 I should be coming in live. Hi everyone, this is Gicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today is October 7th, 2020 and we are going to look at a cigar catalog, something that I've had with me since the 1990s I believe. Okay, I picked this baby up from Cuba when in the 1990s I was traveling there a lot. Well a lot. I went there during the 1990s five times and basically a cigar tourist and a culture of Cuba and really just the history of Cuba intrigued me so I ended up going there five times several times. How are you doing? Welcome to a live stream. I went there in the 1990s for about five times and traveled around Cuba, went to the Pinal del Rio region where a lot of the greatest cigars in the world, the tobacco is grown and walked around the tobacco fields and whatnot and went to the different factories in different parts of Cuba and this is something that made it back with me. Okay, we'll take a look at it. Elder God, how are you doing? I hope you're doing well and there's a couple other things I have here that if we get a chance I'll show you. One of them is a little wooden menu that I showed you guys in a previous live stream. I thought I'd show you a close-up before we dive into the catalog and it's just basically a listing of all the cigars that they had under the different brands, trademarks that they produced cigars and they were produced in different factories and there's a code to them and stuff and I believe some people have broken the code for the naming of the cigars or the code that Cuba uses on the boxes and whatnot. Cheryl, how are you doing? I hope you're doing well and before we get into the intro guys, let me show you this. I got a notice last week that there was a package waiting for me. Danite, how are you doing? I'm Charityday. It's a Gijo live and I hope all is well. I'm doing well. All notifications are set and right on. Void. Let's go. Puff, huge claws, Gijo. Nice. Check this out. I got this as a fan art sent to me last week and I got a notification saying that there's something there and I want to pick it up and I opened it up because I wasn't sure what it was so I thought I'd show it to you guys. I posted it on our discord in the fan art page and it was sent to me from Fadalot in Australia. He sent these runs and drawings to me and that's supposed to be me. Well, that is me being EA and it's supposed to mean Gijo exists for all so I thought that was fantastic. Super cool. There's three pictures okay and there's one of drinking liqueur which I thought was super awesome. So thank you the Fadalot for doing these and sending these my way. I love them. Well, he sent them to me in these things, these holders, the plastic holders. So I had these sitting in my space. I'm just grinning every time I look at them right. So super fun. Thank you very much for sending the artwork and doing this by the way. It was fantastic. Super nice. My partner got a giggle and a half she was like oh my god. Super cool. Super cool. And I do have a Domino set I want to show you guys as well. I'll probably show you guys a Domino set before we look at the catalog and look at the menu. Zerik, how are you doing? That's so nice. Super nice. Super nice. Excellent. Drunk Gijo is the best one on the Booger Sugar Strawberry Marino. By the way, gang, if you want to follow my work, I am on patreon.patreon.com. You can follow the work there. I do have my thesis written out there sort of what my purpose of all this is and it's all related to mathematics and there's a little bit of mathematics in this thing. Just a little bit with gate size and sizes but I forgot to take a pic of it and load it up as an image. Do you have cigars right now? I'm going to show you one cigar that's totally basically destroyed. One of the cigars that I used to smoke a lot. I used to have a humidor where I kept a lot of cigars, boxes of cigars. And I had some amazing cigars in Vancouver at a certain period in my life. I had like the best cigars in the world. Hoyo de Manter and Double Coronas. They were rated 99 out of 100 in 1994, I believe. And I had multiple boxes of that year specifically. And I had other cigars and whatnot. And I hooked up with a couple of movie studios in Vancouver. I just had a couple of connections, friends working there and stuff and they knew I smoked cigars. So from the US, they used to and they still do produce a lot of movies and shoot a lot of TV series and stuff in Vancouver. So when the Americans used to come up to Vancouver in the 1990s, I had a couple of people in the movie business that used to give me a call if the director or producer or VIPs wanted to get their hands on some cigars. And I wouldn't go to the either the where they were editing, cutting the film or where they the studios where they were shooting, whatever it was that they were shooting. And they would give me a table. I set up a table. I had a little Cuban rum or honey wine or whatnot. And I'd lay out the cigars and they would come over and buy cigars off me. It was just a hobby. I didn't really do it as a business. I did it as a hobby because I wanted to be around cigars. So I've smoked a lot of cigars. I don't have that human door anymore. I sort of stopped smoking cigars in a large part. At some point I'm going to get back into it, right? Once I can afford it, I'm going to get back into it because smoking cigars can be an expensive hobby, especially Cuban ones. You can get some amazing Cuban cigars on the down low. Really, they fly under the radar because they're not that expensive and people are like, oh, that's not a cojiba or whatever it is. You're like, man, if you don't know cigars, then yeah, you go for the name brand. And by the way, I worked in a specifically exclusive cigar store in Vancouver for about a year. And it was an exclusively Cuban cigar store in Vancouver. And during that year that I worked in that cigar store, and we had a leather lounge and a lot of people coming through and whatnot, we would sell ridiculous amount of cigars in a day. Like my best day where I was selling cigars was probably around $10,000 worth of cigars I sold, right? Like, that was a lot. So we had a lot of Americans that would come up and spend a lot of money on cigars. And I worked in an exclusively Cuban cigar store. So I smoked a lot of cigars during that period. Because as a kickback for us, for every box of cigars that we sold, depending on the box, we get a kickback of either one or two cigars, right? So just imagine each cigar box was anywhere between $300, $400 to $1500, right? With cojiba millennials, the 2000s and whatnot. So we would start sampling, sampling like mad. It was a phenomenal. And I specifically got that job at that Cuban cigar store one and a half days a week because I wanted to be around cigars, okay? So I tend to, there are times in my life if I want to do something, I want to be around it a lot, I go get a job in whatever it is as a part time just to be around that life, right? I recently got back into drawing and those have inspired me to do some chicho fan art. Awesome, Felix. I love to see it. And our Discord page, we have a folder for fan art now, okay. Liam, how are you doing? Welcome, welcome. Zarre, long time no see. Hi, chicho question. Do you have pictures from your earlier days? Just curious to see what you look like in your 20s. Yeah, I do. I do have some. I look exactly the same. No, I don't. Maybe we share slightly, okay, okay, at some point, at some point, maybe we see. Strawberry cigar wrapping videos are the bomb, yeah. Selling cigars would be a trip. That's too much money on cigars though. Man, and that would be, you know, not one customer. I've had, the most I sold to one customer was around $7,000, right? They were from the U.S. They had to hook up so they could get the cigars across the border. They knew how to do it. So they came and bought a whole bunch of cigars and they went back to the United States with them, right? I'm not keen on cigars but I've heard that you don't inhale cigar smoke. Yeah, you don't inhale cigar smoke. You inhale cigar smoke, you die. You don't die right away but it's harsh, right? Cigar smoking is a form of meditation if you do it properly or if you're an aficionado, right? If you're an aficionado, you could kick back, lay back on a beautiful leather couch, leather chair like lounge, right? Light up a cigar, double corona or a robusto or even the small ones, right? A cigar will take you anywhere between the really small ones 20 minutes to an hour and a half to smoke, right? Sometimes two hours to smoke the gigantic ones, right? And in that half an hour, let's say to an hour and a half, you can sit back and read, think, talk, enjoy an amazing drink, right? You could do whatever you want and it slows you down. It is a lifestyle. It is amazing and I can honestly tell you at some point I'm going to go back into it, right? When I can afford it. There was a time in my life where I was smoking. I knew I had to stop because they can't be addictive. There was a time in my life where I had a lot of Hoyo de Monterey double cronas coming my way, right? I was the only one in Vancouver that had Hoyo de Monterey double cronas in the black market, right? Even in the stores, like you couldn't find Hoyo de Monterey double cronas in the stores, Cuban cigar stores at the time, right? So I was the only one in Vancouver that I had them. I was smoking three a day, okay? I knew I needed to stop because one day I was driving, I had a Hoyo de Monterey double cronas. It was my second one of the day. It was about to end, right? Well, it wasn't about to end. It was about halfway through. It was 10.30 in the morning and I was parking, parallel parking my car and I was like smoking a cigar at the same time. It's 10.30 in the morning and I'm like, okay, we need to stop. I smoked that one. I smoked the next one and then I smoked cigars for a few months because I wanted to get it out of my system. Boy, don't inhale the cigar, it's so rough on the throat. I love it when a plant comes together. One draw player. My first cigar was a Cojiba number one. I fixed the lady's computer and she thought I was nice and her friend was a cigar dealer. She had no need for that. Oh snap, nice present, strawberries. Almost a form of meditation. Smoking has been around for so long in history, so long in history, right? Felix never smoked a cigar before. I'm only 17, so I don't think that's uncommon at my age, but I would definitely like to at some point. I started smoking. My first cigar was in my teens and it was Romeo Juliet. I forgot which one it was. It was a Romeo Juliet Corona size. It was a Romeo Juliet Corona, I believe. And we'll go through it. You'll see the sizes, okay? Smoking on a couch. I would fear burning a hole in my closet. Leather couches. Amazing. Danite chicho. This is off topic, but do you, but you got any tips against dizziness and nausea after exercise? Your sugar level might be low. Danite. If you're running, even whatever exercise you're doing, gang, like this is one thing I learned. And I learned this from doing as well as a friend that did bodybuilding. He did competition and he was what he called a health trainer. If you're doing any type of exercise, if it's exercise that's longer than 15, 20 minutes, it is straining. Eat something. You need to consume preferably protein and sugar, right? Not too much. Just like a couple of almonds, two or three almonds and a date, a couple of dates or one date, right? You got your carbs and you got your protein going into you, right? And that keeps your blood sugar, it keeps you normal. Like I don't know the health, all the chemical aspects of it. He told me all about this. I read a little bit about it, but this was like 20 years ago, right? But it keeps you nicely balanced. So Danite, I would say make sure you're, if you're exercising heavy, you're eating a little bit during the exercise, right? If I imagine myself smoking a big Cuban cigar, I would be able to behave. I would feel like a Cuban drug lord smoking. What are cigars I actually like? I used to think, feel like says, they're just like cigarettes or steroids. But now I assume they're totally different. They're not cigarettes. They are not cigarettes. There's a lot of cigar smokers that do not smoke cigarettes. Okay, like why would you? Really? Or too much at least. A small amount is good. A small amount is good. I guess it could be lack of blood sugar. Oh, interesting. Yeah, Danite for sure. Especially if you're doing weights. Gang, do not do weights for an hour without making sure you're taking in some carbs, some sugar and some protein. Okay, you're not building muscle at that point. You're destroying muscle. You're not rebuilding it fast enough. Okay, Elder God, I can help with that. Yeah, Elder God can help with that for sure. Six tastes like trash. Boy, it says cigarettes are pumped with poison, pumped with poison. Hey, I just got here. I'm actually smoking a cigar right now. Right on. Super duf. What are you smoking? By the way, gang, we're live streaming on Twitch, twitch.tv. For those of you that are supporting this work through Patreon, through Twitch. Thank you very much for your support. It is in large part because of your support that we're able to do this. Okay, Starsky, Hitchhaw is going doing good, brother, doing good. We did mathematics two days ago, politics yesterday. We're going to shovel cigars today. Okay, I do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on LOMinds, VK, Parler, Gap and Twitter. You can follow the work there and all the links will be in the description of this video. For live streams where we don't have any visuals involved, we do upload the audio to SoundCloud.com forward slash chicho, C-H-Y-C-H-O. And those podcasts should be available on your favorite podcasting platform, including Spotify and iTunes. Gordito Cigar that I bought off the street this summer. Where is that from? Gordito? I don't know Gordito. Is that Dominican? Honduran? Starsky, it's a shame I missed yesterday's stream. I just finished watching it and it was fantastic. It was a great stream. Strawberry, Rhino, thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub and relax and relax. The whole Armenian conflict, very complicated, very complicated. And we will be uploading this video too. Where is it? I gotta go back up. I moved myself off the stop that I'm pressing on. Thank you very much for the bits, well Trump, Priestert. And we will be uploading this video to both BitShoot and YouTube. We're gonna keep it nice and chill, right? Politics on politics streams and economics as well if it comes up, right? And if you want to support this work through BitShoot and YouTube, you can subscribe, you can follow, you can comment, you can turn on notifications. BitShoot, you're guaranteed to get notifications. YouTube, I'm not too sure. Some people aren't getting notifications. And if you are on YouTube, you can support this work by joining YouTube membership somewhere in here, down here somewhere. There's YouTube membership there, okay? Gordyrio is a Cuban cigar factory term for cigar measuring, oh the size of it, five and a half inches by 50 ring. So the gauge is 50. Again, there's a couple of math things that you have to know in here. Five and a half inches along, which is super tough smoking it, is the length of the cigar, right? Now the gauge, 50 gauge is the thickness of the cigar and the gauge is a ratio of whatever the gauge is over 64, and then same inches, right? So it's 50, 64th of an inch. And for Cuban, Gordyrio, that would be robust gauge, thick gauge, and it's thicker the gauge as far as I'm concerned, the better, okay? Oh my God, YouTube is a sixth state. Let me take these things down. And we'll get into, where are we? There we are. Let's take these guys down. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And we'll talk about the sizes and stuff. And I'll show you one cigar that I have here that was destroyed as double corona size. And you'll get a feel for the different sizes, right? Cat Lai Chichuostarski says, I feel like rolling a blunt now. I love your content. Never gets boring. Keep it up, brother. We'll do Starski. Happy rolling, by the way. And let me show you this before we get into the catalog. This is a menu that I picked up in the 1990s where I was trekking around Cuba. Okay, we went to a restaurant and they had this menu and it's burnt on cedar. And this is Cuba, right? And it was, it was what's it called, Rancho de Mando del Herald. This is where it was, right? I can't remember which part of Cuba it was. We're traveling around, right? And they had amazing food. And I love this menu. It was in the 1990s and I hadn't really seen a menu burnt on cedar before. So I asked them if I could buy it. And these are the prices in US dollars, by the way, that they have here. Okay. And I asked them if I would buy it. And the guy who went and checked with his manager and not buying this menu for like five dollars, right? At the time it was Cuba was a very affordable place to travel, like I ain't kidding you. It was unbelievable. So as someone that just had graduated from university, was paying off student loans, working mad as a geophysicist, right? I could afford to go there and buy a lot of cigars and enjoy myself, right? So I thought I'd show you this. It's beautiful, right? Pollo grill, pollo, pollo is chicken, I believe, right? I don't know my Spanish, but pollo is chicken, I believe. Okay. So it's a beautiful, beautiful catalog, right? For sure. Time, for sure. Time for a blunt off. I like your style. Stars getting stronger, he says. Felix, one month into college now, already a bit of a bumpy ride. When following your advice from the previous stream, what? But I can't see myself there for two years. Maybe I'll come around to enjoying it. Yeah, give it time, Felix. There's going to be years you enjoy, terms you enjoy, terms you don't. Lathe, canine lathe. How are you doing? Hi, guys. I am new here. Welcome to our live stream, DC Man. Hey, Chicho. The mention of the blunt made me wonder if you'd ever share your 420 equipment with us. Or are there so terms of service restrictions on that? I don't know what the TOS is on Twitch. I haven't looked into it too deep. I just want to share content, right? And I've made some stuff, made some comments where people have told me, okay, Chicho, you can't say that on Twitch or YouTube or whatnot. So I correct myself, right? I don't know. The equipment that I have is a vape and a coffee grinder, right? And the cannabis that we're allowed to grow in Canada legally, we're allowed to grow 4 plants. And I shared some pictures and you've seen some of the plants in the patio where we did some live streams. Dude, I'm going to buy cool menus now. This thing's beautiful. It's beautiful, strawberry. It is absolutely beautiful. I love this thing and it smells like like cedar, right? It's amazing, right? And it's from the 1990s and I believe I picked this up in 1994 or 92, probably 92, okay? It's through baking, breaking bad. I learned what polo means through breaking bad, right? Are the letters burnt? Everything's burnt on here. Like everything is burnt on here. This is all burnt. And this is, I believe, the third menu I've ever bought in my life from a restaurant. It's just beautiful. I haven't come across too many amazing menus. This was the most beautiful menu I've ever come across, right? And it feels amazing. And these are like history, right? Like this would have been crazy expensive in Cuba at the time. Combinations, combinations. What does that say? Brochetta, monti, tira? I don't know what that is. And this was definitely a touristy place, right? If you wanted to eat really well in Cuba, you found private homes that made you amazing food and I did that a lot in the 1990s. I would just I mean it's and it's leather. The binding is leather, right? Like this is leather burnt. Take a look. I should do it this way. I think it's beautiful. Fantastic. I want to show you this. And you know what? Before we look at the menu, I want to show you another thing I bought from Cuba. Wow, they must use a template and use that to burn multiple. Yeah, they must have, right? I showed you guys this as well on one of my videos. I believe the board game video that we shared. And this was like Domino's set that I bought in Cuba. And Domino's are huge in Cuba, right? And this was unique. It was large. It was heavy. It was all wood and I love wood, right? And Cubans and experts are doing so much more with so much like yeah. Dish wizard. I have like Cuba, the world has a lot to learn from Cuba in recycling, reusing. Amazing. And handy work like wow, wow, wow, wow. And care in what they do. Like this is an expensive wood. This is whatever, right? But nicely done, right? It's beautiful. I always wanted to try a cigar, but I've never smoked a day in my life. Oh, my God. Now take a look. Elder God mentioned the Domino's and thanks for mentioning, mentioning to bring this Elder God, right? So very simple, very simple, right? Very simple. Oh my God, the sound of this. Yeah. And take a look at this thing. These are the Domino's pieces and what they've done with Domino's, they put usually a little, these guys just put a nail, right? So when you put them, because what you do, you play a game of Domino's and then you put them on the table and you usually it's like a, it's not cloth table. It's, you know, either tile or wood or whatever it is. So these things float on there. Take a look. So like this. So these things can spin around and what they do, I'm going to flip this so you guys see what these are. Okay. Hopefully the sound won't be too loud. Right. Just beautiful. Okay. And what they do when you're dealing, it's like dealing cards, right? But for you to shuffle these, you know, you roll these around, you put these face down when you're playing Domino's and Domino's is amazing. I played a lot of Domino's. You put these face down and when you're shuffling, you just go like this and it's hard to do on this because this is cloth, right? But on tile or wood or metal or whatever it is, this moves around a lot, right? You know, it moves very freely. I'm moving the cloth around and then to play a game, what you do is, oh, this one is a blank. So you can see with the nail, you don't want the nail facing up and the nail facing down, right? And then when you're playing Domino's, you get turns and everybody takes like, I haven't played for a long time, depending how many people are playing. You take your pieces, right? And you go around, everybody takes one at random, whichever one they want, right? So let's assume you take five, right? And then what you do is you flip these around and you're the one, it's like you hold it like cards so other people don't see your pieces, right? Oh, look at this. Sweet and double, right? And what you do, in general, the way we used to play is the highest double, is the highest double puts first? Oh man, I haven't played for a long time, right? I used to play in the 90s a lot, right? And I believe it's the highest double that puts down first, right? So if other people, let's assume you guys pull these or not the highest double, maybe the highest value, right? So this person's got five dominoes as well, right? What we would do is go, okay, the highest value goes first. So this is seven and six, so that's 13. This is eight and six, that's 14. We got eight and five, that's eight and five, that's 13. So 14 would go first because this is, what is this, nine and four, that's 13, right? So this person would put first and then you build from there, right? It's absolutely beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful, okay? The tree was honored to become dominoes, an urban gardening. I have one of these boxes, very small, but it's a size close now, cool, absolutely, okay, for a guy who never smoked before in his life, do you recommend that they try cigarettes before they try cigars? No, I would say if you want to smoke, if you want to try cigars, just go with cigars, but start with something light, okay? And one of the lightest brands of Cuban, and I would tell you the truth, there are other cigars from other countries, like Dominican producers really good cigars and whatnot, but there's something special with Cubans, okay? Cuban cigars are absolutely brilliant. There is, like they don't use chemicals, they use, at the time in the 1990s when I looked at it, they were using spiders to control pests. One of the reasons that Cuba went full-blown organic, like it was a country that really went organic before organic was even a thing, right? In the 1990s, because they had a lot of community farms, a lot of community gardens, because the USSR collapsed and the sugar that they were not paid to produce by the USSR to supply the eastern black countries, that dried up. So Cuba went through a serious economic hard time in the 1990s, like really hard time, right? But they adapted, they became anti-fragile, right? They started cutting some deals with companies and individuals that wanted to do business in Cuba. They started fine-tuning the cigar, business that they had, so cigars really took off in the 1990s in Cuba, and one of the other things they did was basically introduce organic farming into their agriculture, because they didn't have the money to buy pesticides. Pesticides were very expensive, right? So they started making community gardens all over the place, controlling pests with spiders, and man, the food in Cuba was a lot of people that went to Cuba in the 1990s that would say, oh, the food in Cuba sucks, but the reason they would say that is because they used to buy all exclusives in resorts and eat all the exclusive food in the resorts, and that'd be a stupid thing to do, right? Like for me, I, one time I went to Cuba and I came back, and then I went to Cuba again like two weeks later, right? And then I went to an all exclusive hotel I was staying in, but I would never eat there. You would eat there maybe once, right? I would just go hook up with people and get them go to their homes to cook for you. And one time I went there, I just bought the plane ticket because a friend of mine wanted to go, and then we went to the all-inclusive hotel and made him a deal and paid $100 to stay at a four-star, all four-star, five-star, four-star, I believe, all-inclusive hotel for $100 US, right? But we ate out all the time, right? We just wanted a place to sleep. Okay, so these are the dominoes that I have from Cuba, and I used to play the dominoes I've played the most. I haven't played the the Cuban one too much, but the dominoes I've played the most is these one. Okay, and these were my great-grandmothers. I got them from my great-grandmother. You got to keep the things your elders treasured. So I've played this one a lot, and these were like, they're not what they call a bone, but I believe they're just plastic. And my great-grandmother, you guys would have loved. You guys would have loved. Hey, Chicho, feline juice, how are you doing? Cheryl, I missed my window for an A.G. tour. Fingers crossed, it opens the U.S. travels again. Ah, in Cuba, you mean? So what kind of cigar should I try? If you want a Cuban cigar, light Cuban cigar, one of the best Cuban cigars, and a cigar that I've smoked as well, and a lot of cigar aficionados will smoke this as well, are the H. Ottmans from Cuba. They're considered to be one of the lightest Cuban cigars, but it doesn't mean they're lacking in flavor. It doesn't mean they're not primo. We'll see the brand here. But I would say get yourself H. Ottman, and if you want an easy draw, you can get the smaller cigars to start off with, but one of the best cigars is an H. Ottman Churchill. I believe the Churchill name is there as well. We'll check in here. So try that late if you're of age, of smoking, of course, this claimer gave it a given, okay? Since you're back on a stream and replayed it three, four times with my dad, which introduced it to me when I was very awesome, awesome void, awesome. Gang, should we take a look at this? Now let me show you one more thing, a couple more things I brought here. Watch this. Watch this. Now I worked, I told you, I worked in a Cuban cigar store, right? So boxes that we sold when they were becoming empty, we just grab them. So I, you know, got myself some, I got myself a lot of boxes. I gave a lot of way previously. So these are some of the boxes that we used to sell. These are Cojibas and all these stickers would be, have to be on the box. When you got, when you got the cigars from Cuba, all these stickers are not there, right? But it's all the disclaimer and health warnings and stuff. So the Cojibas boxes are some of the best boxes there were, right? So I got myself a whole bunch of Cojibas boxes. Okay. And then there's the Cojibas thing that they come with it. So we would sell a lot of these. This is a siglo too. Here's a Cojibas robusto, fantastic cigar, fantastic cigar. Okay. And Cojibas is on the strong side. It is overpriced. It is overpriced, right? I didn't personally buy too many siglo one, too many Cubans myself because I knew the cigars and I could smoke. Here's a siglo four, right? Nice boxes. And I've given some of these boxes away as presents. Okay. You're actually first person to say my name, right? Nice. That's crazy too. If you know how I pronounce names. Siglo three, right? Here's another robusto. Okay. Robusto was a popular brand. I used to not peddle, but recommend people buy the robusta. And this is the cigars would be wrapped in this, like this, inside the box, right? And they have a cedar little divider, right? Amazing smell. And what some people do, and we used to do this too, with the cedar divider is you don't want to light cigars with a butane lighter, right? Wood is the best, right? And when you light the matches, don't put it on the cigar right away because you're going to get the chemicals in there, right? You want it to get into the wood and cedar wood is the best. But one thing we used to do because we used to get a lot of these is break these things off, right? And light the cigar with these, with the cedar, right? So with light matches or light the little chunk of this with the lighter matches and then get that burning and then bring that up to the cigar and smoke it that way, right? And this is some of the things that, you know, they're just wrapped in. They all wrap in that and they're wrapped in this and what not, right? So it's, it was nice. It was very nice. We're going to keep it in the cigar store, smoke thousands of dollars of cigars, right? And then here's, oh I forgot to put this in here too, let's put this in here too. And then here's some of the boxes, some of the, what do you call that? And this is the Hoyo de Monterrey double corona box, okay? So this is Hoyo de Monterrey double corona and I got myself a lot of these from the 1990s and if you were buying Cuban cigars in the 90s at the time, Cuba, you wanted this factory to be the stamp to be on there, okay? There was a lot of fake cigars going around. So I would, I bought from the streets once and learned my lesson, right? The Hoyo de Monterrey double coronas and what not went into the stores and bought them straight from there. And a box of these in the 1990s, Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, I believe I was paying 80 dollars US, okay? 80 dollars US for 20 boxes of Hoyo de Monterrey double coronas. Each one of these in 2000 when I was working in the Cuban cigar store, basically, right? Each one of these in a Cuban cigar store was selling for around 40 dollars Canadian, right? So 30 dollars US, okay? So box of these, I would fly to Cuba, one time I came back with 12 boxes of these, okay? 12 times 80, whatever we got and each one was selling for 40 dollars of pop, right? For me Cuban cigars are the best, okay? And these are some of the, and Romeo and Juliet Churchill is an amazing smoke, okay? There's Churchill tubos and Churchill that come in boxes like this. So the tubes are really good just for carrying cigars, okay? So I kept some of the tubes. I used to have boxes of these, right? I should have probably kept everything, but I didn't, right? And here, just to give you an idea, this is a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona and the wrapper has disintegrated off it. Anybody that's a cigar aficionado that is watching this video, this is sacrilege. I destroyed a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, right? But it's just the way it happened, okay? I love the Romeo and Juliet. A favorite Romeo and Juliet is amazing. I started off with Romeo and Juliet and as you can tell, I have a lot of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, here's Parthagus. There's Parthagus there. This is H. Oppmann. H. Oppmann, fantastic. Fantastic cigar, okay? That's the name brand that is very light. The H. Oppmanns are one of the lightest Cuban cigars, okay? Yeah, the binder is fine. The wrapper got destroyed, the binder is fine, okay? And the filler is fantastic. And it smells, still smells absolutely brilliant. Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, or the Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet with Churchill's favorite, or double corona. Just smelling the smokes when they lay back and smoke a cigar, and we will at some point. Once I get back into it, we're going to do cigar smoking live streams. Wow, like addictive, addictive. So I would be, when I quit in a big way, I would be smoking three of these a day, right? Yeah, brilliant. Creamy earthy, I'm not sure. I'm not sure what it would be. And usually in these tubes, there's cedar wrapping in there as well, right? So the cigars still age within the tubes, right? Because if you store, there we go, here's one here. See this? So you have this cedar wrapping inside the tubes. So when you're storing these, it doesn't age as well as cigars that aren't in tubes. So it still does though, right, within reason. And as far as Monte Cristo goes, the torpedoes are absolutely brilliant for Monte Crystals. I just stopped. Okay, late, late. I just stopped. For me, if I find that I'm addicted to anything in life, I wean myself off of that thing. Okay. And here's a, by the way, here's another one. Hoyo de Monterey. If you want an amazing smoke, which is on the lighter side, Hoyo de Monterey, Epicure number ones and Epicure number twos. Amazing, amazing cigars. This is one of the best cigars around. Okay, fantastic cigars. And I kept a few of these boxes. I have a box somewhere with cigar boxes in it. Okay, drop on my local cigar shop. Seeing you happy while smelling that cigar made me realize I love that shit too. Void sense. I smoke every kind of cigar. Sigs, vapes, weeds, cigars. I love smoke. Smoke is good. Wait, Monte Cristo? Monte Cristo. Gang, what I'm going to do, we're going to flip through this, right? Because this is going to take up the whole stage. I'm going to turn off my camera, but I'll keep the chat on. Okay, because we're not reading, it's not like a comic book that we're reading. We're looking at a cigar catalog. It's mainly just images. Okay, so it's just really the size, the different brands of the cigars, the different houses, the different labels that they had and different sizes. Right? So I'll keep the chat on. I'll keep the notifications on on this side. Okay, and the chat will be here, but I'll turn off the main camera that's on me. Okay? Smoking anything is relaxing, Eddie G says. Probably something to do with the long, deep breathing pattern, possibly. Right? And really, your breathing slows, you enjoy just talking about it once I need to get back into smoking cigars. Really. I've been sort of, I've wanted to do this for a while. I've held off because, first of all, I can't start smoking Cuban cigars right now. They're very, very expensive. And I've been holding off, getting back into cigars, basically. Right? But let's do this exactly. Chicho, the scarf face. I'm going to turn off my camera. Okay. And I'll turn this back on when we finish going through this. There's a couple of things I need to read at just at the beginning and at the end, we'll read as well while we flip through this. Okay. See you guys soon. Let's take a look at some cigars. There's going to be a little bit of glare because this is all laminated and whatnot. And I can't remember how much I paid for this. Okay. I might have bought this. The way I got my hands on this, by the way, I would go to the different factories. And one of the factories I went to, it was a high-end factory and they had an amazing front store front. And they had this sitting there. And I asked the person how much I could buy this for. And they weren't selling it to me. Right? So I said, oh, come on. And I bought a whole bunch of Hollywood Monterey double coronas and other things. I'm pretty sure this is, I got this from Cuba. Right? I bought a whole bunch of Hollywood Monterey double coronas. Like I spent a lot of money there in Cuba at the time. I think I spent over a thousand dollars in cigars there. Right? And then I think they either threw this in or what happened as I paid like $20 for this thing or something. Okay. You have to have like an hour at least to enjoy cigars, at least an hour. If you can't remember the price, it was free. If you can't remember the price, it was free. Oh, God says. Right? And this is beautiful. Right? And there was something written here, but I can't make it out. And what it is, I believe this contained almost all the cigars that they were producing at the time. Okay? The labels that they were producing at the time. Right? So each one of these, and I'm going to crack this open because I'm going to lift up the pages so you can see them. Right? And each one of these, if you flip through it, there's a little intro here that we'll look through, but each one of these pages is basically what do you call it? Each of the different brands. And if you crack this open, it basically lists all the different gauges and sizes of that brand that they had at the time. Some of these have been discontinued. Okay? And then there's a Monte Cristo. So we can flip through just all the brands. No, actually, let's go through it in one at a time. Okay? And you'll see what they have. And there's some Cuban cigars here, which are absolutely amazing, that are underrated or unknown. And people just chase the name brands. Right? So be aware, once you delve into the cigar world, there are some amazing cigars to be had that are not very pricey because they don't have name recognition. Right? And as far as how many of these cigars I've sampled, I've sampled every single cigar. And I worked in an exclusively Cuban cigar store, one of the largest in Canada that had a wall of Cuban cigars. Right? La Casa de Havana, the company was called. The store in Vancouver was on Robson Street. If you know where it is, okay, we had a lounge in the back with leather chairs and people had their own drink. So we would be smoking cigars, drinking all day while we were working, and we'd be selling cigars. Okay? And in that wall of cigars that we had, I smoked every single type. Right? So I sampled dozens upon dozens of different Cuban cigars during a year that I worked there, and there's a lot of these cigars that I have smoked. Okay? Now, let's flip through this. There isn't very much reading to be done. Right? It's pictures and just the types of cigars. Fan James Bond, my cousin worked like two years in a cigar shop on the Champs Elsies in Paris. I went once in. Oh, the smell. Oh, the smell. Elder God quote. I want what's coming to me. The world and everything in it. And that is Scarface. And that's when his friend asked him, we got the money. You got the girl. What do you want? What when they're driving in the car? What a brilliant scene that is. Gang, if you haven't seen Scarface, watch Scarface. Right? This, I believe, is a picture from the Pinal de Rio region in Cuba, where they grow some of the finest tobacco in the world. Actually, the finest tobacco in the world. And I've been to this region and I walk through some of the tobacco fields and I've gone seeing the curing process and whatnot in the 1990s. Okay? And when you flip the page, it's got the same image and it's got a little bit of writing here. So I'm going to correct this open, and I'm going to read that little intro to this. Okay? Let's flip through this and read this little intro. And it's got it in three different languages. I believe it's Spanish, French, and English in the middle. So if you guys can see, that must be Spanish. Right? That must be Spanish. Siglos, la Supremeca, la blah blah blah. I can't read that. Here's our English, what we're going to read. Okay? And here, I believe, is the French. I can read French if you want. Nice. Right? La Fête de Gardin d'Orante. Sigles, la Su... I have no idea. Right? I took French all the way to grade 11, but I really didn't learn how to read or write it. But let's read the English version. Yeah, that's French. That's French. Awesome. Awesome. Cool, cool, cool. Hold on. Allow. For some reason, that's French. That's French. Automat does not like. I wonder what that's related to. Actually, I don't. So let's just read this little intro. For centuries, Habanos have maintained their unquestionable traditional quality, which is recognized all over the world. Right? In Cuba, where the best tobacco in the world is grown, entire generation of master cigar makers have put their energy and skill into making a top quality product, which can only be obtained by using tobacco leaves grown in our soil and harvested in our climate. We at Habanos essay don't want to take your time to prove something that everybody already knows. The Habanos are aromatic works of art, which please any smoker, no matter how demanding. We prefer to give you the possibility of choosing among the more than 30 brands of Cuban cigars, which are with around 700 different sizes, sizes one to fit every occasion for your smoking enjoyment. Because they are delicate products that require special treatment, Habanos should be kept at a temperature of between 16 degrees and 18 degrees Celsius between 61 degrees Fahrenheit, 61 degrees and 64 degrees Fahrenheit, at a constant humidity of from 65 to 70 percent to preserve their long lasting aroma, taste and combustibility. Only Cuban specialists who have centuries old tradition in this art can grow and roll real Habanos. Any imitation, no matter how close, serves only to reaffirm their indisputable superiority. And I 100% agree with that. And Habanos, these guys here, right? The company that was producing these or selling these or the reseller that's in working in collaboration with the Cuban government, it's a company that I believe it's a Spanish company or French company that is in partnership with the Cuban government that they sell the Cuban cigars, okay? So that's the little intro to this catalog, simple straight up, right? And then it gets into the different brands, na, na, na, na. Did someone try to post a matrix reloaded French wrap? Is that what it is? This is Cojiba. This is probably the most expensive Cuban brand that you can buy. Amazing cigars, dark, aromatic, deep, a pleasure to smoke. There's absolutely no doubt there's some of the greatest cigars in the world, but they are overpriced, okay, relative to some of the other Cuban cigars. And these are the different sizes, right? And what you see here, now, I don't know what the number is here. I think that's just their ordering number, right? But what you see here is the gate size, the 38, and 38 means 15.08 millimeters across, going around this, right? And they measure it around the thickest part of the cigar. And the 152 that you see here is the length of the cigar in millimeters, in millimeters, and yeah, must be millimeters, right? So this is 15.2 centimeters long, okay? Chico finally made it for a stream, usually stuck at work. Nimo, how are you doing? Nimo smokes, you made it to a perfect stream, Nimo. It's your namesake, right? So what we have here is Cronospatialis, and these are good smokes, right? Esplenditos, good smoke. Exquisitos, good smoke. Lanceros is one of the ones that people like a lot, but I didn't enjoy these as much because the draw can be very tough on these. So when a cigar is really long and on the thinner side, the draw is tougher. Like for example, take a look at this thing, the gauge on this on the Lancero is 38, right? The gauge and 38 means 38 out of 64 inches, right? That's a ratio, it's a fraction. So 38, 64th of an inch is the thickness around the cigar, and the robusto here is 50, 64th, right? And the robusto is an amazing cigar, amazing cigar, okay? Now, out of all of these cigars, I've smoked all of these cigars before. Absolutely brilliant, brilliant smoke, and there's one other cigar that I've smoked that is not listed here, is the Koheba 2000 Millennials that were put out in 2000, and I had the pleasure of smoking one of them, and I believe they were the double corona size. Okay, fantastic. And these are the boxes that I showed you. So the single little, let me show you the box. Hey, Kang, Rendo, how are you doing? How's life? What's your type of cigar, Chucho? What kind of taste are you looking for? And it really depends, young pollocks, it really depends if I'm in a heavy mood, the drink that I have, I sort of try to complement the drink that I have when I was smoking, right? And I, you know, sometimes I would like a light smoke if I'm moving around. If I'm sitting down, I would smoke, in general, double cronas or robustos, okay? So for example, as far as size goes, this single is this guy here, right? So this would be the size of a single, it would fit in here, right? Take a look, right? And it would fit fairly tightly in here. And again, it's got the doohickeys and the ribbons. And the cohipas came with the ribbons that they used to put in there, right? And the singalows are really good smokes, by the way. Cohipa is a little bit on the heavier side, as far as Cuban cigars go. But they are amazing smokes, okay? And they're, here are the other boxes, singalow two and singalow three and singalow four. And they have singalow five here, I can't remember, right? Robustos are my favorite, yeah. Randall, this size is brilliant. This is an hour, hour and a half smoke, depending on how fast you're going, okay? I prefer the little ones and the, and bigger ones. Yeah, the mid-sized ones are trickier, right? I don't like the thin gauge ones, right? I rarely went as thin as 38 or 36, okay? Unless I was going for a very quick smoke, very quick smoke. Robusto cohipa. We've got two robusto fans, cyberpunk. No, no comparisons, jokes people. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. So that's the cohipa. Monte Cristo, and keep in mind, the cohipa only had two pages of the different types that they had. Some of the brands have multiple pages, like they have a lot, right? Here's the Monte Cristo, and look at this. Absolutely beautiful. Look, just imagine, I've been in cigar fields with the leaves as high as this person, right? Gigantic leaves, right? And here's Monte Cristo, right? They have a couple more, and I've smoked every type of this as well, including the Monte Cristo A. This is one of the largest cigars that Cuba produces, right? Check out the size on this. The gauge is a 47, right? The gauge is a 47, and its length is 234 millimeters. So 23 and a half centimeters long, right? This baby takes a good couple of hours to smoke, okay? And the thinner ones are stronger. Yeah, one of the reasons the thinner ones are stronger, and the smaller ones sometimes tend to be stronger, is because the smoke gets to you faster, so it's the heat of the smoke, right? Like the Monte Cristo II, amazing smoke. I've smoked so many of these. This is a brilliant smoking. If you want a Monte Cristo, this one is a classic. It's probably much considered to be one of the best Montes, okay? Yeah. Best Monte Crystals. Uh-oh. I'm showing my OBS as locking. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Let's check it out. I'm not sure if we're streaming anymore, gang, because my OBS is not showing it moving, so I'm going to reload this. Let's check it out. Can we hear you? Frozen? I'm just doing this. We can hear you. You can hear me. I am Edmond. You're still streaming. Is the video still on? My OBS is locked up. So can you guys see me moving my hand? Who said frozen? It's frozen on my side. No. Video is frozen. Video is frozen. Okay. So am I going to have to stop streaming? Video is frozen. Okay. Oh, the price. €360 for the Monte Cristo II, and that's going to be a box. So, gang, I'm going to stop streaming and then I'm going to, what do you call it? Restart OBS. My apologies for this, gang. Good thing I'm recording this at the same time. Okay. Does that sound like the right thing to do? Where is this going to kick in? Reset OBS. Reset OBS. Okay. I'm going to stop streaming OBS.