’ Boy Barker>One episode. I know. I know it. Two cigars from one episode. That's hit our top five list of this year and hands down. Ah, Armenie, mommy is putting out some.
- 16:12> >Fun cigars. That was a.
- 16:13> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Really great. He is putting out some great cigars.
- 16:15> Good ol’ Boy Barker>And then the, uh, A.J.
- 16:17> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Fernandez. Cameroon. The.
- 16:19> Good ol’ Boy Barker>New.
- 16:20> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>World.
- 16:20> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yes. Fire. Oh, so good. So good. All right, now, my favorite cigar this year is the Foundation.
- 16:32> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Good job. Magnificent. Who. Who do.
- 16:41> >I owe? The fact that he.
- 16:42> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Nailed that. Let me get through these words first.
- 16:47> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Here. There's. This is pulled from their website.
- 16:56> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The Aksumite kingdom in ancient civilization in present day Ethiopia stood as a beacon of power, culture, and tradition. According to the Ethiopian legend, Menelik the first, the son of king Solomon and the queen of Sheba, brought the ark of the covenant to Aksum, where it has remained, ever remained, ever since. To this day, a single guardian devotes his life to watching over the sacred relic, protecting it day and night. Drawing inspiration from the storied empire, the Axum line is a testament to the heritage, craftsmanship, and tradition carefully blended to deliver a refined smoking experience. It embodies foundation cigars, commitment to exceptional quality and respect for timeless legacy Of Axum. Axum. A journey through legend crafted in every cigar. So this is a wrapper is a Sumatra, Ecuador. The binder is a Connecticut broadleaf, and the filler is Estali and Jalapa, Nicaragua. M. So the guy from foundation, I have been trying to interview him for three.
- 18:06> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Three years. Three years. Every time we go busy, he's busy.
- 18:10> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin A work. Now, that dude is one of the nicest people when you actually get to talk to him. One of the nicest people that I've ever got to talk with, and that just made me feel like I mattered. And when he. He gave us this box of axums@pca and I split it with you guys, uh, or whoever was at.
- 18:36> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>PCA with us, I.
- 18:37> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Should say. M. Yeah, it wasn't with you guys. It was. It was the. You know, there was four of us at pca, and I split them with the guys that were at pca. And I'm telling you, this cigar just floored me. From construction quality to flavor profile to whatever you want to pair this thing with, it goes well with everything. Now, keep in mind, there's two, uh, rappers, I believe there's a Connecticut.
- 19:05> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The Maduro, um, this. What I got was the Maduro, um. But everything he's got going on is just fantastic. If you get a chance to try some of any of these lines that we've discussed, you know, Imami Crown Heads, A.J. fernandez foundation, literally, just go out there and ask your people, by your people, I mean your local cigar shop, that you want to try these, and they'll get them in.
- 19:32> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, well, they'll try. I was thinking as I'm.
- 19:37> >Walking up and going, I have a Mills DS limited edition. I can hear.
- 19:41> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Them laugh. Well, we'll be right back to talk more about that. Both hands on the wheel. Wake up, grandpa. Welcome back to the show. You know, keep us in your radio, because we'll help save your lives. That's right. Or we'll help you rack up points. One of the two. Uh, we just went over our favorite cigars. That's right. We just went over our favorite cigar list. Top five for the year for all four of us here. And, uh, you know, we're gonna take a couple minutes each and talk about one more of the cigars that really just stood out to us. And we're gonna let Rich start. Rich, you got two minutes.
- 20:19> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin about the.
- 20:22> Good ol’ Boy Barker>War fighter. War.
- 20:23> >Fighter shift. So on our show, yes, yes, we had.
- 20:28> >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin and Honduras. Something. Can't read my own writing. Binder is Indonesian, and the filler was Nicaraguan. Medium body. It had the. God, I must.
- 20:41> >I must be like a candela ring guy, because this one had the candela ring as well. So. Yeah, maybe it does.
- 20:48> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Add something.
- 20:49> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah, yeah. You.
- 20:52> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin really good. A little bit of sweet, a lot of cedar kind of flavor, uh.
- 21:00> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>To.
- 21:00> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin about it.
- 21:05> Announcer>Was just.
- 21:07> Announcer>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 21:09> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The pallet. Right. For me. If you want to know more about that cigar, you can check out our Warfighter episode in our back catalog. But that Night Shift. And I'll tell you what, John Simmons is the guy's name who does War Fighter, him and his team. I don't, um. I mean, I'm not going to butcher anybody else's name. I just remember John.
- 21:27> Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's who I dealt with. But like, salt of the earth people. Military, owned, operated, just all around. Good. Now they got a fun story about the Night shift. You got.
- 21:37> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Remember it. Okay, I'll tell you. So the Night Shift is about them flying helicopters with night vision goggles.
- 21:44> >Yeah. Right. I thought I remembered. I knew that the band has, like, you know, it looks like you're that green hue.
- 21:50> Good ol’ Boy Barker>About it. Yeah. Ah, no, that's.
- 21:53> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Makes sense. I absolutely love that cigar.
- 21:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin that, you know, I smoked it as far down as I could without, you know, injuring myself, let me put it that way. Yeah, I just wanted more and more and more of.
- 22:09> >It.
- 22:09> Good ol’ Boy Barker>So. Yeah. Uh, well, John, send us a box. We'd love to have some.
- 22:12> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin interviewed him at the, uh, Premier.
- 22:18> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Cigar association. That's, uh, right this year.
- 22:20> Good ol’ Boy Barker>And, uh, so go check that out on Instagram.
- 22:24> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Benjamin Michael.
- 22:26> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Pick one. Uh, for me, it's going to be the crown heads, Belgian blue. Oh, uh, good. The limited edition big body. And I, you know, uh, you see the new one becoming a continuous production, which I am super excited about. Uh, not only did this thing hit the big, bold flavor profile notes, it has this beautiful spice that just kind of sings all the way through. Uh, is a smooth smoke. Right.
- 22:53> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>This thing isn't harsh at any point throughout the experience, at least for me. And I think that that's one of the things that really stood out, um, when I picked one up this year was that it's just blended perfectly in my opinion. Right. Like, everything works together. It, it's very similar to like a well blended bourbon that you could.
- 23:16> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You're just like every sip you're waiting for the next one. Because it's just, even though it does have the strength, uh, that I definitely seek out in the cigars that I smoke on a consistent basis.
- 23:28> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>It still just had like this velvety smooth, almost, you know, like waxy texture, uh, that coated the pallet as you went through this thing.
- 23:36> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And then I saw, uh, maybe a month or so ago that they're gonna make this a, uh, consistent, um, production for 20, 26. And I'm pretty sure, yeah, I like fist pumped, uh, in my.
- 23:49> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Living room. Yeah, I did too, when I.
- 23:52> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Seen it. Come.
- 23:52> Good ol’ Boy Barker>M on. Yeah.
- 23:53> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Let'S go. That's the news that you, you love to hear. Because I, you know, I, I think a lot of them, uh, that were on a lot of our top fives were.
- 24:01> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Limited edition.
- 24:02> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Oh, yeah. I don't remember the.
- 24:04> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Box size. I think it's a box of 12 because the other Los Calaveras is box.
- 24:08> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Of.
- 24:08> Good ol’ Boy Barker>24. Okay. I think so their Les come in 12.
- 24:11> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>And 24. But yeah, to see, you know, something, you know, and le make it into consistent production, um, is just super exciting that they're able to source tobaccos and continue to put this.
- 24:23> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Thing out. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Mike, I hate to turn the mic over.
- 24:27> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>To you. I'll see what you.
- 24:29> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Did there. Yeah. What do you got? Tell us.
- 24:32> >Another one. Well, there's just so many great choices, you know, off my top.
- 24:37> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Five list. All right, that's Mike's.
- 24:39> >Time, everybody. Um, I would absolutely encourage you. I'm going to mention a couple of these and then maybe one in a little bit. So the imami, um, that maduro was just so good. It was so good. And it was a reference maduro. I mean, you know, when somebody says you're having a really good Maduro stick, I'm going to tell people. How does it bounce up against that imami? Uh, you know, um, Petro Maduro. Um, these other two, the, um, uh, Adventura, um, you know, La Llorona and, uh, Cohiba are just. You're not gonna find them. You know, they're just amazing cigars.
- 25:17> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Um, ah. Uh, you might find Adventura. You won't find.
- 25:19> >The Cohiba. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's.
- 25:23> Good ol’ Boy Barker>A really. You won't find the.
- 25:24> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 25:24> >Basin. Yeah. So I am Absolutely. A, you know, Amazon Basin fan. I, you know, have had sticks out of every single release, and so they changed things up a bit this year while coming out with, um, the Amazon Basin Dagger, which is. It's a different size, um, and it's a slightly different filler, uh, and binder than the regular Amazon Basins, I believe was, you know, kind of the core difference. The big thing is it's a different price point, so it's actually, you know, a lot cheaper, you know.
- 25:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>As.
- 25:57> >Well. Yeah. So I thought that this finally exposed a lot of, you know, other people to really enjoy, you know, this particular product that, you know, the regular Amazon Basins are nearly, uh, impossible to find, and the price point is just usually really kind of off the hook, you know, about them as well. Yeah, but, yeah, really, um, all of these, you know, coming back to them.
- 26:20> Good ol’ Boy Barker>For sure. Yeah. No, absolutely. And I think that's the most important thing to remember is when we go our list of top fives. These are cigars that any occasion, any setting, any time of day, if we can smoke it, we're.
- 26:35> >Gonna smoke. I am gonna try that Belgian.
- 26:37> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Blue that. I'll give you one. I got a couple at the house. You can have one. Um, so here we go.
- 26:43> Good ol’ Boy Barker>I'm gonna. I want to talk about another Imami cigar, man. If you guys listen to our PCA episode, everything that we talk about, even in Cigar 101, we talk about branding, right? So we talk about branding and how when we walk into a humidor, you see something and you snap, judge it, right? And you automatically get this a feeling or aesthetic.
- 27:12> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Ah, aesthetically, this is pleasing to me, and this is not pleasing to me, Right? And so you gravitate towards it. When I first saw Armin at, uh, pca, he was just the chillest guy sitting in the thing. And the branding to me was, like, over the top, right? Because there's, like three bands on every cigar. Uh, four bands on every cigar.
- 27:38> Good ol’ Boy Barker>But, dude, I'm. I'm telling you that what that dude's doing is. Is good. Every cigar that that guy has put out, I don't know what Factory is working with. We. It might be in our episode, or it might not be in our episode, but, man, I'm telling you, I'm. I'm. I'm up start. Uh, I buy his.
- 27:58> >Cigars. Absolutely. That flight, uh, was. There were five in our flight. And yeah, I'm telling you, they were all.
- 28:06> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Really exceptional. That was the. The banger episode of flights, for sure. Yeah, for sure. But, guys, listen, you don't have to take our word for it. Like we tell you, sometimes go to your brick and mortar, ask for these cigars, see if they can get them. If not, look, online, we always start with brick and mortar. Yeah, but you got to try these cigars. These cigars are worth trying a hundred.
- 28:36> >Percent. Yeah. All of the Mills ds.
- 28:38> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Limited edition. Yeah. I got one for you. It's gonna cost you, though. Double. Double the price.
- 28:45> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Yeah. Because.
- 28:45> Announcer>They'Re.
- 28:45> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Limited. Yeah. You know, um, but, yeah, so all in all, I mean, on these top five lists, like, I think everybody's top five list is pretty good this year.
- 28:57> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>You know. Oh.
- 28:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Thanks, dad. Yeah.
- 28:58> >For sure. I was a little shocked you picked the.
- 29:01> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Rocky Patel. So that's a funny story. Like, I've been trying to get in with Rocky Patel at PCA for the last three, three, four years. And, uh. Uh, yeah, for sure. And. But nobody ever wants to talk to me because they're always so busy selling.
- 29:16> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin There for. That's what they do. No, I.
- 29:19> >Get it. I mean, you know, they're sales people.
- 29:21> Good ol’ Boy Barker>But the. The media guy talked to me this. At this last. This last time, and give me one of these to smoke. And it's, uh. It was fantastic. And we'll talk a little bit more about when we come back from the break. And welcome back from the break.
- 29:42> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Hands on the wheels, folks. Hands on.
- 29:43> >The wheels.
- 29:44> Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's right. I want to take a second. We were finishing up talking about the Rocky Patel. You're the snake. Rich made a comment. What did.
- 29:51> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin the, uh. That you kind of prejudged it because it was, you know, kind.
- 29:59> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Of a. No, that.
- 30:00> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Rocky Patel. No.
- 30:03> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Like it. Oh. Oh, yeah. During the break.
- 30:07> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Wrong again. So. Yeah. Let me mark this now. Are you my wife? This is so weird. My wife tells me I'm wrong. My wife.
- 30:16> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin know, we were just talking about some of these maybe big.
- 30:21> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Box.
- 30:22> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin They're coming out.
- 30:25> Good ol’ Boy Barker>With, um. They have so many cigars they come.
- 30:28> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin you know, every now and again.
- 30:31> Good ol’ Boy Barker>It's amazing. And it's.
- 30:33> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin that they. They kind of have to these days because they're competing with these, uh, Boutiques that are coming out with, you know, these really.
- 30:43> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Good cigars. Cigars. But the problem is, is just because it's boutique doesn't mean it's.
- 30:47> Announcer>Good. Absolutely.
- 30:50> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Once again. Yeah, yeah, you could be a boutique brand and make crap cigars.
- 30:55> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Absolutely. 100%. Well, you know, there's a lot to be said about, you know, these, these pillars of the cigar community. Right. They, they have a, um, they have a fan base. Right. And, and so they have to continue to produce those things that, you know, and give um, them the foothold that they've had and established in.
- 31:15> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The.
- 31:15> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Industry. Yeah. And so from that perspective, right, like you, you may not have a lot of opportunity, let alone the resources to do some like, experimental fun blends. Whereas, you know, the, the boutique brands are, you know, picking through, you know, the kind of. Not, not, not to say like leftover, but, but the bales that do not fit into those normal big box. Well, if you're brand profiles.
- 31:42> Good ol’ Boy Barker>And so. Yeah. Well, listen, with this best of season three.
- 31:47> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin In 13. Did I say what.
- 31:51> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Said three. Season three. Yeah, I need to drink another big machine Spike seltzer there. All right, so, um, we've covered some of our top five cigars. We've tried to pick some balance with some easy to find and le products, hopefully.
- 32:08> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Thank you. Yeah. For those laymans, um, hopefully you could put some of these in your short list while browsing Humidor. In the near future, we also wanted to discuss the state of smoke. So we're going to wander between cigars, pipe tobacco and the third rail of thc. We're also going to drift between issues of regulatory perspective, consumer and manufacturer. But let's start this, consumer cigars in general off with the Year of the 5.
- 32:38> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Cigar band. I think.
- 32:43> >It is. I think that needs to start.
- 32:46> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Real soon. That's, uh, that's a, uh, that's a good old Boy Mike custom right there. The Year of the five.
- 32:51> >Cigar band. Yeah. Why, you know, why just.
- 32:53> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Have three, four, go for five. I don't know why.
- 32:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Well, they could just be like Matt Booth. Wrap it in paper and shove a whole tube.
- 33:01> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin You go. Works. I love that though. Tobacco, uh, is still feeling like the long echo of the cigarette regulations and.
- 33:09> >Protecting minors. Well, you know, so with, you know, cigars and consumers, you know, I just, um.
- 33:17> >I guess part of what I'm thinking about is that I just don't really see what I would describe as a lot of innovation in terms of new products, you know, that have.
- 33:28> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Been released. I.
- 33:29> >Just feel. Feel like people are pumping out more puros from Honduras and from Nicaragua and, um, or they're working with tobaccos from both of those countries, you know, um, extensively. Or.
- 33:43> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The doctor. Well, that's where.
- 33:44> >Tobacco grows. I know, but it's just I keep on waiting for, wow, something amazing, you know, to come along that, you know, just looking for just a shred.
- 33:55> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Of innovation. I'm.
- 33:56> >Right here. Yeah.
- 33:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>I know. I'm.
- 33:58> >Right here. I don't know. That's my impression is that.
- 34:00> Good ol’ Boy Barker>I just. Well, what about that.
- 34:01> >Recent law? I just feel like everything's on cruise control. Yeah. Right.
- 34:06> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Now. Yeah. Well, did you see the recent law that went into effect.
- 34:09> >In California?
- 34:11> Good ol’ Boy Barker>I did. The one that lumped premium cigars with flavored products.
- 34:14> Announcer>Like.
- 34:14> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Vaping. Yes. Boo Boo. Yeah. Premium cigar trade groups are still protesting. The biggest point of impact is the price that they set a floor price of$12 per cigar in California. I wonder what Kevin has to say about this, you know, well, uh, artistic Kevin. Yeah. Which was meant to be, in effect to turn minors and young adults away from cigars. Do you think it's turning.
- 34:42> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Them away? I think they would have to be turned towards it first to turn them away.
- 34:47> Good ol’ Boy Barker>I.
- 34:47> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Don'T. Yeah. Uh, I don't see the correlation there. You know, they have a.
- 34:52> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin mean, I don't see.
- 34:57> Good ol’ Boy Barker>It here. I think if anything, it's gonna be THC products and flavored e vapes big time. Because that's what they can get away with, like cheaper.
- 35:08> Good ol’ Boy Barker>And they're cheaper. Yeah. For 25 bucks, you can buy a vape that'll last you.
- 35:13> >500 puffs. You know, I really put it in your pocket about the fact that that becomes a model law for other states to pick up. And because the way the state legislatures are lobbied by common trade groups is that they use the same legislative language, uh, from one jurisdiction to another.
- 35:33> >And that one was written so poorly and so broad, and I just don't feel like it is going to be as effective as they wanted it.
- 35:44> Good ol’ Boy Barker>To.
- 35:44> >Be.
- 35:45> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh. And. Well, by the end of the year, California will have fallen into the ocean and we won't have to worry about their.
- 35:52> >Regulations anymore. Look forward.
- 35:53> >>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin leaving.
- 35:56> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The state. Yeah, they're all.
- 35:57> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Coming here. Well, I just wonder if these lawmakers have, uh, like this epidemic of their kids raiding.
- 36:03> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin Humidor. No. You know, money.
- 36:07> >And lobbyists.
- 36:10> Good ol’ Boy Barker>$12 stick. Yeah. Well, that brings us around to the third rail of thc. That's the chemical in marijuana and is now infused into a number of things like candy, potato chips. Potato chips every drinks. Yeah, yeah, we eat.
- 36:25> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Potato chips.
- 36:25> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Oh, dude. However you.
- 36:26> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Want it.
- 36:27> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The Cheetos. Oh yeah, Cheetahs. I love them all.
- 36:31> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Uh, right, Specifically. Specifically, yeah, yeah.
- 36:35> Good ol’ Boy Barker>The Canagars, Canada Guards. Curious if you've ever.
- 36:38> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 36:40> >What's Canada? Uh, oh, it's a.
- 36:42> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Cannabis cigar. Yeah. Really?
- 36:45> Good ol’ Boy Barker>That's.
- 36:45> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin
- 36:48> >That you. It's a blend of tobacco and.
- 36:51> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Cannabis, yes. Well, we called them spliffs back in.
- 36:54> >The.
- 36:54> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Day. Okay. And that's what we would do. You know, not that I would ever condone that, but you know, by the royal, we would do those. One major production issue is that nearly all these products are being hand rolled since that usually adds too much moisture for the common automated cigar roller to work with these enhanced cigars. Are these the sticks of our near future? No, I don't think so either. I think they need to keep those regulations so far away from cigar regulations. I think they're crossing the streams. Uh, yeah, it's, it's a lobbyist. And those lobbyists need to, to be careful because they are definitely treading waters where they don't need to, to.
- 37:36> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Be swimming. Well, any, any uh, you know, marijuana purists, I think there's a, uh, the ritual that goes along with handling those things yourself. Right. Uh, should be.
- 37:47> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Left alone. Sure. Those left handed cigars. That's right. That's right. Well, the jazz, whether you smoke the left handed cigars or the right handed cigars, we're here.
- 37:58> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>For.
- 37:58> Good ol’ Boy Barker>You. Yeah. And just remember, you've always got a friend in us. Uh, call us, write us, tell us about your everything. But that's it for smokes episode season 13. A lot of cool things. I'd like to thank good old boy Rich for.
- 38:11> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin take our word for all of these things. Go out and try it yourself. Let us know what.
- 38:17> Good ol’ Boy Barker>You think. Yeah. Good old.
- 38:18> Good ol’ Boy Benjamin>Boy Benjamin. Is it season 3.
- 38:20> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Or 13? Uh, it's, it's 1 3. I just read the three too many figures.
- 38:24> Good ol’ Boy Barker>>> Unidentified Good ol’ Boy Benjamin+++ Benjamin It's 1.3. That's right. That's right. Now good, uh, old boy.
- 38:28> >Mike, you know, I am so looking forward to the things that we have for planned for season 14.
- 38:34> >Great. You know, great year in and.
- 38:36> Good ol’ Boy Barker>Of itself. But Mike, the mute button, we went over this 10.
- 38:40> >Minutes ago. I'm going to ask you to come back, enjoy another exciting episode and to keep.
- 38:46> Good ol’ Boy Barker>On sipping. All right guys, and this is me telling you to keep on smoking no matter what it is. If you catch me on the streets, we'll smoke a left handed.
- 38:54> Announcer>Cigar together. We hope you enjoyed this episode.
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- 39:54> Announcer>On sipping. This has been a one tan hand production of Sip, Suds and Smokes, a program devoted to the appreciation of some of the finer slices of life from the dude in the Basement Studios. Your host, the Good Old boys. We'll see you all.