Stogie Review https://stogiereview.com Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:42:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://stogiereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/cropped-SR-Circle-Icon-Avatar-32x32.png Stogie Review https://stogiereview.com 32 32 171065876 Smoke and Steel Episode 050: The One Where We Realized You Can’t Go Home Again https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/08/smoke-and-steel-podcast-050/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/08/smoke-and-steel-podcast-050/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41985 Episode 050 felt like a milestone without making a big deal out of it. Light crew in the garage on a Tuesday night – me, Rob, Jim, and Eric – four guys with cigars and no shortage of things to talk about. That is kind of the whole idea. Smoke and Steel records every Tuesday […]

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]]> https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/08/smoke-and-steel-podcast-050/feed/ 0 41985 Smoke and Steel Episode 049: The One Where the Padron 1964 Took the Throne https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/01/smoke-and-steel-episode-049/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/01/smoke-and-steel-episode-049/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41980 We had a full house in the garage this week. I mean a genuinely full house. Every chair taken, a second Mike showing up late, the neighbor mowing his lawn straight through the recording, and Mark burning a hole in the mic cover before we were an hour in. Just another Tuesday night in Gilbertsville. […]

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]]> https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/01/smoke-and-steel-episode-049/feed/ 0 41980 Smoke and Steel Episode 048: The One Where Michael Herklots Caught Walt Without a Cigar https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/24/smoke-and-steel-episode-048/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/24/smoke-and-steel-episode-048/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41977 There are cigar events and then there are cigar events. I have been to enough of them over the years to know the difference pretty quickly. The Smoke-Onos cigar festival up in the Poconos was one I had been curious about for a while, and after finally making the trip with Eddie and Eric, I […]

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]]> https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/24/smoke-and-steel-episode-048/feed/ 0 41977 Smoke and Steel Episode 047: The One Where Eric Celebrated Eight Years https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/17/smoke-and-steel-episode-047/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/17/smoke-and-steel-episode-047/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41975 It was a Tuesday night in May, and we were all settled into the garage when Eric mentioned, almost in passing, that he was celebrating eight years of sobriety. That was why he came in with an Opus X. He’d been holding onto it, waiting for the right moment. This was it. That’s the kind […]

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]]> https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/17/smoke-and-steel-episode-047/feed/ 0 41975 Smoke and Steel Episode 046: The One Where Walt Pitched a 60 x 6.00 Culebra and Nobody Could Argue https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/10/smoke-and-steel-episode-046/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/10/smoke-and-steel-episode-046/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41973 It started as a Cinco de Mayo theme night and turned into something that felt more like a reunion than a recording. That’s the thing about fan appreciation episodes – you plan them one way and they go another, and usually the way they go is better. Episode 046 of Smoke and Steel was our […]

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]]> https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/10/smoke-and-steel-episode-046/feed/ 0 41973 Smoke and Steel Episode 045: The One Where Joe Macko Sent Us Cigars https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/03/smoke-and-steel-episode-045/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/03/smoke-and-steel-episode-045/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41971 Before we get into anything else, I want to talk about Joe Macko. Joe has been one of our most loyal listeners since the beginning. Eight-month streak as a top fan. Regular presence in the Discord. The kind of guy who shows up every week without being asked. A few days before we recorded Episode […]

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]]> https://stogiereview.com/2026/06/03/smoke-and-steel-episode-045/feed/ 0 41971 Smoke and Steel Episode 044: Clubs, Customs, and Coming Back From the Dominican https://stogiereview.com/2026/05/27/cigar-of-the-month-club-044/ https://stogiereview.com/2026/05/27/cigar-of-the-month-club-044/#respond Wed, 27 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://stogiereview.com/?p=41969 There’s a version of this hobby where you buy a box of what you know, smoke it down, and buy another. Safe. Predictable. A little boring. Then there’s the version where you’ve got a box pass circulating through six states, two cigar subscription packs landing at your door every month, a Discord that nearly got […]

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