Episodes

  • Drew Estate 20 Acre Farm FSG (feat. Gary Diehl)

    Drew Estate 20 Acre Farm FSG (feat. Gary Diehl)
    Jan 21 2026
    We welcome friend-of-the-show Gary Diehl and light up the Drew Estate 20 Acre Farm FSG — a Florida Sun Grown cigar with a lot more personality than expected. Pepper-forward up front with fruity, nougaty notes underneath, a mellowing middle, and a cedar-leaning finish that stays interesting all the way down. Along the way: Corona Cigar sourcing stories, Florida-grown tobacco history, once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and a full Hot Box interrogation of Gary.
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    47 mins
  • La Gloria Cubana Serie R Maduro

    La Gloria Cubana Serie R Maduro
    Jan 14 2026
    We go back to a “classic” and find out it is way punchier than memory gave it credit for. La Gloria Cubana Serie R Maduro brings oily wrapper vibes, steady pepper, espresso, and a late-game sweetness that redeems the middle. Also featured: winter garage problems, retrohale pepper sensors, and Patrick’s cigar briefly trying to self-destruct before settling down and behaving.
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    53 mins
  • Crowned Heads Mil Dias Maduro Sublime

    Crowned Heads Mil Dias Maduro Sublime
    Dec 31 2025
    We light up the Crowned Heads Mil Dias Maduro Sublime and immediately start arguing with our own taste buds: honeyed cold draw, granola sweetness, a weird little raspberry moment, and an herbal/earthy backbone that keeps shifting. Then we zoom out and do what we do best—turn “a thousand days” into a full-on life audit: kids aging in dog years, poker-night nostalgia, and why the humidor is basically a time machine with ash.
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    45 mins
  • Florida Man Miami

    Florida Man Miami
    Dec 17 2025
    We light up Raymond Page’s Florida Man Miami, a limited run that somehow tastes exactly like its name: cedar, citrus, and a little chaos. Along the way we define “Florida Man,” read real headlines, debate underwear-in-the-window policy, and confess our most impulsive decisions—including a truly cursed teen car purchase.
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    47 mins
  • Cuba Aliados Cabinet Edition – with Pete Cooper

    Cuba Aliados Cabinet Edition – with Pete Cooper
    Dec 3 2025
    We fire up the Cuba Aliados Cabinet Edition by E.P. Carrillo with guest Pete Cooper of Goldberry Coffee. Sweetness, toast, graham, and steady retrohale spice pair with a conversation on third-wave coffee, roasting philosophy, the death of “coffee snobbery,” and teaching people to taste with curiosity instead of insecurity.
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    36 mins
  • Megilla Ltd. Edition Shofar

    Megilla Ltd. Edition Shofar
    Nov 26 2025
    We fire up the Megilla Ltd. Edition Shofar—a four-wrapper barber pole fever dream from Raymond Page—and use its twists and turns as a backdrop for talking through the stages of parenting. Grassy barnyard, sweet cocoa and building pepper ride alongside dad stories about Pearl Jam moments, border collie parenting, cross-country finish lines, and the coaches, friends, and “uncles” who help raise our kids.
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    46 mins
  • E.P. Carrillo Black Swan

    E.P. Carrillo Black Swan
    Nov 12 2025
    The third stop in our Black Swan mini-series: E.P. Carrillo’s take. Cocoa powder sweetness, pepper, and a creamy finish frame a long garage-night ramble on cuts, humidors, dry-boxing, and why Toro > Robusto (sometimes). Final third turns chocolatey; panel lands around a 7–8 overall.
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    46 mins
  • J.C. Newman Bricktoberfest

    J.C. Newman Bricktoberfest
    Oct 28 2025
    We light up the Bricktoberfest Churchill with guest Drew Newman of J.C. Newman Cigars—pairing it with Oktoberfest beer, warm spice, and plenty of laughter. Expect rich brick-house flavor, Tampa history, and family stories as we toast the only traditional cigar factory still rolling in the U.S.
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    43 mins