This is my first but cut up episode. I actually edited! I know, crazy right? Can you catch the cuts?

I ramble on too much about stuff that is basically Phoenix Cigar Lounge member's concern only and I cut it out.

We have some cool things you can win just by sending in an email. We will pay for shipping if you are far away or you can come get it and be a guest at the lounge or even better on the podcast.

We light up the Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Sonata and do the recap of the expo with special guests Amber and The Silver Fox. We also go wild as usual. The Silver Fox tells us about a work trip that involved some down time in Palm Springs CA and he checked out a sweet lounge. You can check out some cool lounges and tell us about it via DM or email and we will go see them!

Make sure you follow and like and subscribe on all the socials and send in your emails. We have loads more swag to give away.

First off I didn't review the cigar at the end so here's the review.

Strength out of 10: 5

Flavor out of 10: 8

Over all flavors: it is a complex review on the two predominant flavors of leather and wood, with everything from warm new leather furniture to old leather horse tac. The wood is complex as well with oak, cedar, and sweet cinnamon. Less prevalent flavors of cream, mashed potatoes and spices of smoked paprika and black pepper.

That is out of the way, now the content. I talk about lounge business, the still unraveling news out of Nicaragua and the current co-presidents civil rights violations and power grab and what it could do to the cigar industry and the buyers of Nicaraguan cigars. Buy now save later I say.

I also talk about some good cigars I've had and enjoyed and some shows that are available on prime video.

It is a cigar heavy episode but I was alone and gave you over an hour and a half.

Our next episode will be my recap on the New England Cigar Expo.

What else should you do when you have a returning guest, a rerun of a cigar, and its the day before NFL starts?

If you guessed smoke the same cigar, have the same gust coach, and make predictions and comments on what happened in preseason in both news and football, then you're right!

We enjoy the PENN STANDARD again, we have coach KYLE again, we talk football again!

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Stuki Jewelers for cigars and jewelry they gave us the place to record and smoke cigars and make life long friends.

Mike Bratton State Farm Insurance: he gave us the new location to record and smoke cigars and get together with the friends we've made and make new ones.

Also, while you can stop by stuki jewelers for an application to join the phoenix cigar lounge

Shout out to Trenton Kistle Flooring, he installed all the sweet flooring at our new location

Shout out to Fowler Flooring 2100 Nevada City HWY they gave us a great deal on our materials!

We are still shopping for our access control and security systems, Shoot us an email if you have suggestions and want to make a bid.

Today I recap some of the fun we have done regarding the tear out of the carpet on the new lounge location and needs we have between now and the grand reopening of the Phoenix Cigar Lounge.

If you want to help let us know, we can take donations, use labor, you can cook for the workers who volunteer, or you can buy materials. All donations are NOT tax deductible.

I also hit some recent news on Lindsay Clancy although I don't name her.

I talk about 3 cigars I had this week with an anomalous unknown cigar on my lunch break and an honorable mention.

I hit some cigar news about new releases coming up soon or recently released.

I give a shout out to Machen for his gifted book to me and how we plan on having him back soon after I finish his book.

I talk about how in many situations there are no real solutions only trade offs.

I also mention my up coming adventure to New Hampshire for the New England Cigar Expo.

Make sure you tell your friends, follow us on social media, like comment and subscribe to the podcast and share a favorite episode to your friends.

Don't forget to email us to enter our give away of cigar swag.

We have up for grabs: shirts, ashtrays, and humidors.

We talk about the tear out of the old carpet at the new lounge location, housing and affordability issues and how some people are avoiding the affordability crisis by leaving the US entirely.

We of course talk cigars and give some shout outs to our great support network.

Fowler Flooring has sold us our flooring at cost. You won't get the deal we got but you will get a great deal give Lorin a call!

Trenton Kistle does flooring. If you can find him he's the best!

Stuki Jewelers sell jewelry and cigars check them out!

You need insurance, it is a fact, call Mike Bratton at state farm in Grass Valley CA on Taylorville Rd

Thank you to all our members at the Phoenix Cigar Lounge, you should join too!

Today we smoke Jc Newman The American, and talk a whole lot about starwars. Don't forget to send in your emails for the next email contest where we are giving away an American flag humidor.

Stay tuned for more updates on flooring and move in progress.

Today we have Machen MacDonald and we discuss authorship, success, happiness, responsibility, and cigars.

We light up the Penn State limited edition, Connecticut broadleaf Rothchild.

Machen is a life and career coach, former financial adviser and all around good guy that we're lucky to know. He's a member of the Phoenix Cigar Lounge and you can be too. Stay tuned for more announcements about our up coming move and how you can help out.

You can find more of Machen here:

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https://probrilliance.com/

https://probrilliance.com/books/