Cigar Hacks Podcast

Making up for last week’s rain-out we do an extended episode. As usual we are all over the map with topics including the limo update. We finally make it up to O’Shea’s in Nashua on a Thursday to see the Goat and Friends. The Hidden Herf is a special surprise for all.

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Local Spotlight: Victory Cigar Bar – Sudbury, MA. Another lounge for the Hidden Gem list.

Conspiracy: Mustang Mike calls in for a remote report on the current state of the body politic.

Victory Cigar – Sudbury MA

Hidden Herf 29 / The Oscuro

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This episode has been put on a rain delay – stay tuned for an update.

We traveled to the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship Weekend at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro MA with the expectation of recording this week’s episode while there for two nights in the RVs. The weather has not cooperated and it has been too damp to pull out the gear and light up outside so we are on a weather related delay for episode 28.

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Podcast Juice Cocktails. The early Father’s/Mother’s Day gift. The Joke Segment. Curling comes up again.
The Dark Side of the Leaf & The Bazaar of the Leaf.
The shameless plugs, retro-haling & the annual cigar investment.

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Local Spotlight: Twins deck update; Cigars R Us; Puro’s Cigar

Conspiracy: Titanic and the FED , Joan Rivers, Michelle Obama, Michael Jackson and a bevy of rockers.

Twins / Cigars R Us / Puro’s Cigars

  

Hidden Herf 27

 

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We get back on track with our standard format. RI Mike joins the panel on the remote. The Hidden-Herf is another mystery until the reveal. Smokey and the Bandit gets tied in. We report on the limo search. Cigar Craig is starting a new podcast.

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Local Spotlight: Primings Cigar Lounge & Bar – Nashville, TN. Comedy Chris travels to Nashville and brings back a review of this upscale establishment.

Conspiracy Corner: The FBI plants a mole in the Trump campaign. Schneiderman, Muller, and North Korea are tied in. The Simpsons predict the future.

Primings Cigar Lounge & Bar – Nashville, TN

 

Hidden Herf 26 / Cigar Craig

 

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After fighting with a bad cable and few “blunder-ific” false starts we finally get the episode going. Mark and Bret from The Retrohale join us (via a spotty Skype connection) for another off-the-rails episode. Departing from our usual format we just relax, smoke cigars, and drink plenty of podcast juice as we move from one topic to another. Here’s a sample of where we go for 75 minutes: Boston sports trivia challenge, NH & Colorado connections, Stonehenge, rock bands and artists, cigars good vs. bad – it’s subjective, Gingers have no souls. Nobody is cutting Nick in the deli line. Presidential trivia. Same birthday coincidences. Hitting the beaver (on 125). Homemade spirits, public hanging and roadkill. Deer crossing radio caller. Moose and elk dead or alive. Too much podcast juice in my cup. Sex in the car with frosty. The mystery $1 figurado and the Chinese Finger Trap.

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Local Spotlight: The Gatlin-Burlier & Hoggs Upstairs Taverne – Gatlinburg, TN. Nurse Rick travels to Gatlinburg and combines these two establishments to come up with a cigar lounge where there is none in the traditional sense.

Conspiracy Corner – a recap of last week’s topic.

The Gatlin-Burlier / Hoggs Upstairs Taverne

 

Hidden Herf 25 / There’s a bear at the pool / Moose in the road

 

The Retohale Podcast

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The Hidden Herf is a special treat for the panel, it also demonstrates how individual palates change over time. We take our time with the events and discuss other topics related to each lounge or event. Cow Tongue and Aganorsa tobaccos work their way in to the talk. A few anecdotes from Comedy Chris keep us in stitches. Everything from boiled peanuts to an exploding charcoal grill is open for discussion. We add a new member to the Cigar Hacks; The Bearded Blunder, and he fits right in.

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Local Spotlight: Twins Smoke Shop – Hookset, NH. A compact but friendly lounge and smoke shop that carries cigars, pipes and coffee.

Conspiracy Corner: In lieu of conspiracy corner (no conspiracy Hacks are with us for this episode) we go is a few different directions. Nurse Rick uses power tools!

An actual DIY “Cigar Hack” – how to make a lighter purge tool for free.

Twins Smoke Shop – Hookset, NH

Hidden Herf 24 / DIY Lighter Purge Tool / Kickstarter Purge Tool

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Matty returns after a hiatus from the show and the Hidden-Herf is picked just for the occasion. We cover far too many topics to list them all but the theme seems to be a lot of laughing. There are lots of events coming up and we have commentary on just about every one. We took a road trip to Dover, NH to see the new lounge that Federal Cigar has recently opened.

Bonus Content: Nurse Rick calls us from TN while on vacation and a technical disaster ensues as we try to insert him into the show on-the-fly. This eight minute debacle was good for an out-take and is tacked on to the end of the regular show.

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Local Spotlight: Federal Cigar Bar – Dover, NH. A newly renovated new location for the this long time establishment with a large retail section and a much improved lounge.

Conspiracy Corner: Matty decodes Mustang Mike’s notes front the road relating to the DNC and speculates on what’s about to happen in the world of the DC power brokers.

Federal Cigar Bar – Dover, NH

Hidden Herf 23

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This week we have a slightly different format and an introduction to a new Cigar Hack; The Brooklyn Chic. With just two of us recording live the Hidden Herf is not much of a secret so the regular feature is modified. Instead of Conspiracy corner we adapt a segment recorded after hours with the boys from Colorado, Bret and Mark of The Retrohale Podcast, which turns out to be more comedy than cigars.

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Local Spotlight: En Fuego Tobacco Shop – Rockwall, TX. An indoor/outdoor lounge with a very large walk-in.

Mentioned on the episode: Cigar Cutters By Jim

En Fuego Tobacco Shop – Rockwall, TX

Hidden Herf 22 / The Retohale Podcast

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This episode’s Hidden Herf is universally liked by the panel, but still no guesses on what it is are in the ball park. The discussion, as usual, is a bit random and includes chasing mice, dogs, Laugh-In, Harleys, etc. Bonus material; Jeep Week – Moab UT and King of the Hammers – Johnson Valley CA

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Local Spotlight: Two Guys Smoke Shop – Seabrook, NH. A great shop with an excellent lounge arrangement.

Conspiracy corner: We cover all topics “Kennedy” from Chappaquiddick to JFK Jr. About half the episode is consumed by Kennedy related conspiracy theories, including connections to the Clintons and the Bushs.

Two Guys Smoke Shop – Seabrook, NH

Jeep Week / Hidden Herf 21

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More nonsense from Nicks Novelty Hut and Marc from Maryland calls in. This sounds like episode 18 all over again but we have a different panel. There are a lot of events this week and we get into plenty of cigar stuff. CLE and JRE, what’s the relation? J.C. Newman and Fuente, are they the same?
The Hidden Herf gets a low rating. Another First – most of the panel switches to new cigars after the reveal.

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Local Spotlight 1: Smokey Joe’s Cigar House – Worcester MA. A compact lounge, bar and walk-in attached to a huge night club.

Local Spotlight 2: Puff & Quill Smokery – Randallstown, MD. An upscale lounge with many regular and special events.

Conspiracy Corner: Fresh News – Assange communications restricted; History repeats itself – the gun debate; Spies poisoned in England; DNC email; Facebook and Amazon under scrutiny; “Q” theories; Kim Jung-Un goes to China.

Smokey Joe’s Cigar House – Worcester MA

Hidden Herf 20 / The Super Punch

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