For Episode 102, we bring to you another Prime Time Industry Panel discussion! This time we welcome Miguel Schoedel of Crowned Heads Cigars and Jack Toraño of Espinosa Cigars. Jack and Miguel have a long history together, and we’ll explore the ties that bind, plus tap into them on a wealth of industry hot topics. […]
Announcement: Prime Time Special Edition #56 – Special Edition IPCPR Post Game Show
Bear and Coop are back from covering IPCPR 2019 and tonight on Special Edition #56, we give your our annual Post Game Show. Bead and Coop will cover all the booths they visited at IPCPR and provide commentary on what they saw. Plus weigh in on all of the happenings that surrounded this year’s […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 101 – Mike Szczepankiewicz
It’s episode 101 and Prime Time is back from the IPCPR. This week we welcome the Cigar Hustler himself, Mike Szczepankiewicz. Mike wears many hats – retailer, brand owner, distributor, and podcaster. Tonight we’ll learn more about Mike – and of course, we will tackle the 800 pound gorilla in the room, the change […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 100 – IPCPR 2019 Pre-Game: The Big Board
We made it! Tonight is Episode 100 of the Prime Time Show and the timing couldn’t be any better as the IPCPR Trade Show opens a week later. Tonight Aaron and Coop go through “The Big Board.”.This is a comprehensive review of all of the companies and all the releases. If you are going […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 99- IPCPR 2019 Pre-Game: Industry Panel 5 with Saka, Martin and Alfonso
Put your seat belts on. Once again we are joined by Hector Alfonso of Espinosa Cigars, Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac, and Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust – just in time for a panel discussion as a part of our IPCPR Pre-Game Series. We’ll discuss the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show with our guest and […]
Announcement: Prime Time Special Edition #55 – Al Micallef, Micallef Cigars
For Prime Time Special Edition #55, we welcome Al Micallef, owner and founder of Micallef Cigars to Prime Time. Al might be a relative newcomer to the cigar business, but he’s come in like no other person has in recent years and we will talk more about that. Plus we will have some miscellaneous […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 98: IPCPR 2019 Pre-Game – All-Star Media Panel #6
This week the Prime Time Show begins the first of three weeks of “Pre-Game” coverage leading up to the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show with a Media Panel Show. It’s our sixth Media Panel Show and we will have the whole Prime Time Team onboard plus Seth Geise, Jiunn Liu, and John McTavish of Developing Palates. […]
Announcement: Stanford Newman Birthday Smoke Virtual Event – June 12th 6pm EDT
The following is a live event being hosted by our partner J.C. Newman Cigar Company [themify_box ] Stanford J. Newman was legend in the cigar industry. Stanford was the son of J.C. Newman and was one of the original inductees into Cigar Aficionado’s Cigar Hall of Fame. On June 12, we are honoring Stanford […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 97 – Industry Panel #4 w/ Terence Reilly and Fred Rewey
It’s our fourth industry panel show and this time we have Terence Reilly and Fred Rewey as our special guest panelists. Aaron and I will present a variety of topics to our panel for some engaging and lively discussion. Plus in our Alec Bradley Live True segment, we will discuss Sports Dynasties – something both […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 96 – Justin Andrews, General Cigar Company
On Episode 96, Justin Andrews, Senior Brand Manager at General Cigar is our special guest! Justin’s involved with one of the most exciting projects at General, Diesel – and he is working with the one and only A.J. Fernandez. We’ll catch up with him and talk plenty of tobacco. In our Alec Bradley Live True […]