Cuban cigar

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Y'all ready? Tell

We return to Padrón and try the sister to one of our favorites.

We discuss European cigar distribution nightmares, and I task the panel with naming the three Cuban cigars they'd save, revive, or kill, all among a variety of other things for the next two hours.

So sit back, get your favorite drink, light up a cigar, and enjoy, as we pair Privateer Navy Yard True American Rum with the Padrón 1964 Anniversary Exclusivo in Natural.

A Nicaraguan Robusto on the pod tonight, boys.

You know, I love this whole story with Habanos and Chen Ji and all that stuff.

Friend of the program, of course.

So we discussed last week that Fifth Avenue, the German distributor of Cuban cigars, was ha- their banking was halted by the banks over there because of the sanction issues going on with Chen Ji being a shareholder in all these companies.

And I said at the end of that discussion that I had heard that they were going to be filing for insolvency, effectively like a, a bankruptcy, trying to continue operations while they work out how to get him out, and it was confirmed that that happened.

I

was going to say, actually, in fairness, especially with the prices of Cuban cigars, which is something we're going to discuss later on, they sit around for a while because they are so expensive now and they're just going to get more expensive.

So they're potentially going to sit around even longer.

So if you've got to turn that around in 12 months, then you're going to have to re-band them yourself if you keep them on the shelf.

People are gravitating to the cigar right there, how I won.

That's got a very Cuban-esque sort of flavor profile to it.

Yeah, I'm a little bit of a historian when it comes to Cuban cigars.

I grew up smoking pretty much everything, but Cuban cigars were kind of like my knowledge.

They distribute every German ...

Every Cuban cigar that goes into Germany is handled by them and has been for many, many years.

And they, uh, the company told, um, their retailers, because every retailer who buys Cuban cigars buys them from them, said that they were pausing shipment of Cuban cigars due to the banking issue, the problem with a Chinese guy ended up going, uh, going away for, uh, fraud or whatever was happening.

Possibly the death penalty.

Yep.

Yes.

Yeah.

So right now there are no Cuban cigars being sold in Germany.

They took care of me.

DC, the Cuban Cigar.

I mean, that whole East Coast right there.

And, and this, and, and that's also a regional problem for a lot of New York rappers or East Coast rappers, 'cause a lot of them don't get past that North Carolina.

And he wrote a response back to me to say, Mr. Adil, thank you for your letter.

Cigars are bad for your health.

I seriously would consider giving them up.

And I wrote him something back saying, you're an ignorant little fucker.

Yes, it's not.

And...

Back Nine Cigars, Vega Fina, bro.

Vega Fina is a Dominican brand that Hunters distributes.

Yeah.

Cuban classic and stuff like that.

Right.

Yeah.

The other person I thought of when I realized what today was was, of course, the one and only Scott Marinoff, Scott in San Diego, who was proud of having kicked his own cigarette habit and pipe and cigar.

And I guess you could say I kicked cigars, too, because I used to love to order some clandestinely shipped usually from Australia, Cuban cigars.

And I enjoyed them immensely.

But no more, no more, no more.

Like, like to be like proud of your product and know that it's a b- the best.

You know, like back in the day, John Deere tractors or Cadillacs, Cuban cigars, like being the best of the best or, or, or being in the argument.

You know, what, what do you like better? A Gibson or a Fender or whatever.

People used to take pride in what the fuck they made.