In lieu of the Local Spotlight segment we present The Hackie Awards where we award the “Oliver” to the winner of each category. See episode 96 for why we are presenting “Olivers” for the Hack-adamy Awards, it’s not too subtle.

The Hidden Herf is a real wildcard and the panel is totally stumped. Tobacco Business Awards, Hackapalooza, and a lot of cigar discussions are included. We finally get the Watertown NY story out of Reverend Harvey.  Support Cigars for Warriors.

Cigar shop Christmas parties and events start things off. Plowing and other snow related topics are discussed. We do a rundown of the Black Friday activities at a couple of cigar shops. The Hidden Herf should have been and easy one but it requires a hu...

For the Thanksgiving holiday we record a week ahead to let everyone enjoy the break, but that doesn’t stop us from doing most of the regular segments and the usual antics. The Hidden Herf is guessed right out of the gate and The Reverend Harvey recount...

Whenever we get together to plan anything Cigar Hacks related it’s called a Board Meeting. We were having a discussion on plans for this year’s Retro-Hack-A-Palooza with Brett from The Retrohale and we decide to segue into an episode.

Another year is in the books! A large percentage of the Hacks drop in to Plaistow Cigar Co. for the occasion and we are joined by a cigar lover with the right name – Matthew Tabacco. Yes, it’s the Italian spelling.

We have a “Shack full of Hacks” for this episode, with eleven voices it might be hard to keep score but it’s still a lot of laughs. The Hacks are introduced to the Tobacco Shack under new management. Even with plenty of clues the Hidden Herf stumps the...

Special guest Crawdad Jim sits in for the Reverend Harvey. The Hidden Herf get by the panel again. Local Spotlight – Southern Draw at The Smoke Shop; Middleton, MA Conspiracy Corner – It never ends Hidden Herf 102 / The Smoke Shop

Just back from the Pocono-Palooza cigar lounge tour in Northeast Pennsylvania we have our accommodations host for the weekend, The Happy Hooker, as our call-in guest. We recap some of the highlights of the weekend including our visit to Cigars Internat...

We’ve been talking about the Boutique AF Cigar Jubilee for months so we rolled the Oscuro up to Cigar Shenanigans in North Conway for the day to do this episode with Erik Wentworth of Hammer & Sickle, our first guest way back on Episode 5.