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.
Protocol Cigars has announced its second shop exclusive cigar for 2021. The cigar is called The Law, and it will be an annual limited edition for Omertà Cigar Company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In a press release announcing The Law, Protocol Cigars stated “Like every shop exclusive cigar we try to capture the spirit of […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are re-scoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
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 May 22nd Matt Booth, Room101 Cigars was our special guest. This is an episode I broadcasted from […]
Luciano Meirelles, co-owner of ACE Prime Cigars makes his return to the Prime Time Show. Luciano is back from TPE 21 and getting ready for the PCA Trade Show. At the same time, things have been quite busy with ACE Prime and we’ll get the scoop from Luciano himself. Plus, we will have our Live […]
The Smokin Tabacco Show celebrated its one year anniversary on April 28th. I had the honor of being a featured guest with the one and only Matt Booth on this milestone show. The show also wrapped up the Smokin Tabacco Fundraiser in support for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. The fundraiser raised over $7,000.00. Image/Video Credit: […]
On May 16, 2017, we did the first Prime Time Special Edition. Now just about four years later, we have reached the 100th Special Edition Show. Tonight Coop and Bear have two very special guests to celebrate the occasion – Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars and the newest contributor to the Cigar Coop team, Erron […]
Frank Sinatra is the winner of the 2021 Battle of the Bands and on Episode 38, the Chairman of the Board takes a victory lap celebrating his victory with an episode dedicated to him. We will look at Frank’s life and career and share some of our favorite Sinatra music. We will also do a […]
On Special Edition 99, the one and only Nick Perdomo, President of Perdomo Cigars, is back. There are a lot of exciting things going on at Perdomo and we’ll catch up on these things with Nick. Following the interview with Nick, Bear and Coop look back at some of the decade’s most successful products (and […]
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 May 15th Al Micallef, Founder of Micallef Cigars was our special guest. Catch the full show below: […]
Tonight we welcome as our special guest iconic screen actor Armand Assante. Armand’s not just a fan of cigars, he’s also in the cigar business. Tonight we’ll chronicle Armand’s journey as both a cigar enthusiast and a cigar brand owner. We’ll also get some insights into the next project he is tackling in the world […]