Episode 73 Matt Hunt FQ Cigars / IPCPR Information

Episode Summary

Episode 73 welcomes back Matt Hunt — owner of FQ Cigars and self-proclaimed "Fashion Sandinista" — for his third appearance, and the first with the podcast's new video setup. The conversation is loose and personal: sickness ripping through the household, a Bishop Moore black-and-gold spring football game with the kids, Matt's upcoming travel to Rhode Island for a wedding and then on to Serbia and Montenegro, and his ongoing attempt to learn Serbian. Along the way the hosts unpack the reality of prepping for IPCPR — calling accounts for weeks straight, the good relationships versus the occasional retailer who says "cigars chase me," and the grind of working a busy booth like RoMa Craft's where it's appointment after appointment with no time to decompress.

On the cigar side, the trio smokes FQ's Little Proper "Dapper," a small, young cigar Matt isn't ready to release yet, and they debate the industry habit of dumping under-rested product at the trade show versus writing orders early to get a release into the queue. Matt also talks through FQ's strategy of folding the Phenom (Phenom 1 and Phenom 3, his original blends) into package deals now that the Proper has established itself.

The back half is an IPCPR 2019 release rundown: Illusione's Lugio Singularé, the new Guayamero Rothschild (4x50) from Esteban Disla and Aganorsa/Casa Fernandez, Crowned Heads' La Coalición with Drew Estate (Connecticut Broadleaf, Sumatra binder, Dominican and Nicaraguan filler), White Hat's Spencer Drake "ILEGAL" Connecticut line, Southern Draw's new Jacob's Ladder addition with Pennsylvania Broadleaf, RoMa Craft's Wojtek "War Bear" Fomorian Lustrum edition (500 boxes of 21, $12 SRP), and RoMa Craft's all-new Cameroon line, Baka, with vitolas including Bantu, Ota Benga, Poki and Hunter Gatherer (6x54).

They close with podcast housekeeping — international download stats from Canada, Australia, the Bahamas and Costa Rica, the new YouTube channel, and skepticism about bought followers — plus Matt turning the tables and asking the hosts who they'd most want to interview (Robin Williams, Don Rickles, The Rock, Tom Hardy, Matt Booth, Nat King Cole, Jay-Z, Gary Vaynerchuk), and a genuine discussion about the stigma keeping younger people from trying cigars.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Meet Matt Hunt, the "Fashion Sandinista"
   FQ Cigars owner Matt Hunt returns for his third appearance, this time on camera, and catches up on family, football and travel.
2. 02
   Life on the road and household chaos
   The hosts swap stories about strep throat, stomach viruses and kids as "little petri dishes" in the run-up to the trade show.
3. 03
   Prepping for IPCPR: calling accounts
   An inside look at the weeks of sales calls before the show, good retailer relationships, and the one guy who says cigars chase him.
4. 04
   FQ Cigars: the Little Proper Dapper and the Phenom
   Matt shares the unreleased Little Proper Dapper, explains why he refuses to release young cigars, and discusses repositioning the Phenom in package deals.
5. 05
   Serbia, Montenegro and learning a new language
   Matt's upcoming trip from a Rhode Island wedding to Serbia and Montenegro, and being the only Cuban in a room full of Serbian speakers.
6. 06
   IPCPR 2019 release rundown
   A brand-by-brand walkthrough of upcoming releases from Illusione, Guayamero, Crowned Heads, White Hat, Southern Draw and RoMa Craft.
7. 07
   Favorite IPCPR memories
   Walking away from a bad retailer contract, a fan passing out at the RoMa party, and the year Rick Ross stopped by the booth.
8. 08
   Podcast stats, YouTube and dream interviews
   International download numbers, bought-follower skepticism, and who the hosts would most want to smoke and talk with.

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Transcript

Welcome to a Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 73! This week we sit down and talk to Mr. Matthew Hunt from FQ Cigars, better known as the Fashion Sandinista. Sit back and relax, the show's about to begin.

I'm looking at the camera, oh my gosh, look at that eye contact, wave at the camera, hello? Am I in frame? Is all of me in there? Nope.

Oh jeez, you're kind of crooked. Okay, hold on, can we talk about how Mike Palmer thought he was going to know how to pull my feet? There you go. Big, strong guy.

Okay. You underestimated him. You underestimated him. I did.

Made me mad. I hulked. I love that. Do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself?

Yes, who is this? So, my name is Matt Hunt. I'm the owner of FQ Cigars. FQ Cigars.

That's right. Home of the pepper. Not only proudly distributed by Pochic Cigars. But not only are you the FQ Cigar man, you are also the fashion Sandinista.

Sandinista. I've actually coined that term. He coined that term? I was thinking about actually getting it copyrighted.

Copyrighted? Copyrighted, yeah. It's actually Mike, I guess, who coined it. This is his third appearance on the show.

And you were very adamant about being on the show because we now have video. Yeah, I would love for people to see what of a baby face I have. See how incredibly handsome you are. Set the camera up on him, just on him.

Make a close-up. This is Matt Hunt. I'm ready for my close-up. You have to walk over there.

It's a manual close-up. So before we get into Matt Hunt, you want to talk about a couple things, what's been going on with us for the week and shit? Sure, what's been going on with you? How do you know?

Well, for starters... So then you're not sleeping. Well, yeah. I mean, that's never gonna...

I don't think that'll ever happen. Nope. But, I think... I love my kids.

Yes. You think you love your kids? I love my kids a lot. Oh.

But I think they're trying to kill me. Oh. Wow, this is getting exciting already. It fucking is, it is.

They gave me strep throat, and then parlayed that into a fucking... Need a... Stomach virus that was fucking making me vomit and blew up the entire house. Had to bring my wife to the hospital.

It's fucking fantastic. fantastic. That is true, because every single time I've called you, you've been like, I'm dying. Yeah, and never go to their house.

They're like little petri dishes of fucking chaos. You go over there after one of those hazmat suits on. Jesus. I mean, you know, the place has been bleached so many fucking times at this point.

Everything's white. I'm putting Purell by the door and just hit everybody when they come in. As if there was like a newborn baby there. They walk around like this.

Don't touch me. I'm sterile. I've been at Mike's house. So my kids are trying to kill me.

Yes. Which is nice. Are you kids trying to Did they kill you? They're old, they're not even at the house anymore.

Yeah, I feel like they're still trying to kill you, but in a different way. So watch your back, Mike, that's what he's trying to tell you. That's what he's trying to say. We've got a lot of prep work going on for IPCPR right now.

Yep, a lot going on. To a point where I'm feeling kind of stressed out about doing a podcast right now. I'm not going to lie. Hey, stop what you're doing.

Okay, cool. Fuck it in, let's just put it down. Oh, can we do it? No, okay.

Can we just skip the next three weeks? That'd be great. We might skip podcast week. No, the show must go on!

Ooh, are we gonna do it in Vegas? No. I am bringing the camera. Yeah, we're gonna try and get some good content and stuff like that.

I love that. Big content guy. He wants me to follow him around with the camera. We got a head producer.

Yeah, I do. Last time I went, I had to follow him around with that little speaker. I'm gonna be really upset if he is not, at most, two feet behind you. I want him very close, very...

Who's this guy? I think it'd be cool. You don't have to take pictures, but I think if you did some video, we'll splice some. I'm bringing the little mic so we can mic you up, but you can only go like 10 feet away from me.

Yeah, but you know what, some of the stuff that I watch has like, we'll do like subtitles on the bottom of it too. Oh, I do like that, yeah. Oh, can I put in anything I want? No, you got to do like, you know, what the person's saying.

Just like making stuff up as it goes. We do have subtitle option on our editing software. Excellent. So, that can be done.

Look at that. You complete me, Michael. You said my earlier today. I know.

It's funny, you feel good. I miss this guy. That's why we have the same name. This is nice.

He's Mike, and I'm Mike, too. No, I'm Mike, too. And this is Cigar Houses Podcast. This is Cigar Houses Podcast.

So, yeah. So, calling accounts, prepping for IPCBR, it's a daunting task. Oh, jeez. Oh, jeez.

Just go ahead and leave that on. We have a call-in. We have a call-in. We have a call-in.

Hold on. We're taking calls. From Lake Orion, Michigan, you're on the air. Oh, my God.

That's a watch going off, too. You stole your wife's watch. Yes. Can you turn that off?

I don't know how you turn the watch off. Yeah, you can totally turn that off. You know, so what's cool for me with IPCPR is, like, throughout the year, I feel like I'm making a lot of progress, and I'm like, yeah, you know, people kind of acknowledge who I am and shit. I mean, not that I'm a big deal or anything, but at least, you know, there's some...

Well, you're no Matt Hunt, so... Yeah, I know I have Q cigars. Just throw a coat on and you're right there. That's all you need.

Really, that's all I got. But, like, when you go, you know, it's like, oh, yeah, nobody fucking knows who I am. Well, also because there's a billion people. Yeah, who are you?

What cigar is this? Do you know what Robert Holt is, by chance? Or Southern Drunk. So, you know, that's kind of the funny part for me.

It kind of just knocks you back down a notch to, you know, get back to fucking work. I have enjoyed sitting behind you listening to you make the phone calls the last two weeks. Oh, yeah, so that was pretty comical. Mike, with FQ, Mike, stop me if you heard any of these brands, please.

Well, it depends upon what they've ordered in the past. Right, no, no, I understand why you're doing it. You're doing it, it's just funny to hear you run through the different ones every different phone call. So I had, I called an old account and this motherfucker says to me, oh, I have it written down, I don't want to mess this up.

Oh, good. Oh, he has it exactly. He says that he doesn't chase cigars, cigars chase him. Oh, that's nice.

So I was like, alright, cool, see you later, bro. I am fucking calling that guy, delete him off the account. It literally sounds like the worst. Wasn't that what you were doing?

You called him. Yeah, what a complete asshole. You know, be fuckin' human, for Christ's sakes. Well, it's funny, it's like you wonder how that guy feels when he gets to the IPCPR.

He's like, "Finally, everybody showed up! Thanks, everybody! " I can't wait to run into him at IPCPR. " Would you know him if he saw him?

No, but he'll, well, there's the tag that says the name. Oh, you'll recognize the name. And the retailer. And the retailer.

Oh, I know you. Yeah, go fuck yourself. Fuck your mother. Oh, you're busy.

Sorry. I can't talk to you. Thank you. My cigars aren't coming to you.

So that was pretty comical. Um, you know, but I did, I talked to a couple of other accounts that shit went really well, like stuff that you weren't expecting. Some guy was excited you called yesterday. Yeah.

I dealt with a guy and you were like, yes, yes, that Mike. I am that Mike. Yes. Yeah.

Oh, you know, I mean, that's, um, that was embargo. It was, but we have a good relationship. Like he was kind of fucking around. Oh, okay.

So that's always nice though. Like leading up to the show, like, know that there's people who like, Oh, Hey, what's up? Oh yeah. I can't wait to see you at the show.

" For sure. I mean, you have a lot of good accounts, you make a lot of good friendships in this industry, but, you know, you get those, the slapdicks, that's fucking, Jesus, man, what the hell, I mean, how miserable is that guy's life? Well, evidently, it's not at all, I mean, people are chasing him. He's probably got a Segway.

He's pretty good. He probably rolls around on a hoverboard or something. I didn't even know if I, like, when was the last time somebody, I haven't seen somebody on a Segway or even bring up the subject of a Segway. Great, good real touch there.

Here's a Segway over the Segway. A little call back there. That just lets you know how irrelevant that guy is. This episode brought to you by Segway.

Yeah. For all your fine trade show needs. So, Mr. Matt Hunt.

Hey. FQ Cigars. How we doing? You're on the show.

I'm here. What's going on? What's going on in your life? What'd you bring us?

Oh, so. You're going to be, how was the Easter Bunny? Did you do that this year again? I did not, yeah.

I've kind of grown out of that. As in, you don't fit in the suit? Correct, yeah. My will to do it is still there, but just the physical strain on my body.

That's what I couldn't do. But, here I got some little baby propers for you guys to smoke while we were on the show. Doing a little bit of that. Oh, nice.

Like a stud. I'm telling you. Oh, are we gonna talk about how, like-- Plucked it out of the air. We took the kids over to the football game?

Sure, we can talk about that. We can talk about that. That was awesome. Anybody got a cutter?

So Mr. Matt Hunt is a Bishop Moore alumni, which is a private school over here. You can say Catholic, it's all right. Don't put those in Florida, whatever.

Yeah, it's a Catholic school over here in Orlando. And no, but I want to talk about Jackson, how he's like this football guru. You got the boys over there. We got to see a black and gold game, right?

Black and gold game. Which is offense versus defense. Yep. A little spring game.

Yeah, it was really cool. They had a good time. You know, he likes throwing the football, but he's got this friend at school who wants to be a soccer player, so now he wants to be a soccer player. So now I have to go to kindergarten and kick his ass.

Yeah, exactly. We're gonna have to nip that in the butt. We're gonna have to really figure that out. But, you know, you know, whatever he wants to do, obviously I back 110%, whatever that may be.

So we signed him up for football. On that note. Well, soccer isn't available yet, but we did sign him up for flag football coming up. So I'm pretty excited about that, it's gonna be good stuff.

But I love that, I thought it was really cool. I always enjoy it, I think it's cool. Dude, they rock, so they got t-shirts? Yeah, they did, Future Hornets t-shirts.

Future Hornets, and he rocks that shit, like, every other day. Atta boy, that's what I'm talking about, I love that. Well, it was nice that Brittany was there, had the whole crew out there, I loved that. Yeah, had the whole crew out there, it was a good time, it was a good time.

I'm trying to think if anybody was sick at that point. I don't remember. I think they were on their way there. They were approaching.

They were on their way there. Yeah. So, that was good. It was good.

You know, you caught us right at the right time. Yeah. And you didn't die. I know.

I didn't catch anything, which is a miracle, but. Congratulations. Yeah. I feel pretty good.

We can still be friends. So, you're going to be staying with me at IPCPR. I love how personal this is going to get. Can't wait for that.

I really enjoy that. There was almost three of us in the room. That would have been. Imagine the podcast we could have done.

Imagine the adventures. " Yeah, he does. He's just a fucking huge fan of that. He owes me a favor, though.

He could not say no. Yeah, realistically, how do you say no to Palmer? And he goes, "I was fucked. " But I think that's great.

I think it's gonna be nice to be able to spend some quality time. It'll be great. I'm gonna get the one big bed. Big bed.

Yeah. Perfect. Well, we can also say how last year you were very generous to allow me to crash because for whatever reason, I don't remember what the reasoning was that I was like, oh yeah, I'm in town for a little bit, is it cool if I crash? And then I ended up getting a room and Brittany so generously set up an entire, a beautiful spread for me.

Yeah. And you blew it. I did blow it. It was not good.

Yeah, and you're living that to this day. Yep. There's a lot of things. So we're smoking little propers.

A little propers. The Dapper. It's called The Dapper. Are we taking orders for these at the show?

We are not taking orders. These are very young. We're trying them out right now. See how they're doing.

Oh, okay. All right, there we are. I'd take orders from them at the show, to be honest. Would you?

Fuck yeah. Okay, well... Even at the release date, when do you think they're gonna come out? I would say later in the year, but, I mean, we have a lot of stuff working on that we're trying to see if they're gonna come out.

Okay. What are you worried about? What am I weird? Well, I mean, between that and just my thing is I don't want anything young coming out.

Because that's the biggest stigma I feel like with the show is that, especially with the FDA and stuff, that people were just kind of dumping stuff out on the show and a lot of stuff I would smoke and... Okay, so here's the thing. I think that's over now. So, well, let's talk, we can, you know, here's a little inside business shit for the, for IPCPR, right?

You get to come across every fucking retailer that's there. Yeah. Right? So it's just go, go, go, go, go for three and a half days.

" Steve, I'm actually kind of excited about how we changed it up this year on putting the Phenoms in the orders. A little closer to the microphone. Putting the Phenoms actually into the package deals is because that was the first one I ever came out with Phenom 1 and Phenom 3, so I actually think that was actually a great suggestion by you to kind of switch it up so that we've been rolling it with the proper, let's try and get some love on the Phenom. Right.

Well, the proper was brand new. You know, it got a good jump off. Same scenario, right? We knew that the platform was there for IPCPR.

There's a good opportunity there to kind of introduce it to a lot of people in a small period of time. Boom, right? So here and again, we're going to circle back to what your framework was, what you kind of started with, and approach it from there, right? So it makes sense to me, and it makes sense to release this cigar at the show.

Well, and you also have a cigar that's coming out at the show, right? Yeah, yeah, we do. We'll get to that. What is that?

What are we doing? The warping. You want to do the releases at the show? You want to just jump right into that?

I don't know, should we talk more about, we want to talk more about Matt Hunt? Oh, well, I mean, we certainly can, but he started throwing in other brands. Oh, I just saw, my thing is that, I wouldn't be where I am without Mike, money. None of us, none of us, none of us, no, I think that's very true.

We're all just writing his kind of tales to fame. I've been more, but more and more, you know, it's so funny that, speaking about just, I always appreciated your podcast, it's not always just about cigars, so like a book that I've been reading lately, it's been very heavy on the whole thing about gratitude, and Mike comes to mind a lot. I do appreciate the things that you and Greg have done. I appreciate you too, buddy.

So everybody out there, just let me know. Hey, this guy likes me. I'm real into it. So there you go.

All right, so if that's all you want to talk about, but I feel like there's more. I feel like we're, you know, we can't just let him off the hook. What else is going on in your life, man? How's the island?

How's things on the island? Things on the island. So Matt's kind of a world traveler, you know, we never really see him. He disappears for months on end.

He goes to Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia. Yeah, I've got friends in different places. He goes to Canada? No, don't go to Canada.

He goes to Mexico? Nope. He's going to Syria? Not going to Syria.

I am going to Serbia. I do, so actually I'm going to Rhode Island tomorrow. He's going to Israel? Nope, not there yet.

Tomorrow I have a good, one of my best friends from high school, he's actually getting married up in Rhode Island. And then straight from Rhode Island. Are you in a lot of weddings or just going to a lot of weddings? I am in a lot of weddings.

That's because you look so nice. That's literally the only reason. Do you catch the bullshit at the end? Do you like the next to be married?

Ha, ha, ha. Like, you know, when they throw the shit. I'm still not married yet, so I definitely don't catch that. So you don't?

I don't catch that. If it were to come in your direction, would you swat it down? No, because the athlete in me would come out, I would just be mossing everywhere. I would make it happen.

So if you catch it, so if you catch it this time around, what are you setting the date for your marriage? See, I'm not a date person. " Oh, okay. " How does today sound?

Today sound's pretty good, right? So there you go, you're good today? So I'm actually going to Serbia, also. Right.

Going to Serbia, which that's gonna be the... After Rhode Island? After Rhode Island, yeah. Is that like on the way?

Yeah, that was the only connecting flight I could get. Yeah, that was Serbia and Rhode Island. But yeah, so I ended up, I'm going to Rhode Island, then Rhode Island, taking a layover in Oslo, and then gonna be in Serbia. Then I would be in Serbia for 10 days, and then going over to Montenegro.

Where the hell is Montenegro? Montenegro is just east of Italy. It's just over the Adriatic Sea. It's a guy I had no idea where any of these places were.

Another wedding? No, no, no. Are you going by yourself? No, I'm going with somebody.

This was inevitable that this was going to be where this was going to go. Who are you going with? I was told I was not allowed to. Here we go.

If anybody else wanted to know about my personal life, that's awesome. I wasn't allowed to talk about it. It's awesome. I'm sure I'm not allowed to either.

It's because, you know, he's such a private individual. Gratitude is a little more on me now, less on him. What? Yeah.

How grateful are you now that we're friends? Super grateful. Well, I know because there was a time when this was a first blossoming relationship that when we were on the road that we would talk about it. Yes.

We've been involved in each other's lives. Yes. It's quite some time. Yeah.

And that's going to be, it's coming up on a year now, us being together. So when you propose in Montenegro. Is she on a TV show? She's not on a TV show.

That's okay. That's all right. But no, that's really what the trip is. We're going to Serbia to see some family, and then Montenegro, because that's where they always go.

Alright, does he sound okay? Because he's really far away from the mic still. Do you want me to get up in this? Yeah, he's got a very deep voice that travels with him.

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to project. Well, and I was going to ask, like, how is, I'm surprised you haven't asked me about my Serbian, because I was then going to ask you about your Spanish and see how that's going to do. 0. Are you learning how to speak Serbian?

I am. Is she Serbian? She is Serbian. Ah, fully.

Oh, you think she's going to go to Serbia for two minutes? She could have said family there, it could have just been a trip or something. No, no, so she's actually first generation American. Oh, wow.

So like her family came over from Serbia and everybody's hella Serbian. So they all speak Serbian at the house? They do, yeah. Okay, so, so funny, 'cause you know, like, so me growing up as a Cuban, and especially in Central Florida, like, there's always a ton of Hispanics everywhere.

And I would always feel bad for that one white guy that, oh, poor guy, doesn't know how to speak Spanish. No, that's me. Well, now it's also me, 'cause now I'm the only one in like a group of 40. No, the only Hispanic that doesn't speak Serbian.

Exactly. And so now that's my life and I've learned some phrases. I've learned some phrases. I apologize my Serbian's not very good.

That sounded really good. Right? See, that's all, but that's where you get them. It's the accent, if you get the accent.

But I lucked out because with the Spanish accent you can get away with it. Is he tapping his feet? I am. Jesus Christ.

He's like a rocket in his chair. Have a good time. Squeaking a little. He's nervous.

Why are you nervous? It's because you brought up the girlfriend. Yep. Yeah, he's nervous.

She's nervous. Okay, so we now have another listener, because she's going to, oh, you talked about me. Oh, no, she asked, she's like, oh, so when is this going to go up? Like, when do you guys start?

And I'm like, eh, it's not going to be on for like a while. I'll let her know, don't worry. Okay, good. Oh, good.

Next Tuesday. We should have her in without it. Yeah. So, how's the life going?

Wow, this is turning into such an interesting podcast. It's going to be an array of an audience. Yes. So, all right, now we can, I think that's good.

Now we got that out of the way. We got that out of the way? way yeah my spanish is terrible next come on one word arbo there you go that's all you guys need that's right the tree i love that now he knows what that means too yeah it's because it's on podcast that's the second time he was on so what do you want to talk about as far as ipcpr mr michael uh some of the releases that are coming out okay what are we excited about i'm looking forward to okay the uh lugio singulare okay you know anything about that i know a little bit about You know, my cigar rep, you know, we got a unique relationship. He's got a lot to do.

I love him, but he's very busy. He's a busy man. He's very busy. And now he's on the keto thing, so he doesn't have a lot of energy.

So I sent him a text of a bagel last time. It's six and three quarters by 52. So, I mean, Ellusion makes good stuff. They're out of the Casa Fernandez, Aganorsa, whatever the fuck, factory.

So they have good tobacco. The little dapper, the little proper is coming out, I heard. Yeah, it's very good. We're on the street.

Speaking of small cigars, the Guai Moro is coming out with a smaller cigar. It is. The Rothschild. A 4x50?

I'm excited about that one. I am telling. I am telling. You know, the rep for that one?

Super easy to deal with. Oh, is he going to have some at the show? I have not heard this. You've heard bad things?

Is he going to have some at the show? Maybe. Is he coming to the show? Esteban?

He should be. Yeah, he was there last time. Yeah, I heard that, you know, Wilmer from the factory might be going too. Oh.

Was that the guy that was in the last video? That Skip put up? Yes. So he's like, he's the number two in the factory.

I was like Esteban and he's like his right hand. Gotcha. What was that about, by the way? So like, I kind of circumvent, I go to Wilmer and you got Wilmer.

So they were talking about, uh, who made the better blend. Yeah, who made the better blend? Is it, um, Skip or Danny? Skip or Danny's, and Skip's was like fucking bar none in comparison.

You get like-- I understood that part, but I didn't-- The argument was adding a barber pole with a Connecticut shade, and it just doesn't make sense, and it wouldn't work, is what Danny is saying. Skip was saying. Right, Skip was saying, because Danny was making that. Sorry.

Oh, so many papers. Hey, did you look at the camera? Look at the camera. We should get a teleprompter for him.

Come on. You know what's crazy is like, see how the smoke kind of sits? This is where it gets all foggy in here. The video looks like shit.

Oh, almost time to take a break, but we've got another minute. We take breaks. We take breaks now? We take breaks.

We take breaks. Oh, I love that. Yes, yes. One more cigar.

Okay, go ahead. No, you're good. Keep going. All right, Crown Heads is coming out with a new show.

Coming out with a new cigar that I can't pronounce. You're going to have to say this for me. La Colision? Yeah, Colision.

Oh, Colision. Nice. But they're making it with Drew Estate. Coming out with four Vitolas.

What's the wrapper? Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Sumatra Binder and fillers from the Dominican and Nicaragua. Well, I was excited about it for a second.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I love Wes. So, um, you know, we'll obviously take that on.

Gotcha. And white hat, I'll tell you what, uh, let's go and take a break here. Okay. We'll take a break.

He's really excited about his break. We'll, uh, we'll be back in a moment. Break! Hey, this is Mike Tu from a Cigar Hustlers Podcast.

If you're enjoying the audio version, make sure you get over to YouTube to a Cigar Hustlers Podcast so you can see the madness in person. Okay, and we're back. Oh, and we're back. Did you see that eye contact?

That never happened. See, eye contact. So much eye contact, I love this. Love the eye contact with the camera.

Hey. Just like it. Let's see. Okay, the next cigar.

White Hat's coming out with a new cigar. Spencer Drake. Spencer Drake. That's right.

With the Nordic blonde beard. So there is probably a big press release coming because now he has a person that does the press releases for him. Oh, yeah? Yes.

Who's that? Is he still that good at ping pong? That was just one thing I remember last year. He wasn't good at ping pong.

The worst ping pong player. His wife fucking murdered him. Oh, I want to play here. He got so angry, he threw the ping pong paddle at her.

At his wife? It was awesome. Epic shit. Because you can see it from the Roma booth.

I hope to God that we're closer. Me too. I hope to God. Oh, I did like to see it.

I did look to see you were across from, but I don't remember it being white hat. Hmm. Hopefully he's in the vicinity. Yeah.

Anyway, he's coming out with a Connecticut. It's called the Illegal? I-L-E-G-A-L? Illegal.

Illegal. Does that mean illegal? Yes. Huh.

There you go. We gotta have Matt here all the time. So, you know. See, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven different cigars in that line.

See, like, we need your son here for these things. I know, to butcher the names. Oh, you know what, he's coming the 1st through the 4th of July, we'll have to have something. He can butcher the names of the cigars from the show.

There you go. The best cigars from the show? Yeah, I mean, unfortunately I won't be here, so. Oh, the 1st through the 4th?

I come in, fly back in on the 3rd. Oh, that's right, yeah, I come back on Sunday night. I'm gonna miss the big Roma Craft party. This is the 30th, right?

Yeah, it's Sunday night. They're just doing the one thing on Sunday night. Oh, I thought it was Saturday. I thought it was, too, but then I double-checked and it's Sunday.

Okay. Southern Draw is coming out with a new cigar. Southern Draw. For the Jacob's Ladder line.

Pennsylvania Broadleaf Wrapper, an American Binder, three different Lajeros from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Very nice. And then, oh, look at this, the Postana line. Oh, you saved it for last.

A loose-striped edition. Look at you, you slid that in. In a form of a cigar called the Wojtek. The Wojtek.

Damn it. Wojtek. V sounds like a V. Yeah, the Wojtek.

The Warbear. 500 boxes, 21 cigars a box. Yep. Suggested retail is $12 a cigar.

It is. Wow, look at you. I didn't tell you any of that shit. I do my research.

That's nice. That's very nice, yeah. 500 boxes. You want to say anything else about it?

It's really fucking good. It is good. It's really fucking good. I think I still have one left.

I'm going to... Matt Hunt would know. I would not know. When we had some...

You haven't had one? Oh, I walked in, everybody was smoking one, and I like to hold on to my pride, and I don't like to ask for a cigar. See, and here is a perfect example of a closed mouth not getting fed. I'm fine with that.

I'm okay with that. " You've mentioned it like eight or nine times at this point, so I don't think you're fine with it. I'm saying like, you're not true. " I want to try that.

I want to try that. And I'll be like, here you go, dude. But now I have something, I'll be like, hey, maybe the next one you'll get. You know?

It depends on the person with me if I'll ask it out. Like, those guys I would ask, there's some other people with it, but then there's some people I don't know well enough. See, I feel like it's the other way. For me, it's the other way.

Where if I don't know the person, I'll be like, oh yeah, let me get one. Circling back, what's wrong with this now? See, for me, it's a little aggressive. I think it's fucking really good.

Hell yeah. I thought it was supposed to be strong. This is like a perfect, it's like a perfect size for me. I love this size.

I'm walking to University City Walk, just fucking hammer this shit out. 4x44s. Boom. That and the rough, the security guard roughs you up over by the gate.

Luis. Luis. Yeah, Luis. Yeah, Luis.

Get it right. Luis. Goddamn it. Luis.

And then finally, I think this is the last one. Yes, it is. Roma Craft is coming out with a Cameroon cigar named the Baca. Yes, it's a whole new line.

Yeah. Yes, the Baca. I love a little star on that secondary. The Baca Bantu, the Baca Otabenga, Otabenga, Otabenga, Baca Poki, Paki.

You're doing great. Keep going. The confidence behind these names. Keep going.

Baca Asa... I can't even get that one. What's that one, Hunt? It's gonna be...

Acaphalus? See? He can't even say it, and he's... Acaphalus?

He's Hispanic. I have no idea. I don't think these are Hispanic. I don't think these are Hispanic.

That's awesome. It's probably Baca language. And then the last one is my favorite because it's in English, the hunter-gatherer. The hunter-gatherer.

The hunter-gatherer. But it's a 6x54. Ooh, a little Toro action. A little Toro.

Very nice. Love that. Those are the ones that look at the camera one more time. We'll have a look at the camera minutes is what we'll put in.

Is there anything you're looking forward to? To show? Anything? Well, you're not walking the show anymore.

You're just working the booth. No. Yeah. That's been some time now that you haven't been walking the show.

Yeah. In that booth, it's just fucking chaos, it's very busy, now normally like the last day you get a little bit of downtime, so there's a couple of places, a couple of guys I need to hit, I'll hit Wes, hit Crown Heads, I gotta hit Fuente, because usually they do like a deal, so you get some special stuff, that Roma booth is no joke, yep, it's busy, that's unbelievable, it's very very busy, so one year they had me work the booth, But I must not have done well, 'cause I was never asked back, so. I can't answer that, I can't respond to that in any way, fashion, shape, or form, fashion Sandinista. Sandinistas.

So, it looks like we're, I've heard rumors that we're possibly moving back upstairs. Yes, I've heard that same rumor. I won't be told why, but I've been told that we need to vacate the premises. I'm pretty happy that I made it to at least one show before I went back upstairs.

This is my first time down here. It's quite the lair. There is a small matter that might keep us from doing it. Yeah?

Your wife has to give up her desk. Yeah, I'm into that to her. Oh, did you? Yeah.

But then she gets to be on the show again, so I mean, it's kind of a trade-off. It's true. Yeah. We'll have to have a second camera so we can cut to her.

That's amazing. Dude, we need like three more fucking cameras. " Oh, wow. So, that's a big deal if he's wanting to add more cameras.

And I'm about to say, wow, Greg, the secret producer. You know, here's the thing, is he's got to talk you up because he knows that you fucking worked your ass off doing all this shit, and now you gotta take it all fucking down and put it back up somewhere else, so he's like, you know. It's okay, until he sees the room with all the holes in the wall where I stapled them. It doesn't matter, the fucking bathroom doesn't work.

He didn't even know that. I go, oh yeah, now I have a bathroom. We have one plug in this room. One.

Yeah, that was the big selling point, I go, oh, more plugs. That's why that cord runs everywhere. Yeah, the only one worked, and there's another cord over there, the one over there. So what's been your favorite IPCPR memory?

Ooh, so many questions. I like it. Keep smoothing away from that microphone. Hey guys, what's your favorite IPCPR memory?

Ooh, my favorite IPCPR memory. Memories. Like the corners of my mind. You know, I think that for me...

I gotta put that in. That's gonna be nicer. Wow, that's a good question. It's like I'm running a few things through my head.

And like, the first time walking in there was crazy. It was just so much, right? And now going in, it's not so much. " Like, you're going to, you know, I'll sign this contract if you're going to make an exception, if there are no exceptions to other retailers.

And he said, I can't tell you that. And I said, okay. Well, if you have exceptions and make me your exception, he said, no, I really think you should sign the contract. I said, okay, I'm not buying anything.

That's probably the best memory I've had at IPCPR because it was just a great, hey, you know what, fuck you too. Yeah. So that was probably my best memory at IPCPR. I mean, there are a lot of epic shit that happens.

I mean, we had a dude pass out at the Roma party, which was awesome. You know, that one kind of sticks in my head. The first year from sales, from a sales aspect, was hard. You know, now you have the right mindset going into it, because it takes a lot out of you.

You know, it's a full gig for those four days, you know. Well, you know, I see, like, for me, like, in the booth, it's almost when we go on the road, right, so you have, we're gonna hit seven accounts in a day, right? Right. So, when you're trying to hit those seven accounts, you at least have those 20, 30 minutes in the car where you're like, okay, Matt, don't talk to me.

Just like, you have that, you know what I mean? Just give me a minute to decompress. Whereas, like, at the show, it's appointment after appointment. " Just kind of build a slight rapport so that you don't feel neglected because at a booth like Roman Craft where it's just like people, people, people, people, people, it's a full-time gig, it's not like getting in your car, resting, going back out and showing your face, it's, oh, next person, you're ready, like getting cut off and then having to restart.

Yeah, and like the hardest part for the first trip for me as a sales was my brother and I shared a room and then my father had questions at the end of the day, I'm like, yo, leave me the fuck. I'm just alone. Like, I'm laying in bed. Hey, so do you think that...

I'm like, I think nothing at this current moment. I think that I'm trying to fucking go to sleep. The year I went was the last year you guys shared a room. Yeah.

I think so. Because you came to blows on the floor one day. Yeah. We're not allowed to talk about that.

Skip brought up during his podcast. Yeah. Yeah. That's Skip's favorite moment from the episode.

That wouldn't be my favorite moment. It's not a moment that I'm necessarily proud of. One of my favorite moments has to be last year when Rick Ross just-- Oh, you know what? I don't know how that just slipped in mind.

That was a great moment. I didn't even think about that. I don't really post a lot on my personal Instagram, but you better believe, like, Papito Gordito would be that on my Instagram. " Yeah, I mean, come on, how are you gonna mess up on that?

Yeah, that was pretty epic. That's pretty sweet. That was pretty epic, no doubt. But I knew that if there was going to be a booth that they would come to, of course, they'd come to the one that's blaring his music.

Blaring Rick Ross. Yeah, that's true. The music in the room of his booth is bar none. Big fan of that.

Bar none. Bar none. Bar none. Have you had any other celebrities?

Oh, you got more questions? Yeah, of course I always have more questions. I'm interested in you guys. He's interviewing us.

Yeah, isn't that what we do? So go ahead. He is, you're right. You've ridden in a car with him, as I have, that's all.

Yeah, but normally, you know, I ignore the first few questions. But now he knows that he's got me because of the mic and the camera. That's right. Look at the camera.

Look at the camera. Look at the camera. So now I'm going to have to be like... Yeah, exactly.

Advos. Look at all these Advos. Have there ever been any other celebrities? I mean Shorty.

He's there all the time. Carmelone. Carmelone. Oh, you know what?

Ray Lewis. Yeah, Ray Lewis was there. David Ortiz. Yeah.

You know, Esteban was excited to meet him one year. So we went to the line and we met him because he's a Dominican, you know? Oh yeah. So.

I figured that would be a guy for you too because being a Boston guy. Yeah, but I'm not a big baseball guy. Touché. You know what I mean?

That makes sense. So I'm not gonna fucking own it. I love you! Right.

I'm never gonna watch any of your games ever. Yeah, if you guys are in the world, you're just never gonna watch. I mean, the playoffs are going on, NBA, you know, we got the finals. So I'll watch that right now.

Yeah. NHL. NHL's pretty good right now. Bruins in St.

Louis, huh? That's really good. Are you watching both? The St.

Louis singing notes. Yep. Yeah, I'm watching both. Nice.

Who are you rooting for in both? Well, Boston, you know, the Bruins, and Toronto. I want David to slay Goliath. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. I mean, those first two games were very good games. I'm going to stick that microphone right in your mouth. Sorry.

Oh, so aggressive. So aggressive. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ.

I told you I wanted to be able to lounge and bring it towards me. You told me I was out of the frame. This is tight down here. This is tight.

I can't move. It's getting hot. See, no, I'm going Toronto. Yeah, okay.

I'd like to see... You'd like to see them win, but who do you think is going to win? Toronto. Hmm.

If Katie doesn't come back, and now Leonard's hurt. Kawhi Leonard's hurt? No, what's that? No, you're talking about Klay Thompson?

Thank you. Yeah, but he's fine. He'll be back. We're good.

Oh, you're a big Golden State guy. I'm not a big Golden State guy, but I do appreciate what they got, and I think it's terrible when everybody else can create these dream teams, but God forbid, for whatever reason, everybody hates this one. I don't hate them. I don't hate them.

I'm not saying you particularly, I'm saying people. I have no hatred towards the team. I know that they are the power team, right? Yeah.

And they have been for several years. Yeah. So I'm the little guy in the industry. It can also be that I don't love the idea that Drake is like...

Oh, I love it! I love it! You know, it was bullshit! Hold on, if you have the tattoo of the two star players from the other team, and you cover it up with a sweatband, get out of here.

You know what, I like, I enjoy the entertainment of the Drake. I'm not saying the entertainment, but it's like, he's a fan of everybody. It's all good. It's all good.

They didn't really talk, they didn't really post him last show, last game. Well, it's probably because they ain't got a talking to him. I'll tell you what, they don't post them next one, I'm not watching for the rest of them, that's it, I'm putting my foot down. Screw it.

There's no Aubrey, there's no Mikey. That's how it goes. That's how it goes. Those are the rules.

Mike, what about you man, you've been quiet over here. I'm not a big sports guy. But I am rooting for the Blues, it's my wife's hometown team. Oh.

The St. Louis singing notes. Singing notes. It's okay.

Okay. Well, I mean, that's all I really have. I got a show update. Because we are big in some other countries now, so there's a new tab that you can click on our demographic page.

Ooh. On Podbean? Yes, on Podbean. Okay.

We're big in Canada, so they've broken down Canada for us. Oh, geez, and imagine now, you got the Maple Leaf himself over there. Here we go, go Toronto! Let's go Toronto!

Go Toronto, that's right. Let's see, Ontario-- Come on, they're called the Raptors, for God's sakes, that's awesome! We're big in Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, Manitoba, and British Columbia. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Let's get an express. Epic.

168 downloads in Ontario. Wow. I love that. Out of nowhere.

And now, Australia also. Yeah? It's not just the one person anymore. Oh.

It's no longer just a cigar jukebox? You told a guy. Nope. Nope.

Well, nobody's listening to every show, because we only have a total of 11 downloads in the country. Hey, but, you know, progress is still. But we'll see, eight downloads in Queensland, two in New South Wales, and one in the Australian capital. Do you guys got stickers?

I'll put them up everywhere in Serbia. We have stickers. We have stickers. I'm gonna put them up everywhere.

Perfect. Can't wait. So, interesting, it's the second densest population of smokers. Granted, they're cigarette smokers, but we can change them.

Oh. Yeah, you know, you got a good platform to work off of. Take a bunch of these, they're about the size of a cigarette. Yeah, exactly.

Hey, it's like a cigarette. Just don't inhale it. Yeah, just don't inhale it. Don't inhale, don't inhale.

It's not minty. We still have no listeners in Wyoming. That's the only state now we have not conquered is Wyoming. We have not conquered Wyoming.

No listeners in Wyoming. Does anybody live in Wyoming? Somebody does, somewhere, I'm guessing, somebody has to, and only one in Vermont. Hey, God bless you, Vermont.

You would think that those would be dense podcast listening audiences. What else are they doing over there? That's right, what else are they doing? Wow, we're trying to get them as listeners, and here you are just poo-pooing them.

I'm not poo-pooing, I'm saying, come on, there's quality out there. One listener in the Bahamas now? Ooh. On vacation, they're getting you.

One listener in Costa Rica. Oh, really? Yes. Nice.

We are quite the international podcast. I like it. It's impressive. How do you guys push the international agenda?

I don't know. Well, we're going to have you come in and learn different languages. Yeah, just me standing in front of the screen, doing the entire transcript in those languages. Oh, that'd be nice.

That'd be cool. That'd be nice. We're going to fly you to different locations, and you're going to hold the sign at the plane. And by flying you, we will drive you to the airport.

Yeah. Perfect. Yeah, perfect. Florida's still our biggest state, obviously.

Right. And then followed by California, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York. Those are all major cigar industry spots. Yeah, exactly.

Makes sense. Let's see, on YouTube now, we have 51 subscribers on YouTube. Hey! The biggest show, guess what the biggest show is on YouTube?

What's that? I mean, there's only been, this will be the fifth one, I think? If that, yeah. Yeah.

No, you gotta guess. I said guess. Skip Martin. He wasn't on there.

He didn't do video. We went to video right after him. The video right after him. Oh, then it would be, I would think it would be Coop.

Yeah, Coop. Coop, I would think. John Oliva. John Oliva, really?

I thought for sure Coop would be able to bring in some weight. Well, that's guest wise. The opening video when it was just me and you, that's got the most downloads. Oh, very nice.

But that would be the first one. So that's the one people who watched it. You know what's funny is like I looked at some of the other people that do review stuff on YouTube and they have like a lot of viewers and stuff. Yeah.

They fucking had to have bought them. It seems like it's bullshit because like I listened to him, I've listened to a couple of them for a few minutes. I'm like, there's no good content, you're talking about yourself and how great you are, but like, you haven't done anything in the cigar industry. I don't know how, I don't know, can you buy followers?

I'm sure you can. I mean, I guess there's gotta be just like Instagram. There's gotta be, yeah. Yeah, there's a warehouse of people with fucking phones.

Like 10,000 some people. Oh yeah, that shit exists. Then you watch the videos, you're going, well, what is this? But who wants that?

I'd rather have 50 real subscribers than 1,000 fake bullshit... Well, see, to me, if we have 50 subscribers, we should have at least 50 views. Well, maybe. Because why subscribe if you're not going to watch it?

Oh, maybe you can't watch it every time. Yeah, I guess. You know, I know that Nickstagram is catching up. He was just listening to the Caldwell one the other day.

Oh, wow, that does go back a little bit. He's catching up on those. Yeah. And then he's like, you know, and then we were talking about onesies that that was the onesie conversation.

He's like, oh, I never got onesies. I'm like, oh, you don't order anymore for me. The video went off. We didn't go 20 minutes again.

Great. There was some good content. Another break. Nope.

You won't come back on. What if we filled up the card? That's okay. We still have the audio.

That's why we don't have fucking consistent YouTube. This is why we don't use YouTube for people, because we're still -- This guy has great content, but I don't know where it's at. It just shuts off. Talk about a cliffhanger.

That is -- Wow. That's right. Good job. Hey, can I come in one time with like a list of questions?

Certainly. I think that would be fun. We can have you back on. Why didn't you come in today with a list of questions?

Because I didn't want to -- Well, we can take another break and he can do questions. I can do that. I can write some -- Take a break and take a look at the camera. Okay, we're going to take another break now.

All right, you're right. Go ahead. Be sure to follow the show on Instagram @acigarhustlerspodcast, or you can follow Mikey @cigarhustler and Mike2 @fcc_mike. Can I look at the camera?

Okay. So, do you have questions? I have one question. Okay.

Since, like, now you guys are big YouTube sensations... We're kind of a big deal. Yes. Go on.

If you ever had the opportunity to interview anybody, now that, since you guys are such seasoned veterans in the journalism game, who would you want to interview? And we got who we wanted. I'm not saying in the cigar industry. Oh, like interview?

Could they be dead? Yeah, just like who do you think like you'd want to spend time smoking to have the opportunity? I don't know about smoking, but I'm a big Robin Williams and Don Rickles fan. Well, okay.

They're both dead. No, no, he said it's okay. I mean, you know, my list is: The Rock. Tom Hardy.

Why Tom Hardy? He's a cigar guy. He's an actor. He's fucking cool.

Yeah. I think he'd be super badass. Industry-wise, I'd like to get Matt Booth. Yeah?

That's the next-- Boofy baby? Boofy baby. Hey, now that Danny's such good friends with him. I think that we could just call Robert and we can get them both up here again.

Oh, that'd be good to have them both at the same time. Yeah. We wouldn't even have to talk. Yeah.

Put one there and one over here. Well, at that point, we'll be out of this room. Yeah. Bye, guys.

Well, it was still going to have the same setup. You know, the one good thing about up there is better filtration, better air. Yeah, that's true. So, is that your only question, Matt?

Well, I mean, I thought that would be interesting, because that's, like, so, I always think about, like, other cigar smokers. What's up? None. There's a skepticism in your face.

Go ahead. Well, no, just because I know that you guys know that I'm a big Nat King Cole guy. Yeah. I always think that would be such an interesting...

He's dead, too. He is dead. But he was not a cigar smoker, per se, but a cigarette smoker. But I think that he had a real interesting life.

Taquito, Taquito. Cachito? But it's okay. Taquito's, Cachitos, same thing.

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay guy? Is that Nat King Cole? Otis Redding? Otis Redding.

That would be another one. I think it would be great. I think it would be awesome, even like Jay-Z, now him becoming the first hip-hop billionaire, I think that would be an interesting guy to talk to, both business and industry-wise. Gary V would be cool.

Gary V would be cool. Talk about not having to say much. That guy would run it. Well, we would start talking and he'd cut us off.

Exactly, exactly. And he's like, you have a million views. We haven't even finished yet. That's where we're at.

Yeah, I think that'd be cool. You know who I did not know were big buddies was? Him and Nick Jonas, who is a big cigar guy. Really?

Yes, it is. Ah, so that's our way to him. That's the segue. That's the segue.

We know Nick Jonas. We've got to find Nick Jonas. I know. One of the Jonas Brothers?

A. What's he smoke? He does mostly Cubans. Everything I've seen.

Well, and you know what's funny? The one thing that I've seen that hasn't been Cuban was a Daniel Marshall, which I was... Really? Yeah.

Okay. Well, and you know that Jay-Z does the... Jay-Z does the whole... He was super involved with the Cohiba, right?

Yeah, he did the Commodore. That's what it was, Commodore. Yeah, so I just think that's an interesting question to people outside of our industry who you'd want to talk to. Yeah.

Do you think there's anybody you could get into cigar smoking? Like I could convince them to become a cigar smoker? Yeah. I mean, I think I've done that a lot.

Yeah. You know, I think I've turned people that-- I think that this industry is, you know, a lot of people are misinformed about it. And when you get your hands on somebody who's open-minded, they become cigar smokers. Somebody was just asking you, either the last event or the two before that, there was a woman who was asking you, 'cause she thought they were very bad for you.

Maybe she was talking to Greg. Yeah, it wasn't talking to me. It was Greg. Does somebody feel like that's the biggest obstacle?

Everybody thinks you inhale cigars. Well, I think that there's a stigma in this industry, and we have to work on fixing that. See, for me, say for younger generations and stuff, I feel like it's not so much the health side of it. For me, with young people, it's more the stigma, the same thing that would be coming from, say, wine, where they see it as a pretentious thing, or they see it as an intimidating thing, whereas, which I can understand, But I think it's when you give somebody that opportunity and you approach them as like, this ain't no thing, like it's just something that you enjoy, and it's about the camaraderie, it's about like appreciating kind of the time that you have to smoke together, as opposed to, oh, this has this tobacco, and it has that tobacco, and it's been aged this long.

It's like something that it's more, yeah, do you know what I mean, it's just, but it's just something, but it's just something that's a nice thing, and I think that that's, the way I've gotten a lot of people to try cigars and things like that, especially at different events, is, like, you can do whatever you want, but it's just something that's a nice thing, and I think that that's, the way I've gotten a lot of people to try cigars and things like that, especially at different events, is, like, you can do whatever you want. You can smoke it the way you want to. You can cut it in half. You can do whatever.

It's more about the camaraderie and having the moment of like, oh, we're going to have an hour to be able to just be in the moment. And having a cigar with Nat King Cole. Exactly. Right.

Brad Wraith was just saying that the other day on some show he was on. I watched it for a minute because he's my friend. You want to have a cigar with Nat King Cole? No, no, no.

He said, somebody asked him what cigar, if he could smoke any cigar, what would it be? And he said, I don't really like cigars. It's what you do while you're having it is what I like the most. Well, I like cigars.

I do like cigars. And I like people. Well, you don't like people. Oh, no, Greg doesn't like people.

Yeah, Greg doesn't like people. Greg doesn't like people. Everybody look at the camera. This is nice.

This is nice. It's such a natural, oh. There it is. There it is.

That's Earl, right? Earl? Earl. Oh, we got a name for it.

Yeah, Earl. Earl the camera. Earl. Works kind of, well, gets lonely down here.

Yeah, it probably shuts it off every once in a while. There you go. Well, our show has always been just us hanging out talking. I mean, we're not doing a news show where we're looking at the camera.

Right. That's what people have said, they feel like they're sitting in a room with us when we're just bullshitting. Yeah, just bullshitting around. Well, it's actually been some of my favorite times, especially being a younger person in the industry and, like, having some opportunities to be at certain tables and stuff.

That's the most fun for me. I think that's fascinating to be able to just sit in a room and see what bigger guys in the industry and whatnot are talking about and kind of hear their stories. That's what I like about the Circle Bar at the show. Yeah.

You know what would be cool to get on? Sean Coleman. Who's Sean Coleman? I think it's Coleman.

You're talking about the bodybuilder? No. He now used to work at Tenderbox. I know what you're talking about.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. The big guy. Man, I hope I didn't fuck up his last name. But his name's Sean.

Okay. I love him to pieces. And he used to work at Tenderbox in Baltimore. Hmm.

And now he's part of the Romacraft squad. Oh, hell yeah. And he's putting in work. He's a big guy.

He's a big dude. He's pretty awesome. Like, he'd be cool to get on. Because he's like a really humble guy.

Mm-hmm. Well, there are only two Romacrafts we have not had on to. So we have not had on. Yep, Sean Coleman, didn't bug it up.

Well, three. Woo! There you go. So.

So that means he's in Texas now, yeah? Yep. Ooh, making that move. Yeah.

We should take the show there and do a live thing from-- Headquarters? Rebar just did that. Oh, never mind. Well, they put one guy there.

Not the same. Not the same. Not the same. All right.

It's not two mics. But it has been done quite a few times, though. So, yeah. I feel like this kind of wraps it up.

It's kind of peering out. I'm so glad I went and fixed the camera for the next, for the extra three minutes. Yeah. I thought it was good.

It's worth it. These are my favorite three minutes. Favorite three minutes? Favorite.

Good. Yeah, the best ones. We need an intro in there. Oh, I guess now when you go, would you like to introduce yourself?

I guess that could be the start of the show. Yeah. Well, there you go. It flows.

It flows. Good night. All right. Well, hey.

Everybody look at the camera again. Hey. Everybody wave. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for listening. Yes. It's been a pleasure. Tell your friends about us.

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FCC underscore Mike. Thank you. And would you like to give yours? At FQ Cigars.

There you go. Now I want to give you a personal one. You want to give your cell phone number up? Cell phone number?

Yeah. Girlfriend's name? I've done that. I've given my cell phone up.

Yeah? On Kiss My Ash. Yeah. Nobody called.

We can do that show if you want to. Guys, call Mike. Put the can down. I've got to fill my thing.

I guess I shouldn't have filled it. Off camera. Whatever. This is what it is.

Glad you got the film. This episode also brought to you by Monster. Segway and Monster Energy Drinks. Drink your monster before you ride the segue.

Done. Done? Done? Anything else, Matt?

I'm great, thank you. Well, thank you for coming on again. It was a pleasure. Next time, bring a list of questions with you?

Absolutely. Yep. All right. See you next Tuesday.

Next Tuesday. All right. Boom. Bye.

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Show Notes

This week we have back on one of our favorite guest Mr. Matthew Hunt from FQ Cigars.  We get all caught up on his business events as well as his personal life!  No question to personal when it come to Mr. Hunt!

We also talk about the IPCPR releases we are looking forward to and some Industry News!

An episode you certainly don't want to miss!!

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