We'll get to the news in a moment.

First though, I've got some personal news that I would like to get to first.

This is personal news that I have been working on

intensely for a little over a year now. It's news that I've been mulling over and

working on every now and again for about 15 years. It is news that I wanted to mention here first because I think

it's going to sell out. I think very quickly and I of course wanted to give the

Krem of the Michael Nolsho audience versus Dibs on.

That would be at long last, my personal line of cigars made available commercially for the first

time ever Mayflower cigars. There are few things in this life that I've loved longer than

my wife whom I first kissed at age 16 and cigars happen to be one of them. I had my

first cigar when I was 15. When I was a kid, the

cigar rollers in the Bronx would give them to me when we went grocery shopping

because I was too young to buy them. I wrote my college admissions essay about how much I love cigars. I started a

cigar club in school to fund my habit as a broke college kid. I called it the Society for

Intellectual Growth and Reinvigorationoration or cigar. You get it? Do you get it?

I got this very show by writing a cigar column years ago that impressed Jeremy and Caleb.

Among my most prized possessions is a box of

cigars that my mother gave me many years ago which I've rationed out and saved for

the great milestones in my life. I had been pitching the daily wire and launching a

cigar company for probably five years when finally probably just to get me to

shut up about it. They gave me the green light one year ago and crucially they let me do whatever I want with it

There is no restriction whatsoever. I was able to make the brand the blends. I was able to make the brand, the blends, I was able to pick the factory, the distribution, everything.

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