William Cooper is a Owner of Indian Trail Media LLC, and the founder of the Cigar Coop brand, the cigar industry's true 365 a year periodical. He is also the host of the Cigar Coop Prime Time Show, Cigar Coop Prime Time Special Edition, and Prime Time Jukebox.
Prime Time Jukebox Episode 56 is our annual Christmas and Holiday Music edition. Before you start hurling Christmas ornaments at us, yes we are recording our annual Christmas & Holiday Music Show this weekend to air on Monday 11/15. The reason we are doing it early is so folks have ample time to enjoy the […]
I’m very impressed with what Protocol Cigar has accomplished in the past six and a half years. The company has put together a portfolio of eleven regular production blends and has released over twenty limited edition cigars. One thing that Protocol has incorporated into its business model is producing cigars for online communities. In the […]
Spare Notes is a new series on Smokin Tabacco that I am collaborating on with Matthew Tabacco. It’s a platform where Matt and I can talk about topics and subjects that we haven’t covered on our shows in an agile, free-form open discussion forum. This we, we dive into what happened while we were away […]
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. On November 6, 2021 actor Vincent Pastore, best known for his role as “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on The […]
For Episode 208, we proudly welcomed back Kevin Schweitzer, owner of Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group. Kevin was in the Perdomo Cigar Studio LIVE – our first in-person guest in almost two years. In the past few years, Kevin has been building up his portfolio of cigars, including two special limited edition cigars this year. We […]
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 and put many companies on lockdown, Micallef was one of the first companies to pivot and start delivering media content. This allowed Micallef to continue to remain engaged with its very strong Ambassador community. Part of this initiative was a program called “Off the Record” where they would […]
In what has now become somewhat of a tradition on Special Edition, we did a cigar show while the 2021 Election Results came in. There are four races we kept an eye on: New Jersey Gubernatorial Race, Virginia Gubernatorial Race, the New York City Mayoral Race, and Bobby Valentine’s quest to become Mayor of Stamford, […]
On Episode 54 of Prime Time Jukebox, we continue our recap of the Rolling Stone’s recent refresh of their Top 500 songs of all time. This segment will cover songs 450 to 401 and Dave and Coop will go through some of their favorites that made the list, and assess how fairly these favorites were […]
ACE Prime co-founder Luciano Meirelles has announced a new partnership with wine producer Mas Igneus. The partnership will include the release of The Dreamer wine along with three new sizes of Luciano The Dreamer. The idea of these projects was to deliver a wine that could complement the flavors of Luciano The Dreamer. These projects […]
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]