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Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
On Episode 105 Rafael Nodal makes his Prime Time debut!
As many know Rafael wears two hats in the cigar industry – co-founder of Boutique Blends Cigars and now as Tabacalera USA’s (including Altadis U.S.A.’s) Director of Product Capability. We’ll take a look at this unique dual-role and how this came about. Plus we’ll talk music with Rafael and some industry topics.
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
On Episode 105 Rafael Nodal makes his Prime Time debut!
As many know Rafael wears two hats in the cigar industry – co-founder of Boutique Blends Cigars and now as Tabacalera USA’s (including Altadis U.S.A.’s) Director of Product Capability. We’ll take a look at this unique dual-role and how this came about. Plus we’ll talk music with Rafael and some industry topics.
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
For Special Edition #58, the Mt. Rushmore segment comes to Prime Time Special Edition! Bear and Coop will select Drew Esttate cigars that should have their rightful place on Mt. Rushmore. It’s also time for another Aging Experiment, an exercise where Bear and Coop pick up three cigars and smoke one now, smoke one in six months, and smoke one in a year. Finally, the City of Dayton, Ohio will no longer hire municipal employees who use tobacco. We’ll weigh in on this as well as the reaction/non-reaction from this decision.
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
For Special Edition #58, the Mt. Rushmore segment comes to Prime Time Special Edition! Bear and Coop will select Drew Esttate cigars that should have their rightful place on Mt. Rushmore. It’s also time for another Aging Experiment, an exercise where Bear and Coop pick up three cigars and smoke one now, smoke one in six months, and smoke one in a year. Finally, the City of Dayton, Ohio will no longer hire municipal employees who use tobacco. We’ll weigh in on this as well as the reaction/non-reaction from this decision.
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
For Episode 104, we are honored to have the one and only Alan Rubin of Alec Bradley Cigars as our special guest. We’ll chronicle Alan’s journey in the cigar business, bringing his sons in to work with him, and his recent acquisition of the Lars Tetens Brands. Plus in our Alec Bradley Live True segment, we will find our what makes Alan “Live True.”
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
For Episode 104, we are honored to have the one and only Alan Rubin of Alec Bradley Cigars as our special guest. We’ll chronicle Alan’s journey in the cigar business, bringing his sons in to work with him, and his recent acquisition of the Lars Tetens Brands. Plus in our Alec Bradley Live True segment, we will find our what makes Alan “Live True.”
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 2019
The past 18 months have seen Joya de Nicaragua Cigars on a roll. Tonight, we have the Executive President of Joya de Nicaragua Juan Martinez to talk about the happenings at Joya – including the big 50th anniversary year and the company’s plans for 2019.
In our Alec Bradley Live True segment, we discuss traveling with cigars. Finally in our Deliberation Segment, the cigar industry social media community is in a panic with a change to Facebook’s policy. Should they be concerned?
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 2019
The past 18 months have seen Joya de Nicaragua Cigars on a roll. Tonight, we have the Executive President of Joya de Nicaragua Juan Martinez to talk about the happenings at Joya – including the big 50th anniversary year and the company’s plans for 2019.
In our Alec Bradley Live True segment, we discuss traveling with cigars. Finally in our Deliberation Segment, the cigar industry social media community is in a panic with a change to Facebook’s policy. Should they be concerned?
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, we got an opportunity to cover the unveiling of Southern Draw Cigars’ new Rose of Sharon Desert Rose. Now we have one of the main principals behind Southern Draw, Robert Holt, to talk about the project. Desert Rose was one of many new releases by Southern Draw unveiled at this year’s trade show, and we’ll talk to Robert about all of the happenings.
Last week we didn’t get to finish our 2019 IPCPR Post Game, so this week wel provide some general commentary on all of the happenings that surrounded this year’s trade show – including thoughts on the controversy around the PCA rebranding and CigarCon.
Finally, José Blanco is a free agent again as we discuss his recent departure from E.P. Carrillo Note: We will be running a second contest for our audience watching the recorded show. Stay tuned here or stay tuned to www.cigar-coop.com for more details
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, we got an opportunity to cover the unveiling of Southern Draw Cigars’ new Rose of Sharon Desert Rose. Now we have one of the main principals behind Southern Draw, Robert Holt, to talk about the project. Desert Rose was one of many new releases by Southern Draw unveiled at this year’s trade show, and we’ll talk to Robert about all of the happenings.
Last week we didn’t get to finish our 2019 IPCPR Post Game, so this week wel provide some general commentary on all of the happenings that surrounded this year’s trade show – including thoughts on the controversy around the PCA rebranding and CigarCon.
Finally, José Blanco is a free agent again as we discuss his recent departure from E.P. Carrillo
Note: We will be running a second contest for our audience watching the recorded show. Stay tuned to www.cigar-coop.com for more details