The cigar industry is wrapping up its “Cigar of the Year” list season. On this installment of Special Edition, Coop and Bear take a look at each other’s Top 10 cigars and compare and contrast. In addition Coop and Bear will reflect on how the CA Top 25 turned out and touch on some […]
The Prime Time Awards are voted on by each of the three members of the Prime Time Podcasts. The awards look at the impact on the cigar industry. Today, we unveil our choice for 2020 Person of the Year. This award looks at the individual who for better or worse had the most significant contributions to the cigar […]
On Episode 28, Dave and Coop challenge either other on the taste and music and attempt to take each other out of their comfort zones. Each has provided the other a list of artists that are good candidates to take the other out of the comfort zone. Dave and Coop each selected two artists, […]
Just prior to the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Oscar Valladares and Company introduced a new line in its portfolio known as Super Fly. The Super Fly had three distinct characteristics to it: 1) It featured eye-catching retro-packaging (something the company is known for); 2) it had what the company says was its strongest blend to […]
This past week because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held virtually. It was announced late last year that CES, one of the largest conventions usually held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, was instead going to be completely virtual for 2021. This convention is not alone, the city of Las […]
On January 1, 2021 I had the opportunity to guest on Cigar Dojo’s Smoke Night Live New Year’s Special with Terence Reilly of Aganorsa Leaf and Jack Heyer of Drew Estate. It’s always a treat to be on Smoke Night Live and had a lot of fun doing this show with Eric and Jordan Guttormson. […]
Each week, I have the opportunity to produce the news segment for KMA Talk Radio. On the Cigar Coop “blog,” we will now post replays of the shows the week following the date the show is aired. Last week following his announcement of forming Ferio Tego, Michael Herklots was the special guest. Catch the full […]
The Smokin Tabacco Show is one of the newer podcasts to emerge on the scene in 2020. Hosted by Matthew Tabacco, Nicole Fantasia, Jonathan Carney, and Orlando Perez, the show features cigar industry personalities, cigar news, sports, and even soap reviews! On January 6th, I had the honor of being their first guest for 2021. […]
It’s the first episode of 2021 for the Prime Time Show, and tonight for Episode 169 we welcome the one and only James Brown of Oveja Negra Brands back tot the show. The past two years have continued to be some amazing years for Brown, his factory, and his brands and tonight we’ll catch up […]
On Episode 27 of Prime Time Jukebox we reflect back on the year 2020 on two things we talk about on the show each week – music and cigars! For this episode we are joined by Aaron Loomis, Seth Geise, and John McTavish from Developing Palates and Eric Guttormson of Cigar Dojo. We will talk […]
