Thursday 9/24/20 - Cigar Expert
The Dog Walk
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ulysses Acevedo from the Biggs Mansion in Chicago joins the show to talk all things cigars. We get into the famous Michael Jordan cutter story, the science behind lighting them, the real deal with Cubans, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dog walk listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:06.4 | Prime members can listen to Ed free on Amazon music. |
| 0:09.4 | All right, Ben, welcome to another episode of the dog walk. |
| 0:12.5 | We're here, a very special episode. |
| 0:14.2 | We're on a road game today. |
| 0:15.8 | I am here at the Bigs Mansion. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm joined by Elysses, Hey, Svato. |
| 0:20.6 | You are the general manager here at the Bigs Mansion. |
| 0:23.2 | I'll let you describe to the people what exactly the Bigs Mansion is. |
| 0:27.3 | Okay, so Bigs Mansion is primarily a retail store with a private lounge. |
| 0:32.0 | We have about 17,000 square feet of smoking space. |
| 0:37.8 | We carry about 1300 different choices for cigars. |
| 0:43.0 | And we are open year round and we have a patio in front and a very large private smoking |
| 0:52.0 | area for people to enjoy. |
| 0:53.8 | So what kind of made this place transform from a retail shop to a mansion? |
| 0:59.3 | You know, a lot of cigar shops have a little section that people could smoke in. |
| 1:04.3 | This place, what's the history behind it? |
| 1:06.2 | Okay, so the building was originally built in 1874 by the Decoven family. |
| 1:12.9 | It was the person that founded Northern Trust Bank. |
| 1:16.6 | So initially it was sort of a family home. |
| 1:18.8 | It was built three years after the fire. |
| 1:21.4 | It was at one point the largest single family dwelling in Chicago. |
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