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Cigars Daily

Cigars Daily

Hosted by Tim Swanson

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243

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Aug 2026

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Explore the world of Luxury Cigars with your host Tim Swanson.

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August 11, 2026Episode 4411 hr 42 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 441: Inside the Laranja Hybrid (Before Anyone Else)

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 filler, rolled at La Zona. The Brazilian DNA that made Laranja what it is stays in the blend, but the profile evolves. Citrus zest, earth, cocoa, spice, and that natural sweetness the line is known for. Tonight we find out what this thing is all about.We'll also talk about where the Hybrid fits inside Espinosa's absolutely loaded lineup right now. This company is on a run. The Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special, the Warhead Independence Day 250, the Knuckle Sandwich Avant-Garde that retailers are fighting over, and the upcoming Knuckle Sandwich Saguaro, which I will personally vouch is easily the best of the bunch. There's a reason Espinosa announced eight releases this year and somehow made every single one feel earned. We're breaking down how Erik Espinosa and Hector Alfonso keep doing it.

August 4, 2026Episode 4401 hr 32 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 440: Like Father, Like Son (Ft. Nicholas Perdomo III)

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's what makes this story so good. This isn't a kid who got handed a title. Nicholas spent his summers in Nicaragua learning tobacco from the ground up. Growing, curing, fermentation, production, all of it, years before he ever touched the sales side of the business. And the Father & Son project reflects that same hands-on approach. He blended one of the cigars himself. His dad blended another, building around the Nicaraguan Shade Grown tobacco he pioneered. And the third one they built together. Same filler across all three, different wrappers, different blending philosophies, one family. We're getting into all of it tonight, including the story of how this project came to life and what it's like when your dad is also your blending partner.

July 28, 2026Episode 4391 hr 31 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 439: The Cigar Apocalypse is Coming

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 are now calling for a super El Nino that could rank among the strongest ever recorded, with severe dryness projected across Central America right where the tobacco grows. Political chaos, trade pressure, and a weather event of historic proportions all lining up at the same time. It's the cigar apocalypse trifecta, and tonight we're breaking down all of it.Now before anybody panics and starts building a tobacco bunker, take a breath. This industry has survived embargoes, revolutions, hurricanes, pandemics, FDA regulations, and every doomsday prediction ever thrown at it. Cigar makers are some of the most resilient people on earth. So tonight isn't about fear. It's about understanding what's actually happening, what it could mean for the cigars you love, and why the people who make them have a habit of proving the apocalypse wrong every single time.

July 21, 2026Episode 4381 hr 31 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 438: The Most Obsessive Cigar Maker I Know

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 detail appears to have a purpose. The tobacco, the proportions, the presentation, the language surrounding the blend, and even the moment in which somebody eventually experiences it all have to work together.Tonight, I want to get inside that process. How does he decide what a cigar is supposed to become? When is a blend actually finished? What separates complexity from chaos? How much should a maker trust his own palate, and how much should he listen to the marketplace? We’ll also talk about building Ferio Tego, preserving the legacy of brands like Timeless and Metropolitan, and creating something new without treating the past like it never happened.

July 14, 2026Episode 4371 hr 35 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 437: The Fake Cigars in YOUR Collection

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 myself, dirt under my fingernails, photographed them same day. Posted the pictures and the internet told me they were fake. AI generated. Photoshopped. Staged. A man can't even dig up a 50 million year old fish anymore without getting fact-checked by a guy named BigTruck88 in the comments. So tonight we're flipping it around. If nothing can be proven real anymore, then let's talk about it. What makes a cigar real? The band? The box? The taste? Could you actually tell if something in your collection wasn't what it claimed to be? It's a funnier question than you think and a more serious one too, because counterfeit cigars are a real thing in this industry and most people have no idea how deep that world goes.

July 7, 2026Episode 4361 hr 34 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 436: LecheBurra is Back. The Whole Crew is Lighting Up.

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 lighting them up together.For anyone who missed the original episode, we’re going to walk through how this collaboration came together with Steve Saka at Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust. A Mexican San Andres Negro “Cultivo Tonto” wrapper over a Brazilian Mata Fina binder with a four-leaf Nicaraguan filler blend. Medium bodied, impossibly smooth, with sweet cream, caramel, and honey notes that have had the Cigars Daily Nation talking since the day this cigar first dropped. We’ll also give you a full update on the planned dress box release coming later this year, because this project is far from finished.

June 30, 2026Episode 4351 hr 30 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 435: Suprise! Blind Taste Test

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 rest of us are not so lucky.We’re going to talk about how blind taste tests actually work, why they’re one of the best ways to figure out what you really like versus what you think you like, and whether any of us can actually identify a blend without seeing the band. Spoiler: confidence will be high. Accuracy might not be.We’ve also got Pic of the Week, a Lounge Roast, and we’ll be taking your comments and questions all night long. If you’ve ever done a blind taste test with your buddies and completely whiffed on a cigar you smoke every week, tonight is your night. Tell us about it. And if you think you could do better than the crew, prove it. Drop your guesses in the chat as we go because we’ll be revealing the cigars live and you can play along from home.

June 23, 2026Episode 4341 hr 33 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 434: The Hunt For Rare Cigars

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 online after staring at the checkout screen for ten minutes. Tonight we're talking about those cigars.The crew is lighting up some heavy hitters from La Flor Dominicana. The Andalusian Bull. La Nox. Chapter I and Capitulo II. If you've ever tried to walk into a shop and casually buy an Andalusian Bull, you already know how this conversation starts. Only two master rollers in the world make that cigar and it earned Cigar Aficionado's number one spot in 2016 with a 96-point rating. Good luck finding one on the shelf. But the Andalusian Bull is just the opening act. Tonight's real conversation is about every cigar that's ever made you go the extra mile.My name is Tim and I'm the host of this show, but YOU are the co-host. Your comments and questions drive the episode. Settle in, grab a drink, and let's get into it.We want to hear from the whole Cigars Daily Nation tonight. What's the cigar you hunt for? Maybe it's a Padron Family Reserve. Maybe it's an Opus X. Maybe it's a $12 cigar that your local shop just never stocks and you have to order it every single time. It doesn't have to be expensive and it doesn't have to be limited. It just has to be something you reach for. Something that takes effort. Drop your picks in the chat and tell us the story behind the hunt. This show doesn't work without you.

June 16, 2026Episode 4331 hr 35 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 433: One Small Puff for Man, One Giant Cigar for Mankind

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. We've been looking forward to this one and tonight we're finding out if it lives up to the hype.This is also going to be one of those episodes where we just have fun. The cigar is literally named after a fictional astronaut, so we're leaning all the way into it. We've got some space-themed segments lined up that are going to be ridiculous, we'll talk about why Matt Booth might be the most interesting personality in the cigar industry, and we'll get the crew's honest take on where this maduro sits in the Room101 lineup. It's going to be a good time.My name is Tim and I'm the host of this show, but YOU are the co-host. Your comments and questions drive the episode. Settle in, grab a drink, and let's get into it.

June 9, 2026Episode 4321 hr 31 min

Cigars Daily LIVE 432: You Might Be A Cigar Hoarder

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. From the guy who doesn't even own a humidor yet all the way to the person who has lost complete control of their inventory and hasn't seen the bottom of their coolidor since the Obama administration. We're all on this spectrum somewhere. The only question is where. And whether or not you're willing to admit it.

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