The Finer Things: Cigars

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Hobbies, Leisure, Arts

4.9 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Every once in a while you kinda want to go big or go home. Problem is, if you are going to spend a little extra, you want to make sure you get quality, authenticity, and a true premium experience. As pipe enthusiasts, we know that ‘matter matters’ and we all appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into the various pipes and pipe tobaccos available to us. In this series, we will expand our horizons beyond the pipe to discover top shelf products and experiences that bring us joy and up our sophistication game along the way. This week: Cigars!

Listener Feedback: (From Brian) Hey guys! You addressed a question of mine on air recently where I asked about what goes into the naming of blends. Jon David talked about how it was often a very personal process. I was struck when I saw Whale Song appear on the Country Squire website. The name didn't immediately resonate with me, until I read the description. When I realized it was a limited edition made up of McClelland ingredients and that it was a Virginia-Perique (which I know to be among Jon David's favorite styles of blends), I began to realize what the name really meant. Whale Song. Not only evocative of that iconic crested whale image on the cover of so many McClelland tins, but also suggestive of the barely audible song whales use to mourn the loss of family members. This is representative of what a blend name can be. Simple, poetic, like a haiku.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Country Squire Radio.
0:11.5	Welcome to Squire Radio.
0:13.1	And I'm John David.
0:14.2	Jady!
0:14.9	Hey, Bo, good afternoon, man.
0:16.5	Hey, good afternoon to you, too, sir.
0:17.8	How are you doing that?
0:18.3	I'm doing good.
0:19.2	Yeah, I'm doing good.
0:19.7	Good.
0:20.2	It's been a good, been a good week.
0:37.0	I've been rocking and rolling, man. Hey, how are things in the shop? You know, they're going pretty good. It's been a, it's been a eventful year. You know, it just, there is just so much sea change going on in the premium tobacco industry. and it's exciting.
0:43.0	And, you know, we've got a flux of new faces and customers and products and stuff.
0:47.2	You know, every time I think I've got this business figured out, I just realize I really,
0:48.3	I really don't, man.
0:49.5	I really don't. You know, it's a, it, this is a 52-year-old business that just is spry and ever constantly changing and it's
0:58.0	like you think it was a startup or something but yeah it's it's it's going good but it's hard work man
1:02.4	it's a it's a it's a lot of fun though i'm glad i glad i get to wake up and do what i do every day
1:07.0	i mean it's a 50 year old business in an industry that predates the country and yet constantly is changing. You know, you know, nobody thinks about like pipe tobacco and like the world of innovation. Dynamic. Yeah. But that's just the case, man. You don't get to, you don't get to be in the game that long without realizing the change is inevitable and you're kind of constantly working through it. It's true. It really is true. So it's just the forces we have to deal with. But yeah, things are going well at the shop, really proud of our staff. And yeah, it's been been a lot of fun. That's great, man. Well, I love that, you know, you start right off talking about the premium tobacco world because that is exactly what we're going to be talking about. We're diving into it today. Today, yeah, man. Okay, so, so finer things.
1:47.2	This is, this is, you know, because that is exactly what we're going to be talking about. We're diving into it today. Today, yeah, man.
1:44.6	Okay, so, so finer things.
1:47.2	This is, this is, you know, we talk about these new episodes. Some of them have been kind of your babies. Some of them are my babies. Yeah. This one's my baby. Like, this is definitely one that's my baby. and with, it's, you know, the first one that we did was kind of, I mean, bold to some extent, I would even say. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Because of all of like the, the newest content, it was one. Yeah, it was, it was different. It was on, we incorporated some on location things for that one. And I'm hoping in the future we'll be able to do more on location type things things. So this one's not going to have quite that that action this time around, but I don't want to say that that'll never happen again. It's my hope that we'll be able to do more of that in the future. Sure. But we're actually, we're talking about a finer thing subject matter that we fortunately don't have to travel very far for to really get too deep into. And that is in the world of
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