 The real MC Mike smoking cigars and cigars and cigs are totally different speaking first Yeah, totally different gang. You do not inhale cigars Never inhale cigar smoke. Okay bad bad idea Okay, I'll kill you fast And it doesn't taste good. This is a boulevard Royal Coronas And just so you guys know I Was an avid cigar smoker collector as well. I Sold a little bit of cigars Privately and working in an exclusive Cuban cigar store for about a year and a half Part-time day and a half a week because I wanted to be around cigars. I wouldn't got a job at a Cuban cigar store and Enjoyed it very much very much. They had a walk in humidor and I I Would sample all the cigars There was days where as a retail sales person and I was doing other things on the side was doing geophysics I was doing other things as well right trading or whatnot But as a retail Cuban cigars person my best day Would have been probably sold around nine ten thousand dollars worth of cigars in one day Anywhere between eight to ten thousand dollars cigars in one day Cuban cigars in general are expensive if you want to try a phenomenal Cuban cigar Phenomenal Cuban cigars a little bit stronger on the stronger side the boulevards. Okay, if you want to sample a phenomenal Cuban cigar that is Less costly than Cuban cigars of the same caliber right this Cuban cigar boulevard Royal Coronas I picked that up yesterday and It was like thirty two dollars Canadian Okay Expensive now for me. I used to go to Cuba pick up my Cuban cigars boxes bring them back and whatnot working the Cuban cigars I got great Cuban cigar deals and stuff like this, but Compatible to this This baby here. It's like the Holy the Monterre Monterre Epicure number one Epicure number two it's like the Multiple other Royal Corona Robusto, this is a robusto size. So all the other brands of robusto Cuban cigars, okay But it is cheaper. It is anywhere between 20 to 50 20 to 40 percent cheaper than some of the other robusto size cigars Now if you're smoking a cigar, I'm gonna give you a little low down here if you're smoking a cigar Picking up a cigar. First thing you want to do is you want to feel it Right, you should you shouldn't hear a crack the leaves should not be cracking, right? Like there is no crack. You don't want to hear That's too dry, right? You want to give a little bit? You don't squish it really hard. You don't go Right, just give it a little do like this like Right very nice if there's a little bit of Green mildew or mildew not green, but mildew is white really On the leaf of the cigar you got yourself a phenomenal cigar and has aged Fantastically, okay, this has got a little bit. It's been aged. Wow the Cuban cigars store actually aged them pretty well See that Little bit little bit So that's nice, that's really nice You don't want to see stems of The leaves right now Cuban cigars there there's three things happening inside here There's a filler. There's the binder and there's the wrapper the filler is Nice leaves. This would be complete leaves put together crushed up. They put the binder on it's a Higher grade leaf and then the wrapper is the highest grade leaf because it makes it look phenomenal, right? beautiful beautiful Now Apologies if I'm not reading the chat game, okay, and as the chat says since we're going to read it Gang don't forget free a song free a song free a song Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power To humanity for more information see wicked least or defend wicked least or or Julian Assange and Wicked Leaks playlist on censor to now If you're going to be smoking this you can do a couple of things there's people that use whole punchers, right? There's a sort of like a rod that you can punch a hole through it You could use a cutter. There's different types of cutters expensive cutters cheap cutters. I Usually don't use cutters for robustos or any of the cigars of this type for the torpedoes I do use cutters in general Okay, but for cigars of this Gauge and gauge is a thickness of the cigar. Okay of this gauge or even lower or higher I usually don't use a cutter. Okay. I forget what the gauge of this is This should be like a 42 or something or 44 44 more probably 46 maybe, right? I forget the gauge numbers and whatnot and before I For me, I usually wet it take a bite out of it, but I don't go What you do this part of the cigar by the way, they do the wrapping and then they use Usually tree sap right you use tree sap Cubans do anyway, and then they put another Rapper top on top of this was like a boop sits on it like a hat And I usually just take out a little bit here, right? You don't want to take the whole thing out right because you're gonna get bits of cigar tobacco in your mouth You don't want that in general, right? And you just basically Bite a little bit off that little nip from just think about as a nip. I'm just gonna read a little bit of the chat and Gang just so you know I haven't smoked the cigar for a long time now I used to smoke a lot. I don't I choose it as meditative now But I haven't meditated with a cigar for a while This is about a 45 minute cigar 45 minute to an hour cigar You can make it last to about an hour and a half if you're going slow or take it down half an hour Which I've done both I'm gonna and it smelled Absolutely phenomenal. I'm gonna have a little Taste of it. Okay You want to wet it a little bit now by the way gang never I don't share my cigars No way no, if someone's smoking a cigar, I never go. Oh, can I taste that you don't do that, right? You could use a lot of different analogies for it Where if someone's participating in something enjoying a something You don't go. Excuse me. Can I have a taste right? It doesn't work that way with cigars and one of the reasons One of the things I do with my cigars as well Because it would have people come in and say, oh, can I taste you but no no no you can't taste the cigar What do you thought about right? I Usually some people they're This part they keep dry some people keep it wet for me. I'm usually wet with it. Okay, I Like playing with it The tongue does its thing. Okay No more to make a man. I missed a lot of chat my apologies gang I'm going all the way down to the bottom and if there's anything directed towards me, please let me know I want the cigar go far as yes And what you can do is just hold it here, right? And then when you're gonna bite into it Hold it here tight tight ish, right? So it doesn't move around and then push the cigar into your teeth and Don't you keep your teeth open just a little bit, right? And then you punch the cigar push the cigar towards your teeth and it bulks up Between your teeth and then you bite down and that should give you a clean cut. Okay. I got a brass kitty cat astray All right, and here's a little bit of cigar that I took out Right see this I don't know if you can see this pretty small player pretty blurry, right? Well, it was almost focusing See that that's what I took out and this is what it looks like, right? This is gonna focus See that that's what I took out Now you take that out you're gonna smoke it You're gonna get a clean smoke and when you're feeling the cigar You don't want any bumps inside the cigar, right? So if you're if you're pinching a cigar to buy it, right? Some places allow you to do some places don't don't manhandle the cigar, right? Well, sometimes you need to build a relationship with the cigar stores so they know Who you are and you know how to handle cigars because these are expensive, right? So there's no lumps and bumps in here. Okay? You can before you light it you can take a Drag and It's a clean You get air coming in because the leaves have been rolled in a way where air flow is this way, right? So it's not bunches of leaf like a little tobacco Cigarette type of tobacco. This is leaves and they're aligned in a way where the smoke goes from there Here where there's free flow, right? It's like a pipe Okay Now when you're lighting a cigar some people do The You don't want to do butane lighters. No butane lighters gang. No butane lighters. You don't want to get butane into this, right? You can use matches when matches, right? Las Vegas this is one of the Matches I used to I have a match collection and this is Mirage from Las Vegas, right? You can use wooden matches, right? If you don't have wooden matches If you buy cigar boxes, they come with cedar You can light a cedar little sliver and light your cigar with cedar. That's the ultimate, right? That's the ultimate, right? I have a torch lighter This is literally one of the greatest torch lighters ever, right? And the first version of this I got was a gift from someone else who was working with at the cigar store Now I hadn't pulled this out for a while, right? You hear that? You won't be able to see the flame really Let's see if you can see it. Do you see? Do you see the flame? You don't see it really Let's see It burns really hot game See the flame? burns really hot See it's gone. Oh, I got to do this with it because it hasn't been It hasn't been used for a while so what I do is take the cigar and Heat it up a little bit, right? Make sure you get all the way around Do not inhale Do not inhale Now as far as snacks go when you're smoking Okay, lonely piggy. How are you doing that? Chicho aesthetic right now. It's Chris Hello, hello Don Chicho. Enjoy that. Oh, brother Amazing amazing boulevard or royal coronas Now when you're smoking there's gonna be times where you're gonna have to relight it There's gonna be times where you're gonna have to adjust the burn right You don't really want to be smoking in a very windy Day or stand up in the wind the smoke sometimes you have no choice All right, sometimes the cigar goes out on you okay, and You light it but before you light it you should ash it and Ashing it you don't ash it like a cigarette or anything like that You should be able to give a little like this just a little tap. That's what is ready to be ash Little tap and the ash falls The longer the ash the sweeter the cigar Okay, that's pure long leaves. They've used X. How are you doing? Hope you're doing well Well, dragons. How are you doing H. H. Oh? Have you ever smoked a Cigarillo recently tried one? Yeah. Yeah, yeah Cigarillos, I'm not us. I don't smoke Cigarettes I don't smoke tobacco in general the only tobacco that I smoke really is cigars and 99% 95% of the cigars. I've smoked in my life 90 more not 99% of the cigars. I've smoked in my life have been Cuban Okay, I find the other country cigars. I know there are some good ones. I've smoked some good ones But I find the Cubans heavier thicker I got a little bit of gin here organic gin local from the island Something Simple drink smoky drinks are good gin scotch whiskey a cognac is good Okay, any type of spirit goes phenomenal with cigars as does do other drinks tea is phenomenal water One of the best drinks you can have with cigars is water Okay, it just cleans the pallets. Okay. I don't chug water. I sip just the same way I would sip Gin or any other spirit and on the rocks is nice What is the what does it taste like anyway? I haven't smoked anything except the herb But even that was years ago at this moment. Yeah, it's not like the herb. It's it's like a boulevard really The taste of a boulevard a Cuban cigar It's it's unique. It's heavy. It's smoky but it's like Have you ever had some phenomenal phenomenal Smoked meats where they there's a certain smoke flavor there. This is it, but without the Without the food flavor. It's the smoke and heavy Right, like boulevard is on the heavy side Waban if you use the pipe you Fulfill the professor look nice At some point. I think I want to get into pipes. I Have smoked pipes before but one thing I one reason I didn't get into pipes is because from what I understand If you smoke pipes at least to the level I was smoking cigars in the past If I smoked that many pipes it would hurt the teeth because you hold the pipe in your teeth I know I know you're not supposed to but people end up doing it So you end up hurting the teeth. So you have to be careful with pipes Dominican cigars sure Dominican cigars are very good opus opus X is fantastic. I believe that's Dominican The heavier gauge opus X's are really nice. They're lighter They're much lighter than this if it's your first time smoking. I do not recommend smoking a boulevard royal, Clorona Okay, if you want to taste a light Cuban cigar try the H. Oppmans Okay, you want to go with the H. Oppmans if you're going to go with Cuban cigars And then this is not promoting smoking by the way gang. Uh, it's just a ritualistic thing. I consider Tobacco to be an ally. Unfortunately corporations took tobacco Tobacco which was really a healing herb For the indigenous population where it was Native right and they took something that was healing All right medicinal and they turned it into the biggest killer one of the biggest killers in the world for number of decades, right? So I don't recommend smoking. I recommend meditating I recommend having rituals in your life Okay, I recommend open discussion and if you've ever Gone to a cigar lounge and I've spent a fair bit of time in a cigar lounge The conversation can get heated the conversation can be sweet You could laugh your ass off. You could you could be angry. You could talk about politics economic sex drugs food health Relief you can talk about whatever you want And there isn't a single person in a cigar store that I've ever met that has tried to silence someone else except for one person where they tried to silence me Because we're talking politics and they didn't like what I have to say regarding the Middle East, right? And everybody else was shocked at that person and that person lost their standing in such a heavy way When they tried to pull that kind of shit in a cigar lounge You cannot censor in a cigar lounge that is One of the rules of a cigar lounge