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Turnbuckles & Stogies Holiday special · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  I applied for this job because I wanted to cut loose and shake my
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  rump. Find us on the web at MB Radio.
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  Dot USI. Want to make it clear that the
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  views expressed by our hosts are not considered the official
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  stance of MBR views. Remember, this is all about
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  having fun and enjoying the ride.
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  Turnbuckles and stogies. healing.
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  Everything comes down to life. A bit of blame?
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  All right. All right.
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  All right. We are back as turnbuckers and
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  stogies. Happy New Year.
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  Everybody, Happy New Year. Motherfucking New Year. 2024
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  promises to be the most exciting gear yet for Turnbuckle.
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  So do you want to reveal the 1st guest of 2024 that's already
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  locked in and scheduled? Yes, yeah.
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  Let's do it January. 7th January 7th we got BAMF cigars, ROCF
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  cigars, Canine cigars, Don Olivant Cigars.
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  I think I've covered all of his names.
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  Ishmael Olivan. Coming on January 7th, he's
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  already locked in. He will be here.
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  So don't you worry. We will be live next week at
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  8:30 in the morning. Where?
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  Are you going from where are we going to be coming from?
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  You know, I don't know yet. I don't know yet.
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  Honestly, I don't know. We will be somewhere.
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  It may be here. Maybe.
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  Maybe the The Untouchables house?
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  We don't know yet. We haven't figured that far out
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  yet. It's also going to depend on why
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  are we yelling. I am.
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  We're indoors. Leave us alone.
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  What? Sure I got to deal with, man.
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  All right, all. Right.
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  All right. All.
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  Right, I knew. That was going there.
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  We go, well, I will be taking a little bit because I got to
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  drive home. Happy New Year, gentlemen.
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  Happy New Year. Happy New.
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  Year. Happy New year brothers.
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  Happy New year, brother. Coming on.
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  Thank you. We're.
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  Smoking some good cigars this New Year to start off with a
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  bang. Yes.
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  We're all smoking Espinosa cigars.
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  So so we're we're gonna no, listen listen listen we're we're
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  gonna we're gonna get this this is coming to you guys recorded.
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  So we we we do have a little bit of a a time constraint, let's
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  just say. So we're actually going to kick
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  off and go right into, you know, how you got started in cigars
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  and what made you become a Rep for Espinoza.
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  Let's. Start there.
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  Well, gentlemen, first let's start off Happy New Year.
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  Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
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  Absolutely. Thank you for coming on.
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  Happy New. Year.
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  You know, I'm really excited about this and having me on the
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  second time I I want to say thank you so much.
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  First, let me show you that I'm smoking the Connecticut Knuckle
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  sandwich. I can't wait to smoke that.
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  I have not smoked that yet. Unbelievable.
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  I made sure you guys had a Connecticut, You guys have the
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  Connecticut, the Maduro and you should have the Havana.
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  The knuckle sandwiches, Yeah, we got the the knuckle sandwiches.
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  We got the the Connecticut and we got two of the Connecticuts
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  and then the Comfortably Numb Habano.
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  Comfortably Numb Maduro. Yep.
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  And then the Bat and the the Six O 1 Oscar, which is what
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  actually OG is smoking, right? Now oh, that is.
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  That is an. That's an.
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  Unbelievable cigar. I will say that that that
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  knuckle sandwich in a Maduro. Oh honey.
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  Money Notch, it really is. So let's let's get right into
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  it. How did how did you get started
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  in cigars? Well, of course I've and I've
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  always smoked cigars and I I remember one time that I was
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  smoking a cigar Outback at the ECW Arena and Paul says, you
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  know, what are you doing? Smoking a cigar before the show?
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  He's like, come over. He smelled it.
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  He's like, you know, I'm not a cigar guy, but you look like a
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  cigar guy, like the way you hold it, the way you look.
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  It says, I think you should bring one out.
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  I think you should bring one out to the ring.
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  That should be your thing. OK.
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  Kind of like kind of like Tony DeVito did chewing.
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  On the cigar. Yep, went out to Tony DeVito.
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  Love Tony and that. And funny with Tony because Tony
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  always kept it in the corner. Like chewing on it.
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  Always. Still does.
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  And and I've never like not smoked, never not smoked a
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  cigar. But it's the fact of that
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  technically I well, working for the N.W.A, working for ECW and
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  then of course I went to Japan once and that was unbelievable.
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  And then I got a job with. At the time it was called Impact
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  Wrestling, which is TNA Wrestling.
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  Which they are going back to TNA as if they're going back to.
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  TNA Which is which? Is great.
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  Now TNA Wrestling rebranded totally.
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  They've just signed Kushita to an exclusive American deal.
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  He can't work anywhere in America but there.
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  And an exclusive. Deal in Japan and he's got with
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  New Japan. So he's got he's got an
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  exclusive in Japan and exclusive in America.
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  Awesome. So that's it.
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  You won't see him. You might see an indie here and
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  there if you're lucky, but as far as WWEAEW, you won't.
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  You won't see him anywhere but Impact unless they or TNA.
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  Unless they reform a relationship with AW again.
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  Right. Which I don't think they will.
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  So I think they're all set. I mean, hey, listen.
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  No one, no one's got d'amour. I doubt it.
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  Best Booker of the year, by the way.
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  In my opinion. Yep, do it as an equal genius.
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  Not only does he run Impact, he's also part owner in Border
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  City Wrestling. Yep, up in Canada, it was him.
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  And correct me if I'm wrong, Dee, but Tyson Dukes, right?
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  Yep. It was him and Tyson Dukes that
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  own it, so not all does he run and promote.
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  TNA runs and promotes Border City.
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  Oh. Wow.
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  Just so you. Learn.
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  Something and a hell of a wrestler.
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  Hell of a hand, too. Hell of a hand?
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  Very. Much so, Very much so.
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  But to but not to correct. Not to correct you.
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  I should say not to correct you, but I'm not.
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  AI don't sell. I'm not a wrap for Espinosa.
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  So the company that I work for, Espinosa does our cigars.
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  And of course, I work for a company called Protocol Cigars I
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  Love. Protocol.
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  Another one top notch company. And Eric Espinosa in Nicaragua,
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  Deli in Lazona, that's where they roll all of the Espinosa
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  Slash Protocol cigars. So there's some really good, let
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  me tell you right now. And sometimes I get a little
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  choked up because, you know, the guys who own the the cigar
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  company. Protocol.
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  They are former, not former. Excuse me.
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  You know what? They're retired NYPD.
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  Yes. These guys were, these guys were
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  first responders. They were first responders for
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  9/11. And.
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  You can't get any more of the guys and I.
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  Here we go. They're my heroes.
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  So, so, so I was also, I was also down there when 911 hit.
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  So you know what, shout out to Kevin my man.
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  I love him Death. So how do we get protocol cigars
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  basically? Where, where?
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  Where Can we pick up some? Protocols.
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  I think what they're trying to get to is where?
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  Where are protocol available correct?
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  Protocol is huge in PA, New Jersey, New York, but you got to
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  go to the boroughs in New York to get protocol.
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  OK. And the funny part about it is,
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  the best part about it is all the cigar reps for protocol are
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  all retired. NYPD.
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  All of them. Cool.
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  It's it's 11 cancel who started protocol guards him and another
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  gentleman were they were trying to transit.
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  So when when the plane hit those two had to make a decision of
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  what to do France. Why Because who knows what else
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  was going to happen that day correct.
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  So when you got one guy who's got his finger on the button to
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  stop everything and do what they do, what they did to make that
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  decision, that's why I said those guys are my heroes.
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  Because what they did for our, for our people, for our country,
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  to make sure that what those scumbags did to us to take care
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  of the people. So how did you how did you get
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  in with protocol? How did that come about?
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  So I know a lot of people, of course in the cigar industry
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  because I've been doing this such a long time.
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  And when protocol came out I was my buddy Joe Constantino is a
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  still over 20 years now. He is an EMT in in New York.
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  So I went to a cigar event at the Leaf in Pennsylvania.
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  It was an opening of the cigar company called Protocol Cigars.
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  Of course Eric was there because Eric Espinosa is the, you know,
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  he's the one who makes them for them.
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  And that's where I met Juan and Bill and I just really liked the
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  product and they started doing other events and stuff like
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  that. So I got to know them very well.
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  And of course I live in Florida, so they didn't have a Florida
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  division. So they said, hey, listen, you
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  know we don't have a Rep in Florida.
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  We don't. Well, they had, they had one guy
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  and he didn't do anything with it.
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  I I won't say names. Second guy did absolutely
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  nothing with the wrapping. Well, I know them, I know the
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  brand, I know everything about it.
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  So they were like, hey, listen, we have nobody, no one.
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  Now, when I say the state of Florida, I mean from
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  Tallahassee, Jacksonville all the way to Miami.
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  That's crazy because that's a huge area.
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  A huge area. So they didn't have anybody.
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  So they said, would you be up to it?
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  Shit, absolutely. I don't.
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  I don't know. Do I get to go to cigar shops
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  all over Florida and sell your cigars?
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  Do I get to go to? All these, Oh my God, shave my
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  head and live with men. Where do I sign?
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  Exactly. Whoa.
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  So I started doing it with them in Florida and in Florida and it
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  was, it got big because of course Espinosa mostly he was
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  big in front of Caspian in Miami and started traveling all over
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  Florida and then of course and New England.
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  I tried to, I tried and I really did.
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  I tried to push it in New England and even with the
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  background of it is in New England.
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  Where I'm from is a really tough spot when it comes to cigars
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  because people are pretty much stuck on what they smoke.
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  A lot of and and that's the same problem I run into up here with
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  the company that I work for. They're stuck on the name
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  brands. Right.
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  They stick. They stick to a brand and that's
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  what they stick to and that's great and I appreciate that.
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  Smoke cigars, smoke whatever you smoke.
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  I don't look down on anyone who smokes.
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  I don't care if you smoke freaking acids or you smoke for
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  your own 20 fours. I mean 60 fours, I don't care.
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  It's the fact of the matter of we're all the cigar realm is a
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  family. We're a family and.
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  If you enjoy it, then enjoy it. I don't care what you smoke.
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  Smoking a cigar? Come sit with me.
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  Have a drink. Let's let's smoke cigars
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  together. But that's how I started with
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  with, with protocol and became great friends.
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  And I'll tell you a funny this will make you laugh.
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  So there's a particular guy in New England has his own cigar
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  shop. He's very well known in New
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  England. And I saw Eric at that event
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  when I took the job for for them.
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  And Eric says, hey, can I talk to you for a minute?
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  This Eric Espinosa, I go, of course, he pulls me aside.
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  We're at the Leaf in Pennsylvania.
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  He goes, are you the guy pushing my cigars in New England?
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  Up north I go, yes, that, yeah. Matter of fact, Castro's
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  backroom. Good friend of mine, my buddy
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  Eric, Twin Smoke shop, my buddy Kurt.
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  I made sure they all knew about Espinosa cigars, even though
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  they did, but they didn't know the whole thing, right.
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  So Erica Pinosa got me aside and he says, so you're the one
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  pushing my cigars in New England.
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  I said yeah. He shook my hand, gave me a hug.
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  And he said there's one guy in New England and before Eric
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  could say it, I'd go, the guy's a douche bag.
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  Eric sat back and goes, we'll be OK.
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  Gave me a huge hug and he goes, keep pushing my cigars.
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  You're doing a great job. Thank you.
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  I'm. I'm I don't know that guy.
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  But shout out to you. Shout out, good douche bag,
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  shout out to you. Oh, he is he, You know, when it
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  comes to when it comes to cigar owners, excuse me, it was cigar
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  shop owners. So here in New England, in New
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  England itself, it it's very tight knit company when it comes
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  to doing cigars. So this guy totally forgot about
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  where he came from. Let's put it this way.
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  Are you going to go to a lounge that closes at 5:00 at night?
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  No. No.
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  Hell no. How?
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  How can you get to the lounge? You're at work.
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  You're working stiff. We this is what we do.
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  We work. So after work, I want a freaking
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  bourbon. I want a cigar and I want to sit
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  down and I don't give a shit what's on TV.
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  I'll watch the game. I'll watch Wheel of Fortune.
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  Whatever's on, I don't give a shit.
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  And honestly, most of the time guys like us will put something
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  on our phone and just sit there and watch it ourselves.
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  And so this guy, this guy would open at noon time and his
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  lounges would be closed by 5:00, even on the weekends.
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  I I know of a few places that are like that and and you know,
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  I don't know how they do good business.
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  I don't know. I know they they make money, but
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  they make money somehow, some way.
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  But see, what I found out about this guy is is he had a huge
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  online business, so he don't give a shit about Joe Schmo's
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  like us. Because he's making money
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  regardless. No matter what he's making his
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  money. He don't give a shit about guys
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  like us. Why?
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  Why haven't got that open? They got to up charge the boxes
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  a little bit to make the cost right so.
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  And let me give you a Now Big Dog knows me.
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  Let me give you, for instance, on a Sunday.
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  I've been wrestling all weekend. I got, I got my ass kicked.
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  I'm just want to settle in. A buddy of mine lives in Salem,
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  NH, and he says, listen, there's a cigar shop down the street.
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  The game's on was watch a game with me.
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  So you know what sounds good? Get in the car, drive down
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  there. So we're sitting there now.
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  Guys, this is no bullshit. I swear on my daughter's eyes,
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  was sitting there and was smoking a cigar and all of a
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  sudden the guy working the place comes up, we're watching the
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  Patriots and shuts the TV off. What?
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  Yes, shut off the TV. I'd have been like Sir, do you
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  do you want a quick right hand in the face?
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  Bruh, in the Now, of course I wanted to see this game because
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  I love when the Patriots play the Giants.
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  We beat you twice in the Super Bowl.
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  I just want to let. You know that with, that's
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  right, 100%. And and you won.
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  And you won with a tuck. Rule.
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  Against the Raiders in the old It wasn't the old one.
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  Super Bowl you won with a tuck rule.
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  Listen. That if if they had review back
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  then that was not a catch. Yo oh.
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  No. Nope.
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  If Ty listen that was all full on catch that Tyree caught on
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  his head and you're not going to tell me No.
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  Mind your business. Touching the ground.
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  Listen, he's a he's a 40. He's a 49ers fan.
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  He don't count. Oh.
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  He don't count. Yeah, he don't count.
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  He's a 49ers fan. He don't count.
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  They don't count. When the Giants match our
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  championships, then we'll talk and the Jack.
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  We'll match the Patriots and the 49ers with titles.
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  Then we'll talk. We got four.
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  We only need 3 to get to the Patriots, and this new
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  quarterback man is. 4 Super Bowl.
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  Yes, we do. Super.
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  Bowl. Yeah, we.
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  Do. Yes, we do.
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  We have 4 Super Bowls. Yo, are you?
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  They only have four Giants have 4:00.
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  Four. Twice to the Patriots, and I
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  forget who the other two we're against.
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  Four. Hello, 123.
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  Four. I just I the one that's the two
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  that stick in my head are are the two Super Bowl moments are
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  Tyrese catch and when Bradshaw tried to not sit in the end zone
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  and he fell sitting down into the end zone and scored, he
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  yelled you can't that you don't really get a better moment than
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  him not trying to score and he just happens.
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  Can't think, cannot take, cannot take that away.
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  Nope. But that's crazy, bro.
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  I can't believe that guy did that.
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  And and walked in and shut the TV off.
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  That's at. 5:00 in the afternoon or Sunday, watching the
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  Patriots. A room is full of people.
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  We're all smoking. We're all smoking cigars we
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  bought from that shop and he didn't shut the TV off.
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  So I look up and go, what are we doing?
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  He goes, oh, we're closing. I go, It's third quarter.
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  Can't you? He goes, no, I can't.
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  And literally I go, Are you fucking kidding me right now?
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  Is this a joke? I'm.
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  I'm looking around and waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump out.
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  I'm like, am I being punk? Third quarter and they shut the
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  game. Oh my, shut the game off.
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  And they didn't. They didn't try to, like, kill
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  him. Listen, the guy that I was with
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  made Big Sal look like a bitch. I did not.
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  See this one? That's tough to do.
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  Wow. OK, this guy was a monster.
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  Big C, He's A. Former, He's a former MMA guy
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  and he's a monster. And so I had to grab him because
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  I said let's just go because I know what's going to happen.
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  Let's just get the fuck out of here because I.
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  Walk out. Let's go somewhere else.
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  So literally he he he gets up and of course the chair goes to
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  the side and he looks at this guy and the guy just, I thought
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  he was going to melt. And I looked at my buddy, I
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  looked at my buddy, and I go. Not today.
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  Leave it. Alone.
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  And he just looked at that guy and went thank you for not
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  having. Us.
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  Yeah, you know lounges like that unfortunately, and and we've all
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  seen him, every place has a couple of them no matter where
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  you are and it's it's the worst possible thing in the world to
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  have. It is horrible.
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  Because it it screws up guys like us who either been working
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  all week or you know like you said, you know, let's just say
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  you, you know, travel day was Friday, you wrestled on
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  Saturday, traveled home Sunday, and you have to stop by this
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  place on your way home or you know, you get a buddy.
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  Hey listen, I'm, you know, I'm at the lounge.
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  Why don't you come hang out? You want.
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  To go unwind you want to relax. You know and and ask.
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  You know they're going to ask questions of you know what
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  what'd you do this weekend? Who did you wrestle You know
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  you're going to get and and it we we love to talk about it.
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  But you know I want to unwind and watch a game or you know
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  watch ATV show. It doesn't matter what's on the
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  damn TVI. Don't.
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  Care. I just want to have my bourbon
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  and have a cigar. I was in a lounge, you know,
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  with one guy we were watching. It was a bunch of us.
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  There was, there was a bunch of us in a lounge by my house.
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  And it was kind of the same situation except, you know, you
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  didn't know when he was open because he didn't really tell
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  you when he was open. He had no set hours.
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  And he nicest guy in the world. I mean the nicest guy in the
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  world. We were all in there one night
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  watching. It was a Saturday.
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  I was in there early. I had off from work that day.
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  I'm like because he was at work. I said when you're on your way
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  because he was working in Westchester, so sit on your way
• 21:15
  up. I'm at the lounge, come hang
• 21:17
  out. I go, We're all sitting down.
• 21:19
  Bunch of guys come in, we're smoking.
• 21:21
  College football's on we go, yo, put on the game.
• 21:25
  So we had the game on. He comes in, oh, nothing good's
• 21:27
  on And he changes it. And I was like, what are you
• 21:32
  doing? And all the guys, like, yeah,
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  I'm going home. He's like, oh, you're not
• 21:36
  standing there. Like, no, I'm good.
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  I'm like, Oh my God, I'm like, dude, it didn't matter if the
• 21:41
  game was terrible. No shit.
• 21:44
  At least let us watch it until we feel it's terrible, and then
• 21:47
  turn the shit off. He just walked in and was like,
• 21:52
  he sat down with us, hung out. And then he was like, ah man,
• 21:54
  this game ain't really that good.
• 21:55
  And he had three TV's, and all three TV's were playing The One
• 21:58
  Show. And I'm like, you've.
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  I'm like what? So Derek, I got a question.
• 22:06
  Yes, Sir. Call.
• 22:07
  Take me behind the curtain a little bit here with protocol.
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  Where's your tobacco come from and what is your favorite?
• 22:16
  What is your favorite protocol cigar and what is your favorite
• 22:20
  cigar of all? Or is it one in the same?
• 22:24
  So everything is done in the Steli and in Lazona, in
• 22:27
  Nicaragua, it's all Nicaraguan because like I said, Espinosa is
• 22:32
  the one who does our cigars for us.
• 22:34
  So every everything is done in Nicaragua, Steli in Lazona.
• 22:38
  When it comes to protocol, I am 100 Brazilian trillion percent
• 22:44
  OG blue. OK, I don't.
• 22:47
  It's just it's a blue table with AP in the center.
• 22:50
  Yeah, I don't know if I've had that one.
• 22:52
  I know I can tell you. I've had the, the, the femius,
• 22:54
  The femius. That was I I I think we took a
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  day trip. Me and my dad and a buddy of
• 23:05
  ours took a trip out to CI Yeah Hamburg and they had them.
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  You better believe it. And I happened to pick one up
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  because I was just, you know, we're just picking up a bunch of
• 23:16
  cigars that day. And I had picked one up and I
• 23:20
  had smoked that. I think on the way home or the
• 23:23
  next day I picked up a couple of them, a few different ones.
• 23:26
  And I don't know if it was the blue or the red I had, but I
• 23:29
  know before I had the THEMIS, which was the gold one.
• 23:32
  Oh, and that is so cool. At Connecticut is is just I'm
• 23:36
  going to assume it's got to be some sort of I'm not saying
• 23:39
  close to the knuckle sandwich but that that creaminess that
• 23:42
  punch you know it's got that same that same punch as as you
• 23:47
  know yeah it's got the eight factor that that creaminess of
• 23:51
  it. Now I have unbelievable knuckle
• 23:53
  sandwich so I I can't compare it to that yet.
• 23:57
  I will be smoking that maybe oh maybe I can smoke that on
• 24:01
  tomorrow's podcast. I could do that or next Sunday's
• 24:05
  podcast. So true.
• 24:07
  Derek So Derek what is your listen, what's your favorite
• 24:11
  cigar like in general what was your your like one that you your
• 24:16
  go to that you look forward to and if it's protocol great and
• 24:20
  if it's not what is it. My favorite cigar of all time.
• 24:25
  Number one, I don't care where I am in the world.
• 24:29
  Have to be the Padron 64 #4. Haven't had that in New York.
• 24:35
  Obviously, you know that those cigars, you know, range up to
• 24:38
  40-50 bucks. And leave it.
• 24:41
  What? What was?
• 24:42
  So now let me ask you, 'cause I got this question.
• 24:45
  What was your very first cigar? And then I'll tell you what mine
• 24:48
  was. So you're gonna laugh.
• 24:52
  So my very, very, very. Because my grandfather used to
• 24:57
  smoke cigars and my my older brother was a lot older than me.
• 25:01
  And what he would do is he would steal cigars off my
• 25:05
  grandfather's dresser and go down the street with his buddies
• 25:07
  and smoke cigars. And I remember that one time he
• 25:12
  was like, come on, come on, come on.
• 25:13
  I went with him. And of course they open it,
• 25:16
  they. And back then he was like, yeah,
• 25:19
  bite it off, spit it out, light it up.
• 25:23
  And it was a Tabernacle. So.
• 25:30
  The Tabernacle. So now that we on wrestling and
• 25:36
  everything else, so when did you start smoking cigars and
• 25:43
  wrestling? He said when he he smoking
• 25:46
  before wrestling, he said he was smoking before wrestling he was
• 25:49
  smoking at the ECW arena and stuff like that and then.
• 25:54
  Paulie saw me Outback. I was with, I was with the balls
• 25:57
  and and at the time I was standing with balls Candido and
• 26:00
  Tammy and I was smoking a cigar and Paul happened to go through
• 26:04
  the door and Taz came out and went around.
• 26:07
  Maybe right now it's like. She's in jail for like I think
• 26:11
  18 years or something like. That she.
• 26:15
  She's going to do a solid 18. At at minimum.
• 26:20
  But she got, she got, she got 18 to 25.
• 26:24
  Yeah, she's going to do 18 at minimum.
• 26:26
  She. Has to do 18 before they can
• 26:28
  even consider parole. Now I will tell you what my
• 26:32
  first cigar was. My first cigar was Oh oh, that's
• 26:39
  the famous, isn't it? Yes, it is.
• 26:43
  My first cigar was Acid Blondie by Drew Estate.
• 26:49
  That was my first cigar. Here we.
• 26:51
  Go. Great cigar.
• 26:52
  Oh I was I thought it was fantastic.
• 26:57
  I I, you know at the time I it's not for my palate now.
• 27:02
  At the time it was it was great. It's just not for me and I'm a
• 27:10
  real estate guy. I'm friends with a lot of the
• 27:11
  guys, a lot of the reps, even though that comes down to to
• 27:15
  Florida, Will. Yep, MC Hollywood.
• 27:19
  Oh man, they left me and will at the ask the ask this guy.
• 27:22
  They left me and will at the same place next to each other at
• 27:25
  Barnsmoker the night before that was that was the mistakes number
• 27:31
  one through 50. And then oh man, brother, the
• 27:38
  stuff that we get into and then he posts stuff up because I'm
• 27:41
  friends with him. He'll put you can't talk to me
• 27:43
  that way or whatever and I'll comment.
• 27:45
  I'll talk to you however I want to.
• 27:47
  And he laughs at me like, you know, it's just and people want
• 27:49
  to know. You know?
• 27:50
  And I know you can attest to this.
• 27:53
  How do you become friends with these guys?
• 27:54
  And you know what? My answer to them is a simple
• 27:57
  Hey how you doing? How are you?
• 28:00
  Yep, introduce yourself. I said that's all it takes.
• 28:03
  That's how I became friends with all these guys.
• 28:05
  Yep, introduce yourself. Literally the way I became
• 28:08
  friends, I said. I walked up to these guys my
• 28:10
  last year at Barn Smoker for the, you know, or two years ago
• 28:13
  at Barn Smoker, I should say now.
• 28:16
  And I mean, I, I, you know, the guy that knows us was walked us
• 28:21
  over. He goes, this is this one, this
• 28:22
  is this one. You know, Zach, you know this,
• 28:24
  hey, how are you? And from there on we became
• 28:26
  friends And then they're all like, yo, you guys are coming
• 28:28
  next year. Absolutely.
• 28:30
  You know, they asked me this. They asked me this pastor.
• 28:32
  Yo, you guys come to the ones next year.
• 28:33
  I said, that's a stupid question.
• 28:36
  I'm like, that's a dumb question.
• 28:37
  I said, if I, why wouldn't I come?
• 28:39
  Did you do the, did you do the Barnsmoker in Connecticut?
• 28:42
  I did pencil. So the first year was
• 28:44
  Connecticut, second year was PA Connecticut.
• 28:46
  Right. Yep.
• 28:47
  I was now. We were supposed to be down at
• 28:49
  the Florida one. We're supposed to be down in
• 28:52
  Orlando. Things didn't work out.
• 28:54
  We couldn't come next year, we're going everywhere.
• 28:58
  Oh, I I wholeheartedly plan good Being down at the Florida one
• 29:03
  next year or this year, whatever year it is.
• 29:06
  I totally forget I. Know Brother, Brother, this is a
• 29:09
  new year. Can you believe it already?
• 29:11
  I, I bro, I you're telling me it's got me all messed up trying
• 29:14
  to, you know, type. At the.
• 29:16
  End of this show. There we can go on for hours and
• 29:19
  hours, but. We have, we will and and I will
• 29:22
  tell you we will definitely we're.
• 29:24
  Going to have you back on be. Doing this again.
• 29:26
  Protocol because I got a. Lot I would.
• 29:28
  I would love that. That'd be great.
• 29:30
  Listen, thank you so much for joining us.
• 29:31
  We got to get out of here. I am so sorry we got to cut this
• 29:34
  short, but please join. No.
• 29:36
  And Turnbuckle. Guys, let me tell you something.
• 29:38
  100 percent, 100%, Happy New Year.
• 29:41
  Thank you so much for having me on.
• 29:42
  Thank you you got. Some been great Big dog.
• 29:45
  It's been a long time, brother. We know each other for 30 years.
• 29:47
  Can't wait to see you again. We're going to try to make that
• 29:50
  happen soon. I'm promising you that you.
• 29:53
  I love you. I.
• 29:54
  Love. You love you, brother.
• 29:56
  Shout out to my man right there. My man Derek Deuce.
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  Yo, we out. Yo, we gotta go.
• 30:05
  Oh my. That's the show for today
• 30:07
  everyone. Thanks for listening.
• 30:09
  We'll be back next week with an all new show.
• 30:11
  And remember, you can listen to us again and again.
• 30:14
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• 30:18
  off the air tonight. Anywhere that you can get your
• 30:21
  podcast.