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Hey everybody, I'm Tim. They say there's no such thing as a dumb question. But is that really true? Tonight we're putting it to the test, and I think I know just who can help me with that. Everyone at home. That's right, the Cigars Daily Nation is on the hook tonight. Drop ALL your cigar comments and questions, and we'll see if we can find a dumb one.

And I'm not doing this alone. Eric from Cigar Dojo is joining me, and he's spent y...

For about 60 years, Cuba has been the undisputed king of the cigar world. And right now, the king is in a really weird spot. Habanos is pulling in record money while the actual cigars keep getting harder to find. China keeps getting more involved every year. And here’s the part that blows my mind: half of the most famous cigar company on the planet belongs to somebody nobody can publicly name. By God, you can’t make thi...

A few weeks back on this show, I went on the record. I said the Knuckle Sandwich Saguaro is easily the best one of the bunch. Not "one of the best." Not "up there." The best. And the Nation does not forget when I say things like that. So tonight, the Saguaro is here, I'm lighting it live, and you're holding me to every word.

Here's what we're working with. The Saguaro is a 6x54 box-pressed Toro out of AJ Fernandez in Esteli, same ho...

Some families run restaurants. Some families run farms. The Gomez family runs one of the most respected cigar operations on the planet, and tonight the youngest member of the house joins us LIVE. Litto Gomez Jr. of La Flor Dominicana is in the building, and the Nation gets to ask him anything.

If you don't know the House of Gomez, here's the short version. Litto Sr. was a jeweler who reinvented himself as a cigar maker in 1994, an o...

Tonight the Wrench takes the stage. My wife Allison joins me live, and we’re doing something we’ve probably needed for a while: cigar marriage counseling. And YOU are the counselor. Cigars are the glue of this marriage. We smoke them on dates, we’ve built a life around this hobby, and this whole thing runs on the leaf. But living with the cigar guy comes with grievances, and tonight they’re all coming out. T...

Tonight is a celebration on Cigars Daily LIVE, and we've got more than one reason to raise a glass. The Sultan of the Sahara story has a new chapter. The project that honored one of our own, built around a rare Honduran-grown Cameroon-seed wrapper over a Mexican San Andres binder with fillers from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Brazil, now comes in a Robusto. And here's what makes this line extension worth talking about: same blend, smal...

You've heard me talk about him for years. Tonight the other half of Cigars Daily takes the hot seat. Jim is my business partner, my co-founder, and my father-in-law, and for more than eight years we've built this whole thing together. The show, the content, the community, all of it. Tonight he's live on the show and the Nation gets to ask him anything. How we started. What almost broke us. What it's actually like being in business ...

Steve Saka is back on the show, and tonight he's spilling everything on the LecheBurra. If you were here for Episode 405, you saw the origin story. If you were here for Episode 436, you saw the whole crew revisit it together. Tonight is the deep dive. The man himself walks us through how this blend actually came to life, from the first conversation to the Cultivo Tonto wrapper to the decisions that made this one of the most talked ...

Tonight we're doing something special. The Espinosa Laranja Hybrid isn't out in the wild yet, and we're taking you inside the blend and the whole experience before it gets there. This is the fourth chapter of the Laranja story, a line that's been rocking the orange band for twelve years, and the Hybrid takes it somewhere new. An Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder with Nicaraguan and Brazilian tobaccos in the ...

Tonight we've got a special one. Nicholas Perdomo III joins us LIVE to talk about what it means to be the fourth generation of a cigar family and what it's like to blend side by side with your own father. Nicholas is the man behind the Perdomo Legacy line, he just picked up Up-and-Coming Person of the Year honors, and now he and his dad have taken the collaboration to a whole new level with the Legacy Father & Son project.

Here'...

Grab your go bag and check your humidor seals because the signs are everywhere. Nicaragua's president just announced there will be no more elections. Ever. That's the country that grows more premium cigar tobacco than anywhere else on the planet, and the drumbeat for sanctions in Washington has been getting louder for years. Meanwhile tariffs on Nicaraguan goods just climbed again. And if the geopolitics weren't enough, forecasters...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 438, Michael Herklots of Ferio Tego Cigars is joining us in the studio—and there may not be anybody in this industry who thinks more deliberately about the experience of a cigar.

Michael is not new to this world. His career stretches back more than two decades through Davidoff, Nat Sherman, and now Ferio Tego. But what makes him especially interesting to me is the way he approaches the craft. Every...

I can prove the cigars in your humidor are fake. Actually, I can't. But here's the thing about the internet in 2026: I don't have to. I just have to say it with confidence and let the doubt do the rest. Welcome to the greatest era of skepticism in human history, where proof is optional and the accusation is the whole argument.

Here's what got me on this. I spent last week on a fossil digging expedition. Dug them out of the ground my...

If you were here for Episode 405, you already know the story. Steve Saka and I cooked up something completely unhinged together. Part genius, part madness, all heart. The Dunbarton LecheBurra Cigars Daily Edition was one of the most talked about projects we’ve ever been a part of, and tonight the entire crew is revisiting it live. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, Tim the Teefs, everybody’s got one, and we’re ...

Tonight the whole crew is putting their palates on the line. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, and Tim the Teefs are each bringing a blind taste test challenge for the other two to compete in. That means nobody knows what they’re smoking, everybody thinks they’re an expert, and at least one of us is about to be humbled on camera. Billy, The Cock of the Walk is out of town on business this week so he gets a pass. The...

Every cigar enthusiast has a list. Not the cigars you grab on a Tuesday because they're on the shelf and the price is right. The other list. The cigars you hunt for. The ones that are allocated, or limited, or priced at a level where buying one is a real decision. The ones where you call ahead to see if the shop has them in stock, or you drive across town because your usual spot never carries them, or you finally pull the trigger o...

The Johnny Tobacconaut Maduro just landed on shelves and tonight we're cracking it open live with the whole crew. If you've been following the Room101 lineup, you already know what the original Tobacconaut brought to the table. Now Matt Booth and AJ Fernandez have taken that blend, wrapped it in a dark Nicaraguan maduro leaf, and pushed it into full-bodied territory. Earth, espresso, dark cocoa, and a profile that builds as you go....

There's a moment in every cigar enthusiast's life where you look at your collection and think "this might be a problem." Maybe it was the second humidor. Maybe it was when you started hiding boxes from your spouse. Maybe it was when you realized you have cigars from 2019 that you forgot existed. Wherever that moment was for you, tonight we're talking about it.

We built The Cigar Collecting Spectrum and we're putting everybody on it....

Father's Day is America's 13th favorite holiday. Thirteenth. Behind Halloween. Behind Labor Day. Behind New Year's Eve AND New Year's Day, which honestly shouldn't even count as two separate holidays. It has a 67% approval rating, which means a third of the country actively does not approve of Father's Day. And this year it's not even the biggest thing happening in June. The country is turning 250, there's a UFC cage match on the W...